On February 23 2012 05:11 motbob wrote: Let me just say that multiple mods read ZeroCartin's post but declined to take action. When I read his post, I was unaware he was staff.
This is proof that Cartin didn't do anything wrong. Admins on TL can ban mods here EZ but he wasn't banned. Why? Because "fuck you" can be legit. To the guys on the previous page quoting me, I respect your guy's opinion but I'm still convinced that there's nothing wrong with this.
i just wanted to point out the irony in this post.... because the timing was impeccable...
On February 23 2012 10:56 R3demption wrote: Fuck you.
User was temp banned for this post.
Dude now your just trolling man.
I told you what ways "fuck you" would get banned and which way it doesn't. It's all about the context, anyways I don't want to talk about it anymore as it's offtopic and we were told not to.
On February 23 2012 13:37 Probulous wrote: Just wanted to post a quick shout-out to Jibba and Kwark for their remarkable restraint in the Republican Nominees Thread. There is some A-grade trolling happening but it is pretty border line and both of them have been really patient. I daer anyone to read this guy's posts and not want to punch your screen.
I just read the last couple of pages and some of the news reports from respectable media outlets.
Oh man I fear for the future of the USA.
EDIT: Oh and I'm wondering if Holophinst isn't really just Sarah Palin's smurf.
On February 23 2012 13:37 Probulous wrote: Just wanted to post a quick shout-out to Jibba and Kwark for their remarkable restraint in the Republican Nominees Thread. There is some A-grade trolling happening but it is pretty border line and both of them have been really patient. I daer anyone to read this guy's posts and not want to punch your screen.
I think you're wrong. I read through that guy's posts and I didn't see what you were talking about at all. He is making logical arguments in favor of his opinion/belief. Which post(s) are you talking about specifically? Maybe I missed it.
He's certainly putting in more effort than the people posting 1 liners like "lol religion is myth" and is being no where near as brainless and offensive as some.
That whole thread looks like it needs some serious moderation though. It looks like a huge part of it is devolving into another religion vs atheist debate. I understand its difficult to talk about American politics without religion being brought up, but I can't see that discussion getting any better.
Edit: @Mobius1 ... really? Sarah Palin's smurf? Why in the world would you say that? Because he has an opinion that is in conflict with yours and similar to someone else's? I get so sick and tired of people who blatantly disrespect someone with different beliefs. Just because you are doing it "nicely" and not outright saying "what a fucking retard" the message and intent behind the words is perfectly clear. People can have different and unpopular beliefs, and just because they do doesn't mean they deserve to be stereotyped in such a way as you did.
On February 23 2012 13:37 Probulous wrote: Just wanted to post a quick shout-out to Jibba and Kwark for their remarkable restraint in the Republican Nominees Thread. There is some A-grade trolling happening but it is pretty border line and both of them have been really patient. I daer anyone to read this guy's posts and not want to punch your screen.
I had to stop myself from responding multiple times as my blood pressure rose higher and higher. I don't think I'm cut from the same cloth mods are. Edit: Nope peace I'm leaving the ABL thread now too.
Apparently it is the intention of everyone on TL to bring all the debates into this thread. It's apparently not enough that they are occurring in one place on TL, no we need to co-opt a normally awesome thread.
On February 23 2012 10:09 VirgilSC2 wrote: I have an honest question here,
I just saw a user get banned for this post, and it raises a question that I've been wondering for quite a while.
Why is it OK to gender discriminate positively, but to question that ban-worthy?
I, personally, think some of the female discrimination in SC2 is fairly silly. For example, at MLG Providence; x6.Ailuj got a main-stage featured match against LosirA because:
It had potential to be a good game She was the best female player competing She was the most attractive female competing
If I've overstepped any boundaries with this post, please let me know, but I feel it's a legitimate thing to question.
This isn't the place to discuss that sort of thing, but have you considered that maybe he wasn't banned for the reason you think he was?
Even if you agree with his position, you have to admit that the post was:
1: Shit. Shit grammar. No capitalization, no familiarity with ending punctuation save for the "?". It shows absolutely minimal effort.
2: Trolling. It's in a "Questions for ST_Aphrodite" thread, not a "Should women have SC2 tournaments" thread. The post exists because the poster is butthurt and lashing out at whomever and whatever happens to be even peripherially related to his butthurt. The only reason to post that question in that thread is to attempt to derail the thread into talking about that person's pet issue: women getting their own tournaments. Or to piss people off, which also derails the thread.
The absolute most you could say about his post was that it was a borderline case.
How you express your opinion is at least as important as the opinion itself.
