- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
To all and myself,
Im not a moderator (although i do hope to one day become one). I have no "Ninja" powers or any other tools of enforcement. I say this as an equal, which i believ makes this message more powerful. These great forums are seeing lots of trash. Unprovoked aggression, vulgarity filter dodging with lewdness like the F word. And for what, so you can trash talk fellow members? So much flaming. And for what? Its really disheartening. I dont mean to sound like a "perfect word" pacifist but why the hell is there all of this garbage? To everyone; Why did you join BUNGIE.net?. I'll telll you why, because you love the things that Bungie has created these last few years. Great games like Halo and these forums. You joined because you liked it. Do you think its any different for the people that you flame. No! You joined to have fun on the forums, and now your screwing them up. Nobody wants to here your bickering and flaming, nobody thinks its funny, and everybody wants you gone. You know whats great, when i see "The Great Pretender" participating in a peaceful discussion, which there is alot of. Dont get me wrong, 70% of the time these forums are great thanks to the fantastic performance of our moderators and the conduct of good members like most of us, who just want to have fun. However sometimes the moderators, who are basically just our fellow members, have to do get serious and ban people. I hate seeing that. I hate seeing some idiot make a stupid thread and when i come back five minutes later and it says he blacklisted. Do i hate seeing it? Yes. Did he deserve it? Yes.
So, its time for myself and the many others, as just another fellow "member", to step up to the plate. To all good members reading this, help me. Its going to take more than moderators, its going to take members. Its going to take our shaking heads and our discouragement at the bad members, as well as enforcing powers of the Forum Ninjas to stop the stupidity of flaming and hatred towards each other. We complain about it, we hate it, but yet we do nothing about it. Moderators and members alike will be the team that can make these forums better than they have ever been before. Lets get to it. The forums are fun, the forums are great. But there's just that little bit we can fix it, and I hope we will.
sincerely,
MAC 13720, and hopefully every other "good" member of Bungie.net
PS - and if it helps, I present...the rules
[Edited on 8/14/2006 by BobBQ]