- Yoozel
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- Master Forum Ninja
Ok, the whole problem with having forums and such is that being anonymous will always bring out the worst in people. Why? Because you have a mask to hide behind and that’s incentive to act as dumb as you can. But the option comes down is whether you want to be a good member, an average poster or a complete moron, you make your own destiny on the forums.
Bungie.net does have a small list of issues that need to be dealt with, but it is up to the Moderators but it is also up to the members to help out. We are people too, we have lives, we aren’t paid, we do this on our free time… we can’t be here at every waking hour, though I wouldn’t doubt that at times. So we do rely on people who email, message us or alert us any number of ways. In an ideal world we could have a perfectly clean forum, but we do rely on the efforts of the Moderators and the community, can’t have one without the other.
As Recon did say, we are rather lenient, some Moderators more so than others. We do our best to give people a fair shot at shaping up before they are put to death, but some people never take the hint. Bungie.net has progressed a lot… originally we had only three Moderators who couldn’t even Blacklist people… now we have a great team watching the forums who do so with very little direction. We realize people get away with a lot, but if we really buckled down, we could probably cut the forum population in half and never allow anyone to post. How fun would that be?
As for HIH, I do believe Psyched pointed out that they are not dealing with the vast majority of the Bungie/Halo community. Trust me, we could just clone Shishka and set them loose… before you even typed a stupid thing you’d be gone. But we’re doing the best we can and the forums have come a long way. Achronos is buckling down and I was recently talking to Sketch about how they are tossing around ideas. Heck, Bungie does check out the Septagon for site feedback, you never know when something might catch their eye.
So make the best of it. Psyched made a very valid point yet again… lead by example. Post good topics, think before you respond/post, just do the best you can be a good member. In the end you’ll contribute more than the moronic jackass that will most likely end up Blacklisted soon enough.