Top Ten Problems TheTopTens is Facing in Terms of the Community

When I first joined this site, it was a rich place with many ways to get information, humor, and share opinions in a friendly way. Now, times have changed, and this site I once loved is going downhill.

*Note* My intentions here are in no way, libelous or defamatory. As harsh as it may sound, I'm trying to be a good person. Admin, this is no way breaking the terms of use, and if it is, please tell me without threat of account deletion/suspension.
The Top Ten
1 Bandwagoners

I used to bandwagon a lot. That's generally a bad habit I struggle with on this website. Sometimes I even say similar things to other people's opinions when it comes to agreement.
Now, I want to stop bandwagoning and agreeing with so many people for once. I think I should be more original with my opinions, instead of joining in hate bandwagons, unless I truly hate something that other people don't like.

Also just because I like or dislike something, doesn't mean I can get salty about other people having an opposite opinion.

Apparently this website is full of stereotypes. I guess you have to be a metalhead and like rock music, hate pop, hip hop, and R&B, and like 90's shows. You have to hate Justin Bieber, Teen Titans Go!, The Loud House, and Frozen. If you're the opposite, then you will get hate and bombed with dislikes. This website is unfair.

I feel like in order to be on this site one has to love metal, 90s cartoons, Mario, and hate pop music, Teen Titans Go, and Frozen, or else you'll be bombarded with dislikes and hate comments. It shouldn't be like that at all.

You made a list about problems with the community, and EpicJake and I already had said lists.

Looks like people are bandwagoning with these list topics also.

2 The legacy of Puga

Tons of hacks on BAND trying to rustle and it's just pathetic.

He was a good user, but he could go too far.

3 Lack of diversity

Honestly, this is very true. In terms of video games, the only franchises that get a sizable amount of attention are those with cel-shaded/cartoon-like visual aesthetics, which normally includes most of Nintendo, Sonic the Hedgehog, Undertale, etc. I mean, there's hardly anyone on the site with a genuine interest in games like God of War, Uncharted, Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy and many more. Call of Duty is a popular topic, but most users would rather hate on it anyway.

Music seems to be very diverse and divisive at the same time. Much of the site's users consists of Metalheads, although most of them come across as more tolerable than on other sites and forums, which is a good thing and obscure Metal and Rock acts have been bought up on this site, which is a pleasant surprise. However, there's a lot of Pop and Indie musicians that don't get much recognition and I feel as if some attention can be bought up on them. Folk and Jazz are never bought up which is rather ...more

Back when I first joined, there was diversity. I joined the music community, there were a bunch of movie guys, memers, and everyone was one huge land. Now we have cringey "Controveries" and "Wars" over the stupidest things.

I can agree with this. As a user with a variety of different interests, I'd say browsing around TheTopTens isn't worth my time.

Not trying to offend metal and rock fans out there but it's true, the music fans we usually see here everyday are just rock and metal fans, it's just so dull and boring to just have people like these on TheTopTens

4 Everybody running for admin

For someone to be a good admin, I think that individual needs good organizing and managing skills in general, which is normal. In addition, said individual needs to have good knowledge about internet software and problem-solving as well. Lastly, the user must have a sizable experience with the internet and implementing certain elements that make up a website, such as interface, links, URL's and more.

Problem is, its tough to find such users around.

Must need to be on guard for 24/7 of anything that may seem harmful environment with proper penalties & warning violations, also you need to propose things that the community can have a great belief in your background experience even take suggestions in a more positive feedback.

Even if its for fun, it's totally hopeless. Admin isn't going to give everything to someone they worked for their life. So I don't see reasons to get serious about being admin.

LOL.. Who actually thought of dethroning the admin thinking that they could moderate thousands of comments and posts at a tiring pace per day. Even if I haven't had any experience as a moderator of a site I doubt you'd even survive several hours as an admin. Get your flying mind back into your head

5 "The Great Zootopia Controversy" and whatnot

This entire thing was mostly fuelled by immaturity and a complete inability to respect other people's opinions, something that's still somewhat prevalent on this site nowadays. Fortunately I've noticed some of the childish arguments easing off a little this month, so fingers crossed the community will carry on changing for the better as a whole.

