The website and forum - a clear divide?

Now, it's not the first time something like this happens on MPL.

People, not only M4E, need to learn that this is the internet and people from all around the world have access to it. You'll eventually meet someone who doesn't really like you for whatever reason or has a different opinion than yours. Opinions collide all the time and how you deal with it really just depends on your person. The right thing is just to accept it and not make a huge deal because someone thinks differently. Move on and all should be fine.

Then, about the divisions... All I see is complete stupidity. The MPL community has always been one, yes there's the site and forum, but one could not exist without the other. The forum has always been the place for actual discussions, for events, activities and what will happen next with the community. While the site is more of a ''newspaper'' for the Nintendo games. I'm going to be totally honest here, but you can't really have activities or discussions on the site. Finding an interesting topic is just plain hard and having to scroll all the way down to find a comment can result in being annoying and tedious. Mostly when most of the comments are out of context, spam and unrelated to the topic. Though, people have managed to integrate themselves and make ''friends'' and that's totally fine now and I see no problem there. Just that when it comes to having big discussions and planning activities, I don't think the comment section of the site is the place.

Next, a lot of people are making a huge deal out of this. Someone left and so what? People leave all the time. Like I said, this is the internet and eventually someone will stop coming to the community. Whatever are the reasons. Some members have left the forum and do I miss them? Hell yeah, but I won't go out and make a huge speech about it as if that person was dead. I'll just come out as childish and honestly, stupid. People have to learn to let go and go on with their lives. Whether the leaving member wants to keep contact with you or not is at their own discretion. If that person doesn't want to have anything to do with the said community, then let it be. That person knows exactly why they're leaving and it's probably for the best. People will come and go. This will always happen. This is an ONLINE community. There's nothing you can do other than message people.

One last thing, some people have said bad things about the forum. Only because they cannot agree on something with a member of the community and other reasons. That's just plain sad and makes you look bad. Then don't come crying because someone ''attacked you''. Deal with the consequences.

Drama happens all the time and it won't stop. I know a lot of you are young, but y'all need to grow some balls and learn.

Thank you very much.
 
Everyone has said some interesting things here.

I didn't even know there was a divide between the website and the forum. It seems there's some members exclusive to the website but a split never came to mind. Sure it's perfectly fine if some prefer one or the other. It's kind of a problem if this split is true, making one feel a little bit more empty compared to the other. There shouldn't be a split, shouldn't both exist together and be a team?

Personally I prefer the forums, but I also enjoy visiting the website and reading the articles there. I rarely comment on the site but I still like the articles and whatever else it offers.
 
People really need to learn to toughen up. I mean, god, you can't expect everybody to bend over on command...
 
I agree that some persons on the website might not like the forum and other forum persons might not like the website (not sure). Most of the website users don't have a forum account because it's they say they can't work with the forum or they have problems while trying to get in (Since Disqus is easier to make, they prefer the website)

I don't have a preference, i like both but i think there's still a little split between them i wish it didn't exist.

Also:
Colyton said:
Now, it's not the first time something like this happens on MPL.

People, not only M4E, need to learn that this is the internet and people from all around the world have access to it. You'll eventually meet someone who doesn't really like you for whatever reason or has a different opinion than yours. Opinions collide all the time and how you deal with it really just depends on your person. The right thing is just to accept it and not make a huge deal because someone thinks differently. Move on and all should be fine.

Then, about the divisions... All I see is complete stupidity. The MPL community has always been one, yes there's the site and forum, but one could not exist without the other. The forum has always been the place for actual discussions, for events, activities and what will happen next with the community. While the site is more of a ''newspaper'' for the Nintendo games. I'm going to be totally honest here, but you can't really have activities or discussions on the site. Finding an interesting topic is just plain hard and having to scroll all the way down to find a comment can result in being annoying and tedious. Mostly when most of the comments are out of context, spam and unrelated to the topic. Though, people have managed to integrate themselves and make ''friends'' and that's totally fine now and I see no problem there. Just that when it comes to having big discussions and planning activities, I don't think the comment section of the site is the place.

