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Posted by: Bloodpit10
Posted by: Verachi
You can't see the hostility? You must be under a spell.
Why am I not surprised you all have one thing in common....
Posted by: easytomake
Posted by: jaythenerdkid
Posted by: R3ACTlON
I know you're referring to the Sapphire, but I honestly didn't see any hostility in Harlow's post. I'm actually pretty sure that I'm in Sapphire's sears'd list and all I see in the OP is 100% truth. The hostility is the one and only reason I don't usually visit the main forums anymore. No matter what you say, if it's an opinion of some sort it will get flamed. No matter what.
I agree with him, the attitude of the community in this site is a problem which has driven many people, and will drive many people away. It needs to be fixed. All of this.
I'll admit, Harlow and Jay have never been particular favorites of mine, but right now I've agreed with everything they've said in this thread and around the issue. They seem to actually be in the few showing the most sense at the minute.
Seems that more than a few people are ignoring the issues presented though, in favour of attacking or demeaning the people presenting them themselves. How ironic.
I don't think the "it's the internet, get over it" attitude is appropriate either.
On the subject of reporting, that's a flawed system in of itself. It requires that the majority of people actually addressing the post in question have a problem with it, which, as demonstrated by this thread, and most likely at least one on the front page of the Flood, is not going to happen because those people are the ones with the attitudes of "it doesn't matter" or they join in. The ones who do attempt to step in as well as report just get the tide turn on them, the poster in question as a subject receives more hostility and, at best, the thread is locked after hitting a sizable number of replies and the perpetrators get a warning or ban, usually bypassed by another alt which runs rampant until the whole cycle starts again. Either that or no bans get issued and the members carry on behaving in a despicable or inappropriate manner.
So far, in the Flood at least, most of the people disagreeing with Harlow and Jay are the perpetrators, at least to a degree, but because most people here have the attitude of "internet people are dicks, get over it" anyone who speaks out against the situation get called "butthurt", "wimps" and other similar insults to varying degrees, often having to be filtered or bypassing the filter (for which most times, nothing gets done).
I've seen, most recently, people saying "Oh, there are much worse forums than this place", "consider yourselves lucky", "it used to be worse than this", "if you want civil conversations, get off the internet" and other such BS, as if the victims (for lack of a better word) should be grateful for some reason.
Do people really excuse this?
[Edited on 01.02.2013 12:28 PM PST]