Besides, it's only a 2-day ban. He did something wrong and was punished. No need for nefarious political intent.
I'm surprised that so many people got warns in this thread, but the thread remains open. Simple questions, simple answers maybe?
All I see is an opinion poll without the poll for people to list various all in builds but without any context. Best all in under what circumstances? No gas fe? 1-1-1? marauder expand? Nothing very strategic about this strategy thread, imo.
On February 23 2012 22:01 Joedaddy wrote: I'm surprised that so many people got warns in this thread, but the thread remains open. Simple questions, simple answers maybe?
All I see is an opinion poll without the poll for people to list various all in builds but without any context. Best all in under what circumstances? No gas fe? 1-1-1? marauder expand? Nothing very strategic about this strategy thread, imo.
zatic got it. It's closed now. But yeah, not a great thread. Another example of "oh what a bad thread" comments hurting the poster way more than they help the thread/OP.
On February 23 2012 22:01 Joedaddy wrote: I'm surprised that so many people got warns in this thread, but the thread remains open. Simple questions, simple answers maybe?
All I see is an opinion poll without the poll for people to list various all in builds but without any context. Best all in under what circumstances? No gas fe? 1-1-1? marauder expand? Nothing very strategic about this strategy thread, imo.
Yeah i was surprised that a mod looked at that thread and decided to warn so many people but not close it, it was obviously a pretty poor thread at best.
Have you guys noticed that the ABL is already at page 1149 (3 bans away from 1150)? That's 15% of the way to page 2000. Call me crazy but didn't we just hit page 1k a few months ago?
Hit page 1k on October 29th to 1.15k on February 24th, that's 119 days. At this rate, we should hit page 2000 in just about 674 days, or around November 28th, 2013. I should point out that it took 6 years for the first 1k.
So for the past four months we've been moving at a rate of about 1.2 pages per day. Interestingly, this is actually a slow down from the recent trend, if you look at the period between 2-24-11 and 2-24-12 the average is about 1.6 pages per day. Assuming that rate, we should hit page 2k in about 531 days or just around July 8th, 2013. That is a huge increase from the same period a year prior though; 2-24-10 to 2-24-11 was at an average rate of .9 pages per day. So within one year the ban rate increased by 75%.
I decided to explore this increase in the rate of bans a bit more:
Here's a graph of how many pages of bans existed at the given date:
You can clearly see there appears to be a nice exponential growth here, though it does appear that following March 2011, the growth in bans seems to be more constant.
Here is a graph of the number of pages of the ABL that were generated in the three months prior to the shown date:
This one is more interesting, this is essentially showing us the rate of bans over time. Clearly we can see that we are in a period of decreasing ban rate, with the rate topping out around July 1st 2011 at about 170 pages per three months, or about 56 pages per month. While we see something similar in 2010, we haven't yet seen the same upturn that we did in 4Q of 2010, possibly indicating a wider decrease in the rate of bans overall. Based on that, I think 1.2 pages per day is the more accurate representation of bans going forward and therefore the estimate of November 28th, 2013 to hit page 2k is probably pretty good right now.
On February 24 2012 09:17 Devolved wrote: So in other words, he threw the games because he was behind in the series and didn't think he could come back. And besides, it was just a showmatch so who cares anyway. Stay classy, Idra.
No it was because aLive wanted to win instead of showing good matches. Korean mentality and all ...
someone dig up the quote from idra about starcraft not being pro-wrestling and how gamers should be playing to win above all else.
SHOWmatch, bro.
SHOWMATCH.
okay. you enjoy two dudes on computers creating the most gnarly and epic space laser battles with their digital action figures, i'll watch two big names competing to win a game of starcraft.
showMATCH.
p.s passive aggressive "bro"s are a surefire sign of two things:
i you are uncomfortable making an argument without dropping in colloquial pseudo-endearment, a symptom of critical underdevelopment. ii you have a small dick.
User was temp banned for this post.
lol this made me laugh pretty hard, because his i was really high quality english way of saying "you're fucking retarded", and his ii was "you have a smal dick"
Joruto was just temp banned for 2 days by Falling.
That account was created on 2010-10-26 04:51:04 and had 37 posts.
Reason: Hi I also want you to read the warning at the top so I can stop banning you people.
Also iam going to temp ban you so maybe you'll learn to read the OP
Hope this is gonna work
Anyone find it strange that Falling has atrocious spelling and grammar in this ban?
"Little to none(or negative) effort by a poster is met with an equal effort ban description. - Chill" (maybe?) Not exact quote and forgot who said it, but you get the drift!