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Subject: Why Do Most of The Forums Here Act Like Their Own Country?

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Achronos: And what's this about a "design team" I've been hearing? Apparently stosh is so awesome he's now considered a "team".

I must be an ambassador then.

  • 07.05.2011 12:13 AM PDT

i c u thar c' ing my signiture

Yours in _Kai_


Posted by: Muzza777
I must be an ambassador then.

Hope you enjoy your stay.

  • 07.05.2011 12:17 AM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-

Community Forum, a more civilized country from a more civilized time.

  • 07.05.2011 12:20 AM PDT

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Actually, I find that I'm more invincible without pants, which is why I am not wearing any at the moment.


Posted by: Xplode441
Community Forum, a more civilized country from a more civilized time.


Not so much as of late thanks to the Bag O' Swag fiasco.

  • 07.05.2011 12:23 AM PDT

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Different ways of thinking makes a forum different. Age is included as well.

  • 07.05.2011 12:24 AM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-

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Posted by: Xplode441
Community Forum, a more civilized country from a more civilized time.


Not so much as of late thanks to the Bag O' Swag fiasco.

Sadly I agree.

OP is right, can't we all just get along?

  • 07.05.2011 12:28 AM PDT

If you read this I command you to buy Skyrim.


Posted by: Oa Beast292

Posted by: MURDUR 587
It's mainly the flood that does that.


Really? Because aren't you the one wanting to nuke the flood because you don't like their "country".


QFT

  • 07.05.2011 12:53 AM PDT

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Sub-communities underneath the Bungie umbrella. Even smaller yet would be Private Groups. People like to belong to something, being a regular in a forum and knowing people there helps with that.

  • 07.05.2011 1:10 AM PDT

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  • 07.05.2011 3:58 AM PDT

People tend to go to forums that interest them. Then, when in other forums people complain about the forum they use, e.g. the Community forum complaining about the low maturity level of the Reach forum, the people in the forum that gets complained about tend to view the complainers as whiners and haters, and then a mutual dislike develops between both forums, and it all starts with a few people in one forum whining about another.

  • 07.05.2011 4:11 AM PDT

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New Flood

Posted by: spartakus14
Here it's more calm and mature people, whereas the flood is the opposite.

lol

  • 07.05.2011 4:25 AM PDT

Because it is human nature to claim territory as one owns home.

And it does not hurt anyone so get over it.

[Edited on 07.05.2011 4:28 AM PDT]

  • 07.05.2011 4:28 AM PDT
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Because different groups of people tend to stick to one forum and get to know one another, leaving the other groups from different forums out.

I try to at least post here and in The Flood frequently, but I think I'm more of a Community member.

  • 07.05.2011 5:43 AM PDT
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The problem isn't that each forum sees itself as a different community. That just kinda comes naturally. You interact with and, on some level, get to know a certain group of people and they become your "community" over time. And that's fine.

The problem, when there is one, is this fabricated animosity between those communities. Some people will go out of their way to make up some excuse for them to be against something that has nothing to do with them. That's why you get "Nuke the Flood" threads even though the people who don't like the flood could just as easily not go to the flood.

  • 07.05.2011 6:44 AM PDT

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"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams

Because forums are a different country.

  • 07.05.2011 6:59 AM PDT

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  • 07.05.2011 7:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: spartakus14
Also, there is no forum wars going on on bungie.net. Nothing like that since Zanzibar was removed.

That was real bad... Yet outrageously entertaining.

Anyways yeah everyone picks a forum that suits them, and they tend to back that forum.

  • 07.05.2011 7:01 AM PDT
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Whoo.

Posted by: Oa Beast292
Posted by: MURDUR 587
It's mainly the flood that does that.

Really? Because aren't you the one wanting to nuke the flood because you don't like their "country".

What? I was just stating a fact, I mean if you count the times "Floodian" is used in comparsion to "Optimatcher" "Septigonian" "Universer" "Reacher" etc, you'll see quite a big difference.

  • 07.05.2011 7:27 AM PDT
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Posted by: arch4ng13
Each forum has their own set of rules, topics, and their own set of people who frequent their specific forum. Although I don't understand why people have to be a jerk about it, they are public forums for a reason.


It's sad that it has happened like this. Although I tend to stick to one forum for the majority of my time here (this forum) I certainly don't mind if someone ventures in here to try out this forum.

  • 07.05.2011 7:32 AM PDT

I know what you mean; most people see the forums as divided when we're really all one big community.

  • 07.05.2011 8:18 AM PDT
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Does this mean I can park wherever I want now?

  • 07.05.2011 8:50 AM PDT

I have noticed this. The Flood is the worst for it, then the other forums would be The Universe, the older Halo forums, and this forum.

[Edited on 07.05.2011 8:54 AM PDT]

  • 07.05.2011 8:53 AM PDT

Should I also mention that The Flood is planning to take all of the moderators and forums over?

  • 07.05.2011 2:30 PM PDT

Oh hey there

Posted by: petarded2
It's a metaphor for the 07s' lack of identity. too old to be newfa­g, yet too new to be oldfa­g, we wander b.net in search of a home, forever trying to be something we are not.

Posted by: Luke35120
I don't know, and it's my pet peeve on B.net. We are all one community and this silly "wars" between different forums aren't doing anything.
There are wars between the forums? Hmm interesting.

  • 07.05.2011 2:36 PM PDT

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Black Chapter, for all religious and political debate that doesn't fit in the Flood.

Most people here aren't old enough to remember real forum wars. Zanzibar and the Flood went to town on each other way back when, while I sat it out in New Mombasa.

Forums are broadly divided along interests lines, so there are differences in how they react to each other. I've never really been at home in a Halo game forum since New Mombasa, so I've been in groups, the Flood or the Community since New Mombasa died. The Halo 3 forum was quite a different place from the Halo 2 forums, and a lot of the older regulars really didn't care much for it. I'd guess Reach had a similar effect on the H3F regulars who had stuck around, and you tend to see a stratifying of the forum going population based on when they arrived.

Naturally, it doesn't help that the Flood as it is needs some serious improvements. Privilege, not a right. But no one is going to institute a system that makes the ability to post in the Flood reliant on good behaviour, account age and moderator preference. Shame, really, as it would really benefit from a reduced population with greater freedoms, while still being a public forum.

  • 07.05.2011 2:50 PM PDT

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