Next, a lot of people are making a huge deal out of this. Someone left and so what? People leave all the time. Like I said, this is the internet and eventually someone will stop coming to the community. Whatever are the reasons. Some members have left the forum and do I miss them? Hell yeah, but I won't go out and make a huge speech about it as if that person was dead. I'll just come out as childish and honestly, stupid. People have to learn to let go and go on with their lives. Whether the leaving member wants to keep contact with you or not is at their own discretion. If that person doesn't want to have anything to do with the said community, then let it be. That person knows exactly why they're leaving and it's probably for the best. People will come and go. This will always happen. This is an ONLINE community. There's nothing you can do other than message people.

One last thing, some people have said bad things about the forum. Only because they cannot agree on something with a member of the community and other reasons. That's just plain sad and makes you look bad. Then don't come crying because someone ''attacked you''. Deal with the consequences.

Drama happens all the time and it won't stop. I know a lot of you are young, but y'all need to grow some balls and learn.

Thank you very much.

This needs an award!
 
Snowy said:
If I had known that there would be this much whining and b****ing over nothing because I called someone an ass I probably wouldn't have done it just to spare everyone the sanity.

Honestly it's not even your fault. You disliked the Mother Series and David was being ignorant towards your opinion. If anything, he was the one who cursed first saying idgaf. Don't blame yourself it was his fault he acted this way.
 
ImpaDude said:
Snowy said:
If I had known that there would be this much whining and b****ing over nothing because I called someone an ass I probably wouldn't have done it just to spare everyone the sanity.

Honestly it's not even your fault. You disliked the Mother Series and David was being ignorant towards your opinion. If anything, he was the one who cursed first saying idgaf. Don't blame yourself it was his fault he acted this way.
no I love the mother series, I just think that Mother 1 is ass.
 
ImpaDude said:
Snowy said:
If I had known that there would be this much whining and b****ing over nothing because I called someone an ass I probably wouldn't have done it just to spare everyone the sanity.

Honestly it's not even your fault. You disliked the Mother Series and David was being ignorant towards your opinion. If anything, he was the one who cursed first saying idgaf. Don't blame yourself it was his fault he acted this way.
That's right. When I stood up, I was only talking to Mow Wow, but not Snowy. I would think that Snowy now did the right thing and told him to stop... The swearing is a whole different story.

And Colyton's comment deserves an award, like Raf said. :p
 
I know this topic hasn't been posted in for awhile but I thought I'd share my opinion on this.

M4E was a good friend of mine before I joined the forum. He was really the first "friend" I ever really had on MPL. However, I understand that it was his own actions that got him into the mess that caused him to leave. Until about a month ago, we still kept in contact with each other. Then I received a message from him that he never wanted to see me again...And I'm fine with that. As many people have already said, this is the internet. You can enjoy talking to other people in community, but you can't really be friends with them until you've really met them. And really, I don't need to have a friend that thinks I'm not really being his friend.

As for the divide, until I joined the forum, there was always a divide in my mind because I stayed away from the forum because I had no reason to go there. But now...
Colyton said:
Then, about the divisions... All I see is complete stupidity. The MPL community has always been one, yes there's the site and forum, but one could not exist without the other. The forum has always been the place for actual discussions, for events, activities and what will happen next with the community. While the site is more of a ''newspaper'' for the Nintendo games. I'm going to be totally honest here, but you can't really have activities or discussions on the site. Finding an interesting topic is just plain hard and having to scroll all the way down to find a comment can result in being annoying and tedious. Mostly when most of the comments are out of context, spam and unrelated to the topic. Though, people have managed to integrate themselves and make ''friends'' and that's totally fine now and I see no problem there. Just that when it comes to having big discussions and planning activities, I don't think the comment section of the site is the place.

This is what I believe is true.


Colyton said:
Thank you very much.
^ditto^
 
Strychnine said:
GrandStarGalaxy said:
You can enjoy talking to other people in community, but you can't really be friends with them until you've really met them.
How long have you been using the internet?

He has a point. It's much easier to establish bonds when you dan interact with people in real life. Online you can't actually experience the person plus it's super easy to end friendships.
 
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