I agree with tin.
Also, what happened to MW? I heard he got banned.
I agree with tin.
Also, what happened to MW? I heard he got banned.
While that wouldn't surprise me his profile doesn't show that to be the case however I don't think that info shows up anymore....so it looks like people just disappear. I get it the mods have their reasons for banning people and the general consensus is it isn't anyone's business but there could at least be a 'banned' tag on someones profile if they are banned so we know.
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A lot of people have been asking for more transparency.
Something is telling me the mods are conveniently "not reading" said requests...
Why were the threads locked in the first place? It would be nice if mods at least posted some reason for why people are banned, threads locked, etc. -- a little more transparency wouldn't hurt.
I agree with tin.
Also, what happened to MW? I heard he got banned.
While that wouldn't surprise me his profile doesn't show that to be the case however I don't think that info shows up anymore....so it looks like people just disappear. I get it the mods have their reasons for banning people and the general consensus is it isn't anyone's business but there could at least be a 'banned' tag on someones profile if they are banned so we know.
x2. MW gave the mods more than enough reasons to ban him, I just want confirmation.
RIP IE6 and Win98.
I agree with tin.
Also, what happened to MW? I heard he got banned.
While that wouldn't surprise me his profile doesn't show that to be the case however I don't think that info shows up anymore....so it looks like people just disappear. I get it the mods have their reasons for banning people and the general consensus is it isn't anyone's business but there could at least be a 'banned' tag on someones profile if they are banned so we know.
x2. MW gave the mods more than enough reasons to ban him, I just want confirmation.
RIP IE6 and Win98.
MW finally got banned? Well, I am not shocked.
If your only purpose on this forum is to make troll posts, why are you even here? MW never added anything positive. He wasn't funny or controversial. Just a troll. Every day.
He really was extraordinarily boring.
He really was extraordinarily boring.
Maybe if he came up with some better material. After a while all the IE6 and Win98 posts got REALLY old...
And remember what happened last time they banned him? He created a new account, they IP banned him, so he logged on from several different IPs before the admins/mods finally gave up and unbanned him.
I could be on my own here but I always found MS' posts to be annoying as hell and added little to nothing to the forum.
I could be on my own here but I always found MS' posts to be annoying as hell and added little to nothing to the forum.
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Sounds like the definition of tyranny right there.
Anyone have a domain and/or a server they can host a GH spin-off site on?
After all, SMF is an open-source forum software, we could just make our own, un-moderated forum.
IF WE BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME!
Anyone have a domain and/or a server they can host a GH spin-off site on?
After all, SMF is an open-source forum software, we could just make our own, un-moderated forum.
IF WE BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME!
I find Deskthority rather lightly moderated. If I want to say something offensive or be offended, I go over there.
it is always a big pleasure to give someone the exact thing they want.Anyone have a domain and/or a server they can host a GH spin-off site on?
After all, SMF is an open-source forum software, we could just make our own, un-moderated forum.
IF WE BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME!
I find Deskthority rather lightly moderated. If I want to say something offensive or be offended, I go over there.
Please, give me the chance. If you time it right, I'm sure I can offend you. You must always be waiting for the right time, though, as said offensive material won't be up for long.
Why are profiles not showing warning levels anymore?
The off-topic forum is not a free-for-all. The forum rules still apply. The threads that have been locked were very clearly intended to incite argument and drama (i.e., trolling). MW and the1onewolf have dramatically ramped up the noise recently. Locking their threads was intended to squelch them a bit, both because the threads were going off the rails and because it's against the rules to spam the forum with garbage.
I went through a ton of off-topic threads last night that were recently posted by MW and the1onewolf, closing some and leaving others (and even posting in some). This was not a blanket action but has been specifically targeted at particular threads.
MW has been temp-banned, and I'm sure he'll be back. He's already attempted to create a second account to circumvent the ban, which is also against the rules. Transparent enough for you?
Remember that (1) we are under-staffed and (2) the mods are volunteers with lives and family and school and work just like everyone. Those of you who know me personally through skype or IRC or whatever know that I am always open to discussing this stuff. This thread is totally valid and TBH I expected someone to post something like it, but frankly we don't have the time or the obligation in general to justify all moderator actions publicly.
Sounds like the definition of tyranny right there.
I take it you've never been warned? That system is already in place.
