Bon Voyage dissatisfaction
Ellatrue:
It isn't about being mean or not so much as trying to impose rules on anarchy, and I'd like to see a healthy perspective about the site and a bit of honesty. Belonging to the site does not make you "more awesome," and our inside jokes are not so amazing that we should expect everyone to know them and learn them. If you want to poke someone, don't try and justify it with something unreasonable. Just admit that you felt like being a dick to a newcomer for fun.
I just think telling someone to LURK MOAR is fucking retarded. THEY don't need to lurk more--YOU need to get over yourself. If the person is a retard, no amount of lurking will help. If they aren't, then you are just trying to enforce a kind of conformity.
morriganrant:
If you are going to use google as a way they got here to ask their stupid question, couldn't we defend the other side by saying that they could have used that same search engine to actually find the answer to how to reunite the Goths without actually having someone give them the info on a spoon?
JMs using the biker bar as an example makes a lot of sense. Bikers are a fun group of people, if you are their type of person or are at least not objectionable enough to get the shit beaten out of you. Sure you can go in a biker bar and order a drink, but if you get on their nerves, obviously do not belong there or are just an ass, at worst you may be killed on accident\purpose, at best you will be stared at in an intimidating manner until you leave.
I lurked until I decided that this place wasn't objectionable to who I am. Why go barging into a place without knowing just a little about where you are going? Why stick around when you decide that it's not your kind of place?
jolrei:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 March 31, 11:18:57
Quote from: Ellatrue on 2008 March 31, 03:48:38
Google. And I think a lot of people these days go to forums and start downloading stuff for the game pretty quick.
What exactly do you Google that gets you HERE? The only things you can Google that would get you here are obscure in-jokes and the site name itself. We don't exactly show up at RANDOM.
If I recall, I found MATY via Google. I was having some sort of problem (I think it was fugly townies and what to do about them) and did a search on a number of keywords. This got me to a post somewhere which referred to the Base game overpopulation problem. That post used the expression BFBVFS. I googled that and got to MATY. (Supports the "in joke" hypothesis, I suppose)
Within a day or two of finding MATY, I had the director's cut loaded. I didn't actually post on MATY until about a month after reading the FAQ.
The biker bar analogy seems apt.
Ryslin:
I forgot how I found this.. I know I found it a long time ago. I didn't feel the desire to log in till whenever the heck it was. I have always enjoyed the biker bar mentality here. It felt down right homey.
Course my distinct desire not to get involved warring with my desire to blather on for no apparent reason often shows in my posts. That is when I post.
Jelenedra:
I think I followed a link from MST2 to here. It might've been a link from the FOJ's signature, because I remember him from there before I came here.
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