You know, you leave for a few months and things change. You come back and you think "OK things change". You stick around for a while and you realize that change isn't always good.
When I was here for prot advice there was no CapJack, there was Thels and Gaudion. Players who'd studied and extended their class and were at the edge of the game. (I wonder if it's telling that they're gone now. I don't know what happened to Thels but Gaudion rolled another hybrid class and was disillusioned and is now levelling a priest) They were no carebears. It was "ask a decent question and we'll give you an answer" it was "post your build (no armory then) and we'll try to help otherwise we can't be ****** you tool".
No one had Thels' or Gaudion's **** wedged firmly in their mouths. There were no fanbois there were expectations. You had to go some way to at least attempt to understand your class (like reading the stickies) Now? Now this is entirely the capjack fan club. There's very little information here past anything. Heck most of the answers given were penned by those before.
And now Cap is posting stuff to either pad the "zomg I <3 Cap jack!" notch fan club or he's thinking he should be dictating behavior. I suspect the former but it doesn't really matter. Back in the day (6 months ago) we expected people to not post stupid ****. We expected people to ask actual questions instead of "I like ret wat du I du?". You know why? Because we thought paladins should be capabale of thought and effort. At least that was the impression I got. Maybe back then everyone were pricks. Either way it wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
Back then no one accused us of being cesspits of oboards or anything else and lots of people learned the way to ask questions in terms of their deficiencies and in a way that would give them good answers instead of just allowing everyone to suspend thought and paste cliches. They would learn how to ask questions to get useful responses instead of allowing the local denizens to copypasta what we've all said before and what's in the stickies.
Is this really better? Sure, kinder gentler is swell but what does it really do?
You can say that the lawl ret has made this go to hell, I say that the carebear cockmunching has made it even more useless.
I can sum up nearly every post here right now.
Race: Dwarf, BE
AoE wait til reckoning or ret to mash quests
Holy pally stats for Kara? In the sticky
Prot stuff for kara, check out Thels' list (sticky) but zomg Cap you rock
Ret? Well if someone would deign to consolodate their stuff into the more comprehensive thread with gear and stuff there'd be ROOM for a sticky (wait, why didn't Cap, for all his mouthings about ret, nominate a sticky for the ret post again?) Even still, if we wanted (or were allowed) to be honest about that spec instead of needlessly stroking someone until 70 when they realize the bitter truth, we'd be alowed to say ret is broke at end game. Period. Whether you say Lawl Ret or Ret of broke at end game it's the same damn thing.
I'm realizing this place does suck.
But not for the reasons put forth lately.