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I remember when I used this space to put cool looking links to my chapters back in the day. I don't even know why I'm using it now. Why are you even reading this? You must be interested in me. Still reading?
Yes, yes. Perfect use of my favorite line of my favorite movie by one of the best acting performances of all time, by far.
NOTE: This isn't directed towards everyone!
Anyways, for those who don't have the slightest clue as to what "The Septagon" is, you are viewing this thread which is in the "Bungie Community" forum which is properly known as "The Septagon".
Now, as stated in the title this thread, there isn't a problem here but more of an inconvenience or annoyance really. See the fine print under "Bungie Community" up there on the forum header? It says, "A gathering place for the Bungie community". Back in the day, as a Bungie community, we would discuss Halo, Myth, Oni, online playlists and gameplay, community events, and whatever the big title or fad of that day was.
Right now, we are in the infamous "dark". We don't have anything to talk or complain about (albeit a bug here and there). We can make suggestions to the website all we want but I don't visit B.net to read suggestions. I come here to see what everyone is talking about. I'm not so much a random-minded person to stay in the Flood for extended amounts of time and I don't like the super fast pace either. I like to come here for some slower paced ideas, events, interesting theories, and occasional laughs. I feel the fun is being sucked away by members who treat this place almost as if it is there duty to make sure everything is spick and span with no bending of the not so black and white rules (if that makes any sense). I don't like the interweb term but there seems to be a little sense of forum-copping going around.
It kind of feels like we got the old, cranky substitute teacher who doesn't allow talking.
Now I'm not saying the moderators don't allow us to have fun conversations every now and then. I mean the webmaster posted that news story giving hilarious feedback over social networks and whatnot (I only skimmed the story) so that obviously shows we really REALLY don't have much to talk about.
So what is killing the fun? Those who refuse to have a little laugh and very subtly derail a thread into a disaster. I've noticed more and more that I have to use "OT:" more often than I used to just to avoid being caught in an infamous carpet ban.
But hey, maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm the only one who realizes B.net is in one of those potholes on the activity chart and maybe I'm the only one who realizes that is because there really is nothing to talk about. But I think everyone should take a breath and relax a little. Those who still visit, the few dedicated and loving members who still love this place enough to keep it a part of their daily lives, try to enjoy it a little more.
For a while, all we did was complain about titles. That evolved into nothing about "Elitism" threads. These along with the "No more Halo discussions" have sort of disappeared and for a while, this forum was a pretty friendly place. Let's not lose that!
[Edited on 09.02.2012 7:21 PM PDT]