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However. It's not the site which is the reason why people turn their heads to this place. It's us. -well. it's some of us.
Some of our attitudes are downright disgusting. Shit posting everywhere, in jokes which all sound offensive to an outside observer and a great lack of engaging conversations. It's just things like "ur opinion sucks". No wonder people get scared off. I don't blame them.
Recently, Even I wanted out. I almost left for good. I'm not naming names but some of you drive me nuts. This is not how a community should interact with each other. If you want to be a nasty fuck, go to Reddit or something.
I want this to be the place Oddworld fans interact and discuss the games. Nowadays this place is just an excuse to post shit. Now I'm not saying off-topic isn't a bad thing, I love the off-topic section. But it always seems like if there isn't any Oddworld related stuff. We might as well shit post everywhere.
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My feelings exactly...
To me the biggest problem with this place is that it is full of assholes posting shit everywhere. I don't like it but lets face it this forum stayed alive for years because of them interacting in the off-topic discussion. You just had to look where the activity was during the long period between SW and NnT.
We've had regularly discussions with the other mods about trying to clean the place up, the conclusion that was almost always reached was that it would just drive the last remaining users away.
So yeah we kind of let it rot away (at least some of us did). But I want you to know that as a mod of the Oddworld Discussion part of the forum it's very hard when you realise that the best reactivity (and even reputation) is achieved by posting stupid off-topic jokes.
So now, quite unexpectedly Oddworld is back and generates new fans. Which should have been a good thing but they were driven away by the asshole jokes and sheer negativity of some members. (even an Oddworld Community manager fled this place because of it). It only takes a few to spoil it for the rest of us.
I love the idea of having a place to interact with other Oddworld fans in a more structured way than posts on twitter and facebook. I'm just afraid this place isn't it.
If a new forum opens somewhere else really dedicated to discuss Oddworld related things I would join in a heartbeat. Actually I already did a couple of times in the past but they all died out because of admin ego problems.
I'm willing to try to turn this place around, I sure can be tougher when needed. I'm just not sure we now have enough topics or material to relaunch interesting Oddworld Discussion.