"Shut up and blah blah"

[Sewer Bull]

Originally Posted by Neutrino

On an online message board, no one is ever wrong.

[Krang]

Originally Posted by Jo Dawn

And we're admittedly a tad immature here. It's why we can't talk about a lot of grown up things. I admit this is fairly common to this forum, yet not most. Unless I just join mature forums.

Wow, you must not have seen "most" forums, then. I can think of countless forums where I've seen people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and older arguing like kids when it comes to topics like politics or religion. If you know of forums where people can discuss those things without attacking each other, they must be either very small/new forums, forums where everyone thinks exactly alike, or very rare cases of forums where everyone gets along (which won't last long if new members are allowed to sign up).

Originally Posted by Machias Banshee

The VG section is very different from the others. Maybe just posting in the other areas will give you a better idea of how the forums are....

Originally Posted by Ra

But yes, the VG area is very different place. In there is a very tight-knit group of gamers that like to talk about...well, games. Pretty much everyone is welcome until they start...well, yeah, Peanut kinda nailed it on the head.

Bingo. The vast majority of the people who post there know each other, and the rules are more lax there. Don't use that section to judge the rest of the forums. Maybe we need some sort of disclaimer in the forum description...

Originally Posted by Sewer Bull

[Ra]

You know what? I just realized that the thread title is a mash-up of two of my favorite song lyrics...man that's deep.

[Sewer Bull]

Those must be some very deep and well-thought lyrics.

Almost Shakespearian.

[Ra]

It's pure poetry, my good friend. Pure poetry.

[Sewer Bull]

I wouldn't even dare to doubt that, grasshopper.

[Raphael_]

[Sewer Bull]

Looks like Ra and me.

[Scandia]

Students have a problem if you tell them that, because they recognize it is rude.

Sadly, online bullies have yelled at me to shut up and shut the (insert second or third ugliest word in English language) and calling me horrible names because they were holding against me things that happened over a year before. Those same bullies did NOT remember things THEY did much more recently than that. Even their best friends reprimanded them for that- but since in their uber left winged minds only ONE thing counts, not much could be done.

It has not happened anywhere else. And certainly NOT in the Drome. In other communities, if someone is mean to me, the moderators take care of it quickly and other people apologize to me and tell me the bullies are the ones who are wrong. It was just that one lone exception that I am trying VERY hard to forget- but me being so rancorous by nature, it is difficult.

[Swany]

It happens everywhere. I mean the reason I left college is 'cause one guy hated my opinions on everything and made my life a hell. Even the lecturer said it didn't seem as though he was making an opinion, he was just being nasty to me.

I expect it everwhere I go now. But its only hapened to me once or twice online.

*watches the bandwagon roll by*

[syd]

This thread's cute. *Subscribed