This place started going to shit when people started treating this site like it was /b/ instead of an actual online community.
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That was from the chat thread so who the fuck cares, but how often do you see shit like this? Or if you're not typing like a dyslexic mongoloid, it's faggot this, nigger that, or whatever other ridiculous insults you can think of.
If you take anything seriously, you get mocked for it. I called someone out for breaking the rules and acting like a shithead and a mod mocked me for it. When I was constructively attempting to sort out the fate of the old ex-mod group with Jeff, people were calling me an immature autistic who only cared about my name being purple, ignoring everything else I was saying. I fully expect someone to do something similar because of this post. Threads are constantly interrupted by people who just want to derail the discussion and insult anyone who's part of it.
But when the merge happens, suddenly that's just our "abrasive sense of humor" and FA better get used to it.
There's a thread in the LOTD section where 2-D replies saying "fuck" 5 times in two sentences, with "nigger" tossed in, just because someone posted a link that wasn't Youtube. That probably breaks 3 or 4 different rules, but nobody even notices. I know the internet is all shits and giggles, but there should be a time and a place for it, and for some reason we stopped caring when it gets inappropriate. It's gotten to the point where we identify with how shitty we treat each other.
So yeah, no fucking surprise this place has gone downhill.