I don't see why everyone has a such a beef with 4chan. I'm a regular visitor, and the people who go there seem fine to me. Plus there aren't any overly strict mods like elsewhere on the internet.Syon said:
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Facepunch, the users are so fast to flame you for just about anything.
I know it was already mentioned, but Youtube. Awhile back I watched this tribute video to the 9/11 victims. The video showed a plane being flown into a building, the wreckage afterwards, and people jumping from the tower. Most of the comments were, "OMG 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB IT WAS BUSH!!!!" or "lol I laughed. America deserved this."
I know it was already mentioned, but Youtube. Awhile back I watched this tribute video to the 9/11 victims. The video showed a plane being flown into a building, the wreckage afterwards, and people jumping from the tower. Most of the comments were, "OMG 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB IT WAS BUSH!!!!" or "lol I laughed. America deserved this."
I don't see why so many people hate /b/. It's light hearted and funny. Encyclopedia Dramatica has some gold once you wade your way through the rubbish.
OT: The GameTrailers forums are bad, I mean real bad. Its full of 13 year old fanboy retards. The 360 fanboys will go raid the PS3 section and teh PS3 fanboys will go over to the 360 section. No one uses the search bar (it's not really that bigger deal but when there are 4 threads on the first page about the exact same thing it starts to get a bit annoying.
Don't get me started of the religion and politics section. If you are curious go see it, its funny for a little while.
The other major problem is the system of the forums. It's kinda hard to explian but if you sign up you will understand. Its just the little things like you don't get a message when you get quoted and people have ridiculously large and colour signatures. The signatures are good but then that same person posts 3 or 4 times on the one page it gets kinda annoying.
OT: The GameTrailers forums are bad, I mean real bad. Its full of 13 year old fanboy retards. The 360 fanboys will go raid the PS3 section and teh PS3 fanboys will go over to the 360 section. No one uses the search bar (it's not really that bigger deal but when there are 4 threads on the first page about the exact same thing it starts to get a bit annoying.
Don't get me started of the religion and politics section. If you are curious go see it, its funny for a little while.
The other major problem is the system of the forums. It's kinda hard to explian but if you sign up you will understand. Its just the little things like you don't get a message when you get quoted and people have ridiculously large and colour signatures. The signatures are good but then that same person posts 3 or 4 times on the one page it gets kinda annoying.
Ughhh... I didn't have any idea what it was when I looked up Animaniacs (I.E. a CHILDHOOD FAVORITE OF MINE) on that cursed site...z(ombie)fan said:
Well, there's always the obvious stuff like 4chan and the YouTube comments, but the place that I've actually posted that I think is the worst would probably be GameFAQs. They have a rather high percentage of fanboys, trolls, and fanyboy trolls.
Plus there's that whole insanity with the GameSpot forums being sorta shared. I'm not even sure how to describe it. It's like they have two separate forums, with two separate sets of rules and two separate mechanics and two separate sets of moderators, but every time you make a new thread or post in one, it shows up in both. Mostly. Of course, links and images don't even work in GameFAQs, so that leads to lots of interesting confusion. Plus everyone in GameFAQs thinks all GameSpot users are stupid 12 year old Halo kiddies, and everyone in GameSpot thinks all GameFAQs users are 30 year old fanboys living in their mother's basement. Forum wars get a bit weird when everything you post in your forum shows up in theirs and vice-versa.
Plus there's that whole insanity with the GameSpot forums being sorta shared. I'm not even sure how to describe it. It's like they have two separate forums, with two separate sets of rules and two separate mechanics and two separate sets of moderators, but every time you make a new thread or post in one, it shows up in both. Mostly. Of course, links and images don't even work in GameFAQs, so that leads to lots of interesting confusion. Plus everyone in GameFAQs thinks all GameSpot users are stupid 12 year old Halo kiddies, and everyone in GameSpot thinks all GameFAQs users are 30 year old fanboys living in their mother's basement. Forum wars get a bit weird when everything you post in your forum shows up in theirs and vice-versa.
Took the words right out if my mouth...Furburt said:
The Race Supremacists, the Religious Extremists, the Hate Groups, and the rest of the associated pissants are usually the ones that make me feel depressed to be in the same species as them.
4chan is not bad. I've only been sick on /b/ twice. Verbal assaults, racial assaults and the like are ineffective, because everybody is anon. I don't see how it could really rot your brain (maybe you're social life), but at some points it can be pretty enjoyable.
Youtube community, however, is fucking awful. These aren't the social rejects in /b/, these are average people. Average people with horrible grammar and spelling, uneducated minds and a weird affection with the letter X.
Youtube community, however, is fucking awful. These aren't the social rejects in /b/, these are average people. Average people with horrible grammar and spelling, uneducated minds and a weird affection with the letter X.
The Spearhead.
4chan's /b/ and ED are, more or less, being facetious, and are more extremely dark humor than anything. Hell, I find quite a few of their memes hilarious, and /b/ really isn't that brain-meltingly horrible. The Spearhead, on the other hand, is totally serious in its misogyny, and worse yet tries to pass itself off as being fair and leading a social movement. See my thread on them for details [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.181341-Misogyny-in-masculism-featuring-The-Spearhead#5352561].
4chan's /b/ and ED are, more or less, being facetious, and are more extremely dark humor than anything. Hell, I find quite a few of their memes hilarious, and /b/ really isn't that brain-meltingly horrible. The Spearhead, on the other hand, is totally serious in its misogyny, and worse yet tries to pass itself off as being fair and leading a social movement. See my thread on them for details [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/528.181341-Misogyny-in-masculism-featuring-The-Spearhead#5352561].
Theres a few 40k forums which can get fairly bad. I've never been to 4chan so i wouldnt really know what its like. And youtube comments just demented.
As in the Tabletop game? Isn't there an official forum where mentioning the Squats gets you a lifetime ban?boris the sprinkler said:
...what does the y stand for? and I honestly didn't think destructiod was that bad, though it's been a while since I've been there for myself.SnootyEnglishman said:
I GOT ONE! Gametrailers off-topic disscussion.
After moving from the crap of one forum I joined Aussie Nintendo and was pretty much immediately flamed for saying a game looked cool. That really sucked. I left soon after. No big loss, the user was a tool and I couldn't be bothered dealing with it so soon after I had joined.
I tried Nexopia just now and read a post called "i am an attn seeker" which was basically about this chick that wanted attention and a bunch of people feeding her attention. And another thread called "i've also got newwww iiinnnkkkkk" about some girl that got a new tattoo. Really not my sort of forum, I was bored in minutes.
I tried Nexopia just now and read a post called "i am an attn seeker" which was basically about this chick that wanted attention and a bunch of people feeding her attention. And another thread called "i've also got newwww iiinnnkkkkk" about some girl that got a new tattoo. Really not my sort of forum, I was bored in minutes.
