I am here today to address a problem that has plagued many of us, a problem that rears it's head at the most unfortunate of times, a problem that has deprived many of us of sleep as we lie terrified of it's implications. This problem has no real answer but I hope through this thread we can at least reach a collective understanding of this problem and it's wide-ranging implications for humanity.
I am of course talking about the abundance of off-topic discussions in threads that discuss the off-topicness of Naruto threads.
Now I, like many of you, am just a simple member. I attempt to post good, clean, relevant posts that enrich the discussion for the benefit of all. So I am angered when people RUIN these serious discussions with the irrelevant FILTH they spill from their wretched mouths! Let's looks at the first thread discussing the off-topicness of Naruto threads: http://apforums.net/showthread.php?t=24050. I first entered this thread few months back, thrilled at the opportunity to have some intelligent discussion about the issues. However imagine my horror when I saw such posts as these:
Stupid idea, leave thread as is, when I want to discuss naruto seriously I have no trouble doing it in the thread, hell it's not NPC.
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People won't like this.
Anyone for tea and crumpets?
HOW ARE THESE RELEVANT?? HOW DO THESE ENRICH THE DISCUSSION??? I MEAN THIS REPLY-
ISN'T EVEN SENSICAL!!!
I was so distraught my this development that I left the original thread in tears, unable to post anything. I deeply wanted to post my opinion on the matter but the uncooperativeness of these SPAMMERS drove me away. BUT THERE WAS HOPE! Imagine my joy when, a few days later, another topic pertaining to the aforementioned issue arose. So I skip happily into the thread and what do I find? WHAT DO I FIND? SOME IGNORANT, IDIOTIC, HELLRAISING, SPITEFUL, ANTAGONISTIC, NAZI OF A MODERATOR HAD CHANGED IT INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT BREAD! …..WHY BREAD????? HOW IS BREAD RELEVANT???? HOW CAN BREAD HELP US???? I ENJOY THE OCCASIONAL BAGUETTE BUT I FOUND THIS DEVELOPMENT ABSURD!!! AND EVEN WORSE, MEMBERS WERE ENJOYING THIS CHANGE AND REVELING IN THIS DEBAUCHERY AND FILTH!!! WHY CAN WE NOT DISCUSS THE SERIOUS TOPIC OF NARUTO THREADS BEING OFF-TOPIC WITHOUT A WAVE OF HIDEOUS CARRION CORRUPTING OUR PURE, INTELLIGENT DISCUSSIONS!!!
Alone in a sea of spam, I left the thread once again in tears. I'd given up by this point, I'd decided this forum was beyond help. But there was a glimmer of hope in the sea of murk. I was browsing today, visiting my usual pastures such as the Intelligent Discussion thread and the News thread, when I saw something under the Suggestions category. "A Naruto thread about Naruto" I wondered "Could it possibly be....?" I entered. I looked. I wept. I found the thread locked and gone after a barrage of insults THAT WERE COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT TO THE ORIGINAL DISCUSSION! SMUDGE, Thousand-lion chan, Don Quichotte de Flamingo, you should all be desperately ashamed and suicidal after that hideous display. Even thinking about it now fills me with revulsion...
So as you see ladies and gentlemen, this is a not a one-off event. This is a concentrated effort by CERTAIN members of this forum to bring those beautiful threads down from their ivory towers of intelligence into the murky bog of depravity. I ask, nay, I beseech you all to use this topic so we can perhaps form the perchance of ideas on how to deal with this most serious of problems.
And please, please, please a thousand times can we keep it on topic?