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Read. Please.
16 years, 6 months & 15 days ago
10th Sep 2007 15:06

I'd like to thank midkitten for letting me use her rant, It speaks truth. :]

[LAST UPDATED: October 28, 2007]
Especially with all of these new members. The majority of them are children that lie about their age so they can access the forums. [And before you lecture me, I am /not/ saying all newbies are annoying]
I am tired of seeing 'OMG BF HELP' or 'OMG LUKING 4 A BF' boards. Mara is a virtual petsite. Not a teenage help site. Not a dating site. If you want a partner, go to match.com.

Report happies are also annoying. One cannot post something containing 'damn' or 'hell', even though the rules clearly state those words are acceptable, as they are considered milder swear words.
Another example is a topic I made the other evening. The title was something like, 'Blonde moment' and I informed everyone that I used a glue stick instead of chap stick. It got reported. What was so bad about that? 'Blonde moment'? I /am/ blonde, for Pete Townshend's sake! Yet I've seen dating advice boards continue for hours and even days!

Rating boards and fashion shows are annoying as well. Now that they've been moved to spam, they are clogging up the spam forum. I used to enjoy spamming, but it seems somebody is determined to kill the spam chat. First the bad spam, then the one topic per five minutes, and now this. But I digress.
Another thing about rating boards is people don't know how to handle honesty. I go on those boards with the intention of showing people that not everybody loves their outfit. Though it is amusing to see people throw tantrums, get over it. It's just a virtual doll.

Attention seeking bothers me as well. Your mom died? Then why are you playing on a virtual petsite? Why are you trying to get pity from strangers? Don't you have a family to be with? Friends? Most of the time these people are lying for attention, and occasionally free pixels. Revolting.

Another thing that bothers me is the amount of complaining boards. Sure, there have always been people moaning about something. It's human nature. But it seems as though the number of whiners has increased greatly.
[Yes, I realize I am complaining as well, but I'm doing it in the proper place - my blog]

The skinny pets are a great example.
People say it's abuse. They're pixels. Want me to call the People for Ethical Treatment of Pixels for you? Oh wait, there's no such thing because pixels don't have feelings.
People say it will make children want to be skinny. What kind of child would want to be thin because of a virtual pet? The kind that needs psychiatric help.
People say it's making fun of anorexia. True, it may be poking fun at anorexia, but aren't the emo costumes mocking emotive hardcore people? Or the fat costumes mocking obesity? And what if I don't believe in heaven and have an issue with angel pets? Honestly people.

For some reason, I cannot stand this. When people are in the middle of a deep discussion and someone comes in and posts 'hi' or 'CUM 2 MI FASHIN SHOW [link here]' or something completely off topic. I understand if you wish to comment on the original post even though the conversation has changed direction. But if you can't be bothered to read the first post, don't bother replying.

Another thing that makes my skin crawl - chatspeak.
Isn't there a rule stating that chatspeak is only allowed on the spam chat? And is it really hard to take an extra .5 second to add a 'y' and an 'o' to your 'u'? No, it isn't.
Sure, I can understand misspelling triskaidekaphobia or asclepiadaceous. But come on!

Another thing that bothers me is roleplaying.
It is pretty much impossible to find a decent roleplay.
Marapets related -> Marapound roleplays get dull.
Basic -> I won't do so much as click there.
Intermediate -> I see too many things that belong in basic there and it's all the same stuff.
Advanced -> Sorry, I don't have the time nor willpower to type a seven paragraph introduction.
And why is it always the same crap? Wolf, dragon, Harry Potter, Naruto, Warrior Cats...
As one of my good friends has said, why aren't there any science fiction roleplays?

Another thing is the begging.
I don't have any intention of giving you my MP, items, or pets because you sent me one maramail, told me I look nice, et cetera. Sorry, I'm not a charity. I play Marapets for myself, not complete and total strangers. I'll help my friends, but if you're considered a friend, you won't have to ask for items.

It seems that everything is revolving around account upgrades nowadays. Many of the recently released avatars had to do with AU items. I do not buy AUs often, and they are definitely not my main source of MP, items, et cetera. It seems many users that can buy numerous AUs are getting an unfair advantage on users that would rather save their real life money for Freddie Mercury's 10-disk solo album and a new laptop and electric bills and food.
What I'm getting at is most people would rather spend real money on real items instead of pixels. True, this is our personal choice, but it seems rather unfair that most LE pets, avatar items, costumes, and more are being released through AUs. I realize most AU money supports the site, but with all the money Ian receives from AUs don't you think more could be done with the site?

