Most unfriendly online community

[Nautical Honors Society]

Most fansites have absolutely horrible communities.

This ^

Or Halo 3/CoD

 

[bobknowsall]

XBOX Live is something of a haven for total asshats, so I'd probably name them.

But any online community has its unfriendly members. If it's well-moderated they usually get reprimanded or stamped out, but you can't always rely on that.

 

[phar]

Dota or Wow

they are the only games where you get like 10 people whispering you calling you obsenities because you make 1 wrong step doing something

 

[Mrsoupcup]

This one. Go away.

But in all seriousness, it is probably 4chan.

Either Twitter, Gamespot, Youtube or 4Chan which you already said. Also GTA 4 online has alot of ass holes as well. (And any COD game)

Surely Twitter's level of friendliness depends on how nice your friends are, no?

If only that was true, a large amount of the community are jaded vultures feeding off others. Not all but most, I watched a documentary on stay at home mothers (or working Moms) insulting a Woman saying she was a bad mother because she had tweeted about her son drowning in her pool a week after he died. They said things like, "Your son is better of dead, yoou let him die" even though the baby sitter caused it. This may be the case with most social networks though. Since after all trolls are hungry relentless and have no boundaries as long as they get "Lolz". (or feel better about thier sad unfulfilled lives) Its on youtube if you can find it, I'm not sure what it is called though.

 

[Makon]

Counter-Strike's community. Hands-freakin'-down.

 

[signingupforgames]

I think they all migrate. Whenever a large FPS comes out that says and yes i quote "if your not playing this game your a wimpy smimpy little girly girl" they say and again i quote "my testicles are being questioned! I must assure people i don't know i have testicles!" In other words the latest high-profile FPS game will most likely have the worst community. (no actual quotes were used in this post.)

 

[Marter]

Youtube and 4Chan are my picks. I don't really get that with GameFAQs. I've actually had intelligent discussions on there a couple times. I also haven't seen all that much flaming, at least not as much as I've heard about from some of you guys.

 

[blalien]

GameFAQs.

The site quite literally a safe-haven for cyber-bullies and should probably be completely shut down. The community prides itself on it's ability to gang up on and attack users it deems as unworthy, and will even go so far as to launch attacks on personal blogs and other sites if they feel they can get away with it. And they pretty much can, because the site administrators as so incompetent that they actually expect the community to monitor itself. Much akin to the proverbial inmates running the asylum.

Some might say 4chan is worse. But having never had to deal directly with that community, I can only go by what I hear of their atrocities, whereas I have witnessed the atrocities of the GameFAQs community first hand.

Where is this happening? I mostly hang around the specific video game boards, sometimes the TV show and anime boards, and I never run into this kind of thing. Stupid people, yes, but never anybody that outright malicious.

 

[Warped_Ghost]

Depends on where most of the screaming 10-13 year old kids are. Used to be halo 3 but it changed to MW2.

 

[Marter]

Youtube and 4Chan are my picks. I don't really get that with GameFAQs. I've actually had intelligent discussions on there a couple times. I also haven't seen all that much flaming, at least not as much as I've heard about from some of you guys.

There is no such thing as intelligent discussion on GameFAQs. That consider the possibly of dissenting against group-think and that's the second highest crime you can commit on that site. Please don't ask me what the first is, I have my reasons for not divulging it.

I have had good conversations with people on GameFAQs. Maybe it's because I tend to stay in the contributor forums though.

 

[Marter]

Youtube and 4Chan are my picks. I don't really get that with GameFAQs. I've actually had intelligent discussions on there a couple times. I also haven't seen all that much flaming, at least not as much as I've heard about from some of you guys.

There is no such thing as intelligent discussion on GameFAQs. That consider the possibly of dissenting against group-think and that's the second highest crime you can commit on that site. Please don't ask me what the first is, I have my reasons for not divulging it.

I have had good conversations with people on GameFAQs. Maybe it's because I tend to stay in the contributor forums though.

The contributor forums account for less than .01% of that community. They hardly fit in with the general cyber-trash that inhabits the boards.

Fair enough. I guess my experience there isn't "typical" then.

 

[RicoADF]

I'd say the Bohemia Interactive Forums. Nothing wrong with the company, but the community can be quite unfriendly, especially if u even suggest the idea that ArmA II is just a game, you will be castrated.

 

[AmayaOnnaOtaku]

Heroes of Newerth / DotA. Not for the Faint Hearted

Absolutely true by leagues! I have witnessed the community of nearly all these mentioned games, and they are nothing compared to the elitism in HoN and DotA!

I second that. I tried the open BETA after not playing dota in 4 years. stuck up little pricks

 

[Poofs]

FarCry 2 online
worse than 4chan
try it sometime its bad
also Uno at 4AM

 

[Tetranitrophenol]

Each and every Online community is filled with a bunch of assholes, there are a few exceptions within the members in a certain community but basically they are all as likable as a flesh wound.

If you force me to choose, then Id say the WoW community.

 

[haku1219]

I don't know if this counts, but Maplestory is the first thing that came to my mind

 

[blalien]

Where is this happening? I mostly hang around the specific video game boards, sometimes the TV show and anime boards, and I never run into this kind of thing. Stupid people, yes, but never anybody that outright malicious.

You've obviously never been to the social boards or any high-traffic board on that site. That's where the majority of the truly despicable users can be found.

I sometimes visit Final Fantasy boards soon after the game's release, and I never see that kind of problem. Can you name a specific board where cyber-bullying is frequent?