OT: Hostility in Forums

[Randallw]

See now this is something I don't understand. I hope it can be agreed that I'm a long term member of the SE community and I have a lot of knowledge I can pass on, but I'm simply not interested in being placed in a position of responsibility. I have no desire to go on power trips and so don't consider the extra effort worth the bother.

In some SE games I've on occasion been resentful of another empire riding roughshot over me and secretly vowed revenge, but this doesn't last longer than it takes me to get half way through my next turn. I simply can't see the point in expending additional effort in being petty or vindictive.

Apart from the conflict it causes getting into arguments with people, I fail to understand what the attraction is in bothering to make an issue of something. Yes I occasioanlly voice my opinions on matters but really it's not worth casting dispersions personally at someone just because you disagree with them. I'd rather just give up and forget it. In the grand scheme of things it makes no difference if you're right or not, and it just causes bad humours, you could say, to get obsessed. This is why I consider myself a Stoic (as well as a cynic, a nihilist, an appollonian, and half a dozen other half baked philosophies I once read about in a book ). There's nothing you can do about it so why bother.

Not that I'm criticising that you are making a point, just that I fail to see why people go on power trips.

[Atrocities]

Debating is fun, arguing is not.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

A great debate is one in which both people learn.

Pride (That is, thinking oneself more capable than one is) does indeed goeth before the fall.

[capnq]

Atrocities said:There is a sincere lack of etiquette when it comes to manners of people who use game forums.

All Internet forums, actually, not just gaming forums. I usually don't even look at the comments section on news sites, because they're just too painful to read.

[Xrati]

I usually don't even look at the comments section on news sites, because they're just too painful to read.

Come on capnq, some of them are pretty funny! I guess until you realize that these people are serious...

AT is right about alot of things in his 'long' version of his 2 cents. One more thought about that is, those people should never lead or be in power as you need an open mind to be able navigate through lifes twists and turns... [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon12.gif[/img]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

It's amazing how much can be blamed on marketing.

[Xrati]

Don't forget the media!!!

[AgentZero]

I think the above attachment does a pretty good job of summing up AT's rant.

I'm rather hungover and sleepy, so I don't have much energy to coat this thread with another layer of sarcasm, but if someone happened to mention something like, oh say, people who think video games should qualify as sports, well then I think I could come up with something suitably vitriolic.