Sukai
Smash Champion
Link to original post: [drupal=1251]Honestly now...[/drupal]
We are a community right?
People often refer to the "smash community" here, am I not mistaken?
Doesn't any community strive to be good, or ideal to say the least?
So wouldn't an ideal community consist of people who are friendly, kind, and open minded?
Intelligence is a necessity, true, but not 100% required to have a good community. For the purpose of balance, there will be people not as smart, thus the smarter ones help out, give friendly advice, future reference, yada yada. Overall, we stick together.
True this is a competitive community, but the competition is supposed to be healthy, aside form the wins and losses, we stick together, learn, and evolve, thus making us more suitable to welcome in the newer members of our ever expanding community, it's an upward spiral of help, support and kindness.
To-****ing-bad swf is nothing like that
I mean, it tries to be, but it ultimately fails. There are too many people, of just about any ranking, who just make swf look like a cesspool of jerk-offs and hardasses.
Quote:
Now I'm gonna name any names, per rule of swf, and I would like to clarify that I am speaking in a general sense and not passively targeting any specific person, I assure you.
~Me
Some people are helpful, some people are kind, some are productive, but most of the members here just doesn't give off the charm of a good community.
I can see that some of these people are perhaps better to hang around than to reply to on a bbs to, but doesn't that just make swf a bit too esoteric?
It just seems like no one is ever going to like you--not that I want people to like me, but you'll be kind, friendly, and helpful to those that you like, you don't have to be their "bestest buddeh eva", but you know, it doesn't kill anyone to be nice. I see new people all around, get bashed, shunned, and made fun of, because they misunderstood something, and people actually dare to blame them for not knowing. Sometimes there are things that aren't as obvious to others and although some learn by it naturally, (most) others don't, but there no productivity at all. And a cold personality may make you feel cool, but honestly now, will it kill you be give some sort of kind advice instead of the contemporary bland--
"This has been discovered before"
of
"This won't work"
or (personal favorite)
"Don't get hit"
That's not being productive, and it barely counts to be helpful.
~~~~~~~~
Because the world will collapse into itself if you take a second out to say--
"Someone found this out before, but kudos on the effort, keep it up, you may be the one to discover something big"
or
"This is too situational and probably won't work on a human opponent, but you're heading the right direction, finding new tactics to use against your opponent"
or
"Maybe you should reconsider your defensive strategies, shielding works great can you can punish bad spacing with a shield-grab. Rolldodging becomes too predictable after a while, make sure to do it scarcely. Sometimes a healthy physical retreat can help"
"Don't get hit" is seriously the stupidest piece of advice I've ever read for a video game. You make it sound like they're getting hit on purpose, and I'll lose respect for anyone who says that to someone who needs genuine help with their defense strategies.
Another thing that grinds my balls is all the flaming.
Let me iterate that nothing I say here is likely to change anything, I know this, but ****, some people's brain and reasoning just shuts off for an undisclosed amount of time and they enter flame mode.
Even if it's deliberate flame bait, it doesn't warrant you to flame. If you're angry, take it out on a punching bag or a squeeze toy, there's no point in bad mouthing someone for your own satisfaction, that just gets you infracted, and will more than likely not satisfy your rage. But aside from flamebait, if someone just says something that you don't agree with, or if they believe something that you don't agree with. If you differ in opinion, that's perfectly fine, but don't shove your opinion down their throats like it's bone-fide fact, if you disagree with someone on something, thats fine, but keep a cool head, going off would just make you look out of control and overly-sensitive--not good to represent an ideal community.
It's one thing to be a jerk with someone who knows you, you'll be casual, paling around with your buddy, thats okay, everyone does that, inside jokes may spark some ignorant controversy, but misunderstandings will always come around every now then, they can be easily resolved, but there's no good reason to act like a jerk with a new person, or one who isn't as smart as you.
Does that, like make people feel big or something? Picking on a not-as-smart-as-you person for not knowing as much as you?
It just seems like a different opinion or disposition is just going to spark ugly faces. Granted there are still kind, helpful and productive people around here, but not enough to make you look back in fond memory of being here in swf.
I can only be as helpful as I can be, but that doesn't help, does it?
One person can't do much, and the nicer ones are commonly looked past.
