In any event, even though I used to think the site was awesome, it still makes me kind of glad that I remained a pure lurker and never got around to making a user account there, though there were quite a few times when I was tempted to do so, both back in the day and more recently, either in agreement with or in opposition to various articles. I'm not a big fan of participating in flame wars at all, however, after getting embroiled in a nasty one over a decade ago (for you OW!ers that may be reading this, yeah, I'm talking about all (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/msg/38562d1a03f1bd9b?hl=en&dmode=source)[2] of (http://web.archive.org/web/20010508113014/http://www.otakuwars.org/~kane_magus/How_not_to_handle_author-to-author_relations.txt) that (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/4d774c1498c3863e/01513ed88181777c?#01513ed88181777c) retarded (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/7d7011837fe3039b/c0ec70b3ed5fa666?hl=en&q=group:alt.fan.sailor-moon+insubject:two+insubject:tuxedos+insubject:are+insubject:better+insubject:than+insubject:one#c0ec70b3ed5fa666) old (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/7939c14f3ada20e3/ac9ff30008fbe3f4?hl=en&#ac9ff30008fbe3f4) crap (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/5c25effbbd560e83/5c216abb5586ac6e?hl=en%05c216abb5586ac6e)[3], which still, to this day, has me rather gun shy about getting caught up in flamewars), so my likelihood of ever creating an account there is forever diminishing.
And.... I seem to be getting way too worked up over this. ^^; It's kind of worse, though, because I'm not so much angry about this as I am severely disappointed by it.
[1] - Though, to be honest, they kind of lost that way back when that Summa guy was around. They finally wised up and got rid of him (supposedly he left of his own accord, but I think there was pressure, both internally and externally, for him to be gone), even despite the fact that when they hired him, for whatever unknown reason, it was right after he had been previously fired from joystiq for more or less the exact same thing that eventually drove him away from Destructoid as well. But... even though they did get better for a little while after that, the site still never seemed to fully recover what it was before all of that needless drama (which is very similar to the needless drama we're seeing now). That was also around the time I started seeing more and more of the "lickspittles" (I do like that word, thanks TvTropes) showing up. And once they start showing up, that was all she wrote. They just now seem to have shifted their attentions from that guy to these other guys.
[2] - Holy crap! (http://web.archive.org/web/20010604043112/http://www.otakuwars.org/~kane_magus/Diablo-Pepin_and_Farnham.wav) O_O Archive.org is awesome.
[3] - At the risk of getting entirely off-topic... Seriously, has it really been that long? It's almost like another lifetime. >_> And how, not to mention why, was I able to find all of that stuff so quickly and easily, when I haven't thought about any of it in years, until now... ^^; It was definitely not a highlight, and was in fact probably the lowlight, of my time in the OW! >_>; In any case, it's all ancient history and I'm not even sure why I'm bothering to rehash any of it now, aside from pure morbid nostalgia (or whatever word there is that means "negative nostalgia," assuming such a word exists).
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Date: 2010-03-24 08:28 pm (UTC)From:In any event, even though I used to think the site was awesome, it still makes me kind of glad that I remained a pure lurker and never got around to making a user account there, though there were quite a few times when I was tempted to do so, both back in the day and more recently, either in agreement with or in opposition to various articles. I'm not a big fan of participating in flame wars at all, however, after getting embroiled in a nasty one over a decade ago (for you OW!ers that may be reading this, yeah, I'm talking about all (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/msg/38562d1a03f1bd9b?hl=en&dmode=source)[2] of (http://web.archive.org/web/20010508113014/http://www.otakuwars.org/~kane_magus/How_not_to_handle_author-to-author_relations.txt) that (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/4d774c1498c3863e/01513ed88181777c?#01513ed88181777c) retarded (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/7d7011837fe3039b/c0ec70b3ed5fa666?hl=en&q=group:alt.fan.sailor-moon+insubject:two+insubject:tuxedos+insubject:are+insubject:better+insubject:than+insubject:one#c0ec70b3ed5fa666) old (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/7939c14f3ada20e3/ac9ff30008fbe3f4?hl=en&#ac9ff30008fbe3f4) crap (http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.sailor-moon/browse_thread/thread/5c25effbbd560e83/5c216abb5586ac6e?hl=en%05c216abb5586ac6e)[3], which still, to this day, has me rather gun shy about getting caught up in flamewars), so my likelihood of ever creating an account there is forever diminishing.
And.... I seem to be getting way too worked up over this. ^^; It's kind of worse, though, because I'm not so much angry about this as I am severely disappointed by it.
[1] - Though, to be honest, they kind of lost that way back when that Summa guy was around. They finally wised up and got rid of him (supposedly he left of his own accord, but I think there was pressure, both internally and externally, for him to be gone), even despite the fact that when they hired him, for whatever unknown reason, it was right after he had been previously fired from joystiq for more or less the exact same thing that eventually drove him away from Destructoid as well. But... even though they did get better for a little while after that, the site still never seemed to fully recover what it was before all of that needless drama (which is very similar to the needless drama we're seeing now). That was also around the time I started seeing more and more of the "lickspittles" (I do like that word, thanks TvTropes) showing up. And once they start showing up, that was all she wrote. They just now seem to have shifted their attentions from that guy to these other guys.
[2] - Holy crap! (http://web.archive.org/web/20010604043112/http://www.otakuwars.org/~kane_magus/Diablo-Pepin_and_Farnham.wav) O_O Archive.org is awesome.
[3] - At the risk of getting entirely off-topic... Seriously, has it really been that long? It's almost like another lifetime. >_> And how, not to mention why, was I able to find all of that stuff so quickly and easily, when I haven't thought about any of it in years, until now... ^^; It was definitely not a highlight, and was in fact probably the lowlight, of my time in the OW! >_>; In any case, it's all ancient history and I'm not even sure why I'm bothering to rehash any of it now, aside from pure morbid nostalgia (or whatever word there is that means "negative nostalgia," assuming such a word exists).