-{R] My thoughts on cruelty on Mara.

Is marapopularity and winning flamewars important?
Who cares if a bunch of strangers like you?
99% of the Mara population wants attention when they get on forums, and most people are nice to people to get friends. That's what you're supposed to do isn't it? Would you really want friends who worship you 'cause you're a huge -insert word of your choice here- ?
And some people actually /scorn/ the ones who are friendly and nice. How pathetic and illogical is /that/?
Some people scorn others because in these flamewars everyone participates in, they can only get friends as backup. And... your point is? Would you want anyone but friends to stick up for you? Maybe enemies? The occasional idiotic Sliced bread is sliced? Yeah, I didn't think so.

Just because flamewars are a big part of Mara, doesn't mean they should be, and it doesn't justify anybody to say 'Well, everyone else is doing it!'
We should all strive for control and try to avoid them, because flamewars benefit /nobody/ in the long run.

Participating in flamewars is morally and mentally degrading for all involved. I'm saying arguing and people just being unnecessarily mean for the 'lolz' is mentally degrading and certainly not healthy or beneficial. And the person doing the degrading is just bringing themselves down, because they're such losers they have to hurt other people to feel good about themselves.

Being unnecessarily cruel and hurtful like that just ruins the game for other people, and /why/ would you honestly want to ruin something for someone else, who has done /nothing/ to you?