Shannow
Waster of Time
It started with a few posts per day that varied between boring, discussed 100 times before and actually quite interesting. I'm not gonna check but in the beginning it also posted with some quality, iirc. I seldomly agreed with its views but so what.Calis said:My point is that, in my mind, the wannabe-edgy adopt-the-hivemind-style-and-opinion posts that this forum has been getting over the past two years or so (yes, this dates back far beyond OctoberGate) have been far more damaging to its quality than anything Andhaira could do or has done, and I view the responses many of his threads have been getting as symptomatic of this. Especially since as a rule they fail to provide even a hint as to why people think his threads are dumb, instead focusing on image spam and memes straight from the hivemind's metaphorical asshole.WhiskeyWolf said:And your point is?
So. What exactly is people's problem with this guy? I get it, it tickles your annoyance-bone when someone showing very little in the way of abstract reasoning skills jumps onto a forum and starts bringing up stuff that's been discussed before, but here's the thing - many of the current regulars haven't actually discussed those topics. Sure, Andhaira could at the very least provide a tie-in, some opinion of his own to get a new discussion started rather than posting "IWD vs BG - thoughts?", but really, is the stuff he posts really *that* mind-wreckingly annoying to you?
That changed to perceived hundrets of posts per day that varied between boring, discussed 1000 times before and actually quite retarded. No quality from its side anymore either. I stopped reading the stuff quite a while ago so it might have degenerated even more.
I started bombing its threads because it got on my nerves, I perceived it as a troll and whenever somebody made a thread like this he was flamed and told to burn the troll from the codex like in the good ol' times. Then I realised that it just was neither my style nor worth the hassle and stopped reading its threads and posts. Seems like others got the same idea and are now bombing its threads.
When I'm in the same room with a man who farts, I'll try to ignore it. When that man suffers from utter flatulence and goes out of his way to fart into my face that can be a little aggravating.
I won't whine that the ignore button would be a good gas mask. And I certainly won't flame anybody if it doesn't come back. It would just be useful to reduce its image spam in threads that I actually want to read.
@Jasede: Not having a reason, not giving a reason and not needing a reason are three different things. Wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm