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When did Wowhead General become such a horrible forum?
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Post by
Haxzor
Isnt this in the wrong forum?
How is it related to WoW?
Post by
Adamsm
Isnt this in the wrong forum?
How is it related to WoW?
It's about the forum itself apparently? Unless you meant it should be in Feedback heh.
Post by
Interest
Isnt this in the wrong forum?
How is it related to WoW?
It's about the forum itself apparently? Unless you meant it should be in Feedback heh.
Well it's pertaining to this specific board....so.
Post by
Atik
A-e-s-t-u
Incited a lot of hatred in everybody.
I literally hate anybody whose username begins with an 'A'. As soon as I see it, I think it's going to be that person, and I die a little.
Really? Like, really?
I have met people that are FAR worse than Aetsu, Adamsm, or any other name around here.
They are not that bad, and everyone gives them crap for expressing themeselves in a blunt manner.
Rock on bros and brahs, haters gonna hate.
Post by
355920
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Post by
Sneetch
Really? Like, really?
I have met people that are FAR worse than Aetsu, Adamsm, or any other name around here.
They are not that bad, and everyone gives them crap for expressing themeselves in a blunt manner.
Rock on bros and brahs, haters gonna hate.
Go to the link in my sig is all I can say.
And second of all, I really don't think this thread should be locked anyway since it would just eventually get back on track. General is waiting to become Cataclysm General. The only questions that can truly be answered are about beta and other things that aren't out at the moment, or bugs and glitches. By now, any question you should have this far in the expansion has probably been answered, and people just get tired of answering the same question over and over again. Well, at this point of end-game, when all the wow players twiddle their fingers waiting for December 7th
Post by
Atik
Go to the link in my sig is all I can say.
Many of Aetsu's points in that thread mirror my own ideas. Welfare epics, heirlooms, and freebie guild mounts are all things I don't like about where the game is going.
Post by
161859
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Post by
Interest
Don't forget that a lot of wow players get cranky right before an expansion.
They are bored with the current expansion, cranky because of all the change with the new patches, so they nerdrage on forums. About 2 months into Cataclysm, it'll all die down. About 4-6 months before the next expansion, people will get cranky again.
Indeed. So true.
Post by
Cyonisper
Don't forget that a lot of wow players get cranky right before an expansion. They are bored with the current expansion, cranky because of all the change with the new patches, so they nerdrage on forums. About 2 months into Cataclysm, it'll all die down. About 4-6 months before the next expansion, people will get cranky again.
You sir, hit the nail right on the head.
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665124
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Post by
mudd
The core problem you're facing here is World of Warcraft players. The vocal minority appear whatever forum you go on - official forums, elitistjerks - and are an angry and hostile group.
Or is that just communication on the internet in general? Actually it is - look at the mumsnet forums!
Post by
sutasafaia
Aestu is apparently the new Garrosh, it's just plain popular to hate him. Yes, he can be a bit abrasive, but for some reason that has never offended me. Maybe because I have a tendency towards sarcasm, who knows? That said, I tend to agree with about 90% of the stuff he posts.
Anyway, as to the OP:
I'm basically just repeating some of what has already been said here I think. The forums themselves haven't really become less friendly or inviting, at least in my opinion. I think the issue is that since the forums have been around for such a long time that there are a much higher number of repeat threads. These threads tend to annoy the people who have been around since the beginning and that makes them bother the poster with various things like "necro" and "use search."
The search function on this forum however is frankly pretty horrible. It's very hard to get it to bring up anything even remotely useful for what you need. Instead of flaming the OP for the various repeats though, all that's needed is a simple link to the Help forums and I think that should be enough. The hard part is convincing people to do that instead of flaming them.
Post by
tuckmuck203
You are correct, while the comment sections contained on the majority of the site are still great and full of useful information, the forums are generally not as well 'moderated'.
This is, excuse me for saying, partly the users faults as well. We moderators can't see everything happening, unless we actively read every single post of the forum - which naturally is bordering impossible and/or super-human. We're highly dependent on your reports to track down the stuff that makes the forum (and comments too) a negative place for the others. Keep reporting folks, it actually helps.
So does that mean I can report people that say cool story bro/wowhead is not your blog/ twitter ----> if I can turn the story into a discussion? If so, have fun getting banned goshadstep2lose, aestu, etc.
Post by
Bawkxy
Now, I hope this thread can actually stay on track, as it seems that the discussion has changed focus.
Sigh. It's quite sad that I have to
repeat
this - even in this thread. :<
Speaking as the Retired until Cata and lurks the forums most of the time because he's bored Guy, don't you notice a pattern with threads that often go off topic/gets locked, are often sparked off and derailed
by a
few
certain individual
? There are a few threads that start off quite well and it ends up derailed and locked, because of an argument sparked off,
by a
few
certain individual
.
I feel that the mods/admins should actually do something about it.
Oh wait, notice that I didn't name anyone again :D
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138638
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Post by
Monday
Don't forget that a lot of wow players get cranky right before an expansion. They are bored with the current expansion, cranky because of all the change with the new patches, so they nerdrage on forums. About 2 months into Cataclysm, it'll all die down. About 4-6 months before the next expansion, people will get cranky again.
You sir, hit the nail right on the head.
..with a big ol' hammer of truth.
QFT
Post by
Alixie
The single most annoying thing to me on forums is, when someone makes a topic with an honest question, someone chimes in every so helpfully and tells them to look elsewhere.
"Google it" "Read the faqs" "There's already bunch of other topics about this."
One, if you're gunna waste your time to make a pointless statement like that, then that could have been made into a more helpful post.
Two, the "its been done a million times before", well then what are forums for if everything's been discussed and solved? Surely nobody would ever want to discuss said topic ever again.
Example:
OP: Hey, im new. is there anything on good pvp builds for hunters? i like MM.
Jerk: Wow, this hasn't been asked before a million times already. Aren't you original? Learn to use the stickies, noob.
Edit: And learn some grammar while you're at it. I could barely understand your English.
Helpful guy: Hi! There's lots of hunter pvp builds on this page. I myself like survival better. You can check out my toon for his build, I think it works great for myself.
Like mom always said, "if you dont have nothing nice to say, dont say it at all." :P
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606231
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Post by
HoleofArt
How could I miss this gem of a thread for so long?
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