The World Forgotten: A Quarterly Review

[Aimless]

We've obviously silently informed the moderators about our issue...I'm not sure how this is kicking him out, or anything you mentioned above, or awful behavior.

Really!? Then why is this in Debate and Discussion?

Do we honestly need to vet people before they're allowed to start threads in that forum?

And then you continue to fail in direct and helpful communication

Edit: I forgot to commend you on your circular reasoning.

That's because your brain is broken, but I forgive you. I simply had no desire to be dragged into your imaginary world

We can have a fun and relaxed atmosphere (which we've been having for a large part lately!) among peers, while recognizing that some elements are incapable of worthwhile contributions.

Yes, yes, you want forum euthanasia, I want decency and forum welfare I suppose we differ on this matter on an ideological level.

You're a scientist, you know about signal to noise ratios. Being posts incoherent nonsense most of the time, with a smug attitude which I suppose means he thinks he's bright

What it means is that he reacts poorly to your poor reactions. We have failed, as a community, to facilitate Being's development. We are the US to his criminal Black minority

It is a negative contribution to the quality of discussion and exchange of ideas.

Pff, haven't noticed it at all except through your constant encouragement to stop his posting.

It's too bad that this, to you, somehow suggests we are not relaxed and not having fun.

It's CLEAR how your behaviour may "suggest" that you're not relaxed ie. that you're not very tolerant of what goes and what doesn't. You come down like a ton of cranky bricks on posts you dislike. Bricks are not relaxed.

I dunno, the first part of that sounds hilarious.

You are a traitor to the scrotum

Have you read your own posts?

will you two retards kindly stop baiting one another?

[Being]

We're getting tired of reminding Being.

Yeah, you really need to back that up with some links.

[Illusions]

And then you continue to fail in direct and helpful communication

I don't think you or Being can be helped. We are talking about a standard that pretty much everyone else can use common sense to figure out, and that out of the 100+ members we have, less than 4 seem to not understand what should and should not be posted there.

The only way to go down in rank of what should not be posted in D&D from Being's post would be to post an empty thread...because all Being's had was a self-admitted stupid question and a poll...

We have failed, as a community, to facilitate Being's development.

We have no obligation of any sort to facilitate Being's "development" whatever that might be in the Minx-o-verse.

Yeah, you really need to back that up with some links.

Shall I link all the conversations that lead to where Nessus has asked you to stop posting? Because if you thought she was joking, using hyperbole, or it was all friendly ribbing...no...it was not...

[Ziggy Stardust]

Shouldn't it simply be reported if you feel you have a problem with the thread. A moderator will then decide whether it's in the right section and move it if it isn't.

I don't get the public debate.

[Illusions]

Shouldn't it simply be reported if you feel you have a problem with the thread. A moderator will then decide whether it's in the right section and move it if it isn't.

I don't get the public debate.

I did report it to a moderator, and it looks like others have too. Apparently Minx doesn't feel this is enough, that we as a community should foster Being's growth and ability to post here. Minx also seems to feel that there should be no delineation between the two forums, as it goes against the feeling of an open and laid back community.

[Nessus]

Shall I link all the conversations that lead to where Nessus has asked you to stop posting? Because if you thought she was joking, using hyperbole, or it was all friendly ribbing...no...it was not...

I think I'll try to stop that or at the very least curtail it to this thread since it doesn't seem to want to die

Shouldn't it simply be reported if you feel you have a problem with the thread. A moderator will then decide whether it's in the right section and move it if it isn't.

I don't get the public debate.

A part of why I started this stupid thread was that there wasn't that much good discussion around. That's changed for the better. Right now the only reason to have a public debate about this shit is that we don't actually have any rules, and for the first time we're in the position, as a community, to make those rules. My fetishism for authoritarian states aside, some level of democratic procedure or at least transparency in moderation seems like a goodness, nyet?

You do have a point that it's rather crass of me to shout at Being directly, I have poor impulse control sometimes!

[Ziggy Stardust]

A part of why I started this stupid thread was that there wasn't that much good discussion around. That's changed for the better. Right now the only reason to have a public debate about this shit is that we don't actually have any rules, and for the first time we're in the position, as a community, to make those rules. My fetishism for authoritarian states aside, some level of democratic procedure or at least transparency in moderation seems like a goodness, nyet?

When you just started the thread I was with you all the way. It had to improve.

