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The less attention he gets, the better.
I don't understand the Miku thing either. I assume it's the cute, weeaboo factor.
A fantastic recap as always, thanks Pendelton. I had completely forgotten about my strong desire to play Mega Man Powered Up; guess I just never found it. I'll have to keep my eye out. Gotta agree with Jack a bit--Mega Man 2 was incredible and definitely my favorite. Give me Mega Man 2 Powered Up. Whoa.
Thanks.
But I think it is a really bad choice to skip certain blogs. That takes away the whole credibility of the recaps. I mean what use is there for the recaps if I'm not certain I've seen every Cblog written? So after reading this I'd have to go back to the Cblogs to see if I have missed something?
This time it's Hoborg. Who's next?
I don't like his blogs either. But take a good look at the comments. Ignoring someone starts there. Not in the recaps.
@Takeshi
I think cutting out Hoborg is his way of protesting his continued existence, which I support. Pendleton is a long term hardworking member, and a great guy: I think sticking together and supporting members like that is more important than defending Hoborg or sticking to guidelines.
Also "who's next?"; no one I've ever seen tries to single-handedly ruin the blogs like him. I've seen much better people banned before off this site.
I agree. Personally I never intentionally skip one and agree that recaps shouldn't omit.
If you want to protest Hoborg, just "write" a complaint in his cblogs. ;)
Take a good look at the comments for a second. Then tell me if Hoborg is worse than the people commenting.
I read things like:
'Asshole', 'Shut the fuck up!', 'we just fucking hate you', 'People who think like this are the kind of elitist assholes we don't need in this community. Once again, just fucking go, your not wanted here.'.
Want me to go on? OK, I will.
'pieces of shit like you', 'Were tired of your elitist fucktard attitude', 'Just go fuck yourself alright?'.
Now read your comment again. I don't want to stick together with people who talk like that. Subtract all those comments and see what's left. Probably about 20 comments on the actual subject. Which can be negative or positive. That's cool with me.
Basically when you said "supporting members like that is more important than defending Hoborg or sticking to guidelines." is that 'We' don't have to stick to any guidelines but 'He' does?
Look the 'Failtoid' and 'Other' sections exist for a reason. The recapper thinks it is fail or not very interesting. Which is his opinion and I respect that. But we can all decide for ourselves what to think about a certain blog. By not even mentioning someone we can not form our own opinion.
I'm not defending Hoborg. Like I said, I don't like Horborg's blogs. But I don't think he's a spammer or disruptive by posting his blogs. He keeps everything he wants to say in his own blog. Which is fine by me.
And Pendelton, I'm not attacking you either. I think you're a great guy, with a positive attitude and you're doing a great job on the Recaps.
There is something else that bothers me a lot. Which is kind of the same thing as not letting people form their own opinion. Which is people that talk on behalf of the whole community. 'We don't like you.' 'Everybody hates you, we want you to leave.' and your own comment '99% of the community wants him banned'.
I want to ask everybody to speak for themselves.
Think about these points for a second before you comment on a blog that you don't like.
I don't support the obscene flamers or Hoborg himself. Ostensibly, they're the exact same thing: extreme negativity on the blogs. It's all bad for the communities' image.
Also, I guarantee you most of the community does not like Hoborg. Why I make comments like that is because a few of us (Tubatic comes to mind) have been noticing what Hoborg has been doing since day one. A lot of you have stumbled in weeks later on his "nicer" blogs, and think "oh he's not that bad".
"I don't want to stick together with people who talk like that"
A lot of these comments are from long term members who are just sick of it, so they snap. Also, I don't get the whole "surprise at 50 comments in fail blogs" thing anymore. It's like every time there's a fail blog, people can't believe it has so many comments. It's because the author says something inflammatory, and people are sick of it. Some members have kept quiet for weeks, then just can't stand his attitude anymore. I've seen you get pissed at a few people before, for just cause. Everyone snaps.
Just to make sure you know, I have 0 problem with you, and I understand your argument. The point is, this is what people like Hoborg do: they drive people crazy by flaming everything and anything, and drive a wedge in the community. Funnily enough, I love you, and everything you type/do, but it's my opinion that Hoborg is disruptive, and yours is more apathetic, yet we're arguing here with giant comments. Eventually, more people will snap: some have already left the blogs for the forums JUST because of Hoborg. What does that tell you?
Now, Hoborg's shit may or may not be a person's cup of tea, but this is a recap, so I say let people decide whether they want to ignore it or not, and not make the choice for them.
We don't have to like everyone else on this website, but we can't go about censoring them. [Insert some historical fucking quote about censorship and what not].
Like it's been said, it takes away from the point of recaps if we start selecting what actually gets recapped.
I should CLARIFY: if I ever do the recaps, I wouldn't ever take anyone out (I would just fail Hoborg), but I would still support someone's decision to do that if that's what they wanted.