What? I figured out what JackFrost's new screenname was ,like, in two weeks. That was an educated guess and apparently his real name gets thrown around casually here enough I didn't think it would be inconsiderate.
Ugh I'm Joshua Burke btw, nice to meet you.
Part of the reason Ichirou became unwelcome around here was because he kept using stuff from Patel's personal life to troll, so Patel's probably not cool with that.
See, I don't get this. If there's any perception of a "clique", it's probably because some of the people here have known each other for years or are actually friends IRL.
I used to agree with you but it's gone beyond that recently. Lately, it's just been Icons patting one another on the back for being awesome and disparaging regular members' opinions simply because they aren't Icons.
EB would be much better if most of the Icons would lost their superiority complexes and just be cool like Frag and Distantmantra. Those two never brag about how awesome they are. They just keep making good posts.
Ok, I'm not going to disagree with you about some of us (icons) being assholes. I'm probably the main offender, whatever.
But seriously? You think we just like to slap each other on the back? Uh, I *like* pretty much everyone that's an icon. They're my reason for posting here for the main part. So of course I'm going to want to interact with them. I'm not saying that everyone else is "ew, what a fucking unwashed plebe, get them away from me" but if you genuinely enjoy the e-company of certain people, maybe you have a different lingo with them than you do others. Fuck, me and pee dee have our own lingo down and he's not an icon, for example.
Now as for looking down on people... tell me, why should I treat wriak wrek, drewsy, green shinobi or foc as an average poster? They're not. They're bad posters. This is an objective valuation. The forum would be better off without them. Fuck, for all of his insanity ICHIROU was a better poster than them. He could at least carry on a decent conversation with someone when he wasn't freaking out.
Anyway, I just kind of think you're overstating things. THERE IS NO FUCKING ICON CONSPIRACY TO MAKE NON-ICONS FEEL BAD ABOUT THEMSELVES. The icon forum sees MAYBE one thread a week. If you've noticed icons being shitty to certain posters, it's probably because THEY'RE SHITTY POSTERS.