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Paladinus posted:That is legitimately fun. Are mod challenges still a thing at all? I've seen some in E/N, I guess, where users had to prove they actually listened to good advice, but nothing actually funny.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Rarely. People forget the number of mod challenges that went badly. Also, the purpose of a mod challenge was always to give a bad poster a chance to redeem themselves in some funny way, and these days, most of the really bad posters are re-reg idiots obsessed with negative attention. Mod challenges were generally on people who didn't lurk before posting and showed up and did something clueless and stupid. We just don't have those kinds of new registration numbers anymore. You say that, yet there is a mod challenge going on right now in the Star Citizen thread? What did you try to hide, 'FactsAreUseless'? If that's even your real name! But seriously, here's a link if anyone's interested: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3748466&pagenumber=6575&perpage=40#post466836761
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Paladinus posted:That is legitimately fun. Are mod challenges still a thing at all? I've seen some in E/N, I guess, where users had to prove they actually listened to good advice, but nothing actually funny. they still pop up. there's an ongoing one in the Star Citizen forum. the reason for that mod challenge seems dumb to me, but i admittedly might not grasp the full picture because the thread with the challenge is +6000 pages long. iirc, one of the mod challenges that soured the concept ages ago was an inappropriate request for a goonette to pose in some way. nothing else was on the level of that, though, i think.
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theres a will theres moe posted:I was a member for years before I would post anywhere other than BYOB because it was pretty much impossible to get probated or banned there. I remember once early-on I tried venturing into GWS and got made fun of for like half a page in the general questions thread for not knowing that you shouldn't keep garlic in the fridge. Honestly, I really enjoyed this aspect of SA. At a time when forums everywhere were complete poo poo and often nigh-unreadable, it really made SA stand out and improved thread quality. I guess the internet has matured overall so even looser writing styles are still within the realm of readability nowadays but it was a big difference back then
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Grandmother of Five posted:they still pop up. there's an ongoing one in the Star Citizen forum. the reason for that mod challenge seems dumb to me, but i admittedly might not grasp the full picture because the thread with the challenge is +6000 pages long. yeah that one's already been covered in the thread before, it was axemaniac who basically issued a "tits or ban" mod challenge, and stuck to it even when he found the challenge recipient was underage
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Nov 29, 2016 14:03
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I Said No posted:yeah that one's already been covered in the thread before, it was axemaniac who basically issued a "tits or ban" mod challenge, and stuck to it even when he found the challenge recipient was underage wow. that's worse than i half-remembered. did something come of it? i mean, i'd be surprised if trying to get someone under-age to do that wouldn't qualify as intent for attempting an actual crime.
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Grandmother of Five posted:they still pop up. there's an ongoing one in the Star Citizen forum. the reason for that mod challenge seems dumb to me, but i admittedly might not grasp the full picture because the thread with the challenge is +6000 pages long. Nah it's a pretty dumb challenge and the mod probably should have waited until he'd been mod for more than a week before issuing a challenge
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Its insane to me that Derek Smart P.Hd is now apparently (or was) a mod, its like the universe is going full circle from way back when he wanted to sue SA for anything and everything.
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Biplane posted:Its insane to me that Derek Smart P.Hd is now apparently (or was) a mod, its like the universe is going full circle from way back when he wanted to sue SA for anything and everything. Now that he's been demodded and banned I guess there's a possibility that could come around full circle again!
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Nov 29, 2016 19:00
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Aesop Poprock posted:Now that he's been demodded and banned I guess there's a possibility that could come around full circle again! My god
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Grandmother of Five posted:wow. that's worse than i half-remembered. did something come of it? i mean, i'd be surprised if trying to get someone under-age to do that wouldn't qualify as intent for attempting an actual crime. It seems like more of an Aatrek thing.
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I don't think Aatrek ever issued any challenges, he was mostly just turbo ban-happy on anyone who didn't like what he liked or vice versa.
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I Said No posted:yeah that one's already been covered in the thread before, it was axemaniac who basically issued a "tits or ban" mod challenge, and stuck to it even when he found the challenge recipient was underage I thought this was Abe.
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YeahTubaMike posted:I thought this was Abe.
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Nov 30, 2016 00:21
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Duke Nukem Forever was pretty funny because autists were like, DONT BET AGAINST DUKE and it loving sucked.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Nope, this was in Games. Abe never had any challenges go massively wrong, but some people got mad about his fruit hat. Yeah, Abe had the best mod challenges really to my recollection. Too bad he had to have his own meltdown, I liked him as a mod. 
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I Said No posted:I don't think Aatrek ever issued any challenges, I can think of one case.
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bunky posted:I can think of one case. Not telling your parents things isn't much of a challenge, I do it all the time.
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bunky posted:I can think of one case. No no, it was issued TO him. You're thinking of a subpoena.
