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Honestly, I've been frequenting IRC for over a year now and I have this to say. Yeah there is some tough love, certain people are impatient and can be rude. That's life though noone has to give up their time to help newer players, but they do so getting the occassional bit of attittude is something you can jst shrug off and say w/e I'm learning.
I have no idea what this glass tapping shit is though. Maybe I missed the day this went on, but it NEVER happens. The whole point of irc is to help people out and get help yourself. It's a ladder of information passed down from rung to rung between players of a wide range of ability. There are like 800,000 billion fish out there and irc gets traffic of like 20 people on a good day. Why the hell would anyone care about "glass tapping" FTR is a small community and IRC an even smaller segment, trust me, no reg that frequents IRC cares about this. It's the interwebs and we can't police who comes in or not, wegive everyone a chance. I some dbag was going on about this let me assure you it was a one off and in no way reflects what this place is like.
As for "Eliteism", I'm not totally sure what you mean by this. If you mean the better players can be patronising or hard on beginenrs then yeah, sometimes, fair enough, they're not doing it to be cunts, but rather to make sure the point gets across. This is why I'm hard on people from time to time, simply because I don't think they'll fully take it on board otherwise. Some people have a great atittude to learning and there's no need to be hard on them because they soak up what you say like a sponge. I've watched spoon and m2m give guys advice for the last year and not once have I thought "wow he's out of line" if anything they're both very respectful. Yaawn can be a dick, yeah, but he doesn't mean any of it personally and again he's taking time out to give guys advice. If you ever feel like yaawn leaves you with a bad taste it's because he gets frustrated when people don't understand concepts because he really just wants to help and get people thinking about the right shit. He'll call you a dumb fuck for a lot of the stuff you say, but think of it as constrcutive criticism and not persecution. Getting pissed off at yaawn is like getting pissed off at the rain for being wet, rain is always going to be wet, but without it no plant life would grow, nam sayin'.
Anyway, just wanted to clarify what IRC is like and defend it because I do feel gryndowave's review to be unfair and pretty much inaccurate. Not saying shit like this wont happen ever, but it's so rare, and I don't get the eliteism thing at all.
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