Bad Forum Experiences

[Ginkasa]

What bad forum experiences have you had? It can be anything from a problem with a member or with the message board on the whole. Obviously, no links. Just explain what happened.

I have one that took place on a message board for the .hack series of products. In a thread about a .hack//SIGN parody called .hack//GIFT, one of the members said that .hack//GIFT might be dubbed into English and released on TV or a future .hack DVD set (its already been released on one DVD, but in Japanese only).

In the next post, I posted my opinion on .hack//GIFT, and as I footnote, explain that GIFT will more than likely never see time in American television for its swearing and nudity (the only networks that could show it would have no reason to). It should be noted this was my first post at this forum.

The original forum member comes back to say that .hack//GIFT has already been released on the 4th Liminality DVD like she's said for the millionth time.

I post again and explain that I was talking about it being dubbed into English and released on a seperate DVD, not on the 4th Liminality DVD.

SHe then comes back and quotes herself saying that .hack//GIFT has been released on the 4th Liminality DVD (she also makes the font larger to make her point clearer). She then adds, "I rest my case."

I then quote her talking about the English dub and being released on TV and/or another DVD.

She comes back and says that she never said it was definate and that she doesn't want to argue since she's had a bad day already anyway.

I don't care about her day so I come back and explain I assumed nothing and was merely adding to the information she had already given. I also quoted another forum member who made the same point I did (and yet he wasn't attacked... could it be because it wasn't his first post?).

Anyway, the moral of this story is: forums who assume "new people" are "newbies" from the very start suck and should not be so close-minded.

So...

What have you got?


*shrugs and walks away*

[GameMaster]

Yeah, I think the newbie factor occurs on all boards, whether you're a novice or veteran to message boards, being new makes someone who doesn't know anything.

I joined a Pokemon forum once a long time ago and all my posts were ignored (they weren't obnoxious comments or anything), it was just because I was new and I think the other people were friends in real life also so yeah, it was annoying whenever I had a question or something I was treated as non-existant.

[Jonbo298]

I've only had small arguments with 1 or 2 people on GT. But other then that, not really many bad things with other forums.

[ZebraRampage]

I think there were a few bad people at GCC. But it was actually amusing. They were just morons, but it's been so long that I don't remember what the problem was, or who the members were.

[Vampyr]

I have never really had any horrible forum experiances.

I have been in a few minor arguements here on GT, but that's it. But, GT is the first and only forum I have ever really came to and stayed for a long period of time.

You guys have said that newbies seem to have it really rough starting out. Thinking back to the first few days that I was on GT, I think I had it pretty good. No one shot me down or deemed me a "stupid newbie." :)

[Danchastu 4.0]

Besides my couple of bannings, everything's just been peachy...the most evil kind of peachy possible.

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

Yea, some of those bannings were a pain in the ass to handle. But meh. What can you do?

[Dyne]

Oh crap, tons of stuff. Mostly the first time I set foot on gaming forums. Before, I was mostly visiting Disney websites.. everything was fine there. I eventually joined a Chrono Trigger website, from there I met a fellow who I started a site with, and then while that site was flourishing, I went to another one, and I met someone there who guided me here.

Let's just say I learned how to argue at the Chrono Trigger forums. I ruined that place. I also had a hater at my own website. My partner gave him the passwords and literally deleted the whole website. I was really pissed.

I've had my fair share of arguments and one banning.

[bobcat]

I once read this thread called "Bad Forum Experiences" ;)

No not really.........Nothing 2 major

[Rndm_Perfection]

I think there were a few bad people at GCC. But it was actually amusing. They were just morons, but it's been so long that I don't remember what the problem was, or who the members were.

Bubeedut!!

But Immortal XBox Gamer, Spike, and I took care of that...

We just mosied on over to his personal forums and added five pages of worthless or otherwise frightening material. Yeah, he closed that site down.

[thatmariolover]

My worst experience would probably have been over at FunXbox where I was pretty much the only Cube fan. I became fairly popular even if people didn't always like my posts. BigJustinW (a.k.a. TheGame) and I frequently had tech debates over there.

