ENWorld = whiners arguing ?

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

When I first started posting a few years ago, I was torn. On one hand, people were willing to answer questions from "n00bs" but there was still a faction of people who would put you down or say something mean-spirited. I didn't really start posting frequently until last year when I kind of created a niche for myself.

For every person that is out there welcoming people, there are those that want to push them away. It just takes a little patience and the willingness to gloss over those you don't agree with to really immerse yourself in the EN World community.

Well, as has been already said, that's the internet. No matter how good a place, that kind of thing is going to happen everywhere in one form or another. People just come to the internet to be negative far more than positive.

As for the Story Hour forum...there have only been two problems in my memory there(ask a mod, but I know for a fact that Brother Shatterstone talks constantly about how little he's ever, every had to even look in that forum) that were problems. And those problems rose from creative differences between the players and whoever was writing the game down...NEVER, have I seen someone come in and say "That sucks!"

Because, really, are you going to read all that gets written there if it sucks? Bah! Of course not. Just pass it over and find something else. There may be whiners everywhere, but ENWorld doesn't tolerate jerks that come in and flame like that.

 

[jaerdaph]

...but enough about the publishers...

*rimshot*

 

[EricNoah]

There's also a pretty genuine difference between the tone in General and the tone in Rules. I think if someone visited Rules first they might get a different taste of EN World.

 

[eris404]

Do you think there's any truth in that statement? How do you think non-regulars, or new visitors see this place? <snip> Is that what you see in story hour threads?

Yes, negativity pops up from time to time, but not nearly as much as I've seen on other boards that I won't mention.

I don't know how they got the impression that posters would bash a story hour! I'll admit I was nervous to start posting one here myself, but that was because of my own lack of confidence, not because of anyone here. No one has posted anything negative in any story hour I have read, including my own. (So, if you still want to start one, I'd say do it!)

 

[reveal]

There's also a pretty genuine difference between the tone in General and the tone in Rules. I think if someone visited Rules first they might get a different taste of EN World.

That's the smartest thing I've ever heard anyone say about anything.

 

[SpiderMonkey]

EN World is basically the only message board I frequent (and is definitely the only one I post on), because of the lack of whining. Yes, some of the debates get heated, but c'mon: try reading the wotc boards for more than half an hour before you're overcome with the desire to tear your keyboard apart with a claw hammer. I dare ya. I love my EN World, and with my schedule the way it is, ENW is the only gaming site I have time for anymore.

I will concede that I stopped going to the rules forum for the reasons that HeapThaumaturgist pointed out; I'm not much of a rules person anyway, so it wasn't much of a loss.

Pretty much everything I've read in the SH forum, from the actual stories to the posts, have been posititive; so Q, I don't see why your group would have a problem with that request in particular.

 

[jaerdaph]

There's also a pretty genuine difference between the tone in General and the tone in Rules. I think if someone visited Rules first they might get a different taste of EN World.

I think everyone should visit "off topic" first just to see what a great bunch of kind and caring people hang out here.

 

[Bastoche]

I've been on the 3 (or 4) version of ENworld since before 3E was out. I left for some real life reasons about 2-3 years ago and just returned.

My impression is that either my view of the game/board has changed or the regulars changed. There's way too many threads about trivial things that should never be discussed on a message board IMO. Here is not the place to find the solution to your gaming problems as insignificant (or significant) they may be. Here is the place to hear about new d20 products and (house) rules of the game.

We are not the ones who will tell you how to tame the trouble player or wise up the stubborn DM.

To a newcomer, such thread can very well be seen as whining (I know I do). Plus the the WOTC sucks! and/or 4E threads, etc.... This place aint what it used to be IMO.

 

[Jdvn1]

I think everyone should visit "off topic" first just to see what a great bunch of kind and caring people hang out here.

Technically, the Welcome Thread accomplishes that. Not that anyone sticks around there.

 

[wedgeski]

I don't get it. Besides, in the couple of years I've been posting here the general tone has stayed the same: civil, with the odd passionate outburst, and just a smattering of posts/posters barely worth getting annoyed about. The thread repetition rate *is* very high (4e, 'problem players', 'funniest this that and the other') but this is a message board, it happens.