What blindfold? I declare my opinion with open eyes and speak from the heart. I'm not sure why so many come to the conclusion that you should adapt and cover down to fit in with the gang.
How is not fitting in with the gang selfish? How is it destructive to complain? I'm not angry, I genuinely want me some answers to these questions.
Also, I do not see their need for flaming. I've been to other forums before, although not many Warcraft oriented, but still forums. No one ever came to the conclusion that by insulting someone else you would make yourself feel better. I'm not sure If I tend to hang in circles where the insecure people don't like gathering but I don't see the reason, seriously. If people flame when given opportunity, then the consequences should be more severe if they do so and thus, we have order. By that I mean that the forum is not strict enough and the rules should apply to everyone, mods and common users alike.
I appear so negative towards to community because I have been off and on for about three years. Nothing has ever changed and no one has attempted to change it.
People instead suggests others to adapt to the flawed system instead of fixing it. I know it could go on for a lot more than a few posts, which was why I tried to wrap it up.
I actually read what you said in this thread and thought about it.
Now as far as wc3 modding goes, there were always two main sites... THW and wc3c.
Now THW was always the forum with more accounts, more activity, less quality - overall a more social place.
While wc3c had less accounts, less activity, better quality - overall a less social place.
Now, since everyone can agree that THW is a social place too, than everything which comes with being social is here. The jokes, the laughs, the trolling, the love, the hate... these all are feelings of people who are behind their computer screen, and they manifest these feelings on this forum.
If you don't like feelings, than it's understandable why THW upsets you. Or maybe you like feelings, but feelings from RL, and you are on THW just for the material.... again it's understandable why THW upsets you.
However you must understand that the social aspect of THW is not from it's rules, or from the Site Admin, or from the founders of THW... the social aspect comes from the common user. The common user started talking about other games than Wc3... so the General Gaming section was created. The common user started talking about story writing, or started to create threads for debating... so Medivh's Tower was created. This is just an example so don't take it literary, the idea is that pretty sure, the founders of THW when they created the forum, they didn't predict that they would need "Medivh's Towers", I'm pretty sure a lot of the Sub-forums from here appeared because the common user wanted it.
Actually people were social on wc3c too, the difference was that on wc3c you were accepted socially depending on how skilled of a modder you were. You had no debate forum, no writter's forum... it was about wc3 modding. While THW wanted to expand towards other areas as well.
Eventually THW just turned into this forum which had it's main focus wc3 modding, but also provided other means of entertainment like "Storyboard", "Medivh's Tower", "World News" so on and so forth, it also (and this is very important) it's something about this forum which makes you feel welcomed (I believe it's the Night Elf skin. Nature themes always make you feel welcomed).
Now about the mods, please think that, 90% of the current mods if not all of them, were regular users like you or me. Users who maybe initiated the creation of certain Sub-forums... but they were normal users non the less. They were the users who craved Sub-Forums for Writing, World News, Debate, etc. Users who were involved in the social life of THW! (I'm talking in alien aren't I...). Anyway point is, that even if they are mods, and even if they try to not be biased and even if they try to do their job accordingly and by the rules... at the end of the day, at the core of the souls of these Mods, there is a deep understanding of the social life of THW... and that is why... trust me it doesn't matter who... if feelings are spread on this forum (trolling and such, like the one from Mr.Bob or Wazz) the mods won't take action towards it, because they understand that "it's all in good fun".
Of course there are times when the fun gets out of hand, and that's when Mods act, and that's when they should act.
Actually, there isn't that much trolling on these forums. Most of the times it's just people making fun/jokes about one another.
If anything, I think the mods here are to lenient (from a proffesional point), rather than too strict.
As for the supposed harsh welcome on THW... tough love man.
When I joined THW and posted my very first post... I posted a thread in which I expressed my desire to create an ORPG by the name of "Might and Magic". Although I expressed that the name wasn't final and it was just a place holder until I manage to find out a better name... I got "flamed" about it, that M&M is copyrighted and shit. I answered back, explained again that it's just a place holder. That whole adventure of my first post many years ago taught me two things....
1) That the guy who was "flaming" me was most likely an idiot or joking.
2) That people didn't help me because I was no one, not because they were bad people.
And I'm sorry, but when a new guy comes along with the nick name "TheHorseLover" or some wierd shit like that, well again I'm sorry but he is just asking to be trolled (read made fun off) through the MLP franchise.
TL
R - THW is a
community, a community implies
being social, being social implies
sharing feelings, sharing feelings implies
trolling (again, read making fun of/joking about). No, Mods are
not too strict.
