Kings Island Facebook posts

[timfsu2k]

I follow Kings Island's official Facebook page and it has gotten to the point where I cringe when I see one of their posts.  Not due to the content of the posts but due to the comments on the posts.  People amaze me with the things they say on Facebook.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised but sometimes I can't help myself and just have to chime in.  Anyone else follow them on FB and see what I'm talking about?

[silver2005]

^It's the internet.  Dealing with posters on any form of social media is an adventure in and of itself.  You just gotta roll with it.  Fighting it is like fighting the ocean.

If you really want to see some concentrated crazy posts, try YouTube.

[Arrow]

I just took a look and... wow. I've seen my fair share of crazy posts on the internet, but some of the comments on the post about the Chin Up Challenge quite shocked me. One comment said something along the lines of "Yeah! Encourage them to join a war and die horribly!". 

I use youtube often and usually see horrible comments, but I rarely ever use Facebook. Are all comments on there like that?

[Magenta Lizard]

I've noticed it before, and it's not just Kings Island. It's particularly pointless to me, because if you're following something on Facebook presumably it's something you like. If not, why not spend your time focusing on something you do like? If you've had a specific bad experience, taking it to guest services is a better line to getting things rectified than making rude comments on a random post. 

I try very hard to be as positive as possible about the things I enjoy, at the very least in public spaces. Otherwise you're making either yourself look stupid (I hate this thing so I follow it on Facebook) or you're discouraging the people involved in your hobby, workers and other fans alike. 

[timfsu2k]

6 hours ago, silver2005 said:

^It's the internet.  Dealing with posters on any form of social media is an adventure in and of itself.  You just gotta roll with it.  Fighting it is like fighting the ocean.

If you really want to see some concentrated crazy posts, try YouTube.

Yeah that is true.  Just amazed me that people are so negative and are impossible to please.

 

 

5 hours ago, Arrow said:

I just took a look and... wow. I've seen my fair share of crazy posts on the internet, but some of the comments on the post about the Chin Up Challenge quite shocked me. One comment said something along the lines of "Yeah! Encourage them to join a war and die horribly!". 

I use youtube often and usually see horrible comments, but I rarely ever use Facebook. Are all comments on there like that?

 

You get your fair share to be sure.  Especially on political or hot button issues.  That's kind of why I am always so surprised at the vitriol that some people spew on the posts.  Someone today was complaining that Kings Island didn't have a daycare!

 

 

3 hours ago, Magenta Lizard said:

I've noticed it before, and it's not just Kings Island. It's particularly pointless to me, because if you're following something on Facebook presumably it's something you like. If not, why not spend your time focusing on something you do like? If you've had a specific bad experience, taking it to guest services is a better line to getting things rectified than making rude comments on a random post. 

I try very hard to be as positive as possible about the things I enjoy, at the very least in public spaces. Otherwise you're making either yourself look stupid (I hate this thing so I follow it on Facebook) or you're discouraging the people involved in your hobby, workers and other fans alike. 

 

Right?  If people hate the park so much then why do they even follow the page?  I think some people have way too much time on their hands.

[YOULLBEBACK]

All the comment sections for anything as big as Kings Island is, for the most part, nothing but "diarrhea of the keyboard".  Really stupid people saying really stupid things, with flawed arguments and even more flawed grammar. 

[YOULLBEBACK]

I get a good kick out of them at times by trying to find the more ridiculous comments or suggestions. 

For instance, on a post about the family care center, someone stated that KI should start a day care center for her 3 year old.  The main argument being there wasn't anything to do for a 3 year old and that way she could drop her kid off at the day care and ride rides with her older kid.  If only there was an award winning kids area where said 3 year old could play.  Comedic gold!

 

 

[Magenta Lizard]

I really believe that the biggest blow to intelligent public discourse in my lifetime began when news organizations started allowing unmoderated anonymous posting to be shown directly under their articles. It was the journalists who put in the work of writing and researching, the news org put in the money and administration to maintain web presence, and they held no small amount of authority and responsibility for what was written in their articles; but then they allowed every jerk with internet access to raise their voices to nearly the same level, without the requirement of either thought, effort, or culpability. 

Newspapers and magazines used to publish letters to the editors: not just positive reactions, but dissenting opinions. The difference was that they didn't publish everything anyone thought to send in, they filtered it down to the most coherent and well-thought-out arguments. Cranks wrote plenty of letters but were rarely published: they were mostly confined to airing their opinions to family, friends, and random strangers.

With the ability to say nearly anything anonymously, with almost no effort, the idea "everyone is entitled to my opinion" became so ingrained in the public psyche (like the nearly-as-damaging "the customer is always right") that even people who aren't loud mouthed jerks give it a certain amount of leeway. So even when the anonymity is taken away someplace like Facebook, cranks think whatever they have to say is so important that they feel free to post it alongside their names.

Actually, that is one good thing to come from Facebook, though: by making people actually take ownership of their comments, I've learned enough about what is going on inside the head of certain acquaintances to steer clear of them. Life is too short to spend it with negative unconstructive people. 

[Magenta Lizard]

Not Kings Island related but worth a mention.

I follow a few Pokémon Go pages/groups on Facebook. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. there is a post about something new in the game, one of the first five comments is "people still play this?"

I'd like to reply with "people still follow groups for things they don't play?" but it breaks my vow to try to be positive. I mean, geez, tho.

