Elitism
No one here can really deny that there's elitism. This also ties into the crack. We, as a community, believe we are the best StarCraft fansite purely because we have a "strong" community. This is a StarCraft fansite, and we have little content actually about StarCraft.
You honestly cannot deny statistics:
We simply can't be elitist about a good community. As Cent said, we should just turn into Facebook. SEN is really a social networking site now; we have much more off-topic content than Starcraft related. I added the Projects and Clan sections to the StarCraft related section, and honestly, the Clan section is just socializing, and the Projects are all dead. Even adding StarCraft II posts to StarCraft wouldn't put it above off-topic. I counted SEN discussion as neutral, but realistically it's oftentimes not on-topic. This may seem to have nothing to do with elitism; however, it is completely what the elitism is based on. The SEN community is very cocky, calling themselves the "best mappers" and implying both only good mappers are here and all good mappers eventually come here. Have you ever been amazed by a non-SEN mapper? *cough* Bioject *cough*
How many SC2 maps have even been made by SENers? How many good maps have even been made by SENers? How many SENers even try to make maps, not less complete them? The fact is that SEN thinks it's the best, when in fact there is no evidence for that. I have seen truly great SC2 maps from SC2Mapster, and not a single one from SEN. Why would SEN think they're better than SC2Mapster? The "community?" Their community is based purely on StarCraft 2. Ours is over half random discussion. We do not have a stronger community. We have a stronger social network.
The Crack
There is no reason not to support the crack. It is simply stupid to say that if we support the crack we'll start supporting hacks. SC2Mapster doesn't support hacks. We will not support hacks. Cracks =! Hacks. And for the Blizzard white knights, [b]they have never chosen to promote this "elite" and "amazing" StarCraft fansite. Neither on their official website, their Facebook feed, nor their Twitter feed. They simply don't care about us, even if they know about us. They don't care about the crack. They probably like people making maps, even if they don't have the copy legitimately. And before you say "well Blizzard never fucked us over either so we should keep supporting them," ask Heinnermann about his EUDs. Do action EUDs still work? I thought not. Blizzard specifically patched them. They had so much possibility, and Blizzard stopped us. To me, that is simply unforgivable. Why should we respect their intellectual property that THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT when they don't care about us whatsoever? I simply don't understand what people are thinking. It's not even stealing; stealing implies you had to pay something. The Beta was free.
SEN's Downfall
SEN is dead. There's so much more useless content than useful, so much elitism. WE ARE NOT BETTER THAN COMMUNITIES THAT ACTUALLY DO USEFUL WORK.
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