Rui said:
We didn't say you were wrong. Though if you want to start a morality of fansubs topic I guarantee it will get millions of posts and become a massive flaming battleground within 24 hours until everyone is banned and it gets deleted...that seems to be how these things go.
But I don't personally watch them and won't. So if people talk about them I have nothing to say - it's easier to talk about something old we already watched than talk about something we haven't and don't know too much about yet!
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Roy, your maths is far inferior to mine. I doubt a thread about the rights and wrongs of fansubs would get over 50 posts on AUKN, let alone a zillion. This forum has far too few posters for a decent discussion to come out out of a thread like that - the only way it would keep going would be for an opinionated, hypocritical, condescending prick to enter and argue with another poster who refuses to back down. In short, the thread would either die or turn out rubbish.
Talking of hypocrites, this has reminded me of something. I have no real problem with either those who download fansubs or those who chose not to. However, people who think they can download fansubs AND have the moral high ground piss me off. There was this one guy on another forum, an Irish fella, and he actually believed he could download fansubs of certain series and still attack fansub downloaders simply because he was selective (I believe he was watching Code Geass and Gundam 00). This guy refused to back down or even attempt to apologize, instead deciding to act like a child who wouldn't accept being wrong, and his childish actions ultimately resulted in us hating each other.
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With regards to what an above poster mentioned about thread quality, I completely agree - this forum lacks creative minds. Also, the
heinous actions and
vulgarity on show is beyond belief; it leaves me shocked at times.
I do have to question the links that poster selected as examples, though. Two of the threads linked to were question topics; they clearly weren't created with the intention of starting 10 page typing contests. I'm at a loss as to why that person tried to support his argument by linking to topics that have nothing to do with the point he was attempting to make... Could it be possible that he happens to have some kind of grudge against the topic creator?
As for the other two threads linked to, if similar threads have been created then it would seem they are old threads. And, on a forum where most members haven't watched too much anime compared to certain other individuals, surely it's better to make topics you know that every poster can post in without needing to be a more experienced fan? More in-depth discussions have there place, certainly, but it isn't wise to create topics that the majority have no interest in.
One last topic point: I'm rather surprised the person mentioned previously was critical of another posters creativity when he doesn't seem to have attempted to create any interesting topics of his own to help a forum so lacking his intelligence. The only time I've actually seen him posting more than once or twice here of late was, rather surprisingly, in a thread about an older series called Evangelion, which turned into an argument for some odd reason.
