Random BS ComplaintFollow

Ok, listen up. Here's the bitter truth about the Asylum.

The Asylum used to be the Out of Topic forum. Prior to that, it was the OoT forum on the uBB boards. It was populated by a subgroup of EQ posters who became rather insular and xenophobic. When we moved to the new boards, we continued to be insular and xenophobic. FFXI players came here, got mocked and left crying. Alla asked us to be nice. We weren't. Seeing that we weren't going to play well with others in the OoT boards, Alla decided to make a new OoT and give us our own exclusive playground: the Asylum.

Get it? Yeah, it's full of in-jokes and circle jerks and cliques. The Asylum means cliques. It's a social club. It's a fraternity. It's an organisation of elitists. It's based entirely on who is "in" and who is just a poster trying to make himself fit in. It's not a "flame board", it's a place Alla set aside for the Old Guard and the "in crowd" to feel special and act elitist. Just by being here you open yourself to flames and rate-downs and a GFY for your opinions. Go ahead and cry about how unfair it is. See if anyone here gives a rat's ***.

Like it or not, you have to "prove yourself" to fit in. People come here and one of three things happen: They are clever, intelligent and funny enough to fit in, they don't fit in and they leave or they don't fit in and they sit here making a fool of themselves trying to bring us down. But we don't care. Just like how Chet and Dane laugh after they trip their caddy into the mud and drive off to meet Muffy on the yacht, we don't care if you say you cunningly provoked us or proved that we're all predictable jerks. We're still going to pat ourselves on the back and laugh at how we tripped your dumb *** into the mud.

Reading what I wrote, I can guess at the response. So be it. Better that you know the forum history and why things are as they are than sit here wringing your hands and crying that you don't get kisses and hugs for posting here.