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Lifer
There seems to be a certain element present on all internet forum boards. These are people who are obsessed with other people. They exist everywhere, in all walks of life. They are obsessed with controlling other people.
Some years ago Windrivers forum was very big. The people obsessed with controlling other people destroyed it. Now it barely has any traffic. The reason is some people decided they wanted to stop other people from making political, funny, satirical, nef, etc, posts. They would post in every one of these threads, usually just to say stop posting. Eventually they started complaining to the mods. The mods worked under the reasoning that if enough people complain about a user, type of thread, etc, it was in their best interest to sanction the posters of these threads. Too late they realized the complainers were the problem. Eventually posters decided to stop posting because they got temp banned or their threads locked or had to defend themselves to the mods. And the board got boring as hell.
Threads turned into "Whats your favorite color" "Should I have bologna or salami for lunch?" In just a few months there was very few people left in that forum.
I don't know what term best describes these people. They are the type of person who seem more preoccupied with what other people do, than what they themselves do. They are incensed when someone doesn't do what they tell them to do. And will go to almost any lengths to try and get the kind of behaviour they demand out of that person.
On internet boards they are death.
These busybodies always seem to read and post in these threads that they hate. In effect, they bump them and cause even more posts in them. Ignoring a thread is inconcievable to them. That alone is a clue to their nature.
Now, I personally have complained about one post in my years here (maybe it was two but the first was so long ago I can't remember it). My complaint was about overt racism in a thread. Yes, I believe there are some kinds of threads that need banning, and some people too.
However, when someone new (who shall remain nameless) joined fairly recently and started posting like crazy, I was not "offended". I was disappointed that their trolls were bad. "Blue or Green-discuss" type posts. Yet, I couldn't care a rats behind that they were making these posts. If I didn't want to read them I didn't have to. Yet, their posts turned into quite humorous threads as people creatively lambasted this turkey.
Internet boards, imo, such as this one, is served by people who find the threads and posts interesting enough to read and post in. They say in Hollywood there is no bad publicity. Well, in this forum thats mostly true. Everything that gets and keeps people reading and posting is good. The only drawback is allowing things that are too hateful. For example if you allowed racist posts on a regular basis you end up drawing racists to your board. Then you fundamentally change the board.
Alright, rant over.
Some years ago Windrivers forum was very big. The people obsessed with controlling other people destroyed it. Now it barely has any traffic. The reason is some people decided they wanted to stop other people from making political, funny, satirical, nef, etc, posts. They would post in every one of these threads, usually just to say stop posting. Eventually they started complaining to the mods. The mods worked under the reasoning that if enough people complain about a user, type of thread, etc, it was in their best interest to sanction the posters of these threads. Too late they realized the complainers were the problem. Eventually posters decided to stop posting because they got temp banned or their threads locked or had to defend themselves to the mods. And the board got boring as hell.
Threads turned into "Whats your favorite color" "Should I have bologna or salami for lunch?" In just a few months there was very few people left in that forum.
I don't know what term best describes these people. They are the type of person who seem more preoccupied with what other people do, than what they themselves do. They are incensed when someone doesn't do what they tell them to do. And will go to almost any lengths to try and get the kind of behaviour they demand out of that person.
On internet boards they are death.
These busybodies always seem to read and post in these threads that they hate. In effect, they bump them and cause even more posts in them. Ignoring a thread is inconcievable to them. That alone is a clue to their nature.
Now, I personally have complained about one post in my years here (maybe it was two but the first was so long ago I can't remember it). My complaint was about overt racism in a thread. Yes, I believe there are some kinds of threads that need banning, and some people too.
However, when someone new (who shall remain nameless) joined fairly recently and started posting like crazy, I was not "offended". I was disappointed that their trolls were bad. "Blue or Green-discuss" type posts. Yet, I couldn't care a rats behind that they were making these posts. If I didn't want to read them I didn't have to. Yet, their posts turned into quite humorous threads as people creatively lambasted this turkey.
Internet boards, imo, such as this one, is served by people who find the threads and posts interesting enough to read and post in. They say in Hollywood there is no bad publicity. Well, in this forum thats mostly true. Everything that gets and keeps people reading and posting is good. The only drawback is allowing things that are too hateful. For example if you allowed racist posts on a regular basis you end up drawing racists to your board. Then you fundamentally change the board.
Alright, rant over.
