JHoagland opened this issue on Apr 01, 2006 ยท 46 posts
byAnton posted Sun, 02 April 2006 at 5:36 AM
I can't speak for anyone else I thought it was fantastic. I do love social commentary and I think that thread speaks volumes. Being it was a perfectly legitimate opinion post but still guarenteed to be hot-topic. And was presented in simple question form as an opinion. Then it went so out of context with people actually making up stuff that was never said. ..a perfect summary of how threads snowball into fiction. We being in it together would make it a troll magnet. The only bad side I saw in it was from the people who dug in, got comfy and sincerely seemed to enjoy smacking MachineClaw and getting others more upset and then annoyed they lost a reason to slam someone and be angry. The fact that MachineCLaw was insulted and put down numerous times by people in a mob fashion, where he never said anything about anyone, was pretty sad. The obvious 12 hours before midnight, the hints by me, the other post appearing and people still were convinced it was serious. It is so rediculous and it is still going on and more important than tutorial and tech support posts that go ignored. To sum it up, it was a perfect parody on what happens in forums predictably, reliable, and consistently. It was more to poke fun at and draw attention to the way be treat each other, prioritize our roles, and handle other people's opinions. Poser is a crazy place. And today is another day.
-Anton, creator of Apollo Maximus
"Conviction without truth is denial; Denial in the
face of truth is concealment."