I just wanted to pause in my reading to point out probably one of the most hypocritical and self-contradictory posts I'd yet seen in the topic thus far. We have here someone trying to act above it all, like one of the "good folk" of yore who was once part of a peaceful place... etc. He condemns insults and going after people (stating names), while pointing out that ironcross would've been banned much faster if he were on the team and calling him and Ethin and others "hanger ons". See, my thing is, if you're going to try to be condescending and act like the good guy? Don't do exactly what you say everyone else does in the same post... it seriously makes it hard to take you seriously. This is why the one thing religion has correct, imho, is that no man is good enough to judge another man.
"what has happened to being polite to people and getting your point across or disagreement across in a manner that doesn't directly or indirectly degrades a persom or makes comments on them which aren't exactly nice."
I don't know, you tell me dude. Although... if I must say, bringing the reasoning for Ethin's ban and saying lmao you deserve it or anything to that effect is not the way to go if you'd like to restore civility. Plus, suggesting that people who don't agree with you isn't thinking, as Smoke pointed out earlier... is perhaps one of the least polite and most condescending and degrading positions you can assume in an argument. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the 3 thumbs up you received for such a hypocritical and condescending piece of unfounded bigotry.
Hi,
SirBadger, thank you. I thought everyone had gone shit crazy on here. your post, at least makes me believe that there might be a few who have their heads out of all this politics groupism and powerplays.Having been a member of this forum for quite a while now, all I have to say is, most bans that I have seen were quite warrented, and hell there were some people such as Ironcross that would have gotten a boot much faster and for much longer if I were in the mods position.
Nowadays we all or most of us seem to think that insulting people, being rude and making personal comments is something good and something to be lorded depending on who our friends are,the friend cercle we move in and who the insults or derogatory
comments are aimed at.The close topics if you notice that we seem to be talking about recently were mostly due to people such as Ethin, Ironcross and a few other hanger ons who tend to pat people such as Ironcrosses back when he goes on one of his insulting sprees.
All that I wonder is, besides all this bullshit and politics along with the groupism, what has happened to being polite to people and getting your point across or disagreement across in a manner that doesn't directly or indirectly degrades a persom or makes comments on them which aren't exactly nice.
A few years ago, call it about 4 years, the forum used to be a type of place where anyone at all could post anything, and not have a few thousand people jump down their throats for improper english, spellings or make fun of them or insult them. If you liked android, you could say so, and the people who are were android fans could jump on and have a nice discussion about it. Same for apple, Screenreaders, gay, feeling suicidal etc. not exact examples but kind of anyway. It used to be a nice supportive and generally just a nice place to hang out on.
It all has been going down ever sinse a few people (I still see it as impolite to take names here) joined the forums, grew up and got a few hanger ons along with them. and now what they want is for this to go down even further in the dumps where insulting so called people who deserve it in whos opinion, I ask? in yours person X may deserve some insults, a reality check according to some people, in mine it doesn't, and I am sure in a few others opinions as well, what is to be done in such a case?Saying what you want is fare enough, that's what forums and discussion boards exist for, but IMO when you start insulting people and calling names, that's where a line has to be drawn and said enough is enough.
In closing, all I would like to say is
about the blog post the op talks about, Smoke-J isn't exactly the most objective person when it comes to this forum (stw etc) and it can not have been more bias, or actually it could be, if you were to go looking.so I wouldn't exactly read and believe all of it and think all of it is objective. when Articles are subjective and full of biases and each persons perseptions I wouldn't go believeing all I read.
Slight edit, Ethin, lmao mate believe me, most reasonable people would think your ban was most certainly deserved. And you are probably better behaved on here because of that. perfect example, I say.And for all the rest of you, If you are actually capable of reading, understanding and having a few thoughts of your own,
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