Harmonic's Ultimate Rant/Praise of the forums and also some rants about the bad parts too

Entry posted by Harmonic Revelations March 2, 2013

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Yes, I know the title is long, but that's okay, because it's just okay. Alright?

So I decided I'd take the liberty to rant about my opinions on certain things about the fandom, and more specifically, I'm going to talk about some things on the site too. Yeah, there will be some lists, probably numbered. I'll try to organize, and fail badly at it. Mostly because I've been extremely tired for the past few days, and moody, and no matter how much sleep I get it's only getting worse.

So yeah, there's that.

So I'm going to try to post some stuff, it may or may not make sense, it all depends.

Members I consider to be like family (May not be a mutual feeling, idk)

Some members here are are so awesome, that I feel like they're family. This is partially got to do with how loyal I am to my friends and partially because most of my actual family is dead/doesn't want to talk to me.

(Chigens and Kay isn't on this list, because I'm actually dating them, so depending on your views on dating, you could consider them my actual family.)

So let's list, don't feel bad if you're not on it, I probably just forgot you, because you know, I'm extremely tired.

-Firebolt: Really great girl, she's done a ton of nice things for me and I couldn't be more grateful if I tried. Love ya Firebolt.

-~Chaotic Lightning~: Is fun to talk to and easy to share my thoughts with. He's really great, and we have a lot in common.

-LeatherBehlt: Leatherbelt is just amazing, especially on the streams. Not only that but he's pretty funny.

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Yeah that list was short, I know, right now my attention span is really short. I really do feel horrible right now, not sure why.

So now that I've talked about that, let's talk about something else. Something very obscure, and something very important to talk about, because sometimes it happens on this very forum. (Not as much as in other fandom websites, so I'm probably going to stick to those)

Censorship.

I know, your first response was probably something like,

*gasp*

As it should be.

This has not happened to me, persay, but I've seen it occur with other members. Perfectly responsible, normal members, posting their thoughts, and getting their posts deleted. You may be asking,

"Harmonic, they broke the rules, didn't they?"

And surprising as it may be, the answer is usually no.

Unless you consider disagreeing with a moderator the violation of a rule, that is. In which case, yes, they have broken the rules. I'm not going to go into any specifics about instances on this site, mostly for the safety and privacy of all parties involved in said incident.

But yeah, I'm going to get on with it, now.

This mostly happens on Bronynet, recently, an incident there involved a moderator deleting many posts and it resulted in a lot of name calling and eventually that moderator was removed from the site indefinitely. Normally the problem would be over, but this is not the first time such an incident has occurred.

Another place this happens is Newgrounds, although to be fair, on that site it isn't dedicated to the fandom, but what I'm getting at is that the fandom is often suppressed there by anti-brony moderators. Are these moderators bad people?

No, the prime example is one of the best people I know, kind hearted, and charitable.

This brings me to the next thing I'm going to talk about...

Haters

However, I'd like to promptly explain an uncomfortable truth.

Inside the very fandom, there are some pretty bad people who make it a habit of being annoying and misinformed, fitting directly into the stereotypes about us like it was some kind of destiny jig-saw puzzle, and that creates a lot of hate for us.

I'm going to swallow my pride and say this flat out. Some of the hatred we get is deserved. You have to look no farther than people who try to "convert" anti-bronies. Seriously, that's like going to Burger King and getting spammed in your mail that McDonalds is better until you actually go there.

It's annoying, and more importantly, of course;

nobody wants that.

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I'm going to update this as I think of more things to complain about to the possible three people who might actually take the time to read this entire thing.