FacetiousPersona
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It seems to have suddenly declined significantly in terms of quality.
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OK, it's on.
What has the forum become, indeed
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Toad
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Well all of the interesting topics have been discussed already. I think most of us feel that we need to fill the gap until another productive and interesting topic can come up. Don't worry it will come.
O, I'd rather burn in hell than apologize mwhuahahah
O, I'd rather burn in hell than apologize mwhuahahah
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Re: What has the forum become?
It's quality lack of quality....so far.
It's quality lack of quality....so far.
Red Mage
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Re: What has the forum become?
I'm shocked that no one has pointed out the irony of this post.
I'm shocked that no one has pointed out the irony of this post.
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Re: What has the forum become?
It kinda amuses me to see how everyone seems to fail and can't see the relation between himself and the state of the forum. I spoke to so many people here, perhaps more than everyone else in here and far too often something I heard something like "Board, uh, that's just bad. And it became so much worse since I got here." Hilariously enough, it doesn't even matter how long someone is here. Two weeks, two months or two years - Forum is on decline!!1.
But the worst part is, as I asked those people what they wanted to do against that "demise". And in this moment I could almost sense how they were staring at their monitors in disbelief, trying to comprehend what that crazy German guy just wrote. That's right - they never even thought of changing something for the better. Well, nothing except for "let's ban everyone I dislike"...
It seems that the whole concept of doing-instead-of-complaining seems so mind-boggling and overwhelmingly alien for the average INTP that it makes you wonder how they get anything done. Also, it leads to the weird implication that they enjoy the suffering and the squirming in agony. But that's only secondary.
And let's face it - a good forum needs work. Lots of work. If you are trying to write a good posting, it mostly takes a lot of time because it's maybe very long, you do the research very thoroughly or you are just a slow writer. Some people even have the problem that they can't even finish a sentence because they get always distra
Or someone ninjas you which can be quite annoying, I guess that is something we all know too well.
And when you create a new thread you always have the risk that it gets either gets completely ignored or that someone just vomits in there without reading - or worse - without understanding it. Just look how many threads are out there which no one really understood (sometimes including the author) or which got derailed with the very first posting.
Being a good writer requires - you guessed it - hard work, practice and frustration-resistence.
"So", you may ask. "What was this snarky and after all not very funny posting about?"
Don't expect that things just happen. It's awkward that I even have to write that down, I feel bad about that.
If you want that things change, change them - if not, you don't have a right to complain whatsoever.
After all, the board is not an anthropomorphic personification or something like that, which simply means you are the forum and you are at least partially responsible for its state.
It kinda amuses me to see how everyone seems to fail and can't see the relation between himself and the state of the forum. I spoke to so many people here, perhaps more than everyone else in here and far too often something I heard something like "Board, uh, that's just bad. And it became so much worse since I got here." Hilariously enough, it doesn't even matter how long someone is here. Two weeks, two months or two years - Forum is on decline!!1.
But the worst part is, as I asked those people what they wanted to do against that "demise". And in this moment I could almost sense how they were staring at their monitors in disbelief, trying to comprehend what that crazy German guy just wrote. That's right - they never even thought of changing something for the better. Well, nothing except for "let's ban everyone I dislike"...
It seems that the whole concept of doing-instead-of-complaining seems so mind-boggling and overwhelmingly alien for the average INTP that it makes you wonder how they get anything done. Also, it leads to the weird implication that they enjoy the suffering and the squirming in agony. But that's only secondary.
And let's face it - a good forum needs work. Lots of work. If you are trying to write a good posting, it mostly takes a lot of time because it's maybe very long, you do the research very thoroughly or you are just a slow writer. Some people even have the problem that they can't even finish a sentence because they get always distra
Or someone ninjas you which can be quite annoying, I guess that is something we all know too well.
And when you create a new thread you always have the risk that it gets either gets completely ignored or that someone just vomits in there without reading - or worse - without understanding it. Just look how many threads are out there which no one really understood (sometimes including the author) or which got derailed with the very first posting.
