posts/respect

[Demona]

roflstunts said:

Where are we? This was not the thread direction I envisioned from reading the title.

Posts/respect - It's not even that.

You won't get respect if you post agressively like some of us, and I include myself. Like Peon once said, I could go "the Blastgirl route" and be lovey-dovey when I say things, but that's not how I am. I am an opinionated person, 17 years of age. And when my generation clashes with the 30 - 50 somethings, things are apt to get a bit hot.

And I'm just going to come out and say it - I don't respect anyone on this website in the 30 - 50 age group. I can still be friendly with you, but you're just not my kind of people. I want to talk to people who can joke about surprise buttsecks and Chris Benoit.

What was this website even originally for? It was because the sodarace forums kinda sucked and lewa decided to do something about it. I wish I could've been around when lewasite started up because I would have enjoyed it then far more than I do now (Of course, I would have been about 13). Then somehow, the entire Blast family came in and changed the mood. Why? Where did they come from? I have the perfect analogy too. In the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Nurse represents the boomers and Jack Nicolson's character represents my generation. If you saw the movie, you know what happens to the Nurse and eventually McMurphy. That's probably what's going to happen to us.

Back to the topic at hand -

posts/respect - Yes when using a highly trafficed website (Teh Vestibule) no when using an indepentant forum (lewasite)

age/respect - It's just not happening and I don't know why we even try. I can just tell how old a user is by the way they post and it differs my opinion of them.

yellowunicorn.proboards83.com/

Join that website if you can't handle the lameness of lewasite any longer. We're looking for a few good members.

Sorry if I offended anyone, but it's how I really feel.

Yes I've seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest and it was a great movie, and an interesting comparison.

I'm 22, but sympathise with the Blasts and people older, and really haven't been one to get along totally with my age group....I guess I'm an in between.

I've got no clue how it was before the Blasts, but Lewa posted his site on Farts.com and people joined it and I decided to join this year after hearing from people supposedly how fun it was. What I saw was what I take to be childish behavior, and upon hearing about some big time drama from the Vent in Farts.com didn't trust anyone except the Blasts, and I'm trying to see it from the other point of view, but it's hard when you can't tell what's simply meant as humor and who's being a dick, as on any other forum it'd be seen as troll behavior and earn a ban fast. It's all nice to have fun and a sense of humor but you need to think it might not be everyone's sense of humor and they might not understand it.

And as for Blast being lovey dovey when she posts, she's one who likes to keep the peace, and what's wrong with that?

Anyways, post count only means something on websites where people can't get their heads from their backsides to accept new members, it's like their own world and they think it's being invaded. I've seen many times on message boards where the members with the highest count tended to be dicks, and thank goodness they weren't forum staff.

Over at SOH we welcome people and hope that new ideas and new faces join and stay, but then again it's nice to have the old gang around and there always will be people who can't get used to it, though everyone tends to be nice over there and you'll get warned if you're not.

[aido179]

I propose the founding of the "awesome!" A legue of genuine members that new people can look up to for good example and ask for good advice. They will be able to trust them...and stuff. Or not...whatever.
I do think it would be a good idea

[Phil]

I agree with Demona fully about Blastgirl works pretty hard to maintain peace whenever possible.

Stunts as a 36 year old I know exactly how you feel, when I was 17 nobody in my life over 30 knew anything either. But they wisened up eventually.

I don't think age alone is the basis for respect you still have to prove it.

Aido179 ask away I would try to suggest the best advice I have if I don't know I'll simply say that.

Over all there's nothing wrong with being juvinille as long as you know when not to be.

[Phil]

I'm afraid that's not the same thing.

[jesusaurus]

Edit: deleted due to evidence not 100%

[roflstunts]

Phil, it's not that you don't know anything. I'm sure you've experienced more than most on this website. It's just how the younger generation grew up using the internet. When I was 12, I really got into sodaplay and videogames. When I first went to IGN, I discovered message boards and forums. I grew up on what I would call one of the "mind-scarring" forums. I learned all kinds of terms like "lmao" "rofl" "stfu" and I also learned a type of forum humor and a unique way of discussing things. The forums I'm used to are much less intellectually demanding than lewasite is.

And if I were to meet you in real life, and talk face-to-face, I'm sure we could have a rousing conversation. You, being a railroad engineer of sorts, and me, being schooled to be a future engineer, I'm sure we'd have a lot in common.

But on the internet, I think of myself as a different person. I'm a little more confident in my ideas. And I just think the way you say things is a little stale. You really need to put more emotion into your writings - it helps other people understand the way you feel about things. Perhaps you already do this, but I really haven't seen much. I get a much better idea of who you are from your video blog. There are things that can't be expressed through text.

I think you are a good person, Phil, and I'm sure the Blasts, dannyboy, Kimm, and all the others are great people in real life, but here on the internet, you just don't stand a chance with a bunch of young, opinionated kids.

[jesusaurus]

Old people don't understand the internet as much as our generation. Sorry but it's the truth :\ We are growing up with youtube, myspace, etc. so it's not like it's your fault it's just you were one generation too early.

[Demona]

We did not own a computer till I was 14 and was new to the internet but even then I see use of terms such as "buttsecks" "stfu" "lulz" and "pwned" as just making a person look ridiculously stupid, and don't get why someone can't just type normally, classic expressions like lol and such aside. Every forum except the DA ones, that I use people just try sounding more intellegent and it's like, we can take you more seriously when you do.

[Phil]

Do I qualify as old people?

Stunts, point well taken about the age difference amounting to different attitudes. I teased you a little but I know what you were saying.

I never used internet until I was 30 or 29. I'm 36 now, yeah 29 I think.

[Phil]

PS not double posting to be an annoying n00b but because this is another point. I like it that we're discussing right now instead of arguing. That's how discussion forums are really suppose to work.

[Demona]

On the double posting bit, it's best to try and edit posts but really, if someone double posts on accident or doesn't edit and then adds something new below, I find it to be the height of anal retentive and stupid when other's moan and carry on over something so trivial. Same with how someone making a few new topics within the rules right after the other IS NOT spam, which the true definition is one dealing with unwanted advertising and usually off topic things.

[jesusaurus]

phil said:

Do I qualify as old people?

In internet terms yes.

[Demona]

Phil, you are not old, and really what does it take to use a message board, which many people older than you do regularly.

[Blastgirl]

Phil made this post about getting old once.
youtube.com/watch?v=d75t3WfvMEw
I think you give good advice though. Next two blogs.
youtube.com/watch?v=Vf2Q2zNDABc
youtube.com/watch?v=VqaREifrTJc

[Peon]

I don't really think age has much to do with it, either. I guess I'd mostly call it "culture". I go to another forum, mostly populated by people the ages between, oh, 20 and 35, but their outlook, mannerisms, and posting style are vastly different from the older posters here. It's all about where your path through the internet has gone so far, I guess. We all took different routes, and it's shaped us because of that.

You're on the right track, anyway, Stunts.

[Slayzie]

Absolutely.
The attitude of several members who've posted in this topic really cheeses me off. Werwoof especially. I mean seriously, how utterly idiotic is it to flame the senior members of the site. Very. Yet it goes ahead and does so. Then, furthermore, it accuses the younger members of the site of being obnoxious jerks. Take a look in the mirror, buddy. Who's the one trying to start a flame war here?
Then there's Demona, which somehow feels the need to defend anyone and everyone who it thinks is being hard done by. All I can say is, this is just plain stupid and unnecessary. Why bother?

[aido179]

I don't want his thread to go back into flaming. It's lived its life.

[Demona]

Well, I defend my friends on here because you know, they seem to be ganged up on by the so called senior members...