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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Album Cover X" data-source="post: 1570844" data-attributes="member: 19525">I've lurked on these boards a while and had a previous ID before that. This place is often a great resource.But when a thread like this <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=89305&page=1" target="_blank">one</a> appears some in the community stop being helpful and start making people feel like an outsider. In the thread I've referred to, a poster asked how you pronounce "Drow". Big deal. So the topic has come up a few times. Personally, I don't care how it's pronounced. But a member of this community felt it necessary to ask and I think he or she is entitled to answers of those who wish to respond.If a new poster comes here and begins a thread like "Rangers are underpowered" or "The Magic system needs overhauling" they should be allowed to without being made to feel like they've broken some cardinal rule. It might be this person's first post or first time they ever began a thread. And even tho most of us might have participated or viewed a similar discussion 5, 10, or 100 times, don't we owe it to the person who may never have? They could be brand-new to RPGs and somehow located this site and their first real taste of ENWorld is a bunch of people saying "Oh no. not this again."Before I typed this, there were 67 posts in the aforementioned thread. I count over 10 that basically say "Oh no. not this again." How is that helping anyone except to say, "Hey I've been here longer than you." So big deal - your gold star is in the mail.Honestly, I'm not trying to start a problem. Just trying to show that we all can be more forgiving of new members. If a post has been done to death and you've said all you wanted to about the subject then don't post to it. Let those who haven't get their chance.What's that phrase??? "Nothing new under the sun." It could be argued that every thread has been done before or something similiar.Am I off base in feeling this way???</blockquote>

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