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Apple Imperialist
Today is the ninth of the month, which means I am one month older on this site. But this is the fourth time it's the ninth since Day one. As it's the four month anniversary, I'm going to review my past activity I had on this site. Since this is the first time I'm reviewing my past activity in general, I'm going to talk about what I liked and what I didn't like about this site. At the same time, I'm going to talk about my best and my worst experiences on TBT for the past four months.
What I liked about TBT:
Oh boy, where do I start? There's a lot of things I liked about it. One of them was the forum currency. This was the first public forum that I visited that had forum currency. You earn currency each time you post. The currency can also be earned when you sell, do art, or win a giveaway. You can spend currency for collectibles (either from shop or other users), signatures, art, profile edits, or even items from video games, including the game this site is based on.
I also like the collectible feature, where you can display collectibles under your profile, such as rainbow feathers, green pinwheels, Pokeballs, chocolate cakes, and other collectibles, ranging from common, easy to get collectibles to extremely rare collectibles.
The users are very entertaining as well, including the mods. I wouldn't look down at them for getting silly, but I would compliment them for being silly, like the pizza threads or when we kept refreshing the shop just to get what we want. The mods are very helpful as well. If there's a rule that I don't want to break, or if there's a user that's causing trouble, they will take care of it. And they aren't just limited to online activity. I had a huge problem with my pet apples since January 2013, and a mod gave me advice on taking care of apples.
What I didn't like about TBT:
Of course, no site is perfect for me. What I don't like about TBT is how left-winged this site is. Out of everyone who cares about politics on this site, most of them are liberal rather than conservative or moderate. I have a huge problem with the left wing in personal life, and it's mainly because of their beliefs. I don't believe in hating people for having different opinions, but I'm intolerant of people who are both liberal and are willingly to hate people who don't agree with them, especially on socialized medicine. I have zero tolerance of socialized medicine/universal healthcare, as I consider it to be communist since it infringes on freedom. I take communism and socialism extremely seriously. And some of you even criticize me for opposing socialized medicine. I'm glad that the mods are unbiased, but it doesn't mean they are moderate. Again, I don't mind non-political liberals, it's just only the biased ones I'm concerned about.
Because of how liberal TBT was, as well as LBPC and South Park Studios (I'm not a member, but I used to read from their site), it makes me wonder if all forums about gaming and TV shows are primarily liberal. Does it have to do with the age group, or is it that the newer generations are more liberal?
My Best Experience:
That's a tough one here. There has been so many that I can't pick one, so I'll just name a few.
One of them was the TBT Fair. I like the activities they have there where you can earn tickets. Tickets can be used to earn fair collectibles. So far, I had a total of 35 tickets, but I spent them all. I got myself a patch and two different balloons as I sent Kaiaa a green balloon for free. I may have lost every contest and didn't get any staff favorite at the fair, but it was worth it. Why? Because for the rainbow feathers and green pinwheels I failed to get, the small number of tickets was enough to get what I wanted most from the fair. I really don't see a point in feathers, as balloons are more valuable than pinwheels in my opinion. Maybe next year, I should save up to 100 tickets and get ten yellow feathers since they were the least purchased unlimited collectible. I feel sorry for the yellow feathers.
Also, somewhere in the middle of the fair, I finally got the chocolate cake collectible I was looking for. I even got it fresh from the shop. Not only that, I gave 110 free TBT to someone who needed it without letting him know beforehand. That was my fourth time I've done something like that on this site. What else is there? The TBT People's Choice Awards. I may not be a member for even a full four months, but I won an award. I was very thankful for everyone who voted me for it. I'm also not surprised why I won the award. I'm guessing it's because of the original StarFall Press.
There's not much else that I can say here, but I can't believe that I got famous on this site after four months.
My Worst Experience:
Despite enjoying my time here and all these good experiences, my overall experience on TBT was not perfect. Throughout the last four months, I had encountered a few trolls that had conflict with me. People have pointed at me in a negative light when I make some arguments. And of course, whatever I said in "what I didn't like about this site." But if there's anything that ruined my experience on this site more than anything else, it would be that huge giveaway thread held back in late October.
