I've noticed it too, attribute it to amazing moderators or whatever you will, but this site still feels much more welcoming than most forums out there.
I love it.
I love it.
Escapists: Why are we so different?
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because the mods are way too strict,
even posting something mildly offensive can ban you
and wtfs with these captchas to post now? LAME
even posting something mildly offensive can ban you
and wtfs with these captchas to post now? LAME
uh, excuse my ignorance but what is Captcha? EDIT: I know what it is now 1st hand and YES, get rid of it.HTID Raver said:
actually, I do think Halo is better than CoD, I rented the original MW and didn't like it but thoroughly enjoyed the Reach campaign with my friend at his house last month, trouble is, I know people have different opinions to me and I wouldn't openly post this unless someone else brought it up, besides as someone else has already stated, remember the Glory Days of 2008 when if stepped one foot out of line you'd get the Ban-hammer on you before you could click the EDIT button? Hell, this post here would've probably landed me on probabation back then for disagreeing with others, sorry, I forgot where I was going with this.Yagharek said:
'Why are we so different? What makes this site, better than most places in this aspect?'
Why would you think 'we' are different? Why would you think this site is better than any other?
This is just another website dude, calm down.
Why would you think 'we' are different? Why would you think this site is better than any other?
This is just another website dude, calm down.
oh well i guess it isint on every post like i thoughtJosh12345 said:
its those annoying boxes that have distorted words and letters you have to type in correctley before posting
I think The Escapist offers something a bit different though. We don't offer cheats, we don't do conventional reviews with a rating system, we're not even that flashy with our site compared to Gamespot or IGN and we don't segregate our community into "Xbox here, PS3 here, PC here, Wii...no one plays Wii!".
So we attract a different userbase, a much more open user base who don't mind something a bit different. That's just the way I see it anyway. The Escapist isn't a site for games, it's a site for gamers.
So we attract a different userbase, a much more open user base who don't mind something a bit different. That's just the way I see it anyway. The Escapist isn't a site for games, it's a site for gamers.
Because anything that can be construed as offensive to anybody is grounds for getting banned. Everybody is pleasant and agrees because if you don't, you probably won't be here very long.
It is my favourite forum, due to the mods being fairly swift to take action.
Other than that and the various articles and videos the forum is not any better than any other places, instead of trolling fanboys we have snobbish elitism and mainstream hating indie worship, just as annoying.
We are different from the majority of forums, but not always better different, at least a high level trolling is abolished thanks to our decent mods.
Other than that and the various articles and videos the forum is not any better than any other places, instead of trolling fanboys we have snobbish elitism and mainstream hating indie worship, just as annoying.
We are different from the majority of forums, but not always better different, at least a high level trolling is abolished thanks to our decent mods.
Not that it really matters, but I would like to submit that the forum is better looking than other forums. The blue and white color pattern is very pleasing to look at, as opposed to the fugliness of, say, GameFAQS.D_987 said:
I think the reason we think we're awesome is that a lot of the famous sites (GameFAQs, 4Chan, to a certain extent Something Awful) are significantly worse. Most of the nicer sites aren't as large, and therefore not talked about. The nicest forum on the net is probably some knitting forum less than thirty people visit. No non-knitter would even go there, and it's so small as to develop into a nice little community where everyone knows each other.
Its liek dinning at a fancy restaurant, people act god because it is expected and everyone else is doing it.
Its seem everyone else is fairly tolerant, so tolerant sometimes its almost anoying.
Its seem everyone else is fairly tolerant, so tolerant sometimes its almost anoying.
We aren't different. We aren't better.
We get into flame wars over consoles and/or PCs. Our "meaningful conversations" consist of endless repetitions of "games you think are overrated" or "most anticipated games of 2011" or "why are we sooo much better then everyone else?"
Any differences can be attributed to the activity of moderators.
We get into flame wars over consoles and/or PCs. Our "meaningful conversations" consist of endless repetitions of "games you think are overrated" or "most anticipated games of 2011" or "why are we sooo much better then everyone else?"
Any differences can be attributed to the activity of moderators.
Can you link me up? I'm intrested in that!tomtom94 said:
And were not, we just have mods that can keep a firm grasp on trolls and various other spammers.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/InternetBackdraft/VideoGamesTerribleAssassin said:
That's the one I was reading at the time, it's not very flattering. I also remember once searching the site for a specific combination of words involving "The Escapist" would result in the first option being something involving the pharase "elitist twats", may have been their forums. Seems to have changed now...
Well the mods do a good a job but that some god awful topics that always resurface every now and then. Usually we get a load of repeats of topics already been done years ago and a lot of near flambait topics around March Madness with the surge of new members. Sometimes around a couple of other points in the year. So yeah due to efficient modding the undesirables get removed relatively quickly. Also as other people have aid people do tend to find us quite elitist here on other sites.
