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[LilMirth]

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haulingthescoreup wrote:

We've always loved the fact that the forums are so often self-moderating, too, meaning that members often intervene on a thread when they see something going wrong. Doesn't always work, of course, but it helps other members, especially newbies, see how we roll around here.

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This is *exactly* what sets this community apart from others. I absolutely love the nature and tone here.

[webhopper]

Thanks Mods  

Glad to know you're out there keeping the peace.... That's why I like posting here, its so peaceful, without a lot of drama

[Booner72]

Did you really "sticky" the good ones?  i'm guessing you're joking, but hoping you're not!

[haulingthescoreup]

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Booner72 wrote:

Did you really "sticky" the good ones?  i'm guessing you're joking, but hoping you're not!

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Oh, sure.

They were usually on some variation of the topic about how the whole credit system is crooked, and nothing you can do will work, and we might as well switch to bartering chickens or something.

Like any provocative statement, there would be some truth in there, but mostly it would be a lot of Life is Unfair, and people posting back trying to help, pointing out the things we can do to dig out, and that they were once in a mell of a hess but they recovered, and then the OP (the troll) would retort that they didn't know what they were talking about, and that they'd been suckered into being pawns of the system, and then people would get mad (because no one likes being called a sucker), and then the OP would neener-neener at them, and then people would laugh at the troll, and somewhere around that point, it would get stickied.

While there was entertainment value, there was actually a lot of useful discussion about credit, and how the world works, and how individuals can survive in a world not set up for the benefit of everyday people. After a while, it would peter out, and we'd lock it and unsticky it, and it would fade away.

There's something incredibly frustrating about people who are seeking help (or pretending to seek help), and their response to every attempt to do so is some variation on "Yes, but that won't work for me," or "You don't know what you're talking about."

[Dadaluma83]

As someone who has been a part of various video game message boards over the last decade this forum without a doubt is the most civilized and least confrontational forum I have ever seen. The topics discussed here are more mature in nature and the people here are by and large all helpful and supportive. Which leads to most people simply getting along.

I like to think of this forum as a big conference room with 100 people all talking amongst themselves, giving advice, high fives for the successes, and helping others. What happened the other day was the equivalent of one person screaming out for attention, then when everyone stopped to look at them they proceeded to crap on the floor and make an ass of themselves. Mods I apologize for that description and I understand you might have to edit that out but you have to agree that really does pretty much describe what happened.