I Hate Public Forums

I have to say the forums over at mmorpg.com have finally given me a solid stance on public forums. I see a lot of dumb forums but this has got to be the dumbest forum I have come across.

First you MUST align yourself with every game in a way of complete hate to the point where your criticisms of a game don't even make sense, but people will rally behind them anyway. Or be a complete fanboi of a game that follow the game that a fundamentalist Christian couldn't compare in dedication.

Second, you must make sure that every argument you have is either tired or just wrong. the backlash to this is there are people who refuse to listen to any positive or negative argument if they heard it "too many times", and refuse to acknowledge as part of your argument, and demand you provide an opinion they have never heard before.

For example, if you say you don't like the quests in a game, they will dismiss it outright because they heard it before, and then shit talk you for not have enough support for your negative view of the game. Provide enough evidence and they will simply slander you opposed to arguing the points you put forth. They usually do this by presenting something you said in a negative tone, even if its a perfectly good position. "oh sure we could listen to someone who played the game for the majority of the time its been released, but in my opinion, fuck him."

Third, if you are going to be foolish enough to try and argue with things like "proof" or "facts" be sure they are of the bullshit, made-up variety, otherwise if you have facts that are contrary to what they assumed, they will call you liar without any counter evidence. Assumptions and rumors hold much more weight than any press release or report ever could in these forums.

Other public forums of a multi-genre or multi-game variety also have these problems in varying degrees. So I have been forced to actually go to forums that focus on one game alone and are crawling with fanboi's but also have moderate supporters of the game but realize any game can be improved upon. These are the only places an actual conversation can be had and useful information about a game acquired. Though you have to take a lot of the positive posts with a grain of salt, or a entire salt mine as the case may be.

Again these forums must be isolated from other game forums, lest a "rival" game supporter get a wild hair up there ass and decide to come post shit talking about a game for no reason, with all the negative discussion formats mentioned earlier in their arsenal.