I to have been on these boards near as long as you, and you would like free rain anywhere. Honestly it good that we have mod that actually take the time to look at post instead of just ignoring them.Leaving it where it was maybe? You move things to the FB AFTER they've devolved, not in anticipation.
And I'm only whiny when I see shitty things happening with a forum I've been a member of for 4 years. I did it when Sculli shat the place up, I did it when Elei was off doing as he pleased, and I'm doing it now, when shitty moderation is being put forth by people too lazy to do their jobs correctly.
Hwy now whould not have to keep reposting if they would not keep mis quoting or spinning my words out of context.I'm not blind to the jumble of consistency myself. If we do nothing, someone, such as Jamal, reports it and inflames the situation. If we start becoming proactive, people get angry that we start poking the rules too literally.
What in God's name do you want? I can read the context of posts. Hellstorm's ideas get repetitive fast, and everyone tells him the same thing, yet he still won't drop his argument. What am I supposed to do? I can understand someone getting pissed off, but the rules definitely say flamebaits are not allowed. If something so concrete as a flamebait is defined in the rules, then the definition of what it means to flamebait can not change from user to user, context to context.
STFU randomename - Flamebait
randomname's idea is idiotic - not flamebait.
Attack the idea, not the person? That what a flamebait is? I'm beginning to think QCDN wants the whole place to become a flameboard.
And more than anything, I really wish people could just calm down, breathe for a little bit, maybe take a swig from the water bottle, and just come to these forums for a good time instead of trying to define what shitty moderation is. There is no reason you should have to be pissed off at something you do in your leisure.
Or maybe he can learn to control himself every argument gives no bases it always stfu you moron. That not just talking about me, that any person that post something he dont agree with. If he can't help to flame then maybe he need read me stats only on the gen. discussion board.This is a good point, and I do agree after examining both the situation and events that followed that Skaw was indeed out of line. MY point however is that it shouldn't have really gotten to that situation. The thread should've been moved prior to that
Having a brain is. And those with brains tend to use them to properly articulate their ideas.
I could give you the reason WHY that is, but it'd be of no use, so I won't bother.
Besides, it'd destroy your whole argument, then you might have to retreat from the thread in shame and I'd loose out on all my fun.
No, he's really given me a headache a few times. He does also bring me to the floor with laughter occasionally, and Its fun to have conversations with my friends about how stupid he is sometimes.
I don't put the same again and again. I give different context to what I wrote because it is need by the post that I quote. Yes lot of my post are out there, normally controversial topic, but that why I pick them because last I check this was a discussion board. Also I don't flame, I will not call a person a name in most cases. Why because is not respectful even if certain people on these boards don't deserve it. i don't post for attention, I post to make a statement, which normally go over about 30% of the people on this boards head which is to be expected because it them who im normally targeting and they fill there never wrong.If Hellstorm, or anyone else for that matter, keeps putting the same argument forward again, and again, even after people have already shut the whole idea down, isn't that kind of flamebaiting?
Like if someone makes a topic in General Discussion complaining about LFP times. This post, regardless of where it may actually be (FB, Good Times, General Discussion) will induce flames. Isn't that what flamebaiting (trolling, etc.) is?
My point is that it's nearly entirely subjective. Which is why there's this big back and forth argument. Perhaps for warnings, I don't think anyway terribly cares so much, but if you're going to base some sort of further disciplinary action, go at it by a case by case basis. IE, what makes "STFU hellstorm" flamebait, but posting in a thread about TV shows that "tv sucks books are better, everything is ripped off of books" is somehow not? Or posting "WoW sucks!" in the WoW board, or "Xbox kills babies" (which had a tenuous link at best) in the Xbox board.
Perhaps if Hellstorm would actually spell words properly, organize ideas, and use paragraphs, maybe I'd actually agree that it was flamebaiting. Or at least relative to some of the other examples cited. Like posting in a TV thread that TV sucks and books are infinitely better. This post is going to generate flames. Should those flames be punished? There's a bit of grey area there between victim of constant flaming, and provoker of constant flames.
