- CrazzySnipe55
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This is probably not going to pick up a lot of traffic but I wish, if I may, to probe the collective minds of the community here at BNet for a brief moment.
Now, as you can see from the title of this thread, it is going to be about forum ninjas (that is, until someone derails the thread arguing about the philosophical difference between black and white or something stupid like that).
Subject 1) Forum Ninja posts, and how big of a deal they are.
Subject 2) The worth of a Forum Ninja's opinion.
Subject 3) The level of legitimacy that is lent to a thread simply because it was made by Ninja.
Discussion of Subject 1
Now, the obvious and logical answer to all of those would be, of course, no. But that doesn't seem to be the norm on BNet. Especially in game forums like the Halo: Reach one where Forum Ninjas are less prevalent and don't post as often, posters seem to freak out at the mere sight of a ninja (though we all know, a good ninja isn't seen).
They'll all rush to type something coherent back to the ninja, clicking the quote button as if it was a button to give them Reconz, in an anxious fervor. The second a forum ninja posts in a thread, at least 75% of the time any legitimate posts within a 4 post radius of that ninja's post are made null and void due to the apparent difference between the dull white text of a normal user and the vibrant orange that defines their position.
Why is this? Do people think they're getting nonexistent brownie points for agreeing with a Ninja? Do they think that replying to a Ninja often enough will get you that much closer to being a Ninja yourself? Why is a Ninja's post (many times sarcastic and only consisting of one sentence of about 10 sentences, especially in the Reach forums) so important that everyone needs to quote it and show that they're now special for having seen and responded to someone as influential in the community as.... a FORUM NINJA!!! (?)
Perhaps I have become desensitized to the presence of a Forum Ninja, considering I've all but left the reach forums and almost exclusively post in the Bungie.net Community forums, a place where it seems Ninjas congregate and post more than any other (with, perhaps, the exception of The Flood). But I think this is very unlikely.
Discussion of Subject 2
I still, to this day, cannot fathom why people seem to constantly agree with forum ninjas. They have the same frequency of being incorrect as any other practiced BNet user. They can be wrong. They are many times. They're human.
It's like because Bungie trusts that they have the ability to moderate the forums effectively, they are suddenly omniscient cannot be wrong when they have an opinion.
Almost every time I see a Ninja post in the Reach forums there are at the very least 5 people who post the content equivalent of "This." within 5 minutes. The post is totally derailed with people rushing in to agree with the Ninja.
Discussion of Subject 3
I bet you 20 bucks that if Yoozel, Foman, Duardo, or any of the Master or normal Forum Ninjas made a thread in OT:TF about toast and about how good it is, it would get less attention than someone making a thread about something of much more worth in, say, the BNet: Comm. forum. I mean, I know lots of times they make legitimate threads that are sticky/hot topic but sometimes they make ones that have no business getting more than 20 replies but they get 50+ because they're Ninjas.
This is all my honest opinion. Please let me know what your opinions are on these subjects. This thread probably won't get attention anyway, though.