Author Topic: Leaving Qhimm.com (Read 18400 times)

Emerald Weapon · « **on:** 2006-10-26 15:05:36 »

Hey all,

I'm leaving Qhimm.com. My reasons for this are many, but among them are:

1. Certain people on the boards, one in particular.
2. The overall deteriorated state of the boards.
3. Too busy with everything other than being online, reading and posting. Think University, friends and so on.

I do not know if anyone cares about this at all, I just thought I'd let everyone know. I haven't been posting for over 2 months now, so I had practically left already.
This is just the official announcement, I think.

Let me add a little more explanation to the first two points.

Ad1:

I've become more and more annoyed by certain members here, which I will not name, because I am not out to turn this thread into yet another fight between people.
Let's just say these people seem to be able to somehow continue creating shitty-threads or making shitty-posts.
I'm very disappointed with one particular member, and his ways of treating me. I believe them to be unfair. I will not add anymore to this either. It comes down to the fact that the entire situation does not improve my enjoyment of Qhimm.com.

Ad2:

I'm just going to say this the way it is. The boards have deteriorated badly.
Qhimm.com isn't near what it used to be and nowadays even far away from the good things going on when the situation was already slightly "bad".
Stupid people keep creating stupid threads, fighting over stupid arguments and finding more and more ways to make fun of, attack or insult other members.
Besides this, the forums have become somewhat of a helpdesk for new people to just post one message, get an answer and get the fuck out of here.
New, fun threads aren't created anymore, and when they are spammed full of silly posts, using grammar that isn't even near Engrish.

I know all too well, that I myself have also been a part of this and contributed to the above mentioned things. I "understand" that and, though it was fun at the time itself, now I am not proud of some of my posts. It was, and still is, unnecessary and I hope that in whatever the future may hold for the forums it will not happen anymore. I fear it will though.

Basically it means I do not feel the need to post anymore. I have noticed I'm not the only one in this, more "older" members have been around a lot less and some have even left as well.

I'm not saying the boards have completely lost their touch or right to exist, because Q-Gears is still going strong and there are good threads in both TR and GT.
The heart of the forums is still beating, the body however has started to die slowly, but surely.
There are many things these boards need, but I am not going to summarize them here, because they are well known.

Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank Qhimm for granting me the possibility to be here, for 3 years of my life, and with that the time I was able to spend with many great people.
(And hope to continue to do with some of them.)

It's been fun, it really has. Too bad it has to end like this.

For those of you that care: I will miss you and this place. See you someday, somewhere.

Darkness · « **Reply #1 on:** 2006-10-26 15:38:43 »

Well to be fair, the board is more active than it has been in years.

Sorry to see you go.

James Pond · « **Reply #2 on:** 2006-10-26 15:43:31 »

One point.

"Besides this, the forums have become somewhat of a helpdesk for new people to just post one message, get an answer and get the f*** out of here."

This is by no means a new thing. You get used to it.

But still. No need to emo out over it, its just a forum

Jari · « **Reply #3 on:** 2006-10-26 18:22:14 »

Quote from: Emerald Weapon on 2006-10-26 15:05:36

I'm very disappointed with one particular member, and his ways of treating me. I believe them to be unfair. I will not add anymore to this either.

But I will. These vague remarks only create rumors, so I might explain it just as well: EW here is basically bitching that I don't talk to him - that's the way I 'treat him'.

What happened in a nutshell:

1) I asked EW to post a thread for me.
2) He agreed.
3) I asked EW to post a reply for me.
4) He whinybitched about how he will do it "if I really want it", but that it's "whine whine whine bitch bith bitch so forth".
5) I told him that he really does not have to go out of his way for me, but he neither has to talk to me, either. I will do lot for my friends, but I expect them to do the same for me. If not... tough luck. I proceeded to set IM blocks and avoid him on the IRC channel.
6) Due to some developments with Nori, I decided that encouraging her current behaviour could be very much counter-productive, so I came back.
7) This apparently bothered EW, since I got a whinybitch PM from him. Mind you, he succeeded in whinybitching without too many words, but the intent was rather obvious.
8) I replied pointing out my reasoning for my return, that I'm not angry at him, merely disappointed, some Nori-related stuff that's not for the public to know, that I do not wish to talk to him and that I'll place him into PM ignore after I send the message. And a comment about how he was the first person to whinybitch about my return.
9) Present.

So, this is more or less about me not talking to him. If he wants to consider that as one reason for his departure... well, that is his right.

*shrugs*

RW_66 · « **Reply #4 on:** 2006-10-27 03:11:40 »

Jari, Jari,.. *sigh*

It's really sad, not to mention unnessessary, to bring up all of these 'details'. EW was decent enough to not mention names, and until you replied, I had no idea he was referring to you. Does it really make you feel better to try to embaress people like this. Is it nessesary? Because it makes you appear as some kind of psycho(as in mental)-sadist, someone who derives pleasure from belittling and humilating others.

Just let it go. Please?

