What do you think of The Escapist community as a whole?
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That sounds like blatant trolling to me, I assume people would have purposely ignored him because arguing with people like that is like shouting at a brick wall, so nobody took the bait.Lord Merik said:
I've seen ignorant posts, mainly in the R&P section like 'adoptions should be mandatory' or some crap. It's a bit of a grey area because while it sounds like hate speech to us, they'll say it's just their opinion or idea. Ignoring them is sometimes the best course, they want us to argue with them. Some are very sneaky in how they word things. Even sometimes posts like that slip through the cracks and don't get moderated.
You're all just a bunch of geeks constantly jabbering about geeky things.
And I love ya for it!
Sure this place can sometimes get flooded by over-exposure threads, but it still remains nice and clean overall.
And I love ya for it!
Sure this place can sometimes get flooded by over-exposure threads, but it still remains nice and clean overall.
Some fairly interesting people stand out amongst the crowd. There's a significant minority of elitists and over-sensitive types here, and the mods absolutely disgust me with their warnings for absolutely any 'infringement' they seem fit, which tend me to not post hardly as much as I used to. Don't take it personally, mods, but lighten up a bit, yeah?
That being said you get better discussions (albeit repeated constantly for months on end) here than other places on the net.
That being said you get better discussions (albeit repeated constantly for months on end) here than other places on the net.
Nobody is allowed to post pictures of a woman shitting in her own mouth so that's a pretty good plus side right there. Unfortunately though I do think the community could do with being funnier and better at jokes/banter generally.
What we need is to implement a process where we identify a team of hilarity experts to act as mentors to new members with regular assesment against pre agreed performance measures. We would have a quarterly assesment where the community identifies humour shortcomings in order to allocate community resources to improve comic outcomes and take full advantage of skill synergies between members.
Or more nob gags. That'd probably work too.
What we need is to implement a process where we identify a team of hilarity experts to act as mentors to new members with regular assesment against pre agreed performance measures. We would have a quarterly assesment where the community identifies humour shortcomings in order to allocate community resources to improve comic outcomes and take full advantage of skill synergies between members.
Or more nob gags. That'd probably work too.
This exactly...Hey, wanna join my new No Daystar's group?Dalek Caan said:
[sub][sub]Just kidding: Daystar Rocks[/sub][/sub]
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I've been a part of this community since...holy crap, in August I'll have been a member for four years!! Suffice it to say I love the community here and wouldn't have stuck around otherwise. My only problem is that you bastards have made me realize that I'm probably part of the Nintendo Defense Force...I was a sleeper agent! How is that MY fault!?!
nah; I love you guys...remember when Extra Credits left and shit got crazy for a week? That was some crazy stuff...Glad we got Jim instead.
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Literally can't see myself having meaningful interaction with any other forum, to be honest.
Honestly don't get the drama when gender...exists in any way on this forum. Beyond that, I like how most topics are handled. It feels like two sides can coexist on most issues.
Honestly don't get the drama when gender...exists in any way on this forum. Beyond that, I like how most topics are handled. It feels like two sides can coexist on most issues.
Pretty different to my usual regular community, so much so that the people there tend to hate this place.
I like it for it's ability to talk about a lot of different things, expressing a ton of different opinions about it, without feeling like there's a cloud of self-righteousness over it all. Some buzz words make me cringe hard, though.
May need a better sense of humor, though.
I like it for it's ability to talk about a lot of different things, expressing a ton of different opinions about it, without feeling like there's a cloud of self-righteousness over it all. Some buzz words make me cringe hard, though.
May need a better sense of humor, though.
Overall I enjoy the community. I'm sure I'm on a few people's ignore lists and considered one of the retards in this community but that's alright.
I mostly enjoy lurking and sometimes giving my opinion when I'm more interested than usual. Gotta say I don't like the 'debating' on this site very much. I've learnt so many ways to say "Fuck you, your opinion is wrong and you're a dumbass for thinking so" in nice mod friendly words than anywhere else so I guess that's something.
I don't find this site very intellectual though. About the same as any other forum except we weed out the trolls. Which is a shame because I personally believe trolls are fun to deal with. Oh and Strawman. Can't forget using that word at least 100 times in any argument.
I mostly enjoy lurking and sometimes giving my opinion when I'm more interested than usual. Gotta say I don't like the 'debating' on this site very much. I've learnt so many ways to say "Fuck you, your opinion is wrong and you're a dumbass for thinking so" in nice mod friendly words than anywhere else so I guess that's something.
I don't find this site very intellectual though. About the same as any other forum except we weed out the trolls. Which is a shame because I personally believe trolls are fun to deal with. Oh and Strawman. Can't forget using that word at least 100 times in any argument.
Generally good, intelligent people that are a bit pedantic sometimes (this whole objective/subjective stuff. Stop it). That said, we're no where near as haughty as we used to be, and there's less people with 'issues'.
It like with anything some are good some are bad.
Yea you get some arseholes here but come on this is the human race here we all have the potential to be arseholes.
Yea you get some arseholes here but come on this is the human race here we all have the potential to be arseholes.
As a whole, it's okay. Half of the community is great and usually have fun things to talk about, the other half has a tendency to be ridiculously elitist.
Love the good side of the community, but the other side can make the forums a really aggravating place to be sometimes.
I still enjoy the place though. Hence me still being here to grace you wonderful, wonderful people.
Love the good side of the community, but the other side can make the forums a really aggravating place to be sometimes.
I still enjoy the place though. Hence me still being here to grace you wonderful, wonderful people.
We certainly have an annoying habit of rehashing old threads on gun control, sexism, are-games-art and other such threads, but it's overall a cool place. The best forum I've found so far on teh internet, and one I'm glad to be a member of.
I also quite like that we have a relatively international audience with less than half our members hailing from the land of guns and freedom, and a good number of members outside the Western world.
I also quite like that we have a relatively international audience with less than half our members hailing from the land of guns and freedom, and a good number of members outside the Western world.
My big gripe with the forums is the over abundance of riduculous "discussion" about various social issues. (Right now, mostly sexism related). When people are unable to have civil discussions of these issues 90% of the time face to face, on the internet its just simply hopeless.
But whenever the community climbs up from that pit of agonizing, whining, overall terrible shitsauce, I see plenty of entertaining/thought provoking threads about gaming and more.
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I just wish all feminism/sexism/gun control/tipping/etc. threads were thrown into the blazing fire of Religion and Politics, so we could have a new, beatiful and pure age of offtopic.
But whenever the community climbs up from that pit of agonizing, whining, overall terrible shitsauce, I see plenty of entertaining/thought provoking threads about gaming and more.
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I just wish all feminism/sexism/gun control/tipping/etc. threads were thrown into the blazing fire of Religion and Politics, so we could have a new, beatiful and pure age of offtopic.
I find it an okay place.
As much fun as it is to have interesting conversation about video games, a majority of it just turns into crap and people arguing about useless topics. I get it, there are some serious issues to talk about, some including games, and some not.
But, at the end of the day, games are supposed to be fun. Some have deeper meanings, but, as long as you've had fun while playing the game, it served its purpose.
Of course, the only other online community I can say I'm "part of" is sparse posts on /tg/, which is mediocre.
As much fun as it is to have interesting conversation about video games, a majority of it just turns into crap and people arguing about useless topics. I get it, there are some serious issues to talk about, some including games, and some not.
But, at the end of the day, games are supposed to be fun. Some have deeper meanings, but, as long as you've had fun while playing the game, it served its purpose.
Of course, the only other online community I can say I'm "part of" is sparse posts on /tg/, which is mediocre.