emre43
Well-known member
I'm sure this will sound trivial but it's really bothering me. I don't get much social interaction so online is the only way for me to speak to people.
I don't play video games that much but there is one franchise that I am really into at the moment: Assassin's Creed. Anyway, I post on the official forum. Somebody posted a thread about things that they were disappointed about in the current game and I replied with things that I was disappointed in. Some Dutch guy starts flaming me that by complaining I am not showing the people who made it the respect that they deserve. Bearing in mind I have spent good money to purchase their product I believe I have the right to leave feedback. I wasn't rude, abusive, vitriolic or offensive but he tells me that I should be respectful in the way I say it (like I say, I hadn't been offensive or anything). I replied by saying "and what way should that be?" and he replied by saying "with humility [highlighted in bold], don't speak as if you are the majority" and then went on to condescend me by quoting the dictionary as to what humility means. When I argued he accused me of doing nothing but complaining all over the forums (which is untrue I have only complained in that one thread) and to leave the rest of the forums alone.
Now every post (positive or negative) I make he finds a reason to argue with me about it (not just me; anybody who says anything remotely negative about the game gets reprimanded by him; he's not even a moderator; he's more of a crusader; he directs people's posts to which thread they should be in instead). It's his way or know way.
I accused him of intellectual chauvinism and he simply replied by saying "incorrect use of the word chauvinism". At another point I made a typo by accidentally putting an apostrophe in the wrong place and he quoted me just to correct my improper use of an apostrophe. And it is impossible to win an argument against him. I feel that I have beaten him in arguments many times only for him to accuse me of something to win the argument by completely making something up. There is no opinion allowed unless it is his.
The thing that really annoys me is that the rest of the forum supports him with comments like "you tell 'em" or "that'll learn em'" and it justs encourages him. I have reported many of his posts but the mods do nothing because he is such a valued member of the community. He is on this forum all day as well. He only joined last month and he has already made 6,400 posts. He drives me up the wall.
Apologies for the rant he has made me feel so stressed though
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I don't play video games that much but there is one franchise that I am really into at the moment: Assassin's Creed. Anyway, I post on the official forum. Somebody posted a thread about things that they were disappointed about in the current game and I replied with things that I was disappointed in. Some Dutch guy starts flaming me that by complaining I am not showing the people who made it the respect that they deserve. Bearing in mind I have spent good money to purchase their product I believe I have the right to leave feedback. I wasn't rude, abusive, vitriolic or offensive but he tells me that I should be respectful in the way I say it (like I say, I hadn't been offensive or anything). I replied by saying "and what way should that be?" and he replied by saying "with humility [highlighted in bold], don't speak as if you are the majority" and then went on to condescend me by quoting the dictionary as to what humility means. When I argued he accused me of doing nothing but complaining all over the forums (which is untrue I have only complained in that one thread) and to leave the rest of the forums alone.
Now every post (positive or negative) I make he finds a reason to argue with me about it (not just me; anybody who says anything remotely negative about the game gets reprimanded by him; he's not even a moderator; he's more of a crusader; he directs people's posts to which thread they should be in instead). It's his way or know way.
I accused him of intellectual chauvinism and he simply replied by saying "incorrect use of the word chauvinism". At another point I made a typo by accidentally putting an apostrophe in the wrong place and he quoted me just to correct my improper use of an apostrophe. And it is impossible to win an argument against him. I feel that I have beaten him in arguments many times only for him to accuse me of something to win the argument by completely making something up. There is no opinion allowed unless it is his.
The thing that really annoys me is that the rest of the forum supports him with comments like "you tell 'em" or "that'll learn em'" and it justs encourages him. I have reported many of his posts but the mods do nothing because he is such a valued member of the community. He is on this forum all day as well. He only joined last month and he has already made 6,400 posts. He drives me up the wall.
Apologies for the rant he has made me feel so stressed though
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