I'e been a casual browser of MDS now for some time now, but I never wanted to post, until now.
This is not a "I expect things to change" rant. This is a "I am frustrated and I feel like writing it out and perhaps 1 or 2 people will read it" rant.
I suppose this would be structured better if I numbered it.
#1- This site has a truly vicious gang-up on people mentality. There have been many times people in opposition to the majority position enters a topic with some ill-conceived things to say, sometimes in defense of people talked about in the topics, and there really seems to be a savage joy in tearing people apart.
I don't understand this. When I was 16 I thought it was pretty cool to "own" people on the internet who used poor spelling, bad grammar, and were not adept at communicating. What I see is that there are a lot of very intelligent, well-spoken, articulate people on here who seem to have absolutely no human compassion, feelings, empathy, or really any of the better human characteristics at all.
For example, somebody says something unpopular and spells it badly, and it takes 50 or more people cutting and pasting the same two lines to tear this person apart. I don't understand why people here are so hot on robbing other people of their dignity.
Example:
http://www.mydeathspace.com/smf/index.php?topic=25195.0
The responses to the person unable to spell "shut up" correctly are unnecessarily rude and demeaning. I don't see anything good about people of a certain intelligence level trashing those beneath them. No one on here is probably the smartest person in the world, I think a lot of people are vulnerable to being ganged up on and made fun of for looking foolish.
#2- Rude assumptions about people. Someone has a photo that raises eyebrows and that just explains everything, that they had it coming or were trash.
http://www.mydeathspace.com/smf/index.php?topic=25546.0
"Drunk"
Nice assumptions. For that matter, what assumptions can we make about people who have 10,000 posts on a site like this, follow every update with bated breath, go cyberstalking people for salicious, titillating details, try to manipulate others to get more information about people they don't know, all to, I don't know, if I were making an assumption I'd say satisfy the voyeuristic appetites of people who consider themselves so jaded this is what they need to entertain themselves.
#3- What is with all of the "Damn, I'd hit that" type of comments? And why is it when there are topics about 15 year old girls getting involved in sexual situations, there are people all over the place hunting for a picture? Why do the "hot girls" get all the hits yet people bandy social commentary about on here like they are above it all?
Okay, ignore everything else. The only question I would like answered is this: why can't people compete to see who can be the most decent and respectful, instead of who can be the grand cutting wit, the Deathspace Oscar Wilde, and why do people have to resort to comments like "What a slut" "Obvious trash show" and "LOLZ DARWIN", that sort of thing?
Well I feel better getting that off my chest.