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Vault101

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Cheery Lunatic said:
I've noticed some circle-jerking going around here (and some pretty bad group-think too...), but I never really treated forums as a way solely to get friends/gain respect. I just like discuss stuff I never really get to irl.
what exactly is group think?....
 

Smooth Operator

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Rastien said:
Yeah... i'm not a fan of total biscuit to be honest :/ and i have found in the past if i make comments that disagree with him or perhaps slightly belittle what he has said. The fan boy army decends on me >_> so i refrain from such things now not worth the hastle.
The hilarious part is he absolutely despises those people, if he had a motto it would probably his ye olden "all fanboys must die".

Fame really is a horrible attribute we have yet to grow past as a society, makes people go blind to any logic or reason, and it is in no way reserved for the interwebs.
 

Rastien

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Mr.K. said:
Rastien said:
Yeah... i'm not a fan of total biscuit to be honest :/ and i have found in the past if i make comments that disagree with him or perhaps slightly belittle what he has said. The fan boy army decends on me >_> so i refrain from such things now not worth the hastle.
The hilarious part is he absolutely despises those people, if he had a motto it would probably his ye olden "all fanboys must die".

Fame really is a horrible attribute we have yet to grow past as a society, makes people go blind to any logic or reason, and it is in no way reserved for the interwebs.
Hehe proper ironic indeed, oddly enough recently a friend of mine managed to upset Proffesor Green over his behaviour at a local music festival to the degree where he started calling her everything under then sun and blocking her :p Epic win troll.
 

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Hawkolf said:
If you get annoyed with the whole status thing then go to an Anonymous board, which eliminates that from the equation. This has its advantages and disadvantages.
There's a difference in being plain arrogant and with what you said. And I don't have problem with status, it's misusing that status by claiming you're all-knowing what gets me annoyed. And people backing up someone like that in their every post. No matter what person said.[/quote]

I do not accept that anyone has a position of authority or superiority over anyone else. It is a self perpetuating illusion which I choose to ignore.
 

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E-peens? I'm happy with mine, thank you. It's big enough to be a dick, and small enough to not have to live up to the reputation.

But if you're in any doubt: it's probably bigger than yours. Really!
 

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Rastien said:
Yeah... i'm not a fan of total biscuit to be honest :/ and i have found in the past if i make comments that disagree with him or perhaps slightly belittle what he has said. The fan boy army decends on me >_> so i refrain from such things now not worth the hastle.
If it's any consolation he hates his fans even more, I've seen fans descend to defend him for telling other fans that he doesn't give a shit who they are or what they want from him.

Vault101 said:
what exactly is group think?....
Essentially it's when a group agrees to a point of view in lieu of discussing alternatives to keep the peace.
 

Rastien

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Dryk said:
Rastien said:
Yeah... i'm not a fan of total biscuit to be honest :/ and i have found in the past if i make comments that disagree with him or perhaps slightly belittle what he has said. The fan boy army decends on me >_> so i refrain from such things now not worth the hastle.
If it's any consolation he hates his fans even more, I've seen fans descend to defend him for telling other fans that he doesn't give a shit who they are or what they want from him.
Lol... Fan boys are like evangelists, both annoying and unable to constructivley look at a situation :p I used to love blizz but diablo 3... you dopey cunts. how badly can you fuck up x)

-edit Hehe 800th post and it has plenty of swears and ragging on diablo get in.
 

Matthew Kjonaas

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I haven't noticed anyone with the follower problem off of YouTube, and I think that means that we may be pretty nice here... hopefully.
 

Hawkolf

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Matthew Kjonaas said:
I haven't noticed anyone with the follower problem off of YouTube, and I think that means that we may be pretty nice here... hopefully.
This one finnish forum I was in couple of years ago (Well it was RUNESCAPE community so what can you expect) had serious issues with this... I got hate thrown on me when I didn't like this one guys AVATAR -__-

Also another thing that is kinda like this but might be a different thing all together: I've noticed that females in forums get their own personal army too. If you have a female there then NO ONE better disagree with her. Horny fanboys will come down your chimney if you dare to do that... I quess that would be called internet vagina?
 

Vault101

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Hawkolf said:
Also another thing that is kinda like this but might be a different thing all together: I've noticed that females in forums get their own personal army too. If you have a female there then NO ONE better disagree with her. Horny fanboys will come down your chimney if you dare to do that... I quess that would be called internet vagina?
huh?.....

where are MY horny fan boys coming down the chimney?...*grumble* ..not to mention the amount of idiots who don't understand that my opinion is in fact objecivly correct

I'm finding another forum
 
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Hawkolf said:
Matthew Kjonaas said:
I haven't noticed anyone with the follower problem off of YouTube, and I think that means that we may be pretty nice here... hopefully.
This one finnish forum I was in couple of years ago (Well it was RUNESCAPE community so what can you expect) had serious issues with this... I got hate thrown on me when I didn't like this one guys AVATAR -__-

Also another thing that is kinda like this but might be a different thing all together: I've noticed that females in forums get their own personal army too. If you have a female there then NO ONE better disagree with her. Horny fanboys will come down your chimney if you dare to do that... I quess that would be called internet vagina?
Females on this forum aren't disagreed with?! Have you met Lilithslave?

From what I've seen there's a couple people who do it, but more often than not it's with people agreeing with their points. Whether or not they're doing it because they're horny, chimney descending fanboys I can't say, but I doubt that it's the case most of the time.

Fortunately I haven't witnessed too much of that on the internet. I've noticed that this forum does have some favored members, but I don't spend that much time here so for all I know there's good reasons for that.
 

Hawkolf

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Vault101 said:
Hawkolf said:
Also another thing that is kinda like this but might be a different thing all together: I've noticed that females in forums get their own personal army too. If you have a female there then NO ONE better disagree with her. Horny fanboys will come down your chimney if you dare to do that... I quess that would be called internet vagina?
huh?.....

where are MY horny fan boys coming down the chimney?...*grumble* ..not to mention the amount of idiots who don't understand that my opinion is in fact objecivly correct

I'm finding another forum
Haha :D well this problem I've mainly noticed in anime forums (Arlong Park was pretty bad in this...). Again I got this advice: "Remember that these users are girls so be careful what you say to them". I haven't seen this (yet) in Escapist because I have no idea who's male and who's female and that's way I like it [small]aha aha[/small]. Wouldn't make difference anyway.
 

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It's not an internet thing it's a thing that happens outside the internet too and it's not an E-peen. (Insert eye roll here.) It's called an ego.

From Merriam-Webster:

Ego is the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world.

Example: I have enough ego not to want to give up easily in any contest or competition.