I just want to re-iterate something here that was recently discussed on the moderator forum.

This "General" forum exists as a place for people to talk about things not related to ThinkTanks. While we can all agree TT is a game with lovely nuances and surprising depth, there's only so much TT you can talk about before you run out of things to talk about. So naturally people will gravitate towards other issues like politics, religion, morality, origins of the universe and whatever else. I want to be clear that this is completely acceptable. It's even ok to hate bush or hate kerry and tell people you do, and if you must through in a little colorful language to drive you point home, so be it. However what is not ok, is attacking someone because they like/hate kerry or bush, everyone is entitled to their own opinion about topics or public figures, it is NOT ok to attack people personally for their opinions.

So if you want to post that "GWB is a monkey" or "Kerry is a horse head" go right ahead, but if someone else posts "you are an absolute idiot" that response will be moderated. People have a right to use the forums without being attacked personally, regardless of their beliefs. People also have a right to use the forums without having to deal with endless piles of spam or crap posting. That is what the moderators are here for.

Thanks for clarifying. I agree completely.

-Rx

Thank you Dan ! I will not let you or the rest of you down ! B)

Thanks Dan. That's always what I thought it was about. Good to see we all agree!

But what if they are an idiot? %) I kid, I kid, I kid because I love.

*Clap* *Clap* Very nicely put Dan!

Hear hear. Let's preserve this law!

Anyone who doesn't agree with Dan is an absolute idiot.

Thank you.

But, if someone makes a post that flames another person, please, don't lock the whole friggin thread. Just, edit it. :)

N1.

Stone the moderators! Death to the moderators!

I agree! Stone the moderators! Death to the moderators!
...wait...um, make that:
Hail the moderators! Large, expensive gifts to the moderators!

KBC! What would you like?

Please elaborate on the

Napalm

Wuzzat? Did someone say the moderators were stoned? Heh. Figures. ;)

I have no Problem With The New Moderators!!!!

... *Runs off to avoid argument from anti-moderators* :P

Cadc (SA) (Leader)

Cadc, you are 100% right about the new moderators, and Dan MacDonald, can I copy that text and stick it in my forum, I couldn't have put it better myself (considers getting Dan MacDonald a 300 GHz PC with 90000000 GB storage along with 5GB or ROM and RAM (thoght bubble breaks as Leeds knows he can't afford all that))

Well Thanks again
Leeds

I was looking in the old forums and though that this might be a good thing 2 bring up from the past..... I hope it was just to show what the general forums are suppose 2 be :) ( I am not saying that they arent!!! Im just bringen it up becaue I though it might be useful sometime.... %) )

Boooo hiss down with the mods with there flashy stars! You darn mods with yer stars they give me migranes they give me hedaches they give me temperary *sum chinese word* illusional anti-illusinal down syndrome!! Why cant we have cool flashy stars just becuase it makes our heads explode doesnt mean we dont want flashy stars! And wat about -z- his so called *tank* made me throw up I got so dizzy! -z- yer darn spinning tank made the room spin stop it serisouly U turns r only good in cars!!!!!!
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-and what about those poor mods that dont have stars did u ever think james bomb (whoever the bloody hell that is) mighta wanted some bombs for stars? Noo you didnt you had to go ahead and skip to whole process of lighting the bomb running like a crackhead from cops then its blowing up! Napalm you took the last stage of james' bomb stars that he never got!!!
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and wat about poor dash huh? Look at him he looks so sad in his ufo he mighta wanted lil spinning D s as stars!!
but I dont want him to have spinning stars becuz I alredy threw up from -z-'s darn pimplicous tank!
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but you know wat really grinds my gears??!?!?!?? These darn 3rd grader smileys... Com on -z- this smiley ------> :'( <----looks like he started excersising and then tripped and turned blue and is now sufficating!
this smiley ------> X/ <------- looks likes he is constipated from looking at -z-'s darn spinning tank!
this smiley -------> XD <------has brocley in its teeth
this smiley ------> ;) <------looks like he got poked in the eye!
this smiley ------> :( <------looks like he just got yelled at for going potty on mommy's dishes
!!!
and com on this smiley -----> %) <-----wellll....that smiley just isnt fun to look at..
and what about that tally ho?
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his stars have nothing to do with a horse or watever the bloody hell he is!!!!! 8(
and wat about rabban's and KBC's stars, it looks like someone wrote there name in pee on yer stars becuz they were drunk and missed trying to put out the fire on napalms stars.............
hehehehe did I win the award for longest post about absolutly nothing? lmao

