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Bucky · 07-22-2005, 06:30 PM

As a community of gamers, you would expect that the Gamershell forums would be very welcome and open to other members of the gaming world that want to come here and display their works for the world to see.

I am ashamed to say that this is far from true of these forums.

It wasn't very long ago that our idea of a sig was to have a quote from another forumite, or to just grab some picture off the web and stick it under your name. Then a few of our fellow forum members started playing with some art programs to make a sig for themselves. The first results were predictably foogly, but peeps were congratulated for making the attempt, and sporting a sig that they actually made had its own l33t status that I never obtained.

It wasn't long however until this little group turned into the full-blown crew of l33t artists that we are graced with here today. And this group of sig makers have stayed wide open to neophytes trying their hand for the first time. I recall Cow's first sig. It was godawful, but the other artists applauded him for doing his own, and tutored him until we see him winning contests with his works.

So, with this kind of background, WHY do we as a community tolerate the abuse heaped upon someone who enters these forums and has the brass balls to show off a work that they made themselves?

Gatekeeper, a regular member of our community, routinely posts things for fun, just to entertain us. The response is almost like a lynch crowd moving in for the kill. GM was actually chastised for giving GK a hint on how to improve the works. WTH is wrong with what GK is doing? Is there something horribly offensive in his pics that I am missing?

What about these other people that put out their very first movie or mod and bring it here to show off? Look at the response they have gotten!! FFS, these aren't Hollywood directors people, they are GAMERS trying to do something creative to entertain their fellow GAMERS!

Our elite sig-makers didn't just fall into these forums, they grew right here. I want to see the same thing happen here with movie makers, flash artists, modders, etc.

What do we need to do to change the atmosphere here so that they are welcomed, instead of hounded?

07-22-2005, 06:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bucky Gamershell Grandpa Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Cincinnati, OH, USA Posts: 5,712 Hellbux: 99,312	As a community of gamers, you would expect that the Gamershell forums would be very welcome and open to other members of the gaming world that want to come here and display their works for the world to see. I am ashamed to say that this is far from true of these forums. It wasn't very long ago that our idea of a sig was to have a quote from another forumite, or to just grab some picture off the web and stick it under your name. Then a few of our fellow forum members started playing with some art programs to make a sig for themselves. The first results were predictably foogly, but peeps were congratulated for making the attempt, and sporting a sig that they actually made had its own l33t status that I never obtained. It wasn't long however until this little group turned into the full-blown crew of l33t artists that we are graced with here today. And this group of sig makers have stayed wide open to neophytes trying their hand for the first time. I recall Cow's first sig. It was godawful, but the other artists applauded him for doing his own, and tutored him until we see him winning contests with his works. So, with this kind of background, WHY do we as a community tolerate the abuse heaped upon someone who enters these forums and has the brass balls to show off a work that they made themselves? Gatekeeper, a regular member of our community, routinely posts things for fun, just to entertain us. The response is almost like a lynch crowd moving in for the kill. GM was actually chastised for giving GK a hint on how to improve the works. WTH is wrong with what GK is doing? Is there something horribly offensive in his pics that I am missing? What about these other people that put out their very first movie or mod and bring it here to show off? Look at the response they have gotten!! FFS, these aren't Hollywood directors people, they are GAMERS trying to do something creative to entertain their fellow GAMERS! Our elite sig-makers didn't just fall into these forums, they grew right here. I want to see the same thing happen here with movie makers, flash artists, modders, etc. What do we need to do to change the atmosphere here so that they are welcomed, instead of hounded? __________________ Papajoe r0ckz3rz!!