On June 25 2010 23:09 hapekia wrote: Brood kind of proved my point by banning me. Any criticism the mods receive turns into an insta ban, but when artosis gets harsher critisms and he tries to defend himself HE gets banned. Really, TL mods need to chill the fuck out.
User was banned for this post.
It's a serious logical leap to assume you were banned for criticizing mods. You were banned because during your last temp ban, you made 8 accounts to spam the forums in a rage. Your account should've been banned immediately after your 30-day expired, but no one remembered.
Thanks for drawing attention to it though, you can always tell what's up when people start accusing others of having "anger management issues".
I think if you calm down and take some time off from the internet, you might get a little perspective and not get so worked up. Good luck and thanks in advance.
Hey Brood. Where's Forvik? Edit for relevance: You are super mod! :D
On June 25 2010 23:09 hapekia wrote: Brood kind of proved my point by banning me. Any criticism the mods receive turns into an insta ban, but when artosis gets harsher critisms and he tries to defend himself HE gets banned. Really, TL mods need to chill the fuck out.
User was banned for this post.
I wrote in your mod notes to ban you after your previous ban (mods cannot undo / increase ban length, only admins can) but nobody remembered. Thanks for reminding us.
Idk, I think a new user is fine as long as he/she has some common sense and a generally calm personality. I'm a pretty new user but I've already had a few discussions/debates that have ended without people getting banned/flamed. I think the mods are very fair, and quite hilarious as well, especially when someone pisses them off.
On June 26 2010 04:09 SoManyDeadLings wrote: You must either be terribly and insecurely pathetic (find a higher motivation, please) or a really good troll.
I'll decide again after 2 more pages of trolled/bad "advice".
User was temp banned for this post.
SoManyDeadLings was just temp banned for 2 days by intrigue[.
That account was created on 2010-04-25 04:33:12 and had 188 posts.
I don't agree with this ban. It seems as if SoManyDeadLings knows precisely what "troll" means. His post seems to indicate that he's trying to decide whether the OP is "terribly and insecurely pathetic" or whether the OP is trolling. In other words, he's wondering whether the OP is actually pathetic or whether he is feigning patheticness to elicit a reaction. It seems like this completely fits into intrigue's definition of the word "troll."
On June 26 2010 04:09 SoManyDeadLings wrote: You must either be terribly and insecurely pathetic (find a higher motivation, please) or a really good troll.
I'll decide again after 2 more pages of trolled/bad "advice".
I don't agree with this ban. It seems as if SoManyDeadLings knows precisely what "troll" means. His post seems to indicate that he's trying to decide whether the OP is "terribly and insecurely pathetic" or whether the OP is trolling. In other words, he's wondering whether the OP is actually pathetic or whether he is feigning patheticness to elicit a reaction. It seems like this completely fits into intrigue's definition of the word "troll."
On June 26 2010 04:09 SoManyDeadLings wrote: You must either be terribly and insecurely pathetic (find a higher motivation, please) or a really good troll.
I'll decide again after 2 more pages of trolled/bad "advice".
I don't agree with this ban. It seems as if SoManyDeadLings knows precisely what "troll" means. His post seems to indicate that he's trying to decide whether the OP is "terribly and insecurely pathetic" or whether the OP is trolling. In other words, he's wondering whether the OP is actually pathetic or whether he is feigning patheticness to elicit a reaction. It seems like this completely fits into intrigue's definition of the word "troll."
He insults someone and then accuses them of trolling. I don't care if he knows what the word means or not. I think he deserved the ban for his shitty attitude alone.
On June 26 2010 04:09 SoManyDeadLings wrote: You must either be terribly and insecurely pathetic (find a higher motivation, please) or a really good troll.
I'll decide again after 2 more pages of trolled/bad "advice".
User was temp banned for this post.
SoManyDeadLings was just temp banned for 2 days by intrigue[.
That account was created on 2010-04-25 04:33:12 and had 188 posts.
I don't agree with this ban. It seems as if SoManyDeadLings knows precisely what "troll" means. His post seems to indicate that he's trying to decide whether the OP is "terribly and insecurely pathetic" or whether the OP is trolling. In other words, he's wondering whether the OP is actually pathetic or whether he is feigning patheticness to elicit a reaction. It seems like this completely fits into intrigue's definition of the word "troll."
He insults someone and then accuses them of trolling. I don't care if he knows what the word means or not. I think he deserved the ban for his shitty attitude alone.
