This place is going to the dogs again.

[The Infamous Scamola]

Eh, you should be more lenient. I remember when I was a wee paperboy, I did a lot of stupid shit. Time is a teacher though.

The good will stay, and will learn the arts of fine posting, the rest will just go away and find a new site to hold their attention for the next couple of weeks.

 

[PurpleRain]

Eh, you should be more lenient. I remember when I was a wee paperboy, I did a lot of stupid shit. Time is a teacher though.

The good will stay, and will learn the arts of fine posting, the rest will just go away and find a new site to hold their attention for the next couple of weeks.

True. But if you've been around later then the last year then you'll notice the change. Too many people assume this place is like the rest of the net. Drawn in by Yahtzee who swears too much, they too feel that the Escapist is just the Yahtzee forum where everyone can swear and act like idiots.

 

[Jamanticus]

Eh, you should be more lenient. I remember when I was a wee paperboy, I did a lot of stupid shit. Time is a teacher though.

The good will stay, and will learn the arts of fine posting, the rest will just go away and find a new site to hold their attention for the next couple of weeks.

True. But if you've been around later then the last year then you'll notice the change. Too many people assume this place is like the rest of the net. Drawn in by Yahtzee who swears too much, they too feel that the Escapist is just the Yahtzee forum where everyone can swear and act like idiots.

But this is just like the rest of the net. At least, at present. Nothing can stop that, nothing can reverse it. Absolutely nothing. I came here last year at this time, after the Yahtzee changeover, and it took me almost a year to realize that this is just a nice website with some forums and a few cool people. It's a decent place, but it's not the Holy Grail of the Internet. Or if it was before the change, it has diverged from that and will never be that again.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Eh, you should be more lenient. I remember when I was a wee paperboy, I did a lot of stupid shit. Time is a teacher though.

The good will stay, and will learn the arts of fine posting, the rest will just go away and find a new site to hold their attention for the next couple of weeks.

True. But if you've been around later then the last year then you'll notice the change. Too many people assume this place is like the rest of the net. Drawn in by Yahtzee who swears too much, they too feel that the Escapist is just the Yahtzee forum where everyone can swear and act like idiots.

Yeah, but Yahtzee kinda created these forums. I mean, pretty much all of the "big" posters here were drawn by his vids, me included.

I can imagine these forums being quite... boring before his arrival.

He is a mixed blessing, I guess.

 

[PurpleRain]

As far as spelling or ettiquite goes, get over yourself. This is a site that caters to videogame and electronics enthusiats, who like to sling their own lingo as a matter of identity, community as you like to keep throwing in my face. If you want folk to stick their pinkies out as they sip their tea, go right ahead. But don't blame me because the Escapist is changing and you don't like it. Some of us do like the way this site and the forums have been developing. Some of us don't feel an overwhelming need for more authority, or authoritarians.

Well, firstly, this is more of a magazine website with a lot of writers within. People here who I have personally befriended a brilliant and amazing writers and will eventually go on to do it professionally. This is, well, was a site that held writing in such a high regard. People would be banned if they were loft with their spelling and grammar.

So, get over yourself. Writing and the English language is such an wonderful tool when you use it write. I would love to sit here and be criticized over the way I write and the structure of my writing so I can get so so much better. Not enough people realize the power of words.

If I don't like it, I IGNORE it.

You're right. This is how we advance as a society. Let us all be trodden on! Let us not shout out when things are crap.
Don't be a hypocrite. Always shout out and try to make a change. Threads like this may change only a hand full of people that want to change. So let him shout out!