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I'm going to end up as one of those old ladies yelling at the kids to get off my lawn or something.
I absolutely despise rules not being followed and people getting away with it. It is ridiculous how angry it makes me, sometimes. Dragonopia has this shoutbox that people treat like a forum and the blasted thing is like a car wreck - I just can't look away no matter how much I want to (I'm going to look into if there's a way to hide it or something before I end up participating. Thus far I've had nothing to do with it other than read it while clicking on dragons).
There's this one person in particular that I'm just waiting to see up and vanish because they were banned, and I'm both surprised and annoyed that they haven't yet. I mean, the rules are pretty dang simple and yet this person is breaking every one of them, and I'm pretty sure they're doing it on purpose. They're the kind of person who'd probably walk into a church, tell dirty jokes then tell everyone to stop being such prudes and get over it. It makes me glad I decided not to try out the shout box. We wouldn't have gotten along and... it would have been ugly.
It makes me appreciate journals even more. Your journal, your rules, you're right to tell someone off if they're giving you grief without the frustration of having their "bestest fwiends!" gang up on you, and your right to ban them if they won't stop (not that has ever happened to me, thank goodness).
But, I gotta ask, and this is probably going to open a can of worms, but does anyone have any interesting tales to tell concerning forums, shout boxes and other similar locales? I already know about the Gateworld kerfuffles, especially fans of character A going into the thread of fans of character B and giving them crap. But anything else?
And, yay, I hid the shoutbox! No more pointless annoyance!
I absolutely despise rules not being followed and people getting away with it. It is ridiculous how angry it makes me, sometimes. Dragonopia has this shoutbox that people treat like a forum and the blasted thing is like a car wreck - I just can't look away no matter how much I want to (I'm going to look into if there's a way to hide it or something before I end up participating. Thus far I've had nothing to do with it other than read it while clicking on dragons).
There's this one person in particular that I'm just waiting to see up and vanish because they were banned, and I'm both surprised and annoyed that they haven't yet. I mean, the rules are pretty dang simple and yet this person is breaking every one of them, and I'm pretty sure they're doing it on purpose. They're the kind of person who'd probably walk into a church, tell dirty jokes then tell everyone to stop being such prudes and get over it. It makes me glad I decided not to try out the shout box. We wouldn't have gotten along and... it would have been ugly.
It makes me appreciate journals even more. Your journal, your rules, you're right to tell someone off if they're giving you grief without the frustration of having their "bestest fwiends!" gang up on you, and your right to ban them if they won't stop (not that has ever happened to me, thank goodness).
But, I gotta ask, and this is probably going to open a can of worms, but does anyone have any interesting tales to tell concerning forums, shout boxes and other similar locales? I already know about the Gateworld kerfuffles, especially fans of character A going into the thread of fans of character B and giving them crap. But anything else?
And, yay, I hid the shoutbox! No more pointless annoyance!