However, there was a position open for a forum administrator position. I applied (as did several others, Bond from GT, etc.), and waited. A week or two later I was told that I got the position for administrator.

There was an uproar when everybody heard. I was really well liked in general before this, and all of the sudden most of the people I thought liked and respected me were against me.

Suffice it to say, I left, and haven't really shown my face since. I talked to Robot, the site admin about it, and we finally agreed that it was for the best. It was a good forum while it lasted...

[Professor S]

In my opinion FXB has been going steadily downhill since Bond left as Admin. I still go there every once in a while, and actually wrote for them after the GT site debacle, but once I realized that their editors basically do thing whenever they feel like I resigned.

Not really "bad", more frustrating.

[Yoda9864]

Yeah, I really don't have any bad experiences. I usually get along with everybody. Probably the worst thing that has happened to me is when I'd organize tournaments for GTRAC, and then like 2 out of the 16 people would show up. Not really bad, but damn was that frustrating.

[Bond]

In my opinion FXB has been going steadily downhill since Bond left as Admin.
Thank you, thank you. :)

[Seth]

GTRAC and PMDC...

...next gen consoles...


...it's a date then...











and a bad forum experience? probably you guys. JUST JOKING. lol. ha. wow.

no i love you.(sexual and non...depends on my mood)


fiercegaming or something like that. Something fierce. Fierce ****ing retards.

[manasecret]

That guy Y2Kev comes to mind. Some from here must remember him, but I still think Enix was bigger than Squaresoft in Japan. And now that they've merged, I think that's practically proven.

[Ginkasa]

Yeah, this thread is super old. Yeah, I'm reviving it. Its old enough, I think, that its relevant again. Old people (such as the people who posted before) might have had some frustrating experiences over the past year or so they want to share (such as me), and new(ish) people will have stuff they weren't able to share last time..so...

I decided just to revive the thread rather than make a new, similar one.

Anyway...

So, there's this large Zelda community that tries to piece together the storyline for the Zelda series, and I sometimes go and lurk around, only occasionally posting if I have something to say that is worth saying and hadn't already been said.

Well, I went in one day and posted a timeline theory that proposed that there wasn't just one large single timeline or a split timeline (based on OoT's ending), but different and completely separate timelines. Example: OoT, MM, TWW, LttP, and LA would be in one time line, while the Four Swords games and The Minish Cap would be in another unrelated timeline.

Well, my theory was completely shot down by anyone who bothered to read and reply. One guy said that they tried that with DC Comics (Earths One and Two), but everyone got so confused that DC had to kill off one of the timelines and start anew (Crisis on [of?] Infinite Earths).

Well, I couldn't think of an actual argument against that, and no one else replied, so I just let the thread and theory die. Then someone hacked the website and deleted everything, including the forum. The thread was thrown into oblivion.

Well, I checked the site again a few months later and found it restored with a new forum that had already been re-established as the best place to argue about the Zelda timeline. I started browsing and found myself reading a thread that suggested a theory very very similar to mine. It was thought out a bit more, but it was pretty much the same thing.

Now, I didn't think the guy had cheated me or anything. I didn't recognize him from my previous thread, and its not a difficult thing to think up. What ticked me off was that people were actually replying and posting and debating about it. Some were for, some were against. He was getting praise and intelligent criticism that I wanted back when I originally posted the thing. I wanted to jump in and say that it wasn't exactly new, but because everything had been deleted, I had no proof.

I had forgotten about it until just tonight when I went looking in there again. Yet again, there was an even newer thread debating about the same theory by another guy. What was worse, it wasn't proposed as a new idea, but being brought up simply to see what some new people had thought about it (or something like that). Plus, everyone was giving props to the guy who made the last thread as the creator of the theory...

This must be what it feels like to invent something but not patent it...


/me shrugs and walks away

[Canyarion]

Survivor 3 (or was it 4? the last one) was a pretty bad experience. :unsure: Made a couple of enemies there, I think. :(

[Happydude]

i still havn't had any bad experiences here...i'm a happy camper :p

[MuGen]

I've had a couple here in GT, but I'm not one to hold a grudge, cuz life's too short.