Sadly Groupism.....
here is an example of commonly seen behaviour ...
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A few kids having similar tastes and IQ levels and similar upbringing form a group and decide to promote their "skills" (Non-Existing). They generally have a "hidden" agenda.
First they start with spamming and making big pompous postings, which is generally "read" from another site or a mere copy / paste operation. this is so that the young , juvenile members are "impressed".
Then they start taking liberties with the forum rules and challenge the staff. one amongst this group is encouraged to take on the staff by the leader of this group, who btw acts like a pacifist...you know like jesus christ reincarnated.....
well, then that member who was "fighting" the staff gets banned for a few days. but then herein lies the best part ....
during the course of this operation the group has spread its tentacles deep into the staff structure. they befriend some of them (staff) by pseudo - "praising" or commercially benefitting them. Then they start urging these "friends" in the staff to unban the banned member
in short they create a rift or difference of opinion amongst the staff. (and generally they succeed in acheiving their objective)
Eventually what happens is that the banned member is "unbanned" much before the banned period. Forum Rules, which they themselves have made, are thrown in the trash can ....
Having tasted "success" they continue their operations in their attempts to ruin a forum .....
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During all this the young and gullible members (who are always in the majority) have a "good" time by spamming / flaming etc .. and the "spirit" of forum site is maintained.
ps: this forces the staff members, who were very docile and "complacent", to get worried since the adsense revenue suddenly plunges due to all this spamming / flaming and general degradation of the quality of posts . hence they attempt to curb the spamming and encourage the members to make and post useless articles / reviews under the garb of "original" / "authentic".
They also suddenly start introducing OTM contests etc ...
This also keeps the "spirit" of the forums alive ...
So you see dear members it is not quality of postings or behaviour of mods which keep the forums alive it is the small battles and duels that take place daily which does.
The example i have given above is fairly common and i have seen this cycle in many forum sites. eventually this leads to ruining of a good forum site but that is a different issue ....i would not like to go into details about that aspect ....now i continue my spamming ways ....
:hap2: :bleh:
