I enjoyed reading this good post op.

Originally posted by precious328

Overly Smiley or Mangirl:

This user is either too happy or too afraid that he might be read wrong. :) Everything sentence has a smile on the end of it :) :D

I have a good friend who is like this, and it has rubbed off on me O:-)  So I found this offensive :(

Originally posted by Meltdown

Originally posted by Tardcore

So who did we miss? Which archetype do you identify with most? C’mon now.  Be honest! Let us know in the comments.

The Thread Derailer. He's passionate, he's got an axe to grind, he can sometimes be quite erudite and lucid, just not on the actual subject at hand.

"Wait, you are actually profiling and sticking blanket labels on posters? You know there was another group of people that liked to hang labels on people, the NAZIS!

Ah yes... that sounds like someone I know quite well... Would this "derailer" also tend to explain things via analogies that would also tend to derail discussions?

Indeed. Why it quite reminds me of the type of poster who when discussing a Star Wars MMO would make a comparrison to the controversy when Lucas changed that Han Solo shot first. Which I felt quite destroyed his film legacy.

Discuss.

edit: oops Loktofeit beat me to it, nevermind..

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/ 

I am Bottle Collector type

Originally posted by precious328

The Forum Dropout

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  User name generally has X's around it, e.g., XxNAMExX.

 

Or numbers. Oh wait...

Couldn't resist, they are so cute!!!!

Funny article, it is good to change ideas from time to time :P

Two other forum people would be the Meme Person, the Asterisker, and the Brony.

Personally, I'm a Lurker. I read posts and rarely post to them.

Oh wait, ... I've been found out! NoooOOOO---

where'd they get the idea that lurkers like the color white?

Originally posted by yutty

where'd they get the idea that lurkers like the color white?

Sometimes people just feel the need to assign colors to groups... lol

The Kardashian

Desperately seeking attention, but doesn't have anything constructive to say. The Kardashian will often post useless drivel and fluff text  in threads linked to competitions, news posts or started by MMORPG forum moderators, in a desperate attempt to have their post seen and responded to by others.

The Kardashian is often attracted to the colour pink, bright yellow and flashy ASCII art.

Trolls come in so many shapes and forms its tough to group them under one category.

There is the hater troll, thats mostly described here.

Then there is the

ALL CAPS TROLL LOLz.  THEY DONT EVEN DISGUYZ THEY ARE TROLOLOLING YET PEOPLE FEED THEM JUST THE SAME!!!!!!111!!!!!1!1!!1!

And of course the hot topic troll.  This person brings up a topic that he knows will get a rise.  For example: Hell go into a suggestion thread and post things that are in WoW because he knows that will set people off.  'This game needs flying mounts and rated bgs!'

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by elocke

Fly-by Poster:

That's me ;D.  I tend to only pick posts in that little box on the front page that catch my eye, I may even reply within that thread more than once, but more often than not, I've shot my gun and am looking for the next interesting thread to poke my head into.

I'll admit I'm a bit like that.

IF nothing happens on the front page or there are no interesting posts I will then start to search in game forums that I find interesting.

I do this too.  If I don't see anything on the front forum feed I hit the most recent posts feed and look for something interesting.

The two poster types that drive me crazy are the Actually guy that some people above mentioned and the horrible Fansite/Blog post clicks guy.  The last are those people who post regurgitated info from their blog or a favorite fansite just to get people to traffic over there.  For some reason that bugs me.

Actually Torvaldr....  Those guys are very helpful to the site because they are bringing quality topics of discussion from reputable blogs and usually sparking interesting debates that are difficult to derail.  It is refreshing compared to the typical my game vs your game threads you see a lot of.

:D

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Originally posted by 77lolmac77
"Oh youve been playing MMOs since EQ? Yeah I played Meridian 59"

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Ah yes the M59'ers. So many people on these forums tout that game as their first MMO. Pretty sure most of them just looked up the oldest MMO on this site's game list to beef up their credentials.

Lurker reporting in; usually feels like I can barley be bothered to post nowadays. I just usually post if the thread of posts in a certain thread are enough to infuriate me that I have to say something.

I always thought this was an interesting topic! Well done!

I started a thread last week to ask how we could define hater/fanboy, but it was closed because we are "supposed to talk about games, not forum behavior."

I'm glad to see we can, in fact, discuss forum behavior.

Nothing to see here, just another thread propagating perspective based generalizations upon a forum of over one million users.

I fit in two of those categories. Sometimes I'm a peacemaker, sometimes I'm a lurker.