Lies, Damn Lies

Kicking back

Went to see the Motorcycle diaries today. Would very much recommend going to see it- its very good, moving, amusing, and interesting. It paints a very positive picture of Che, but thats really understandable, and it does it in a way that doesn't stink of propoganda (apart from maybe the black and white photo things. Those felt a tiny bit pretentious). Its a really enjoyable film that is definitely worth seeing.

Forums on the internet entertain me. For anyone who regularly posts online, or checks out websites of any kind, you soon learn that any forum that isn't just degenerate spam has, to a lesser or a greater extent, its l33t members, so to speak. They don't necessarily have to have a lot of posts, but they average at about 1,000, and they often hold some kind of position of power. And they are INCREDIBLY hostile to new people to their forum. Honestly, its really quite intimidating. I mean, I'm an admin at www.uff9.net/forums, and people who spam, or post in l33t speak, or post in the wrong forum, irritate me. I'll delete the topic or post and pm them. Some forums, however, they flame them. At one, they actually banned one guy for posting what they decided was a "bad thread". The thing is, is some people are helpless, but a few have never really been to a forum before, so don't really understand it all. I mean, fer crying out loud, no-one reads the fricking rules! You do your best to make people pay attention but when you get down to it no-one can be bothered.

There is this culture of snobbery on the internet. If someone posts something on a topic, whatever the subject may be, that you consider yourself knowledgable in, and you disagree with them, and they make the foolish mistake of not making their argument absolutely water tight, they get taken to pieces! I'm not talking about people posting "INUYASHA SUCKS!" Or something, I'm talking about a post like "I don't really like Inuyasha because its really boring and the animation is kind of poor." The way people defend it you'd imagine they'd written the anime.

Or, rather, they were related to the guy who wrote the anime, and then he died tragically..... Its a little sad really.

Of course, internet debates are the best. The most important thing in a heated internet debate is links. Somehow, your argument isn't credible until you can find some shitty website agreeing with you that you post the link for. Then you're water tight. Of course, if everyone agrees with you on that particular forum, then it is suddenly an accepted argument to simply question your opponents sexuality.

Hmm, this could be partially to do that the average age on forums is below 16, let alone 18. While there are indeed some intelligent teenagers out there, they hide themselves well, prefering to act like snotty know it all shits.


Of course, when I post in a forum, I am perfect.

posted by Mr K @ 11:52 pm