This falls under the "bandwagoning" problem, as I can clearly tell that some were just hating on this for attention. One specific user (not saying who, should know who he is) did once say "Zootopia is a great movie, no matter how bad the fans are." Later, he just rambled on with hate. So yes, the Great Zootopia Controversy was all bandwagoning to get attention.

Like seriously. This guy made terrible points. We all hated on him for a week. It's ok. Was it really worth continuing to give the whole thing that much attention? We did the same to Disney 1994, and Self Destruct.

People seem to misunderstand this little argument. People think that the user that was criticized was a victim when it is not the case.

6 Hypocrisy

Everyone blaming everyone else for things they've all done in the past. Myself as well, considering I've done everything on here. It gets annoying. Instead of yelling out "criticisms", jut talk positively, and then sort the problems out in one area, instead of polluting cringe everywhere.

I disagree. I sometimes get called out for being a hypocrite based on certain stuff I told 3-4 years ago on this site. My response is that I was 12, now I'm 15, I have hit puberty, my views and opinions have changed. It's natural

This sums up cartoon fans here
Respect my opinion!
5 seconds later
Anyone who likes this or that should go to hell!

Most Bieber haters and metal elitists in a nutshell.

7 Pretentiousness

You are not always right. Everyone else is not always wrong. You are not the king of the univere and comments like

"By that logic..."

and

"How is this not..."

Not everyone thinks alike. For every Mettalica fan, there's also a Tyga fan. We're all human beings who view things differently. Learn to live like that. Directing everything at yourself isn't helping anyone.

Barring myself, this quality is possessed by every creature here., Yeah, I understand honesty hurts like sitting in a chair full of erect razor sharp nails.

I'll respect your opinion if you like Tyga and hate Kendrick.

Okay, I think I'm pretty pretentious when it comes to modern rap music. I'm guilty

8 Stat-padding

Nobody cares about the top ten basketball players who haven't had a slam dunk, or the Pantera albums that didn't get released in the UK (I know those aren't actual lists). Make lists that have ome form of importance to society, and are not a waste of your time, and the time of people that have to look through these things.

You should make any kind of list you want, big or small. A list that may seem stupid and what not may be something that is very important to that person. Make the list you want to and mind your own business

Letter lists are the worst kind of list! Other lists might be interesting, but no one cares about top 10 songs by a music artist that start with the letter X!

All people care about these days are reaching the highest stats.

9 The policy

I have this really low only out of pity. Users need to calm down about it, but it's still flawed. a lot of the rules and conditions are pretty useless. I doubt "name calling" is going to decrease the site's revenue, or lose the visitors we have. Many people beginning to decrease the visiting hours, and it's putting the site on a decline. By changing some of the rules to make it a better environment, not just for a certain audience, but for the entire world, we can balance out a community that will let thetoptens thrive for time to come.

10 Lack of statistics

I'm pretty sure that the ratio between subjective and objective lists is really high. That's why I'm announcing a new list series: Objective Outroar. Basically, I will be releasing a bunch of objective lists to raise actual stats in this site of rankings.

The Contenders
11 Pop fans and metal fans not getting along with each other

I saw lots of metal elitist attacking pop fans claiming that metal is far the most "superior" music genre compared to all. In the site at least. Pop fans may also bash on metal but the major issue are metal elitists.

I get along with many pop fans and I love metal. I also like some pop. I like all different types of music.

This should be number one. Even I think the war between pop fans and metalheads should stop.

The whole pop and metal war should stop. Everybody running for admin isn't even a thing.

12 Excessive usage of the term "overrated"

Just remember guys, "Overrated" doesn't not mean "Bad". It means gets too much phrase. Also just because something gets too much phrase or attention, doesn't mean you can stop enjoying it.
For example: I like South Park, Pokémon and some Rock music yet I can totally agree that they are overrated as heck. That's not changing my opinion on enjoying it though.

There's no such thing as factually overrated or underrated. It's merelt subjective. Whether you think something deserves the praise or not is based on your opinion.

Or the difference excessive usage between terms ''overrated'' and ''worst'' right?

The word is overrated.

