Woodruff wrote:hookshotwillaby wrote:The ones i've noticed having fun here have all been asked to leave at one time or another. What is that?
What "that" is...is a very strong mis-perception, in my opinion.
it is a mild misconception. Some/Many of the Permabans were certainly justified.. i am not going to detail my opinion on all as they are so subjective.
the reality around here is that there is an innate truth to the sentiment in Hooks words. That's important, as if we are to have a Forum community, then the best characters (often the naughty ones) draw in the punters and keep us here; to the Forums, they are as important as great map makers are to the game!
There is something else to consider too.. i keep harping on about 'dynamics' and 'all of us having roles to play' but that is as important here as the interdependence of ecosystems.. which, unpleasant though it sounds, need: Grazers, (your average 'QFT' quoter and Christian Democrat); hunters (like Dancing Mustard) and Bacteria to clean up the shit after both of them (Andy, OP, Clapp etc... hehe maybe Woodruff soon
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No one is ever going to wax lyrical about the humble bacteria but they are the beginning life and more than likely the end of life. But for the beauty.. for the majestic vigour of the hunt, which we all grip our seats for and pulse in joyful blood-lust, we need a lion or two.
The importance of our finely balanced ecosystem is quite plain within the realm of entertainment (which is all this over-inflated little society is all about isn't it .. sometimes we all forget that) but to maintain that we all invest a lot of time and effort. In doing so we also need this mutl-layered cast of predators, prey and shit collectors.
What the predators do is lead the attack, often viciously and often indiscriminately but they get in there, mix it up and ensure the grazers don't eat all the bloody grass.
The hunters, with scent of blood in their nostrils; kill, target the weak, and to drop the tired metaphor for a moment, champion all anti-establishment causes.
Indiscriminately perhaps but they get in and weaken the resolve of the conservatives and the upholders of the status quo. By doing so, some will say they take resources away from the site and weaken the whole site. (But of course the grazers will say that; they only want to eat all the grass in peace, till there is none left.)
In truth, what the hunters and the trail-blazers do is cause mayhem, the best of them (Mustard has to be included) do so with the shield of logic; for if they are not logical they can not be effective in their pursuit of sport. And then, once the dust settles on our African plane, it is left to the omnivore's .. (sometimes people like me, when i am not feeling too irritable towards the site) those with the scent of the kill but who graze a little too. The boring people with the pragmatism to see/care enough for the broader picture, to come in and finish off bones of the debate.
My point is, this place would be only full of masticating grazers without people like Mustard. Then, when the place is full to the brim with ruminant faeces and no grass is left, the bacteria will turn on the dead carcasses of the emaciated sheep .. and then.. only JR will be left, reading his CC CV, quietly in the corner to himself
So the site and the community needs to get this right; the naughty ones, with a view to revolution, are vital and if you limit their ability to protest via accumulated minor infraction and permaban the site will lose in the long-run.
The omnivores need indiscriminate hunters to go in first to satisfy their objectivity and reticence. Without the objectors, make-up sex and compromise will not be possible...
... but i will not be helping.
