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Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Seth Pecksniff posted:

Finally, I'm not blanket shutting down any "crew" accusations. People are free to post/what they believe in, even if I don't believe it.

It's true, constantly accusing people of being in disruptive "crews" or perhaps even being Russian ops is completely healthy to a forum and will in no way have any negative consequences in the futures.

*Touches earpiece*

Ooohhhh....

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Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:

Can someone tally how many posts this user makes about gbs versus how much they actually post in gbs

It seems a little problematic if im being honest. I dont think they have our best interests at heart.

I bet this coward doesnt even smokes crack

16-BBH used his IK powers to chain probe a dude obsessed with dog death and creep-posting about strip clubs until the dude autobanned, so he might actually have some good feedback on improving the forums, even if you think he's a shithead.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

i think the threadbans are a bad idea both because thread bans traditionally dont work outside the politics forums and because its just going to bringing negative attention down onto the thread and gbs causing even more trolling the probes coming days later even if it was because of an admin needing to approve them is also not a good look .

Threadbans for one dude who made two posts in the thread and one who made three seems... Uh.. Not good?

You wanna punish people trolling, go for it, but seriously? "Every post you make in this thread from now on will cost you $10" seems way overboard and more like trying to continue the forum wars bullshit that keeps dragging this place down.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Charles Bukowski posted:

I paid my ten dollars for moderated forums and by gum that's what I've received over the years, for better or worse. If someone is a consistent stick in the spokes of a specific thread, telling them to go find something else to do away from this one in particular isn't unreasonable, is it?

OK, so is two posts the Official GBS Threshold for Threadbans, or three?

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

KazigluBey posted:

Telling people to knock it off and tolling them if they don't ONLY ever makes them post more. Moderation has never worked, not once.

Guess we shouldn't moderate anything, ever.

Not what I said at all, but sure, go off.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Drone_Fragger posted:

Yeah, please give your input.

GBS posters didn't break into their houses and force them at knifepoint to type out several discrete troll posts in the feedback thread, after being told not to by the mods. You're acting like posters have no agency, that this is somehow everyone elses fault for the posters poor decisions. Why you think mods punishing poo poo behaviour is "forums warfare" is incredibly bizarre too.

Deciding to punish perceived "regulars" and perceived "outsiders" differently is exactly forums warfare, yes.

We're all loving goons. We all paid our :10bux: not to only post in TFF or YOSPOS or YLLS exclusively, we paid to post everywhere and that should be encouraged. Joke-rear end posts from someone that you've decided is an drat outsider and therefore a troll should absolutely not be treated differently than joke-rear end posts from someone you view as a regular and is just and adorable scamp.

If Seth wants to hit threadshitters hard, that's fine, but make it the same for everyone.

We're all loving goons here. Christ.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

KazigluBey posted:

Who did Seth fail to prob for threadshitting the feedback thread? Is the proposed lore that only the perceived "outsiders" were probed and the "regulars" not?

Or is the comparison between the probs here and the lack of probs in other threads? Because if so then lol.

Punishing "outsiders" more harshly than "regulars" is literally in the rules in the OP

Is an non-regular posting :gas: that much more egregious than a regular posting "Make me a mod, why not done?" a lot? They're both threadshitting in their own ways.

EDIT: Is this

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Yeah man. Like your normal posts in the chat thread are fine but your smug trolling gimmick loving sucks. Like I know you don’t give a poo poo about the “direction of GBS” but you just love tugging your tiny lonely dick to causing unnecessary drama because you’re a sad piece of poo poo with nothing better to do.

Better or worse than two posts saying "AIDS"?

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

KazigluBey posted:

It's better.

"Is a post rudely but substantively telling a shitposter to gently caress off better than single-word shitposts?" is a weird track to try.

In a thread meant for feedback for a forum, how are they different?

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Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Slugworth posted:

General poo poo posting is frowned on, but apparently tolerated to a point. Trolling isn't. The differentiation seems pretty cut and dry, but is there a specific post you want to litigate?

I mean I thought I made my point pretty clear

Cthulu Carl posted:

You wanna punish people trolling, go for it, but seriously? "Every post you make in this thread from now on will cost you $10" seems way overboard and more like trying to continue the forum wars bullshit that keeps dragging this place down.

Cthulu Carl posted:

If Seth wants to hit threadshitters hard, that's fine, but make it the same for everyone.

Cthulu Carl posted:

Punishing "outsiders" more harshly than "regulars" is literally in the rules in the OP

Is an non-regular posting :gas: that much more egregious than a regular posting "Make me a mod, why not done?" a lot? They're both threadshitting in their own ways.

I don't really see any of that as controversial

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