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RNG posted:Did anything ever pass the reverse gas chamber challenge? There were at least a dozen winners, sometimes I posted congrats in the thread after two days were up but it wasn't a big announcement because it's a pretty boring event. The "prize" is just... not being banned? There were almost as many entries disqualified, usually because the thread had been archived while in the gas chamber and couldn't be moved out of it. Not a single thread ever lost and no one was ever banned. The closest thing to a loss was one time someone wanted to enter with a thread I had just gassed, and he or she wanted to ungas it to QCS which only I moderated at the time, so I just said no I'm not going to let you enter because I would immediately gas it again and you would lose, so please just stay unbanned.
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Are the games moderators just seeing a large amount of posts telling other posters to kill themselves? Its a pretty horrible thing to say to someone else and I know it was growing into a meme, but it stands out to me as one of the few things that is outright probatable in the games forum.
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blackguy32 posted:Are the games moderators just seeing a large amount of posts telling other posters to kill themselves? Its a pretty horrible thing to say to someone else and I know it was growing into a meme, but it stands out to me as one of the few things that is outright probatable in the games forum. When I put it down as a rule all those posts ago it was because I was seeing it a lot. I think as a post its kind of pathetic. If you want to put someone down then at least be clever with what you say. Or funny. Recently it has been cropping up again. I'm not sure why but I think if you are getting angry about a game to the point where you feel someone should die then you've probably lost whatever argument or high ground you originally had. I know sometimes SA gets accused of being social justicey but in this case I find the potential problems it could cause to be something I disagree with.
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VideoGames posted:When I put it down as a rule all those posts ago it was because I was seeing it a lot. I think as a post its kind of pathetic. If you want to put someone down then at least be clever with what you say. Or funny. Yeah I agree. But I think the social justicey nature of Something Awful is one of the reasons why I like SA games. It sure as hell beats the SJW witch hunts of other forums if you even dare to bring up certain subjects.
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Sep 13, 2016 16:57
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Who has brought more money into the forums at this point, Matt Damon, kyoon, or IWC?
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Sep 13, 2016 22:41
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Instant Sunrise posted:Who has brought more money into the forums at this point, Matt Damon, kyoon, or IWC? Probably that SC pedo Seraph. Dude has to have dropped a few hundred easy.
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Sep 13, 2016 23:09
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speaking of kyoon, do the mods/admins know anything about kyoon that isn't common knowledge? to most goons he is a mysterious saintly figure that appears every so often and then flits away without leaving any traces, like a schizophrenic butterfly, and he may exist irl or he may just be a malfunctioning bot
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Sep 14, 2016 10:17
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Skoll posted:Probably that SC pedo Seraph. Dude has to have dropped a few hundred easy. Seraph is probably one of the few big spenders that doesn't charge poo poo back.
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FactsAreUseless posted:He's a completely insane Canadian who is convinced that FYAD are actually all a group of Canadian Tribes players he knows in person (or claims to know) who he has personal issues with. So he shows up sometimes to air a bunch of schizophrenic grievances and then gets banned. For a while he was doing some sort of chargeback scam, so it's hard to say how much he's actually spent. Tell me more about the chargeback scam. How does that work?
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Sep 14, 2016 17:08
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Shbobdb posted:Tell me more about the chargeback scam. How does that work?
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Sep 14, 2016 17:28
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Credit cards are just instructions to your bank to pay some guy some money (on the understanding that you will pay the bank yourself later). Anything you do with a credit card, you can hard-undo by instructing your bank manager to reverse the charge, because until you pay the bill it's still just a matter between the bank and some guy. You generally don't want to do this. It will tank your credit rating and there are almost always better avenues to refund purchases that you want refunded. However, the option is there for when you need it (when a retailer is being a huge dick). Retailers are penalised when banks process chargebacks on them because it means more work for the bank and usually only happens when a customer is so dissatisfied with you that they are willing to take a credit hit to get their money back. Unfortunately, this does mean that a sufficiently unhinged individual can, if they are so inclined, repeatedly purchase a thing with a credit card and then reverse all of the charges. I'm pretty sure it's illegal (fraud, surely) and certainly will raise the ire of the bank and I think (hope) is reversible in the end but until all that bureaucracy works out you can cause a lot of trouble.
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Do you take less of a hit doing it on an AMEX or Discover and that's why those aren't accepted as widely as visa and master card?
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Sep 14, 2016 20:29
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Ask / Tell › Ask us about SA forums moderation : How Can I Cheat The System?
