SL must move beyond the Prokofy & Blaze mindset

I don't think we need to move beyond the mindsets put forth by Prokofy/Blaze, as they exist only in their minds. The reality of SL could not be further from the gloom and doom class warfare and all the negativity they evoke and promote. SL is as strong as it has ever been, and their limited view of the world limits only them, not the rest of us in any way.

Very true, Cris. But just the same, the sheer volume of the attention whores is disruptive to the atmosphere and ambience of this, a community forum. I think they tread upon much thinner ice than they realize. And in all honesty, am hopeful it breaks under them soon.

Anyone got a blow torche...lol

I agree Aimee. Thread after thread. Boring. I enjoy our rotation of drahmatic players, but they need to know how to share the stage.

This kind of behaviour is (IMO) usually an indicator of an obsessive mind with a great inferiority complex. People have been doing this since BBS days and never seem to realise how silly and lame this makes them look.

To their mind, they are great intellectual giants. Funny, isn't it?

I remember the days when forums like this were great common grounds for brainstorming and working as a community, and where attention whores withered and died for lack of response.

I hold great hope that aspect of the past can yet be reclaimed.

To their mind, they are great intellectual giants. Funny, isn't it?

I remember the days when forums like this were great common grounds for brainstorming and working as a community, and where attention whores withered and died for lack of response.

I hold great hope that aspect of the past can yet be reclaimed.

Can't y'all talk about anything else?

Grow up, why don'tcha.

coco

Apparently your all guilty of what your accusing each other of. Don't beleive me, re read your own posts. No I won't repost for your convience.

Nuf Said.

Cat

If those kind of posters are of the opinion that there is a conspiracy against them (and some have definately stated that), then maybe we should make their dreams come true.

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This is my wicked thought of the day anyway...

Do you really feel this way? I hate to be part of the "sky is falling" crowd but I feel like the tone of the forums have changed. There have always been trolls but I always felt their coverage was spotty. Lately, however, I feel like there is a concerted effort on the part of certain individuals to sabotage every single thread, even ones of the most benign nature. I really don't think things were like this 2-4 months ago.

I muted the worst offenders. Muting makes the forum a less stressful place. I'd rather not waste any of my time skimming their posts.

Ignoring a handful of people cannot prevent this.

Actually, ignoring those who are regularly found creating or fomenting it can... the issue is not that snarkiness happens, it is that there are some people who just prefer to support and draw out any such that does appear.

Also, if accounts on this forum were linked to avatars in-world, then the whole question of alt abuse would be lessened, and a rating system for posts would stand a much better chance at working, too.

Finally, as with any online community, adminstrators need to be more strict in enforcing a standard of cooperative interaction.

Finally, as with any online community, adminstrators need to be more strict in enforcing a standard of cooperative interaction.

Actually, I think when their volume outstrips their sense, they should simply be banned.

Um...muting people because you can't engage in a legitimate debate? That's funny. I can't imagine ever doing such a thing. I find it really a frightening prospect that a society would be built on the Internet where the norm would be to mute out people you didn't like or disagreed with. Fascism!

Good point, Emma.

I've got a kind of "anti-popularity fallacy" going. Anything that is popular *must* be wrong.

Anyways, I've never seen merwan once attempt to understand what it is that I am saying. Never seem him try to engage at all, so I can only assume his attitude towards this isn't based on thoughtful reasoning but rather a general feeling of getting caught up in the mob and it's mindset and tuning into that wavelength.

If Merwan really ever bothered to really sit down and figure it all out, he'd find that my ideas are wholey sound and that I'm even more willing to compromise with everyone as long as they bring something to the party.

It constantly amazes me that some folks jump all over anyone who gets fed up with the constant atmosphere of hostility promoted by Prokofy and his gang, yet don't say jack shit to the instigators themselves.

Sure, being reactionary isn't the most desirable path to take, but it's certainly not comparable to the endless preemptive attacks on random SLers and their threads perpetrated by these jokers. The one with the faux-messiah complex will even admit to preemptively finding fault and bitching about it until the cows come home, in other words, making shit up and jumping to conclusions without ANY shred of real, tangible evidence. Talk about the boy who cried wolf, my god.

Instead of chastising Merwan, you should be considering why he, of all people, has ended up at this point. If you are of clear mind you may come to the conclusion that people are sick and tired of being pushed around by this gang of forum thugs who hide their own socialist agenda behind a supposed love for capitalism. You know "The People", et al.

They want to set up Company Towns (an exploititative American micro version of communism, almost all of which failed miserably), where you come "work" & "live" on their land. Never owning anything, but made to feel, through smoke and mirrors, that you actually do, all the while the fat cats at the top suck the well ("The People" dry. Sound familiar? This brand of capitalism is just Soviet communism by a different name.

Prokofy is afraid of competition, afraid of losing some newbies, to others who wish to assisit newbies without digging into their very shallow pocketbooks, or offering them "jobs" and "land". He would like you to believe that he is simply an altruistic watchdog, benefitting all by preventing unfairness, when in reality, it's all about number one and his petty envies.