How to Avoid Causing/Being the Subject of Forum Drama

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The Knife's Husbando said:
Cannibalism: This place eats its young when they get bored. Are you prone to saying stupid shit while drunk/high? Are you a thin-skinned SJW otherkin? Do you moonlight as a Tumblr special snowflake? Do you have a large collection of really weird fetish porn stashed on another site? Do you have a lot of sacred cows and skeletons in the closet? If the answer is "Yes" to any of these, then either hide that shit really well and never mention it, or better yet- walk away. Right now. It will be found, and you will be laughed at.
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you forgot bronies
 
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This place eats its young when they get bored. Are you prone to saying stupid shit while drunk/high? Are you a thin-skinned SJW otherkin? Do you moonlight as a Tumblr special snowflake? Do you have a large collection of really weird fetish porn stashed on another site? Do you have a lot of sacred cows and skeletons in the closet? If the answer is "Yes" to any of these, then either hide that shit really well and never mention it, or better yet- walk away. Right now. It will be found, and you will be laughed at.
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Pfffft, this describes most of the people here...
 
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Witlich said:
Avoid necroing threads ought to be on there. I've done that several times already without meaning to.
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In my opinion it's okay to occasionally necro threads. But before you do, you have to ask yourself two questions: A. Is this relevant? And, B. Does this add quality content?

An example of "good" necroing is "The Official Paintball Thread". It was started in early 2014, some people talked a bit, and then it petered out. Okay. Dead thread. No problem. Fast forward to 2015. I get pointed to it after mentioning I just got into paintball in chat one day. I post some pics, get some new folks into the thread to talk, post their pics, and we all add new quality content to an old thread. Good deal IMO.

An example of "bad" necroing is bumping/commenting to the "A Feminine Pad" thread. That deal is done and over with. Dude is never going to show up here again, and unless you have any new and relevant information about what the pad dude is doing online/IRL, don't post. A whole page of "OMG so weird!" and "LMFAO! Gross!" Is tedious as hell to read, and frankly pointless.
 
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  1. Everything Dynastia says is shit, except for that one time. If you weren't here for that one time, don't worry about it, because it will not be repeated. If it bugs you, ignore it and don't let it ruin your day.
  2. Dynastia is in fact a beautiful and voluptuous woman with flaming red hair and sultry come-hither eyes. This is God's own truth. If she starts hitting on you, you are the luckiest of men. Feel free to tell her all your innermost secrets.
  3. Null's kind of a dick. But he's our dick. Null has a stressful job, and it's all our fault, and he's going to take it out on us and we will love him for it and beg for more. If you don't like it, go somewhere else and make your own forum with blackjack and hookers.
  4. If you do make your own forum, don't tell us. We don't care. Unless there are actual and literal hookers. We like hookers.
  5. Actually, if you leave, just go. Chances are we didn't notice you were here and no one will notice you left. Don't make a post telling us all why you're leaving because chances are the only response you'll get will be Cat posting the word "bai."
  6. This is my own personal rule, but it's kept me in good standing so far: if it takes you longer than ten minutes to write up your thoughts on something, your thoughts are probably shit and not worth hearing. Ten minutes is time enough for us to have moved on to an entirely different subject. Keep up or get out. If you get out, see #5.
  7. Don't decide that a lolcow is your personal nemesis. Don't get attached to the lolcow. Do not convince yourself that you and you alone are the one person who can actually make a difference, positive or negative, in the lolcow's behavior. If you find yourself being sucked into the lolcow's nebula of crazy, you need to step away from the lolcow.
  8. For fuck's sake, don't powerlevel unless it is funny or relevant. If you're not sure if it's funny or relevant, chances are that it's neither.
 
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The Knife said:
Don't decide that a lolcow is your personal nemesis. Don't get attached to the lolcow. Do not convince yourself that you and you alone are the one person who can actually make a difference, positive or negative, in the lolcow's behavior. If you find yourself being sucked into the lolcow's nebula of crazy, you need to step away from the lolcow.
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This is wisdom. Remember when you almost had to physically restrain me from ripping Tyce a new virtual asshole because of his crappy knife reviews.
 
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The Knife's Husbando said:
An example of "good" necroing is "The Official Paintball Thread". It was started in early 2014, some people talked a bit, and then it petered out. Okay. Dead thread. No problem. Fast forward to 2015. I get pointed to it after mentioning I just got into paintball in chat one day. I post some pics, get some new folks into the thread to talk, post their pics, and we all add new quality content to an old thread. Good deal IMO.
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Another example of a good necro is going to a years old Chris thread named something like "what if barb died?" and posting something like "i hope fatty shits himself".
 
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Jon-Kacho said:
Another example of a good necro is going to a years old Chris thread named something like "what if barb died?" and posting something like "i hope fatty shits himself".
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You post one, I'll post the other, whoever gets the most negatives wins.
 
The Knife's Husbando said:
Put on your armor: While the majority of the users and staff here are chill as hell, they are a few folks who come here just to fuck with people. Some of them do it lightheartedly for fun, some do not. You have been warned. They're not here to laugh at Lolcows, they're here to make people chimp out and laugh at them. The topic is irrelevant. They're going to look for buttons. They're going to find them, and they're going to push them. Guess what? If you let them get to you they are winning. No, they are. They don't care about the debate subject or "winning" the argument. They don't care about factual accuracy or logic. Every angry text wall you throw at them not only makes them laugh more, but also puts you one step further down the road to going full-frontal Halal, which is a place no one wants to go.
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Forgive me for asking, but does such a simple thing really require an explanation so detailed? It should be common sense not to take a bait, yet I've already run into a few individuals who fail to heed this. I believe an explanation won't solve the problem, especially one so lengthy a common user won't take the time to read.
 
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Davey Vezír Otter said:
I believe an explanation won't solve the problem, especially one so lengthy a common user won't take the time to read.
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I think most "common users" wouldn't even bother clicking on this subforum, much less this thread. Half of the stuff said in here is preaching to the choir and won't ever reach the ears of the people whom it is directed to. :(
 
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Davey Vezír Otter said:
Forgive me for asking, but does such a simple thing really require an explanation so detailed? It should be common sense not to take a bait, yet I've already run into a few individuals who fail to heed this. I believe an explanation won't solve the problem, especially one so lengthy a common user won't take the time to read.
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IMO it is. Because simply put- Common sense isn't common. One of our users here- while he's an excellent LOLcow herder, has a fishhook graphic superimposed over every post he makes, because 99% of them are bait-posts. And it still doesn't help. People still chomp onto his posts. Hell, I've done it myself before, and I've been here quite a while.

If people don't read the instructions, A.K.A. lurk more, and then screw up- it's their own fault.
 
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The Knife's Husbando said:
IMO it is. Because simply put- Common sense isn't common. One of our users here- while he's an excellent LOLcow herder, has a fishhook graphic superimposed over every post he makes, because 99% of them are bait-posts. And it still doesn't help. People still chomp onto his posts. Hell, I've done it myself before, and I've been here quite a while.

If people don't read the instructions, A.K.A. lurk more, and then screw up- it's their own fault.
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@LikeicareKF think you've got a fan.

You should then include links to important instructions in the registration form or somewhere they're bound to see it.
 
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