Remember the good ole' days from the first page where I asked everyone to keep the discussion limited to MLP:FIM as a web phenomenon (which is what the OP wanted to discuss) instead of ranting about the administrati and the Halloween name change issue? Granted,
Bonz kind of blew that out of the water by responding to it (friggin' n00b
), and I can't exactly tell the boss to take it to QS&F, so here we are.
I was hoping the discussion could remain at least somewhat civil, but in typical Miscellaneous fashion it has devolved into a knock-down drag-out fight. For all the complaints about TNZ that make people who are not or are barely exposed to it feel qualified to pontificate on how bad it is, massive fights of this scale seem mostly limited to the stricter (in terms of rules) forum of Miscellaneous. There's something to be said for being able to call a person on their behavior freely so they can't repeatedly hide behind the protection of the rules.
As far as MLP goes, I am not a fan, but there are a lot of things I'm not a fan of. I was not a fan of the way a small number of MLP fans spammed the living hell out of the forum when the show/meme first became popular here and unfairly gave the rest of the fans a bad name. I am not a fan of the way certain MLP fans want to act as if they've suffered some great tribulation and are the new persecuted underclass of the internet.
That being said, people on the other side of the issue seem to be carrying on as if we are still at day one of this thing and nothing has changed. The people who were doing the most spamming have finally gotten the message and backed off from that a lot, and I thank them for it. They're also not "ramming MLP down our throats" nearly as much as someone suggested earlier. I think people need to recognize when a behavior has been curtailed and thus alter their own behavior accordingly.
Regardless, people on both sides of this issue need to get some perspective. It's not history's greatest tragedy that MLP has been mildly censored in one privilege (Halloween names) on one private forum, and being forced to see occasional (ie. not excessive) pony paraphernalia around the board is not like suffering a plague of locusts. Everyone get a grip.
Now, I'll leave this open for a little while longer in case anyone has a final word they want to POLITELY drop in the thread about the issues raised here. Maybe, if things can be civil it can even stay open. But this is not going to become the new bi-annual Miscellaneous Dramarama.
). There are some elements in it that can be perceived as 'girly' but the show itself isn't overly girly. It's more of a family show and it's fun. I highly doubt it would appeal to so many different people - among them rather manly men (I hear there's also a substantial Brony population in the military) by the way - if it wasn't designed to do so. It's not everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.
