So I went looking for Pokemon forums, to see if I could find people interested in my Pokemod! idea.
The forum I find looks good. There's even a post from someone, back in February, who was making 3D models of pokemon. I write up an enthusiastic post, click submit--and it tells me I must post 15 comments before I'm allowed to link to external sites. So I go back, edit, add a sarcastic comment about how I'd better find 13 threads in which to post inane comments so I can post links, and click submit again. Then it tells me my post will be screened by a moderator before it's posted to the forum.
Now, I'm never going back to that forum again.
It boggles my mind how some people go on the Internet and try their hardest to take everything Internet-like out of their forum or website. Like, for example, links. "I've got a great idea. Let's make an Internet site without links! It will be revolutionary! Like a book!" What the hell?
Then you have over-moderated forums where any/all divergent opinion is censored. Or maybe not all of it, but certainly a few taboo subjects--say, for example, anything supportive of Republicans, or anything contradictory to a certain conspiracy theory or religion. It's another genius idea: Let's make an Internet site with no Internet in it. Let's take all the divergence of opinion and shut it out! It's genius! We'll just hold a book right up to our nose so we can't see anything else, and if we don't like that--we'll close the book.
God, people...
You know what makes me feel better?
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There. Now to find some frigging Pokemon models and pirate Twilight again, like all good Internet users should.
