Its hard to say when MCCP started plummeting in acitivity. The combination of legendary users like Caution! and Ziek leaving, more users joining just to make a nuisance and elders generally not respecting the new user have all contributed to making MCCP, not just a dying forum, but a very unpleasant place to be for those who wish to escape the outside world. The downfall in activity comes as no surprise to and elder like me, never have I seen MCCP users being so unfriendly and turning against each other. MCCP is no longer the big happy family we once thought it was, it is a dark, cruel and unfriendly place to be in. Its killing me to type this but it is what most of us are thinking, it is what most of us know. How can we have a good time on MCCP when certain moderators spoil the fun? Closing hillarious threads like “Worst posters of 2009- Zixty8+ all his alt accounts” Yes the majority of it was spam, but in all honesty who actually gives a shit anymore?
If Dracophile doesn’t want our forums to die then banning people is surely not the way to go about it. What is the point of infractions is a question that regulary pops up in my head when I see someone who is appealing their infraction. All infractions do these days is chase people away, not bring them closer. Infractions have also caused problems between the user and the mod, the user believes they have wrongly been given an infraction whereas the mod believes he/she is right. What happens? An argument. Thats what happens, the user loses faith in the moderator and the wider community of MCCP loses faith in the moderator, the user and the mod who could be good friends fall out and the infraction has caused it. 5 infractions and you’re gone is the rule these days- Again why ban great users like Flame? What good will it do for MCCP? Absolutely none. Sp what am I suggesting? Abolish the infraction concept? No, but loosen the rules, a lot. Draco should tell the mods to only give infractions for severe offences and give out warnings 8 times out of 10.
The new user, and why he never appears- In the old days MCCP would get at least one new user every day, nowadays its about one every week. Why is this? A number of factors once again contribute to this, people who are legally allowed on the forum (13+) generally don’t play Club Penguin anymore so have no way of finding out about the forums. But lets not piss about here, we all know the main reason and that main reason is that MCCP is not a friendly place to be anymore. We don’t welcome new users like we use to- we ignore them. Face it, and its not just the new user that is overlooked it is the user that is not well known. The horrible concept of “popularity” has taken over MCCP and now only a select few people have people reading their replies, chatting to them on MSN and replying to their threads. The others, are simply ignored or not taken seriously. Bad grammar? Your considered to be a noob by the “popular” people, the flock follow the popular people and consider you a noob as well. Argument with a “popular” person? The “popular” person wins, no matter how right you are the flock stand up for the “popular” person and you are laughed at. I have the privelage of being one of the few people who have been at MCCP since the start and guess what? No one knows me. I am not a “popular” folk nor amI one of the flock, why is this? Because I am not afraid to have my own opinions and stand up to the popular folk? Because I was a noob when I first joined? Or because I’m too shy on the forums? To be honest, I don’t know, I’ve never known why I am not “higher up” on MCCP. But thats life, I’m not popular, and I’m fucking glad.
Part 2 soon.
