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We are commun, but I think SYM is scattered between a few groups, who close the doors to newbies. Like me.
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E você tem orgulho disso?
translation: And you're proud of this?
I ask this because of the boldness of your statement which seems to suggest you don't mind 'closing the doors to newbies'.
Anyway, this is probably my last post on this. I guess it is only natural for small groups to take hold of small forums (this goes for chat rooms too) for their own use. You see it all the time. Like Thantor mentioned in the beginning of the thread, I do believe it does have something to do with 'feeding individual egos'.
This is why in places of online chatting rooms, you have many,
many rooms to choose from where you can speak socially...so that you don't come to the same 1 room that is commanded by the same group of people like what can be observed here. It's like I have only one option here, which is to suck up to the people in social groups so I can actually gain respect and feel more
free to actually
speak my mind. And when threads come along like Luis Antonio's "CM Kingdom" or "Weasel embarks on his mission to lead..." which to my opinion, goes against rule #5 and #8 of the forum, in the sense that it is made for explicit spamming and does not have any useful content...I'm once again reassured that the moderators are lenient towards this because of the elitist groups that have liberty of what they do/say.
I think it's a shame personally. Anything discussed in a public forum like this one should not exclude other members...but as it does, you'll get what has been happening until now. Small-time posters like me coming up to post things and then being 'intimidated' or just simply put down by the elitist groups.
I still have it fresh in my mind the light spam thread by Maharlika, "If Men are NOT from Mars..." where Mah said a certain post of mine was spam, which in fact, it wasn't...and even had it been, it seems the moderators have no problem with veterans about spamming. Just take a look at the amount of spam in just about every thread where the topic will usually stray off to talk about EC, COMM, or whatever it is that goes on.
Anyway, now that I am officially the forum villain for saying all this, heh, I think I'll just go back to posting in the game forums where there are no preferential attitudes and everyone is pretty much equal.
EDIT: I'd just like to add a PS...which is that I'm not particularly sorry for the dying of SYM as the vets are putting it. When you're not lenient towards new bloods or friendly towards them, then you are leaving the heart (the forum, in this case) to run on old blood which will eventually not prove sufficient. The way for evolution is for change to happen...and threads like 'Anomen Experiment' and all that nostalgic mambo jambo suggest the vets are clinging to the past and not allowing the forum to evolve.
I'm bad.
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