I never said that TVT is always good. Indeed, the people there can be thin skinned at times, but seriously, look at any other forum in the world and most will be much worse.
I think some people get banned for stupid reasons. I'm going to use the only example I can think of at the moment (and will probably be a tad controversial): Fusionman. I'm not saying he wasn't annoying, or that he wasn't immature, or that he wasn't less intelligent than the majority of the people on the fora. But those aren't very good reasons to permaban someone. Considering how active he was on the angst thread, you'd think more people would have attempted to help him.
I am disappointed in TVTropes because it turned from "TVTropes, the mostly friendly and pretty cool place" into "TVTropes, another site on the internet built around pointless posturing".
Generally, smaller or more specific forums (e.g. one dealing with roads or road signs like the one CA has shown in the past) tend to be less hostile because there's less variety of people there. On the other hand, more general forums, like, say, one for an MMO tend to be more hostile.
Runescape has the worst forums I've ever seen. Seriously, when I made a suggestion thread once, the first response I got was someone saying "This is the stupidest idea I've seen in the past 20 seconds." But I don't think TVT has changed all that much. I think we just have an over-idealized view of it at first.
I went to a specific forum that had around 100-200ish (I don't remember the exact numbers) members...many of them were nice and the forum felt like having a second home. Sadly, they got shut down three times for unknown reasons. Now, the fourth incarnation is good but kind of inactive.
Well for one thing, the only "true fans" are the ones who hate the game and the people who made it. At least, that's what they think. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a thread saying "IF YOU LIKE NOT GRINDING FOR 24 HOURS STRAIGHT TO GET GOOD SKILLS YOU'RE JUST A NOOB AND NOT A TRUE FAN"
Okay, I misspoke. I mean, I don't think that it's gotten significantly more hostile or friendly, just that when you first see it you're so surprised about how friendly it is that when you see things that don't agree with that opinion you react more strongly.
Then the spam blogs showed up and people kept posting n00ds so I started going less often. That and my parents looked at it while people were talking about pedos, so they got on me about it. They don't care as much now, but still.
The TVT forums don't feel safe to me..I mean there's horrible opinions and people that are around. Also, I have never seen a forum that completely blanks out someone's post and "thumps" their post. Very messed up.
TVTropes became an annoying place for me personally when a certain group of people realized you can get quite a lot of people to do whatever you want if you call them creepy enough times.
And that is about all I have left to say on the matter, can we talk about something else now?
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I never said that TVT is always good. Indeed, the people there can be thin skinned at times, but seriously, look at any other forum in the world and most will be much worse.
I am disappointed in TVTropes because it turned from "TVTropes, the mostly friendly and pretty cool place" into "TVTropes, another site on the internet built around pointless posturing".
But that is just me, I suppose.
@squid
Generally, smaller or more specific forums (e.g. one dealing with roads or road signs like the one CA has shown in the past) tend to be less hostile because there's less variety of people there. On the other hand, more general forums, like, say, one for an MMO tend to be more hostile.
TVT has changed plenty.
For the better, the worse, or neither is a matter of opinion. But it has undoubtedly changed significantly.
@Lazuli
Okay, I misspoke. I mean, I don't think that it's gotten significantly more hostile or friendly, just that when you first see it you're so surprised about how friendly it is that when you see things that don't agree with that opinion you react more strongly.
But I really don't want the non-media parts of TVT to be deleted. It's currently one of the best things in my life. :/
Then the spam blogs showed up and people kept posting n00ds so I started going less often. That and my parents looked at it while people were talking about pedos, so they got on me about it. They don't care as much now, but still.
There's always bad apples, and most forums have a mechanism in place to block posts.
TVTropes became an annoying place for me personally when a certain group of people realized you can get quite a lot of people to do whatever you want if you call them creepy enough times.
And that is about all I have left to say on the matter, can we talk about something else now?
@draco
That's why I said "can be."
let's talk about this picture
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis