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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: HolyAarom on February 04, 2006, 05:22:35 PM
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Have you ever been to another forum? Have you ever had a bad or annoying time on it? Discuss it here.
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Every moment of my activity on Super Mario Portal.
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I will usually go to other forums just to find information about something and then leave. If I stayed any longer than I need to, all the colors begin to confuse me. It is rather annoying.
Thankfully, the Fungi Forums are mostly black and gray.
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I went to VGDC.com, and Randy Solem was a jerk. I used to like him, but when I was almost banned by my hero, I lost respect for him. He didn't treat newbies with respect. Everyones gotta start sometime, right?
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I use to frequent the TV.com boards to discuss shows but that place was so overloaded with trolls and morons who wouldn't listen to reason that I just left. There was also that one guy named Zarius who was one of the most hated guys their and at other message boards I've visited. Thankfully he's banned from most of them now.
The Serebii boards were pretty fine as far as fanboards go. Unfortunately, every thread started to degenerate into regular members vs newbies flame wars or the same people complaining about getting certain pokemon through special events. Then the webmaster decided to fire the good mods, hire a bunch of random people and then adding so many new rules and giving every mod too much power, which broke the last straw and I quietly left.
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I had a bad time on DKvine. Need I say more?
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I had a bad time on the neopets newbie (i'm 10 months ^_^_^) boards. Lets not get to what she was saying. Fine, here's what went down: I got cussed out for expressing the fact that all blonds were not dumb. Ignorant, aye?
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Get to what she was saying! Now I wanna know! :)
EDIT: To add something meaningful, forums that require that your post be read by a moderator REALLY annoy me. It seems that they restrict what can and can't be said, even if the post is within the bounds of the rules there.
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I've visited one other forum once, to get sheet music. It was sad to see that my topic asking for a certain song was viewed nine times yet wasn't answered.
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Wow, I just went back to Mario Portal (No idea why really.) and they did the wierdest thing to my fan-fiction I wrote ......
No I'm not going back, their forum's wrecked and they need to get lives and stop editing posts to make the members look retarded.
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You all know how rare a new thread from myself is, correct? About 4 months ago, on the forums for the Kingdom of Loathing (a community whose playerbase I respect, for the most part), I made a thread recounting a certain procedure in our college's billiards club that I disagreed with, namely that, for whatever reason, women (even those not in billiards club) were exempt from a $10 entry fee into their tournaments. I paralleled this incident, basically, into an analogous situation in society. After about 40 intelligent replies (some of which agreed with my message, a couple offered counterpoint), somebody went and posted something along the lines of "Why don't you stop whining, and learn to play billiards? Actually, if you're losing to a woman, just kill yourself." ... Not in those exact words, of course; there were plenty of unfounded insults this forum would not allow. Obviously someone didn't read the thread very well. After I explained that he missed the point (in a less than polite, albeit more patient than I could have been tone) and saying what the thread actually meant, he essentially posts the exact same message, in the exact same tone of voice, adding that "I need to do nothing but play billiards until I stop losing to women" after which I exploded, in real life, and broke a watch and almost my hand. I responded with a massive whirling of explitives (obviously the only language he understands) and that essentially killed the thread. WHat irked me is that he was basically telling me I deserved to die because he can't read a thread.
And even if that WERE my message, which it obviously wasn't, apparantly I deserve to die because I can't beat every woman in the world at billiards. I'd like to see how many people deserve to live compared to, say, Allison Fischer. I'd say about 3. If that.
I have not made a new thread on any forum I visit since, with the exception of the rules thread on this forum. And I visit about 6 forums regularly.
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here's what went down on the neopets newbie (im 10 months old O-o) form: I got cussed out for expressing the fact that blonds were not dumb. Ignorant, aye?
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Wait, Neopets people consider you a newbie even after 10 months? I suppose I have a lot to learn about social behavior and the Internet. :-\
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Sorry for reviving this, but check out this forum. (http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=928286) Everyone here is flaming the troll. The troll can't let anyone have opinions.
Whoo hoo. It's getting more fun.
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DKvine here. I don't think I need to say anymore, so I'll stop talking, I meen typing.
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Sorry for reviving this, but check out this forum. (http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=928286) Everyone here is flaming the troll. The troll can't let anyone have opinions.
Whoo hoo. It's getting more fun.
I can't seem to find The Troll. Maybe you could give us a more specific link to the troll.
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It's abby60. I mean when we're playing hurt and heal, we're voting and she votes us off!
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/gentopic.php?board=928286
Just look at any of the topics.
http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=928286&topic=26142511&page=0
Actually, go here. Start around page 25.
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The GameFAQs forums sure are hard to read.
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I'm not sure of the exact rules of the GameFAQs boards but other boards are more lenient about thier rules than the Fungi Forums. But I guess what that abby girl is doing can be considered spam. It's also definitely flooding.
I agree with MaxVance. Those boards are hard to read.
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I use to frequent the TV.com boards to discuss shows but that place was so overloaded with trolls and morons who wouldn't listen to reason that I just left. There was also that one guy named Zarius who was one of the most hated guys their and at other message boards I've visited. Thankfully he's banned from most of them now.
The Serebii boards were pretty fine as far as fanboards go. Unfortunately, every thread started to degenerate into regular members vs newbies flame wars or the same people complaining about getting certain pokemon through special events. Then the webmaster decided to fire the good mods, hire a bunch of random people and then adding so many new rules and giving every mod too much power, which broke the last straw and I quietly left.
I 100% agree with you there. There are alot of jerks there now, enspecially Kauser and Edward Elric. Kauser was some Code LYOKO fanboy who flamed me for disliking the show, even though I gave out reasons to why I dislike it. I mean, I don't care if someone likes it or not, as long as they don't give me the bumrap for disliking it. It's not like I go around saying "you Code LYOKO fanboys are supid. The show sucks".
Then theres Edward Elric, a Fullmetal Alchemist fanboy (who obviously named his member name after the main character) and mod. Of coarse, he acts like a troll sometimes rather than a mod. For example, when some accidently said that 4Kids dubbed Naruto, he said "[wtd] have you been smoking?". Then another time he tells a member of the "Favorite Sin Homunculus [from FMA]" to shut up and that it isn't a popularity contest. Uh, what? It IS on. Anything with the words "Best" and "Favorite" usually are a popularity contest. Seriously, he needs to learn to chill.
And then theres Dogasu, another mod. While not a complete jerk like Edward, he seems to have a problem with people using the word "gay" as an explenitive for stupid or lame, and goes as far as calling people "homophobe" for saying so. While I rather use other words to describe things that aren't cool, I don't go around saying someones a homophobe for saying which. Besides, gay didn't mean homosexual until the, I don't know, 70's or 80's?
I don't know why I even bother still hanging out in there. Maybe it's my fanboyism twards Pokemon. Maybe it's my fanboyism twards anime. I mean, it's not like I hate the boards, I just hate some of the people there. I wish it went back to the way it was.
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I'm not sure of the exact rules of the GameFAQs boards but other boards are more lenient about thier rules than the Fungi Forums. But I guess what that abby girl is doing can be considered spam. It's also definitely flooding.
I think the rules on bigger boards are harder to enforce because there are more members. The Fungi Forums have only about 40 active members, though. Maybe our strict rules are keeping people from joining us.
Also, most "spammers" here (such as DarthTedd64) usually leave after people get annoyed with his/her actions, so at least we don't have to deal with that.
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I think the rules on bigger boards are harder to enforce because there are more members. The Fungi Forums have only about 40 active members, though. Maybe our strict rules are keeping people from joining us.
Also, most "spammers" here (such as DarthTedd64) usually leave after people get annoyed with his/her actions, so at least we don't have to deal with that.
abby flamed us, insulted me, and asked pointless questions. She also got a mod to ban Aarom12 for me saying that I don't like Toad and it's an opinion. Now I'm NINTENDOROXORS.
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Maybe I'll sign up there. If it helps with games, I'm on to it!
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abby flamed us, insulted me, and asked pointless questions. She also got a mod to ban Aarom12 for me saying that I don't like Toad and it's an opinion. Now I'm NINTENDOROXORS.
This is the reason I don't got to huge boards like the GameFAQs and IGN ones. I prefer the smaller gated communities. Except for Rangerboard, but it's now, as I like to call it, neutered Rangerboard, due to the actors visiting.
Poop Dude: Edward Elric is still in power!?!? I thought he'd be demodded for the number of times he acted like a jerk. I mean he was fine when he was just a normal member as EliteTrainerRaven but once he was promoted to a mod he let the power corrupt him. Plus he overused text smilies, which annoy me to no end.
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I also go to elfwood, more to look at the art (which can be really cool), but you can leave a message regarding certain pieces that you like or not.
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Poop Dude: Edward Elric is still in power!?!? I thought he'd be demodded for the number of times he acted like a jerk. I mean he was fine when he was just a normal member as EliteTrainerRaven but once he was promoted to a mod he let the power corrupt him. Plus he overused text smilies, which annoy me to no end.
Yep. He's still a power hungry jerk of a mod and still overuses smilies aswell. Ugh, he reminds me of this really annoying girl from TYFN who also overuses smilies.
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Gah, I've been to the Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Board and the people there are harsh. My account was banned on GameFaqs, and they're telling me to go there even after I clearly said that I was banned.
I also read a topic saying that Gamespot gave it a 6.8 out of 10. They're not trusting Gamespot anymore. I said it's their opinion, they said it was wrong. Then I said no it's not. Then they said my opinion was wrong.
Let's not forget these hard-core people who can beat stages in 5 seconds. I found it hard to believe but then everyone flamed me. I just thought it was doubtful to get 5 seconds in a level then they showed me how they did it. They should have showed me how first instead of flaming.
Also, there's these bigshots like Dudeboy, Jolt, and Daefos who think they can flame me because it's my first time on that board and they made a FAQ that was stickied. They think their rep is so high, that they can mess with all of us.
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Please tell me you weren't trying to use logic and reason on GameFAQs. GameFAQs is notorius for being a meeting place for n00bs, trolls and spammers, plus it's one huge flamefest. If you want to win, you'll have to flame back.
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Please tell me you weren't trying to use logic and reason on GameFAQs. GameFAQs is notorius for being a meeting place for n00bs, trolls and spammers, plus it's one huge flamefest. If you want to win, you'll have to flame back.
QF Absolutely immense E.
GameFAQs is one of the biggest (probably 2nd worst) proponents of removing the word "opinion" from the English language that I have ever seen. ('sup NewGrounds BBS)
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Poop Dude: Edward Elric is still in power!?!? I thought he'd be demodded for the number of times he acted like a jerk.
You should have seen KRR a while back. It's not so bad anymore, but there's a moderator who's still in power there who used to be the biggest flamer on the site, and apparently hated my guts on account of me identifying myself as a conservative Christian. There's not much of a need for me to get into further detail, though, since I have just mentioned this same moderator in another thread here.
I've only been on this board and on KRR, but I've had enough bad experiences at the latter to last me a lifetime. Things seemed especially bad on the KRR chat (I'm banned from there now), where certain people's rudeness and irrationality often caused me to lose my temper and become very bitter. I have never been popular at KRR, and have probably been extremely low on the popularity totem pole at times; but I will admit that this was often partly my own fault, as my reactions to the things I suffered there were often quite out of line also.
I don't want to sound self-pitying, but I like to get these sorts of things out. I have a lot of pent-up frustration in me after those experiences. Sometimes I wonder why I even go to KRR anymore. But for some reason I do.
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Just curious, what does KRR stand for?
And I think this pretty much sums up that Ed is a piece of crap and should be fired. Heck, we should make petitions to get him fired. Ha ha ha, just kidding.
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KRR= Kirby's Rainbow Resort. The Kirby equivalent to TMK and Serebii.
I'm pretty sure smfan1080 wasn't talking about Ed, but some guy similar to him. Just goes to show you how power can corrupt the even the smartest people.
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Odd. I always thought KRR was a nice place (so nice that KRR is a friend (http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/friends.shtml) of TMK). How long ago was this?
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I wasn't talking about the Edward Elric guy. This was someone else - more specifically, a woman.
That stuff didn't happen all that long ago; I joined the forums in July of last year, I think, and the bad stuff started happening pretty much right away.
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Whoohoo. I've been to DKVine again. I didn't flame, didn't complain, but they flame me for trying to support Nintendo.
I also said I owned 3 DK games and they flame me. I like Donkey Kong. Enough reason to join.
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This is the only forum I go to ever since.
GameFAQs: Once liked it there, posted on AC boards, really nice people, but power-hungry mods and opinion is outlawed drove me away
GameSpot-Fanboyisim be darned! Too much! Too much! Plus, I felt like an outcast.
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dude667, about Gamespot, which forum did you go to? System Wars is a place where people who may not watch their backs can be owned very badly. Also, I saw so much Zelda fanboys at the GC boards and MKDS was a hit at the DS boards, but a shadow after ACWW and MPH came out.
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Just a note: I've been banned from KRR. The reason: I wanted to be banned, and requested it. I became utterly sick of the place after certain events occurred, and I don't regret my decision a bit. The site itself is okay, of course, but a lot of the people on the forums, including and especially certain mods/admins, are complete... well, you get the idea.
I'm not trying to start any "board wars" or anything, especially since KRR is listed as a "friend of TMK". But I wanted to mention some of my experiences there, and to give it a fitting recommendation in case anybody else is considering joining the boards there.
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Wow, to request a banning of yourself on a board, that's like, I don't know, a sign that the place is a blackhole of suckingness or something.
As for DKvine, well, I don't view them in a negative light anymore (a certain friend showed me the light) but I'm not surprised at their response to Aaraom's return. I mean, you basically burned every bridge with everyone there. Besides, just because you like/own DK games doesn't neccasarily mean they'll accept you again. It's a Rareware fansite, not a DK one. Well, it is, but in a loose sense of way.
Finally, this isn't really a bad experience more like a creepy one. Rangerboard gets some really weird people, and the most recent one to join (and get banned) was a girl named Brandonssexylady. Her creepiness stems from her (really bad) poetry that talks about what she wants to do with Brandon J, last years red ranger. It was pretty graphic and detailed which is why I won't post any of it here as an example. She was eventually banned for annoying everyone that gave constructive criticism to her poetry which really, really needed it. She would flame anyone because she believed they were being delibirately mean to her. Later, she was discovered to be sending a petition to random people's emails to get Rangerboard shut down for supposedly being the epitome of rudeness and for the power hungry mods. She even wrote seem really scary poetry about how she wanted everyone at RB dead! She seriously needs to find help.
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Yikes! I'm feeling sorry for people like that, because that's just not right.
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Yeah, I agree with you Mr. Wiggles. I accepted them hating Nintendo the first day I joined. It wasn't a bad forum at all. I would love it, but then they had to bash me for voting for Mario Kart: Double Dash as my favorite racing game. Also, if you're thinking I voted twice, the voting reseted after I voted the first time. It's fine that they hate Nintendo. But thinking I'm a (bad word) for just trying to defend Nintendo, that's when I started to become frustrated. I mean that no one knows anything about the RREV except the specs and games. But they always think it will be a failure when it launces. I also made a new name just to take away the troubles of the last name, but no use. However, I didn't tell them yet that I was going to like DKVine, but I didn't like it the moment they bashed me for liking Double Dash.
Also, I think that Double Dash is close to Jungle Beat. When I mean close, I mean that you're closed to liking that and then being bashed.
I liked Double Dash and it's LAN mode. Then they said my opinion means nothing to them. Not to mention calling me unintelligent.
So if you have your own opinion, get ready for the possibility to be flamed. If you like a game no one else likes, flamed. If you don't like 1 Donkey Kong or Rare game, but love the others, flamed.
It especially gets worse when Chiphead or Sean is on. I feel more comfortable without them on as they flame me for having an opinion. I mean I'm an intelligent and nice person here, but I can't act like this at DKVine as I'm distracted from my bashing and being flamed at.
Also, they won't let me use the Mario avatar anymore. What??
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Okay, every member on the Peach-Paradise forums got flamed yesterday by a girl who flamed Peach, then flamed us, then a mod banned her permanantly and reported her, then somehow she got back on, then she said she was sorry and just jealous of Peach. So she was permanantly banned. That was bad for me cause I got called something very profane.
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Wait Peach Paradise the Spanish forum?
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No, Peach-Paradise.com, ran by Miss Alice of the UK.
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Oh okay, because I go to a forum where pretty much everyone speaks Spanish.
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I haven't really had any bad experiences on other forums, but, on PE2k, people tend to PM me for story advice for some odd reason. It would be a better idea to PM the people who grade the stories, but... they go to me. How strange. o_0
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Must kill abby60.
abby is a guy disguised as a girl and is a relentless Toad fanboy. He flamed me for saying I don't like Toad then I retaliated and she reported me. Now I have gone through 3 names in Gamespot.
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Wait a minute, I thought abby was GameFAQs not Gamespot.
El Oh El at the fact that he was posing as a girl. Reminds me of Greensy-Thunders in more than one way.
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Gamespot and Gamefaqs have a shared forum.
Also, she asks stupid questions like
Who's the best character in Super Mario Strikers?
A)Toad
B)Toad
C)Toad
Also, when we mention about it after it was closed, she says it's a funny joke.
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Wheee. Sorry for the bump again, but I just can't deal with it anymore.
Not only do these people edit my post to make me look like an idiot, I actually acted mature but no luck. I tried backing myself up with facts, but then boom. There comes the edit by the mod. Not only do I get flamed for just voting Donkey Konga for my favorite DK game, they say my opinion means nothing. I know I'm supposed to stop going there, but I just visit if I'm bored or something.
http://www.dkvine.com/interactive/forums/index.php?showtopic=3366&st=0&#entry97258 (http://www.dkvine.com/interactive/forums/index.php?showtopic=3366&st=0&#entry97258)
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Apparently some of that argument has been deleted, so I can't see everything that was said, but after looking at that topic and other topics at DK Vine I have come to the conclusion that certain admins/mods there are fairly obnoxious specimens of human beings, and I doubt I'll ever join those boards.
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I'm not really sure. I'm tired of going to Dkvine. I'm tired of always bashing that forum. I hate having Nintendo-enduced opinions taken out and thrown in the garbage.
I didn't flame when I wasn't there. They had to start by getting mad for me voting Mario Kart: Double Dash!! as my favorie racer. I acted fine there. I was mature when I came back, but I just can't part with them. The website is fine, don't get me wrong, but it's how the mods and admins that ruin it.
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Is that topic where you voted for MK:DD!! still around? I'd like to see how stupid those people were.
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If I may play devil's advocate for a moment, I don't think the people of DKU (as Lonic wants me to call them now) are as bad as you make them out to be. As I understand it, you didn't specify why you liked Double Dash other than saying "I liked it". Since you didn't say why you liked it, and they specifically asked for reasons why you do, you managed to anger them which opened the floodgates to their feud with you. Since you ended up somehow angering all of them, you were branded as the member whom will forever be screwed with but never banned. Sort of like The Rock or Edmund(Rangerboard).
Plus you said you liked Donkey Konga the best, which is the equivalent of saying "Please openly flame me" to them.
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Bad moment: Anybody see the arguement in "I don't believe it", talk about bad.
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If I may play devil's advocate for a moment, I don't think the people of DKU (as Lonic wants me to call them now) are as bad as you make them out to be. As I understand it, you didn't specify why you liked Double Dash other than saying "I liked it". Since you didn't say why you liked it, and they specifically asked for reasons why you do, you managed to anger them which opened the floodgates to their feud with you. Since you ended up somehow angering all of them, you were branded as the member whom will forever be screwed with but never banned. Sort of like The Rock or Edmund(Rangerboard).
Plus you said you liked Donkey Konga the best, which is the equivalent of saying "Please openly flame me" to them.
Exactly. I didn't think they were bad at all. It just had to happen when they edited my posts. When people voted for Diddy Kong Racing, No one cared at all. Whoever voted DKR never had to specify why. Apparently, I have to specify if I vote for a Nintendo game.
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Aarom, if I may use a word of advice, why don't you just stop going to DKU? I mean, no offense, but you pretty much messed up your reputation there by just saying "I liked MKDD" from the start, and then later saying Iwata, Miyamoto and Mario (who doesn't even exsist, unless you were talking about Captain Lou Albono or Bob Hoskins :P ). If all there going to do is bash you, then I wouldn't stay there. Besides, I know this is your topic, but if you keep on posting about problems your having at DKU, your basically turning it into another one of your "DKVine's Problem" thread, and this thread will eventually be closed. If you want to go to another forum that's not DKU, then I don't know, try TYFN.
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What's TYFN?
Oh and I stopped going there. Also, I complained about DKU about 3 times only.
EDIT: Now this topic is now for posting funny stories in forums.
To start it off, I went to gamespot and I saw someone believe Roy, SOnic, and Kirby were in Mario Kart DS. The photoshop were so funny.
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TYFN=The Yoshi Forum Network and one of the best messege boards ever. I won't talk about it much, though.
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Weren't they recently got hacked? I tried going there because, before my favourite Mario character was Luigi (who, back then, I called 'Green Mario') it was Yoshi. I still like playing Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story to this day. :)
Anyway, I wondered where all of the boards had gone, but all I found was a substitute board, so I looked through that. Kinda sad that happened, really. Nearly everything was deleted, from what I saw.
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(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoservice-net.it%2Fteto%2Fdblog_v11%2Fmdb-database%2Fpanda_kart.jpg&hash=5d5d68572e148baaeebe898821963b0f2e055a5f)
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Weren't they recently got hacked? I tried going there because, before my favourite Mario character was Luigi (who, back then, I called 'Green Mario') it was Yoshi. I still like playing Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story to this day. :)
Anyway, I wondered where all of the boards had gone, but all I found was a substitute board, so I looked through that. Kinda sad that happened, really. Nearly everything was deleted, from what I saw.
They were hacked, yes, but they have been able to make a new better board. Though it has had a few annoying teen dramas.
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Heh, that panda picture rules.
Anyway right now I'm having fun screwing with some 11 year old's message board. Seriously, the banner at the top of the page doesn't even show up right.
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AHAHAHAHA I don't get it. \:o
btw, I remember when, on PE2k, I kept getting PMed by this Indian guy who kept telling me all of these sites and asking me Pokemon questions. In all-caps. :O Then, he got banned.
And he came back under a new name. AAAGH! Luckily, the GMods and Admins ended up IP banning him. He hasn't been back for ages, so I guess it worked. *phew*
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This is the only forum I go to ever since.
GameFAQs: Once liked it there, posted on AC boards, really nice people, but power-hungry mods and opinion is outlawed drove me away
GameSpot-Fanboyisim be darned! Too much! Too much! Plus, I felt like an outcast.
Yeah, I see your point, especially on GameSpot! I only pop in there once in a while to make a new blog entry or go to my unions. I don't even bother to check my PMs anymore because it's mostly friend requests,union requests, or PMs from union officers with stuff that doesn't concern me.