uk browncoats no fun
POSTED BY: miike
UPDATED: Sunday, August 10, 2008 20:51
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yeh the sigs from rorschschs' diary, all the best
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.
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Originally posted by lwaves:
Too much elitism.
It's not elitism, it's friendship. Pretty much everybody on that board does or has at some time, hung out together in real life. And I'm not just talking conventions, either, I'm talking at each others' houses, birthday parties, weddings.
Most of us have been there since the board began, so it might be hard for newbies to join conversations because oftentimes we manage to have those conversations without actually posting half of what we're thinking - everybody else just knows what we're talking about. We can't help that. It doesn't mean we think we're better than other people, it means we're good friends and we're having fun.
We're not adverse to newbies. We just kind of expect that they at least attempt to get a feel for the board first by reading before posting, as I would at any new board I join.
(And can I add, the lack of moderation is the exact reason I hardly ever even look here. There's nobody to report objectionable posts/material to, and I've found enough here that I've wanted to report in the past to drive me away.)
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I think it's also worth pointing out that, unless I've missed something Miike was simply asked to use punctuation in his posts. He's expressed disappointment that no one actually commented on the content of his posts but the fact is, they were pretty hard to read. It's not unusual for boards to have some expectations about how their members post - and just look at Whedonesque where you're really taken to task for missing out a capital letter or a full stop!
And yes, I used to post here all the time (although apparently so long ago I've forgotten my original log-in details!). It was the first Firefly Board I joined but gave up on it because, guess what, I found it was becoming "silly" . We all have different ideas as to what makes an enjoyable forum I guess.
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Actually, the message board that I include in my sig (which is also British, though I'm not) gets very shitty about language - not so much typos but txt spk. I can't disagree with that, you've got no letter limit AND a whole keyboard in front of you - use the damn thing.
I am always amazed at how nice people are on here. The BDH bicker amongst themselves all the time yet we're like some Californian tree-hugging, bean-sprout-munching, peace-and-love, life-coaching course. Which I love... 
www.cpfc.org - my life
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Here is an example of one of my apparently unreadable posts and i think people can then judge for themselves......."I just watched "30 days of night" on bluray it was quite average plotwise, very much like "assault on precinct 13" but with vampires.The film looked good though as the cinematography was great.I also recently rewatched "ichi the killer" which for me is one of the greatest modern superhero flicks ,and the film that got me reintrested in asian cinema after a lull for a few years, best asian film since "Battle royale". 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.
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Erm, it should be pointed out that what you've just posted was not your original post. That's your revised version from after you were asked to add some capital letters and punctuation, as noted by the edit date and your edit reason.
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ok here's another unedited post,but the point is i was told that all my post were unreadable and that only people with a basic grasp of english ,which apparently i have not according to the afore mentioned site ,may post.............The last films i saw where Django,a heavily stylised western from italy about a lone gun man who wanders into town with a coffin. Quentin Tarantino ripped off a few of the scenes in the movie most famously the cutting off of a bad guys ear. Also recently saw LadySnowblood which is a seventies samurai revenge flick of which tarantino borrowed heavily for the plotting of kill bill .Lastly saw Stalker again for the first time in ages this is a russian film regarded as a classic by critics and myself it is based on the Sturgatsky bros book "Road side picnic" which deals with the emergence and after effects of extraterrestrial visitors and a ringed off area called the zone in which the aforementioned stalkers enter to obtain artifacts of alien technology in all three very cool films . 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.
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Which you initially posted as an incoherent ramble in the wrong place, and then repeated in another thread after being asked to use punctuation and capital letters!
The inital incoherent post said this:
lady snowblood it rocked tarantino ripped it off for kill bill ,dajango tarantino ripped parts of this aswell apparently . its seems like all films i like tarantino also likes which is bizzare as i cant see him being a browncoat but he probably is oh sorry just thoght you could poast about any film my bad
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This really is a pointless argument as untill uk browncoats go through big changes starting at the top and looses some of it closed mindedness i wont be posting there again .All my thread intended to do was point out some fundamental flaws of the uk site ,which from the start seemed like it was the total reserve of a few closed minded ,pack mentality ,self appointed few. All I personally was trying to acheive was to be in touch with fans from my home country and to comunicate veiws and ideas with like minded people who share the same love of a great tv show .This instead was turned into a lambast of my own personal abilitys to express my self through the written word.............peace out 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.
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Well, as already mentioned above - we all get along. We've all known each other for years. So there won't be any "big changes" because we're all happy there.
We're not "closed minded", we just like to be able to understand the posters.
I disagree that you were pointing out "fundamental flaws", as those "flaws" are just your opinion, not fact. You said nobody replied to the content of your post - you've had explanations as to why. Nobody could understand your posts to reply to them.
You said there was bullying and closed mindedness - again, that's really just your opinion. You were politely requested to make your posts more readable, in an effort to provide us with something we could actually respond to, but instead you just got defensive and started arguing back.
It's just considered pretty bad form to join a long running, happy community and then demand they make changes to suit you. If you don't like it, don't post there, don't get angry about it!
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