You ought'a be slapped! What have you contributed to this community besides sowing discord and throwing around insults?
To be fair, his strawberry tarts are out of this world.
But don't worry, I won't be upsetting you any longer. I was opting to be a part of a community devoted to a game, but got a religious movement instead. Shouldn't really be surprised: this is internet - a lot of silly stuff is happening here. But hey! Who am I to tell you how to have your fun? So... You may save your righteous ramblings for the next heretic to come. I don't want to have anything to do with post-CoH community again.
Frog's signing out.
Right, because there are no other threads about anything else anywhere to be found here at all?
Folks, I'm going to say this again. There are people here who want to see NCsoft boiled in oil. I personally don't like the company myself (although to be fair, shout-out to the GM team, they're awesome; I'm referring to the corporate offices in Korea). There are anti-NCsoft threads, and that's not going to stop in the foreseeable future. Consider yourself warned.
However, that is not the sole purpose of the Titan Network. In fact, in spite of my own personal feelings towards NCsoft, there is a thread dedicated specifically to
former CoH players who are now playing Guild Wars 2. And yes, people have posted anti-NCsoft posts there. And yes,
we have moderated them because it's disruptive. So please, spare me the lectures and comparisons to Orwell, and no matter how many ragequit posts I read, you're not going to make me feel one iota of guilt or convince me to start shutting down people who are peacefully expressing their anger and disappointment with NCsoft without disrupting others. Funny thing, to me it would be
more Orwellian of me to start locking threads, deleting posts, and otherwise telling people what to think or say when they're not causing any harm or disruption to discussion, yet apparently that's what some people expect me to do.
It's really simple. If you don't agree with the anti-NCsoft crowd, then find other threads to read and post in. It's not like they're hard to find. This particular forum, "Save Paragon City!", is specifically dedicated to ideas and discussion around getting NCsoft to change their mind and release the game IP. That's not going to happen with people sitting around doing nothing, and all of our positive efforts have been rebuffed, so it's not unreasonable to expect many of the posts here to focus on how to negatively affect NCsoft to the point where they will let the IP go to stop the negative publicity. If you have better ideas, by all means, please post them! (Just be forewarned that "Just let it go..." is probably also not going to meet a warm reception in the "Save Paragon City!" forum.)
If you want to leave the Titan Network because of anti-NCsoft posts in this forum, then don't let the door hit you on the way out. I'm not saying that I want you to go, but I won't lose any sleep over it because to be brutally honest, if you come to this particular forum and you're offended by anti-NCsoft posts, that's your problem, not mine. Why aren't you contributing to
pitching City of Heroes to other companies? Why aren't you
participating in discussions about the comic medium in general? Why are you
seeking other former CoH players to play other games with? Why aren't you
contributing to a successor to City of Heroes? Why aren't you
discussing the future of the Paragon Wiki now that CoH is shut down?
If instead of doing any of these or many other things that are topics of discussion you deliberately choose to come into threads that are about a topic that you know you're probably not going to enjoy reading or participating in, hey, I really don't have any issue with that, either. Spirited discussion and even civil arguments--including dissenting viewpoints--are welcome and encouraged. If you're under the impression that I'm going to shut down conversation because someone has a disagreement, though, I can tell you that's not going to happen. I'm sorry if that's the standard by which you just a community worth participating in, but that's not how we roll here. If we were so anti-NCsoft, why do you think we haven't moderated any of
your posts?
The kind of funny thing is, I just had another ragequit a week ago for precisely the opposite reason; someone was all hurt and upset because we moderated their posts for using an offensive derogatory term. If I were more fragile, I'd give up, under the impression that I just can't win. As it is, though, I'm just arrogant enough to know when I'm right about something, and a few things I know I'm right about are that not everyone here is anti-NCsoft, there are plenty of discussions that have nothing to do with NCsoft at all, and accusations of being Orwellian aren't going to get very far when we moderate as little as we do.
