Very well put. I tried doing something like this a few months back, unfortunately, it got very little traction and just about no one took it seriously since the entire thread was written to sound sarcastic as all shit. However, considering the average intelligence of most of the newer users, it didn't even surprise me that half the people took it seriously, 4 people got the actual message of the post, and the rest just sat there like like half the people here who are saying "lol jus don go on teh site kek"
And if I may, I'd like to add to your statement by saying can we please get rid of the current fad of people just trying to be the biggest shitheads on the internet? Of course, I mean that in the sense of people talking like they're a goddamn 12 year old who was struck by a car, and furthermore, in the sense of people offending people for the sake of offending people. I know that the demographic for this site is pretty young, but many of these people have at least been to high school and should actually try to form proper sentences instead of being "lolsorandom" and what they consider "funny". I guess that last statement can kind of go hand-in-hand with this one, because why the -blam!- do people still post shit like stupid troll attempts of people saying stuff like either "-blam!- christianity" or "metal is shit and everyone who listens to it is shit" and subsequently making themselves look like the primeval apes we evolved from who are bescumbering this site. But here's the scary part... some people actually think like this... I don't believe I need to continue with this statement. You can already think about how that needs to stop yourself.
I know you pretty much covered that kind of behavior with one of your points, I just thought I'd go a bit specific on two current stigmas that bother the hell out of me.
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I would like to say it's because of the leniency of the rules. If one of the rules was that your post has to have discussion value, this forum would change immediately.
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[quote] If one of the rules was that your post has to have discussion value, this forum would change immediately.[/quote] [b]I would gladly welcome this. Garbage-tier posts should be reserved for private groups.[/b]