Rant time!

[Jay2645]

OK, the reason for the sudden influx in noobism is because Halomaps is headed to hell. There is a wave of noobism spreading through the Halo community as of late, and they discovered a little site called Halomaps. They downloaded a game called "Halo: Custom Edition", and proceeded to try to get OTHER PEOPLE to make THEIR stuff for them. We tell them to fuck off, essentially, Dennis gives us a warning, and then tells us we HAVE to help them instead of doing something to correct the problem. This was OK, but Halomaps has been overrun by people from Halomods, fleeing the noobism spree as well. These noobs at CE build up with the original noobs, and overrun Halomaps entirely.
Now, the 12 and 13 year olds at Halomaps try to pack up and get away from the sudden influx of noobism. Most of them being CMT fanboys, with the exception of a few, they run to CMT's home: Here, causing trouble for Masterz that resulted in the CMT forums going under lockdown. Of course, a few of the members go here just to get away from the childishness of it all, to name a few of the newer arrivals from Halomaps:
Kirby 422 (Apparently, he's on CMT now)
Teh Ganon
Massacre
Donut

Each day, more and more people from Halomaps flee here, but most of the actual noobs are scared away from the "tough guy" reputation this board has for its flaming. Eventually, the non-flamers will exceed in number then the flamers, the last line of defense will go down, and H2V will fall to the same fate as Halomaps and Halomods before it. GBX is, surprisingly, protected due to the fact that the noobs have never heard of it before.

So the fate of the forums is directly linked to the fate of the forums' flame defense. If the last defense falls, so does the forum.[/rant]

[StankBacon]

wow, i never realized how seriously some people take this forum shit.

anyway, about the comment of "jumping ship" from gearbox, that did nothing except to make gbx a better forum to visit, as all the morons and trolls just came here.

rep is a good percentage of the blame for this forums quick downward spiral of filth..

people see it as a e penis, and nothing more, and people who have a little peewee generally dislike those with large, and vice versa.

rep should be done away with, like it was on gbx, but since that will never happen on this forum, it needs to be made so users cant see other people rep count, it only serves to make people jealous, and if it was hidden, people can still view there precious green bars in there user cp.

and this place need more mods, but not mods who people like, or think they will make a good mod because they are good arguers or other bs like that.

they need to have experience running/moderating a large user-base forum.

anyway, i think im starting to rant a little to much.

meh.

[rossmum]

Rep is only a problem when people make it one. I judge people by attitude and intelligence, not rep.

It's the idiots who come in claiming all manners of rubbish like nonstop rep-circling amongst the big bad site veterans and then go on to abuse the system themselves who are the root of all problems pertaining to rep. I give or take as I see fit.

[StankBacon]

exactly, which is why it should become hidden.

[Dr Nick]

wow, i never realized how seriously some people take this forum shit.

Seriously, a lot of people don't really care much for a social life anymore.

[SnaFuBAR]

Rep isn't the problem, it's just another thing that the immature members worry about and use to try and rile up anger against established members. It's a reward and punishment system that works much like society. Nothing more or less.

[rossmum]

exactly, which is why it should become hidden.

No reason to hide it; generally the ones who bitch about it are troublemakers in general. There you have it, perfect candidates for the detention section.

The whole point of rep is to indicate how respected someone is within the community. Someone with green bars scrolling right across the postbit is usually trustworthy, whereas someone in the red is not. You know you don't want to get involved with those several bars in the red, whereas you probably wouldn't if it was hidden.

[Dr Nick]

Rep isn't the problem, it's just another thing that the immature members worry about and use to try and rile up anger against established members. It's a reward and punishment system that works much like society. Nothing more or less.

iawtp.

If anything, rep is like artificial life.

[Kornman00]

You people and your fucking drama. Its the fucking internet for christs sakes. We founded these forums, I don't see why the fuck the admins don't just fine tune it to their liking. Its not like we're trying to hold an image, because if that were the case, NONE of this shit would be taking place right now.
Why, because this site is built for a game? My ass.
The fucking admins have (ignorantly) complained about how much they fucking hate the port! Doesn't matter if that letter is ever finished now anyways jcap.
What real difference does it make, NOTHING will ever happen, NONE of you fucking admins have the fucking BALLS to fucking take any real action. Save Timo. <3 you Timo. Jcap, you should have stopped acting like a bitch and waiting for TheGhost to come back from "real life" and use your fucking powers given to you to govern this place. You already play favorites, so why stop there with users? Take the action these forums need.

Also, Zeph, I hope you realize you wrongfully warned Patrick. If you would have paid any fucking attention, you would have noticed I had edited his post to have a picture in a spoiler tag, as a joke. If that gets a warning, then why don't you warn Haruko with his posts about bear sex and all that other bullshit? Oh, thats right, because we're playing fair around these forums

Fuck this place, I have REAL matters to care about than if there is some "idiot" adding text to some internet database for everyone to see.

Created this one today with one purpose in mind and one purpose only: baiting Dole into one of his lovely little rants to the point where he winds up banned. Note the Cyrillic name (yes, it actually works; pronounced Chetka - I checked). Note also Dole's irrational hatred of Russians. I don't think any elaboration is required.

If he keeps degrading at his current rate, I'll (with fap's permission) post around a bit acting like someone who's none too good with English (legible, but with obvious mistakes), and wait for the result. It'd help if you guys de-modded Masters or at least blocked him from checking IPs, as I can't be fucked to proxy just to troll one member.

If that doesn't work, we can make him gay/bi, and if that doesn't work, we can make him a staunch believer in sex before marriage. That ought to get him wound up.

The one problem is that Dole, unfortunately, is intelligent. It's a shame his intellect is wasted by his incredible ignorance, but he worked out Berkut was my alt long before Masters or anyone else, even before I started really dropping hints. Thankfully, I suspect it was my posting style and general attitude which did it - something I'll be changing while using Chetka.

Sound like a plan? y/n

[Atty]

Seriously, a lot of people don't really care much for a social life anymore.

I live a very healthy social life and still value my internet life. Communities like this become more then just a few random idiots joining together to talk about a game, we all become friends. We talk on aim, we game together, we talk in vent, we come to each other for advice, just like you would with any of your other friends. I don't see why we can't take it seriously and not live a great social life as well.

I value everyone on this forum who I've become friends with and I value what a great place this forum can be, I'd hate to see it fall apart because of some lax moderation due to indecisive administration.