Interesting post.
Thanks for giving me an inside look from behind TJ's eyes. Sometimes it has seemed to me that there were 2 TJs in front of the keyboard.
Kudos to you for trying to better yourself. Whilst we have not always seen eye to eye on things, I hope that we will continue to have mutual respect for one another and I hope you one day reconsider your own prohibition on posting on the Justice subforum.
Best of luck on everything you do and see you on Justice.
Hmm. Posting on forums is overrated anyway.
Quote:
are you sure it's not a NEMESIS PLOT!
|
Originally Posted by ZARTAIN
|
On Justice
Global @Desi Nova Twitter: @desi_nova Steam: Desi_nova. I don't do Xbox or PS3
tl;dr
Cho the Fro -- F I N -- ShuTheFrontDoor-- Whosenwatcher -- RoboCho -- Don Wanton -- Wonder Cho - Spam Man - Cho - Dupa - Shelitababy - Emo'd - Flossy - Soviet Garden - Choalee - zaploid - Ko'Tain - Frine - Trower - Choake - Mr. Trashy - i r n00b - Mr. Class E - Mr. Stabbens - Beta Cay
Quote:
I see your pepsi ad, and I raise you A Van Halen
|
Originally Posted by _Cai_
|
On Justice
Global @Desi Nova Twitter: @desi_nova Steam: Desi_nova. I don't do Xbox or PS3
Quote:
Communities, just as life, are in a state of constant change. To deny that is to deny the possibility of growth or atrophy.|
Originally Posted by KestrelBlue
Understandably, it's hard to have a conversation about a lack of worthwhile communication on a video game community when the person who posits the question isn't going to read the responses, but all the same... It's not just Justice forum, and you're not the only one feeling that way lately.
|
Some adapt, some do not. There's no inherent judgement in that fact.
Support the Mentor Project - http://tinyurl.com/citymentorproject
[JFA2010]Mod08: And I will strike down upon thee (enrious) with great vengence and .... oh wait wrong script
@enrious, @sardonicism, @MyLexiConIsHugeSon
If you haven't joined a global channel, you're not really looking for team.
Quote:
Communities are very much like a locking ladder, just when you think it's locked in place... well, I think this link does a better job of explaining it:|
Originally Posted by enrious2
Communities, just as life, are in a state of constant change. To deny that is to deny the possibility of growth or atrophy.
Some adapt, some do not. There's no inherent judgement in that fact. |
Communities = locking ladders
It has been, in retrospect, an interesting ~ 5½ years here in the Justice forums.
However, most things change, and not always in a way that is viewed as positive by all people. In fact, out of 100 people it could be that only 1 does not view the changes as positive. This may or may not be one of those cases.
No, I'm not leaving the game, so this isn't an "I Quit" post. In fact, I'm going to make every effort to make sure that no forum rules are broken in this post.
The Justice Forums used to be my first stop when I opened my browser after getting home from work. The community here was what kept me laughing, kept me sane (well, given what you had to work with), and kept me informed of the various events going on. When I lost my Dad, my friends here on the forums and in the game offered support and comfort that few RL friends could match. In many ways, some of you are people I consider to be as close (or closer in some cases) as family.
Sadly, that is no longer the case for me. There are times when I don't even click the tab with the Justice forums on it for a few days, and that is a huge change for me. What used to feel much like a family now feels much less like one.
I've tried to change several things about me during the past year, and in several cases I've been rather successful. Unfortunately, there are a few things I've had little success in trying to change. I stopped drinking after the first HeroCon, stopped smoking in May and I've been trying to be a bit more of a social creature rather than staying a solitary creature. I decided at some point during the past year to empty my Global Ignore list and my forum ignore list and give people a second chance. Aside from one person who was added to my global ignore list for a couple of months and spammers, my global ignore list has remained relatively empty. The only current residents of the gignore list are spammers, so in some ways I've been a bit more tolerant. Of course, leaving JFA when it was getting full for Diet JFA has kept me from seeing much of the global chatter that I used to see, so my tolerance may not be as improved as I'd hoped. Becoming a more social creature is still a work in progress, but I fear that I'll soon be taking a rather large step backwards in that regard. But I'll get to that later.
