Re: Bad Forum Experiences
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
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Made a couple of enemies there, I think. 
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