uk browncoats no fun

POSTED BY: miike
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MIIKE

Monday, July 28, 2008 7:07 PM

recently i joined the uk browncoat site while the fireflyfans site was down,and after the great reception i received here i was expecting a similar minded bunch of nice shiny people to interact with ,but what i got instead was small minded bullying and general closed mindedness after my first post i was reminded that the site was not a chat room and that my spelling was not up to scratch with no posetive response to the actual content of the post.i also know that i am not the only person this has happened to. It is a bad reflection on the people of the uk who call themselves browncoats .so i d like to pesonally thank all the people on this site for being civil and helpfull.I will also say that americans must generally get a better quality of scifi fan than we do in britain .or maybe im just lucky i found this site .all the best miike

October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

MSB

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:09 PM

HUGS I'm sorry they picked on you...want me to slap them??

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Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

SHADESIREN

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:26 PM

One thing I do find prevalent in the online community is Elitism. It rears it's ugly head in MMORPGs, in Chat rooms, on forums and all over the net. Sometimes, it's merited, usually it's not. It sounds to me like that's what you met with there.

Newcomers to a community often encounter that - anyone who wasn't "there from the beginning" is a "noob" and get treated with patronizing contempt. I experienced in my brief stint in the SCA ("How long have YOU been doing this? Oh.. wow, well, I'VE been in in since I was BORN, my PARENTS were in it..." How does that make these people special or somehow better than myself, who only just discovered the SCA?).

I've even been guilty of it myself - I'm an elitist roleplayer, and I know it. As a result of knowing I have certain tendencies, I make DAMN SURE I NEVER treat people that way. I may not think they're good enough to be in "MY game" or I may think they're abusing the universe by straying so unbelieveably far from the canon - but I'm not going to say that to them. If they're having fun, I leave them alone! I can talk to them like a fellow fan, and appreciate the medium, without letting them know they don't meet my own elitist requirements for skills or abilities or talents or whatever it is, but I'm still going to show them respect and kindness. I just might not choose to play with them! lol

Anyway, I guess my point is that is SO sucks that you met with this, and it sucks that it's out there, and I know for a fact that just because you might feel a certain way, you don't have treat people badly as a result. I may not like a persons rp style or whatever, but that doesn't make them less of a cool person. It sucks people can't take a step back, check themselves, and realize that just because someone is new or less than perfect, doesn't mean they might not be someone they'rell be really glad to know.

And, 'nuff from me lol.

You know you want it - http://www.shadesiren.com

You know you need it - http://www.oberonrpg.com

MIIKE

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:34 PM

no its cool thanks it just that i expected browncoats to be on the same side espesially from my home country but they werent too hard on me it was another uk poster who got the real rough time from them and i get really annoyed with bullies espesially online ones but really it shows as they seem to be getting very few posts daily i just wanted to say thanks to everyone and will now not take this site for granted.all the best miike

October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

RALLEM

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:55 PM

You're always welcome here. It sounds to me like the British Brown Coats are confused and are donning their brown pants.

http://swyzzlestyx.com/index.html

WYTCHCROFT

Monday, July 28, 2008 9:59 PM

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Originally posted by Shadesiren:
One thing I do find prevalent in the online community is Elitism. It rears it's ugly head in MMORPGs, in Chat rooms, on forums and all over the net. Sometimes, it's merited, usually it's not. It sounds to me like that's what you met with there.

Newcomers to a community often encounter that - anyone who wasn't "there from the beginning" is a "noob" and get treated with patronizing contempt. I experienced in my brief stint in the SCA ("How long have YOU been doing this? Oh.. wow, well, I'VE been in in since I was BORN, my PARENTS were in it..."

oh yes, ha ha! it always makes me giggle now.
I went through a brief defensive stage on various sites of like explaining to folks, 'hey - been on the internet for 15 years now, uh, lurked on your site for 5 of em - don't call me noob' etc, then i thought y'know - colour me young!:) it's virtual botox!:) i think i even play up to it sometimes, but i try not to.

This site is pretty well known for checking itself now and again - because obviously, overtime you can't NOT develop tight groupings of the like minded. But i don't love FFFN for nothing - and one reason is the ability it has en masse to shake itself and go, ok, let's be a little more encouraging. (give it up for FFFN one time!)

and hey, on the new dollhouse site i'm listed as a noob doll!!!:) Where i'm from that's just plain flattering.

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I've even been guilty of it myself - I'm an elitist roleplayer, and I know it.

ah, well role playing is a tricky one - i just lurk and read because i think, unless you are introduced properly and can keep pace and HAVE been watching awhile before joining then you'll just frakk up even though your intentions are cool. I expect those groups to be a bit wary and over clique-y, s'ok. You just have to get lucky and find your niche. (but, y'know not the, er, beyond and good and evil guy.)

OUT2THEBLACK

Monday, July 28, 2008 10:55 PM

Well , it's a pleasure Flyin' with you , Mike...

It's an honor to have Folk on this boat such as we have right here in this thread...

A lot of Folk hereabouts inspire me , and that includes all present company...

On occasion I wander into RWED , and dare to take a look-see...

When some of those dumbass hogs attack ,
I've been known to start to like smackin' 'em...

If I don't actually kill them...

Politely .

With my brain .

Well , if certain UK Browncoats seem less civilized , you've still always got a home here...

'Cause it's the Love that keeps 'er in the Air...

WYTCHCROFT

Monday, July 28, 2008 11:21 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by out2theblack:

If I don't actually kill them...

Politely .

With my brain .

can you do it with a smelly foot?:)
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=11&t=34354

OUT2THEBLACK

Monday, July 28, 2008 11:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by wytchcroft:
Quote:
Originally posted by out2theblack:

If I don't actually kill them...

Politely .

With my brain .

can you do it with a smelly foot?:)
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.asp?b=11&t=34354

Yeah , but I have to sprinkle a lot of Parmesan cheese into my combat boots , first .

Then , I put it upside their head , and say ,

" Smell it...Smell IT ! "

They never remember the rest , 'cause the lights suddenly are turned out...

WYTCHCROFT

Monday, July 28, 2008 11:57 PM

seriously, as a fic scribbler - odours... putting a sense of smell into stories is way hard (without over doing it).

But we all know (and love) the fact that Serenity?
Pretty reeky.

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