Did u read that OP of that blog? i don´t think he really had a bad attitude. at all
look at the replies prior to his in the referred thread here. are any of those "trolled replies?" what kind of reactions is he going to get? i just see well-meaning advice =P if it's a troll, it'd be a terrible one. at best, it's very marginal and as such really really should be avoided.
to be honest, there may have been some bias going into this. he was one of the final straws causing me to make that "troll" blog and start banning for it, due to the below posts. this post history is damning enough even without "troll" for me to not let it slide.
On May 11 2010 10:51 SoManyDeadLings wrote: This is one of the more epic trolls I've seen lately.
admittedly, this is a pretty harsh one. i don't think i would have 2dayed someone with a post history clear of calling people trolls. this guy had that history, and just made a post specifically to call someone pathetic. the rules here are enforced by a wide array of different people on a wide array of different people, so yeah how much leeway to give is up to a mod's personal interpretation.
i think the mod staff would agree that this guy certainly didn't deserve any.
It's funny, every time I notice someone being a bit of a jerk or flaming someone I always make a mental note of the name, and without fail they ALWAYS end up coming up on the automated ban list eventually, usually not for that particular post but for something.
Another thing I've picked up on is that a lot of the banable offences aren't exactly horrible things by themselves but they are often the tell tale signs of a douchebag and banning people for them just seems to weed out the assholes or get them to change before they start doing worse stuff.
The mods here do an outstanding job of getting rid of the douchebags before they become a problem rather than afterwards which is one of the reasons TL is so good, even compared to a lot of other heavily moderated forums.
On June 25 2010 04:58 derpaderp wrote: I guess what i'm saying is that, the current best american protoss was almost permabanned. yeah he posted a little douchiness, but now hes kind of a great SC2 resource.
"One can imagine" is just a polite way of not expressing my disdain for some other streamers, i guess.
Lots of top players have been banned on TL before... being a top player doesn't mean you're a good poster.
Although I do seem to remember reading on TL that having faster internet brings you better replies
But yea I didn't read that thread where huk posted that, but reading the quote in the ban makes me think he was just joking? He was asking for donations sure but it's not like he was being malacious about it seriously. He was saying "Please donate so I have enough money for internet so you guys can keep watching me stream!" Obviously if he doesn't have internet he can't stream And he seemed to be saying it jokingly anyways. But like I said I didn't read that thread so that quote could be out of context to me.
Also I think the artosis thread title was slightly misleading, but such is a forum. "Make a TL icon, win a TL tshirt" to me that means all I have to do is make an icon to get the tshirt, doesn't imply that I need to make a good icon and have it be chosen. "The Automated Ban List" isn't actually the automated ban list, but discussion about bans people have seen on it. So sure it was slightly misleading, it's not CONFIRMED that it's the last OSL for SC1, but it very possibly could be as hwanni said. I do think that all TL mods and admins need to take anger management classes because they seem to lash out at people that don't deserve it. Reading some of Chill's replies in this thread makes me think that. The mods I think are a big reason why TL seems unfriendly to new users. New users get yelled at by everybody and made fun of by mods when they get banned for maybe not knowing the rules. But hey, I never actually go into the 'forum' section I only access the most recent posts usually from the home page, and the rules aren't listed there so maybe a lot of new posters don't know these rules. Most of them just deserve polite warnings and not 2 day bans with a snarky comment.
TL seems unfriendly to new users because most new users are idiots. I'm a new user. I've been here for barely over three months. I've never had any issue with any of the staff or other members. People seem to think they can just come to a forum and post whatever they want and act like they own the place, but they can't. As long as you are intelligence, logical, and courteous you pretty much have no problem on being new at any forum. TL is no exception.
Also, did that Anti-Pixar jerk get unbanned yet? Or is Toy Story 3 still being epicly awesome?
On June 27 2010 15:14 Licmyobelisk wrote: Goodbye Lazz. May your soul embrace the eternal life of the ban hammer.
he got banned for what ?
lazz was just banned by BroOd.
That account was created on 2009-01-23 20:11:48 and had 3109 posts.
Reason: In my humble opinion you should spend less time being an asshole on these forums and more time acting like a grown-up with dignity and self-respect.
On June 27 2010 15:14 Licmyobelisk wrote: Goodbye Lazz. May your soul embrace the eternal life of the ban hammer.
he got banned for what ?
He must have been previously banned to warrant a permaban, but I vaguely remember him being an ass and raging about terran imba in live-report threads just like Azure-eye was.
Today he posted in a blog telling someone to "get laid more instead of bragging about AP classes" or something along those lines.
Wasn't Lazz also banned from the Strategy forum, I'm pretty sure I saw a big red X next to his name in the BW strategy forum. Doesn't matter, he's gone permanently now.