EPTGetting Away with a Bannable Offense - Page 8
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Night[Mare
Mexico4793 Posts
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Twisted
Netherlands13554 Posts
 Once for calling Americans dumb and fat countless times, and the other time when I was replay uploader and called rekrul a faggot (I got unbanned after a few hours though). That said, the moderators have been doing a fine job all the years on this site I think, although I have disagreed with many rekrul bans in the past. I think he does a way better job now. Every moderator has his own style, some like to warn or temp-ban, some just outright ban people right away when they make a really really stupid post. There aren't really guidelines, so only really obvious bad posters get banned anyway. Plus, like a few others already said, I like the tone of the forum, anything goes as long as you don't fuck up too much. | ||
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sundance
Slovakia3201 Posts
On September 05 2006 12:05 Hot_Bid wrote: and we could make it absoutely ridiculous and circus like Actually that's something i was hoping for and looking forward.Absurdity w/o limits ftw !! | ||
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LetMeBeWithYou
Canada4254 Posts
On September 04 2006 15:14 rpf289 wrote: I think one thing that's always identified TL.net as a community is that it's so tolerant. I agree with the post | ||
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CleaR
Korea (South)53 Posts
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IntoTheWow
is awesome32278 Posts
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36401 Posts
edit: sincerely confused | ||
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Twisted
Netherlands13554 Posts
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rpf289
United States3524 Posts
On September 05 2006 12:05 Hot_Bid wrote: Great post. Probably your first since you became a blue.... Did you not just read what Twisted said?! -ETT | ||
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brian
United States9642 Posts
On September 05 2006 11:29 Liquid`Nazgul wrote: Had to do it. For the sake of the topic. what did I miss?  | ||
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EvilTeletubby
Baltimore, USA22259 Posts
On September 05 2006 13:02 CleaR wrote: fuck all of you i hate this shit place GTFO you unruly little shit | ||
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36401 Posts
On September 05 2006 13:05 rpf289 wrote: Great post. Probably your first since you became a blue. what kind of backhanded compliment is this, rpf im sorry i haven't had time to create many threads like "[H] Toothbrush Bristle Choice" or "[R] Where to download self esteem?" | ||
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brian
United States9642 Posts
On September 05 2006 13:08 Hot_Bid wrote: what kind of backhanded compliment is this, rpf im sorry i haven't had time to create many threads like "H] Toothbrush Bristle Choice" or "R] Where to download self esteem?" LMFAO ouch. and i realized what i missed. i think that is worth rpf:1 hot bid:3 and ETT i believe he meant that as a joke. seeing as most of his posts are comedic gold. well okay. the THREE that i remember ever seeing. | ||
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EvilTeletubby
Baltimore, USA22259 Posts
On September 05 2006 13:10 Gene wrote: LMFAO ouch. and i realized what i missed. i think that is worth rpf:1 hot bid:3 and ETT i believe he meant that as a joke. seeing as most of his posts are comedic gold. well okay. the THREE that i remember ever seeing.Well then, she'll have a week to think about making a smart comment next time, won't she?? | ||
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brian
United States9642 Posts
okay on another serious note, i've never been temp banned or warned before. and i would like to think my estimate of ATLEAST 900 quality posts was a good one, because for a long, LONG time i felt i had to prove myself here and make myself worthy of not being banned, because i valued coming here very highly and was very scared of being banned, so i made a point to only post when i had something of some kind of value to say. now, i also like to think i'm a little safer than i was a year ago. but at the same time i find myself posting garbage, and so i've been kind of expecting a warning. but each time i post something entirely not worth posting i find myself saying "Okay that was completely unnecessary" and i go try to put something worthwhile in it, which never happens. but whatever, i dont know exactly how that works. | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28831 Posts
On September 05 2006 13:08 Hot_Bid wrote: what kind of backhanded compliment is this, rpf im sorry i haven't had time to create many threads like "[H] Toothbrush Bristle Choice" or "[R] Where to download self esteem?" hahahahaha | ||
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Flaccid
8917 Posts
The level of such double standards and inconsistencies here at TL.net is pretty high, but that's really to be expected. It's a pain for someone like myself who has absolutely no status here, but it's just par for the course. Of course, I've never been a fan of overmoderation. I say this as a guy who hosts a message board that gets a decent amount of posts and has absolutely zero moderation. It really is true that if you take away the attention and feeling of defiance people get by abusing the rules, said defiance loses its luster. Plus, I don't feel it is my place to decide who says what - we're all big kids. Now, I guess I'll give some TL.net examples just for flavor: 1) I remember posting in a thread titled "Hardest unit matchup to micro" with the post: "747s vs. World Trade Center". Now, that's a highly offensive post if taken that way, but the end result was a good laugh by everyone and a derailed thread in which everyone (moderators included) came up with their own offensive spoofs. What's interesting is these same mods would threaten to ban me like 2 days later for a less offensive, more good-humored post. But whatever - that's the sort of inconsistency you have to expect and not worry about. 2) I posted a bunch of comical Sandlot logos in a thread, including a walking vagina with sunglasses. All in good fun, right? Yah, I agree. Everyone had a good time goofing off in that one, but when I posted a similar cartoon of a marine waiting in his base for his testicles to drop (as is my take on Terran strategy), I got more threats of a ban. Yes, they were threats from the same guys yucking it up in the previous thread. Oh well. 3) I had an account banned. I probably said something dumb - but nowhere near as dumb as what consistently comes out of Strafe's mouth. But I'm not Strafe. 4) I had a threat of an IP ban just today, as a matter of fact. In a thread in which there were cute pictures making fun of Fayth's girlfriend, I posted a picture making fun of Testie and his 14 year old girlfriend. God knows they deserved it after her irritating posts in that same thread. But, as luck had it, someone with a love on for good-ol'-Testie was on and didn't appreciate my jab. As such, I was threatened, my post was erased, and the cute pics of Fayth's girlfriend as an Ewok (which were hilarious, btw =) ) remain. That's just how it goes though. You can't complain because obviously it's still worth the effort to post - albeit in small amounts. The level of acceptable posting can vary rapidly depending on who's online, etc., etc. | ||
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Hot_Bid
Braavos36401 Posts
as for your argument about strafe, he has been banned several times for saying stupid stuff too. he's given second chances and so are you, so how is that unfair? | ||
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Flaccid
8917 Posts
i.e.: You see it, you kind of shrug, and you carry on. Maybe it's all just cultural differences. I choose to blame the goddamn dutch. edit: Oh, and the "good natured humorous post" or whatever was probably my only vague example. The rest point to specific posts and their specific content =) | ||
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IdrA
United States11541 Posts
Banned last year and the year before? No complaints about it. Deserved em. And they actually came a bit late. So, they're pretty lenient here in a lot of cases and this thread has run it's course imo. Here's to hoping we don't see another from someone else within the next 6 months. Because it will just end up being redundant.  | ||
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