Seriously, what went wrong with the internet that you end up getting rules like this - "9. Don't be an emo bitch/fag who whines. It's just annoying and if you do post emo shit you will get banned or suspended. "OMG I CNAT DARW 4 SHIET OMG I R GOENG 2 CUT MY WRISTS :'( ""?
The internet has become with big frat house for pretentious "tough guy" teens, trolls, and power tripping mods who could care less about actually diffusing a situation as long as they look important and useful.
Most messageboards have a massive liberal/con split in the middle that causes any political forums to be flamed to death.
It didn't always use to be this way, though. Believe it or not, the internet used to have a sense of community.
Of course, thanks to the invention of "lol internet", people have "good reason" not to take the internet seriously. I say that you take a laid back approach to the internet in more of less the opposite way it is now. After all, if nobody cares about communities, how are they going to hold together? But if you're going to be uptight about cliques and forum ettiquette, where's the fun? Like many things today, the internet is topsy turvy.
It's all FUCKIN' EMOS and flamewars and lol g-lines. Even adult forums have become very irresponsible and abusive towards anyone who doesn't act as conservative as they do; which is annoying because they keep citing how this person is only 16 years old but well liked and accepted, because they can act "mature"(i.e. has no personality and is a suckup), of course it's not JUST an age thing, it's a conservative thing. Growing up is not the same as being mature. Most "grown ups" online are just elitist idiots who act more boring.
It's the same "know your place" attitude as many people have to gay people and the like in real life.
I know a lot of people here are in defense of the messy-yet-viciously-authoratarian state the internet is in, but I'd like to hear an actual REAL logical defense for the internet being that way, and not the same "My board, my rules" rubbish that shouldn't apply since you can't really "own" a community anyway, only a server that you donate to the community.
We view authoratarianism as a "bad thing" in real life, so why are forums online so strict? And why has it, at the end of the day, done nothing to stop the sheer amount of trolling, as most trolls get off light since only the reactants get banned?
Why has the internet become so crap?