3 out of those 5 topic I was not the one that started the debate, if you going to post it then I'm going tell you how it is, I wont just say stfu like skaw or marajade do, I will post why he was wrong or why he been mislead.Except you can't ignore Hellstorm because he continues to post the same bullshit OVER AND OVER AND OVER. Christ, he turned like 5 threads into how Rdm should be a melee/tank. That shit shouldn't happen in the first place.
Gunner said it best if you think you can do better make your own board. That been tryed before and failed. It the same thing I say to those who criticize people that lead. It hard to read 1 12 page long thread they don't have the time or the man power to read all 10000 post that are posted each day. That is why the report button is there.Let me get this straight you volunteer to be a mod yet you are coming up with the excuse i don't have time to mod correctly.
May i ask if you don't have time to read 40+ pages what exactly do you have time for? besides being a mod for the hell of it.
Hey, can I ask an honest question? >.>
I'm so pure white, and literally have never interacted with an African-American (I grew up in a small northern town)
But why exactly -is- the N-Word so offensive? All I see it as, is that it means "black person." Are white people supposed to get offended when we're called Crackers (or whatever we're called)?
(and one thing, more unrelated, how it's okay for a black to call a black the n-word, but heaven forbid a white person say it [this is not so, I'm sure, in all cases, just something I find curious) Racism is really an...odd thing. I don't understand it, but I've never been exposed to it :|
I guess you could interpret my posts as discussion. So by the rules of this forum I guess I need some form of punishment OR since you don't want to punish most of the user base here you could have just deleted my posts, maybe PM'd me why out of courtesy(I didn't know discussion wasn't allowed under good times) and left the thread where it was.
Anticipating a thread going south is weak. Back when Meeze was here did you move every single BoL recruiting thread to the flameboard? We all knew it would turn into a flame yet you cleaned the thread every time it happened. Why not do the same for this thread? For the record I'm not a Jamal fan. It just seems like you wanted to move this thread because he made it.
I understand mods donate their time and I along with many people here appreciate that. I don't expect perfection, nor do I expect everyone to be friends. I do expect a certain amount of receptivity to members views and concerns no matter what your personal stance is on the topic or your previous entanglements with the member.
Since this isn't a flame but it's in a flameboard thread, is that against the rules too?
i posted something in this thread
I guess you could interpret my posts as discussion. So by the rules of this forum I guess I need some form of punishment OR since you don't want to punish most of the user base here you could have just deleted my posts, maybe PM'd me why out of courtesy(I didn't know discussion wasn't allowed under good times) and left the thread where it was.
Anticipating a thread going south is weak. Back when Meeze was here did you move every single BoL recruiting thread to the flameboard? We all knew it would turn into a flame yet you cleaned the thread every time it happened. Why not do the same for this thread? For the record I'm not a Jamal fan. It just seems like you wanted to move this thread because he made it.
No, the Bill of Rights does that.
Go yell Fire at a packed midnight showing of a popular movie and see how much the Bill of Rights protects you. Hopefully you don't get charged with man-slaughter.
But i don't expect someone like you to understand common sense, so that argument is pretty much lost on you.
So seriously, stop crying. Being offended is part of life, deal with it.
You people throwing around the word nigga have seriously got to grow up. Argue til your blue about if its "allowed" or "bannable" when the simple truth is your being RUDE. Children argue "cry cry im allowed to so nah nah" while adaults recognize what is taboo and inappropriate. Disgustingly innapropriate. Stop being so god dammed immature.
When I get called a cracker, I ignore it.
Maturity? Grow up and stop letting words mage your vagina sandy. Seriously~
You people throwing around the word nigga have seriously got to grow up. Argue til your blue about if its "allowed" or "bannable" when the simple truth is your being RUDE. Children argue "cry cry im allowed to so nah nah" while adaults recognize what is taboo and inappropriate. Disgustingly innapropriate. Stop being so god dammed immature.