Annoying forum trends

[JoleneBrody]

When someone's signature link goes directly to their chatroom instead of their profile, especially with zero indication. Like Amber has separate links for her's which is cool, but when the text is just "MFC" I assume it's for their profile. It always results in me going "Ahhhhhh!!" (especially if I'm signed onto my model account) and then clicking "back" frantically.

Oh god yes!!!! Especially since the link is completely useless if the model is offline. PROFILE LINK PLEASE RAWR!

 

[VeronicaChaos]

When someone's signature link goes directly to their chatroom instead of their profile, especially with zero indication. Like Amber has separate links for her's which is cool, but when the text is just "MFC" I assume it's for their profile. It always results in me going "Ahhhhhh!!" (especially if I'm signed onto my model account) and then clicking "back" frantically.

Oh god yes!!!! Especially since the link is completely useless if the model is offline. PROFILE LINK PLEASE RAWR!

I understand the idea...you link to your chatroom instead of your profile because if you are online you want people in your room...

But it doesn't work on so many levels.

1. you're probably not online.
2. Even if you're online, you want people to think it's THEIR idea to visit you. It feels like being tricked into watching someone. Feelings of being tricked=not good for business. With advertisements/marketing, the idea is to give customers good feelings. They associate those good feelings with you and will spend money to have more good feelings. I'll go out of my way to visit businesses that give me good feelings. For example there's a hardware store in my neighborhood that has a popcorn machine/free popcorn. I was super excited when I first saw that and got some. Now, I hardly ever get the popcorn but the association is complete and I will always go to that hardware store because it makes me feel excited to be there. Even if it's a bit more expensive than other places. I'll pay extra for those happy "holy shit this place has popcorn?!" feelings.

Sorry, accidental rant about business. :lol:

 

[JoleneBrody]

When someone's signature link goes directly to their chatroom instead of their profile, especially with zero indication. Like Amber has separate links for her's which is cool, but when the text is just "MFC" I assume it's for their profile. It always results in me going "Ahhhhhh!!" (especially if I'm signed onto my model account) and then clicking "back" frantically.

Oh god yes!!!! Especially since the link is completely useless if the model is offline. PROFILE LINK PLEASE RAWR!

I understand the idea...you link to your chatroom instead of your profile because if you are online you want people in your room...

But it doesn't work on so many levels.

1. you're probably not online.
2. Even if you're online, you want people to think it's THEIR idea to visit you. It feels like being tricked into watching someone. Feelings of being tricked=not good for business. With advertisements/marketing, the idea is to give customers good feelings. They associate those good feelings with you and will spend money to have more good feelings. I'll go out of my way to visit businesses that give me good feelings. For example there's a hardware store in my neighborhood that has a popcorn machine/free popcorn. I was super excited when I first saw that and got some. Now, I hardly ever get the popcorn but the association is complete and I will always go to that hardware store because it makes me feel excited to be there. Even if it's a bit more expensive than other places. I'll pay extra for those happy "holy shit this place has popcorn?!" feelings.

Sorry, accidental rant about business. :lol:

But it was seriously a glorious rant about business I hope lots of people read!

 

[GweenBlack]

When someone's signature link goes directly to their chatroom instead of their profile, especially with zero indication. Like Amber has separate links for her's which is cool, but when the text is just "MFC" I assume it's for their profile. It always results in me going "Ahhhhhh!!" (especially if I'm signed onto my model account) and then clicking "back" frantically.

Oh god yes!!!! Especially since the link is completely useless if the model is offline. PROFILE LINK PLEASE RAWR!

I understand the idea...you link to your chatroom instead of your profile because if you are online you want people in your room...

But it doesn't work on so many levels.

1. you're probably not online.
2. Even if you're online, you want people to think it's THEIR idea to visit you. It feels like being tricked into watching someone. Feelings of being tricked=not good for business. With advertisements/marketing, the idea is to give customers good feelings. They associate those good feelings with you and will spend money to have more good feelings. I'll go out of my way to visit businesses that give me good feelings. For example there's a hardware store in my neighborhood that has a popcorn machine/free popcorn. I was super excited when I first saw that and got some. Now, I hardly ever get the popcorn but the association is complete and I will always go to that hardware store because it makes me feel excited to be there. Even if it's a bit more expensive than other places. I'll pay extra for those happy "holy shit this place has popcorn?!" feelings.

Sorry, accidental rant about business. :lol:

So that's why i paid extra 50$ on my mouse. They always had cotton candy and popcorn in front of it.

I got tricked without knowing. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[JubalCobb]

big images in signatures.
Particularly when those images have nothing to do with the topic of the forum.

