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Why do you keep coming back (Primarily)

The chartz! 108 35.88%
 
The peoplez/Forumz! 78 25.91%
 
The articlez! 3 1.00%
 
The adz! (lol) 9 2.99%
 
I don't know.... I shoul... 102 33.89%
 
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I come back for the sales numbers and the threads. Sometimes the negative people drive me off, but I just keep coming back.

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mZuzek said:
DerpSandwich said:

I'm going to be completely honest here, since you asked, and this is what the discussion is about.

I have absolutely no idea why I keep coming back. At first I was attracted to the site because of the charts and the constantly revolving "hot topics" section. But over time I've grown to really hate it here. Primarily there are a a lot of users who just post thread after thread after thread, and it's just a big contest to ask every question about every game in every different combination of words to get more points and attention. The mods are strict, so the trolls are very subtle, and everyone gives them all the attention they want, even after admitting that they're trolls. Some days it seems that every thread I click is by the same two guys. Some days every thread is a semi-sarcastic semi-joke. Or everything is rife with flamebait that's just not quite obvious enough to get modded. And when I have a critical opinion of something, it seems like I can never open my mouth without getting dogpiled by a bunch of blind fanatics who just lack the ability to think critically or even have a mature discussion, so 90% of the time I just hold my tongue, which defeats the entire purpose of the forum. I really don't like it here. It's stale and filled with trolls who are tolerated and it only seems to make me mad.

Yet I KEEP COMING BACK. I tell myself it's to check the charts, but every time I come I click a bunch of topics, and I just piss myself off. I really can't tell you why I keep doing it. It's honestly a mystery to me. If I don't like it I should just leave, right? Well here I am anyway. It's like choking down all the cherry Starburst and wondering why I keep reaching for more. I have no one to blame but myself.

(Man, I'm going to get it good for all this, aren't I?  XD)

Damn :O

I couldn't disagree with you more. I feel like this is THE place to have a decent discussion about games with no blind fanboys spamming crap all over the place. The people here are awesome.

There are a lot of good people, and it's definitely leagues better than other gaming sites.  I'll fully admit that I'm not so good at ignoring the bad in something and just enjoying the good as a lot of people are.  But it's like I said, I just can't stand how some users are nothing but terrible and everyone raises them up and gives each one of their worthless threads a thousand replies.  Oy, but I need to stop rambling about it, haha.  I think the internet in general is just not for me.  XD



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It's probably just a bad habit, but eeh, it's nice looking at these charts here and there.



 

 

 

 

 

Otherwise I would be following the news, which just depresses and angers me. Better to watch silly console wars than the real stuff. Plus the people here mostly have the same interests as me, and I don't have to search the internet for gaming news and rumors myself :) I guess Neogaf could fit that purpose too, but that site is too massive for me. Easier to keep up with vgchartz.



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Charts, news, fun people and interesting discussion on all range of topics that not only abut gaming.



@ DerpSandwich...

You are going to get a lot of responses. This thread will probably be colored blue for you for a while. I appreciate your honesty and hope you don't get flamed just for stating what you obviously have felt for a while. We've all gone through that I think. The reason, though, that your probably keep coming back is like many other users have said, it's actually not that bad here...compared to a lot of places.

In general this site holds people more accountable regarding facts. There are many users here who know most of the charts by heart and who you can count on to enter a thread and eliminate much of the BS that would get a pass in other forums.

I also think that while you are right about certain members creating many, many threads...you'll find that we get as much enjoyment out of mocking them for it as they do for posting them, so it kind of works out. There was a time I think as the last generation was winding down that the site got completely dominated by childishness and spam threads. I left then. But I've poked around since then and it has gotten a lot better. I think that has to do with the new generation ramping up again.

well...good luck figuring out your conundrum...but hopefully you'll just be the change you want to see here. If you think the site should be different, then add your input and commentary (as you have just done). If nothing else you'll exercise some demons.



^^^ Does this strike anyone else as ironic? Coming from Mr_No. :p

As someone here pointed out anyone supporting xbox are either "masochists or ignorants", so let's see...... ?

I'll go with masochism.

You should add a poll option.



Mainly the people. The folks here are pretty colorful if you ask me, especially a certain someone. If that person is reading this, you know who you are ;)



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