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« on: June 29, 2011, 05:30:10 AM »
Bullshit, I can tell you why myself and others abandoned WF. Its the fighting and the abuse of our bands, and the fact that there is a place to go where that is not happening.
Bands like Chaos Divine copped tons of abuse from elitist trolls on WF over the years, and nobody did shit to stop it. Free speech may be a human right, but WF was a sanctuary where bands should not have to listen to poisonous little whores calling them fags because they are not black enough, or not brutal enough. There will always be trolls and troublemakers, but once we used to clan together and drive them off. It was stupid, but it made WF our home, and a place to go to be entertained. Then we grew up and stopped wanting to fight everyone, the trolls burrowed in deep and those of us who at least tried to contribute to WF had the choice to either fight to take back WF or give it up to the trolls. Once the old guard stopped keeping the fire burning there was really nothing to do on WF at all anymore that couldn't be had elsewhere. After a decade of abusing idiots I realised that the abuse I got in retaliation from these cockheads was being redirected onto Neverborn and the boys were sick of it. And after a decade I was tired of keeping hate at the boil.
Some of us tried to stop the rot. I wrote a warning manifesto, and an essay talking up WF and the local scene. They were bagged out as too long to read. I started writing reviews so people would have something to discuss here, but that also turned to shit. Eventually I removed them for my own uses. I asked the mods to take WF in hand, they responded by NOT banning the troublemakers, but censoring the material. Nothing worked, and so I joined the line of rats abandoning the ship.
Sure, facebook hasn't helped the situation. It is the place where we go now, but I personally hate the thing and so do most people I know. Facebook is full of ads and stupid groups, it is a hotbed of dissension and people cheating on each other. It is full of pointless updates about making breakfast and retarded pokes and likes. Your unblockable family members inject their rabid brainfroth into conversations between you and your lunkheads mates, its just too demented for words. Its imbecilic. But it IS an option.
And Facebook has positives too, the best one being that you can choose who you talk to, who you associate with and whose stupidity you read. Idiots who live for just bagging everything, useless elitist fuckwits and shitbirds who derive immense pleasure from trolling can be blocked, disregarded, they might as well not exist. And you can do all this without any mod powers whatsoever. Its a little slice of mundane bliss.
On WF we can't do that. Then there are the other services offered, WF hasn't got the facility to post metal vids from Youtube, post your mp3s up and all that other stuff, it has not had an upgrade for years because Daz poured years of his time into it and all he got back for his efforts is shitty little arseholes logging in and causing shit until the regulars finally decided enough is enough.
Well enough WAS enough, we found a new home and the world kept on turning. WF bled out, you idiots let it happen and I still feel angry about it. Well fucking done.
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