Jari · « **Reply #5 on:** 2006-10-27 04:11:26 »

Yes, I know. I'm a horrible person, I think that we've established that a long time ago.

Or maybe I just don't like these insinuations - trust me, while you might not have known who he meant, most of the people here would have suspected - with or without reason - that it was me. After all, I am the root of all evil.

I have this tendency to get these things out of the way. Simple as that, really.

EDIT: I would say "Remember the Admin impersonator?", but you were not registered back then. It was prime example of how half of the forum jumped into the "OMG!!!! It's Jari!!!"-bandwagon, without having any kind of proof whatsoever.

While it's certainly rather satisfying to be vindicated and having the said half of the forum apologize to you, I'd rather perform my rumor control before it gets that far, if that's ok with you?

ChaosControl · « **Reply #6 on:** 2006-10-27 06:47:23 »

Fuck, I thought we got rid of you already

Jari · « **Reply #7 on:** 2006-10-27 07:39:55 »

Angst much, asshat?

Here's a free tip, you can always pretend that you are being persecuted by the cruel and unjust Jari, that way you can at least feel like a martyr. There are people here who would even agree with you, so maybe you can set up a secret club and share your stories!

Rest assured, opinions of idiots don't concern me, so don't waste your breath. However, better people than you have found out that pissing me off is a bad idea... so on the other hand, please continue.

James Pond · « **Reply #8 on:** 2006-10-27 09:26:02 »

...Am I actually the only person who is happy to have Jari back?

-_-

ice_cold513 · « **Reply #9 on:** 2006-10-27 10:00:14 »

Quote from: Emerald Weapon on 2006-10-26 15:05:36

Ad2:

I'm just going to say this the way it is. The boards have deteriorated badly.
Qhimm.com isn't near what it used to be and nowadays even far away from the good things going on when the situation was already slightly "bad".
Stupid people keep creating stupid threads, fighting over stupid arguments and finding more and more ways to make fun of, attack or insult other members.
Besides this, the forums have become somewhat of a helpdesk for new people to just post one message, get an answer and get the f*** out of here.
New, fun threads aren't created anymore, and when they are spammed full of silly posts, using grammar that isn't even near Engrish.

I know all too well, that I myself have also been a part of this and contributed to the above mentioned things. I "understand" that and, though it was fun at the time itself, now I am not proud of some of my posts. It was, and still is, unnecessary and I hope that in whatever the future may hold for the forums it will not happen anymore. I fear it will though.

All i can say is goodbye

I feel the same way too and i have done some bad grammer in my time here too.
I was here a year or two b4 coming a member so i seen the down hill.

Borde · « **Reply #10 on:** 2006-10-27 15:36:14 »

Good bye Emerald Weapon. Wish you luck in your life.

I'm not completly possitive about the decadency of this forums. I must admit it's been quiet boring around here lately. I haven't done anything to help it either (but don't think our little project is dead yet

). But the Q-Gears project seems to be the most productive effort that has been done in this forum since I came (accidentally) here for the first time.
I still have faith in tese forums.

Covarr · « **Reply #11 on:** 2006-10-27 16:58:56 »

I'm stuck here. See, if I give a friendly goodbye to Emerald Weapon that's relevant to his post, I'm being obnoxious to Jari. If I don't say goodbye, I'm being obnoxious to Emerald Weapon. My only choice then is to give a generic goodbye that's neither friendly or unfriendly, and completely irrelevant.

Goodbye, Emerald Weapon. May you have a future filled with Pop Tarts and Cheetos.

Jari · « **Reply #12 on:** 2006-10-27 17:04:24 »

Quote from: Covarr on 2006-10-27 16:58:56

I'm stuck here. See, if I give a friendly goodbye to Emerald Weapon that's relevant to his post, I'm being obnoxious to Jari.

Now you are being just silly.

I wouldn't mind at all, I'm here only for rumor control reasons. In fact, I think that EW is a pretty nice kid, I just don't want to talk to him. Doesn't mean that the rest of you should be nasty towards him.

stormmedia · « **Reply #13 on:** 2006-10-27 18:18:19 »

Hey Emerald Weapon,

Well even though I didn't talked much with you... if not at all .. I think it's always sad to see people go... so well I wish you a very nice life and good luck with anything you'll do in the future.

Quote from: Jari on 2006-10-27 07:39:55

[...]Here's a free tip, you can always pretend that you are being persecuted by the cruel and unjust Jari, that way you can at least feel like a martyr[...]

Well Jari ... I'd say that it's you who try to play the martyr here... Emerald was just saying that he leave the forums for the reasons he mentioned ... and then you took the lead of this thread telling things like "Yes, I know. I'm a horrible person, I think that we've established that a long time ago." ....

Quote from: Jari on 2006-10-27 07:39:55

Rest assured, opinions of idiots don't concern me, so don't waste your breath. However, better people than you have found out that pissing me off is a bad idea... so on the other hand, please continue.

I don't think that by telling people that they are idiots will help you making friends here... although I must admit that chaoscontrol wasn't very kind with you....

