Hey guys.
You've already seen some of them. Articles essentially belittling the community for not just letting CoH go. Calling us immature, etc, etc. Telling us to "suck it up an drive on" and the like.
I understand how this can get your blood boiling. It's irritating as hell for me too, and I find myself reliving flashbacks of the violent old days of the Usenet wars.
Do yourself a favor. Fight the urge to strangle these guys with their own entrails. Yes, it'd probably make you feel better. But you'll feel even better if we're able to rescue the game.
As you find, or are notified about such articles, record them. If you want, respond. But just do it in a civil fashion.
Calling these guys out, calling them names, flaming them, etc accomplishes two things:
- It proves them "right" about members of the community being immature
- It provides them fodder to generate more page views.
One of the articles I read got enough responses that the site's author immediately followed up with another troll-screed, hoping for more.
We have many, MANY better things to do with our time than feed such trolls.
- Save the game!
- Stay active in evangelizing our cause and the game.
- Play the game.
- Have a life.
- Study up on the joys of self-trepanation.
Again, it's all right to be irritated with such callous behavior. You wouldn't be human otherwise.
Just try to focus on the positive aspects of what we're trying to accomplish and let all this useless chaff fall where it may. If we do this right, we'll be laughing at them on December 1st. A far more satisfactory social interaction from our POV!
