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Subject: How has Bungie.net changed your perception of online communities?

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"Sometimes life gives you lemons, and then you have to say 'f**k the lemons' and bail."

If you're reading this, you need to stop stalking me. If you can't stop stalking me, you might as well go here.

I feel the question is fairly simple, but valid nonetheless.

I have a personal response, but I think I'll hold back on that until I see what others think.

  • 05.04.2012 12:08 PM PDT

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It made me realize how immature people are on the internet.


Thanks Bungie.

  • 05.04.2012 12:08 PM PDT


Posted by: Avatar Korra
It made me realize how immature people are on the internet.


Lol this ^^

  • 05.04.2012 12:09 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?

If anything, I gained a better understanding of the internet when I first started using it than I probably would have from any other forum or website.

  • 05.04.2012 12:10 PM PDT

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"Sometimes life gives you lemons, and then you have to say 'f**k the lemons' and bail."

If you're reading this, you need to stop stalking me. If you can't stop stalking me, you might as well go here.

Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
than I probably would have from any other forum or website.
What makes you say that?

  • 05.04.2012 12:13 PM PDT

We are better than everyone else on the internet and our forum format kicks ass.

Bar none.

  • 05.04.2012 12:16 PM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?


Posted by: Primo84
Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
than I probably would have from any other forum or website.
What makes you say that?
At the time these were the fastest forums I used(and they still are, mostly), so that would be why.

  • 05.04.2012 12:19 PM PDT

To Make Posts is Glorious

Some threads will get posts before others and it is the duty of the Leadership to ensure that posts are made that best suit the public welfare.

"heh"

Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
We are better than everyone else on the internet and our forum format kicks ass.

Bar none.
Woah hey there those are some bold claims!

  • 05.04.2012 2:08 PM PDT

Posted by: the squee masta
Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
We are better than everyone else on the internet and our forum format kicks ass.

Bar none.
Woah hey there those are some bold claims!
I don't believe you have seen my forum title.

  • 05.04.2012 2:18 PM PDT
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I'm trying to become an '04, but it's not working too well."

I never really had one until i joined up on this website.

  • 05.04.2012 2:34 PM PDT

Most people are stupid. But not all.

  • 05.04.2012 2:35 PM PDT

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#moap

It hasn't changed my perception of online communities.

  • 05.04.2012 2:39 PM PDT
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I was going to make a stupid one-liner (edit: not directed at the users above me! I love you guys) but I realized that this question is worth it to me. Plus it actually stimulates discussion a lot more than the recent "pick a random site feature and ask a simple question" template that has been plaguing this forum.

It's hard for me to be active in more than one community. Bungie has been that one community I go to for a long time now (albeit on and off), but there were plenty of communities I visited before it that were almost just as equally awesome.

That said, there are some great differences in my mind.

For one, Bungie.net is like an "official community", which means that, like most communities, it's centered around one company, concept, or product; the difference lies in the fact that it's officially sanctioned by the company it supports. That in itself is not unique, but it's better executed than most communities in this scenario. It presents itself well and the entity-to-fan relationship is very strong and down-to-earth here. That, and it's not at all limited to anything in particular. Take the current state of the community, where so many people are here but there's not a ton of reason for us to be until more information about the new IP is released.

Primarily, though, I thought it was pleasantly different in terms of user experience. At the time I joined Bungie, communities were starting to become packaged and gain a lot more features. This wasn't necessarily a bad thing, but it was reaching the stage where a lot of forums started implementing so many unnecessary and flashy features that things became obtrusive. Bungie.net was wandering in that direction for a while, too - when the community was smaller - with things like embedded signatures and color tags, but still not nearly as bad as a primary offender. The difference was that where many other sites started unnecessarily increasing their clutter, Bungie decided to tone it down, and kept it simple in a very good way. For example, these forums don't include embedded signatures or a lot of flashy pointless features (the one I can think of is limited to already-used space). It's clean and easy to read. There are no emoticons, no junk, no anything. I've created my own framework for forums since then, and the concept of minimalist design here really inspired my design choices - and my choice to try my hand at forums in the first place.

Note that I'm not saying that new features are bad. There are a lot of new features that would be great here, and I'd love a new layout and a general site overhaul. I'm just saying that instead of cluttering up the site, they stepped back and looked at things objectively, and they understood what was really necessary. It makes the forums a lot more intuitive.

[Edited on 05.04.2012 3:04 PM PDT]

  • 05.04.2012 3:03 PM PDT

Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
We are better than everyone else on the internet and our forum format kicks ass.

Bar none.

This!!!

  • 05.04.2012 3:06 PM PDT
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Anonym0us. He plays Bungie games and doesn't afraid of anything.

90s FTW!

Nothing new, a group of idiots still ruins it for everyone else.

This is probably the least open and tolerant community out there, but at least the level of bronies and furries are kept down because of it.

  • 05.04.2012 3:06 PM PDT

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Made me realize that other online communities are biased elitists that will ban you for having any sort of opinion simply because you are new. Every single one of 'em.

  • 05.04.2012 3:08 PM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten

Afer going o the Flood, I have seen many things I wish I hadn't.

  • 05.04.2012 3:12 PM PDT