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[Pixiestix]

now see, that i'm fine with. If you add that, please do let me know.

[rose]

I'm going out on a limb here but I see this a bit differently. I think that it is easy to expect people to behave a certain way when posting on the forums, because we already know what the unwritten rules are. So we can get frustrated when people don't comply. But how will new people know what the rules are when they are new? These players aren't being trolls or hurting anything, they are just letting people know they want to play.

I understand getting annoyed. I remember feeling annoyed initially with the influx of Halo players in ilb. They didn't know how to do anything. But we have to weigh our annoyance with some small personal inconvience against the huge value to us of keeping the door wide open and welcoming new players. The great majority of players lurk and never feel comfortable posting at all. We need to make players feel welcomed so they will want to stay around and keep contributing.

I think that the more experienced players almost have an unwritten obligation to provide that support and welcome to new players. That is part of our job - welcoming them, not complaining or criticizing them if they annoy us. One of the beauties of this place is you never know who is going to walk in the door or what talent, skills, emotions, viewpoints they bring with them. We need that diversity.

We have to keep that door wide open, or even better, break the door down so there is no barrier to anyone who wants to join us and play a game.

[vpisteve]

I'd agree there, Rose. Open arms, people. Open arms.

As for me, the best thing about "I'M IN" posts is that they often give away shills' IPs for me to ban.

[Ozy_y2k]

 

[vpisteve]

See? Shills come out of the woodwork.....

[Phaedra]

[konamouse]

[Rekidk]

[krystyn]

I think I need a special button that will automagically post, "Gupfee is my favorite" when I need it.

Which is often.

[thebruce]

I was going to post something meaningful and helpful about the annoyances but dealing with it and agreeing with kona, but it's all been covered already... and gupfee took the cake
so I guess, uh...

I'm in! I agree!

[djsampson]

I am sorry but, I have to play devils advocate here. The same thing that pixie is complaning about she did in this post. There is no information for the game in this part of the post. So isn't this also adding to clutter, by posting non-game information?

[vpisteve]

[Giskard]

[thebruce]

[rose]