Comments | elfinpiper: This just in: People on the Internet SUCK!

elfinpiper

This just in: People on the Internet SUCK!

Jun 04, 2010 02:28

I hate the CBR forums. Hate, hate, hate. I hate them as much as the haters love to hate. 9__9 They give comic book fans a bad rep. In fact, they are the bad rep. If someone's only experience with comic book fans was with these guys, I wouldn't blame them for a second for believing Western comics are weirdass crap.

( IN B4 'BUT OMG MAH FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!' )

rant, x-men

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cyntosis June 4 2010, 16:15:39 UTC

CBR's pretty bad as far as comic book forums go, but what really irks me about it is that these people should know better. They're mostly adults and yet they act like whiny 13-year old bullies. I try to stay out of any of those threads because you'd just end up fuelling the fire. But since I don't take people who insult people's avatars (!) to support their claims seriously and I frequent worse boards I can shrug the whole deal off pretty easily. Still, you'd think that when a bunch of people come together on a forum to discuss comics, they'd do it civilly and make sure everyone's having a good time. But most threads are just depressive nagging ( ... )

elfinpiper June 4 2010, 20:54:26 UTC

Hi Koni :) Nice to see you! May I LJ-friend you ( ... )

cyntosis June 4 2010, 22:57:36 UTC

Sure, I'll friend you back. Don't really "do" much around here though, I got DA for that. And I see we kinda share studies (English/Dutch Literature/Linguistics here) and a favourite book (God of Small Things ( ... )

elfinpiper June 5 2010, 01:29:50 UTC

Linguistics and languages are fascinating. And "The God of Small Things" is just such an amazing book!

DA is a lot of fun too. I'm an LJ addict, but I still go to DA every day to expand my collection of 'Crawler pictures.

There's definitely good things about CBR. I've mostly calmed down now. Yesterday it was just like if you made a comment it would go viral, and you'd be ostracized. There was so much debate and harassment going on. But it's back to normal now, still not my favorite attitude, but like you said, the fact that CBR gathers fans of all different books makes for some interesting discussions. When they don't go overboard.

I like to stay out of it. I'd just get trampled anyway.

People have "barged" into this journal before, and they've been a lot less welcome than you :P I'm glad you did, you also helped to calm me down.

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parsimonia June 6 2010, 02:46:19 UTC

Hi there, have you ever been to noscans_daily or scans_daily?

We're pretty friendly and both communities enforce rules about personal attacks, derailing, sexism, etc.

elfinpiper June 8 2010, 17:00:21 UTC

Thanks, I have been to scans_daily, it's an awesome comm. That's good to know.