If you weren't unaware, the host went crazy (no offense) because people have taken collectibles a big deal, so she was generous and made a huge giveaway. One of the prizes was a Pokeball. Even I wanted to get that. But I later decided that I don't mind getting any prize other than the yellow candy. Somehow, I made the wrong move by threatening to sell the yellow candy. Yes, this was a shameful thing that I did, but that's one time I got this rude. And I didn't even know how bad it was. Either way, I provoked a lot of angry reactions on that thread. A whole bunch of users, including the host, ganged up against me, yelling rude comments. I was hurt by them. I would've had the potential to complain about how they treated me on that thread, but that would make the situation only worse as it may result getting an infraction, so on that day online, I acted like I had a good day just like if nothing happened, but today, I'm going to share how I felt about the thread. I'm not going to call out any names, so if you remember being rude to me, I'm looking at you. I have a note just to make sure that it doesn't happen.
Overall:
My overall experiences for the first four months on TBT was mostly positive. Despite the bad stuff, I hope that I have another good four months on this site.
What I liked about TBT:
Oh boy, where do I start? There's a lot of things I liked about it. One of them was the forum currency. This was the first public forum that I visited that had forum currency. You earn currency each time you post. The currency can also be earned when you sell, do art, or win a giveaway. You can spend currency for collectibles (either from shop or other users), signatures, art, profile edits, or even items from video games, including the game this site is based on.
I also like the collectible feature, where you can display collectibles under your profile, such as rainbow feathers, green pinwheels, Pokeballs, chocolate cakes, and other collectibles, ranging from common, easy to get collectibles to extremely rare collectibles.
The users are very entertaining as well, including the mods. I wouldn't look down at them for getting silly, but I would compliment them for being silly, like the pizza threads or when we kept refreshing the shop just to get what we want. The mods are very helpful as well. If there's a rule that I don't want to break, or if there's a user that's causing trouble, they will take care of it. And they aren't just limited to online activity. I had a huge problem with my pet apples since January 2013, and a mod gave me advice on taking care of apples.
What I didn't like about TBT:
Of course, no site is perfect for me. What I don't like about TBT is how left-winged this site is. Out of everyone who cares about politics on this site, most of them are liberal rather than conservative or moderate. I have a huge problem with the left wing in personal life, and it's mainly because of their beliefs. I don't believe in hating people for having different opinions, but I'm intolerant of people who are both liberal and are willingly to hate people who don't agree with them, especially on socialized medicine. I have zero tolerance of socialized medicine/universal healthcare, as I consider it to be communist since it infringes on freedom. I take communism and socialism extremely seriously. And some of you even criticize me for opposing socialized medicine. I'm glad that the mods are unbiased, but it doesn't mean they are moderate. Again, I don't mind non-political liberals, it's just only the biased ones I'm concerned about.
Because of how liberal TBT was, as well as LBPC and South Park Studios (I'm not a member, but I used to read from their site), it makes me wonder if all forums about gaming and TV shows are primarily liberal. Does it have to do with the age group, or is it that the newer generations are more liberal?
My Best Experience:
That's a tough one here. There has been so many that I can't pick one, so I'll just name a few.
One of them was the TBT Fair. I like the activities they have there where you can earn tickets. Tickets can be used to earn fair collectibles. So far, I had a total of 35 tickets, but I spent them all. I got myself a patch and two different balloons as I sent Kaiaa a green balloon for free. I may have lost every contest and didn't get any staff favorite at the fair, but it was worth it. Why? Because for the rainbow feathers and green pinwheels I failed to get, the small number of tickets was enough to get what I wanted most from the fair. I really don't see a point in feathers, as balloons are more valuable than pinwheels in my opinion. Maybe next year, I should save up to 100 tickets and get ten yellow feathers since they were the least purchased unlimited collectible. I feel sorry for the yellow feathers.
Also, somewhere in the middle of the fair, I finally got the chocolate cake collectible I was looking for. I even got it fresh from the shop. Not only that, I gave 110 free TBT to someone who needed it without letting him know beforehand. That was my fourth time I've done something like that on this site. What else is there? The TBT People's Choice Awards. I may not be a member for even a full four months, but I won an award. I was very thankful for everyone who voted me for it. I'm also not surprised why I won the award. I'm guessing it's because of the original StarFall Press.
There's not much else that I can say here, but I can't believe that I got famous on this site after four months.
My Worst Experience:
Despite enjoying my time here and all these good experiences, my overall experience on TBT was not perfect. Throughout the last four months, I had encountered a few trolls that had conflict with me. People have pointed at me in a negative light when I make some arguments. And of course, whatever I said in "what I didn't like about this site." But if there's anything that ruined my experience on this site more than anything else, it would be that huge giveaway thread held back in late October.