You do have a point that it's rather crass of me to shout at Being directly, I have poor impulse control sometimes!

But you make up for it sevenfold with kick-ass self reflection.

[EyeKhan]

Shouldn't it simply be reported if you feel you have a problem with the thread. A moderator will then decide whether it's in the right section and move it if it isn't.

I don't get the public debate.

Hey! What are mods for anyway? Surely not just for resolving disputes and abuses, but for maintaining a little order in between the forums, eh? EH!?!

[Aimless]

I don't think you or Being can be helped. We are talking about a standard that pretty much everyone else can use common sense to figure out, and that out of the 100+ members we have, less than 4 seem to not understand what should and should not be posted there.

The only way to go down in rank of what should not be posted in D&D from Being's post would be to post an empty thread...because all Being's had was a self-admitted stupid question and a poll...

Once more, for the cheap seats: my problem isn't with the notion that Being's thread may have been more appropriately posted in GC, it's with your dickish approach to the matter! I see your attitude as an unfriendly and unhelpful one, and I feel we can do without it. Both now, before we have clear rules and guidelines, as well as later, after we get clear rules and guidelines. Stop being so dog-gone adversarial try to be more like Dread, RB, Fuzzy, Wiggin, etc.

We have no obligation of any sort to facilitate Being's "development"

You know what you can do with that opinion?

whatever that might be in the Minx-o-verse.

It's nothing difficult, it's just about being decent to your fellow poster and taking some social responsibility. It's the opposite of constantly baiting a person, or simply telling them to stop posting. It may be an alien concept to the pathologically "independent" loner artist-type with a hair-trigger, but I didn't peg you as one of those

Shall I link all the conversations that lead to where Nessus has asked you to stop posting? Because if you thought she was joking, using hyperbole, or it was all friendly ribbing...no...it was not...

Pfff why the fuck should anyone pay any heed to such "requests"? It's just constant and inconstructive slagging by someone to whom he is clearly not inclined to listen, and for obvious reasons only in your world would that constitute a legitimate argument

[Illusions]

Once more, for the cheap seats: my problem isn't with the notion that Being's thread may have been more appropriately posted in GC, it's with your dickish approach to the matter!

Reporting it to the mods is dickish? If you're talking about my discussing whether we should vet people for posting there, it was only mentioned because you said something pretty ignorant.

I see your attitude as an unfriendly and unhelpful one, and I feel we can do without it.

Yep, thats me, unfriendly and unhelpful.

You know what you can do with that opinion?

Same thing you can do with yours.

It's nothing difficult, it's just about being decent to your fellow poster and taking some social responsibility.

We've been posting with Being for a while now. He is also an adult. Please, for all that is sane, stuff it. We have no social responsibility towards him on an internet forum on which we post for fun.

Pfff why the fuck should anyone pay any heed to such "requests"? It's just constant and inconstructive slagging by someone to whom he is clearly not inclined to listen, and for obvious reasons only in your world would that constitute a legitimate argument

He asked for an example of people asking him to stop posting a certain way, I provided the most obvious and memorable. Thats all I did.

You also really need to stop with the personal attacks. Its annoying.

[Being]

I'm still waiting for the links to the reminders you say tired you so.

[LittleFuzzy]

Stop being so dog-gone adversarial try to be more like Dread, RB, Fuzzy, Wiggin, etc.

When did I make the non-adversarial list?

You know what you can do with that opinion?

Stand around being very right? Being made a deliberate choice to switch to trying to bait posters. Not only do we not have an obligation, even if we did it would have been meaningless, it's not what Being wanted to do with the time here.

[Being]

Being made a deliberate choice to switch to trying to bait posters.

Would you mind expounding on that? Provide examples too.

[Steely Glint]

Fuck off, Minx, you smug cunt.

[littlelolligagged]

Fuck off, Minx, you smug cunt.

You, sir, are a fine gentleman. If there were more like you, I would have much less desire to encourage Wraithy in his murderous rages.

[Steely Glint]

Wraithy doesn't need encouraging on his murderous rages. They are wraithtastic.

[Aimless]

Fuck off, Minx, you smug cunt.

You fuck off

[Aimless]

Being made a deliberate choice to switch to trying to bait posters. Not only do we not have an obligation, even if we did it would have been meaningless, it's not what Being wanted to do with the time here.