Being a good writer requires - you guessed it - hard work, practice and frustration-resistence.
"So", you may ask. "What was this snarky and after all not very funny posting about?"
Don't expect that things just happen. It's awkward that I even have to write that down, I feel bad about that.
If you want that things change, change them - if not, you don't have a right to complain whatsoever.
After all, the board is not an anthropomorphic personification or something like that, which simply means you are the forum and you are at least partially responsible for its state.
cheese
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Re: What has the forum become?
^INFJ.
^INFJ.
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FacetiousPersona
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cheese
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Re: What has the forum become?
Not my point snowqueen; I simply found it interesting how the type expressed itself so clearly - in a forum of Passive grumblers a J comes forth and changes the world....or dies trying.
Not my point snowqueen; I simply found it interesting how the type expressed itself so clearly - in a forum of Passive grumblers a J comes forth and changes the world....or dies trying.
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Re: What has the forum become?
Oh I see - thanks for explaining. Is Anthile a self-confessed INFJ then? They are my favourite type after INTP
so it's interesting that I leapt to his/her defence!
Oh I see - thanks for explaining. Is Anthile a self-confessed INFJ then? They are my favourite type after INTP
so it's interesting that I leapt to his/her defence!cheese
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Re: What has the forum become?
Hmm! He hovers between the two, but of late I think he's leaning towards INFJ.
Hmm! He hovers between the two, but of late I think he's leaning towards INFJ.
Ogion
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Re: What has the forum become?
Anthile:
I know those arguments of yours and with a lot i would agree.
When one wants the forum to be at a certain niveau and/or has a certain atmosphere, one has to do something about it.
The problems start though at the moment where not everyone wants the same niveau/atmosphere.
Since i think that ultimately exerting authority and forcing people to adhere to your chosen atmospere is futile, a good place of communcation and exchange of ideas should just offer many niches, many half-seperate places where people can choose the form of communication they and their communication-partners there want to follow.
The only 'rule' then would have to be, to respect the niches, the sperate places of other people and their chosen atmosphere in there (relative to the places, not the people thouhg, because one can of course choose to want one atmosphere in one place and a completely different in another place).
Ogion
Anthile:
I know those arguments of yours and with a lot i would agree.
When one wants the forum to be at a certain niveau and/or has a certain atmosphere, one has to do something about it.
The problems start though at the moment where not everyone wants the same niveau/atmosphere.
Since i think that ultimately exerting authority and forcing people to adhere to your chosen atmospere is futile, a good place of communcation and exchange of ideas should just offer many niches, many half-seperate places where people can choose the form of communication they and their communication-partners there want to follow.
The only 'rule' then would have to be, to respect the niches, the sperate places of other people and their chosen atmosphere in there (relative to the places, not the people thouhg, because one can of course choose to want one atmosphere in one place and a completely different in another place).
Ogion
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Re: What has the forum become?
I think it's good that we have 'hangout' parts and 'serious' parts in the forum.
Other than that, what can you do? Isn't it a fact of life, that, the greater the number of participants, the lower the quality? Internet forums, social settings... all the same.
And, I agree, Anthile, that quality went downhill after my joining!
I think it's good that we have 'hangout' parts and 'serious' parts in the forum.
Other than that, what can you do? Isn't it a fact of life, that, the greater the number of participants, the lower the quality? Internet forums, social settings... all the same.
And, I agree, Anthile, that quality went downhill after my joining!
Tyria
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Re: What has the forum become?
I haven't been around long enough to tell if it is on a 'decline' or not. I think people make of things what they will. Try posting interesting material or the like if you don't like current discussions. You can change how things progress.
I haven't been around long enough to tell if it is on a 'decline' or not. I think people make of things what they will. Try posting interesting material or the like if you don't like current discussions. You can change how things progress.
QSR
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Re: What has the forum become?
