The way this forum is ran now is absolute ****.
In the old days back in 2003 when mir 2 was worth a damn and this forum was actually populated. People helped each other and generall got on well.
Now when you want to join the forum, you either have to agree with about 5 members who are a close group because they have been ass raping each other for 5 years, if you dont you become a social outcast and all you can expect is the random "gtfo" or "eat **** and die" from blam, sawell stonehelm etc etc.
First of all, i'd like to start by pointing Leocrasher in the direction of this post. Im sure she doesn't agree with the vendetta/favourtism crap, so im equally sure she will see this and manage to warn you for your "ass raping" comment.
Secondly, I entirely agree with most of your post, back in 2003 mir was popular, that was 4 years ago, and now its a sack of crap compared to most things on the market. People on here do hang around in close groups and they do seek to outcast people, mainly these people they target are the one's that come on here and set themsevles apart from the rest by setting new standards in low intelligence.
The reason for this is, back in 2003, people liek Stonehelm, Sawell, Blam, Pyraine, and myself were mir server owners, the work we did back then meant something, and we dedicated loads of our free time to give others free entertainment, and by doing so, we gained the respect and gratitude of that community.
Then servers became more popular, and idiots began arriving. People that wanted US to make a server for THEIR needs, they began to demand everything, they began to demand help, and when they still couldn't figure stuff out, we had to dumb it down for them. Pre-made server files all ready to go were released, yet they still couldn't figure it out. Those that did manage to figure everything out released their version of "Alpha Frozen" which was the same as all the other idiotic versions of the same server.
2005 brought about what I like to refer to as the "ASS WARS" a period of time where server owners fought with each other to make increasing easy, overstated, low HP mob servers. Where hundreds of the best item dropped everyday, and were usually obtained by taking 1000's of instant pots and fighting a boss you could kill in 30 seconds. These servers lived and died fast, and basically ruined the entire scene, because mir people were lazy and wanted everything instantly, and then got bored when they realised it was all the same.
In conclusion most newcomers are morons, they will never contribute anything meaningful, or post anything thats really inciteful. Infact the best most of them can hope for is 2 days of attention for posting the "loose change 9/11" video and saying how it was a conspiracy by George Bush, and so forth, at which point they are torn apart with insults, and told why they are wrong.
In conclusion: **** 99% of this communty.