Many people consider me a huge Dev supporter, and in many ways that is true. I've even been accused of brown-nosing by some. What most of you fail to realize is that there have been plenty of things I haven't agreed with, I've just kept my complaints to PM's and posts in the appropriate Training Room threads or Beta threads if it is a Beta I was invited to. And except for one item, once the change hit the Live servers I've stopped discussing the matter at all on the forums. There are only a few that I comment on in Private channels in the game, and only when it's brought up by others first. There are some things that the Devs have done that I have no feelings on one way or another because it is something that doesn't interest me and has no effect on my gameplay, even peripherally. There is one Dev in particular that I'm known to be a fan of and I readily admit to liking his posting style and sense of humor. It also helps that he's a Justice player. Of course, to the best of my knowledge there's only 1 change that I know he's been involved with that I don't like completely, and that's more of a socialization change to the encounter than anything else.
Now, this past summer, some forum members were accusing me of being prejudiced and I never could seem to get an explanation from any of them as to what my supposed prejudice was. I found out several months later what it was, and my immediate response was to laugh. I had to laugh because it showed how little these few people actually know about me and my friends. I also had to laugh at how much they had to stretch to construe a comment I made as being even remotely prejudicial. The anger came later. I have suspicions that the problem they had with me was actually related to a different matter (and post) entirely and a few semi-related threads, but they'll forever remain just suspicions. Nevertheless, the accusations of my being prejudiced remained with no explanation that I saw. It's possible that someone that didn't know me saw the accusations and believed they were true. It's possible that these accusations were repeated in the game and someone that didn't know me saw it and believed it to be true. Both of these possibilities bother me greatly, especially since the accusations were completely false and groundless.
For a while it seemed that I was being attacked with every post I made, no matter what thread it was in. Some were in the threads, some were in Rep comments, and there were even some comments made in the game. It got to the point that I wasn't wanting to post in any threads in the Justice Forums and then the Rep comments started showing up on month old posts in other sections of the forums when my posts here slowed down. I started staying completely hidden in the game again, just to try to avoid comments from others, but still would see things said in local that were directed at me as well. I started trying to just ignore the chat windows, but would inevitably miss seeing something that I needed to see so I gave up on that process.
During the summer, we also had a change from the old UBB forums to the vBulletin forums. Having had a small exposure to vBulletin once before, I had a bit of a head-start on where to look for information, and that combined with some sleep problems gave me a lot of time to dig into the forum software features and figure out how to do some of the things people were asking about the most. I tried being helpful in pointing people to posts with the information or with the actual information if I had it, and most people seemed appreciative of the efforts some on the forums were making to try to make it a smoother transition. Unfortunately, some people are going to be negative no matter what you do, so it didn't really surprise me when I got comments about me trying to be a "know it all" about the new forum software. In most cases, I just considered the source, even if that source was anonymous. But it still gets discouraging when people try to help others in the community and are castigated for it.
Around this same time, I was getting very frustrated in my limited dealings with an individual, and wrote them off as someone I'd do my best to avoid when possible. Later discussions led me to believe that I may have misjudged this individual so I revised my impressions of them and decided to ignore the previous dealings as an aberration on both of our parts as well as a lack of clear communication. Recent events have caused me to go back to my previous thoughts and impressions, and they aren't really pleasant thoughts so I'll just leave it at that.
I've had several instances this year of people not understanding what I'd said in a post, even though it was stated very clearly. I've even had people not associated with the game read the posts and give me their interpretation of what I'd said and it always matched up with what I'd written, so I'm at a loss to explain why people aren't understanding it. When you add in the frustrations from the other things listed here, it's made me a bit less willing to continue trying to reword things and explain myself in different terms to say the same things. Of course, I get those same frustrations trying to explain things at work, and usually the people with the most problems comprehending clear and detailed instructions are ... gasp ... English and Reading teachers. People tell me I've gotten less tolerant of people not understanding what I write over the past couple of years, so I'd assume that lack of tolerance is bleeding over into the forums as well. Sorry, you get caught in the backwash of me working with edumacators combined with my cranky old man attitude.
All of these things have been rather unsettling at the least, and when you combine them it has left me with a reluctance to post on the Justice forums and even a reluctance to read the posts on the Justice forums. I've been thinking about this for a while, and I've decided it's time for me to just step away entirely from the Justice forums. This will effectively end my posting entirely except for testing results. I'll still be reading the Dev Digest and Community Digest, so at least a part of my routine will be unchanged.
The timing of this is unfortunate due to the influx of new players on Justice with the free server transfers, but I feel it's best if I just step away now rather than dragging this out any longer. It wasn't an easy decision to make, but it's one I won't vary from.
I won't be reading responses to this post, PM's about it will be ignored with the exception of the staff, and in-game comments or questions will also be ignored. If you happen to have my contact information for an outside social networking site, please don't ask about it there either, it'll only get you blocked and I'd rather not do that.
See you in the game.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.