Some Honest Words, And Goodbye
Posted: March 29th, 2014, 6:11 am
Before this rant, let me make one thing perfectly clear: this is not a discussion with me; it’s a message from me. After this is posted, I won’t reply to anything that is posted on this thread because, as you might have figured out from my inactivity, I am leaving One More Block. And it’s not because the “cool kids” have hypnotized me or I’m still butthurt over some people I liked getting banned. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and what I’m posting here is a briefer version of what TheLastLink and Papaya have been posting on Voxelus when they’re being serious. It took me forever to get it into my head, even though it’s pretty much common sense. I’m hoping that maybe you guys can take it better hearing it from me, because I see no other way this community can survive.
Now, most of you will also probably have a problem with the stuff going on at Voxelus. It still is pretty much mostly the most amazing trash ever, but it’s not like Pigflags (or even the “serious” discussions we have on this site) have any more intelligence.
You may have seen I have posted stuff about me “not caring”. I suppose I should clarify that. I care about this community, most of its users and even Atmosphir as a game. I don’t care about One More Block. Why this is brings me to my first point: One More Block has failed the purpose it was originally intended for (community preservation) and is incredibly ill-suited to its newfound purpose (Atmosphir revival). Its closed-off atmosphere, lack of publicity, loss of important users and bad moderation have all made it so that anyone who looks at the site will instantly think it’s a Minecraft forum for 12-year-olds. If we’re attempting to revive a game here, the site must be tailor made for it. Just having a forum doesn’t cut it. If we didn’t have the Atmosphir revival thing going on, my advice would be to abandon One More Block completely and make a Steam group, but Atmosphir preservation makes it a bit trickier.
Ultimately, I think a website (probably not a forum) devoted EXCLUSIVLY to Atmosphir development would get more attention. It would also help if we could get more people working on Atmosphir in the first place. We have some skilled programmers here, so I’m not sure what the issue is.
For the community, there is an obvious, OBVIOUS answer that the “cool kids” you think of as trolls have already been throwing around and I have briefly mentioned: a Steam group.
I can’t really elaborate on this, since it’s already been well said by TLL and Papaya. In short, Steam has good forum software, it would be easier to maintain servers around specific games and organize events, and pretty much everyone on here has Steam. Even if the group forum itself dies, I doubt any of us are going to “quit” Steam, which means we can go around doing our thing and still have a way to keep in touch.
And, of course, we need fewer, more active, more experienced mods. You guys have combatted accusations of bad modding long enough. Any outsider would look at the mods track record and cringe. Tta and Chayz were banned for doing what the rest of us were already doing: being ridiculous. If someone got butthurt over it, they would link them to that amazing “kill yourself” image. Somehow, linking to a meme counts as being “very offensive to quite a few members”. This isn’t devotion to some guy I liked, it’s just calling out stupidity when I see it. Coupled with the fact that Tta offered to manually leave is worthy of more than one facedesk. Wowfunhappy, the administrator, is barley active and not able to do his duties well.
Honestly you guys, I still like most of you. But even the smartest of you might as well still be 12 years old, because not only are you painfully easy to offend and troll, the atmosphere of this community is random and spam-inducing. Just because someone points out negative truths and wrecks your playful world of merriment doesn’t mean they are trolls.
Atmosphir, though I joined it late (when Statosphir went public) shaped the way I look at the internet. I made friendships that have lasted, learned many of the basics of how to use a forum, and even befitted from a disaster or two. If you could somehow retrieve my old posts from an archive, I doubt you would have seen much visible growth, but it happened.
But we’ve (mostly) grown up. Our lives are becoming busier on a personal level. The main concern right not should be to keep in touch, not cling to a forum on its way out faster than the US.
If you take this no different than you did from the “cool kids”, then I can’t help you. Stop living in denial, or even better pretending denial (and the internet) is the only place you can live.
If I made a factual error in this rant, or you just want to bask in my wake, contact me through Steam or Voxelus.
~La Miniike
Now, most of you will also probably have a problem with the stuff going on at Voxelus. It still is pretty much mostly the most amazing trash ever, but it’s not like Pigflags (or even the “serious” discussions we have on this site) have any more intelligence.
You may have seen I have posted stuff about me “not caring”. I suppose I should clarify that. I care about this community, most of its users and even Atmosphir as a game. I don’t care about One More Block. Why this is brings me to my first point: One More Block has failed the purpose it was originally intended for (community preservation) and is incredibly ill-suited to its newfound purpose (Atmosphir revival). Its closed-off atmosphere, lack of publicity, loss of important users and bad moderation have all made it so that anyone who looks at the site will instantly think it’s a Minecraft forum for 12-year-olds. If we’re attempting to revive a game here, the site must be tailor made for it. Just having a forum doesn’t cut it. If we didn’t have the Atmosphir revival thing going on, my advice would be to abandon One More Block completely and make a Steam group, but Atmosphir preservation makes it a bit trickier.
Ultimately, I think a website (probably not a forum) devoted EXCLUSIVLY to Atmosphir development would get more attention. It would also help if we could get more people working on Atmosphir in the first place. We have some skilled programmers here, so I’m not sure what the issue is.
For the community, there is an obvious, OBVIOUS answer that the “cool kids” you think of as trolls have already been throwing around and I have briefly mentioned: a Steam group.
I can’t really elaborate on this, since it’s already been well said by TLL and Papaya. In short, Steam has good forum software, it would be easier to maintain servers around specific games and organize events, and pretty much everyone on here has Steam. Even if the group forum itself dies, I doubt any of us are going to “quit” Steam, which means we can go around doing our thing and still have a way to keep in touch.
And, of course, we need fewer, more active, more experienced mods. You guys have combatted accusations of bad modding long enough. Any outsider would look at the mods track record and cringe. Tta and Chayz were banned for doing what the rest of us were already doing: being ridiculous. If someone got butthurt over it, they would link them to that amazing “kill yourself” image. Somehow, linking to a meme counts as being “very offensive to quite a few members”. This isn’t devotion to some guy I liked, it’s just calling out stupidity when I see it. Coupled with the fact that Tta offered to manually leave is worthy of more than one facedesk. Wowfunhappy, the administrator, is barley active and not able to do his duties well.
Honestly you guys, I still like most of you. But even the smartest of you might as well still be 12 years old, because not only are you painfully easy to offend and troll, the atmosphere of this community is random and spam-inducing. Just because someone points out negative truths and wrecks your playful world of merriment doesn’t mean they are trolls.
Atmosphir, though I joined it late (when Statosphir went public) shaped the way I look at the internet. I made friendships that have lasted, learned many of the basics of how to use a forum, and even befitted from a disaster or two. If you could somehow retrieve my old posts from an archive, I doubt you would have seen much visible growth, but it happened.
But we’ve (mostly) grown up. Our lives are becoming busier on a personal level. The main concern right not should be to keep in touch, not cling to a forum on its way out faster than the US.
If you take this no different than you did from the “cool kids”, then I can’t help you. Stop living in denial, or even better pretending denial (and the internet) is the only place you can live.
If I made a factual error in this rant, or you just want to bask in my wake, contact me through Steam or Voxelus.
~La Miniike