Why all the hate?

[BrianRubin]

shakes fist at Bruce McCulloch

You son of a bitch!

[Unicorn_McGriddle]

@mmalloy

This is why I have hate. I AM NOT A DUDE.

Like, chicks are dudes too, man.

[BrianRubin]

@Unicorn McGriddle

Like, chicks are dudes too, man.

Dude, totally, dude.

[Rimbo]

@Brian Rubin

Maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m just noticing it more, but there’s been a loooooooooooooot more bitchiness, name-calling, pointing-of-fingers and so on lately than I’ve noticed in months or years past. It kinda saddens me, honestly, but it also makes me curious.

I’m probably asking for a whooping here, but why are y’all seemingly so angry lately?

“what idrisz said” – I think the bad global economy has put a lot of folks into a sour mood.

[stusser]

@mmalloy

This is why I have hate. I AM NOT A DUDE.

I’m sorry, I’ve heard all your rhetoric about gender identity and whatnot, but I just don’t agree. As far as I’m concerned if you were born a dude you will always remain a dude.

[Demon_G_Sides]

@Pogo

Hear hear, motherfuckers.

Lots fucks going on between me and Demon in this one.

Aww, Pogo, I don’t hate you, I just thought you were wrong! No ill will! There is exactly 0 people I hate on this board (Well, maybe Lizard King every once in a while, but he’s what I call a relic. Relics tend to be assholes on Qt3).

[JonRowe]

[John_Many_Jars]

The threads and polls calling out individuals is fairly new, but there was definitely a time when spectacular putdowns was a running theme, even a running competition, on the boards.

It all came to a head when Octopus Overlords had a thread about what a nasty place Qt3 was, and we had a thread about their thread, and their thread started responding to our thread. I don’t remember what year that was — 2005?

[RyanMichael]

@mmalloy

This is why I have hate. I AM NOT A DUDE. Until people realize that, I will rage on with my hardly ever posting and owning a wii!

Edited to add: <3 Raife

Dude, you must not be from the midwest, where you can actually address a group composed entirely of women as, “you guys,” and none of them even blink.

[Hans_Lauring]

Did we ever find out which of you meanies made Gordon break his hand?

(no, my life is still too busy and exiciting to listen to the podcast to find out)

[AaronSofaer]

@forgeforsaken

Also I think that has nothing to do with developers posting less, if anything I would blame that on stuff outside of the boards themselves with sites like Kotaku often making news stories out of people’s posts to message boards there’s an overall incentive for them to not post to any.

This is a true thing that makes me sad.

[mkozlows]

@Destarius

I agree with Brian though. I’ve seen some fairly crass posters in here who’d just launch into f-bombs and personal insults immediately without addressing the issues. It wasn’t like that before. At least when Bill D tore you a new asshole it was funny. Somewhat.

I’d say that the forum has gone from Usenet-style snarky meanness to webforum-style LOL!!! meanness.

(If you don’t understand the difference, you’re probably going to express your confusion with an animated GIF.)

[BrianRubin]

@mkozlows

(If you don’t understand the difference, you’re probably going to express your confusion with an animated GIF.)

[BobJustBob]

@Athryn

I blame Adam Baldwin.

You

@Rob_Merritt

For the past two years it has been that way and getting worse. I guess familiarity breeds contempt.

you

@Bahimiron

I’ve been a member for just over two years. And I hate everyone who has posted so far in this thread! Hmmm!

(Except for forgeforsaken and madkevin. They’re okay.)

Just kiddin’! ~_^

you

@Pogo

Hear hear, motherfuckers.

Lots fucks going on between me and Demon in this one.

you

@Dave Long

It didn’t fail horribly and die off, but it sure did disappear fast. And it’s still the primary reason PC gaming is what it is today. Microsoft took people from PC gaming and moved them to the Xbox. That was my primary gripe with it and still is.

…and if we could go back and read those threads, we’d probably see that much of what I said has come to pass. Convergence devices anyone?

Those forums would also help confirm the long standing tradition of this board being PC and Xbox-centric which people still try to claim isn’t true, but is glaringly obvious every day.

Anyway, back then people didn’t stick other posters’ names into headers and make it look like someone said something that they didn’t. That’s been happening far more in the last couple years and when you take a look around the board, you realize that many people (especially developers) have left because of it.

you

@Zylon

Aha, here’s the culprit.

“I’m sorry I caused all that hate.”

you

@Rimbo

“what idrisz said” – I think the bad global economy has put a lot of folks into a sour mood.

you

@Demon G Sides

Aww, Pogo, I don’t hate you, I just thought you were wrong! No ill will! There is exactly 0 people I hate on this board (Well, maybe Lizard King every once in a while, but he’s what I call a relic. Relics tend to be assholes on Qt3).

you

@AaronSofaer

This is a true thing that makes me sad.

you

@mkozlows

I’d say that the forum has gone from Usenet-style snarky meanness to webforum-style LOL!!! meanness.

(If you don’t understand the difference, you’re probably going to express your confusion with an animated GIF.)

you are part of the problem.

[Bahimiron]

@BobJustBob

you are part of the problem.

Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live.

[BobJustBob]

@Bahimiron

Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live.

I confuse you with other people a lot. How are you different from extarbags?

[Bahimiron]

@BobJustBob

How are you different from extarbags?

What a cruel thing to say.

[Raife]

He’s probably even a supertaster.

[Rock8man]

Wow, this thread really delivers. Absolutely hilarious at times. If I’d known earlier, maybe I wouldn’t have tried to avoid the “Everthing Else” sub-forum for years.

Oh, and Brian, I haven’t noticed any major changes in attitude recently. (Though, remember, I usually don’t read the Everything Else threads). Every once in a while we get some new PC-only Gamers who are very vehement in their beliefs about consoles, but they all calm down after a while. I’d like to think it’s the influence the rest of us have on them when they realize no one else is throwing a fit.

[Bill_Dungsroman]

@John Many Jars

The threads and polls calling out individuals is fairly new

This just reminds me how much I sometimes miss DeepT.

I would also argue this place used to be meaner - and I helped! But it does sort of cycle and there have been several threads like this in qt3’s history.