I was one of the people who used to get bashed! XD But it's water under the bridge to me, I've gotten to know everyone, and they aren't that bad.
I've gotten to know some members there too, and I love them. AA and I used to not get along, but now we're best buds.
I guess my problem is, that I end up be-friending a Clerith from that site, and then I see my arguments posted and mocked when I browse the site. It's just flat out lying and betrayal, and it gets quite old. It doesn't give me a right to generalize the
entire Forum though, and I apologize for doing so in some of my posts. I can get carried away.
I understand how it would seem clique-y, but that wasn't the intention. You get promoted based on quality of posts (basically, don't be a n00b) and most Cetras are expected to contribute to forum projects. It's not an exclusive club -- more people are expected to be promoted, there just hasn't been one in a while (as far as I know). Almost any thread there is for Cetras there are for regular forum members and everyone participates in both. Most of the time Cetras are more active in the regular forums anyway.
I guess I can understand that, though there are members there that are plenty intelligent imo, and have numerous amounts of posts and insightful things to say, and still aren't Cetra. Don't you think members that have been around for three years deserve a slot?
It still seems cliquey to me, just because of the fact it's hidden, and it's special treatment for a certain close group of members. The 'Guide' on how to be a Cetra seems extremely cliquey to me as well, but maybe it's because of the way the person worded it. Made it seem like they were elite, special, and better than everyone else.
CG sometimes debates for Cleris mostly because she doesn't agree with Cloud/Tifa arguments. But I assure you, she promotes single!Cloud above anything.
If she doesn't agree with Cloti arguments, wouldn't that make her Clerith? xD I thought CG was really nice, until unfortunately... dramaz!
I just joined to talk about Cleris, so usually I use Cleris graphics there and save any Cloud/Tifa or Zack/Aeris thing I might want to use elsewhere.
I just think it's a bit ridiculous to claim that Clotis are allowed, when really, they don't seem to be welcomed at all. I see member and Cloti bashing in almost every thread. They talk about the TLS Mods doing a bad job, but they're using the fact that it's a CxA based Forum as an excuse to treat members outside of their Forums unfairly. I don't think they should be trying to justify those kind of actions with excuses.
I like what Mako said, about members being accounted for their own actions and things that they say.
I didn't know you posted at the CxA forums, where was this thread?
It was quite a long time ago. I couldn't remember if I tried. But when I was there, I was BulletProofMarshMellow(BPMM) *watches as CxA readies their pitchforks*. Sadly, I had some drama with FFG at ACF, and then shortly after that I asked to be banned from CxA. FFG spread all this crap about how I was very "hateful" and "emo". It was basically just plain retarded.
I really hate drama like that, and I can't believe it started just because I said Zack and Aerith's deaths meant the same to Cloud. I don't understand how that's a 'biased Cloti' opinion; I find it to be quite logical.
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The Cetra sections, however they started out, are now really just for a lot of the old-school members of the FF7 fandom. Most of the Cetra members are closer and/or know each other outside of the fandom. The actual "bitching" is kept to one specific section so you don't have to bother with it if you don't have to. Most of the venting tends to be unrelated to FF7, at least these days (I haven't seen that much activity there anyway). The other parts are mostly chit-chat and spam threads. 
