Class People, Class

The QotW video got posted. Somehow I got put into it. Kinda cool. Reading the comment thread? Not cool.

This is the internet. People will be jerks about anything. It's a fact of life. One needs look no further than /b/.  I also understand where people are coming from--Jeff, Ryan, Brad, and Vinny are the reason many come to this fine site.

However, to be so negative, so angry, so violent, and so personal in opposition of an attempt by them to include the community to a greater degree? It's straight depressing and kind of unsettling. C'mon people, we're better than this.

The QotW video got posted. Somehow I got put into it. Kinda cool. Reading the comment thread? Not cool.

This is the internet. People will be jerks about anything. It's a fact of life. One needs look no further than /b/.  I also understand where people are coming from--Jeff, Ryan, Brad, and Vinny are the reason many come to this fine site.

However, to be so negative, so angry, so violent, and so personal in opposition of an attempt by them to include the community to a greater degree? It's straight depressing and kind of unsettling. C'mon people, we're better than this.

My thoughts exactly. People seem to be forgetting that this is a community driven site, and so the staff will attempt to involve us occassionally. If people don't like that, then I don't know what to say.

However, to be so negative, so angry, so violent, and so personal in opposition of an attempt by them to include the community to a greater degree? It's straight depressing and kind of unsettling."

"Anyway, I'm going to start banning people who think they can get away with being abusive to other members.  I think we're all better off without them."

I said this in the comment thread already so I'll just copy and paste it here:

"MB said:

"Anyway, I'm going to start banning people who think they can get away with being abusive to other members.  I think we're all better off without them."

Best news I've heard all day.
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...and by the 50+ comments after those of people being all SCREW THE HATERS.

People were hating on the members huh? I think it's great that the guys are involving us in the videos and more so the community as a whole.

I think my comment on the video sums up my thoughts on this issue perfectly: "I quite enjoyed this video. To all the people complaining about it, you don't have to like every single feature a site has. The point is that some people like it, and that's fine. If it's not your thing, then just don't watch them in the future. There's no need to be jerks about it."

I find it funny that the community complains the Staff don't do enough activities to get the community and them involved and taking part in an activity on the site. And when they do extend that opportunity and some of the users on this site take the chance to be apart of it. The rest of you decide to go and shit on them for it.

It takes a lot of courage to actually produce a video and express an opinion on something over the internet. Not many people are comfortable about letting others see what they look, act and sound like and when they do actually show this the last thing they want is to be insulted by the rest of you.

So what would the community rather have? Activities like this where barely anyone is willing to take part because they can't be bothered seeing other people's offensive comments or a community that is willing to take part in this stuff and provide fun, entertainment and food for thought?

I know I would rather see a lot more of the community be willing to take time and be apart of these sort of activities than to see people unwilling to do so because the rest of the community can't understand how to be civil.

Pro tip for you all. GiantBomb has two major rules

1.) Use common sense.
2.) Don't be a dick.

A number of you broke both of those with your comments over the KZ2 question video replies. Now we try to be relaxed here when we moderate, we really really do. But if the community cannot be civil to one another, cannot abide by those two simple rules (as well as the other rules in the FAQ) then maybe we'll have to start cracking the whip a little more until people listen?

To those fine folks who took part in this then congratulations and well done! Don't be disheartened from doing so in the future!

Well said Hamz. Very well said.

Well, I'm loving how the staff are involving themselves and the community so much in their videos, I guess the only reason I the video niggled me was because I'm too terrified to get involved.

Don't even worry about it mate, I long ago stop caring about what fools on the internet think. I thought the video was OK although there is definite room for improvement - not from you, you did what was asked of you. I think the structure could be greatly improved, also they could have raised awareness by promoting it on the bombcast or something. I didn't know it was happening otherwise I might have sent in my own.

I agree completely.  I was a bit disappointed by it all and wrote a blog post on it.  Since then, I've realised that these people are in the minority at this site.  A lot of users were much more positive, or at least refrained from being jerks, in their comments.  A few more objected to the more personal and downright rude comments.

Congratulations on getting your video included!

every internet meme in the universe originated form /b/ at one point...

ALso i have never ever really seen hate on this site except to comicvine users (for some strange strange reason. i guess humans will be humans... puny humans)

"every internet meme in the universe originated form /b/ at one point..."

I wanted to post a video but get discouraged whenever I hear news like this.

"every internet meme in the universe originated form /b/ at one point..."

"crunchUK said:

"every internet meme in the universe originated form /b/ at one point..."

Lot's of sites (including giant bomb) have memes that are specific to their site. Not all memes are from /b/.
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"crunchUK said:

"every internet meme in the universe originated form /b/ at one point..."

crunch, you realise that you're not cool or hip for browsing that place, don't you?"

"MattyFTM said:

"crunchUK said:

"every internet meme in the universe originated form /b/ at one point..."

Lot's of sites (including giant bomb) have memes that are specific to their site. Not all memes are from /b/.
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ok then, all the international internet memes originated from /b/ at one point
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"crunchUK said:

"MattyFTM said:

"crunchUK said:

"every internet meme in the universe originated form /b/ at one point..."

Lot's of sites (including giant bomb) have memes that are specific to their site. Not all memes are from /b/.
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ok then, all the international internet memes originated from /b/ at one point
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Elaborate on what this 'international internet' is.
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/b/ is ridiculous. It's a troll's wet dream. I got on Giantbomb to get away from all the other forums that were just turning into trolling grounds. I hope there's a crazy zero tolerance policy with these bans. People who want to treat everything like it's 4chan should just stay there.

It was extremely disappointing to see the comments. Sadly, I think alot of people conformed, and were strayed by popular opinion.

So what if it was awkward? For some of those guys it may have been there first video ever.

I want all those haters to TAPE themselves for the first time, and realize that its not as easy as you would think to be normal in front of a camera.

You did a great job btw, great to put a face to the name :)

MB is going to drop the BAN HAMMER on you fools.

I, personally, have a Ban Sceptre.  If I recall correctly, Hamz has a Ban Trident.

"/b/ is ridiculous. It's a troll's wet dream. I got on Giantbomb to get away from all the other forums that were just turning into trolling grounds. I hope there's a crazy zero tolerance policy with these bans. People who want to treat everything like it's 4chan should just stay there."

" If I recall correctly, Hamz has a Ban Trident."

"MB is going to drop the BAN HAMMER on you fools.

I, personally, have a Ban Sceptre.  If I recall correctly, Hamz has a Ban Trident.
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