guitarism wrote:QUOTE (guitarism @ Oct 14 2006, 01:20 AM) MadP, I asked for this to stay adult. I would ask that either edit your above post to reflect the idea that your not stirring the pot anymore, or not post in this topic if you can not be adult. Shiz, I would prefer if we not makes this a "this squad does this, that does that" type of thread. Thank you both for being mature and adult like and complying.
i dont think you understand what i am doing.
i am fixing an image, and dispelling a myth. making the communitty a nicer place.
for a very long time XT has had an image of the asshat squad, as shiz said, this is not true. it may have had some, but XT didn't condone it.
whether they were or not didn't matter, they had an image, and thats what counts.
to explain what i am talking about, I'm going to refer you to the spammer image.
pook placed the spammer image on me with a spammer tag, some people believed i was based on the fact i had the tag.
however, i remained quite popular in the community,
new people coming in saw some of my popularity, and also saw the spammer image. they wanted the popularity, and decided they wanted to try and get that image.
for some people, i made spamming cool. (remember golddragon ?)
of course, it worked out badly for them when they deliberately spammed.
now, the same thing happened with XT
they were regarded as the whore squad, quite a strong squad with good players. many players highly respected as players (see my popularity). the also had an image as asshats.
new people (not all) who don't know the community too well will take the first things they hear and believe they are true.
i had people in game asking me what its like to be the best pilot in allegiance after
this poll.
if a new person saw spunky post that A+ is the best and most played core, they will believe them.
if that new person had seen yanlin post that ms1.1 was played more, the new person would post saying, "hang on i was told that 1.1 was the best core"
they do this because they dont have experience or knowledge of the community.
they see the respect some people in XT get, and want to get the same respect and skill.
so they ask someone "what do i have to do to get in XT"
now, the person they ask doesn't really like XT, and they say "you have to be an asshat, noob beater, and boot people randomly for fun when you comm"
the new person may not believe everything said, but will then think they do need to do a little bit of that.
eventually they do work on their asshat image, and then, allegiance has one more asshat, just because of what they saw on the forums, or on fox or on magazines where people are airbrushed and they want to look like them...
ok, not everyone is effected in the same way as posted above, but
some people are.
whether xt are asshats or not does not come into it, some people have given them that image.
it is that image i am trying to fix.
what i was looking for posting about xt was to get a post saying "xt does not condone asshattery, we are not the asshat squad"
well, this is what i got:
shiz wrote:We have never pursued this, at least since I've been in it
<and in post 2>:
XT, to my knowledge never has been for the asshat image as a whole. There are members who pursue it, and as long as it doesn't do any serious harm everyone else in the squad doesn't care. We don't constrain our members over minor things like other squads do, and that's probebly what gives off the image.
i am trying to make the community a nicer place. i am not trying to insult anyone or and squad, i ma not trying to stir the pot or fan the embers.
i am trying to see if i can make some images more representative of what they really are, not what various myths and rumor have made them.
some people have given XT an image of asshats
i like quite a few members of XT, and i wouldn't count them as asshats
i am trying to fix their image by dispelling myths, so that new people may not get swayed by that which is not true.
right. next topic of discussion.
sometimes locking threads is necessary.
i don't like totally silencing people, do advocate the right to speak and freedom of speech.
that's why i partly agreed that some of the thread locking going on was a bit over the top, and some deletions were unnecessary. (i did dis-agree about the insulting the admins, it wasn't the way to go about voicing your thoughts, and it wouldn't achieve anything productive)
now, for the
"the admins own the servers and the forums, they are god, they can do what ever they want"
i both agree and dis-agree with this
yes, they own the servers and
can do whatever they want, and we have no right to complain
but, they cant go around doing what they want, its just not [n]nice[/b], and i feel people should have a right to complain and criticize.
ok, we have truth (yes) vs opinion (but), so technically truth overrides opinion, so i have come up with this:
the admins can do what they want; however, if what they want is to have a nice community, they must;
listen to criticisms, let people speak out against them (within reason) and not abuse power.
who will guard the guards?
the people (who the guards guard will guard the guards.) will
