I've a feeling that this post will be taken out of context, but there you go.
I can definitely say that sometimes I enjoy wrestling more without the internet, but it depends on a lot of things. This is because I frankly don't give a crap about what makes the most money for the WWE and
a lot of the points being made are about that. And there's no denying that--real life or in the internet--if you are enjoying something and somebody comes around and goes "THIS IS SO STUPID" you are going to have to take a moment to process that. Not in the sense that somebody disliking something will make you not like it, but in the sense that it's hard to focus on having fun when you see somebody talking about why you shouldn't be having fun. Sometimes you throw a random comment like "Man, I wish wrestler X would have a match" and somebody else goes 'HIS MIC/RING/CHARISMA/INVISIBLE FOURTH POINT/WWE 13 STATS ARE BAD, HE CAN'T DRAW MONEY." Now, most of the times those are completely valid points--but they have nothing at all with the discussion in addition to the fact people are more or less aware of that already. It's like talking about Santa Claus with your friends when some guy goes "Why are you talking about Santa Claus? He's not real!" and it's just destroys the Christmas mood when somebody is like that. Nobody thinks Santa is real, saying that just feels like trying to stop people from enjoying Christmas. Geez.
I'm not saying that it's wrong for people to say those things because, hey, this is a wrestling board. We discuss wrestling here. It's not reasonable of me to expect that people don't discuss a topic just because I don't like that specific topic. Plus I'd need to expect that people can read my mind and know what topics I think are annoying, which would be doubly unreasonable. But it's pretty expected that hearing people post in rather...well, sometimes sorta confrontational tone toward a stance you have generally isn't fun, even if it's not directed at you personally. It is especially bad when this confrontational tone is accompanied by no argument at all.
So yeah, I can definitely say that I enjoy wrestling more in certain way when I don't post in any forums because my tastes seem to be pretty different from everybody else and the negativity towards it can be off-putting. Most of the times there isn't much of a discussion, and even if there is one, it tends to go around in circles with people repeating the same points somebody else already countered pages before.
So why do I come here? Because it's a trade-off. What I just said? Yeah, I mean it. But that's just one aspect of the thing. I also enjoy wrestling a lot more when people get together and make fun of crap, and damn, I love you guys because of that. Nobody is as good as making fun of things as this board. You guys mark out better than anyone whose birth name is mark.
Like, just like posts about being upset with the product can bring the mood down, the opposite is true too. And the trade-off feels like it's worth it to me, so I post here and just try to stay out of the discussions I feel aren't going to be fun. It's not that I get annoyed whenever people have opinions different than me, it's that sometimes when I see people arguing about things, the argument seems like they are either going to circle all the way back to the beginning or just flat out use circular reasoning.
For example, somebody goes "This is a horrible thing. Wrestler X isn't serious anymore, and that's bad because he isn't serious." At no point does the argument ever address whether being serious is a good or a bad thing and just jumps straight to the second part, and then it feels like the argument has been "rigged" so to speak.
So to sum up, I don't personally enjoy many arguments around here because they don't seem fun. So in that sense I enjoy wrestling more when I don't read the board. The opposite goes for good moments though. What I'm saying is, the internet makes the lows lower and the highs higher. To me, it balances out positively, so I keep coming here.
