ambroise wrote:Do you even know the amount of time it takes to create a web site like .org and to maintain it?
As a matter of fact, I do. And coincidentally, I know how much MORE time and effort it takes when you're actually coding ALL of your own stuff. This web board for example, is not Phade's, it's a prepackaged deal, either UBB or some other knockoff.
Too much time to contribute to forum discussions. Too much time to chat. Too much time to make AMVs.
I make videos, I chat, I maintain more websites, databases and projects than Phade or most likely anyone else on this site can even begin to imagine. The point is, it's not about not having enough time, it's about what you make time for. Obviously Phade has things that are more important to him, which is not a bad thing, I personally think it's great he's doing the whole family thing and all, it's gonna make him really happy. My point is that many of you are spooging over yourselves trying to make Phade out to be some kind of demigod, which he simply is not.
And who cares Phade hasn't made many vids? He has done a lot for the AMV community.
Arguable. I've actually done various studies that show that the actions of people like Phade can actually inadvertantly damage a community. Most online communities do much better when there is more than one central site. In fact you can kind of see this happening already in this community (which is a good thing), where the chat room has started to branch off into it's own clique. A lot of the AIM chat room goers abstain completely from the board and a lot of them even prefer sharing their AMVs through AIM via direct connection. In the future hopefully there will be more sites and more places for AMV creators to participate in, as it breeds less stagnation and what I like to call "Internet inbreeding".
So he's done a lot for you. Yeah, you. Unless you're not part of that community, in which case I don't see your point in posting here.
I'm apart of many communities in many different ways.
You've only been here for a few months. I don't think you really know what you're talking about.
That's quite presumptuous of you to think so. In fact I've been involved on the .org since around December of 2001 and even before that if you count my dealings in various binary anime groups on Usenet.
It's presumptuous from you to think so many people don't have a good reason to thank somebody.
Is that so? Logically I would think that if that were true you would have been able to directly answer my question and respond in a coherent and organized manner on every point that I brought up. Really, your entire post has been one giant emotional spasm mixed in with, "OMG WTF WEB DESIGN IS TEH HARD, YO!".
Quite frankly, I don't even see why you bothered replying to me, certainly if THAT is all the better you can counter with you aren't going to change my opinion and even further, why would you even WANT to try and change my opinion? I don't really want to change yours, maybe I'm a lil curious as to the reasoning behind your opinion, but I certainly don't expect nor want you to just blindly agree with me like some meandering sheeple. Although it seems that's what you're looking at me to do. *shrugs* I'm sorry, but I just can't oblige, I'm sorry that my believing somehting differently from you causes you so much distress and angst, but that's the way the world works, not everyone is going to agree with you.
And if you don't have a good reason to thank somebody... well, just don't thank him. I don't see your point in saying "I don't thank you" unless you really have something against Phade.
In case this point just skipped you, every time you post here on this board, it is archived, and not just on Phade's end. You may not actually care about this community on the level that some people such as myself do, however we recognize the importance of history and presenting the opinions of ALL sides for the sake of future reference by future generations.
I believe that it is important to make it perfectly clear that Phade is NOT revered as some kind of demigod in the eyes of all AMV creators. If Phade wants to leave, hey, that's great I wish him all the best, you should too, however spooging over him like some kind of obsessed otaku strung out on pockey and making claims about how he's practically fucking Jesus to everyone around here is the point at which some people like myself draw the line and choose to step in and state our opinions in the matter.