The State of the Forum@

So, I haven’t written in a very long time in here. I just honestly haven’t had much to say about anything. A lot of it has just been because I’ve been busy in the real world with work and university. The other half of it is that I’ve been sort of detached to what’s going here. Whenever I do happen to visit the forums to do my mod stuff, I just feel overall uninterested and even annoyed at some of the stuff that’s posted.

It’s not the uninterestingness of the posts that’s getting to me, it’s how people are acting. There are two types of personalities that are surfacing on the forums and it’s genuinely tiresome. The first type is the “I’M LEAVING BECAUSE SO-AND-SO DID THIS AND SAID THAT”. Get over it. We’re not your parents and we’re not going to go get back that toy shovel that the neighbourhood bully stole from you.  Half of these posts are just people who, I feel, are in desperate need of the attention of online strangers. People on this forum just want to talk about normal stuff to normal people. We don’t need to hear that you had half of your intestines removed (and how you subsequently were able to make it back to the forums to post about it 18 hours later).  Cut it the hell out.

The second type are the people who, as Brad eloquently said once, are so insecure that they need to argue about every little thing to everyone. News flash: No one thinks you’re funny or witty because you manage to write a sarcastic reply to anyone who posts on a topic.  You may think you look elite because you’re showing your awesome brain powers by putting people down, but you end up just making yourself look so pathetic. These people are such social rejects, that they can’t even get along with people online. It’s sad, just stop acting like this.

I like coming to RSBANDB and I never see myself leaving anytime soon. I just hate how I used to really like talking to all of the members on a normal basis (hell, I even had a lot of you on my MSN). Now, I just feel like people are dividing themselves into two groups. The first group consists of normal people who use RSBANDB as it’s supposed to be used. The second consists of people who come to the forums just to act like morons and start fights where there are none. This community has gone to crap because of this. I hate having to be strict and tell people to be nice to each other as if they’ve never learned how. And worse? When I ask some people to follow the rules and I get met with a) a sarcastic reply b) a sarcastic PM.

I’m frankly just tired of engaging any contact with anyone on the forums and because of this and I don’t know how long it’s going to take to change.