Did we all need to know you're a gamer with a huge image, longer than your actual content, on every single post.

Or conversely when models dont have a sig. Dont make me search for your cam profile and/or twitter account.

<edit - not talking about the post directly above mine. that's more on topic than the example that bothers me.

 

[PunkInDrublic]

People acting like they speak for the entire gender just because they belong to it.

Models that give poor advice to members, advice that kinda makes camgirls look bad.

 

[PunkInDrublic]

Models that give super awesome "advice" like "tip her" to members when they come here asking questions. It is possible to offer advice that doesn't only include "pls give her money."

Models giving horrible advice because they can only see one very skewed point of view.

Other models backing up horrible advice because hyuck hyuck we are on the same team.

Models/members that expect mfc noobs to use the site the way they want them to or even properly.

People using /end rant or something similar when it wasn't even really a rant.

People that have creepy anime pics in sigs or avatars, like underage creepy not just nerdy creepy.

People that complain about a page loading slow because of gifs or youtube videos.

People that find a way to be offended by the most petty shit ever.

People that take the internet too seriously.

 

[Nordling]

People that whine a lot but never look in the mirror.

 

[PunkInDrublic]

The stooges and suck ups that always come running to defend the models that don't realize how annoying a lot of models find them.

 

[KayleePond]

The only thing I personally think is "bad" (notice quotes, it's not bad... but leaves me questioning its justification) is when someone's view is against a lot of people's (especially models) that it goes "Post unicorn/my little pony to derail thread".

If you don't like/don't agree - just don't post? If someone is just left rambling to themselves, they stop posting.

By intentionally derailing (to try and annoy usually) the person by "showing how little we care" - you're not only doing precisely the opposite, you are also, effectively, bullying/stifling discussion because you don't like what you read.

If what they're doing is against the rules, Amber will lock it. If she thinks they've stepped over the line, she'll ban them. If she's done neither, then why are we deciding who should be bullied into silence/exiting just because we don't agree with what they're saying. In the real world we all care about "Freedom of expression/speech" - but online, only if it doesn't annoy us.

First time I saw it I chuckled; it was amusing. The second time I thought "why...", and since then I think people need to just move on from the topic and leave it alone - you don't have to have the last say if you disagree with someone and we don't all have to agree.

I know most people need "teh w1nz" on the internet, but... you really don't

I think this is really interesting and I've always wondered about the general thoughts on this. I'm not really surprised that others find it annoying and can easily see that it can belong in this thread!

I think you're right on a lot of points about this and I can easily agree that it seems like a rather childish way to respond to conversations we don't like, initially I felt the same way that you did actually (amused the first time and then kind of meh after that). Then I came to understand The Ponies as sort of like a means of communication to you guys, the main forum guys, from the models. Sometimes there are threads that no one will leave alone, and they keep being picked at over and over and at a point, perhaps it feels like it should end. In Model's Only, we can easily say "Hey, can we just all agree to let that thread die and not feed the trolls?!" and often that works but then I feel like there's not a real way to get the message to our awesome friends on "the outside".

We will often directly say, "Let's not respond anymore everyone!" or "Please don't feed the troll!" and it often doesn't work even when it is clear that the whole community is kind of over it. Like someone keeps poking it with a stick however the conversation is clearly not productive anymore. I think the I think it is NOT appropriate if it is used like a "La La La La I'm not listening!" fingers in the ears kind of thing because you don't like what people are saying. If a shitty thread is continuously roused, it gets kind of frustrating.

I know it isn't totally rational. We should be able to just not click on a thread anymore, but I suppose a lot of us feel quite possessive regarding the forum and kind of feel responsible sometimes even though we maybe should not or at least in ways that we should not. Maybe it's just this strange nagging feeling? Maybe it's this feeling of not wanting to give someone lame continued satisfaction?

I'm not saying it's right or good, but I think it's how I've come to understand it; mainly as a message that the models are asking the members to stop.

I'm not disagreeing with your post or anything, but offering some insight and added thoughts!

 

[PunkInDrublic]

Ponies are fine imo when the thread is something stupid like "camgirls smell" from the same douchebag that always makes those threads. Ponies because a guy brings up uncomfortable truths or has a different opinion? Bad imo but I don't recall this ever happening.

