Postby Maokun » Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:15 pm
As noble and nonconformist as that may sound, the truth is that all communities have regulations and standards and if your "being yourself" clashes against them you'll find yourself unwelcome. This is not a fault of the community, especially one with a carefully written and openly displayed set of rules that you must agree with at the moment of joining as it's the case with Internet forums.
You claim not to be new to the Internet, yet you seem to ignore one of the online forums' most elementary and ages-old established rules: do not necro threads or posts. Sure, we may do it accidentally from time time (I know I have); the true fault is to take offence when the other members point it and then -soon after- do it again (and then take even more offense when you're asked not to. Again.)
Also, while it's not a written rule, I'm pretty sure it falls under the "common sense" category not to dig for academic-grade literary offensive tone apparently interwoven in the few words of other members' replies to you. I cannot for life of me find a negative tone in most of the replies made to you, while your own replies have been openly antagonistic. I'm pretty sure that if you check the board for a while, you'll see that no "newbie" is ever treated differently or condescendingly by the members of this board. You are the one victimizing yourself and in the process, generating actual negative sentiments against you.
Cannot you please just drop the "this forum this" and "these members that" and talk about anime while following the not-particularly-hard rules that this and 99% of other online forums have? I'm positive that if you do so, we can all forget this little bad first acquaintance and enjoy ourselves, you and us. I look forward to it.
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