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[Del Murder]

It's hard to judge the seriousness of text. If you joke around a lot then you aren't going to be taken seriously when you want to be. It goes the other way around. This whole thread can be a joke for all I know, but it's best to give people the benefit of the doubt on these things because if they have true concerns and feelings they want to share, they should be able to be heard without ridicule.

[Psychotic]

Originally Posted by MecaKane

Oh yah, I'm a real ing pet, don't believe everything those kids tell you.

Oh well, if Lord Krang says he doesn't have a personal bias then I shall believe it, but I really couldn't figure out any other reason as to why:

1) People had to be reprimanded in the announcement, as like I say, I really can't see the need to quote people in there. He could have just said that doing that was idiotic and not named names, and that would be good enough, but when you bring people into it, it basically becomes a "telling-off", which has never happened in an announcement as regards to specific people, as far as I'm aware.
2) Why said "telling-off" had to occur when another Cid's Knight had already specifically told them to stop. I don't recall someone being dealt with over the same thing twice...so again, a new thing.

ie, why special measures were taken that aren't normally used.

Originally Posted by Leeza

My reprimand had nothing to do with the announcement. It was a reprimand for plain and simple spam that the two of your were getting carried away with and dragging other people in along for your ride. That is why only you and Rye were reprimanded by me.

Yours was for spamming, and his was for spamming without using the warn button...does that really constitute a whole different offence? Not using the warn button isn't against the rules here, as then otherwise you'd have people constantly using the warn button on extremely minor things so as not to be banned. I'm not entirely convinced that it was a different thing.

Originally Posted by Leeza

Quoting the lot of you specifically from that thread just brings everything closer to home in my opinion.

That only brings it closer to home for those three members, which would have been suited to a PM. No-one would care anyway unless you specifically named every single member who is likely to do it.

But haha, nice to see I made a fun thread.

[edczxcvbnm]

Yep yep

[Tokki Wartooth]

I thought it was fun

[The Man]

Originally Posted by MecaKane

A post is not a "work." A post is basically something someone says, as if it has come out of their mouth, or their actions if the use *s. Stephen Hawking can make all the idiotic spam posts he wants, and still be Stephen Hawking.

Originally Posted by Leeza

Aaron, give it a break already. There is a big differnce between calling what someone does idiotic and calling the person idiotic! I do many idiotic things...like responding to you...but I don't consider myself an idiot.

Yes, okay, that's fine. Does that mean that, since Matt has free reign to call anyone's posts idiotic that he likes, we all can do the same now? That's good to know! Thanks for the update.

But, everytime I see you going into your swearing bits I get to picturing you as something that's not very pleasant and I don't want to do that so I just wish that you wouldn't do it.

Perhaps when Matt calls people's posts idiotic we get to picturing him as something that's not very pleasant and we don't want to do that so we just wish that he wouldn't do it.

Originally Posted by >>--heartshot--> ♥

As for "taking stabs" at other people, I'm sorry, when did this happen? Was it is the debate thread with Emerald Aeris where I wasn't hostile to her at all?

No, my best guess is they're referring to when you said

Originally Posted by >>--heartshot--> ♥

Wow. Even for MecaKane, that was surprisingly moronic.

in the "Shlup posted this in her eljay" thread in EoEO, where there's supposed to be a zero tolerance policy against flaming. However, I'm having a hard time comprehending why that's flaming and calling someone's post idiotic is not.

[Agent Proto]

This button is used to warn threads and posts of questionable material.

When you spot a thread that should be close, you should not post saying, "Oh yeah, this thread's gonna get closed." That's stating the obvious, and it's pointless to even point it out. You see a thread that's not allowed, warn it. Don't spam in it. I know some of you guys just looooove to spam, but in some threads, it's intolerable.

So, there's a rule regarding the warn button. "Warn the thread, and leave it to the staff." The staff is there for this kind of stuff. There are times I want to take things in my own hands, but I'm only a Former Staff, so I do my duty and warn.

Also... Spamming can also get you guys (Psy and co.) in trouble if you do it too much. You guys are getting away with too much, so be glad you're not being warned for excessive spam, at the moment.

[edczxcvbnm]

I am having a blast. My yep yep reply was to tokki's earlier post but I was really slow.

I think it is easy to spot joking online. The only stuff that is hard to spot is sarcasim but that is about tone of voice.

[Leeza]

Originally Posted by Psy

That only brings it closer to home for those three members, which would have been suited to a PM. No-one would care anyway unless you specifically named every single member who is likely to do it.

No, it brings it closer to home for everyone because now they have real people to associate the action with. People who the majority of the members here seem to look up to so it will stick in their minds a lot longer than something from an annonymous quoter. And now thanks to your thread, it will definitely be remembered by all for a long time to come.

Originally Posted by Psy

But haha, nice to see I made a fun thread.

I'm glad to see that you're happy with the attention that you have received.