Get Over The Conceit

[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by Warhorse

There are some real jerks on here, and they tend to be "friends" with some of the mods, so they can do whatever they want, call people idiots, bring them down whenever they try to start something new on the forums, or get drilled for bringing up a subject that a few select think should be closed. I got into some hostile arguements a few years back, and just decided to leave for a while. Then I got word that the new movie was coming out,so I decided to come back. Right now, I seem to be having pretty good convos with most of the newbies versus the old timers. Perhaps the new toon is starting to pry open parts of the TMNT world that were once taboo or forbidden on this site. But, I have also noticed some of my favorite posters of the past simply don't come on here no more, or not as frequently as they used to, like Roseangelo, Triplexx and Buslady.

Originally Posted by The Big Bad

As others have said, no The Technodrome in no way represents the norm. I've seen much bigger boards than this succeed in being much more welcoming and drama-free. The Bumbleking boards, which are comparable to The Technodrome in size and are home to a segment of the always-passionate Sonic the Hedgehog fandom, are exponentially more welcoming--and in the end, more fun--than here, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that they has a moderation team that is far more willing to step in before things get out of hand. Here, however, the role seems to be far more technical than administrative, and that does not help.

Originally Posted by Bry

"It's the Internet" isn't really much of an excuse, though. The only reason some people behave like they do online, harassing/trolling and spewing gross nonsense, is because everyone else just puts up with it. If we can do better (and we can) then we should be.

I guess I'm so used to anyone saying anything incendiary online, that it really doesn't surprise me what harassing/trolling pops up eventually. So that's why I'm surprised some people are saying these Technodrome Forums don't represent the norm. In fact, I thought these forums were better than the norm because at least they had some moderation. Plus, we had this conversation before on this topic, for example on this thread, and for the most part, people seemed fine with the moderation here.

My viewpoint seemed more in line with Leo656's (because of maybe less than 10 perpetual "trolls" out of hundreds or thousands of users):

Originally Posted by Leo656

Is it really that bad? I'unno, it always only seems like there's about four or five twatwaffles at any given time out of, what, a couple thousand people? Plus me, but I'm an acquired taste. Can a handful of people really scare off that many other people so easily? Bizarre.

I always figured people were just too busy to post here frequently and I kind of admire that. Kind of a shame that it's because they actively don't want to. Eh, whattyagonnado.