Some weird ones

-smilies, never cared for them and I don't think I have ever used one here
-any kind of timer or countdown clock in sig
-any crew bullshit in sig unless it's mocking those that do it
-dudes that join to ask questions that just don't need to be asked because it is something they really should be able to figure out/deal with themselves
-people like me that not only complain too much but just sometimes talk too much about themselves, weird that I have less than 1300 posts, feels like I got 5000
-people that don't understand that someone can be pretty self aware and still find it funny/use it for humor
-people that don't understand the difference between trolling and a troll
-people that start a post by saying "I didn't have time to read the whole thread but" when the thread is like 3 pages
-people that create threads when you know that they know that they could of just googled the question they created the thread for

 

[MsDonkey]

If there's ONE trend that I find happens on every forum I've been on that saddens and frustrates me, it's that some boards/topics/threads/etc. can very easily turn into an echo chamber, where people who agree with each other can post a bunch of things in support of something, and anyone with a differing opinion gets shot down and/or are afraid to say something for fear of ostracization, etc.

I haven't seen any specific examples here, but as a general rule of things that annoy me about forums, it's number 1.

 

[SaffronBurke]

Something that plagues every forum I've been on:

People posting new threads to introduce themselves, or post a personals ad, when nearly every forum on the face of the internet has a sticky devoted to that very purpose. Especially common on FetLife for some reason.

 

[MsDonkey]

I thought of one other very big pet peeve about fora, in general. I think it's really at the root of my "Echo Chamber" pet peeve too, now that I think about it.

Whenever there are discrete, separate communities that use the same forum (Models/Members, is an example here but it could easily be Writers/Readers, Creators/Customers, or even just Mods/Members etc.) there can be a point when people develop an "Us vs Them" mentality.

It's very easy to lose context with a forum because there's no tone of voice, and someone might have a hard time putting thoughts into words, PLUS they might be unable to clarify or respond to a post until hours later; so unlike a conversation, or even IM Chatting, it's very easy to misinterpret something and/or get worked up about any perceived slight. It's easy to see how someone might post in support of another person when an OP's post got misinterpreted, or misstated, and then an echo chamber forms in support/denouncement of a person/group/opinion.

Kaylee had a great post explaining the logic behind posting of Ponies, when the models see a thread getting derailed by a troll (or even well-meaning people's desires to have the last word/keep explaining their point), but I don't think it's too far a stretch to see how some members might feel that the models could be "ganging up on them" in that kind of scenario. Or that the models (as a whole) feel that the members (as a whole) aren't listening when people say to let something go.

And, again, it doesn't need to be different communities like Models/Members, it could be Marvel/DC fans, Sportballers/Rival Team, People who thought Man of Steal was awful/People who are wrong and have bad taste in movies. ( )

And again, I can't name any specifics of time's it's happened in the short while I've been on ACF, but it's something I have seen happen on many forums in the past, and it saddens me.

 

[PunkInDrublic]

People showing up just to shit on a new member

Bitter lemmings

People calling delusions facts

They way all this complaining has only seemed to increase all these problems

The way nobody ever sticks up for noobs

 

[PunkInDrublic]

Summer of Punk is over yall, time for me to stop posting. Want to give a big thanks to Amber and Jawbs for tolerating me. Big thanks to all those I've spoken with. Even if you didn't like me, I like you just to spite you. Alright, good luck everybody.

 

[JordanBlack]

Summer of Punk is over yall, time for me to stop posting. Want to give a big thanks to Amber and Jawbs for tolerating me. Big thanks to all those I've spoken with. Even if you didn't like me, I like you just to spite you. Alright, good luck everybody.

PUNKKKKKKKKKKK

 

[LailaBaise]

You can't leave us.

 

[AmberCutie]

Summer of Punk is over yall, time for me to stop posting. Want to give a big thanks to Amber and Jawbs for tolerating me. Big thanks to all those I've spoken with. Even if you didn't like me, I like you just to spite you. Alright, good luck everybody.

Aw, whaaaat? I was just thinking to myself that I enjoyed some of your more recent posts and now you're... leaving us?

 

[Rose]

Summer of Punk is over yall, time for me to stop posting. Want to give a big thanks to Amber and Jawbs for tolerating me. Big thanks to all those I've spoken with. Even if you didn't like me, I like you just to spite you. Alright, good luck everybody.

For that, I'm going to like you back just to annoy you.

Neener neener!

