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Posted by: Achronos
It isn't our shiznit anymore.
Posted by: r c takedown
I imagine that bnet has more trolls and way less maturity than those forums though. My thoughts on the subject, copy pasta'd:
About a year ago some members figured out the code to embed pictures on the forum, and all hell broke loose. Certain pictures were spammed in every thread, and ninjas were forever scarred after cleaning up the mess.
Why can't we handle having these privileges? I have been to many more immature forums that allow custom avatars and sigs, and I have never seen disturbing pictures (have you?). Why can everyone else on the internet handle this privilege, but we can't? I have a theory, so bear with me here.
It's called the forbidden fruit mentality and I believe we as Bungie members have had it ingrained in us for years. Either through personal realization or instructions from authorities at Bungie, we have figured out that the personalization at Bnet is lacking. Almost no personal customization is allowed. Some of us were disappointed, but most just went on their merry way in Bnet, doing whatever it is they do on this website.
Then we all figure out that something that was out of our Reach for years is now in our grasp. We go crazy with excitement, not knowing how exactly to use this new feature, and some of us end up abusing this new found (albeit illegally obtained) privilege. Similar to how binge drinking rates are so high in colleges. You were forced to obey rules for years at home with your parents, and now that you are in a rule-less environment with a lot of alcohol you are excited for the chance to drink as much of this magical liquid as you can. So you drink, and you drink, and you don't know your limit and wake up the next morning in the woods, covered in blood next to a goat with its head bit off.
Anyways, what I'm trying to say is by not allowing the members of Bnet to exercise more privileges through avatar or sig customization you have certainly cleaned up the forums, but you have in effect created a false air of maturity, where that maturity in this forum is the result of restricting members' features that could cause certain kinds of immaturity on the forum. An analogy to this would be how a hypothetical city is more behaved because the military has declared martial law. The city is only behaving because they don't want to get shot. The kind of maturity in this city analogy is not equivalent to the maturity demonstrated by another city whose citizens decide for themselves to cooperate with the law, with little external forces compelling them to do so like the first city discussed. Bnet is that militaristic society.
Bnet may be too far gone for me to propose changes in the form of personalized avatars or sigs due to adverse effects from the forbidden fruit mentality (as seen on that day one year ago), but I just hope that if Bungie is planning to create another site for their new IP or for whatever reason, that they work to facilitate maturity through respect in member privileges, rather than force it by restricting those privileges.