If you weren't unaware, the host went crazy (no offense) because people have taken collectibles a big deal, so she was generous and made a huge giveaway. One of the prizes was a Pokeball. Even I wanted to get that. But I later decided that I don't mind getting any prize other than the yellow candy. Somehow, I made the wrong move by threatening to sell the yellow candy. Yes, this was a shameful thing that I did, but that's one time I got this rude. And I didn't even know how bad it was. Either way, I provoked a lot of angry reactions on that thread. A whole bunch of users, including the host, ganged up against me, yelling rude comments. I was hurt by them. I would've had the potential to complain about how they treated me on that thread, but that would make the situation only worse as it may result getting an infraction, so on that day online, I acted like I had a good day just like if nothing happened, but today, I'm going to share how I felt about the thread. I'm not going to call out any names, so if you remember being rude to me, I'm looking at you. I have a note just to make sure that it doesn't happen.
I know you don't me talking about this since it was in the past, but it's part of my review on best and worst experiences. If I make you feel bad, then I'm sorry. My purpose isn't to shame on you or look for sympathy. It's to give you a heads up in case someone gets rude to me.
Anyway, I was appalled at your rude posts. I was feeling much more hurt by your words than how the host felt by my words. In fact, I was so hurt to the point where I almost planned on talking about it beyond this site. Although I haven't done so yet (in fact, that's not going to happen no matter what), I did not deserve the rude posts. Do you know why? This was my first offense, and I didn't know that it was considered rude to sell what you win in a giveaway. What's even worse was that you acted like strict teachers because I said something, not knowing it was bad. How would you feel if a whole bunch of people ganged up against you, yelling flames for doing a first-time offense you didn't know was bad? I was hurt very badly because of that. I understand that you take selling what you win in a giveaway seriously, but I take extremely strict discipline ten times more seriously, especially on first time offenses. And you weren't just disciplining. You were flaming. Do you think insulting another person is a good punishment for something they didn't know? I understand that extreme offenses are worth getting mass insults for on first offense, but this is something that isn't even extreme. It's okay to get this rude if I made that same offense for the fifth time, but you did this on the first time. You can now see why I am angry for that.
Anyway, I regret rejecting that yellow candy and forgiven you for your rude posts. In addition, I won't do any of the following:
But next time, if anybody threatens to sell what they win, please report that to the mods. They won't think kindly of people threatening to sell what they won. I don't want you to get this rude again. I understand how painful it was that I rejected the candy, but there's no reason to get this rude. I learned my lesson.
If you want to know why I didn't want the yellow candy, you can ask privately, but I bet that you don't want to know because this is a subject of the past. I will accept sympathy if you show sympathy.
Anyway, I was appalled at your rude posts. I was feeling much more hurt by your words than how the host felt by my words. In fact, I was so hurt to the point where I almost planned on talking about it beyond this site. Although I haven't done so yet (in fact, that's not going to happen no matter what), I did not deserve the rude posts. Do you know why? This was my first offense, and I didn't know that it was considered rude to sell what you win in a giveaway. What's even worse was that you acted like strict teachers because I said something, not knowing it was bad. How would you feel if a whole bunch of people ganged up against you, yelling flames for doing a first-time offense you didn't know was bad? I was hurt very badly because of that. I understand that you take selling what you win in a giveaway seriously, but I take extremely strict discipline ten times more seriously, especially on first time offenses. And you weren't just disciplining. You were flaming. Do you think insulting another person is a good punishment for something they didn't know? I understand that extreme offenses are worth getting mass insults for on first offense, but this is something that isn't even extreme. It's okay to get this rude if I made that same offense for the fifth time, but you did this on the first time. You can now see why I am angry for that.
Anyway, I regret rejecting that yellow candy and forgiven you for your rude posts. In addition, I won't do any of the following:
- Sell what I win in a giveaway
- Talk about this giveaway thread on another site
- Continue talking about this giveaway on this site
- Let your rude posts count against you in the future
- Or even threaten to do any of the above
But next time, if anybody threatens to sell what they win, please report that to the mods. They won't think kindly of people threatening to sell what they won. I don't want you to get this rude again. I understand how painful it was that I rejected the candy, but there's no reason to get this rude. I learned my lesson.
If you want to know why I didn't want the yellow candy, you can ask privately, but I bet that you don't want to know because this is a subject of the past. I will accept sympathy if you show sympathy.
Overall:
My overall experiences for the first four months on TBT was mostly positive. Despite the bad stuff, I hope that I have another good four months on this site.