Can we agree to call this guy ^ an idiot?

Its not an attack...some things just are what they are.

^ Agreed, but I think it's because you aren't "kool" enough for him

1st u gota talk lyke dis... K? Also use lots of smilys! :) XD :'( ;) :S %) :[ :P XO :( :o X/ B) 8o 8( then u must joyn a armi... K? Next step u need lots of kewl simbels in ur name! Now u must spam up da forms... Now ur rdy 2 be a kool guy!1 go out there n spam!11 8o 8o 8o 8o 8o 8o XD :[ :P XO

I dont need to be cool...i just need to understand what the hell is coming out of poeples mouths. Sometimes I am at a loss.......

Well, I'm cool and I think Parrot should get a B+ for originality. If you read his smiley rant quite quickly, it's actually very funny. He lost some steam near the end, but that happens to the best of us.

You know, I can see where hes coming from here.....

I think I might as well add this. It is my reply to a letter from a member who was bothered that he had been silenced. It should be useful for the public at large to see.

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To respond generally to your comments, point by point:
We try to promote decorum (http://www.answers.com/decorum&r=67). The general principle of this thing is that it doesn't really matter what happened in the past. Getting away with something is not an indicator of its right-ness or wrong-ness. I don't know what was going on three years ago. I'm not really sure there were moderators three years ago. It's irrelevant.
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I am not making you look bad by posting. You are not the first member to be silenced. You do not get a new icon that indicates this. There is no shame in it other than the shame you impose upon yourself. It isn't personal. I know well probably under one percent of the PTT members. Silencing you, and moderating the forum, could not be less personal.
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Your definition of spamming might differ from our working definition. Aside from protecting the community from trash, we also have to balance the members' rights to post with the speed and stability of the server. Do you notice how slow it is? Each post slows the server down, which is why I commented the way I did in my post. Did you see Nightmare's post? I suspect of the thirty-four posts you added today, most were under twenty words. Imagine if the two-thousand, three hundred and fifty nine members of PTT were to add thirty posts to the database in one day how quickly the server would go down. If it survived the barrage of posts, imagine how slowly the forum would load. Essentially, PTT.com would be die. You have to consider the effects of you actions on others.

You have e-mailed me in reply to my post. Clearly you know how to found out that information. If you need to exchange such a multitude of very short messages with your friends, e-mail them or find them on I.M.
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Another thing we can do, aside from avoiding wasteful one-liners, is to use that "Reset unread posts" button. Someone once said that one reason why PTT is so slow is that it has to process thousands of "Read/Unread" flags for each user. I have a "Mark all as read" link in my bookmark toolbar, so after each session, I click it to reset my posts. Since I know I'm a major contributor to the problem, I try to give back what I take away in bandwidth. Oh, yeah, and I've deleted about 1000+ of my old posts from old threads that PTT probably won't look at again.

Great point, DJ.

I'll try to remember to do the same.

(< is 46 and getting to be a SLGM... Sorry fuji...sigh)

:S

Last edited: Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 6:24:26 PM

Thanks, even though I didnt post that.

I have to admit that I made those posts after a 17 hour work day in which I had only had 4 hours of sleep the night previous. I was as they say "in rare form".

Normally I wouldnt even bother remarking after such a post so I apoligize if my demeanor became less than civil.