OTC going down hill

[IamRAMBO24]

All the best posters are no longer posting. All everybody talks about is the rep system. The green bar posters and their stupid clicks are just agreeing with each other and repping one another and picking on the new posters. We don't see anymore real fights like the old days.

I am now just a lurker. Nothing interest me.

[fiddy]

You can help improving the OTC, you have to do just one thing stop posting

[Honk Honk]

http://i.imgur.com/aBu8O.png (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc7EDxs76sw)

[hateraid]

All the best posters are no longer posting. All everybody talks about is the rep system. The green bar posters and their stupid clicks are just agreeing with each other and repping one another and picking on the new posters. We don't see anymore real fights like the old days.

I am now just a lurker. Nothing interest me.

My wife is very disappointed in you. She loves assertive men with passion and fire. You had your chance and blew it

[IamRAMBO24]

You can help improving the OTC, you have to do just one thing stop posting

Don't worry, I will. Like I said, this forum is boring as f*ck. All you nerds are just patting eachother on the a*s and picking on the noobs. Entertainment is from real fights, humor, and conflictual discussions. Nobody does this anymore. You guys think the same sh*t, talk about the same sh*t, pick on the same people, and pat the same a*s. All in the name of the rep system.

[9erempiree]

We are the very few renaissance men left.

[kentatm]

All the best posters are no longer posting. All everybody talks about is the rep system. The green bar posters and their stupid clicks are just agreeing with each other and repping one another and picking on the new posters. We don't see anymore real fights like the old days.

I am now just a lurker. Nothing interest me.

:rolleyes: :roll:

only people that keep bringing up rep are the constant whiners like you who rightly have red bars for being jackass trolls all the god damn time.

[fiddy]

Don't worry, I will. Like I said, this forum is boring as f*ck. All you nerds are just patting eachother on the a*s and picking on the noobs. Entertainment is from real fights, humor, and conflictual discussions. Nobody does this anymore. You guys think the same sh*t, talk about the same sh*t, pick on the same people, and pat the same a*s. All in the name of the rep system.
just piss the fvck off already

[Im Still Ballin]

Agreed.

[IamRAMBO24]

:rolleyes: :roll:

only people that keep bringing up rep are the constant whiners like you who rightly have red bars for being jackass trolls all the god damn time.

And I'll keep on bringing it up. You guys are rep wh*res and it's pathetic. Real talk. Be yourself. Who gives a f*ck what people think. At least it'll make this forum a lot more interesting. You guys are toeing the line like a bunch of pathetic prom queen wh*res, and then you get the noobs all riled up over the rep system and now they're trying hard to fit in .. and this means they are not going to say what they want to say. It becomes boring. Even IM BALLIN is now sending out messages about how he wants to engage in **** sex in order to bring up his rep count. It's so stupid.

[IamRAMBO24]

just piss the fvck off already

No.

[IamRAMBO24]

*bumped for relevancy

[hateraid]

I actually agree with your views on reps. I've actually expressed that online before.

[IamRAMBO24]

Plenty of green bar posters aren't rep whores. I don't even sign my name when I pos rep someone, eliminating any of the repees feelings of obligation to rep me back.

Don't get so worked up about it man, you act like it's a battle of good vs. evil.

I would be worked up if I actually gave a sh*t. I encourage members to neg me. I sign all my negs in order for them to neg me back. If you haven't notice, the people getting worked up are the rep wh*res. They don't even sign their negs. Why? Because that would mean that person would neg them back. They create alts in order to self rep risking an IP ban; they form internet rep gangs to pick on noobs and people they disagree with. And what is worse is they would point to their green bars and proclaim they are superior posters based on that, which is bullsh*t because the best posters I've seen ARE posters people will disagree with, posters who create controversary, and posters who joke around and don't take this sh*t seriously, so using that as a measurement of the quality of a poster is pure bullsh*t.

Bottomline, I think this kind of behavior is childish and sickening and I'm calling them out.

[oarabbus]

Yeah the rep BS sucks. I honestly don't care whether I have green or red but I got negged 5 times in a 10 minute span a couple days ago. Literally, a neg rep every 2 minutes as the person must've logged into each alt to neg me :oldlol:

I lurk OTC and wait for actual good topics, but yeah there hasn't been much lately.

[fiddy]

I would be worked up if I actually gave a sh*t. I encourage members to neg me. I sign all my negs in order for them to neg me back. If you haven't notice, the people getting worked up are the rep wh*res. They don't even sign their negs. Why? Because that would mean that person would neg them back. They create alts in order to self rep risking an IP ban; they form internet rep gangs to pick on noobs and people they disagree with. And what is worse is they would point to their green bars and proclaim they are superior posters based on that, which is bullsh*t because the best posters I've seen ARE posters people will disagree with, posters who create controversary, and posters who joke around and don't take this sh*t seriously, so using that as a measurement of the quality of a poster is pure bullsh*t.

Bottomline, I think this kind of behavior is childish and sickening and I'm calling them out.

dat insecurity

[KevinNYC]

conflictual

[MadeFromDust]

OP the fight against the unjust rep system are the highest rated topics on the whole 1st page. :eek: I think yur on to something

[Lamar Doom]

There's a few issues at play here. One, most people (on earth) are idiots, a message board accentuates this truth as the patrons who choose to spend time here are a generally shitty slice of humanity (bored, boring, lonely, bitter, socially disconnected, disenfranchised, looking to take shit out on people, etc). Two, most people here are not themselves. They're either some sort of weird "gimmick", trying to be something they're not (or can't be in their real lives), or scared to represent their real voice for whatever reason. Three, the people who post the most are the worst posters.

I think you always hear "this board has gone downhill" because when you first start posting here (this was my first and only real message board experience, some of you may have been on or be on other boards and not share this sentiment) it's a fresh experience, you're sharing your perspective and getting back feedback you wouldn't get from conversations in your normal life. There's inevitably a pattern to the replies you get that over time are tiresome, agitating, and at times a depressing reality check on the state of humanity. It's also a hodgepodge of people from different places in life and that can be a recipe for poor communication. Love of basketball is the presumed common ground for all of us but that's far from enough to have their be a connection between most of us. So if it's not a valuable outlet for you, if you're just here out of habit or boredom, you should probably re-evaluate your free time. Otherwise just take your pants off and make the best of it.