Opinion Poll: SW

Hawt n' Horne, fear not. Post count does not really have any bearing on validity of one's discussion points here in the discussion board. The issue with our banned emo friend was expressed through post count, but this was not the real issue.

The real issue is that he had his head up his ass. Now read me out: my job is determined on how well I can keep a customer believing I have my head out of my ass. IRL, I'm a contract engineer specializing in coal powered utilities. When something breaks that has broken consistently for too long and maintenance is sure there is a better way to do it, they call people like me in to engineer a better solution. Problem is, I've usually never seen the equipment, and usually know diddly about it.

My job is doing what the emo guy tried to do for AFW.

First thing is you read up on the subject and figure it out. He might have done this.

Then you actually get greasy and watch it operate by shadowing an operator. You need to feel it be immersed in it, so that you see for yourself the issues the operator is communicating to you. This is where our emo friend failed. He had never jumped in the pool, never dipped a toe in... then tried to tell us the temperature.

His failing was not from a small amount of experience: It was his lack of experience.

It didn't help that he got pissy with anegge in the roster forum, either.

Pity, I might have liked that emo guy. Guess Raiye-mun will have to do...

Emos aren't people. They should be burnt in public pyres.

^_^

...maybe it's just me, but I don't see what he did in this thread that was so bad? O.o

He may have a lack of experience, but I don't think he was acting like an ass or anything, just giving a newcomer's point of view at things, and I honestly think you guys overreacted a bit on him...

I worried about that, because I really try not to be a jerk to people. It takes conscious effort for me. I just thought that he was speaking a little out of turn... he clearly wasn't really familiar with the site, and if it were me, at least out of respect, I'd observe and learn first before trying to tell people what's wrong with it. I thought I was gentle enough, but maybe it didn't come off that way. I guess the "your criticism would carry more weight if you had experience with the site" line is what did it for him. Still, I felt like if anyone overreacted it was his response to my post, because I'm not sure what I 'did to him'.

Oh well. I'll do better next time.

I think people should have taken it less as 'He has no experience, his opinion shouldn't count' and more 'He's new, these are his first impressions of Sex Wars, is this really how new people see the subforum?'

Right, right, but there were a few lines that came off pretty snotty to me. And the fact that he seemed offended that male characters lost matches irked me. "Seems like the spirit of competition isn't really something that some care about." or "But if things are really going to improve, I'd say that it might need stricter moderation. A bit organization would do it good. Also, it may be good to make it a bit more story driven." and about fixing the "male jobber issue".

First impressions, yes, you can't argue with someone's impressions of something, but as the person giving them you can certainly try to give them respectfully. If he did and I'm the crazy one then I apologize to emo guy, wherever he is. It's happened before.

[quote="Bluemouse":50eqiu9t] And the fact that he seemed offended that male characters lost matches irked me. "Seems like the spirit of competition isn't really something that some care about."