That's not what anyone wants to do with their time here, except for the occasional short-lived troll. The truth is that not everyone reacts well to constantly being called a moron, or to constantly being harrassed by cranky bitches. I don't think it's too much to ask for to avoid the kind of behaviour we know tends to bring out the worst in some people. I realise that some others think it's preferable to be dicks in the hopes of driving people off, but I don't like that.






If Steely has a problem with that opinion then that's his problem and I'll take no responsibility for it. I'm not asking for anything unreasonable, and I'm not trying to support a crazy position.

[littlelolligagged]

I'm not asking for anything unreasonable, and I'm not trying to support a crazy position.

It would make more sense if you were taking up for someone who hasn't always been a troll and spam-poster.

I mean, really. He had multiple accounts for his multiple personalities, and you think this is worth being holier-than-thou over?

If he actually wanted to be taken seriously he'd quit bumping his dead thread every time he feels people aren't posting enough to keep him amused.

[Being]

It would make more sense if you were taking up for someone who hasn't always been a troll and spam-poster.

I mean, really. He had multiple accounts for his multiple personalities, and you think this is worth being holier-than-thou over?

If he actually wanted to be taken seriously he'd quit bumping his dead thread every time he feels people aren't posting enough to keep him amused.

I'll start reporting all the spam I find here so the moderators can keep score. You don't seem to do that without bias. And the only trolls around here are the ones who try to chase people away because they don't fit the mold.

[Steely Glint]

If Steely has a problem with that opinion then that's his problem and I'll take no responsibility for it.

But you expect us to take responsibly your petulant tantrums which occur when we don't tolerate idiots that clutter the forum with crap to your satisfaction? We went through this pointless rigmorale with you on the Atari CC, too, and the conclusion was the same there: if you don't like the overall style and tone of this forum, just fuck off and post on one where you are.

[Illusions]

I'll start reporting all the spam I find here so the moderators can keep score. You don't seem to do that without bias. And the only trolls around here are the ones who try to chase people away because they don't fit the mold.

You honestly can't tell the difference between bumping your own thread no one had posted in for days...twice...because you wanted amusement, and whatever else you want to consider "spam"? Really? You seem quite capable of posting according to forum etiquette when it suits you, so I'm not sure how this part is escaping you...

[Being]

But you expect us to take responsibly your petulant tantrums which occur when we don't tolerate idiots that clutter the forum with crap to your satisfaction? We went through this pointless rigmorale with you on the Atari CC, too, and the conclusion was the same there: if you don't like the overall style and tone of this forum, just fuck off and post on one where you are.

And you are complaining about other people cluttering the forum with crap?

[Steely Glint]

Yes, I am complaining about other people (read: you) cluttering the forum with crap.

[Loki]

Being, how about you go and count which portion of your posts consist of fewer than 3 sentences, and then do the same for several other users. Then you can tell us what you think that means.

[Being]

Yes, I am complaining about other people (read: you) cluttering the forum with crap.

So crap likes this,

Mr. STEELY GLINT begs leave to inform one and all that he is eating a PORK PIE and drinking a 500ml bottle of CHERRY COKE.

So it is written so it shall be done on the 1st of February in the YEAR OF OUR LORD 2010.

doesn't clutter things up?

http://www.theworldforgotten.com/sho...198-GENTLEMENS

I'd tell you what a hypocrite you are but you wouldn't believe me so...

[Being]

Being, how about you go and count which portion of your posts consist of fewer than 3 sentences, and then do the same for several other users. Then you can tell us what you think that means.

How many sentences did you just use? And you have as much spam and trolling in here as anybody. Want me to dredge it up for you?

[Steely Glint]

When I've posted about four threads like that in Debate and Discussion, rather than General Chat, bumped a few old ones because I was board, cluttered up serious threads with similar inane crap and generally contributed absolutely nothing of value or interest since January and yet still have one of the highest post counts, we'll talk.

[Being]

When I've posted about four threads like that in Debate and Discussion, rather than General Chat, bumped a few old ones because I was board, cluttered up serious threads with similar inane crap and generally contributed absolutely nothing of value or interest since January and yet still have one of the highest post counts, we'll talk.

No, we won't. You are a hypocrite.

[Loki]

How many sentences did you just use? And you have as much spam and trolling in here as anybody. Want me to dredge it up for you?

Do you know what a proportion is? Every has a decent chunk of brief posts. You, on the other hand, have little else. I'm not even going to try to quantify the relevance of your posts to the threads you make them in.