Oh well.
We are a community right?
People often refer to the "smash community" here, am I not mistaken?
Doesn't any community strive to be good, or ideal to say the least?
So wouldn't an ideal community consist of people who are friendly, kind, and open minded?
Intelligence is a necessity, true, but not 100% required to have a good community. For the purpose of balance, there will be people not as smart, thus the smarter ones help out, give friendly advice, future reference, yada yada. Overall, we stick together.
True this is a competitive community, but the competition is supposed to be healthy, aside form the wins and losses, we stick together, learn, and evolve, thus making us more suitable to welcome in the newer members of our ever expanding community, it's an upward spiral of help, support and kindness.
To-****ing-bad swf is nothing like that
I mean, it tries to be, but it ultimately fails. There are too many people, of just about any ranking, who just make swf look like a cesspool of jerk-offs and hardasses.
Quote:
Now I'm gonna name any names, per rule of swf, and I would like to clarify that I am speaking in a general sense and not passively targeting any specific person, I assure you.
~Me
Some people are helpful, some people are kind, some are productive, but most of the members here just doesn't give off the charm of a good community.
I can see that some of these people are perhaps better to hang around than to reply to on a bbs to, but doesn't that just make swf a bit too esoteric?
It just seems like no one is ever going to like you--not that I want people to like me, but you'll be kind, friendly, and helpful to those that you like, you don't have to be their "bestest buddeh eva", but you know, it doesn't kill anyone to be nice. I see new people all around, get bashed, shunned, and made fun of, because they misunderstood something, and people actually dare to blame them for not knowing. Sometimes there are things that aren't as obvious to others and although some learn by it naturally, (most) others don't, but there no productivity at all. And a cold personality may make you feel cool, but honestly now, will it kill you be give some sort of kind advice instead of the contemporary bland--
"This has been discovered before"
of
"This won't work"
or (personal favorite)
"Don't get hit"
That's not being productive, and it barely counts to be helpful.
~~~~~~~~
Because the world will collapse into itself if you take a second out to say--
"Someone found this out before, but kudos on the effort, keep it up, you may be the one to discover something big"
or
"This is too situational and probably won't work on a human opponent, but you're heading the right direction, finding new tactics to use against your opponent"
or
"Maybe you should reconsider your defensive strategies, shielding works great can you can punish bad spacing with a shield-grab. Rolldodging becomes too predictable after a while, make sure to do it scarcely. Sometimes a healthy physical retreat can help"
"Don't get hit" is seriously the stupidest piece of advice I've ever read for a video game. You make it sound like they're getting hit on purpose, and I'll lose respect for anyone who says that to someone who needs genuine help with their defense strategies.
Another thing that grinds my balls is all the flaming.
Let me iterate that nothing I say here is likely to change anything, I know this, but ****, some people's brain and reasoning just shuts off for an undisclosed amount of time and they enter flame mode.
Even if it's deliberate flame bait, it doesn't warrant you to flame. If you're angry, take it out on a punching bag or a squeeze toy, there's no point in bad mouthing someone for your own satisfaction, that just gets you infracted, and will more than likely not satisfy your rage. But aside from flamebait, if someone just says something that you don't agree with, or if they believe something that you don't agree with. If you differ in opinion, that's perfectly fine, but don't shove your opinion down their throats like it's bone-fide fact, if you disagree with someone on something, thats fine, but keep a cool head, going off would just make you look out of control and overly-sensitive--not good to represent an ideal community.
It's one thing to be a jerk with someone who knows you, you'll be casual, paling around with your buddy, thats okay, everyone does that, inside jokes may spark some ignorant controversy, but misunderstandings will always come around every now then, they can be easily resolved, but there's no good reason to act like a jerk with a new person, or one who isn't as smart as you.
Does that, like make people feel big or something? Picking on a not-as-smart-as-you person for not knowing as much as you?
It just seems like a different opinion or disposition is just going to spark ugly faces. Granted there are still kind, helpful and productive people around here, but not enough to make you look back in fond memory of being here in swf.
I can only be as helpful as I can be, but that doesn't help, does it?
One person can't do much, and the nicer ones are commonly looked past.
Oh well.
the word Cesspool. basically describes a hot spring.
