Cleaning Up Our Collective Act

[isitatomic]

Originally Posted by jilena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The board is probably seeing twice its usual postings because the server is down but once it's back up, the average joe user will go back to playing the game and the same people who sit here calling each other fags all day will go back to calling each other fags all day.

There is absolutely a degree of validity to this. I certainly wouldn't be posting *as much* if playing were on option this past week.

Originally Posted by jilena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

People are here for the server, not the message boards.

A point you seem to have missed is that playing EQ is, with infrequent exceptions, a game that RELIES on SOME notion of community. Engaging with and being a part of that community is often expected of you so that a guild, for instance, knows what kind of players they are going to be recruiting. It seems you're doubting the usefulness of the boards to begin with, which may very well be a question worth asking. But there is definitely a good amount of useful info to be found here as long as you don't wander into BS land, which is decidedly hard to avoid.

[ulrich]

Originally Posted by jilena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not to state the obvious but I have never seen a single thing posted on this forum that you couldn't find 10X as bad on google in 30 seconds. If you let your kids use the internet unsupervised you are essentially introducing them to ANYTHING horrible you could think of and at least 10 million more things you never thought of. That's how the internet works. It's not for kids and neither are most online games. *shrug*

It's schools too that allow children on the net unsupervised. I guess everyone could home school their kids. Now with wifi and laptops.... hard to stop.

In highschool we had someone supervising AND a network admin at the library. My classmate would still put hardcore porn up on half of the pc's before we left. So when the next person used that pc. Bam they would get an eye full. You can't say a parent can supervise their kid 100percent of the time. They do have to go to school and all.

[Bhutt]

Originally Posted by Bones [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Everything in bold you should have just left out. It completely invalidated your argument.
That kinda shit is exactly what he is talking about in this thread.
Personal attacks accomplish nothing except prove to everybody that reads this that you have issues yourself and need to make yourself feel better IRL.
Unless that was what you were trying to accomplish, then by all means please keep it up.



Ironic.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

[mgellan]

Originally Posted by Malrubius [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Please enforce the posting rules. I think the majority of us will snap into shape and be happy to help by reporting the few remaining rulebreakers. I believe that a mature community (whether enforced or otherwise) is going to be a lot bigger and more healthy in the long run.

Hear hear.

[jilena]

Originally Posted by isitatomic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A point you seem to have missed is that playing EQ is, with infrequent exceptions, a game that RELIES on SOME notion of community. Engaging with and being a part of that community is often expected of you so that a guild, for instance, knows what kind of players they are going to be recruiting. It seems you're doubting the usefulness of the boards to begin with, which may very well be a question worth asking. But there is definitely a good amount of useful info to be found here as long as you don't wander into BS land, which is decidedly hard to avoid.

I am not really missing that fact. I am one of the people who obviously has some degree of love for the forums when I can't play for whatever reason. That said I don't really feel the situation here is that out of hand most days. There is probably a lot more noticable vulgarity and insults flying about with the server down. I think things will calm down a bunch post Friday and people aren't trying to fill hours of their day doing things they usually spend 5 minutes on lol.

[jilena]

Originally Posted by ulrich [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's schools too that allow children on the net unsupervised. I guess everyone could home school their kids. Now with wifi and laptops.... hard to stop.

In highschool we had someone supervising AND a network admin at the library. My classmate would still put hardcore porn up on half of the pc's before we left. So when the next person used that pc. Bam they would get an eye full. You can't say a parent can supervise their kid 100percent of the time. They do have to go to school and all.

I understand what you're saying but the sad reality is there is no sane way to keep your children from being exposed to the adult world. The best you can do is educate them the best you can and try to foster some sort of open relationship where they are not scared to discuss new and strange things with you...

From my perspective assuming I ever have children, knowing the things I did as a child, I'll be overjoyed if their only vices are disturbing internet porn and being message board bigots that spew racial slurs and insult people without cause lol.

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Bones [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ironic.

Quite.

[isitatomic]

Originally Posted by mitic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

well, iam straight and not proud of it since it is normal to be straight. same applies to gay ppl cause they are, rolldrum, normal too.

wondering why gay ppl are getin mocked ? because of statements like yours. you aint special sir.

Dear Mitic,

Originally Posted by isitatomic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can't believe how successful Kanor has been at trolling around as a stereotypical gay dude. Gratz, I guess.

Cordially,
Me

[Bones]

Originally Posted by Bhutt [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Ill admit to that. However I feel it was much deserved.

[isitatomic]

Originally Posted by jilena [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I am not really missing that fact. I am one of the people who obviously has some degree of love for the forums when I can't play for whatever reason. That said I don't really feel the situation here is that out of hand most days. There is probably a lot more noticable vulgarity and insults flying about with the server down. I think things will calm down a bunch post Friday and people aren't trying to fill hours of their day doing things they usually spend 5 minutes on lol.

The quotes I collected are not a product of boredom while waiting for the server to be up, I started that a while ago (timestamps were erased with the names) when I noticed my ignore list was A LOT bigger than it used to be. The impetus for creating the thread, on the other hand, was. It just happened to be the most recent and blatantly obvious example of a line being crossed.