Originally Posted by
Verminator
Why are they obligated to announce that they are expecting you to behave decently? The venom, the insults, the arguments, the epeen duels, the bitterness, the anti-establishment mentality overflowing... it's sad that the community has gotten so accustomed to this kind of behavior that it doesn't even feel like the generally crappy human behavior that it actually is. Why should the devs have to announce "behave like decent human beings" to you? That "going as they have previously" part has had it coming for a long time now.
Imagine a town full of murderers who were given free reign to kill as they please, taken over by a leader who suddenly starts punishing those murderers for their killing, then the murderers turn around and complain "Awww man you didn't even warn me that killing was a bad thing to do!"
This community is one of the biggest cesspools I've ever seen for a game community. It's not a secret either; many revel in the fact that this is an embarrassing community with reprehensible behavior and shameful treatment towards each other. They say "it will never change because the biggest jerks are the only reason this game is still alive" and that's been an unfortunate truth for a long time now. Except now it's no longer that simple, and the thing is, the writing was on the wall for this sort of behavioral crackdown for a while now; I'm just not sure why many folks didn't see it. (maybe didn't want to see it?)
For the first time in over a decade, the game has admins who have shown more interest in the future of the game than any of their predecessors. That alone should have been the first clue that change was coming. Previous admins tried and failed to reign in the community and eventually just gave up, mostly in part because, let's be honest, many of you are just despicable human beings with no filters and weak moral fiber. Call that an insult if you want, get indignant and hide behind it if you need to, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a fact. While you might or might not know you're in this category, you're still prime contributors to the trash heap that this community has always been. .