I've addressed the issue as I see it. I just happen to feel that the issue is people calling one another out all of the time.

I don't want to 'fix' cB, I want it to heal itself as a broader unit, and I think the quickest way for that to happen is for people for stop trying to fix individual parts of it, be it mods, members, the Locker Rooms, the design standards, or whatever.

I'm the cancer! I'm the cancer!

I don't think anything ON cB is killing it. I think it is what it lacks that is doing that. It simply doesn't have what it used to, which is a close-knit group of people who didn't HAVE to resort to childish little bashing, or trolling, or pathetic signatures to have fun on cB, because they actually got to know each other, were intelligent, witty, and generally NOT out to 'win' at the game of cB.

Seriously. EVERYTHING is just a battle here. I can't remember the last time I really enjoyed posting in a thread around here, simply because checking in with Feedback/Backstage/Whatever grief has cropped up in the Lounge that by the time I'm finished with that, I have to go do something else.

I'm the first to admit that I LOVED cB drama. Because it is a way just to chill out, over-act, and just blow of steem. But the thing is, we haven't had any cB DRAMA in ages. We've had genuine cB fighting. Everyone is so concerned that they MUST look intelligent, but MUST not appear to care too much, and MUST be witty, and MUST be a good mod, and MUST jump on the 'mods are nazis' bandwagon, and MUST provoke something that no one does anything that they WANT to do anymore, like go to Debate, or discuss entertainment.

I think the reason people don't like cB anymore isn't because it has turned into a group of over-hormoned angst bunnies bitch at one another over trivial things. Rather, it has turned into this BECAUSE people don't like cB. And these things aren't even trivial in the sense that it's 'just the internet' (which, while I'm on the subject, is a really, really stupid argument on so many levels), but rather that it is trivial WITHING the internet. If you got a bit of a bitchy warning, DEAL. do what everyone else used to do: ignore it, and just chill. There is no need to make a scene, because all it does is perpetuate the problem. Likewise, if you think someone is deliberately stirring stuff, ignore it! People will realize that in their own time that whoever it is is a dull dimwit, and move on. EVERYTHING doesn't have to be the next battle in whatever the war of the day happens to be.

cB is suffering from a lack of real members, as opposed to brash, larger-than-life-and-twice-as-full-of-it cariacatures of members. The people who made cB great have either left, are lurking on the verge of leaving because of the ones who remain, or are hanging around acting like pricks, and trying to justify this by looking for someone to blame for their own asisnine behaviour.

The reason cB is dying (although I would like to believe that it isn't terminal) isn't because it is full of bullshit, but rather because it ISN'T full of fun, good-humour, and wit.

cB isn't dying from cancer, it's dying from oxygen deprivation.

I think this is offensive to those persons who have cancer or who have dealt with cancer in their life in some way or another. I really think this should be closed.

THUNDERBOLT
*smh* Sorry, not very effective on water pokemon


BUBBLEBEAM

I think we need to start an official Pokemon battle thread.

I don't see a problem with member bashing, as long as it's not too excessive and everyone doesn't jump on the bandwagon and bash the entire thread(unless, of course, it is just that dumb). Plus, if you're going to bash people, at least make it clever/witty/funny. Someone (in a debate) once tried to bash me by making the assumption that my mother had had several abortions, and that she slept around. That's stupid member bashing. At least make it as truthful as you can.

JAMES'S POST!