- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Rainman89
I know what you mean, gnome.
Even in the short time I've been here, I've noticed a slide in septagon quality. I'm not blaming the mods, there are more tha nenough now, and they aren't in any way the problem. It's just the people, all threads are about questions, custom avatar's and the like, not helping the community. Hopefully once the new members that came post-Halo 3 trailer settly down, the Septagon will be right again. I am with you, Brother. I am a seasoned internet forum user. I have owned twenty URLs, ran servers for two of them, been forum Moderators in countless forums, been a poster in more than three times as many; basically what I am saying is, I know the ropes and how things work. Usually what happens is you will say start a website, do the maintenance, get members, advertise, etc.
After about two or three years you will have a lovely group of intelligent posters that visit regularly. About two years afterwords (Bungie.net now) you will get an enormous influx of idiots, spammers, a hacker or two, trash talkers, noobs, basically morons that don't deserve to be a part of the site. Now that this happens, idiots somehow weed out the members that make your site great and replace them with more idiots until you have no one left worth running the place for but since you have such a large group, you can't just up and close shop. This will either happen in waves (like now at Bungie.net) or it will steadily increase. After Halo 3 comes out it should 'die down', but now that this is such a wide spread site known in existence by any gamer worth his salt, we will always have those morons.
Regardless whether I am new or not, I am not an idiot, do not spam, and do not annoy other members, I am a law abiding citizen and am here to stay. I can't say that for other new members (ha, yeah, most of them are spammers, etc.), but I can say I will do my part; I like it here and wish it the best.
Now that I have explained myself, I must say I somewhat agree with 'impurity'.