The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[el-remmen]

How can you expect people to actually closely read something you've linked to when they rarely even read what is in the very thread they are commenting on?

 

[el-remmen]

Unrelated, the problem with not following this thread as closely as I sometimes have is that I miss out on imploding threads I may want to check out.

Rubbernecking, it is not just for highway accidents anymore!

 

[Ryujin]

Unrelated, the problem with not following this thread as closely as I sometimes have is that I miss out on imploding threads I may want to check out.

Rubbernecking, it is not just for highway accidents anymore!

Just remember that when rubbernecking, it's best to try and avoid becoming the next accident

 

[darjr]

Oof the “internet” is still very mad at WotC. Wow. My post “over there” wasn’t even positive and I got torn apart.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Oof the “internet” is still very mad at WotC. Wow. My post “over there” wasn’t even positive and I got torn apart.

Twitter The internet is like a play that changes every day. And every day on the internet there is one main character in the play.

The goal is to never be it.

 

[CleverNickName]

Yeah, there's a small (but very loud) handful of people who don't like WotC, never did, never will, and are offended that others feel differently. They wear that hate like a tattered, favorite sweater from 20 years ago: sure it's comfortable and familiar, but not a great look. Not something one would wear in public, much less to a party.

I'm no fan of Hasbro either, but I have other sweaters in the closet. Know what I mean?

 

[J.Quondam]

Yeah, there's a small (but very loud) handful of people who don't like WotC, never did, never will, and are offended that others feel differently. They wear that hate like a tattered, favorite sweater: sure it's comfortable and familiar, but not a great look.

If you replace "WotC" with literally anything (including "literally anything"), then you've basically described our hyper-monetized, hyper-partisan, hyper-ignorant, hyper-hyper modern society, afaict.

 

[CleverNickName]

If you replace "WotC" with literally anything (including "literally anything"), then you've basically described our hyper-monetized, hyper-partisan, hyper-ignorant, hyper-hyper modern society, afaict.

Here on ENWorld, we don't get a lot of polarizing rhetoric about, say, politics or religion (and thank Pelor for that). But dare to mention Wizards of the Coast doing something right and hoo boy....

 

[overgeeked]

Here on ENWorld, we don't get a lot of polarizing rhetoric about, say, politics or religion (and thank Pelor for that). But dare to mention Wizards of the Coast doing something right and hoo boy....

Up until a month ago it was dare to mention anything WotC did wrong and hoo boy...

 

[CleverNickName]

Up until a month ago it was dare to mention anything WotC did wrong and hoo boy...

I'm not so sure. I've been around for a while, and the tone on ENWorld has always felt more anti- than pro-WotC.

I could be wrong; I haven't read every thread, but I've read thousands of them and I noticed that if Wizards of the Coast gets mentioned in a thread at all, it's usually in the form of a complaint. Seems like even if they do the right thing, someone will chime in about how they are doing it for the wrong reasons, or in response to other even more terrible stuff they got caught doing, or etc.

As @J.Quondam points out, this is just Internet culture in a nutshell. It's not meant to be a sweeping criticism of ENWorld in general. Hate-posting always generates more interest (and therefore, more traffic) than the rest.