People who blame the "MKDS Kiddies" for flaming are in denial, "MKDS kiddies" aren't the people who are running this board to the ground, it's people like Clark. In other words, it's the pathetically immature adults with no life.

I was expressing my opinion. I think that I have every right to do so, I'm not making pointless insults at people for no reason. MKDS players are the most mature members here, everyone else that has been here since... forever think they own the board and are cocky to everyone.

Also, I wasn't pointing to Clark in particular, I just think that some people have no respect for other people and that they are running down these boards.

I am not sure how you are involved in that thread

Everyone has every right to post in this thread, seeing as this topic is about respect and the forum problems.

Trying not to sound bigheaded, but I don't think I have every flamed someone for the fun of it. Me only being 13, I think any so called "mature adult" could do the same.

P.S. I wasn't only talking about the that SMK topic, I was on about the whole board in general.

That thread IMO is pretty mild compared to some of the crap that's been floating around in General the past few months...

The SMK forum is hardly ever subject to the flame wars and bullshit that General (and a few other forums) get every day. It all sounded sarcastic....but my question is...if threads get out of hand and regular members are noticing that something may need to be moderated, why not just contact the moderator via PM/MSN/whatever to get it fixed? I know Sami was online earlier today, so it's not like he's gone AWOL and nothing can be done about it.

But in general, yea, the flame wars were on the increase over the past few months, especially with people like JCM/Brenda, T-Man, and Ben D...all three/four were banned and things seemed to have calmed down, at least a bit. Of course, all that came after a few threads just like this, addressing the same thing. I think at the end of the day it really boils down to everyone here controlling what he/she does. Not everything can be moderated by our current mods/admins. Personalities clash and harsh words get said sometimes; that's the internet for you. I'm glad that the worst of it is removed/topics locked/whatever by mods as soon as they can see it, but not everything can/should be censored.

I don't think it's just the MKDS kiddies or the cockier forum veterans...everyone gets twinges of disrespect/anger/whatever every so often (myself included), some more so than others. However, I can't agree that the most mature people here are the MKDS kiddies, because if that were true, the MKDS forum wouldn't be like it is. Probably the most mature people here are the ones that don't say anything to contribute to flaming/try to be constructive about it, but I think that everyone's attitude/personality in general contributes to the character of this board.

Basically in short, I'll quote Steve Meakings (or attempt to as I'm too lazy to dig up exactly where he posted this): "People can't be perfect, and this board can't be either."

God, what a wiener. Even with the democrats in control of the house, it is still funny to call someone a fag. It's all in good humor.

Forums are much more like dicatorship than democracy, meakings

Again it's hard to put the limits, what is too much and what can still be considered funny. I can see why people would be annoyed with the posts as of late, but I can also see why leaving things the way everyone posts it is often the best way. It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and it's been a while since I stopped trying. Take this message from Sheex and troll around a bit less (you know who you are, but mainly meakings, clark and hedley) and we're all happy. I agree that the spamming is way too much for my/other mods taste lately (hence topics being locked/posts being deleted from time to time when it's really out of hand).