Originally posted by Sicilian Smaugcome and join us 🙂
What sort of moron supports the cause of such a blatant troll? What a bunch of saps?!
Wow we've reached the 300 mark!!
The record for RHP for most amount of recs in the shortest amount of time was set by this cause (over 250 in a couple of days), can we set another record of the most recs in total, all in the name of this cause! 🙂
Originally posted by SerendipityGood work Serendipity! I give you all the credit in the world for fighting the good fight.
It's the one used to push antaganistic posts onto me and therefore free others from any bullying dynamics.
I honestly want the forum to be cleaner, yes antagonise those who enjoy and can take it, but leave the more sensitive one's alone.
This is no joke but an honest attempt to help the many who feel oppressed by the few, so project your angst onto ...[text shortened]...
P.S A big thankyou to all the supporters of the cause x
Love, light and happiness
I think if you really wanted to clean up the forums the first step would be to eliminate recs.
Rec hunting is what leads to the Jerry Springer mentality.
There are about about a dozen misanthropic Xanthoz-wannabes on the site who think to themselves, if I say something really obnoxious then I'll get some recs and I can be like Xanthoz.
The thing is that if you look at Xanthoz' work it's not that insulting. It's often clever and sometimes it's even funny.
The other thing about the dirty dozen is that they are on the site all the time. It's their domain. It's what they do. It's hard for an outsider with other interests and responsibilities to come in and fight with them. It consumes far more time and energy than it's worth.
Left to their own devices they tend to play endless games of what's in my underwear. When we come on the site and try to uplift the general tone and defend the weak, it's like ringing the dinner chime at the dog pound. They attack and start threatening us with bricks. When we don't respond in kind, they get even more rabid. A reponse like "Good Luck to You" or "Love, Joy, and Happiness to you and yours" is anathema to this bunch. Your saying love and light is for some reason like waving a piece of rotten meat in the face of an abused pit bull.
The other thing that I've noticed is that despite all of the protests that we should leave, once we start, they goad us to keep the argument going. Look at the D&D forum, those guys are desperately trying to goad me back in so that they can fight with me some more. It's almost comic when you think about it. "Oh no, the Dungeons and Dragons players are after me!"
I think for me the answer is to just leave the forums alone. They're not a nice place. I feel sorry for anyone who wanders in here.