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mmdmmd
Profile Joined June 2007
722 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-10 01:55:47
September 09 2011 20:39 GMT
#241
Hondelul
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
1999 Posts
September 09 2011 20:57 GMT
#242
For those of you who have been around for a year or so, there comes a time when you feel like you want to contribute to this community in any way you can. I don't really know why this is but I have one theory. TL is a website which celebrates and respects it's contributors. If you are a solid contributor you become known on TL and everyone respects you. I think thats something everyone strives for at some point. But hey, I could be way off.


This is so true.
I started watching SC2 in beta with Husky/HD, heard of Day[9] -> started watching him, heard of TL -> started lurking.
I registered my account in December 2010 but I lurked several month before. After registration I slowly started to post a bit and I finally started to find something that satisfied me: Starting threads, favourable LR threads.
Since big tourneys are very good covered I mosten times take smaller events, mostly EU, and therefor get only a few pages of replies.
But it´s a good feeling none the less and I always think that better posts are more important than many. The first LR was baaad (ok, the link in the OP gave me a good laugh :D ) and during the event I spend so much time to make it better. This continued in every thread I made (not many unfortunately) and it´s always such a nice feeling when randomly someone in the whole thread say something like "nice OP" "thanks!".

Yeah, I (hope) will never want to become staff, feels like I spend too much time already on TL, but I ofc appreciate the work staff make and enjoy every minute in online here. Thanks for that

mmdmmd
Profile Joined June 2007
722 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-10 01:55:12
September 10 2011 01:53 GMT
#243
Mis-clicked, sorry
SilverskY
Profile Joined September 2008
Korea (South)3086 Posts
September 10 2011 02:57 GMT
#244
Ohai~ I'm a paintbrush~ :3

<3 TL Staff
Graphics
AirbladeOrange
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2574 Posts
September 10 2011 06:09 GMT
#245
Good read. I never met you but I like you Plexa.
SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21552 Posts
September 10 2011 07:19 GMT
#246
On September 10 2011 15:09 AirbladeOrange wrote:
Good read. I met you but I never liked you Plexa.

Sometimes misreading makes things more interesting.
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pred470r
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Bulgaria3265 Posts
September 10 2011 10:48 GMT
#247
On September 10 2011 11:57 SilverskY wrote:
Ohai~ I'm a paintbrush~ :3

<3 TL Staff

What's the worst a paintbrush can do to me?
KaluGOSU
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States171 Posts
September 11 2011 19:28 GMT
#248
TL staff is so awesome!
u guys rockkkkk~~
Halt! Thou shalt not pass. Thou hast much anger, young one
ODKStevez
Profile Joined February 2011
Ireland1225 Posts
September 12 2011 10:03 GMT
#249
Really nice post. Thanks ^^
Luppa <3
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
September 12 2011 10:33 GMT
#250
i never quite understood what made pusan so appealing to people
how
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States538 Posts
September 13 2011 20:26 GMT
#251
Great read, thanks for the insight. ♥
http://twitter.com/howsc
Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
September 14 2011 12:55 GMT
#252
On September 10 2011 19:48 pred470r wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2011 11:57 SilverskY wrote:
Ohai~ I'm a paintbrush~ :3

<3 TL Staff

What's the worst a paintbrush can do to me?

peck out your eyes maybe
ModeratorHi! I'm a .signature *virus*! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES51540 Posts
September 14 2011 13:12 GMT
#253
On September 14 2011 21:55 Carnac wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2011 19:48 pred470r wrote:
On September 10 2011 11:57 SilverskY wrote:
Ohai~ I'm a paintbrush~ :3

<3 TL Staff

What's the worst a paintbrush can do to me?

peck out your eyes maybe


no,they can blind you by brushing on your eyes.
Brood War EICWoo Jung Ho, never forget.| Twitter: @BLinDRawR
Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
September 14 2011 13:35 GMT
#254
what about the other end of the paintbrush? :o
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BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES51540 Posts
September 14 2011 13:42 GMT
#255
On September 14 2011 22:35 Carnac wrote:
what about the other end of the paintbrush? :o


an artist would never insult their paintbrush by using it in such a crude way.
Brood War EICWoo Jung Ho, never forget.| Twitter: @BLinDRawR
BrTarolg
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United Kingdom3574 Posts
September 14 2011 16:57 GMT
#256
On September 10 2011 00:50 OpticalShot wrote:
You're forever my hero for starting up that MS thread. It has now became a sanctuary of MS-related trolling, one of those holy places the newly tightened moderation has not reached into yet. Well, Harem certainly didn't appreciate all the "HUEHUEHUE" though. You probably also know that this thread (and game and the people) are still super awesome.