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Holyshoot posted:Do you take less of a hit doing it on an AMEX or Discover and that's why those aren't accepted as widely as visa and master card? Credit cards actually charge retailers a fee for use. That's why some small stores have a purchase minimum before the accept credit cards. Amex and discover charge more than others, and are less accepted as a consequence.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Lowtax got an angry email from Google about inappropriate content in the Imp Zone Doom thread because someone posted a sprite of a sexy Cacodemon or something if anyone was curious, the email is here, and a possible explanation is partway down the page at the time, A CRUNK BIRD had a version of this avatar  with a pair of  on it, one in each t-rex hand
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Sep 16, 2016 22:12
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I've tried to make every post be at least 1/3 a joke and haven't gotten lepered so far. Is this a good posting philosophy?
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Sep 17, 2016 07:23
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A single 6-hour prob is a kinda nice forums memory. Get a harmless one, it won't negatively affect you reputation in the eyes of the mods. Just don't do it in serious discussion forums.
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Sep 17, 2016 23:57
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You'd think I would know the answer to this already but how are moderators selected? I mean I know you just get messaged by a mod/admin offering it, but how does that process get initiated?
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Pathos posted:You'd think I would know the answer to this already but how are moderators selected? I mean I know you just get messaged by a mod/admin offering it, but how does that process get initiated? I've heard that sometimes they don't even ask a person; they just have mod buttons all of a sudden.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:19
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prefect posted:I've heard that sometimes they don't even ask a person; they just have mod buttons all of a sudden. That's just wonderful
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Sep 18, 2016 00:21
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prefect posted:I've heard that sometimes they don't even ask a person; they just have mod buttons all of a sudden. Mods generally talk to the other mods of their forum, then ask a relevant admin for the go-ahead. Sometimes admins make the choice, but it's often mods selecting a co-mod or replacement.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:32
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FactsAreUseless posted:This used to happen, not anymore. Can I mod the Star Citizen subforum? I think everyone who regularly posts in it has a very real and actual mental issue.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:42
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Skoll posted:Can I mod the Star Citizen subforum? I think everyone who regularly posts in it has a very real and actual mental issue. Can confirm.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:43
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Skoll posted:Can I mod the Star Citizen subforum? I think everyone who regularly posts in it has a very real and actual mental issue. Normally, with just about any thread, I'd say this is a terrible idea. But the Star Citizen thread would actually probably improve if Skoll was mod.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:50
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Skoll posted:Can I mod the Star Citizen subforum? I think everyone who regularly posts in it has a very real and actual mental issue.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:58
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bossfight posted:Normally, with just about any thread, I'd say this is a terrible idea. But the Star Citizen thread would actually probably improve if Skoll was mod. Jokes aside I agree
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Sep 18, 2016 01:02
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Incoherence posted:I realize this is a joke, but in general the easiest way to disqualify yourself as a moderator is to ask if you can be a moderator. This seems like a really intelligent rule, generally.
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Sep 18, 2016 01:05
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Pathos posted:This seems like a really intelligent rule, generally. The Cincinnatus principle is surprisingly good for any kind of position that has power attached to it.
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Sep 18, 2016 01:31
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Skoll posted:Can I mod the Star Citizen subforum? I think everyone who regularly posts in it has a very real and actual mental issue.
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Incoherence posted:I realize this is a joke, but in general the easiest way to disqualify yourself as a moderator is to ask if you can be a moderator. It's not a joke. Ban this filth for denigrating Our Warlords mission before Legal Gets Involved.
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It's a half joke. The autism on display in that subforum is creepy and kind of disgusting. Not that I disagree with Star Citizen being a scam, but you guys are just as overly obsessed as the people you poo poo on.
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I think the SC forum has been a success. I closed the thread in Games because I thought it was terrible, but the SC forum (Lowtax's idea) has basically managed itself. It does not cause any issues for the rest of the forums. It's totally self-contained. Sure, it's dumb, but it's dumb in a way that's a lot less damaging to the forums than other mock threads etc. have been in the past.
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Sep 18, 2016 13:37
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Whatever happened to all the catch phrase and typing improperly probations
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Sep 18, 2016 15:30
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all your catchphrase probations are belong to us
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Sep 18, 2016 15:51
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Avshalom posted:who is the hairest mod me, its me
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AdorableStar posted:Whatever happened to all the catch phrase and typing improperly probations
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Pathos posted:This seems like a really intelligent rule, generally. And yet Windows 98 was asked to be a mod by Ambien.
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Totally TWISTED posted:And yet Windows 98 was asked to be a mod by Ambien. you see with him he begged so often that it rolled the dial all the way round back to 0
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Totally TWISTED posted:And yet Windows 98 was asked to be a mod by Ambien.
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