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Send4Help
Location: A biology lab far, far away... Gender: Male Total Likes: 485 likes
No time for the old in-out, love.
| | | Re: Honest question < Reply # 3 on 3/4/2014 11:44 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | UER is a community and a rather close one for people that do illegal activities and have the majority of their interaction through the internet. Each community attracts and fosters an atmosphere and this is the result of that. There is a correlation to the fact that people who take pleasure in seeing derelict places through actively breaking the law are usually people that have strong personalities. The same is true for the nature of the people and how they choose to interact. You want to give others a hard time because when it comes down to it you want to know that person well enough to run from the police or pull you out of a collapsed floor. Giving them a hard time online is one way of doing that. Furthermore, besides the advancement to full member most people here want to be sure the right people will be attracted and stay here while the people that dont fit are shown the door. All those things mixed together are -in my opinion- why things are the way they are. However, I can tell you one thing... Once you are accepted by the community the people become your best friends. A lot of the crap we give each other is because we know the other person so well that it is like joking with your own brother. I am better friends with some UE people than I am with the people I went to college with, in some cases even high school. The atmosphere here may be harsh, but it serves a function and that is why UER is the single biggest, largest, and most successful urban exploration site in the world.
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| Send4Help
Location: A biology lab far, far away... Gender: Male Total Likes: 485 likes
No time for the old in-out, love.
| | | Re: Honest question < Reply # 5 on 3/5/2014 12:29 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Again, everything I am saying is only my opinion... Maybe I should rephrase what I was saying. Giving people a hard time functions not only to vet someone in regards to the character, as in being able to take a verbal punch (which happens a lot on here) but it also helps to understand how they react in the real world to pressure and interaction (for example: pressure from a cop to give up your friends hiding inside a building after you are caught or the ability to be in a car for a 10 hour trip and not be annoyed to crap). Moreover, this is a niche community that uses this approach to foster the environment within the site. If everyone was welcoming and accepting of everyone that walks through the door we would end up with people putting out their collection baskets for 'free' locations, we would compromise security (LEOs), and we would end up with a large population of Lord Ricks and Bill Finans. But, as I mentioned before take all the bickering you see with a grain of salt. A lot of it (even if it doesnt look that way) is just friends poking at friends. The community isnt for everyone and really that is completely fine. It is what it is and it is successful at it. Plus, when you meet 90% of us in the real world, we are just like every one else and pretty awesome people to be around overall.
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| The Durango '95 purred away a real horrowshow - a nice, warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts. And soon it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark. |
| Intrinsic
Location: Collingwood Gender: Male Total Likes: 412 likes
| | | Re: Honest question < Reply # 6 on 3/5/2014 12:29 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Fundamentals I can understand maybe applying that method to someone you just met and might explore with, but assuming you don't explore with everyone on UER why have that attitude on the forums?
| The thing about forums is, we are disembodied text on a screen. You don't see the person behind the screen, you don't hear the inflections of their voice you see only the text and perhaps a little avatar. We had a large scale user meet last year in my area and I finally got to put the faces, voices and personalities to the usernames. There is always going to be some surprise (the person is NEVER who you picture them as, either physically or personality wise). Give it 15-20 minutes and the confinement of a car as you drive to a destination and slowly the layers of who you are, are peeled away like an onion. I've met about 40 people in this hobby, and there have never been any bad road trips or bad explorations. Sometimes there are personality clashes but not often and I've never thrown anyone from the moving car (yet). Perhaps you're over thinking it, just get out and meet people. If you hit it off, explore again. If you don't, find someone else or do it solo. The forums are not for everybody. Some have closed their accounts, some lurk and never post, others just disappear forever.
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| Radical_Ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Gender: Male Total Likes: 2728 likes
"You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live!"
| | | Re: Honest question < Reply # 12 on 3/8/2014 1:25 PM > | Reply with Quote
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