Enough of this let's not forget the true purpose of this thread witch is to say farewell to Emerald Weapon... Well I hope you enjoyed your days here as much as I do...

Well Farewell...

Jari · « **Reply #14 on:** 2006-10-27 19:33:45 »

Jesus, Mary and Joseph! Do you people misunderstand on purpose, or are you just really ignorant about things going on in here?

Hello?

Quote from: stormmedia on 2006-10-27 18:18:19

Quote from: Jari on 2006-10-27 07:39:55
[...]Here's a free tip, you can always pretend that you are being persecuted by the cruel and unjust Jari, that way you can at least feel like a martyr[...]

Well Jari ... I'd say that it's you who try to play the martyr here... Emerald was just saying that he leave the forums for the reasons he mentioned ... and then you took the lead of this thread telling things like "Yes, I know. I'm a horrible person, I think that we've established that a long time ago." ....

Here's a question for you: how high would you consider the possibility to be that you completely misunderstood the thing I was referring to, pick one:

a) Fairly high
b) Very high
c) Monumental

Because here comes the explanation - apparently I should just attach these to everything I write, so that I wouldn't have to explain later on; I was a) being sarcastic and b) referring to the rather well known We Hate Jari-club, not EW. Not to mention, I was replying to RW_66, not EW.

Understood that?

Or do I have to explain in more detail?

Quote from: stormmedia on 2006-10-27 18:18:19

I don't think that by telling people that they are idiots will help you making friends here... although I must admit that chaoscontrol wasn't very kind with you....

Good thing that I'm not here to make friends and even less to suck up to people. If someone wants to be my friend, you are welcome by all means. But I won't be cleaning your anus with my tongue just to have you as my friend.

Could the next person commenting on this please know something about the thing they are talking about, and not just make wild guesses? As amusing as they are...

stormmedia · « **Reply #15 on:** 2006-10-27 21:28:55 »

Well whatever... just to let you know I am not in this Hate Jari-club. I was just saying that I think it was useless to come in this thread writing all this.... considering this I begin to understand the first reason Emerald Weapon mentioned...

Now Jari if you don't want to say good bye to Emerald fair enough if you don't want to make frends here fair enough ... but stop trying to look cool by humilating people... maybe then this Hate Jari-club will vanish.

Relf · « **Reply #16 on:** 2006-10-27 22:47:41 »

Goodbye EW, I'd say "see you around", but I don't count it likely.

Quote from: James Pond on 2006-10-27 09:26:02

...Am I actually the only person who is happy to have Jari back?

-_-

Nope.

Jari · « **Reply #17 on:** 2006-10-27 23:41:04 »

Quote from: stormmedia on 2006-10-27 21:28:55

I was just saying that I think it was useless to come in this thread writing all this....

Oh man, do you people read what I write at all?

Quote from: Jari on 2006-10-27 04:11:26

...I'd rather perform my rumor control before it gets that far...

You haven't been registered long enough to see the "Admin impersonator"-incident, but just try trusting me on this; this forum has quite a few rather gullible people, and I would prefer to keep the rumors to minimum, so that I don't have to go around fixing things up afterwards.

Quote from: stormmedia on 2006-10-27 21:28:55

..but stop trying to look cool by humilating people... maybe then this Hate Jari-club will vanish.

Quote from: Jari on 2006-10-27 19:33:45

Could the next person commenting on this please know something about the thing they are talking about, and not just make wild guesses? As amusing as they are...

No doubt if I stop "humiliating people", the people will stop trying to DoS the server down, for example? Or perhaps you didn't know about that, either. Could it be that you just don't know what you are talking about?

Skillster/RedSarg99 · « **Reply #18 on:** 2006-10-27 23:43:31 »

Uh Oh

Here we go again...
(And no I havent read it all)

Jari · « **Reply #19 on:** 2006-10-27 23:58:42 »

Didn't stop you from commenting, it seems.

EDIT: Actually, let's just have a free for all. Everyone who has issues with me, raise your hand and post them here. Since you seem to be taking pot shots anyway, without actually knowing anything, so what's few more messages, right?

Let it all out. Tell me how I raped you and ate your kids and killed your mother. Let's hear it.

stormmedia · « **Reply #20 on:** 2006-10-28 00:10:16 »

Welll... I don't think it's the thread for that. That's exactly what I want to say... your're right I probably shouldn't talk of what I don't realy know... but my point is just that it's not the thread for discussing of issus that people have with you .. it's a thread to say goodbye to Emerald......

ChaosControl · « **Reply #21 on:** 2006-10-28 00:30:40 »

*Raises hand*

(the only thing I got of this post was +1 postcount, maybe i'll be as cool as jari one day)

Jari · « **Reply #22 on:** 2006-10-28 00:39:36 »

Well, that was brief.

Next!

James Pond · « **Reply #23 on:** 2006-10-28 07:40:15 »

>_> This place feels much more normal with this thread here, I must say.

Midgar · « **Reply #24 on:** 2006-10-28 15:49:56 »

Hey Jari. Nice to see you back.