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On September 10 2011 00:38 KaluGOSU wrote:
u guys remove threads / ban people with no good reasoning sometimes. people will fear that. i'll probably get banned for just speaking up rofl.

Never, ever post that. It guarantees you one. You should probably read up the TL Ten Commandments in your off-time anyway.


Haha totally awesome

That will probably be my reigning legacy on TL, starting up the MS thread lol
Hassybaby
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United Kingdom10823 Posts
September 14 2011 17:25 GMT
#257
On September 10 2011 11:57 SilverskY wrote:
Ohai~ I'm a paintbrush~ :3

<3 TL Staff


Dude, The Spoon won TSL3. I fear for what other household items are capable of
"These guys are mindfucking me into a sex coma" | "Mayonnaise is a must-have lubricant when performing necrophilia"
Nizzy
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States839 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-14 18:04:12
September 14 2011 17:54 GMT
#258
On September 07 2011 01:14 Plexa wrote:
Don't Fear the Staff: We're Just Like You

This blog should serve multiple purposes but all working towards a common theme. It will chart my time here on TeamLiquid; from regular user, to staff member, to 'quitting' TL back to today. This isn't meant to be an autobiography, rather an indicator to all that you aren't that different from the staff on this website. Why do this? Because an alarming number of you seem to be living in fear of the mod staff. While TeamLiquid has a reputation for harsh moderation, as long as you don't behave like an idiot and abide by our no-memes customs - then you will have no problem staying around. In particular, it is okay to openly challenge a staff member on the forums and it is okay to criticise TL's moderation (provided these are done in an appropriate way).

Plexa


I would like to take that opportunity to do that then, to appropriately challenge a small issue that happened with myself and a staff member. By no means is this an attack on a certain player/mod I would just like to discuss a situation that happened with myself and the mod.

I used to play a lot of 4v4RT. 4V4RT is just bad, stupid, usually a waste of time (since I've quit) but I used to enjoy it a lot until all the 4v4 cheeser teams just became too abusive. So anyways long story short I'm playing a 4V4RT and its on' Extinction'. (http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Extinction Extinction)

I'm at the 7 o'clock and expand to the island to my direct left in the bottom right corner. I have turrets in my main. There's player bases in front of me that have defense as well. The opposing player takes his group of Muta -> flies them around 2 bases worth of defenses, past my main that's turreted (doesn't scout it) and goes straight to the back expo that isn't defended.

I call him a hacker. So what its battle.net, 4v4 RT, I thought to myself, who really cares right? How many times have people talked smack and just forgot it a few minutes later? After the game I get a whisper of stuff like 'are you in elevengaming', 'are you on TL?', and of course in my TL profile it has my battle.net account so he knows its me, and he's like 'check your PMs' so I get a warning on TeamLiquid because I called a mod a hacker in a 4v4 RT game and he looked me up on TL and gave me a warning. He said he didn't appreciate being called a hacker.

Mind you at the time, I was honestly no joke top 5 in the world as to sc2ranks.com in terms of points for 4v4 RT. I believe top NA 4v4RT for a few weeks, I did take it very seriously and I felt that he made a hacker like move. Additionally won the game fairly easy as I didn't think there team was very good-which honestly made it seem more like a hacker because his talent seemed too low to match me at the time.

It's rare that I even call people a hacker, but it was a full-cross map move around cannons/turrets and I though it was a legit assumption. Mind you the account name seemed to be a troll name, plus he was with a team of players. This is when the game was still fairly new, there could have been hacks out. I've seen stranger things happen in 4v4 RT with teamers/abusers.

So sure I'm at fault for talking smack to a person that was a TL mod (I didn't know at the time) however I thought it was unfair that I got warned (my first warning) on TL for something that happened on battle.net. Sure I get it. I get mad when I lose, it's frustrating. People can be so annoying when smack talking comes out or you get called something. However really getting a warning for some silly basic noobish-trash talk in a battle.net game? I'm just still surprised by it.

I would like to "criticize" and discuss the TL moderation in this situation.

I have always been respectful of the threads on this place mods or not and always try to give good feedback whether I'm agreeing/disagreeing.

The account name was "ESPORTS" and that is the mod known as HotBid.

Thank you,

-Nizzy
Jathin
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
United States3505 Posts
September 14 2011 18:51 GMT
#259
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Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6566 Posts
September 14 2011 21:45 GMT
#260
You should include the huk ceremony as part of coming back from quitting!
BTW I'm only scared of one staff member
get rich or die mining
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