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There's been a bad smell in the community lately, but it ain't a new one. It reoccurs on a regular basis & it can be counted on as sure as a change of season.
This smell on the forums always comes from a minority of self-centered centered egotists & it affects the entire feel of the place for the rest of us in a bad way.
PLEASE STOP FEEDING WHAT DESERVES TO BE STARVED.
It would be better for EVERYONE if people would show more pride in their community & try harder to make it the best it can be.
Even the lowest of creatures know better than to crap where they eat. Those that do drop wolfbait wouldn't be able to if the majority would simply stop feeding the animals.
Indeed, don't feed the trolls, I know I've been guilty of it. Anyway, school is just around the corner kiddies...mwahaha peace shall return j/k...sorta...or not...well yeah j/k:crazy:
Has it occured to anyone that this might be a natural reflex to all the recent changes and to be more exact, the uptight conditions we find ourselves in? I will admid I am at fault here as well, but goddamnit, guys, look at forum topics made a year or two ago. It was a time when we actually had fun, the rules were there and did their job just fine, darn, even Hoodlum said Lol on the forums and added a smiley face in the end.
Times change, but we don't need to turn into a dictatorship, do we? (even tho it has proven itself to be quite effective, I wont argue) but the thing is that recently it is not for the fun of the game, it's to go online for a hour and not to try to brake one of the bajilion rules, which, by the way, are simply way too complex.
Just today I was sitting in Pen and I heard a guy saying he won't bother to play here as the rules are too confusing. You may now tell me that they are there for a reason and i will agree, but still, I wish to remind you this is just a goddamn game, a space sim from 2004, and people have started to take it way to easally.
I have as well, only recently I dared to wind up and look around and facepalm at what is happening.
People are afraid to do anything fun not to offend anyone else and if people learned to take it easy, unless the idiots are really causing a shaitstorm then things would be better.
Sin.
Edit: As now, freelancer fels like a Job no less. Also, here is some food for thought. Would the whole Virus adminright abuse thing be such a wow thing, lets say, two years ago? I think people would have lolzed and patted him on the back for the lolz he gave.
Now you resign a person who sacrefices his in and out of game time to deal with nuisences, willingly, by the way.
*shakes head*
Going to hell, my friends, slowly, but it's there allright.