I have such a full feed from the different things I like (friends, KI, cats, horror, Pokémon Go, knitting all come to mind) I surely don't have the time, energy, or interest it would take to troll pages about things I don't like.

It seriously is as easy to unfollow as make a comment and would completely solve these peoples' "problem."

[rhyano]

To be fair, who even uses Facebook reviews.

[TheRickster]

Yeah, reading people *****ing on FB is great. Just imagine what the parks guest relations has to put up with.

Seems like the topic of the month is that people don't want to pay for the hard park if all they are doing is the waterpark. Well they forget the waterpark is technically an addition to the hardpark. KI isn't setup to charge for them separately and if they did it'd probably be a ton more crowded.

They also complain about wanting a chaperon wrist band because they arent riding anything or are just at the waterpark with their kids and shouldn't have to pay to get in.

The general public is a most interesting thing. I honestly don't know how they can go through life not questioning why things are the way they are. But I guess critical thinking isn't as natural as it comes to some of us. 

[jcgoble3]

If you want to spend an hour reading stupid comments on Facebook, go to the NASA page. Many of their posts get attacked by flat earthers. I'm not kidding. I sometimes use their posts as free entertainment.

[Arrow]

So I made an account yesterday to reply to the lady talking about how there should be a daycare center. I said "Yeah, if only there were an award winning kids area for them to have fun in... oh wait!" 

 

Checked again today. It was marked for spam. Oh boy.

[VortexBFForever]

On Facebook and Instagram, when KI posts about Vortex, most of the comments are always negative, which irks me. Yes, there are people who don't like Vortex, but at work I have met many more who love it and call it one of their favorite rides, including kids in the 48" crowd as Vortex is the only looping coaster at KI that has a height requirement of 48".

That being said, the positive view of Vortex is quite often underrepresented on social media...and Facebook is definitely no exception.

[Arrow]

1 hour ago, VortexBFForever said:

On Facebook and Instagram, when KI posts about Vortex, most of the comments are always negative, which irks me. Yes, there are people who don't like Vortex, but at work I have met many more who love it and call it one of their favorite rides, including kids in the 48" crowd as Vortex is the only looping coaster at KI that has a height requirement of 48".

That being said, the positive view of Vortex is quite often underrepresented on social media...and Facebook is definitely no exception.

Vortex was THE coaster that got me over my fear of Roller Coasters. Not to mention, I still find it to be very fun, and not as bad as other Custom Loopers. And one time when I rode it, the kids in front of me absolutely loved the ride and kept saying they wanted to go again. 

 

I feel like with all the negative things made about it that its life is near its end. I'd be really happy if I'm wrong, however. And I hope I am.

[Magenta Lizard]

^yes, I've noticed a surprising number of young people who cite Vortex as their favorite coaster in the park.

[BoddaH1994]

We used to have a running joke that Kings Island could announce that they had found a free cure for cancer and in the comments some hillbilly would still say, "Yeah, you can give out a cure for cancer but you still have to charge $13.99 for a Cheese Coney meal."

[FoolCrzy]

11 hours ago, Magenta Lizard said:

^yes, I've noticed a surprising number of young people who cite Vortex as their favorite coaster in the park.

My 11 year-old daughter LOVES Vortex...

[McSalsa]

In Vortex's defense, I've seen plenty of other rides that are known to have good or even great reputations get slammed on social media sites like Facebook or Youtube. Cedar Point's Blue Streak- known for being a pretty good woodie- Cedar Point made a FB POV post of it, and there were- to my shock- tons of comments calling it garbage. Mystic Timbers- currently ranking as one of the top wooden coasters in the world in the early polls that include it- is also called garbage just because it is "only" 109 feet tall and "only" goes 53mph, even without mentioning the shed complaints. Banshee- giant inverted coaster, something KI fans had been asking to get for YEARS- has people calling it garbage too, and demanding the park tear it down and rebuild Son of Beast (Don Helbig probably takes one look at comments like that and LOLZ). If Kings Island (or any major park) builds a coaster or any ride really, odds are, someone on social media will call it garbage at least once. 

Also I will mention that of all the people I have met and traveled to Kings Island with personally- which is about 20+ people so far- only 3 refused to ride Vortex, and most of the others liked the ride. One of my many uncle's actually considered it his favorite coaster at the park (though that's just through conversation as I haven't been to the park with said Uncle in years).

I also wanted to mention that on my Birthday this year, April 22nd, I went to Kings Island. It was cold and dreary so there were not very many lines at all, and while my sister and I (it was just us) were walking back to Mystic Timbers I noticed Vortex was stuck on the lift hill, broken down apparently. We rode Mystic Timbers with a 15-minute wait, and then walked on Beast and Diamondback. While we were "in line" (more like walking up to the station since there was no line) for Diamondback, I saw Vortex doing test runs, and we decided to ride that next- we went there and suddenly there was a 15 minute wait for Vortex, while Diamondback was still a walk-on. Vortex clearly still has something at least resembling a fan-base left if it can get a 15-minute wait for re-opening after a breakdown when everything else, save the new-for-2017 Woodie, is a walk-on. Vortex may have a few more years in it still, as long as maintenance costs aren't sky high- which I don't think they should be for such a common ride type (Arrow Loopers are everywhere and tons of companies make replacement parts), even at Vortex's age.