[Dan Hibiki]

[quoteost_uid0="SSJKarma"]I got enough guys... many of you won't just care and look at it i probably will just be flamed for saying such things but i had to tell them. if you're interested in knowing the bottom of my mind then go on and read otherwise just get the hell out of here !

First i want to speak about the peple saying SFO sucks or SFO is gay... you guys are th eones that makes me mad the most, i mean come on you guys are th efirst ones to say it sucks cause there is nothing good hapenneing, but what you guys always end up forgetting is that its up to you to make it better not up to us ! i have enough of hearing this bullpoop. its all crap and you know it just like i do. i'm mad at you guys for saying such things its so stupid to say such things.

second, i got enough of you people telling me this place is all about info and bugs, and that is mostly for you mods... am i truly the only one to have noticed how this has become more then just a forum for info and bugs ? in th efirst place, if tmyapp and the others created the different sections then clearly it was for the users to enjoy their time here so explain me why do we have to tell them not to be happy coming here ? tell me why we should let things go off and not do anything cause back then (like 3 years ago) it was like that ? its so lame of you to think that. this has changed, and so should you had to as well ! this is a community and not a info forum anymore, it means a lot more to me then just a info site. we should be carefull of our members and not just telling them to get the hell out of here if they aren't happy with this. we should be more carefull of their feelings.

third, many peple here are coming here just for the heck of flaming and dissing others... respect is all that many of us ask for and all we got are stupid remarks on ourselves, i got enough of being a nobody ! i have enough of being the target of everything people say i got enough of being sued for saying a simple fact. i have enough of being told that even thou i was here for the last 3 years that i don't know a poop about SFO ! i have enough of being this, it hurts to be left behind just cause people think you're nothing compared to them. all i ask is to be respected.

TMyApp, i might not have understood how you felt about this the right way... but there is one thing i know, you didn't do this just for the fun of it, you did it for the people and if that is true then truly you know that we should be doing way more then just saying hi to the new comers !

i can't say i will leave, this place has been like a new family for me and i doubt i will leave it anytime soon. but i don't want it to fall either and we're already far down. why aren't we getting back up ? why are people so much against SFO yet coming back here for more, can't we just all get along and enjoy the ride on the forum ?

People it's up to us to put this place back up.
Post intelligently and stop bithcing at others or at the forum.
i hate people bitching at this family of mine ![/quote]
To several of the people that replied to this topic, the community DOES need to be fixed. I haven't been here much for so long BECAUSE of the problems, problems which were not prevalent three or four years ago.

You feel my pain now. These are all problems that I dealt with until I quit being an admin of Senshukentaikai. No offense to anybody in particular here, but when the average age of forum-goers is pre/early teen, you'll be forced to deal with a lot of immaturity and, unfortunately, a lot of idiots and uncompromising rejects. That's one of the reasons I don't come here often anymore. <span style='font-size:7pt;line-height:100%'>The other is nobody will hold a decent conversation with me, and I'm typically ignored despite my colorful history here.</span>

Ruling over the forums and moderating takes a subtle touch. Do too much, and people will hate you and disrespect you, saying that you're tyrannical. And yes, I know this isn't a democracy here, but that's how you'll be viewed. Do too little, and you'll be viewed as ineffective or uncaring, and will not be respected.

As for SFO sucking... it's the best free online fighting game on the net. I can't say much for the current state of the game, as I haven't been able to play it for over two years as my computer that I can do such things on is rather old, but nothing will change the fact that it is the best free online fighter around. People hate on it? Don't let them play it. Their loss.

It's an inevitability that when a competitive scene forms around a fighting game, whether it be online, offline, free, based on fees, or whatever, there will be people who endlessly talk poop (pardon the French). There's been such people since the beginning of XMvSF online, and there always will be such people on into the future of SFO. You being a mod, you're just a bigger target for such people.

Games that develop enough of a community to require general discussion and such for an exchange of ideas, thoughts, and opinions ought to have such a section, as this one does. Those who somehow think that such people should have no outlet for discussion are the ones who need to re-examine the purpose of forums.

The sections in which flaming and arguments occur shouldn't be removed. That's just taking the easy and dumb way out, and making the flamers win. Stronger enforcing of the rules, such as using temp/permanent account/IP bans is one effective way to do it. Instead of seeing arguments, you'll see threads of people apologizing, trying to get themselves/their friend back on here, and they'll either learn a lesson, or get banned again. It'll always be a fight against flamers, but that doesn't mean you should just quit.

I'm all for this forum becoming a place for intelligent conversation, peaceful discussion, and so on, but there's a lot that must be done for the forums to become that way. Ban the jerks, enforce the rules (or make more) and stick in there. Might seem a little odd coming from me, after all the disagreements that we've had, but just because we've disagreed doesn't mean I hate you.

Rant over.