Can we stop being arrogant and insulting people?Follow

I am really disturb by the continued rude and abusively critical behavior displayed by alot of people on these forums. If you want to constructively offer critique thats cool. The problem is the number of people who feel it necessary to insult and demean people on a daily basis. It is very dissapointing and it looks bad on everyone who posts here. If you cant say anything without insulting people keep your mouths shut. I hope the people at Alla read this and really think about the kind of rude people that like to flame people here. However I dont think that will happen so in the meantime hopefully some people will get the message and learn to be more civilized. I really enjoy the game and I like sharing info with people who have much knowledge along with those who want to learn. Just a thought.

Edited, Nov 16th 2006 at 12:43pm PST by Railus

I certainly understand being annoyed, but that does not justify some peoples behavior. There are alot of young new wow players that post here and we should be mindful of that. Big deal if the grammar isnt 100% or they recycle a topic. Be constructive and not insulting. It isnt hard to do. And every time I see someone respond in a way that is insulting and rude I will gladly let them know.Id get sick of seeeing this subject posted too If I was trying to justify my own rude insulting behavior. All in all let me just apologize for the fact that mean people **** me off.

Wanna know something? I think you are a moron who doesn't know anything^^

I get the feeling you are butthurt about something that happened... Get over it.



Ya see, I am about to rate this guy up. Why? Hell if I know. But I can...

You need to bear in mind that often people have clearly distinct views and have to put their point forcefully.

Theres no excuse for being outright rude or resorting to personal attacks - but text communication being what it is - it is fairly easy for someone to come across as being arrogant when they are not being arrogant at all.

And that coupled with a western outlook that someone can come across as seeming arrogant just for being knowledgable - adds even more possibilities for looking arrogant.

You're acting self rightous with this posting. Personally, just drop it. there're tens of thousands of people out there. You can't expect everyone to be nice can you? Ps. it's also your choice to ignore those that are 'Arrogant and insulting' letting others influence you that way means they have succeeded in their aim of coming off as 'arrogant and insulting'. best way to deal with it is ignore them.

If someone throws a tantrum and is listened to, he'll shout and scream because he has an audience. If someone shouts and screams and is ignored, he'll quickly shut up.

did that to toons who shouted (HOARD SUCK) on Duathar chat. though we usially said (CONGRATULATIONS!!, YOU'RE HOARD) to them first.

You would think that someone with as many posts as you would not have much trouble with any form of language used on the net, be it leet speak or abbreviations. I know players that talk very well and are actualy very good guild leaders but type very poorly, yet when on Vent or TS they are examples of how people should express themselves.

I honestly have never had any trouble whatsoever to decipher leet speak or any abreviations at all, actualy if you are an internet user I think it's expected of us to actualy use/understand these. It's a choice people make, respect their choice if they respect yours. Period. It ain't rocket science. It all comes down to respect, if you keep bashing the people that use leet speak or abreviations then you're at fault for not respecting their choice. Live and let live.

I must agree with the OP, this forum can be disturbing at times. But it's only because of the variety of personalities that come to this forum, nothing more, some people get pissed and vent. Let them be and move on.

Like I said, normally I don't do anything at all to them - ignoring them is my usual policy. I down-rate them if they are really terrible, but still ignore them otherwise. As far as respecting their choice, I respect it by ignoring them. If their posts are followed up with a "Y NO Asn3r5? Y R all U p33ps ha71gn me? !!1!LOL!", they may have the answer already.

Edited, Jul 1st 2006 at 4:41am EDT by ohmikeghod

Holy crap, that last post was the longest run-on sentence I have seen in a while.

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There ya go, I think you dropped those.




And talking sh*t from a sock is REAAAAAL brave... *rolls eyes*




Well, intentionally bad spelling and truely lazy grammar annoy the hell out of me. So by your own logic, it is ok for me to talk sh*t about you. Agreed?



I do. I know I'm not alone in that.



True, but then neither are a lot of things that require good english composition. If you think that taking english classes is the only reason we are taught english, then you are truely dumber than you seemed originally.

Downrated for necroposting.

I have to put my vote in on the grammer/spelling side of this conflict, with one caveat: I suck at spelling some words. Although I would tend to adhere to the annoying red lines under those unspelt words in a word document (unless the word happens to actually be spelt right while not in the database), I am too lazy to cross-reference my posts with dictionary.com in order to ensure perfection.

I usually will welcome corrections to my spelling from those replying to my post as long as they haven't assumed the role as "grammer ****", calling each misspell an idiotic mistake on my part.

When refering to shortening you with 'u' and to with '2', and other common shortening, these aren't acctually abreviations, they are a way of being really lazy. Although being lazy enough to not bother opening up another window on my browser in order to spell a word that I do not usually type is not nearly as big a deal as intentionally spelling you and to with one character phonetics, it just makes the poster look plain, well whats the word, dumb.

As far as ChlKilt's post goes, I have heard his thesis before, but I don't buy it one bit. I may not be the sharpest utensil in the drawer, but I still think of myself as marginally intelligent, and reading ChlKilt's post, although possible, was far slower that reading other posts (I'll pick on Mike here because his posts are always top notch), like Mike's posts for instance.

For those of you who have trouble making readable posts, here's a bit of advice: Try wording out the post as you type it out, then read it afterwards to make sure it makes sense. Given practice you will be able to eliminate both steps to this technique, but I would try eliminating one at a time. Even once you have established a high enough skill in post writing to compete with Mike (because writing is a skill afterall), I would suggest continuing to reread your posts (whether before or after you hit the post message button) in order to ensure that whatever misspells you make are fixed, as well as anything that doesn't make sense. After all, you have the edit button.

I dont understand people whining about the grammar/spelling issues.
For some people english is not their mother-language, some people actually come from different countries where people DO NOT speak english.

so PLEASE keep an open mind, and understand that not everybody grow up with english and thus make mistakes sometimes when it comes to spelling/grammar.

like a wise chinese guy once said: A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Many blocks out there...





Edited, Nov 15th 2006 at 1:48am PST by ChlKilt

hmmm strange, I started posting here when I first started playing WoW. I asked quite a few questions, even ones in the FAQ which I only browsed, and everyone was actually pretty nice and helpful.

Did some of them scream at me...."its in the faq read it nub" Sure it happens, but if it was in the FAQ, then they had the right to do so.

But over all if you post on boards on the net you have to know this is one of the mild ones.