TL.net: Tips for you! - Page 4

On May 16 2011 21:25 diverzee wrote:
I have yet to come across a bigger forum on the internet without a post like this in it. They are always without exceptions made by the same kind of users, who are never actually a mod themselves. Their own posting history contains bland, 100% non-controversial posts without the slightest interesting content in them, and they pride themselves on always making sure the first letter in each sentence is capital. They have never themselves been close to even getting the slightest warning, despite acting experts on the matter.

Mods are just people who have a position where they help do cleanup. They are janitors. All this treating them with silk gloves, carefully stepping around them and as in these kinds of threads' case trying to suck up to them consolidates their artificial authority. It is good that mods exist, and it is good that people follow rules - but this submissiveness towards what could often be just a teenage boy, by an educated adult shows why internet communities and their heirarchys look so wrong.

People should respect moderators, but no more than they respect other users. Likewise mods should give proper respect back, like in a civilised community. Anything else is so medieval.

On May 16 2011 22:08 bkrow wrote:

Lol if you don't believe people in a higher level of authority or status in a community should receive a different level of respect, then i don't quite understand how you function.

Teacher and Student: They both have respect for each other, but the student can never say or do things that a teacher can. This goes with so many other relationships in the world. It's funny that you feel that just because this community is an online one, the same social norms do not apply. If you see the moderators as just the "janitors" i don't see you lasting very long.

If it makes you think that i am the 'cool' kid like the one that gets an afterschool detention because he needs to look tough - i have been warned and banned from this community before. All of these occassions making me want to improve my posting habits so i can stick around longer.

What is even more funny are your implications; holy batman i am not a moderator and therefore why should i care about this place!? It is that kind of thinking - specifically YOUR kind of thinking - that results in forums turning into a sesspool of arrogant, ignorant flame artists. TL.net has strict guidelines, and they are there for a very good reason. The same reasons that allow you to enjoy this community the way it is - it has always prided itself on quality control, thereby having a strong stance against terrible posters. As to my posting history; i have no idea how you were able to read through 4,700 posts so quickly, but then again - you see yourself as some sort of superman right?
Just because you like to write your posts with long sentences doesn't make you very special; look i am doing it right now! :O

As for the capital letters at the start of my sentences; believe it or not but this is the english language (omg did i miss a capital letter? I don't know!?) It is also one of the guidelines for posting on this website (not the capital letters specifically, but proper text as opposed to short hand.) Funnily enough your insulting my posting history with a mere 118 of your own; i hope one day you get a star next to your username so i can take this back, but walk the walk before you so willingly talk the talk.

This thread was meant to be helpful; but i guess you had to get it all out of your system i hope it helped in that way.

On May 16 2011 22:07 ComaDose wrote:


Wouldn't it be nice if people respected other users? Utopian even. You wont find respected members of the community groveling at the moderators feet. Those members that do are akin to children seeing bad kids get in trouble and sucking up. The bad kids should be embarrassed. Regardless of age.
Artificial authority is not accurate. They have authority over your ability to post in these forums. No more no less. consequently all the rules are regarding this.
Imagine if i wrote "lawl great thread bro -_-" on my wiki at work?
You follow the rules of a website or you are no longer privileged to view it.
You sound like a child complaining about a student who is a "goody two shoes"

On May 17 2011 02:04 diverzee wrote:


Look, what I am saying is "don't treat people as if they were of greater value than yourself if there is no reason to think they do". Goody two shoes people are good, and people being respectful to eachother important. But showing too much respect, or rather submission towards moderators is humiliating. They do their job, they took it upon themselves, but they're just peeps with a nerdy interest like the rest of us.

On May 17 2011 01:59 diverzee wrote:


This isn't a school. Moderators aren't your teachers you need to suck up to in order to get good grades. If that's what you believe then your personality seems even more in accordance with what I imagined a non-mod posting a thread like this would be. Moderators are people like everyone else, who enjoy to have more responsibility and moderation rights. Other than that they are like us. They could very well be some high school drop out teenage kid, and some people still treat them as superior. Don't you see how humiliating it is to crawl before people as if they had more value than you?

Treat people with respect, but respect yourself too. Being a brownnoser and sucking up to people with artificial authority doesn't get you any rewards good enough to lose your dignity for.

On May 16 2011 21:25 diverzee wrote:
I have yet to come across a bigger forum on the internet without a post like this in it. They are always without exceptions made by the same kind of users, who are never actually a mod themselves. Their own posting history contains bland, 100% non-controversial posts without the slightest interesting content in them, and they pride themselves on always making sure the first letter in each sentence is capital. They have never themselves been close to even getting the slightest warning, despite acting experts on the matter.

Mods are just people who have a position where they help do cleanup. They are janitors. All this treating them with silk gloves, carefully stepping around them and as in these kinds of threads' case trying to suck up to them consolidates their artificial authority. It is good that mods exist, and it is good that people follow rules - but this submissiveness towards what could often be just a teenage boy, by an educated adult shows why internet communities and their heirarchys look so wrong.

People should respect moderators, but no more than they respect other users. Likewise mods should give proper respect back, like in a civilised community. Anything else is so medieval.

On May 18 2011 04:39 Roffles wrote:
Man, times have changed so much. I remember the times when OPs used to be fucking garbage and everyone loved it. One liners and trash all over the forums, but everyone was fine with it. Now, there's just so many people here that it's not remotely possible.

I sometimes wonder to myself, if I were to have registered today, how long would I last before I got banned?