Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to lead with this is an Internet forum. It is not life or death. Grow up.
Maybe you should take your own advice, there was no need to be dramatic.
For years, this forum has been drama and bullshit free. It’s been one of the last bastions of hope on the internet. It has been an enjoyable place where I have made legit friends. Now, several years in, our site has turned into a place for a few to bicker and whine. What used to be a place where we folks shared a love and interest in old video games, has devolved into something akin to every other forum on the internet.
I want to thank you all that have made this a wonderful place for me to check daily. I want to thank the folks that helped me through hard times and shared amazing experiences with.
Now, to you assholes that have stolen our fun, please leave us alone. I’m asking nicely. Please move on to another forum and spread your poison. We don’t need it here. I know that I am not alone in saying you are tolerated here, not welcomed.
And to the point of me posting 10 times in a row. I’ve been a part of this thread since it’s beginning. It is something just a tad bit sacred to us that have been active here for a long time. Then, an argument over some comment in another thread bled over to here. I did something silly to try to change the direction of the thread and celebrate that it had lasted so long. It was in the spirit of lightheartedness and I thought it was fun. If you don’t like it, move on.
So your idea to diffuse “the situation” was to break the rules? And your reasoning is because you’ve been posting in this thread since its inception and because you have been here for however many years now? Got it.
Excellent way to undermine the fact a figure of “power” within this forum decided to abuse his administrative privilege for the sake of censoring others given his terrible misjudgment. It’s pitiable seeing some of you huddled up in a bubble and not seeing this for what it is and taking at the very least a stance of disapproval given a sense of favoritism is so clear-cut around here; this is a terrible way to manage a forum...or any website for that matter. And for transparency’s sake, I actually reported your posts for spam given the “high volume of low quality posts” rule, which I’m using to scope the preferential treatment around here.
Now, whether you want to believe me or not, I want nothing but the best for this website—I freaking like it, but I think it has an insurmountable potential that has taken well over 5 years now to unearth and has yet to be done, which is sad. So much that can be done, but the place feels stagnant most of the time. Over the course of my time here all we’ve gotten are rather superfluous updates that add nothing to the overall presentation of the website. The phrase “a diamond in the rough’ perfectly comes to mind to encapsulate the state the website is in.
I know you're all having a nice board game conversation and all, but in all honesty, and while this is an "Internet forum", I think what transpired shouldn't be tolerated, and at the very least should be admonished. Many of you give
seether a lot of flak for the way he behaves, and even banned him, yet a figure of "order" within the forum commits an act of suppression towards its denizens and it's, for the lack of a better word, scoffed at. That shouldn't be acceptable.
