I'm a member of an online anime-based forum site called Gaia Online. This forum site has a bunch of cool features, but I've been particularly interested in the Writer's Forum because of the nice big fact that, well, I b writter an all that jazz.
Forgive me, it's 4:30 AM and I am uncaffeinated.
Anyways, back on track: Why I'm going to hell.
Like all properly-run forum sites, there are Report Thread/Report Post/Submit Report buttons that allow the non-moderator members to submit reports to the moderators about threads that are clearly against the rules of the site, or the rules of the specific forum, or have been clearly posted in the wrong place.
How does this make me a person who deserves to go to hell and stay there for a very long time? Well, I'll tell you, Bob! See, this person posted this up:
K LET ME BREAK IT DOWN FO YA....
A BOY NAMED THOMAS AND HIS FREND MERIBELLE GO TO THE NORTH POLE AND THEY BOTH GET HURT THEY BOTH CAN'T MOVE THOMAS SAVES MERIBELLE BUT DIES FROM SAVING HER...OH HE TELLS HER HE L.O.V.E.S HER....
WAT YA THINK I ROTE IT MY SELF? .
I've quoted it directly. It hasn't been altered in any way. The people who don't read the posting guidelines of the Writer's Forum are just this stupid. The worst ones are the ones who post threads in the wrong forum and then claim that they're in the right forum because it's the writer's forum and they're writers.
Let me break down the writer's forum of Gaia for you. There are two commonly-forgotten subforums called the Original Stories/Prose subforum (used for posting original fiction/essays up for critiques) and the Original Poetry/Lyrics subforum (used for posting original poetry and lyrics up for critiques.) Now, why are these subforums forgotten when they permanently float at the top of the page whenever somebody clicks on the Writer's Forum link from the main Forums navigation page?
Because people are retards. They can't take two minutes out of their day to read the posting guidelines, and they can't take two seconds of their precious time looking at the top of the page in order to see if there's a better place to get critiques on their crappy work - and yes, all of the poetry and stories I report as "Misplaced Threads" are pieces of shit that should've never been created - in fact, the people who created them probably should've never been born in the first place - in fact, I should create a time machine, go back three hundred years, kill their ancestors, and rid the world of them altogether!
No, that's not fair. Everybody deserves a chance to improve. It's just that I hate the stupid people who ignore that chance, even when a bunch of people who know what they're talking about are offering it more than once. Thankfully, I've never encountered this type of person outside the n00bs of the Writer's Forum of Gaia Online.
There's another, special kind of person who manages to slip through the infintessimal cracks of when I'm asleep and when I'm awake and hammering out short stories and mini-porn novels and post bullshit in a forum I genuinely care about.
Yes, I care about a message board on teh internetz. Try not to faint.
If you got that reference, you deserve to be my new best friend.
ANYWAYS! These people post the single-line topics along the lines of "i m aa ritter!"
I'm not joking. That's the sad part. And, thank God, this is where my "I'm going to Hell" bit comes into play.
For the last three days, I've wanted to do nothing but report these topics a Misplaced Threads instead of Spam just so I can put in the "Additional Information About Reported Topic" box:
User has posted original fiction in the main writer's forum by claiming to be a writer. Thread belongs in the Original Stories/Prose subforum.
Soyah. I'm going to hell.
But first, I'm going to bed
Peace.
Alright, I admit I found your blog because I myself am a writer, and browse the Gaia Writers' Forum frequently. In fact, it's one of the only threads I peruse.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think that people have topics like that ("Imma ritter" for example) just to see the type of responses they will get. All they have to do is create a new character to look themselves look like noobs. But you're right, sometimes there are just very illiterate people and you can't even fathom how they got the guts to write something like that in front of genuine writers!!!
I admit though...half the fun of going on Gaia is the drama and seeing all the cyber death threats. You can just sit there and shake your head while an angry individual summons a plague upon your house.
<3 mels