Why does everyone think its so bad?

[White_Noise]

uhh what is 315?

its a hype based following, similiar to the HK following, though it is just to get attention.

[mcdkid]

I don't mean to come off like I'm flaming, but you joined THIS month. Unless you lurked for a year or so, how do you have any authority to comment on the decline?

u mean bigevil? he used to be MINDJOB, check under his name...

[Target Practice]

u mean bigevil? he used to be MINDJOB, check under his name...

Ahh...gotcha.

[WARPED1]

no,
you get flammed because you think shockers/imps are good guns

See?! Idiots...........wouldn't know a good gun if it kicked them in the goody sack.

[mcdkid]

See?! Idiots...........wouldn't know a good gun if it kicked them in the goody sack.

i think the term would be shot, instead of kicked...

[thorn]

the problem ive seen very lately is the EXTREME negativity in this forum. even pbn isnt this negative. its just so gloomy around here. in august it was much better.

[WARPED1]

i think the term would be shot, instead of kicked...

LOL, very true!

[peewee]

WARPED1 I think you are being just a little sensitive. Its funny mag owners have been bashed for years. I have heard the mags suck comment so many times by impy/ AC/ matrix/ etc owners so many times I lost count. you have no sence of humour. Why do you have to start calling people names?? I have laughed off more insults about my gear than I can count. Note its an automag forum. For years this was the safe haven for most of the people here. just because people razz you a bit you start calling names???? Do you still have a mag? If so whats the big deal about getting poo for owning SP stuff?

[PBkilla123]

AO beats PBnation any day. im sure a lot of ppl on ao agree w/ me

[tha flynnrod]

PBNATION CAN BE THE PITS!!!!!.......i agree...just try and post a question there..you will instantly be flamed with noobs saying USE THE SEARCH BUTTON!!!....but when you try to use the search function it never works due to the volume of people who are on....plus its full of nooobs who just want to argue back and forth....try and make a humorous paintball vid just for fun and post it there..you will instantly be flamed with "this video is pointless" replies..like they were expecting some long technical intelectual video....want they dont realize is some people may enjoy watchiing a dumba$$ (me) run around blinded with a trashcan over the top of my body while getting shot with paintballs....(and they will also flame a classic mag shooting 11 bps by saying its slow).....but i will continue to make pointless FLYNRUSS PRODUCTION vids and post them there for the exposure factor!..bad publicity is still publicity!

[BigEvil]

AO beats PBnation any day. im sure a lot of ppl on ao agree w/ me

Yes - ditto.

PBN is a good souce of info, but in many instances it is better to just lurk than to actually get involved in anything.

After some of the current happenings on AO, I'm begining to wonder if it really IS starting to go downhill after all. But where else am I going to get my online paintball fix from?

[peewee]

Being a mag hag, I never really go to PBN. I go to phog for my phantom fixes & ao for mag. have no ther needs really. I try & keep an eye on tippy stuff for my kid.

[punkncat]

There are person(s) with too much power over others ability to state an opinion or attempt to make/prove a point through their public(or even private)messages. This ability is enforced by a vague set of rules that doesn't have to be followed to the letter by those enacting them....(read through some closed posts and you will see not one but MANY examples of this behavior, and mostly by one person) There is no check or balance. There is no oversight. When an outcry is made about the unfairness of this ability, or to question the reasoning behind it, the answer is "none of your buisiness" or "bring it up, get banned". And to make it all worse, the rulings being handed down commonly lack consistancy.

Made worse by the fact that there are certain other peole who feel its their personal mission in life to bring these inconsistancies and the grey area of the rules to light and question with every single post. In spite of warnings, they continue to frustrate the powers that be with this garbage, pissing EVERYONE off when stopgap measures get enforced to put a bandaid on the situation.

I guess what I am getting at is that(many)people are getting frustrated by the fact that you can hardly post here anymore w/o fear of stepping on (certain individuals) toes. People are getting frustrated at seeing well known members disappearing because of stupid issues and personal vendettas. Due mostly to others inability to leave well enough alone.

[hitech]

SP is evil....

[SlartyBartFast]

I've noticed lately that there is way too much negative sentiment being thrown around AO. Everyone is complaining, whining, or just down right suicidal.

Nah.

It's just winter and a few people are suffering from severe cases of cabin fever which is turning the most trivial and inconscequential of issues into life threatening and Earth shaking ones.

That, and some people seem to have confused randomw chatter on a forum with real life.