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[Ristar]

[Geneaux486]

[Magyk]

The problem is that I guarantee you people literally sit in that thread and wait for Pravado to post so they can find a reason to rip him apart because they don't like him, or they think it makes them look cool, or whatever. The reason I never get raged at when I post "that entry sucked" is because no one looks for my posts. The only time I've ever gotten seriously raged at on this forum before was when I was defending/siding with Pravado on the issue of delayed entries.

[Sylocat]

If it were just the fact that pravado doesn't like the series, I don't think anyone would have a problem with him. There are plenty of people besides him who have criticized each entry, and the debates I've seen are completely civil.

The fact that he doesn't spend so much as two full sentences on the many entries he admits to liking, while treating every entry he doesn't like as some horrific personal betrayal (even if he's liked the last three entries in a row) is obnoxious, as is the fact that his fans pull the "pravado knows more than you because he's a better fan than you are" card even when his rants contain glaring factual inaccuracies, but even that isn't the reason people don't like him.

The reason the Entry 70 thread descended into a flame war wasn't because he posted a negative critique. It was because that negative critique consisted of hurling insults both at the creators and preemptively at anyone who liked it, punctuated by swearing and wild hyperbole.

[Lithp]

[Drksrpnt]

Note: I've never raged at pravado, because I tend to stay out of things like that.

I've only seen his posts, and the responses to those posts.

And when people respond to his posts, they use the same sort of language and attitude that he does.

In other words, they get pissed off at him for being an elitist asshole, saying "this entry fucking sucked, what the fuck are they doing", etc.

Even if he does "know more about the series" (which I seriously doubt by the way, considering everyone has the exact same amount of information to work with...), he doesn't need to be a dick about it.

And of course, he says that anyone who liked an entry he doesn't is white-knighting for the creators. Again, he doesn't need to be an elitist asshole when stating his opinions.

As for the "none of the rage is a reaction to the negativity of his opinions" thing... Well, it's kind of true, I admit. The last time he ever said anything positive about an entry was 65, if I remember correctly.

In any case, if he gave his critique in a non-dickish way, it would be fine. It's his attitude along with the negativity that people really hate. That's why people tend to notice his posts more than others.

[Zarggg]

[Lithp]

Ironically, I don't like that video. I feel it is reflective of the implied notion that negativity is by definition non-constructive. Yes, it says, "It's okay to not like things." But there is no "It's okay to like things, but don't be a dick about the things that you like" companion video.

Am I overanalyzing? Maybe. But that's okay.

[twistedpuppet]

Are you guys talking bout Pravado? :V

[Geneaux486]

[Grumplestiltskin]

back to grammar's house...

[Ztakk]

[paladin181]

[Lithp]

To quote an image I once saw on the internet:

"You're=You are.
Your=It belongs to you.
You=Are fucking illiterate."

I also have way too much of a vested interest in who/whom.

I don't remember what this says, but I remember laughing at it for quite a while:

http://fumaga.com/6189

When you say a letter or word out-of-context as an example, such as "t" or "totally," it is supposed to be surrounded by quotation marks.

Words like "mom" & "dad" are only capitalized if they are being used in place of a name. It is not capitalized in, "My mom went to the store," but is in, "...and then Mom went to the store." Related, I hope to God that you didn't help your uncle jack off a horse, & actually meant that you helped your "uncle, Jack, off of a horse."

That thing I just used? That's called an ellipsis. It only has 3 dots. If it occurs at the end of a sentence, the ending punctuation is tacked onto the end (...., ...!, ...?). Horseshit like "..............." is not valid under any circumstances.

Hell is a proper noun. On the other hand, I don't care how theologically significant you are, we don't fucking capitalize pronouns like "he."

And I swear to all that is anal-retentive, if people start posting grammatical errors just to spite me...well, there's nothing I really can do, but I swear, Man....

[paladin181]