Quote:
Originally posted by AzureWolf:
Listen everybody can we all take a step back for a minute?
I have noticed as have many in the last few months that this board is going downhill from humour to all serious. Now for those like Dio who thrive on serious discussion this is all fine. But even you need a break from this Dio, no? Frankly I am sick of hearing about how someone has offened someone else and how that person flamed someone and blah blah blah. Its all shit.
Everyones tempers have been flaring around here and its time to stop!
Its gone to far and I am seeing people who I count friends on this board leave or not post because it has become too dark and gloomy around here. This has made me very pissed off and I dont care for excuses about how the board is changing. This board has always been known for being caring about others, now it seems to scare them away! Have you no fuckin clue?
Almost everyday I am hearing about something else bad happening here and how can you say that kind of change is better than what used to be a very rare occurance. Take a break from all this please!!
Now I might be offending some people with this post but I am fed up with seeing people leaving from here and it needs to be brought to a halt.
Can everyone not agree to at least take a week long break from serious discussions at least to let tempers die down and rational thought to come to the forefront again???
It has been going on too bloody long.
|
And this post is any different from what you claim to be addressing?
A lot of the problems of ill feeling on some of the serious discussion threads have been caused by people jumping in late, scolding everyone else after the fact when the people originally involved have already made up and moved on.
The solution is simple. If you don't like the serious discussions, than stay out of the threads. I agree with Sazerac that a separate forum for such things is a good idea, like at MH or some other forums, to better enable those people who claim they hate such stuff but somehow don't seem to be able to resist it from getting offended. That way they would have no excuse whatsoever for being bothered by such things. Perhaps a sign such as "Here be Dragons, Enter at Own Risk" could be posted at the entrance to such a forum
That said, it is certainly true that a lot of tempers have flared recently over the current international crisis. I have certainly been guilty of losing my cool and engaging in far less than admirable conduct lately.
However, I question what seems to be a popular feeling here that such is altogether a bad sign.
On the contrary, I think it says a lot for many of the people here, including the very ones I most often and most strongly disagree with, that they care so much about these truly grave circumstances. Whether I agree with them or not, I admire their passion for what they believe in and their realization that, yes, these ARE incredibly serious times, which call for soul searching and passionate debate.
I would be very alarmed for the fate of the human race if this forum were currently like what some of you seem to be saying it should be, just a place where all we talked about were trivial aspects of life and told jokes. Hell, if tempers and passions weren't flaring over the late events, what would that show except that we were emotionally dead to the world and practically souless creatures who didn't give a damn about anything important?
Yes, there is a down side to passion. But the alternative is worse.