If you visit a site or blog which posts articles on game design, you get commentary on the articles where each comment is on average a paragraph or two of constructive criticism.
Here, if we post an article discussing anything to do with game design, we mostly one-liners, and they're usually sarcastic.
Why is that?
I wonder if the other sites just delete the stupid comments or something.
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 Apr 4 2008, 9:51 am
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Calus CoRPS wrote:
I believe most sites probably have a more mature community. I want one of those. How do I get one? This community is too busy arguing about whether anime sucks or not to talk about anything meaningful. In fact, pretty much anything meaningful around here gets neglected because everyone flocks to the juicy debates instead. | |
Calus CoRPS wrote:
I believe most sites probably have a more mature community. Yeah, just read a few threads in the "Classified Ads" forum. | |
I definitely see what you mean. But things like that aren't only in BYOND and aren't only on the internet, unfortunately.
Society isn't very close to ideal, but that's life. Though, the neglecting of meaningful things and the saying of such things does remind me of the fellow pupils at my school. I guess whoever suggested this is because of the community's average age is quite right. | |
Some of that is probably your own stigma. In general I tend to notice that the larger a community gets, the more reserved its elite get and the more belligerent its commoners get.
Every community is different, of course, and I'm not going to say that BYOND doesn't have an overly snarky community compared to other people, because it does. However, most of the posts I see from you generally surround the concept of "BYOND's community is terrible!" and I sort of suspect that some of the reason you perceive it that way is because you've already come to the conclusion that it is. ;-) BYOND is sadly in a class of its own; other utilities require more maturity and experience from their users in order to produce anything, and people are usually tighter about their source code. The MUD community is also a very mixed bag, although now that it's more of a hobby than a fashion statement, the maturity has definitely taken a huge upturn. | |
Stop taking things so seriously.
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I believe most sites probably have a more mature community.