Quote from: GoOrange1 Week ban handed out. Talk about entrapment.

Getting banned for taking the bait and blowing off steam? That doesn't particularly bother me. What bothers me? This post that came immediately after.
 
It amounts to "I'm telling on you".
 
For fucks sake, didn't we outgrow that sort of shit in primary school?  That, right there, is RPGnet in a nutshell.

Quote from: Tyberious FunkWhat bothers me? This post that came immediately after.
 
It amounts to "I'm telling on you".
 
For fucks sake, didn't we outgrow that sort of shit in primary school?  That, right there, is RPGnet in a nutshell.

Absolutely.

I agree 100%. Unfortunately, these types of posts are ridiculously common over at that site. Anytime someone posts something the least bit controversial, there are countless threadcrappers chomping at the bit to be the first to announce that they are ratting out a fellow poster, or "tattling" if you will.

That, and the "Welcome to Ban-ville, population: you" type replies that are nothing other than cheap shots and taunts themselves.

Yet none of these posts are getting mod warnings in the thread.

Quote from: Tyberious FunkGetting banned for taking the bait and blowing off steam? That doesn't particularly bother me. What bothers me? This post that came immediately after.
 
It amounts to "I'm telling on you".
 
For fucks sake, didn't we outgrow that sort of shit in primary school?  That, right there, is RPGnet in a nutshell.

oh i love that shit

". . . reported" gets the poster instantly on my IL.

Not to mention the report was entirely redundant. The guy had just said, "fuck you" to Shannon A., the admin of the entire fucking site.

Reports are meant to be for things the admins/mods might miss. You run to the teacher when the teacher didn't see. But if some kid just got his biro, took the ink runner out, got a wad of paper, chewed it up and did a blowgun spitwad at the back of the principal's neck, and when the principal turned around the kid was laughing and pointing and waving his biro in the air, you really don't have to run to your teacher to tell her what just happened.

Unless you're an arse-kisser, of course.

Well, according to the new FAQ the D20 Forum is a success and is staying and is not hurting the other forums:

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=338267

If they wrote it down it must be true.

Quote from: HalfjackIf they wrote it down it must be true.

Well they also have ways to track that kind of thing.  And neither Open nor the D20 section seems to have having any problems keeping busy.

So I believe it

Quote from: Tyberious FunkGetting banned for taking the bait and blowing off steam? That doesn't particularly bother me. What bothers me? This post that came immediately after.
 
It amounts to "I'm telling on you".
 
For fucks sake, didn't we outgrow that sort of shit in primary school?  That, right there, is RPGnet in a nutshell.

If you report others, you can get away with skirting the line later.

Seanchai

Quote from: Tyberious FunkGetting banned for taking the bait and blowing off steam? That doesn't particularly bother me. What bothers me? This post that came immediately after.
 
It amounts to "I'm telling on you".
 
For fucks sake, didn't we outgrow that sort of shit in primary school?  That, right there, is RPGnet in a nutshell.

I have to agree with you.

If you have a problem with a thread, report it and let the mods and admins make the call.

People don't have to be childish and say "Reported!" just to rub it in the persons face.

What happens if a person does that and the mods and admins think it's a baseless report?  The person doing it looks like an ass and the person reported gets a chuckle out of it.

By whose definition of "not hurting"?

The one thing that really pisses me off is that every time I have tried to discuss the issue in general, the thread has been closed.

When I tried to discuss my particular issue (twice), the thread was closed.

And then they get all sanctimonious talking about how swearing and behaving like that "isn't helping my case".  I did everything by the book for a week.  ShannonA clearly had some presupposition about my motives, but did not have the courage or the character to just confront me about it directly.  Instead, he just locks thread and that talks shit about me sideways to the whole forum when he is caught in his own contradiction.  How else am I supposed to respond to that?  

And for the record, as I said in my TT thread, I was really not trying to undermine the rules of the D20 forum.

They can all kiss my ass.  And those fucking little toadies.  That is really pathetic.  Do you think ShannonA gave them each 10 xp as a bonus for their slavering loyalty?

Once the mods think of you as a "troublemaker" they'll never treat you equitably again. Trust me - any little thing becomes a warnable or banable offense, and the posters who enjoy antagonizing you know it and take full advantage of it.

Surely you've seen that before.

Werekoala is a 100% correct there. I pissed off Curt and left the site rather than get permabanned on some trumped-up bullshit.

Quote from: beeberoh i love that shit

". . . reported" gets the poster instantly on my IL.

Me too. He landed on my Ignore list within seconds. I was tempted to make a riposte, pointing out the utter childishness of it, but figured it'd get interpreted as a personal attack and it wasnt worth the bother. :rolleyes:

About 75% of my ignore list over there are people who whine and report folks for minor infractions. The other 25% is evenly split between asskissers and general purpose asstards.
So far, only one person on my ignore list has shown up over here, two if you count someone who dropped off my IL by asskissing his way into a mod position

Quote from: WerekoalaOnce the mods think of you as a "troublemaker" they'll never treat you equitably again. Trust me - any little thing becomes a warnable or banable offense, and the posters who enjoy antagonizing you know it and take full advantage of it.

And if RPG.NET doesn't change this it is going to go downhill fast.   The problem is you have mods who probably have never had power before (not in real life) then they became mods of rpg.net and got power hungry and let it go to their heads .  

These are the kind of people who should NEVER have power.

I knew Curt was going to use his moderator powers to abuse people, and I am glad they brought him down to earth and fast.

The Koala speaketh the truth.

In private messages , mods over there have shown their obvious bias and dislike of little 'ol me.

Only reason I think I stayed as long as I have is because I was pleasantly shocked that I had a chance at winning Vipergrrl's BSG Jeopardy thing in Other Media - that was rather fun.


- Ed C.