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Background Pony #4753
this is actually the fun thread, not a serious thread.
Can we still ask a semi-serious question, though?
 
Because I’ve been curious, how does the current round of… troubles, let’s say, compare to some of the classic fandom controversies? I mean, are we talking on par with Derpy’s alteration in “The Last Roundup”? The alicorn Twilight reveal? Equestria Girls/Flash Sentry drama? Season 9 leaks and finale reactions? Some combination of those? Because it’s hard to tell at times whether everything is really on fire or not. I mean, thirty or forty of the same people arguing incessantly back and forth in the forums can certainly give the impression that everything is falling apart around us, but it could just as easily be the case that’s it’s mostly just them.
 
Sorry, I guess that is still a bit on the serious side. If you’d rather not answer it, you’re more than welcome to delete my question entirely.
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Can we still ask a semi-serious question, though?
 
Well, if you were off duty at a bar, and someone sat next to you and wanted to talk with you about work, what would you say?
 
You would probably say “Call the office, I’m having a beer.”
 
Because as much as those examples are other fandom squabbles, some of us have had to physically restrain fans trying to be violent to voice actors or writers at conventions, so … not funny, man. Not funny.
 
That whole Twilight Wings thing?
 
Seriously. Someone threw a fucking chair at M.A. Larson, and then on the way out the door dived for Nicole Oliver because ‘ruined everything!’.
 
Sooooo … excuse me while I go back to focusing on my beer.
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Not a mod, but if it “helps”, this seems more like it’s an issue with the site rather then an issue with the fandom/show as a whole.
 
All those other incidents you mentioned had ALL the fandom talking, not just here but on the likes of /mlp/, twitter, tumblr, deviantart, furranity, and so on.
 
Meanwhile the stuff going on here is mainly focusing on this site, with some of twitter and /ml/ also taking part in it.
 
Vast majority of the fandom probably has no idea about all this drama going on, or even about this site at all.
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Vast majority of the fandom probably has no idea about all this drama going on
 
I sure don’t, and i’m pretty happy for it. I guess it’s a nice side-effect of only using this site for its intended purpose, which is looking at and posting horse pictures
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Can we still ask a semi-serious question, though?
Well, if you were off duty at a bar, and someone sat next to you and wanted to talk with you about work, what would you say?
Honestly? I’d probably say “Ok, what do you want to know?” But I admit I’m probably a special case in that regard.
 
At any rate I’m sorry for asking. You clearly said this was for fun, so I should have left it alone.
 
 
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All those other incidents you mentioned had ALL the fandom talking, not just here but on the likes of /mlp/, twitter, tumblr, deviantart, furranity, and so on.
Meanwhile the stuff going on here is mainly focusing on this site, with some of twitter and /ml/ also taking part in it.
I appreciate your opinion on the matter. I realize this isn’t quite the same situation as those other things, but I like do like having some idea of how they compare to each other. I’ve been there for all those other ones, so the metrics interest me.
 
 
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I guess it’s a nice side-effect of only using this site for its intended purpose, which is looking at and posting horse pictures
That sounds nice. If this site didn’t comprise 90-95% of my daily interaction with people, I’d probably do more of that too.
 
 
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We’re not the worse. Live in Japan for awhile. Oh my gersh we are not the worse.
Well since I flubbed the other one, perhas this question will be a little more lighthearted. Do you have any fun stories related to your time in Japan that illustrate said point?
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depends
 
if you mean flaming those children LITERALLY as in lighting them on fire… Then fair enough, that is the most morally depraved thing Ive ever heard of fan doing, and I concede
 
but if you just mean flaming them on the internet, as in starting a flame war, then no, Id still say that throwing chairs and attempting assault is just as bad
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eh, nevermind all that. Thats not what this thread is for
 
fandom drama aside, may I see the legendary banhammer in all of its shimmering majestic glory?
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That would be the best thread, mods, staff would actually know what the users clearly want. But it’s never been done, yet.
 
If I ran a site *one with that kind of communication being important to it, that’s what I’d do.
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