Ok, well I saw that something new had been posted in the news comments section so I decided to take a look at this thread.
Wow. This stopped being about other communities thinking that NMA is a bunch of hardcore fanatics about 2-3 pages ago.
Is this avatar
that gets displayed instead of someone's avatar when the person in question gets banned?
The following is to explain to Allust47 why he got banned:
Debate is this: Attacking ideas and conventions. Attacking what people do.
Gnidrologist said:
Comparing Fallout community with british soccer fans is plain stupid. Those soccer fans(if we may call them such) are retarded fuckheads for no reason, only because they like it. We are ''bad'' only because we're discussing things which devs/publishers usually don't want to hear about. Such as core aspect of any game - The Gameplay. And criticising things that must be criticised.
Flaming is this: Attacking a persons, well, person.
It starts off as an little comment with a hint of sarcasm or a passing insult.
Allust47 said:
After all we've been through, we have the right to be assholes
Wow. I bet you were serious too.
Yes, the world is such a cruel, violent place to us, huh. I mean, no other gaming community has to deal with the same bullshit.
No. Never.
Yawn.
Then another person responds with a greater insult, escalating the situation.
(Granted this is taken out of context but its still a personal attack.)
Roshambo said:
Ladies and Ghouls, I present to you a living example of a reason why the industry is shit right now. Apathetic morons such as Allust47.
Then the really long posts start with multiple quotes. (Well, not in this case, but mostly
) Although there may be many valid rebuttals, there will also be at least a few insults thrown in to escalate the situation.
Allust47 said:
Intellect ceased at that point I see.
Then you just get into the bread and butter of a flame war which are insults that were meant to be valid points of argument but are fueled by anger and become offensive to the other person when they are spat out, further fueling the other persons own anger.
Allust47 said:
Thanks for the example of a 5th grade insult. Please. You talking smack doesn't prove any of your points valid. You're sticking by your belief and I respect you for that. I'm not asking you to go back on what you believe. I simply questioned it.
Roshambo said:
Liar. In fact, many of the things on the forum are far, far tamer than they were in the past. Instead of three or four people who would cruelly debunk your garbage, there's now just one or two.
Comments to third parties may be present, but don't dispell the main, bilateral, flame war because said third parties are likely to defend someone in the flame war.
Allust47 said:
Respect to Odin and Wild_qwerty for their respectful, insightfull responses however. It provided more than the others who simply tossed up flames because they didn't like what I had to say about the likes of people much like themselves.[/b]
The flame war sometimes concludes in a ban if the person is foolish enough to start a flame war with a moderator.
Roshambo said:
you can enjoy a week to think about things.
So in conclusion:
-Don't start flame wars with moderator
-Don't be enough of a fucktard to start a flame war at all
-If you come off hostile right from the get go, you will probably be retaliated against.
Allust47, why are you so pissed?
Anyway, I hope that this thread can be re-railed. It's a good topic.
