Bad experiences on other forums.

[LeatherJeans]

The first forums I went on was the Flapjack forums.
I felt like I was a noob because of telling my interests to them on there and doing the random things they did.
But was I respected? Not really.

This is a reason that this is the only forum I'm staying on and that's ToonZone!
The people here are nice and they understand the opinions of each other.

 

[Urusei Yatsura]

It was on the first forum I went too, and I was about 12 years old I believe.

This one guy (a 'troll' is what you'd call him) insulted and bashed me with several pm's, and me being young took it harshly and threatened to quit the forum (I was actually quite popular on that particular one) but I gave in after he got banned. There's more story on that, like him secretly returning with his friends, and then some of my forum friends started a secret alliance on a different forum to stop them and stuff. >.> It was funny how lame it all was. I've grown a lot since then.

 

[veemonjosh]

Back before I joined Toon Zone, I was part of a forum that was connected to the relatively-obscure flash site Ebolaworld, under the guise of "BunnyBunny". I did do some stupid things on there, yes, but pretty much everyone associated with that site were jerks, ESPECIALLY the guy in charge of the site (he was certainly worse than the worst members I've seen in all my years on this board, and that's saying a lot). It was a horrible experience, getting harassed every day and picked on for supposedly being a word that I don't even think I can say here (the r word).

I eventually got back at him by hacking into his site, finding a flash short that he had been keeping exclusive to a DVD release he was pushing (but for some reason uploaded deep in the site's database), and leaked it to everyone. Sure, I got banned for doing that (that was partly the plan), but it was definitely worth it for all the crap I suffered through.

The board shut down within weeks of that because that guy was sick of putting up with his fanbase (he was arrogant as all hell), and the "forum" reverted to a blog format. He tried reviving the board at one point (I know because I went back and spammed it a few April Fools back), but it appears the entire site exists in a blog format now. Haven't watched a single one of his shorts since I was banned, but thinking back on them, they were HORRID (only redeeming thing was that his site introduced me to Homestar Runner).

 

[Goldstar!]

Many of my bad experiences on other forums were either caused or intensified by my own irresponsibility, jerky behavior and/or bad decisions. Once on the Teen Titans forum at TV.com, I was having a discussion with another poster about the character of Terra, and I said something (I don't even remember what I said now--I must have subconsciously blocked it out) that really made her mad. She says "Don't tell me what to do!" and starts barking at me. So naturally, being the hothead that I am, I lashed back at her with acid wit, which only succeeded in making her angrier. Now this person was completely strung out and threatening to find me and fight me over a fictional character on a TV show. I log off in order to avoid making things any worse, I come back a couple of hours later, and this is still going on! This other person is still ranting and raving and wanting to hurt me physically. I began thinking that I'm never going to be able to come back to this place without this one poster looking for my head.

Thankfully, I've since written my own personal rules of "netiquette" that I adhere to strongly, and I have since gotten a little (but just a little) better at dealing with hostility on the net since then. Nowadays, I try to avoid a confrontation whenever possible. Most of the time, I just pretend that people whom I find annoying simply don't exist.

 

[Pyrax]

It was back in 2005/6 I think.

I was a fairly popular member on a small gaming forum.
A bunch of guys appeared one day and seemed nice, then their attitude started to change and started to troll the entire forum, almost forcing the owner to shut it down.
After the forums were restored and the trolls were banned, I was blamed for what happened and was banned without any proof.

So yeah, I was banned becase the owner apparently thought I was behind what happened.
I never did anything of that sort.

 

[Miyamoto Musashi]

I joined a forum, did everything required to activate my account, waiting for activation, still didn't happen after nearly 5 months of joining in

 

[Michael JJ]

My first real conversation online turned into a flame war. Though I must admit, I dug my own grave there, even though I still think the other guy was a jerk.

It taught me a lot about internet etiquite. But I definitly burned down a bridge there.

 

[Gonzales]

Oh look at that. (For an argument that wasn't even that much of an argument)

I've been put on mod preview on that forum now (meaning that a mod has to approve my posts) wouldn't be too bad, if the mods were actually on a lot.

So tl;dr I've basically been banned in the nicest way possible :[, for an argument that wasn't even well...an argument. Anyways though, I guess I'm done there. I've already moved to another board (Arlong Pak ftw) and I'm having a super awesome time.

That's the end of this story.

I'm sorry I got you involved with Fun Piece. I really am.

It was such a nice little forum when it started out. I actually thought at one point that we had enough momentum to overtake Arlong Park. Looking back I suppose that was stupid to think, but we were getting new members all the time and a ton of activity. Times were good.

But then...something happened. I'm not sure what it was. Maybe it was the NPC drama. Maybe it was mishap. Maybe it was just the fact there was almost no moderation and the admins were brain-dead most of the time. Whatever it was, we lost. I can barely even look at that place anymore. So many lost opportunities.

 

[J!!!]

I'm sorry I got you involved with Fun Piece. I really am.

It was such a nice little forum when it started out. I actually thought at one point that we had enough momentum to overtake Arlong Park. Looking back I suppose that was stupid to think, but we were getting new members all the time and a ton of activity. Times were good.

But then...something happened. I'm not sure what it was. Maybe it was the NPC drama. Maybe it was mishap. Maybe it was just the fact there was almost no moderation and the admins were brain-dead most of the time. Whatever it was, we lost. I can barely even look at that place anymore. So many lost opportunities.

Dude, it's fine. We all learn from our mistakes lol.

Anyways, they don't hate me as much anymore but still, I always get a lingering feeling of being unwelcome every time I post there. The Admin is trying to revamp the place so maybe it still has hopes of being good someday. But who knows? They still have tons of cool members there and it has potential to be great, even now.

Guess we'll have to wait and see...

 

[Ickis]

A fair number of users at lovebugfans weren't fond of my negative attitude over there, even though it was comparable to other members and I was positive on occasion.