I'm currently getting a database error notice from RPG.net. Anybody else?

Quote from: droogI'm currently getting a database error notice from RPG.net. Anybody else?

Likewise.

Quote from: JimBobOzPeople signed up just to comment, "wow" on the Creepy Gamer thread in Roleplaying Open; no-one signed up to comment "wow" on the h4wt chixxorz cosplay thread on Tangency Open.

Also, do not underestimate the appeal of the Motivational Posters.

Quote from: JimBobOzYou also have to ask yourself, "what are the people joining expecting?" Given that the poll I posted, "are your games any fun?" revealed that 93% of respondents were playing in an rpg group, and 5 or 6% of the remaining 7% wanted to (1 or 2% didn't want to), I'd say, "the people joining rpg.net are expecting to talk about rpgs."

But not only that. I know I recall joining just to participate in some Raymond E Feist thread. Though it might have been gaming related. And maybe I'm an odd poster, but I didn't become a regular to just talking about roleplaying, it was primarily to talk about all the various things connected to gaming with fellow gamers.

Quote from: droogI'm currently getting a database error notice from RPG.net. Anybody else?

Yep.  Maybe the upgrade issues aren't resolved yet after all?

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!I got tired of standing up for people whose threads were closed or who were banned for reasons I considered unjust, only to have moderators refuse my attempts at making sense.

That, and I felt like I didn't belong anymore.

That's pretty much why I don't post there anymore either.

The last straw was when Darren started harassing me (with Cessna's knowledge and complicity) for reporting a post of his.

So I just quit posting.

Ehh...the fuck...?

Yeah...I don't miss the place.

Quote from: PhishStyxThat's pretty much why I don't post there anymore either.

The last straw was when Darren started harassing me (with Cessna's knowledge and complicity) for reporting a post of his.

So I just quit posting.

Reporting a Darren post wherein he was abusive to me was what earned me my permaban, actually. Well, there was a lot more to it, but that was the last straw, so to speak.

The man (or boy or whatever he is) is one of the most vile people I've seen online, just for overall bad attitude and sheer power-mad ego-spurting all over the place.

For me, the beginning of the end was when I started calling bullshit on Cessna for snarky thread-crapping then pulling out his mod-dick when people would respond to his provocation.  I figured someone needed to show that the rank and file could stand up to the mods and admins as long as they were sure to do it within the guidelines and didn't break any rules in doing so.  So, yeah, I brought it upon myself.

Not long thereafter, Eric Brennan, with whom I'd never had a problem before, started going to great lengths to mis-interpret anything I posted as a jab and a bait at him.  From there it was all down hill.  Darren and Curt would make pointed comments about my posts, and it became obvious that I had become a "Backstage" problem, a liability for RPG.net.  Never mind that I wasn't doing anything wrong.

Enh.  I devoted myself to the notion that I wasn't going to let myself get chased off, but once I started to find other avenues for online expression, I just drifted away out of apathy.

!i!

(P.S. It also didn't help much when I started reporting mod posts when I felt that they had broken the site guidelines.  I figured, if they were going to immediately shut down any public complaint by closing threads, that was the only recourse.  From what I hear now, it appears they've begun to issue mod warnings for that sort of thing.)

Quote from: Consonant DudeYou're in such a state of denial it's not even funny.

You really don't need to be a cockmunch to get dogpiled. All you need to do is state something unpopular. That's all. The groupthink effect over there can be quite strong.

Wake the fuck up and stop lying to yourself. Or shut the fuck up and stop lying to everybody else.

What the fuck ever dude.  I'm not the one wasting time and breath whining and pissing and moaning about a place I can't even post to any more.

If you don't like the place, then just shut the fuck up about it.  Christ.

Oh, but I'm lying, because my experiences with the place are 100% contrary to yours?  What the fuck ever.  You can keep holding on to your precious delusions, or just, you know GET ON WITH YOUR FUCKING LIFE.

Its your choice.

Quote from: jrientsI don't know what that's supposed to mean.  I'm running my second 3.5 campaign right now and playing in someone else's 3.5 game.  But I'm also running '81 Basic/Expert D&D at a con next weekend.  (aside - Crap!  I gotta write some adventures!)  Both are D&D.  I don't see how the existence of a new edition of D&D makes an older version somehow less dungeony and dragony.

It makes it hard to carry on conversations.  One is out of print, one is the current incarnation that is in print.  The other one is OLD D&D.  Its like talking about how a sports team is doing well this season, and someone keeps jumping in and touting how the 61 edition was utter crap, or the best ever.  Lets deal with the current team, and leave the classics to seperate threads.

Its not a huge thing, but the constant RCing of clear 3.5 threads bugs me.

Quote from: HackmastergeneralWhat the fuck ever dude.  I'm not the one wasting time and breath whining and pissing and moaning about a place I can't even post to any more.

I'm not the one either. You'd know that if you were grounded into reality.

Hey, buckle in and hold tight while I sing another of the praises of this site over RPG.net.

There are a lot of people here whom I recognise from over there, many of whom I had thought were total dicks, and for whom I had no sympathy when they were banned.  Then, A) the tables were turned and I fell afoul of the mod-machine, and B) I came here and saw these same people interacting in a different environment.  What I came to realise was that RPG.net was, and remains, an incredibly antagonistic environment for right-of-the-middle politics and "traditional" RPGs.  People who fall into these categories, or are simply identified with them, are routinely baited and persecuted.  It's kind of chicken-or-the-egg, but it seemingly brought out the worst in people whom I am coming to appreciate and even respect here.

Yes, brothers and sisters, it's group hug time.
:grouphug:

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So a user (who I don't know) named Dave Turner called Darren out about the Sorensen thing.

He used the intriguing term "revenge-banning." I find that term fitting for what seems to happen most commonly at rpg.net.

So after an administrator and 2 moderators respond insultingly to Dave, Eric Brennan ends the thread with "That goes for everybody -- we don't mind criticism." Apparently, that only applies to the kind that doesn't actually criticize them.

Eric Brennan -- the former admin who still gets to enjoy all of the powers of being an admin/mod, yet none of the responsibilities.  I think that goes a long way toward justifying the whole "mod-clique" accusation.

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Quote from: Ian AbsentiaEric Brennan -- the former admin who still gets to enjoy all of the powers of being an admin/mod, yet none of the responsibilities.  I think that goes a long way toward justifying the whole "mod-clique" accusation.

!i!

Oh he isn't "former" anymore. He's back on the administration staff officially.