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Glenn Quebec posted:Duke Nukem Forever was pretty funny because autists were like, DONT BET AGAINST DUKE and it loving sucked. At least we got these bitchin' gang tags. The whole thing was pretty funny. Axemaniac made it a "bannable" offense to joke about Duke Nukem's vaporware status by posting poo poo like "more like Duke Nukem taking forever", and in his defence, the jokes were getting old. I think the "forever banned" users just got a custom title, not a real ban. When it started to dawn on people the game was actually happening there was a divide between the posters who realized it would be poo poo and the ones who believed there was a possibility it might not be. Axemaniac even dished out "Duke's Bros" tags for the believers. Then, when the game turned out to be a pile of poo poo that defied every known scale of shittyness the tags were changed to read "Serious Sam's Club".
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Also the DNF thread was so awful that it was wiped clean from the forums, it doesn't exist in the archives. Which is too bad actually.
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Nov 30, 2016 09:18
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Palpek posted:Also the DNF thread was so awful that it was wiped clean from the forums, it doesn't exist in the archives. Which is too bad actually. I know! Which now makes me want to see it even more. Although I guess it's fitting that a game would cause enough hurt feelings to result in the thread getting deleted and not other poo poo I've seen in S.A.
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Nov 30, 2016 09:42
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isn't that the one where axemaniac repeatedly harass microwave about his hot mom because microwave said critical things about the video game
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Nov 30, 2016 10:07
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Didn't Abe get owned by a kid he tried to dogpile on twitter.
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poptart_fairy posted:Didn't Abe get owned by a kid he tried to dogpile on twitter.
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Samovar posted:I know! Which now makes me want to see it even more.
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Palpek posted:It's possible to find parts of it with Wayback machine and good god is it something. I remember the thread. It was the purest form of goon. Well, thats not true. Gleep Gloop was. Or Aatrek. Or the goon who buckshot his neighbors with HEVI-LOAD ammo, courtesy of TFR.
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poptart_fairy posted:Didn't Abe get owned by a kid he tried to dogpile on twitter. Oh THAT Abe. What an rear end
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Glenn Quebec posted:Or the goon who buckshot his neighbors with HEVI-LOAD ammo, courtesy of TFR. Wait, what?
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SciFiDownBeat posted:Oh THAT Abe. What an rear end Yeah, ha. Abe's legacy will be that he got trounced by a kid. Ralp at least found enough in his pants to kill Hellthread before disappearing.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:isn't that the one where axemaniac repeatedly harass microwave about his hot mom because microwave said critical things about the video game Can't blame a man for trying to find out more about microwave's mom
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Robot Danger posted:Wait, what? Puckins aren't going to protect themselves. http://articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/06/local/me-cyberlife6/2 http://murderpedia.org/male.F/f/freund-william.htm https://www.somethingawful.com/great-goon-database/great-goon-best/4/ Also, Bomber166 MisterOblivious has a new favorite as of 01:08 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:isn't that the one where axemaniac repeatedly harass microwave about his hot mom because microwave said critical things about the video game i remember at least one thread where a mod repeatedly quoted microwave and the only thing they'd put after the quoted post was that picture. or they would say like "hmm, interesting point. on the other hand, [picture of your mom]". i don't remember the thread specifically where it happened. that whole thing became less funny to me as time went on, and it seemed like goons stalked him just to spam that drat picture anywhere he tried to post. like, i think one time someone made a photoshop of duke nukem standing behind his mom, with duke's arms coming around to grab her chest 
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FactsAreUseless posted:Nope, this was in Games. Abe never had any challenges go massively wrong, but some people got mad about his fruit hat. ...it could be argued that Goon Love Is The Best Love went horribly wrong on so many levels but it brought Two Worlds' saga to kind of a hilarious end so it's worth it.
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Quidam Viator posted:SA was a total loving sausagefest until we literally invaded SAAN, a girls' forum, and that was like some loving low-budget Rape of the Sabine women. All of a sudden, there were GIRLS on SA. And there was Artfag and Some Girl, and all these other girls that SA goons were slavishly slobbering over. Artfag predates SAAN invasion.
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I remember there was an okcupid thread that was 99% people reviewing each others profiles and giving advice on improving them, but something so awful apparently happened that it was removed without trace and nobody ever talked about it.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I remember there was an okcupid thread that was 99% people reviewing each others profiles and giving advice on improving them, but something so awful apparently happened that it was removed without trace and nobody ever talked about it. That was the online dating thread version 5, deleted in 2012. They did talk about it, mods would never say what happened (which is fine, some poo poo we don't need or want to know), and online dating threads were banned & gassed immediately for years until new e/n mods happened. I missed that thread when it was deleted but there were creeps all over. edit: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3440842&userid=45450 Scudworth has a new favorite as of 03:43 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Scudworth posted:That was the online dating thread version 5, deleted in 2012. They did talk about it, mods would never say what happened (which is fine, some poo poo we don't need or want to know), and online dating threads were banned & gassed immediately for years until new e/n mods happened. I missed that thread when it was deleted but there were creeps all over. The rumor is that a rape happened, but without the thread who knows for sure
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