amomentlikethis wrote:Can we at least get some seriousity around here? This is, as the other forums were shut down, N's only useable forum. And personally if I owned N I wouldn't want the only forum about the game to be run by people who only post things for an ego boost.
You mean like yourself? Looks like
someone isn't getting that Mod Spot for Christmas he was hoping for! Ah, well. Maybe next year! =D
Anyway. Really? Did no one notice the TWO FUCKING YEARS of discussion prior to the move about moving? Did we all just miss that entire twenty-four month span in its entirety?
Look, I'm not a fan of the style of Satire Suki, Dave, and Slaps use. It's not my style of humor, really. I don't find it amusing at all, and yeah - I'll admit - Sometimes, it pisses me the fuck off. I don't like how their humor comes across or how it systematically alienates every member of our community. But y'know what I do? I voice that concern, and then
get the fuck over it. Did you read that part of the rules? Where we tell you to kindly get over it? Because that was in the rules. The new ones. In that News section thing. Yeah, the one with the silly posts. Atob was genuinely incensed at that topic, as was I. But we both sucked it up, and got over it. Let's play some TF2 together, right guys??? =D =D
So, tell me, guys - Name one newsworthy thing that's gone down since September 26th. Just one will suffice. Any one. Pick one out of a hat. Would you like for us to tell you about George Bush being assaulted by a shoe salesman? It's certainly newsworthy, but really? I can't fathom you needing the News section to be so sterile. If anyone reading this has anything they consider Newsworthy, by all means PM it to me. I actively want things to go into the News forum. You're almost right - Those joke topics kinda do look out of place when they're all alone in there, but nothing's gone on, bro. If
this is your ideal running state, then good God, by all means, we need to get a new staff in here, pronto. These new guys who totally haven't been hanging around since the forums began are running this very, very sterile and completely dry community to ruins! I mean, FOUR totally new Administrators, all of whom have been around this community for less than five years? Whoa, whoa. Count me out, Francine. That's too much butterscotch in my soup.
You seriously think we moved to get higher status? AS THOUGH BLIZZ HASN'T OWNED THE COMMUNITY SINCE SEPTEMBER OF 2004, RIGHT FELLOWS? HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR. The only change was Suki's Adminship, and the loss of Mare and Raigan as Admins - And we've extended the Olive Branch to them, offering them the exact same position here that they had at the old forums. Keron willingly took a back seat - He's going to be a pianist, you know. Secondly, these aren't Mare and Raigan's forums. They never were. These are fan-run, fan-supported forums. We actively want Mare and Raigan here. This should be their place, but they don't want it. We offered numerous times to Mare and Raigan to host these forums on the Metanetsoftware.com server. We even offered to pay for the extra hosting as well as offer all ad revenues to cover costs of running said forums. Not only were we ignored for nearly a year, but when we did get a response, the response was "No." What else do you want from us? Forumer isn't an option. Forumer is awful for us. Forumer is awful for YOU GUYS. Thus, these forums. By all means, I wanted these forums to be the Official Metanet Software forums, hosted at their official site - In fact, we all wanted that. That was the ideal outcome. The ideal outcome was also having Legacy launch alongside v1.5, but they refused on that front too. No hard feelings, but what else do you want us to do? We wanted these to be all official and professional-like, but they aren't, they won't be, and unless Mare and Raigan were both involved in some sort of tragic bus vs. Hot-Air-Balloon accident, it seems like they don't even want to be a part of the community anymore. Not that they were much to begin with - save for a post or two every handful of months - But they're big-time now. They're movie stars, man. They don't want us anymore. On a serious note, we've tried to keep them in the loop, but they don't have time for us. They're MORE THAN WELCOME to join any time and have their statuses 110% restored. In fact, Mare, Raigan, and Keron would and do have much, much more control and power here than they ever would have at Forumer. I fail to see how that's a downgrade.
If we didn't use the News forum for those three topics, there would only be three less topics in the News forum. Tuh-Dah. But mostly, if you don't understand why we moved, why not ask? Why this tone of topic? Why not just a question, or something? Why is everything around here such a production? Can't we post a few pictures of fictitious ponies without someone wondering if it had anything to do with the JFK assassination? Man, unprofessional is what we /do/. It's what Metanet is about, and what Metanet was founded upon. They don't seem like the stuffy, corporate asshole types, do they?
And no, it's not just you, but if you think you can do better, make a new skin. We
actively want a new skin for these forums. If you really hate this place, do what many others have done and create some new forums. Beat us at our own game. Get ten thousand people to register - In all honesty, not even kidding, if that happened, I would /love/ it. I'd love to be a part of a community that's better and more successful than this one. Because that community would be the best fucking community in existence. If you can run a community of this size with any semblance of what a person would call success, I'll buy you a Christmas ham. Until then, let's just have some fun. It has nothing to do with harshing on our buzz, and you're right - Some of the jokes either go too far or aren't funny at all, but if I were to ban any offenders, you assholes would be the exact same ones to rush to their defense, crying and wondering why I have to be such a hardass. And if you guys think for a second that Administrating this place is any fun, it comes to be less and less so every day. I honestly don't know why anyone would put themselves through this shit. It just doesn't register with me. AHAHAHAHA REGISTER. IT'S A FORUM PUN, GET IT??? That's primarily why we post silly topics - It relieves some of the stupid, tireless monotony of dealing with... Well, this stuff.
Look, I'll entertain questions, and I'll certainly and wholeheartedly entertain and even fully endorse serious concerns and serious complaints. But this shit has driven off Silly Cliff, flown way the shit over Ridiculous Chasm, and landed smack in the middle of Jesus-Fucking-Christ-Are-You-Guys-REALLY-Doing-This-Again Lake.
And really - Keron wasn't the only person who thought the Pony Parade was the living Apocalypse, but here we are. We do these things for fun - If you'd all spend less time Bah Humbugging and more time thinking up positive things to do for the community, we'd have less of a rift here. Have we ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, EVER, FUCKING EVER badmouthed a positive project that wasn't Unreality? We, as a staff. have we - As a staff - Ever shot you guys down for a positive contribution or had to post gigantic, long-winded bullshitting tripe-laden posts about what an awful thing it is to have a positive contribution here? I think that, if nothing else, seals the deal here. We explained ad nauseam why we moved, and we made sure as many people were on board as possible - If you're not, I'm gonna miss you, dude. Not much else I can say about this - It's the same, stupid bullshit we've been through twenty or thirty times before, and I guess we're not done going through it. If you guys can't grasp this concept by now, I don't know what else I can say or do, guys. Honestly. If it hasn't quite sunk in yet, and you're actually putting forth this silly bullshit as actual points against the new forums, then I don't even know, dude. I don't know what to say anymore to you guys. If it isn't painfully obvious every time I have to post this exact rant, then I just don't know.