 

[PunkInDrublic]

Yeah idk, just ain't feeling the forum or camsites anymore. Constant reminders of why people think so poorly of camgirls/sex workers. Which sucks ya know because not all camgirls are idiots and many here do a fuckin awesome job of proving this time and time again but the non stop barrage of stupidity here can be painful to watch. Unlike anything I've ever seen online before and I post on some pretty awful boards. The yes men that do nothing but suck up and enable this stupidity are somehow more annoying than those that they are doing a disservice to. I could continue complaining and bitching and annoying people and trying to make things change into what I consider acceptable but that would be insane and wouldn't be helpful to anyone. It kinda just finally dawned on me that I don't fit in here at all and I don't want to fit in. I don't want to watch the forum slowly disappear up its own asshole anymore. I don't want to watch some camgirls struggle when they do everything right anymore. I don't want to watch all the lemmings who haven't ever had an original thought continue to reinforce every negative stereotype about sex workers. I don't want to watch the circle jerks anymore. I don't want to watch this place become even worse than those feminist tumblr blogs. I don't want to watch all the doofuses fall into the groupthink phenomenom anymore. I don't want to watch all the cowards gang up on people anymore. I don't want to watch young impressionable women go from happy and open minded people to delusional, ignorant, classless, honorless, prideless and bitter fucks in like a months time anymore.


So yeah, I don't belong here, never did really, but it isn't fun or entertaining for me anymore. Nothing but love and respect for a lot of the people here but sometimes it's just time to go ya know. Ain't leaving mad or sad or anything really, just leaving. Need to take a break from the internet in general probably and focus more on real life, can't keep wasting away on the internet. Welp, little more dramatic then I would have liked but whatever.

 

[VeronicaChaos]

So yeah, I don't belong here, never did really, but it isn't fun or entertaining for me anymore. Nothing but love and respect for a lot of the people here but sometimes it's just time to go ya know. Ain't leaving mad or sad or anything really, just leaving. Need to take a break from the internet in general probably and focus more on real life, can't keep wasting away on the internet. Welp, little more dramatic then I would have liked but whatever.

I disagree that you don't belong here. I think that you are an invaluable member to this forum. You're our crazy bipolar devil's advocate, and I mean that in the best way possible. You sometimes phrase things in strange ways or push people's buttons, but you have a lot of respect around here. You've gotten away with saying some pretty crazy things and people still like you, I think that says a lot.

I'd be sad to see you go, but I also understand the need to do more real life. :handgestures-salute:

 

[JordanBlack]

^What Veronica said!

Particularly we are the least homogenous group. We're just a bunch of people off the interwebs that share one thing in common, CAMMING! Seeing ACF as a clique, or a sum of a particular set of ideals is wrong. We are all so different but yet, that's what makes us stand apart, that's what makes us interact and socialize, have different or same opinions and so on. That's what makes camming interesting and that's why everybody is set to study us as a trend lately, members and cam girls.

We might've grown up differently, went to school or not, have totally different interests or on the contrary, we might be born/ or not on the same continent/ country, different cultures/ or not. <---No matter, there's a thing that attracts us to one another, on an individual scale or a group scale, fuck if I can actually pin point it exactly. What I know is that I don't want to change the way I am, you don't want to change the way you are, therefor you can't change how everybody else here on acf is to suit your needs. It's just not a viable option, just because we are so gawdamn different.

[...] I went a bit off the rails for awhile (my post would've been way to long)/ deleted things/.

Anyway I value a different opinion or thought, as anyone else would, I hope, even if sometimes you'd think people might gang up on you and you might be in minority that shouldn't be a reason for ditching this forum.

Tl;dr: I agree with V!

 

[Fay_Galore]

I like when someone rattles the cage now and then. makes me stop and think. you're an excellent cage rattler!

 

[JimsX]

"I've decided my model friend needs help so I've come here to find out things that she apparently can't find out herself"

Doh! I just did this.




:lol:

 

[JimsX]

Summer of Punk is over yall, time for me to stop posting. Want to give a big thanks to Amber and Jawbs for tolerating me. Big thanks to all those I've spoken with. Even if you didn't like me, I like you just to spite you. Alright, good luck everybody.

I love you in the manliest way possible. Now you have to stay.

 

[PunkInDrublic]

Dudes that make a big deal about leaving a forum that come back less than a week later. What a buncha fuckin dorks those guys are.

Yup, back before ya have a chance to miss me. Got a lot of private messages with great advice and kind words, appreciate those. Ain't going to be around as much but I'll be around. Sorry for the tantrum.

You're our crazy bipolar devil's advocate, and I mean that in the best way possible.

For the record, not bi polar or any other mental illness. Just weird. Kinda wish sometimes that I had a medical condition to blame my weirdness on tho.

 

[Gen]

I'm glad you're back!!! :thumbleft: :hello2:

 

[DDuckworth]

-people spreading inaccurate information
-people thanking posts with inaccurate information
-people pretending like their opinion is fact and then getting mad when someone has a different opinion
-people preaching about whatever and then doing the exact opposite of it while acting holier than thou

This sounds like "annoying life trends"

 

[Jesse0328]

I'm a moderator on a forum and I had a user once report one of my posts and in the comments stated that I was an ass.