Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I'd also like to offer my support - if you want to leave, then that's your call and nobody elses.If people decide they want to insult you because of this decision, then I think they're pretty much providing more evidence to back

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I agree with your sentiments, but I can also sympathize with people who say, enough is enough! Whether they're justified in placing blame on the blind community as a whole or not, and, as an aside, I have always despised the term &

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Some thoughts from someone who is quite old compared to most of you, (I'm in my mid forties.)First of all, people are people, and whether it's here, Google Plus, Facebook, LiveJournal, or a good double dozen other fora I've

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I am in fact growing somewhat weary of the incessant complaints about the blind community. While I used to somewhat agree with it, I wonder how founded the complaints actually are. Remember that everyone who is complaining is essentially also

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Yeah, I know all about forum moderating and administration, as I was our departments forum moderator and administrator mainly because nobody else was willing to do it. I didn't care, for the most part I enjoyed it, but there were a few mo

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Oddly enough, once someone gets themselves banned that is usually that. I tend to find trolls who just exist to be trolls are less common on this forum, or are very much easier to spot and deal with anyway, than people who simply cannot have a

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community That kind of behavior, unfortunately, isn't unique to the blind and visually impaired communities, it goes on in most, if not all, Internet communities.Part of the problem is that most Internet communities, including this one, allow the u

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community One of the most infuriating things is when people will come onto the forum for the sole reason to start flame wars. They'll start a topic, escalate drama, next thing you know, such immature words as "fuckerface" and "bast

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I certainly wasn't referring to Deathmatch either. I couldn't say one way or the other, having never played it, but I haven't heard any complaints about it either.As for the hacking and such in Swamp, Aprone handled that sit

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I am a little surprised at the comments on Ticonblu, sinse I've both always found them very easy to deal with and a nice bunch who take cryticism, and in the three titles I've played extensively, inquisitor's heartbeat and she

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Hi. I can see both sides of the ball here, but others have already stated what I wanted to so I won't repeat what's been already said. While we're on the subject of vision, I have slitely enough, in both eyes to see

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I used to think that people who are born blind are better off than those that lose their vision later in life, as I have. My thinking was that those who are born blind, having never had vision, don't know what they're missing, but

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I used to think that people who are born blind are better off than those that lose their vision later in life, as I have. My thinking was that those who are born blind, having never had vision, don't know what they're missing, but

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community People like the audazle project and the ones that make Flarestar, I currently forget there names, are the devs I respect because they take feedback in stride. So positive feedback makes them happier and they strive to make more games, and

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @Ghost rider, I can't speak for Klango or the playroom or Zone bbs or other places sinse I have my hands full with this forum and games and the audeasy list and don't particularly feel the need for more, . Here at least however  reme

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @CWI agree with you, the decisions, the behavior and many many other things are indicated by the country where people live, and the culture they own. The more years I pass, the more disability I'm seeing on the young blind children. The

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @CWI agree with you, the decisions, the behavior and many many other things are indicated by the country where people live, and the culture they own. The more years I pass, the more disability I'm seeing on the young blind children. The

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community My response to being ridiculed when I don't know something is to ask my heckler something I know he doesn't that I do, that usually puts them in their place. Your question doesn't have to be about the same or similar thing you

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I am by no means stating that the sighted comunity is free of drama. However, the fact that the drama is such commonplace is what puts me off about the blind community. For example, last week I found 2 15 year olds fighting and when I asked

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community It depends upon the online game, it's security and how it's run. There are many extremely good browser games and muds that entirely missout on the hacking and associated drama. Likewise, while there were trouble makers on Swamp  thr

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @Turtle;The problem with some players hacking, cheating, and otherwise trashing online games, I suspect is mostly kids that don't know any better or simply don't care how their actions might effect others. It is these troublemake

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Hi all,Well, I can see both sides of this.The thing is, Ghost Rider has a point. Not because blindness-specific forums have less drama, but because when drama happens here, it seems to pile on all at once. We're not talking about a Tumblr

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community The h key is a wonderful thing. With Jaws and NVDA, it lets you skip to the next heading without reading any of the intervening text. And it just so happens that, on the Audiogames.net forums, headings are used for the names of posters and

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Hello all,Here is my point of view.  I love audio games. That is, I love to develop, play, and talk about them, which is the reason I have not left the forum. I've seen the drama, I used to be part of it myself, but that stopped a c

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Dark wrote:Also to be honest if you think sighted  forums and communities are free from this kind of drama, it sounds like you haven't seen too many.This sounds like the "Line of the year" to me, I don't think dark could sa

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community hi.I agree. It's strange but there's not much we can do about the protecting thing. It's not good in my opinion. Sure protect to a sertain extent but there needs to be a stopping line and that line should not be crossed.I hav

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Vary good post afrim. Agreed that not every single one is the same. There are somethings that may not be takened in to account at times and the following some of what may not be takened in to account. Some of these things may cause a problem

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @Some of youWell, I agree that there are many problems going on in the blind community, especially in some forums, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all are the same. With this state, you are reminding me a generalised opinion o

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @Some of youWell, I agree that there are many problems going on in the blind community, especially in some forums, but that doesn't necessarily mean that all are the same. With this state, you are reminding me a generalised opinion o

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Most communities that wind up multigenerational tend to have these periods each time a new generation pops in where the newer generation has bouts of drama. Most of the drama around here lately seems to come from the newer developers yelling

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Ghost Rider, while I do get what you are saying I also think you are letting a few bad apples spoil your opinion of what is a fairly decent community in the main. The reason I say that is I have been on the web for close to twenty years, and

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @Gene, In the topic on the blind community I mentioned distancing myself from blind organizations, not this forum sinse I tend to find the two groups, "the blind" as community institutions go, and audio gamers tend to be different.

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @ghost riderYou are generalizing 'the blind community' by extrapolating from particular incidents.This may be justified, but please be more specific and provide examples.It's very easy to claim that 'the blind community&

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I agree. People should treat others with respect here and show that this community is a place of helping, learning, and friendship rather than this place where people shoot down others' opinions. I'm sorry that new members are end

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @afrim;Brad mentioned this forum and The Zone, another online community of visually impaired people, and there are other similar communities.@Dark;If I recall correcly, in the disappointed with the blind community topic, you yourself said that

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community @afrim;Brad mentioned this forum and The Zone, another online community of visually impaired people, and there are other similar communities.I too have to agree with Ghost Writer and Brad. I lost my vision to an aggressive form of glaucoma two

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Re: Distancing myself from the blind community I'd ask the same as Afrim, sinse "the blind community" in general and the audio gaming community specifically are different. Also to be honest if you think sighted  forums and communities are free from this kind of drama, it

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community which community are you talking about? I mean here in the audio games? anywhere else? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=222689#p222689 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community

Re: Distancing myself from the blind community Hi.I couldn't agree more with this post. TO be honest it's not just on here. I've seen it so much on the Playroom, on the zone bbs. It's kind of sad to be honest. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.ph

Distancing myself from the blind community

Distancing myself from the blind community Hello everyone. So in the past few days, I've been leaning away from the blind community. I've been hanging out with my sighted girlfriend and her sisters and there boyfriends on twitter and there was only one drama that happened