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Welcome to Dtoid, good first blog! As an '09er on SRK, I gotta say, I have hardly been flamed at all. As long as what you post isn't stupid nonsense, I've found that most people there are very friendly. A lot of the '09ers I see being flamed totally deserve it.
Thanks!
The SRK bit was definitely lighthearted, I'm a big fighting game fan and have been visiting there for years. On a serious note though, if we're talking about gaming communities, I feel that when there is a legitimate disagreement (i.e. not an obvious troll) people there are too quick to call 'join date' as a way of asserting authority, as if the date you join a gaming forum has any relevance to your gaming credentials.
The SRK bit was definitely lighthearted, I'm a big fighting game fan and have been visiting there for years. On a serious note though, if we're talking about gaming communities, I feel that when there is a legitimate disagreement (i.e. not an obvious troll) people there are too quick to call 'join date' as a way of asserting authority, as if the date you join a gaming forum has any relevance to your gaming credentials.
I clicked this fully expecting (based on the title) an ignorant, poorly-written piece, and instead got the best thing I've read all morning. Well done sir!
Nice blog, there's no getting around the fact that without new people a community will simply whither and die quietly in the corner. Too bad that for every decent addition like yourself there are 5-10 others who come here thinking they are the funniest thing since 4 chan. I feel old just thinking about it.
Nice blog dude. I totally get what you're saying. It's just too bad that old members at various communities, even Destructoid, view new members and change in a poor light and get very elitist about it.
I totally get where that mentality comes from too. I've played a close knit online RPG for several years. It was made in 1997 and I joined in 2000. So for a time, I was that noob that the elitists ignored. I've all but quit now, just logging in my characters to keep them from auto-deletion, but now I'm the elitist. The community I grew up with there is all but gone, with a few people hanging around and a sea of unknown faces that now ignore me, because they are the new community and I am a dinosaur in their eyes.
I totally get where that mentality comes from too. I've played a close knit online RPG for several years. It was made in 1997 and I joined in 2000. So for a time, I was that noob that the elitists ignored. I've all but quit now, just logging in my characters to keep them from auto-deletion, but now I'm the elitist. The community I grew up with there is all but gone, with a few people hanging around and a sea of unknown faces that now ignore me, because they are the new community and I am a dinosaur in their eyes.
@Deathofthedead: Nice to see you again my friend! ;)
@ Elsa: Thank You
@Zodiac Eclipse & Cadtalfryn: You tend to feel old very quickly when you're a gamer and you can be suddenly surrounded by a sea of newcomers out of nowhere. I think as the old generation part of our job is to be a bit more understanding of the fact that a lot of the time we are surrounded by naive youngsters or even admit to ourselves that we may have been like that at one stage 0_o
Saying that I can totally see why the community is how it is now, it reminds me of some big wounded animal, super defensive after being attacked by one too many trolls.
@ Elsa: Thank You
@Zodiac Eclipse & Cadtalfryn: You tend to feel old very quickly when you're a gamer and you can be suddenly surrounded by a sea of newcomers out of nowhere. I think as the old generation part of our job is to be a bit more understanding of the fact that a lot of the time we are surrounded by naive youngsters or even admit to ourselves that we may have been like that at one stage 0_o
Saying that I can totally see why the community is how it is now, it reminds me of some big wounded animal, super defensive after being attacked by one too many trolls.
Excellent first blog, very well conceived and constructed young sir or madam. I love that first picture, so great. Also, God Hand in the sidebar = your awesome. I think this deserves some sauce in the recaps, how about it :)
