Re: The Ranting/Debate Thread
I really never understood it myself, honestly. The way I grew up, the way I am, I'm an equal oppritunity(fuck I can NEVER spell that properly to save my life)kinda guy. Don't mind what ya are so much as who ya are, you know?
Anyway...this is gonna sound like a really absurd issue I have lately. Well, a few have that I know, myself included. This is long as fuck, mind you.
See, I've been in multiple online communities throughout the years. Some I only minorly associate with, such as this place, Hongfire, and AnimeSharing. Some I was formerly associated with back in the day, like Hentai Geek and the NVHS forums. I even saw the life and death of one or two.
But the one I've always been a member of for about several years now I won't name, and as usual there's a problem. But it's not unique to us, you see. That's why I'm talking about it here.
We've had issues, lack of admin activity, lack of traffic. Heck, even after all that we decided to move on. Become a closed circle using private chat programs to converse, and we once had a newbie take over and act like a true dictator.
But this one is pretty annoying in general, everywhere. The type of thing you'll find anywhere on the internet. And this might sound crazy, but it's actually the opposite of feminism and all that bull you'll be fed on Tumblr about thin privilege, white privilege, and all the other assortments of garbage. It's the extreme opposite of all that and a combination of this 'gamer gurl' mentality some, but not all mind you, women seem to have.
One particular individual in our circle of friends and acquaintances has always been that one 'gurl' to some degree or another. Pretty good looking, self-proclaimed awesomest person around, the usual crap.
But she's always had a headstrong personality. A lot of stuff related to this, past and present, is personal so I won't talk about any of it, but in general the kind of person who would sooner, on the internet at least, combat you or run away from you(block you or leave whatever group you're a part of)if you so much as heavily disagree with them and manage to combat their arguments in a way they have a hard time fighting back. In short, the kind who would resort to calling you an asshole before admitting they were wrong or even that you had so much as a better point than them.
Sounds something like a feminist or some crazy chick on Tumblr talking about thin privilege and insisting the world is wrong, eh? Wrong. She actually opposes that stuff on such a scale that it's more irritating than agreeable.
This happened recently, mind you. This and a mix of other things. Essentially, this past month, she's taken to posting constant feminism and tumblr related crap from Facebook, Tumblr itself, and other assorted media and image websites in our group.
Now, we could potentially just fuck off and form a new group, but that's not what matters here. I mean, we've done it before multiple times for varying reasons, but this is about the principle of the matter.
Lately, she's driven people off because she's become increasingly...ballsy, you could say. I'm not sure if one was driven off by this, but about a month ago I tried to have a conversation about erotic visual novels and Illusion's games, including the then upcoming Artificial Academy 2, with a friend of likeminded interests. No one was holding a conversation at the time, so I thought it was an okay topic to discuss with him openly. She jumped in and told us to stop it, despite hardly being in any position to tell us what to do, both in the group and in the old community hierarchy. She wouldn't stop until I agreed to take it to private chat. I ended up keeping it in the group and she just went silent. A case of attempting to control the flow of conversation. This isn't the first time she's done it and this definitely isn't the first time I've had to deal with these kind of people, online or in real life.
I dunno if this is why he left, but he left the group soon after and, while some of us talk to him on occasion, hasn't returned.
Soon after this, she asked another member if she's a cause of drama and...aggregator of anger, I believe. He told her he gets that vibe from her, and she chased him off in an argument afterwards just 'cause she didn't like the response. He didn't say no, so she wasn't happy.
On top of all of that, she's, past and present, often attempted to usurp the conversation flow to focus more on her or topics she's familiar with.
She's probably the person we've been most lenient with too, ever since we became independent of any core website. The aforementioned newbie, we abandoned the group of and offered him a place in the new one without being the owner of it. Another guy, a total creep, we kind of kicked out. Yet we've kept her around. And it's not like we were lenient with her. There've been periods before where we've in general had enough of her shit and let her know that, but still kept her around.
The reason for that last bit of this wall of text is to explain this simply: she not only still doesn't get it, she's gotten worse with time. Anytime one of us, myself in particular due to regularly having differing opinions than her, so much as disagrees with her she flips her shit or counters that we're naive or we don't know what she does. On some occasions she's outright attacked us for insinuating that she doesn't know what she's talking about.
Now, this past month, she's been doing the above mentioned link crap. Not constant, mind you, like every minute or so. But every ten, or thirty, or sixty minutes, she''ll throw up a link and sometimes a rant. Many times until just recently, when we stopped conversing there almost entirely, she'd do it in the very middle of another discussion. But you couldn't tell her not to, 'cause you know why? She's a stronk gurl and fuck you, that's why.
It's not like all chicks do this type of thing. We have a couple that are rather normal and mellow. But she's one of those real annoying types, and I've heard cases of this type of individual on the net in all kinds of communities and online games and such. It's just really unnecessary and so disappointing.
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