The tone of a lot of newer users is extremely harsh and with no apparent concern of making posts that are not filled with all manner of explicit insults or general douchbaggery.
I think we could blame the webteam for these.
Sure they didn't post them, but they enable it. This leads back into the whole discussion of B.old to B.next, but it is fundamentally where it all fell apart.
Until the web team see fit to actually do something more than self moderation tools (which effectively do very little to quell this very problem), and reinstate ACTUAL rules with REAL enforcement, it will never improve. B.net will continue to degrade and decline because new people are seeing HOW NOT to act on this site, and as long as they see it being ok, then they will adopt the same mentality, furthering the problem.
Reporting only does so much if no one cares to do it when it is obviously needed.
Misuse of reporting as in this case where they close a non-abusive thread should also be addressed.
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Edited by XephyrHawk: 3/2/2015 10:32:31 PMI am finding that the community now does not care as much it is as nice as the launch community, i only hope they return for house of wolves
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Edited by Smarkdow: 3/2/2015 6:40:54 PMI'm inclined to agree. The state of the community post-site redesign is the worst I've ever seen it in my 7 years here. While the community has always been influenced by other sites like 4chan, bungie.next at times seems like 4chan lite. The lack of enforceable rules has created an atmosphere where this sort of behavior isn't just prevalent, it's [i]encouraged[/i] by the rest of the community. I know DeeJ's response would usually just be "Mute and move on", but hiding the problem doesn't solve the problem. It's like a home repairman telling someone with a broken window to just put duct tape over it. It doesn't really address the issue. And the hostile, harsh, vile state of this community is bungie.net's biggest issue right now.
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[quote]I know DeeJ's response would usually just be "Mute and move on", but hiding the problem doesn't solve the problem. It's like a home repairman telling someone with a broken window to just duct tape over it. It doesn't really address the issue. And the hostile, harsh, vile state of this community is bungie.net's biggest issue right now.[/quote] That's exactly how I see it too.