Nah that was different, according to the ban ticket it was for making fun of Beast. I don't think I'll ever be able to apologize for that though :)
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Word it correctly. There's a difference between saying "I was wrong and beast was right and didn't deserve my insults." and saying "The way I phrased myself was poorly chosen and I intend to keep my personal thoughts to myself in the future." I wouldn't see anything wrong with that. And it's not like we can ask anyone not to have opinions. Just not sharing those opinions when all they'll do is lead to a flamey mess is all we ask.
I don't quite see a reason to want to be unbanned in the NS boards...
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Go compare the ns forums to the cs forums or the steampowered forums. The ns.org forums are pretty damned good for gamer forums that tend to have a lot of kids and teenangsters frequenting them. Off-topic is usually interesting and full of worthwhile chatter, and the Discussions section is something that you won't find anywhere else. Sorry if you personally have decided to dislike them, but some people are working pretty hard to make them worthwhile.
Well it's the difference between the implications in:
I don't quite see a reason to want to be unbanned in the NS boards...
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And the clear, well thought out point of view presented in:
There have always been too many people ready to jump on the negativity bandwagon and complain sooner than discuss maturely. Someone would make a thread about a game they've been playing and would like to recommend, or a game they're looking forward to, and people post in the thread just to say "That game sux, why would you ever play it?" and never respond again, or, in a worse situation, come back to bash the topic even more. That on top of how many people make small posts just to get their postcount up, not adding anything constructive to a thread at all.
You're preaching to the choir when you bring up the sig and avatar limits around me. As someone who's been around on different forums, I like the limited size that the NS and LM boards have. People often put whatever random image they have into a sig just to have a sig, but with the limits there is less random junk in a sig and it adds more of a challenge for someone who likes to make sigs; I have less room to work with to make something that looks cool without being annoying or an eyesore.
I never said that the NS forums were bad, I never said the moderators weren't doing their jobs; I was merely expressing the fact that I can only handle a certain amount of general lameness that a lot of the members display. For a long while, I really enjoyed being part of a community, communicating with people that had shared similar interests. But eventually, all of the little things that annoyed me, the postcount whores, the general asshats, and did what I tell other people to do: leave. I didn't like the atmosphere, I didn't like the annoyances, so instead of remaining and turning into an angry troll, I left.
I have recently begun reading the boards again, usually in my free time in class. There are a lot of intelligent individuals on the boards, a lot more people that are able to say "Hey, that isn't cool" to people who are being rude or inconsiderate, and people that do a very nice job presenting a topic they enjoy and want to share with others, such as the threads about the Nintendo DS for example. There are more people that I can identify with and express my ideas without worrying so much about someone posting "That idea is stupid" and running off.
That gives us the difference between understanding, and assumption based merely on the tone of a one line post.
So next time, at least make an attempt to understand my reasoning before going off and scold me. I'm not just some young "teenangster" who goes around hating things for no real good purpose.
Now who's reading into something? :p Don't worry grimm, I'm not accusing you of anything as horrible as teenangsterhood. I respect you for the intelligent poster that you are. Let's kiss and make up.