Price deflating. One of the things that truly upsets me is when someone has 69 of a certain item and they sell it for /far/ less than the cheapest price on the shop search. Are they trying to purposely ruin it for others or something? I remembering RSing an emo costume quite a few months back. You could imagine my joy when I saw they went for over 60K. A few hours later somebody has over three dozen emo costumes for sale for less than half the cheapest price on the shop search [which was mine].
They changed it after I had made a board complaining in quite a strong manner and got a few people to agree that it was a disgrace, of course.

Here's an issue on the help chats. When someone answers a question and another person comes along and says something along the lines of, 'Yeah, what s/he said'. What's the point of that? I have a suspicion that people just do it to increase their post counts or, of course, attention. Perhaps even both.
Another thing is when someone replies to a help topic after the question has been answered and the topic has been inactive for ages. There's no point to that, either.

It appears you can't joke around anymore. If you say one little thing, someone spazzes or your post gets deleted [though it's usually a combination of the two]. I don't want to have to add a xD face or a 'LOLOLOL JK' for people to realize I'm merely being humourous. People need to loosen up and joke around a little bit.

Price deflating. One of the things that truly upsets me is when someone has 69 of a certain item and they sell it for /far/ less than the cheapest price on the shop search. Are they trying to purposely ruin it for others or something? I remembering RSing an emo costume quite a few months back. You could imagine my joy when I saw they went for over 60K. A few hours later somebody has over three dozen emo costumes for sale for less than half the cheapest price on the shop search [which was mine].
They changed it after I had made a board complaining in quite a strong manner and got a few people to agree that it was a disgrace, of course.

I agree

once I put up an Item for 6k and then When I tried to update prices it was going for 1mp
114 years, 7 months & 4 days ago 22nd Aug 2009 09:23
 
true but can i chatspeak like this "cuz" or "waz" or "thnx" or "congratz"?
i just need opinion.
114 years, 9 months & 11 days ago 16th Jun 2009 00:23
 
I am no way gpoing to talk in chat speak any more so thankyou for that
114 years, 10 months & 4 days ago 23rd May 2009 03:54
 
Trude, because if you haven't noticed, half of the mara population has a problem with the excessive amount of newbs on here, but i'm not going to leave because some people don't know how to be literate human beings, i'm just going to rant about it.
114 years, 10 months & 30 days ago 26th Apr 2009 05:38
 
if you have so many problems with the sight why do come on?

(not being rude)

???
114 years, 11 months & 16 days ago 9th Apr 2009 15:35
 
GOOD RANT xD
115 years, 3 months & 25 days ago 1st Dec 2008 07:59
 
True
115 years, 4 months & 10 days ago 16th Nov 2008 12:15
 
Chatspeak. Don't get me started on that. Every now and then, I will get lazy and 'start to typ like this,' but thats only what - once a year?
And honest to God, can we not joke around?
'OMG. U R SO MEEN! )': I AM GONG 2 crY BeCUZ of U !'
Seriously? Your gonna cry because of something a stranger said.
And the RATE MY OUTFIT boards.
'Sorry, I don't like your outfit.'
'WHAT?! U DONT LIKE THE OUTFIT ON MY IMAGINARY PIXL SO NOW IM GONG 2 CRY ! '

Seriously, its like whats up with that? And the BF/GF things.. NOT acceptable. My sister played mara for THREE YEARS and she remembers when they used to be able to have mara-husbands and mara-wifes, but the newbies ruined it by becoming to graphic.


Honest to God, I wish I could post this in my blog but its not letting me post anything.

My last topic,
AUs. Honestly, I'm only 14 and I cannot afford to buy and AU and my parents do not wanna spend money on pixely crap.
They don't.
And they even told me that.
Pixely crap that they don't want to spend money on!
Its not worth it.



XXX,
Ashlay(:
115 years, 4 months & 22 days ago 4th Nov 2008 09:21
 
-sigh-
WHy are most people immature?
I wonder what's on the adult forum O_o
115 years, 5 months & 17 days ago 9th Oct 2008 09:35
 
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  10. Sounds sad, but..
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