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People posting in threads they don't care about to make irrelevant points.

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  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    "Why did this make me laugh?"

    Because I told you about locks bro I warned you dawg.

    Also, I guess I'm a platy now?
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    edited 2011-06-08 02:50:13
    ^^ Or both

    ^ I thought of SB&HJ too, but only after the fact
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    nighty nifght
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    I think I'll sleep in a bit, actually. It's gonna be 3:00 AM and tomorrow is gonna be a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong day.

    You all needed to know this.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    You all needed to know this.
    Oh no, we've gotten you. :P
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-06-08 03:03:36
    You can change. You can.
    Again, I've been using that for quite a bit. It is the greatest way to end a rather inane post. Self aware and inherently funny.

    OK, now I sleep. You all needed to know this.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    -wonders what happened to the previous discussion-
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Derails, they happen naturally.

    And we reached consensus, I think.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    Yeah, I figured that was pretty much resolved once you reached a decision.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Well, it's not actually a decision per say. The other mods will have to OK it first.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    Sometimes it's easy to forget that you don't run this place single-handedly

    (not sarcasm)
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    I'm the most active mod.

    This is also why people remember my screw-ups more.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    "Screw-ups"? I may not agree with every decision you make, but I wouldn't call anything you've done a "screw-up".
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    Actually, I wouldn't call anything any of the mods here have done a "screw-up", aside from not making me the lead administrator and queen.
  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person
    Chances are you're either a very nice person, or Cygan hasn't had to lock a thread you like or call you out personally.

    And everybody remembers screw ups more. It's the stuff that stands out from the norm that gets remembered.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    ...and now I forgot the point I was making.

    The sleep-dep is getting me too, it seems.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    You look fine to me.

    Woooo, woooo, woooo, woooo!
  • All NinesAll Nines
    edited 2011-06-08 06:44:07
    Has friends besides tanks now
    -sigh- I always miss this stuff.

    I like Cygan's idea for bans. I had originally suggested the bans work like this:

    1st Strike: 3 days
    2nd Strike: Week
    3rd: Permanent,

    but 3 days is really not that scary, come to think of it.

    I also approve of the email thing.

    Quote-time:

    "Maybe we should start banning people."

    I'm not opposed to that.

    "Or you could not lock so many threads Cygan. I think you do that too much."

    I, personally, don't.

    "^^^Certainly not all the mods, either."

    Yeah, that's true.

    >.>

    <.<

    "at this point anyone can basically be guaranteed to get a thread shut down by imagespamming it."

    And, as you even said, that's where bans  come in.

    "We used to be so well-behaved when IJBM2 was new..."

    I know, right? Well, I wasn't here that early, but it seems like peoples' behavior has gotten considerably worse since I became a mod.
  • NoimportaNoimporta
    We used to be so well-behaved when IJBM2 was new...

    Not really, it's just the forum was smaller and nobody really cared about these issues.

  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    3 strikes doesn't seem like much...if this was enforced fairly strictly, I could see a large amount of our userbase being banned. I mean we have, what? 14 regular posters? 20? If we ban just one permanently, we've lost a significant portion of our number.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Then maybe people will learn to think before they break the rules.
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    edited 2011-06-08 07:58:45
    Tableflipper
    People posting in threads they don't care about to make irrelevant points.

    I wonder if something like this would cause a warning...
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    If it's a thread made to make a joke, I don't think posting your reaction to the joke is irrelevant.
  • LouieWLouieW
    edited 2011-06-08 09:19:37
    Loser
    Cygan,
    4c. If you don't like a thread, and have nothing meaningful to add to it, don't post in it.

    Do you think you could clarify what "meaningful" means in this context? I am having some trouble understanding this portion of the rules, but I am not sure if I just have a different definition of meaningful or something. I can understand that rule if meaningful just means "not garbage and image spamming," but if it is subjective at all (i.e. meaningful posts are what moderators consider to be good posts) then I am not so sure.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Meaningful does essentially just mean "Not garbage, not image spamming and relevant to the topic at hand".
  • AlkthashAlkthash
    edited 2011-06-08 09:37:48
    I'm a damn twisted person
    Well how about what sort of things are never meaningful to the conversation at hand.

    • Me Too responses.
    • One word responses
    • Derailing for shits and giggles
    • Meme spam
    • Image spam
    • Puns for the sake of puns(tolerable if there is more content to the post)
    • Quote spaming
    • Leaving a hyperlink, without an explanation of its purpose to the discussion
    • Any emoticon, ever.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Quote spaming

    Bye Glenn

    Derailing for shits and giggles

    Already against the rules.

    And these would not apply in shitposts, yes?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-06-08 09:30:00
    You can change. You can.

  • LouieWLouieW
    edited 2011-06-08 09:34:28
    Loser
    Alright, I am glad that the rule I mentioned earlier is not about getting penalized for not making good enough posts. I think that kind of rule might be a significant deterrent to discussion.
  • AlkthashAlkthash
    I'm a damn twisted person
    Personally if things were my way, shit posts outside of the designated threads would count as an immediate strike towards banning. As for quote spamming, I mean something more along the lines of where the post is almost entirely previous quotes from the conversation nested with in each other.  Glenn's mega posts are about half him responding to other stuff in the thread, and half quoting that point for ease of communication.
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