[quote]Well, the day has come. I said that come the New Year that I was going to delete my work, however, I'm not going to. See, my intent with the ultimatum thread wasn't to become popular, it wasn't to get appreciated, because to be quite honest, I couldn't gave a damn about what anybody in this community thinks about me anymore. Anyone of the few people that I became friends with here can tell you that I've grown to hate the majority of the community here now. I’ll leave it all up, though honestly hardly anyone here deserves it, but I highly doubt that anyone else in this community will be able or willing to keep the themes or archives going, this community running most people willing to do so off has pretty much made sure of it. So a site update breaking it all or portions of this site’s history being forgotten will be a far bigger slap in the face rather than me taking it all down. The truth is, I was expecting the kind of reaction that I got for [url=https://www.bungie.net/7_An-ultimatum-I39m-going-to-delete-the-dark-usersty/en/Forum/Post?id=62738792#referred-]this thread.[/url] You know why I was expecting this reaction? Because I know this community, for those that don’t know, I’m majoring in social behavior and I’ve been on here long enough to know what makes this community tick. [url=https://www.bungie.net/7_Why-would-anyone-ever-use-Google-and-its-services/en/Forum/Post?id=3621085#referred-]Hell, this isn’t even my first time doing something that pisses off this whole community.[/url] I attacked the very ideals of this community with the ultimatum thread. I attacked the concepts this community glorifies, the gimmick posters and the anti-intellectualism that runs rampant here. My usage for the account White, it was mainly a way to test this community. I used the account to also attack such concepts as a way to test the waters, see reactions. I was expecting mainly hate from the ultimatum thread, because I knew that the thread would hit you where it hurts, on the community as a whole’s attitude. I do have to say I am surprised about how the thread caused a chain reaction of other threads though, wasn’t sure if I would have gotten this as big as I got my Google troll thread. It was fun to watch all those threads pop up in reaction much like I got in the Septagon from doing the Google thread around the time when there was a site issue with the Chrome browser. So, I guess you could call a troll thread if you want. Seeing as how it incited a negative reaction it can be called that, but I don't consider it as such. I consider it an eye opener, something that needs to be said and shown about this community. It wasn’t my intent to just piss off this community just for the sake of pissing them off. I did this to see how this community would react under the circumstance of acknowledging those that try to give here or doing without. The community has an entitled thought process, one even worse than I portrayed in the thread. Because this much is true, this community has and probably will always take the road of caring for shitposters and treating contributing members as nobodies. Even those that become well known for their contributions I feel bad for, [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post?id=62751155&path=1]for example, Iggy.[/url] I do feel bad that he gets nothing but flack for coup, a free service he has provided for many years to this community, when it isn't up. Kind of saddening seeing so many hate on people who try to give to the community, acting like they are entitled to people doing for them. Really, if I were Iggy, I would have stop working on coup a long time ago seeing as how unappreciative you all are towards him. I did this to show the community's true face, how truly terrible this community is. This community has an unappreciative and demanding line of thought. I can’t say I was surprised about the negative responses I got; however, I was surprised by many of the people who posted in my thread. Several of the members I actually considered decent members showed their true colors by acting like they were entitled to my work and I had no right to delete it. The fact of the matter is, rather than taking a moment to think about this community's thought processes and see where I was coming from, you would rather jump down my throat and attack me. How dare I try to take something away I put my own time into, am I right? Since the posting of the ultimatum thread, I had several members attack me, [url=https://www.bungie.net/7_An-ultimatum-I39m-not-done-Shitposting/en/Forum/Post?id=62741036#referred-]parody threads attacking me,[/url] people [url=https://www.bungie.net/7_I39m-a-Pirate/en/Forum/Post?id=62743984#referred-]whose first incentive[/url] was to [url=https://www.bungie.net/7_The-Archive-of-Hilarity-re-archived-edition/en/Forum/Post?id=62742437]take my work[/url] and try [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post?id=62739437&path=1]to make it[/url] to where it couldn't be deleted rather than trying to talk it over with me, people pming me trying to make me out to be a terrible person, and I even had Rose mute bomb my thread. Honestly, the amount of hatred that I got from people was simply astounding, really shows how great this community is, don’t it? Really, take a look at the amount of hate and malicious behavior from some of the people in my thread; is that the behavior of a good community? To the few that didn't attack me or tried to steal my work and rather tried to talk with me, I respect you. I am glad that there are still those who aren't completely terrible members here, though I cannot fathom why you would want to stay here. While a good amount of my thread was to prove a point, there was still a great deal of truth I posted in there, especially in one of my few replies in there. I do honestly suffer from auditory hallucinations at times and this does complicate things in my life at times. With this thread been posted, I've now made up my mind. I am leaving this place. The idea has been on my mind for several months now. This little test has proven to me that I no longer want to be here. I have grown to hate this community these last few months and now the feeling is mutual, making things all the more easier for me. The people here that I truly did like I will miss as well as the people who showed me that they were decent; but the rest of this community, if you even want to call it that is atrocious, complete total trash. This community is nasty, hateful, unappreciative, and stupid. Almost all of the members here are shit, stupid people who are enticed by the behaviors of other more vocal idiots. Most of the “trolls” here, if you can even call them that, are also blatantly obvious, not exactly sure how you all here almost always take the bait hook, line, and sinker. It really is saddening because this community has the potential to be good but does not want to put the effort into doing so. The fact of the matter is, I don't see this community ever getting better now. Bungie made a huge mistake when updating the site and that mistake was trying to give any power to idiots. Thanks to the idiocy of this community, the people who paint the largest target on themselves are loved even if they are the most unproductive members here. This anti-intellectualism is the reason why this community has continually gotten worse. The newer members see the gimmick posters be the ones that get the attention and thus will imitate it. It’s a cycle of repeating stupidity; I still cannot understand why this site finds gimmick posters, spammers, and crappy trolls so alluring though. It doesn’t help that almost no one in this borderline anarchic system doesn’t report or mute. The only people that I really even see use the report and mute feature in offtopic is Rose and that’s to globally mute people, almost everyone else is too foolish with that "only wimps mute" mindset thus allowing crap to plague up this site. I will miss this place on some degree. A couple of the people that I met here I consider some of my best friends I've ever gotten to know, but I cannot even enjoy the company of those people anymore due to the terribleness of this site's members. I am giving this post to a friend of mine to post when New Year’s day arrives, I will be gone from this community by the time this thread hits the mains, so don't expect any replies from me. I have said all that I wish to say in this post of mine. Here is hoping the New Year and the arrival of Destiny will bring forth better members then the scum on this site currently. [/quote] These are the words of Viltre. Take them as you will.