Dreamaster said:
OMG! It’s funny reading all these brutal comments and I’m thinking “There’s a whole different set of rules for Frink!?” You actually came right out and admitted it. This has become one of my least favorite communities. You all treat each other like crap, but especially new users. And I apologize for opening my mouth and continuing this in your thread Harmy… but that one just lit me up.
It is not that there is another set of rules for Frink, just that he’s an example of a person that is well established in the community (versus unknown, be that new user or a troll), and responds with sincerity when it really matters in addition to his extreme sarcasm, which we all have come to expect and understand. Dat_SW_Guy came in with newbish questions we genuinely tried to help with at first, and then he quickly devolved into self-admitted trolling with indecipherablely written “jokes” that no one but him even knew were supposed to be funny, if they even were supposed to be funny, in addition to riling people up by threatening to damage Harmy’s project by posting unapproved reencodes he was clearly not qualified to make. It quickly got to be a headache to even try to follow what he was saying, and every time he’d try to claim he was just an innocent new user, he’d immediately betray that and troll again. If that makes us react badly to him, I don’t see how that’s really surprising.
And maybe we’re a clique here, but we are open to letting in new people, as long as they give a damn about being part of our community.