13 Lists that put smaller issues above bigger ones

I mean the Most Terrivld Events list used to very biased but have improved over time. Here were the rankings before:

1. When Barney First Aired
2. When Dora First Aired
3. When Princess Diana Died
4. When Caillou First Aired
5. When Peppa Pig First Aired
6. The Las Vegas Shooting
7. World War II
8. When Doc McStuffins First Aired
9. Birth of Donald Trump
10. Birth of Justin Bieber

On the list of Worst Things that Happened in 2017, "Taylor Swift released Look What You Made Me Do" (just a bad song, which killed no one) is above Hurricane Maria (the hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico).

People think Dora The Explorer is more evil than Adolf Hitler.
People think Justin Bieber's music is worse than terrorism.

Worst Things That Happened in 2017
The top choices are a bunch of celebrity deaths.
Manchester Bombing? Pfft. Big deal.

14 Trolls

Trolls are great.

15 Justin Bieber gets too much hate

Look I hate him too, but have you SEEN the way this site treats him? It's like he's Hitler 2.0! One list put Justin Bieber as #1 when HITLER AND BIN LADEN SHOULD HAVE BEEN #1! At least Justin didn't genocide people or terrorize (although his drunk driving was pretty awful)! I'm not one of his Beliebers defending him, I hate him too, but this site needs therapy!
They're taking his hate WAAAYYY too far! The only JB haters I agree with are the ones who hate him for his nasty as hell personality! I hate the others who hate him for singing high or making Baby.

I hate jb a lot but sometimes people in this website mention his hate from him on random lists too. Once I was looking at this list talking about "the worst things to happen in school" and one of the items was JB coming to your school.

Imagine caring about Justin Bieber in 2019. Update: Bieber is still getting attention in 2021 why is this site still stuck in the 2010s? You do realize most of the hate comments are from 2009-2014

16 Anime haters

@Vip3r

Not only the hate is justified, but also haters sending death threats to anime fans is justified, because it's part of the hate. Not to mention Hitler is nothing, compared to anime. That's why all of anime fans deserved to die!

And @3DG20, all anime fans do this, they all are dumb. I am an anime hater, and there are no anime haters, that can't respect opinions, because the universe is meant to hate anime. I hope by 2020s, there will be all anime fans killed, if you like anime, then you are evil and go to hell for this sin. If you hate anime, you will go to heaven. I reslly hope anime to ve erased from existence, because death to all anime fans.

17 Spam voting

This is why I often see Dimash Kudaibergen, Jackie Evancho, Rod Stewart, and Indian people/religions (I welcome the diversity, but still) at #1.

Does that include people who vote solely to comment on why something "shouldn't be on whatever list" or argue with a previous comment?

There are people here who vote for the same person day/night 'round the clock, year in year out. GET A REAL LIFE!

18 New visitors

Visitors are those bandwagoners who don't respect other's opinions. I was bashed by visitors for disliking Fortnite of all things. Some visitors are OK, but a majority of them need to take a chill pill

I actually really hate most visitors, they're the ones that cause the most bull and bandwagoning on the site and they're generally very disrespectful towards opinions.

I can't stand the visitors of this site. They bash others for no reason, they troll other people and get off scot-free, use caps lock, and are overall very cringy. They're so mean these days.

That cap locks frozen girl,that Imbysol who insulted Skrillex fans, and that troll with the David Bowie album are just 3 examples.

19 Rustlers
20 The administration

Administration and policy is the biggest and overwhelming flaw of this site, I think a 10 year old kid, who cannot complete his own school homework is hiding in the background and trying to manage things beyond his capability. Cannot digest honest opinions just like the creatures here, and sends me warning notices for fun.

The only thing wrong with them is their punishment system. Banning users for whatever reason for a week doesn't help anything.

21 Disrespecting opinions
22 Rabid hating

Now that is the line

23 Users Use Cancer, Autism, and Retarded as Insults

That happens outside the site as well. Might as well ignore and embrace it.

Not with the policy in place; you can't specifically target and attack a user with such insults

24 Haters

Look, if you don't like something then that's fine but don't constantly vote them just for them to be high, especially if most people like it. You can vote on it once or twice but not 69 billion times or anything.

25 Religious nuts
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