• Facepunch, what's the drive to communicate on the forum?
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I don't really talk to people much in real life, for multiple reasons, mainly social anxiety disorder. (I've been getting better about that recently though, yay therapy) So I talk online. Athough my social anxiety disorder DOES still hinder me online, it's to a lesser degree. I've been here for a long time, and I like the community. People are mostly nice and chill, the assholes get called out, and there's standards of logic and evidence when arguing or posting news. Reddit's got too many people for a proper community - not at the same level at least - and it's kind of an echo chamber because of their system. Tumblr is unnavigable. Even more echo chambery too. 4chan is alright for shitposting about anime or video games, but not really for community. Or standards. Discord is worthless for longterm conversations. Facebook is too personal, so I can't express what I really think without fearing my grandma will have a heart attack. I don't really know of any other forum communities like this. I was alright with Something Awful for a while, but I don't think their community sits right with me. Maybe it's changed recently, I wouldn't know.
I used to do it for the ratings until I figured out how to disable them. Now it's usually just for fun, just throwing in my two cents. Sometimes I throw something out there purely to gauge responses.
this is cheaper than SomethingAwful.com
I just genuinely love the people here
1) Facepunch has closer knit groups than Reddit, and actual order compared to 4chan. I can poke my head into a thread that I frequent and recognize half (or more) of the users posting in it, while also seeing that it has a bunch of new posts. 2) The forum fosters civil and meaningful communication instead of drowning your voice out amongst thousands. Reddit tends to divide posts based on what the group consensus agrees and disagrees with, often hiding the latter under most circumstances. 4chan moves very quickly and barely anything is archived unless you go out of the way to do it yourself. 3) I grew up posting here and listening to the various views provided, even if they were highly misguided. I don't like the idea of becoming "internet homeless."
Showing off word-diarrhea vomiting skills, fighting own shyness
The community seems nice. I don't tend to post too often (which I regret), but I do lurk a lot. It's enjoyable, even if it's died down a little.
I say I have nothing better to do but in reality I lack the drive to do the better things and this gives me an excuse.
The main reason I joined Facepunch originally was because I was looking for somewhere to escape from 4chan that wasnt social media. I hate places that make you worry about stuff like followers or karma and that kind of shit. On here, every post is the same as every other post. It makes expressing myself feel a lot easier when Im not bogged down by that kind of stuff. At the time I registered, Facepunch was the largest general video games discussion forum on the Internet. It also had all sorts of people and communities posting without a whole lot of stupid drama associated with it (at least not from my knowledge). Also it didnt require me to use an email required by my ISP or whatever like NeoGAF makes you do, so Facepunch was the obvious choice.
if it's better to scream on a dead backwater forum than scream into the void, might as well do it in a place with some standards
I like the people around here and the debates or reactions that come up. Plus the current news is concise in the forums for easy read.
Years ago, I stuck around Facepunch because it was the one place on the internet that was willing to ban people for not being able to follow the simplest of instructions. I'm not even talking about the idiot cull threads (though those were great too), just basic shit like being able to create your thread in a section that is even remotely related to it. The moderators were actually rule enforcers, not just janitors that cleaned up the messes left by idiots. Now, despite the fact that the rules are more lax, I stick around because it is the only place I know of on the internet for politics discussion that isn't complete shit. I feel like the strict rules of old were the idiot cull that was needed to allow this to happen.
Like minded people and I've gotten comfortable enough to post constantly
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