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Tom B · February 05, 2007, 07:07:48 PM

Quote from: HackmastergeneralWhy invest so much of your time and energy on a place that you don't like?

Welcome to the internet! :keke:

Go start a thread about any given television show or roleplaying game. Usually within less than 10 posts you'll get someone telling you why it's so horrible and why nobody smart would be watching/playing it...and will be willing to argue with you about why you shouldn't like it for the next 200 posts.

Kyle Aaron · February 05, 2007, 07:17:57 PM

Quote from: HackmastergeneralWhoops, who DIDN'T deserve it. Mind fart. :deflated:

Oh. Well, you're talking bollocks, then. Heaps of people got banned who didn't deserve it, if only because people with a far more negative contribution to the place stuck around and were praised.

To say that someone deserves to be banned is to say that they are, overall, a negative contributor to a place. That is, their contributions are less than nothing. If you think the contributions of people banned from rpg.net are worth less than nothing, I have to wonder what you're doing here talking to people like me, who were banned from the site. Why are you talking to people when you think what they have to say is worth less than nothing?

TonyLB · February 05, 2007, 07:25:29 PM

Quote from: JimBobOzWhenever mods pull the "mod voice," I always imagine...

Coooool!

Hackmastergeneral · February 05, 2007, 07:29:26 PM

Quote from: JimBobOzOh. Well, you're talking bollocks, then. Heaps of people got banned who didn't deserve it, if only because people with a far more negative contribution to the place stuck around and were praised.

To say that someone deserves to be banned is to say that they are, overall, a negative contributor to a place. That is, their contributions are less than nothing. If you think the contributions of people banned from rpg.net are worth less than nothing, I have to wonder what you're doing here talking to people like me, who were banned from the site. Why are you talking to people when you think what they have to say is worth less than nothing?

I've known plenty of people, who in one context or another, I didn't like talking to, but in another context, I didn't mind it.

This forum is not entirely populated by people who were banned there. And just because someone flamed out and got banned in one place doesn't mean they will in all.

Most of what I remember of your postings on .net were good.

Plus, I'm just like talking about rpgs. Its good to have a backup place - ENworld is TOO D20 focused.

I think I'm just going to bow out of this, and all future, threads about RPG.net. I'm still on the place, I don't need to talk about it over here too, and I wouldn't want to get in the way of everyone's righteous indignation over being banned from an imaginary place.

Kyle Aaron · February 05, 2007, 07:44:27 PM

Quote from: HackmastergeneralMost of what I remember of your postings on .net were good.

So I made an overall positive contribution to rpg.net?

So they banned a poster who made an overall positive contribution to rpg.net?

But I thought you said they only banned people who "really deserved it"? Are you saying that people who make overall positive contributions to a website really deserve to be banned?

Or is it possible that not everyone banned "really deserved it"?

RPGPundit · February 05, 2007, 08:19:51 PM

Quote from: HackmastergeneralI think I'm just going to bow out of this, and all future, threads about RPG.net. I'm still on the place, I don't need to talk about it over here too, and I wouldn't want to get in the way of everyone's righteous indignation over being banned from an imaginary place.

That's probably a good idea; if you don't like that a subject of conversation is coming up on here, the best thing you can do is not to contribute to it. There's lots of other good stuff to contribute to instead anyways.

RPGPundit

Dominus Nox · February 05, 2007, 09:15:53 PM

Pundy,

just ouf of curiousity, how long do you think it'll be before the godclique at rpg.net makes it a bannable offense to post over here?

I can see someo of them looking thru this forum, and if thye see a poster here who identifies himself as a poster on rpg.net, they ban him.

I just wonder when cesspool's going to do that....:confused:

Ian Absentia · February 05, 2007, 11:04:29 PM

Quote from: Dominus NoxI can see someo of them looking thru this forum, and if thye see a poster here who identifies himself as a poster on rpg.net, they ban him.

I just wonder when cesspool's going to do that....:confused:

Are you kidding, Nox? I have on good authority that they're going to start reinstating banned accounts of people here, just so they can ban them again. Starting with you! :eek:

!i!

Zachary The First · February 05, 2007, 11:17:23 PM

I don't know how it's panned out this way, but I've noticed a lot of folks I really enjoyed reading on RPGnet, from Bill to Clash to jgants, jrients (well, I've been an avid reader of his blog), JimBob, TonyLB, Rotwang, Balb, JArcane, and others have made their way over here. They all tend to post things I find relevant, useful, and/or funny, entertaining, and interesting. That exodus or visitation of so many of those who I really found to be good, worthwhile posters at RPGnet has really been a huge part of making this site attractive to me.

Kyle Aaron · February 05, 2007, 11:29:51 PM

Well, I came over here because I am always happy to help make active and successful any project which is positive about gaming in general. I am here quite a lot because I got bannzorzed from rpg.net, and because I work from home and need something to do while the pot is boiling for the next corporate office dinner!

Consonant Dude · February 06, 2007, 12:13:34 AM

Like Zachary, I noticed that some people I enjoyed reading were posting here. I just wouldn't have joined otherwise. I still have a wishlist of maybe a dozen people I'd like to see here, to make this busier and even more interesting.

And it's really too bad that Wick and Grubman were scared away so soon.

I just had an idea. I'm gonna start a thread!

Dominus Nox · February 06, 2007, 12:45:22 AM

Quote from: Ian AbsentiaAre you kidding, Nox? I have on good authority that they're going to start reinstating banned accounts of people here, just so they can ban them again. Starting with you! :eek:

!i!

I know that was another pathetic, annoying slam on me, or meant to be, but the thing is, I could honeslty see them doing something like that.

Thanatos02 · February 06, 2007, 01:24:06 AM

I suspect so many people migrated over here, and are vocal about their distaste for 'big purple' 'cause they can't talk about it over there. If they could, the site probably wouldn't be in such a damn mess. (imo, of course) The silence is kind of damning, there, in more ways then one.

The other thing that's really noticable is how many posters here are permenantly banned over there. The fact that they're almost always productive posters and not rampant ass-clowns here is because even when people do something really dumb one day doesn't mean they'll do it every day. There's a plethora of gamers here that could and did post over there, and that kind of represents a gaming brain-drain.

Not that there arn't pleanty of fantastic posters there, but every one that makes their home here and can't (or won't) go back is another brick out of Big Purps wall. Plus, it's kind of proof that many who've been permabanned there really didn't need to be. I suspect that kind of pisses some over there off a bit, because it's kind of an indication that the mods were wrong the whole time about a bunch of things and that it's really not a fluke.

This site just keeps getting bigger. I read both, but I know which one I post on more.

droog · February 06, 2007, 01:29:10 AM

You getting this, Cessna?

Balbinus · February 06, 2007, 04:22:35 AM

I think the mods on rpg.net would take great pleasure in seeing a thread bitching about them here, as it would help confirm them in their view that the only people who post here are obsessed with them and have no life so post about them still.

Which ain't true.

We have better things to talk about IMO than another site's errors, writ large as they undoubtedly are.