"My story on forums (and rant)" ~ The part that I kept out of the thread


So this was the part of the thread I wrote originally, sleep deprived and mad at everything. I still think it's worth sharing though, it's pretty funny after all. Anyway, yeah, I left it out of the thread because I'd rather not lose an account that has the ability to give dislikes on forums ;)
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I originally joined the forums for the sole purpose of guild applications. Shortly after I got really into minecraft and Hypixel, I wanted to join a guild because having a fancy tag next to my name seemed very important and desirable. So I made the account to apply for guilds. Fun stuff. This was also around the time I was figuring out how the server as a whole works. I wasn’t old enough to be a helper back then, and I thought that getting that rank would be the perfect goal. I thought that helping out on this server that I seemed to love would be a great idea, so that’s what I went for, and I changed the way I acted and talked accordingly. Oh, how dumb of me. Because you see, while getting a forum account was technically one step closer to getting that helper rank, forums is also what ruined the motivation, the want to try and get that rank. Forums lead to skype, discord and teamspeak. This ability to communicate with others on a more personal level introduced me to the hundreds of staff horror stories. Stories of unfairness, corruption, favouritism, and abuse. Those stories lead to player stories. Staff punishing for no reason, staff being fake, and staff not doing their jobs. I wanted to believe that it was false, I wanted to believe that none of this was true, but it was. Eventually, I was introduced to like spamming, and that brought forth a whole new view and experience with staff. My friends and people who I looked up to were being banned left and right, getting punished for what seems like the smallest things. So I started doing the very thing that was getting my friends banned. My respect for staff was decreasing day by day, I didn’t use forums much, so I never thought much of it. I did it to pay tribute, I did it to be defiant. And I continued for the fame. The thing with forums is, it’s so goddamn easy to gain relevance, to make your mark. So I did. I loved the attention, I loved the support from doing something so “risky” and I can now say that it was not worth it. Even now, more than a year after first spamming those likes, I’ve never been punished for it. After getting to 99,999 I took a break from forums because I was just done. I didn’t care, I had no purpose, I had no motivation. And honestly, I still don’t. I came back after a month, and just a few months later a certain someone appeared here on forums and ruined forums a little more. You see, forums was already trash when I had left, but now it’s even worse. I had a near clean record on this server beforehand, with one single warn on forums. Now, after all of this drama, I am at 3 bans, 4 warns. That is 6 new punishments within the matter of months. And all because of a single person. To any staff reading this, I hope you’re happy. I hope you see what this person is doing to the community, because I know that I am not the only one who’s gotten punished for this. My motivation for forums has not recovered. It’s gotten worse. One of those bans and warns were on purpose, because I knew that this one certain moderator would gladly abuse their powers on me, so I went for it. The only thing keeping me here is the need to send my three daily dislikes to that troll. Once staff decide to perm ban him however, I will leave. I will take another break. Not sure if any of that made sense, and I don’t want to proof read. So there.

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