EVE General Discussion

well I meant to click edit and quoted myself

They weren't held enough as children? Who knows?

Haters are gonna hate- easier to destroy than it is to create.

I didn't direct my profanity at anyone in particular, or even at you. I have not been hostile, or hypocritical. I have to say that there is difference between expressing frustration, and belittling or slandering someone, or in my case, following someone through all their posts and talking ****, as one person has done today.

How many forums have you posted this on. Like every MMO forum?

No...
In other MMOs people are pretty upfront when they disagree with you. They either say that your idea is stupid, or that you are stupid, or something like that. Here people say stuff like

"Look I too can spout bullshit. Are you not getting tired of me shooting down all the terrible ideas you keep spewing out?",

from the guy who went to every single post I made today to tell me how **** I am. When people go for it here, they really go for it, vendetta style. It has been bewildering, and that's why i made this thread.

Of course I can give what I get. Its not like I havent played MMOs before, I can hurt feelings too if thats the game we're gonna play. Time will tell if that's what happens. The replies to this thread however make me optimistic that that wont be the case.

Cool, thank you very much. I will do this.

Eve is a very good approximation of real life. Without the ability to actually buy anything nice you would buy in real life if you got rich. So people get bitter over the time..

While I agree with you that its wierd people are so negative all the time, I disagree with it being bad in EVE compared to other games. What I saw back when playing Starwars Galaxies was 10 times worse than this. EVE is actually pretty good compared to the WOW and LOL forums. Glad im play neither of the games, because its amazing how many ways people there invent new sentences with the one goal of hating and flaming.

This is true for me.

I voted for Malcanis, little realizing that he would use his year on the CSM as a platform to spam the forums with negative, tough guy comments.

As a result, I wish him nothing but misfortune in the game.

At least I do on the odd occasion that I notice him in the forums nowadays.

Citation needed. Also, relevance to the topic. Because whether or not someone is a good person is irrelevant to their hostility or politeness on the internet. You said it yourself, politeness =/= niceness. What you left out is that the reverse applies also, hostility =/= badness.

I tend to find, though, that it is the cynics and pessimists, people who are essentially born haters, who expect everyone else to be bad people from the word go. This is natural human projection, of course, and it occurs all the time. Personally, I expect most people are good, based entirely on evolutionary imperative and considering that the human race still exists at all, such a thing requires members of that race to be good to one another for the majority. So your claim that most people are harmful to those around them doesn't stack up against the evidence to the contrary, and seems to me to be more an attitude of cynicism.

Hostility isn't bred of badness anymore than politeness is bred of goodness. That comes down entirely to attitude and respect.