Worst Online Community

[Computer-Noob]

More often than not, whenever I see someone complain about other people they play(ed) with or seen online, the people in question are from a broad group and never really specified, like Xbox fanboys as opposed to MW2 fanboys (I use that example because I see it the most, not because I think all 360 owners are closed minded fanboys). Sometimes it takes a while for you to come across a particularly putrid troll on an internet forum, or an 9, but some games/websites are packed with them.

So, whats the/some of the worst online communities that you've seen or heard of?

Mine would have to be...

Halo: CE Trial
Warcraft 3 Battle.net
Youtube

 

[Ciarang]

Gamebattles is a laughably bad one.

But really, any site that claims to be the pros of whatever game they specialise in.

 

[Frequen-Z]

4chan.

 

[WeedyPirate]

4chan.

Beat me too it.

I found b.net when playing Diablo 2 was pretty shoddy. Also the amount of ignorant drivel on Youtube comments is astounding.

 

[DannyBoy451]

4chan.

lolwut? 4chan has more boards than just /b/, y'know.

OT: Gamefaqs is a pit, Youtube is horrible for discussion, and to be honest the Escapist has the most pretentious and up-itself userbase I've ever seen.

 

[Octorok]

Modern Warfare 2 players. Jesus Christ, I swear that at least 99% of them are stupid, loud, arrogant prick moron bastards who either glitch, are really really "pr0/l337" or just bloody morons in general.

I know like twenty people who play MW2 online who aren't bastards and that's about it.

 

[Smudge91]

Youtube is just awful yet there are small glimmers of hope when you meet nice people

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

Any popular online multiplayer game.
Youtube.
4chan.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[iFail69]

and to be honest the Escapist has the most pretentious and up-itself userbase I've ever seen.

which is why you are on it??

sorry, I couldn't resist,

 

[Samurai Goomba]

YouTube, easily. Gamefaqs can be horrible, but at least there are isolated boards which function as islands amidst a sea of sewage.

 

[Abedeus]

WAR community.

At first, there were idiots roleplaying on forums, talking like dwarfs or orkz. Annoying as hell.

Then, people who showered the developers with praise, blurring the image of beta-testing.

And then people shouting at others, more vocal people that had the guts to say what was wrong.

Gz, you killed a great game.

 

[MrNixon21]

4chan.

In their defense, they did help identify a couple of possible school shootings and turned in an animal abuser to the police, so they're not all bad.

 

[Frequen-Z]

4chan.

In their defense, they did help identify a couple of possible school shootings and turned in an animal abuser to the police, so they're not all bad.

Yeah that's true, it's just the whole pedobear thing that really gets me. They have made a mascot out of a pedophilic character? I just can't see how that's justified.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

I found the City of Heroes trial to have an AWFUL playerbase, I try to talk to people and their response either takes 5 minutes or they blatantly ignore me. It's ridiculous >_<

 

[x0ny]

Check out Maple Story, just a bunch of 12-16 year olds. I know, I was 16 when I played. Your method of attacking another player, was defaming. There is no pvp.

 

[TOGSolid]

EDIT: Actually no. The worst community right now, AND of all time are the Defense of the Ancients guys. There isn't a single community more stuck up and jam packed full of elitist assholes out there. I refuse to play DOTA or any of its clones online because of it.

 

[SantoUno]

Pretty much any place that doesn't have moderators keeping the community in line. Youtube and the like don't have any way to ban super-trolls or anything like that, everyone is free to say WHATEVER THEY WANT.

 

[Stryc9]

As far as gaming communities go I wouldn't know, I don't play online much and this is the only gaming forum I ever post on. As far as internet communities in general I'd have to say the Mythbusters forum. They want you to suggest ideas for shows on their forum but everyone on there, including the moderators are assholes that shoot down any particularly interesting idea in a second by burying under a bunch of posts like, "WTF is wrong with you, haven't you seen every episode, they've already done it.", or, "That's a horrible idea, GTFO!".

 

[Always_Remain]

Umm youtube can really irk me.

People on Gunbound are rarely ever cool. They are always like "OMG ZombieDave(my UN) your connection suck, lagxorz!" when it's really my computer is just slow.

Oh and then the the people in the chatbox on animefreak.tv really, REALLY piss me off. So many rules. ANd most of them are stupid. "English only, other languages, bad language, other site links will be penalized." That's not only racist, it's childish. Their argument is children come on this website! I'm sorry but I wouldn't allow my kid to use the interwebz until he/she was 13. Even then I'd but a key logger on my computer lol