Yeah this forum misses some of the people who weren't of the emo-teen variety. No offense to you emo-teens, you have your place here, but the threads go downhill when you turn it into a creative writing assignment. Needs moar dwags, ff, kaedri and yeayea type posters. Face is just here to bully around those who came here to escape bullying. He would be entertaining if so many didn't fall into his traps so easily.
This place could have promise, but needs more 'lite posters to show up and stick around.
Yeah this forum misses some of the people who weren't of the emo-teen variety. No offense to you emo-teens, you have your place here, but the threads go downhill when you turn it into a creative writing assignment. Needs moar dwags, ff, kaedri and yeayea type posters. Face is just here to bully around those who came here to escape bullying. He would be entertaining if so many didn't fall into his traps so easily.
This place could have promise, but needs more 'lite posters to show up and stick around.
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Re: What has the forum become?
I'd like to see some more scientific and futuristic threads. More analytical discussion over the emotional aspects of being an INTP. Granted it is important; but it feel like this forum revolves around it sometimes. I still love this forum though.
<3 QSR
I'd like to see some more scientific and futuristic threads. More analytical discussion over the emotional aspects of being an INTP. Granted it is important; but it feel like this forum revolves around it sometimes. I still love this forum though.
<3 QSR
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Re: What has the forum become?
i have been less frequent recently and must say the forum is different. who is Crimson_Knight, Adair...
no offence, i don't dislike you. i am just unfamiliar even though you have posted many times. i also think i was like you, frequent yet unnoticed. hell, my less frequent appearance is due to continual confiscation of laptop. Not that anyone cares....
i have been less frequent recently and must say the forum is different. who is Crimson_Knight, Adair...
no offence, i don't dislike you. i am just unfamiliar even though you have posted many times. i also think i was like you, frequent yet unnoticed. hell, my less frequent appearance is due to continual confiscation of laptop. Not that anyone cares....
Tyria
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Re: What has the forum become?
It was a red versus blue reference. Apparently, others did not get it or thought it was not funny. I apologize.
It was a red versus blue reference. Apparently, others did not get it or thought it was not funny. I apologize.
Traveller
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I have no idea "what has the forum become, indeed", because I wasn't here (so it can't be my fault!) but now that I am here, it can only get better, right? 
So all you nay sayers and grumblers (you know who you are) can stop it... This forum shall henceforth be overflowing with an abundance of wit and intelligent banter for I have arrived.
BTW, thanks for the warm welcome!
So all you nay sayers and grumblers (you know who you are) can stop it... This forum shall henceforth be overflowing with an abundance of wit and intelligent banter for I have arrived.
BTW, thanks for the warm welcome!
phantome
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@QSR, I honestly haven't found any emo-type teens on the forum so far.
@Traveller- I'm guessing modesty isn't one of your strongest traits?
@Traveller- I'm guessing modesty isn't one of your strongest traits?
phantome
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I beg to differ 
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Not true.
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Trust XIII to be XIII.
M'am, that statement constitutes a contradiction.phantome
connecting that which cannot be connected
XII you're spurting out random statements w/o any sort of proof to support them XD
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Proof? Proof is necessary for the empirical validation of a hypothesis. I, as a being in contact with the a priori knowledge of the eternal soul (which you have forgotten by anamnesis), need no empirical ''proof''. My posts are the result of perfect and infallible deduction regarding the essential structure of reality.
Additionally, reason is the whore of the will. As a master, facts and induction are only useful in so far as they serve my greater-- other than rational-- purpose.
Additionally, reason is the whore of the will. As a master, facts and induction are only useful in so far as they serve my greater-- other than rational-- purpose.
Traveller
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@Traveller- I'm guessing modesty isn't one of your strongest traits?
What are you trying to say? It should be obvious to all (as it certainly is to me) that many years of arduous research have yielded the following observation:
INTP = Incredibly Nice Thoughtful Person
So, as the saying goes, "if the glove fits..."