flame war prevention for pony threads

[Melon Hunter]

rather than talking about it sensibly, which I thought was the point of these forums, it gets derailed by the same users with the same (usually wrong) arguments and sweeping generalisations that apply to a myriad of other fanbases.

I am just curious but are you genuine with this line? Not to derail the rest of the argument but you are on the internet some people aren't going to do this on forums anyway and you're supposed to just ignore them if you don't want to argue. You know don't feed the trolls or something along those lines. If you can't do that you have to be willing to argue in circles a lot.

I guess I'm just being an optimist. I do think these forums are held to a higher than average standard, and it saddens me when usually level-headed users like bahumat up there start picking fights in threads they have no business in, seeing as they have nothing to add to the actual discussion. What exactly is the point in complaining about a thread or its subject matter in that thread? It's just going to bump up the very thing they don't want to see. Like I've said earlier, some people who don't like MLP bang on and on about fans having a persecution complex, whilst displaying the exact same traits themselves. I'm not here to fight, I'm simply trying to inject a bit of reason into this thread.

 

[Ace2401]

This set of suggestions begs the question: If one only wants to make a post accessible to the Brony community, isn't there an MLP fan site where a post would be more likely to reach the right eyes? Why post on the Escapist?

Ding ding ding. This here is the million dollar question folks.

I'm 100% sure there are sites by now that are completely dedicated to all your pony discussion needs that AREN'T this one. If you still like this site, JUST USE BOTH. This isn't rocket science guys, as a minority of the Escapist community, albeit a whiny one (with some exceptions) you aren't going to make any changes here. Just find another site to talk about ponies on and while visiting this site for everything NOT related to ponies.

EDIT: It took me all of 20 seconds to find you a god damn site to migrate to.

http://www.mlparena.com/

That is not a site for bronies. That site is for the older gens, which at least 95% of bronies hate just as much everyone else. They're really aren't any big brony sites with forums. The big brony news site just has comment streams for the news posted, and that's it. We honestly don't have anywhere to migrate to that has a decent sized community.

 

[crystalsnow]

That is not a site for bronies. That site is for the older gens, which at least 95% of bronies hate just as much everyone else. They're really aren't any big brony sites with forums. The big brony news site just has comment streams for the news posted, and that's it. We honestly don't have anywhere to migrate to that has a decent sized community.

Sigh.

15 seconds on Google -> Type in "brony forum" -> 2 results which look like they are what I need to find for you lazy bastards -> 10 seconds to look at each site and confirm they are indeed what I need to find for you lazy bastards

All in all, 25 seconds to find you two sites which are for MLP fans and NOT for old fans.

You know what REALLY makes me mad, more than most things? Ignorance. If you're going to boldly claim that you don't have anywhere to go, make sure you're right.

http://www.friendshipismagic.org/forum/forum.php
http://forum.canterlot.net/

 

[Ace2401]

That is not a site for bronies. That site is for the older gens, which at least 95% of bronies hate just as much everyone else. They're really aren't any big brony sites with forums. The big brony news site just has comment streams for the news posted, and that's it. We honestly don't have anywhere to migrate to that has a decent sized community.

Sigh.

15 seconds on Google -> Type in "brony forum" -> 2 results which look like they are what I need to find for you lazy bastards -> 10 seconds to look at each site and confirm they are indeed what I need to find for you lazy bastards

All in all, 25 seconds to find you two sites which are for MLP fans and NOT for old fans.

You know what REALLY makes me mad, more than most things? Ignorance. If you're going to boldly claim that you don't have anywhere to go, make sure you're right.

http://www.friendshipismagic.org/forum/forum.php
http://forum.canterlot.net/

Well, I'll admit, my bad. However, it's not like I've posted a pony thread myself, or any thread for that matter. I mostly just lurk in forums in general, so I wasn't qualified to make that claim.