Also, you can be temporarily banned without the warning system being touched, thus some people seem to disappear even without their profile reflecting that.
I'd disagree with poor judgment and killjoy. They were flooding the sub-forum with pointless or controversial spam to get a rise out of people. Personally, I'm amazed they allowed it to go on for as long as they did.
I'm not saying these people have never been warned. I'm saying that it's possible for someone to be temp-banned and not have any warning status.
I guess that I am in the minority, but I find such childish nonsense to be very entertaining. I love a good poking of the bear. Oblivious, humorless people that fall for the nonsense and cannot identify the troll are the real problem.
I guess that I am in the minority, but I find such childish nonsense to be very entertaining. I love a good poking of the bear. Oblivious, humorless people that fall for the nonsense and cannot identify the troll are the real problem.
I guess that I am in the minority, but I find such childish nonsense to be very entertaining. I love a good poking of the bear. Oblivious, humorless people that fall for the nonsense and cannot identify the troll are the real problem.
I don't mind it in moderation. In fact, I'd say it's necessary sometimes; however, they were flooding. That will get you banned almost anywhere.
If you're going to troll, do one good troll instead of 50 ****ty ones, especially if they're all in the span of two days.
I'd disagree with poor judgment and killjoy. They were flooding the sub-forum with pointless or controversial spam to get a rise out of people. Personally, I'm amazed they allowed it to go on for as long as they did.
I'd disagree with poor judgment and killjoy. They were flooding the sub-forum with pointless or controversial spam to get a rise out of people. Personally, I'm amazed they allowed it to go on for as long as they did.
I'd disagree with poor judgment and killjoy. They were flooding the sub-forum with pointless or controversial spam to get a rise out of people. Personally, I'm amazed they allowed it to go on for as long as they did.
I'd disagree with poor judgment and killjoy. They were flooding the sub-forum with pointless or controversial spam to get a rise out of people. Personally, I'm amazed they allowed it to go on for as long as they did.
Nah, I get that, but it wasn't working. A few suckers went for it, wading in with "omg stop making these dumb threads" comments, but for the most part no-one took the bait and some people actually discussed the subject in earnest, regardless of the motivation the OP had making the thread (which was actually funny).
Regardless, the threads weren't actually disruptive and are clearly labelled, including the poster, so they're easy to ignore. The off-topic forum in general is fairly slow anyway so they broke up the monotony a bit, more than anything.
we are lucky we even have a off topic area.
A large percentage of the threads in OT are garbage that get locked and waste the mods time.
They have better ways to spend there time then policing the off topic threads.
.... We're all adults....
Do you mean children or teenagers
I agree that a "banned" flag in the avatar would be helpful. Not sure if that's just how SMF is, or whether we can configure it to do that.
I agree that a "banned" flag in the avatar would be helpful. Not sure if that's just how SMF is, or whether we can configure it to do that.
If it can show muted and have custom texts, I don't see how a banned flag isn't possible.
Well if you're going to take me overly-literally, then I'll rephrase that as we're all self-aware human beings capable of rational thought that don't need babysitting or other people to decide what topics of conversation we take part in, then.
We're all humans
We're all humans
We're all humans
It's possible that's a true statement. Are we 100% certain there are no artificial intelligences browsing GH?
Nah, I get that, but it wasn't working. A few suckers went for it, wading in with "omg stop making these dumb threads" comments, but for the most part no-one took the bait and some people actually discussed the subject in earnest, regardless of the motivation the OP had making the thread (which was actually funny).
Regardless, the threads weren't actually disruptive and are clearly labelled, including the poster, so they're easy to ignore. The off-topic forum in general is fairly slow anyway so they broke up the monotony a bit, more than anything.
We're all humans
It's possible that's a true statement. Are we 100% certain there are no artificial intelligences browsing GH?
So far no bots that I see
Maybe if he came up with some better material. After a while all the IE6 and Win98 posts got REALLY old...
And remember what happened last time they banned him? He created a new account, they IP banned him, so he logged on from several different IPs before the admins/mods finally gave up and unbanned him.
The off-topic forum is not a free-for-all. The forum rules still apply. The threads that have been locked were very clearly intended to incite argument and drama (i.e., trolling). MW and the1onewolf have dramatically ramped up the noise recently. Locking their threads was intended to squelch them a bit, both because the threads were going off the rails and because it's against the rules to spam the forum with garbage.
