Current Events > I'm done with CE. Peace.

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I have a lot of venom I'd love to spill out, but I'm limiting myself to one post.

I joined GameFAQs to get over a really heavy SJW Tumblr phase in my life. The posting was shit at times, but I figured that with the strong moral compass I had, I could cut it with the unironic Trump voters and the hyperbolic assholes. I saw GameFAQs as a place to make some racier jokes, vent with some barbed language that would alienate and drive away my online friends. It helped that there was a vein of legitimately good posts, like chill lifestyle threads and user AMAs about unique life experiences. In my first month, freakofnature30 talked about an experience in his life, and another user opened up about dating his step-sister in a convoluted, twisted matter (they were into each other, then their single parents met and they became step-siblings) - there was good, horizon-expanding posting going on here that got me to stay.

Over time, though, I've felt myself become more venomous and thin-skinned. I feel resentment for certain posters, I'm too involved in politics and shitty trolling. It's affecting me the same way extreme SJW posting affected me as a teenager, and I hate it. Political garbage was already a major problem when I joined, now it seems inescapable. I feel slimy about laughing at Xsquader, putting up with the desperate alcoholic posts that came from Brutal, and reacting earnestly and venomously to shit-flinging fights. I'm already a sad sack of shit for a 22 year old, and posting on GameFAQs is not helping my case - if anything, it's making my habits just the tiniest bit worst.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think CE is a driving factor towards my life being shit, there's a history of events that led to where I am today that have nothing to do with CE. But CE is a factor in my life right now that I think is contributing to an ongoing unhealthiness, and I think separating myself from here is a positive change to make. There's a reason that some of CE's more well-adjusted or well-meaning users have left the board en-masse over the last two years - it's because CE doesn't facilitate a healthy mindset. At least, that's my theory.

And on a tangential note - I tend to respect moderators wherever I go, I've respected CE's mods even as people took steaming shits on their moderation style. Shitty users who make "unfair mods" threads because they wished liberals were enslaved and killed by "real" nazis and shit like that, allegations of bias, etc. You know the types. I was aight towards Error, I liked Lan, I have a divided opinion on Shotgunnova and I'm not fussed about the rest. But I think there's something seriously wrong when the moderation staff lets race-baiting former staff members hang around like a stale fart, or let users with a history of doxxing - years in the past, and as recently as this year - continue to stir up shit and make their forums a cesspool for other users. You have mass-posting hypocrites and professional agitators who run political threads up to hundreds of posts, because they agitate just within the rules to not be punished - despite clearly having an adverse affect on the environment of the forum. I hate blaming the mods, saying that it's them who are wrong and not the users, but I genuinely think that poor moderation has contributed to the toxic atmosphere on here. Bad users are always to blame, but they succeed and run the show because there's no-one active enough to wrangle them.

My favorite users were freakofnature/DezCaughtIt, DocileOrangeCup and the fine folks of the TC Chat days. My least favorite were Brutal, Hoth/his alts/southcoast09, The Admiral - anyone who revelled in unhealthy, shitty behavior, whether it be to offend others or harm/bolster themselves. If you have even a shred of decency in you, I encourage you to escape this nuclear fallout zone and find somewhere with clearer air. You deserve better than this shithole.

It was a fun two years, and I don't wholly regret them. But fuck, I wouldn't do it again.
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I'll be on for the next day or two. Then I'm logging out, and staying logged out.
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*climbs wall of text*
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tl;dr

tl; dr: look at me, guys!
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You'll be back.
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I'll miss you so much TC... at least send me a selfie every now and then?
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CE's hardly to blame if you decide to participate in the toxic parts of it.
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MrMallard posted...

I'll be on for the next day or two. Then I'm logging out, and staying logged out.

But I thought you were done with this unhealthy place?
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ManLink4321 posted...

You'll be back.

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Who are you, see you next week, etc.
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I knew this was going to be a wall of text
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good luck in your endeavors.

and even though I should, I don't think I'll leave CE, since it's the only site I really interact with.
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OrtegaTron posted...

MrMallard posted...

I'll be on for the next day or two. Then I'm logging out, and staying logged out.

But I thought you were done with this unhealthy place?

I'm getting there. I've been online for around a year and ten months, so despite the venom I feel for aspects of this place I at least want to maintain this thread for a little while. I know just under 2 years doesn't mean shit when it comes to CE history, but it's still almost 2 years of socialization on an online community that I was fairly active in.

I'd be pretty bummed if I left any other online community, despite not having the warmest reception or fondest memories.
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What the fuck all my friends are leaving



If I un friend you will you stay :(
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

What the fuck all my friends are leaving



If I un friend you will you stay :(

when are you gonna leave
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Renault posted...

DocileOrangeCup posted...

What the fuck all my friends are leaving



If I un friend you will you stay :(

when are you gonna leave

When I die, and even then it's not certain
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ok don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you

eggcorn posted...

ok don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you

is this an american saying

because if it is then maybe NK are right to want to nuke you all
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Neoconkers posted...

eggcorn posted...

ok don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you

is this an american saying

because if it is then maybe NK are right to want to nuke you all

ok?

Nice meltdown

@SomeLikeItHoth
@--kresnik--

He has a point. Sadly, I doubt CE will change for the better.
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See you soon.
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TC is so made lol.

GOATTHlEF posted...

Sorry to see you go. Decent human beings are getting increasingly rare on CE.

Yeah now we're left with users who stalk the account status of every CE user and make topics about it.
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*continues laughing like Seth Rollins*
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...

TC is so made lol.

GOATTHlEF posted...

Sorry to see you go. Decent human beings are getting increasingly rare on CE.

Yeah now we're left with users who stalk the account status of every CE user and make topics about it.