...and we dont have sanctimonious, overserious white knights that ruin everyone's fun all the time
Yeah we do. Me. I just wound up taking a break because the forums quintupled in size around the same time I discovered I should probably get around to trying out this whole "life" thing everyone's been griping about.
Maybe it's with all the games were waiting for the release of, or the big TF2 update. Perhaps some of us are burned up on summer but man...I've noticed a large increase in derails and "should be locked" threads. I swear Toady is going to just turn a blind eye at this rate and I wouldn't blame him.
Nothing to do with summer, or Hats Simulator 2, or any of the latest and greatest titles. Or at least, those aren't the underlying causes. Fact is, there are really just a lot of people here who currently enjoy doing that, and that kind of behavior honestly just isn't illegal (in most cases... Nor should it be). I entered into the forum when there were maybe two digits' worth of actually active members, and I knew everyone by name. Then there was a massive surge of interest/recognition, and as the forum population grew we just learned that an average will always need something below it, whatever that may mean. Not to say we didn't have our own shenanigans back then, it's just that it was generally either caused by faulty forum code or could easily be blamed on one or two individuals.
But on another note since I look like a square in this thread, and i'd rather look like a Q...
I am absolutely a square. I've been one by this forum's standards for a few years now. And I'd really rather just stay that way at the moment. Squares serve their own purpose, and big stony blockheads like me can be useful and constructive, if albeit a bit sharp on the corners.