I went through a ton of off-topic threads last night that were recently posted by MW and the1onewolf, closing some and leaving others (and even posting in some). This was not a blanket action but has been specifically targeted at particular threads.
MW has been temp-banned, and I'm sure he'll be back. He's already attempted to create a second account to circumvent the ban, which is also against the rules. Transparent enough for you?
Remember that (1) we are under-staffed and (2) the mods are volunteers with lives and family and school and work just like everyone. Those of you who know me personally through skype or IRC or whatever know that I am always open to discussing this stuff. This thread is totally valid and TBH I expected someone to post something like it, but frankly we don't have the time or the obligation in general to justify all moderator actions publicly.
I noticed some of those threads and stayed away as I knew it was just going to be an argument.
[...] and because it's against the rules to spam the forum with garbage.
Maybe you're just too strict. :P
wonder how long till this topic gets locked.....
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Never do that again.
Sorry if my animated graphic offended anyone (OTOH - if it offended why did you not delete it?)
I'll try to keep it G rated.
Sorry if my animated graphic offended anyone (OTOH - if it offended why did you not delete it?)
I'll try to keep it G rated.
Sometimes I miss the way the forum was when I joined a few years ago. There was no real moderation. Sure often threads were derailed with wildly off topic remarks and random animated gifs and lego pictures... and there were a few quite bad flame wars, but it was fun. It felt like how I remembered the internet being in the late 80's/early 90's, a no holds barred frontier. Back when I joined the forum felt like... an illegal rave at an open all night donut shop. Now days I often think it feels more like an office party. It's still a lot of the same people but acting 'growed up'.
I think the real problem is not people being silly, posting worthless content... but that there are too many thin skinned cry babys that take things too seriously. Personally I don't see the need for moderator intervention in many cases. Sure, if people are being wholly vicious to the point where it is a serious disruption there should be some words/action taken but that is generally few and far between as most members aren't that way.
But can't a forum evolve? Change from just being about keyboards, and become something more? A community of people, rather than a place that has nothing but keyboard information peppered in random time?
21+, I would suggest. Though it's impossible to verify age online, so in reality, anyone could come in...apart if ur a haxor
21+, I would suggest. Though it's impossible to verify age online, so in reality, anyone could come in...
wait what21+, I would suggest. Though it's impossible to verify age online, so in reality, anyone could come in...
+13 becasue its legal in japan looooooooooooooooooooool
GH18+ subforum pls
unmoderated
i'm surprised i haven't showed up on any posted ignore lists
tp4tissue allegedly put me on his years ago, but he still responds to my posts somehow.you can do the show posts thing and reply
i'm surprised i haven't showed up on any posted ignore listsyour signature is annoying. seriously.
it was intended as a joke for one night, i'm going to remove iti'm surprised i haven't showed up on any posted ignore listsyour signature is annoying. seriously.
^ hmm maybe I will do that. **** that guys signature is annoying. Should limit gifs in sigs to 1 or 2
what the **** do you think when you can suddenly have more than one^ hmm maybe I will do that. **** that guys signature is annoying. Should limit gifs in sigs to 1 or 2
I could've swore we were limited to one image in signatures. What happened to that?
because of the1onewolf's signature I had to turn off display of all signatures. It slows down mobile browsers way to much.I've never had a reason to do that. But their sigs made annoying, and since on android, all of GH is magnified( I made a thread asking about this lol) their sigs were enlarged and lagged lol.
does my sig cause people performance issues?
and baldgye no yours is fine from what I can tell.
Also, to be clear, I'm not angry or upset at all. I just decided to respond to paicrai in the fashion I did. In fact, I don't even care about the signatures really.good moose :thumb:
It's in the corner. It's not a wall of animations. Not distracting at all lol.and baldgye no yours is fine from what I can tell.
Ok :) if its causing problems (other than people not liking it lol) pm me or something and I'll change it to a flat image or something. It's only a placeholder till I can find a better Snatcher logo anyway
There are no restrictions on how many pics you can put in your sig and the character limit is set very high. What is limited is the amount of vertical space that you are allowed to consume on people's screens. This all played out over a year ago:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=42976.msg873365#msg873365
Current limit is 120 pixels.
But on my new S5, I notice that some posts are larger than others.in chrome, i guess?