Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-4839682-20170327223150/@comment-1916997-20170328195705

Farerb wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote:

Farerb wrote: Here are few suggestions:

1. Something I saw on a GoT forum - "Rant and Rave without Repercussions" thread where people can voice their overall negative opinion about anything regarding the show - episodes, spoilers, writing, acting, etc...

2. Making two threads per episode - "what I liked about the episode" thread and "what I didn't like about the episode" thread.

I'll try to say it in the nicest way I can - this is a TV show, we are talking about fictional characters, fictional world - they are not offended by people who say bad things about them. Even criticism on the writing, the writers won't see any of that, and even if they are, they either won't care or should expect that when you put something out there, people will have something to say about it - good or bad. For instance, I just saw a thread in a Buffy forum of someone who didn't like season 7 and I can choose: a) to be upset that some random guy on the internet that I didn't know, didn't like something I did and "bash" it or b) to just ignore it and move on (it costs 0$ to do that). The point is, if you or someone else just wants to bash/criticise/whatever you want to call it, then you should do it on a personal blog or something. Because it is foolish to tell us to ignore it. The whole point of a fourm is to discuss things. If we are all just going to post things seperately and not read or respond to other users, than we might as well all just write in a journal or diary. Forums are meant to be a place of discussion (in fact our modern day forums come from the fourms of ancient Greece, where they had in person discussions about things), not a personal venting stool where someone can just complain about something in front of everyone else and expect us all to shut up and take it. Part of discussion is to say things that not everyone will agree with. You can ignore it and allow other people to comment or discuss, but just because you don't want to see or read something, it doesn't mean that it should not be allowed. It's not that everyone has to agree about everything, but it's that some people constantly complain about everything relating to the show, and that makes it not a productive part of the discussion, as the complains lose all validity, when that is all someone does.