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Politics, Cavscout, and Jackalope.

Started by RPGPundit, January 21, 2009, 10:33:47 AM

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CavScout

#165
January 27, 2009, 02:55:38 PM
Man, look at this... some thread crapping and folks turning a thread into something about them and their own little petty pissing matches. Perhaps some forum bannings are in order. :D
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Engine

#166
January 27, 2009, 02:57:38 PM
I'm done talking about me, by the way. If anyone else would like to continue to whine about how a community that lasted a decade and produced over half a million posts is a "failure," please, feel free to do so; no one involved in it thought so, so I don't much mind. :teehee: I'm pretty confident in its history, and I don't mind letting it stand without me to defend it.
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CavScout

#167
January 27, 2009, 02:57:45 PM
Quote from: Seanchai;280837No, it doesn't seem to. If the RPGSite is about RPGs, then I should be here for the RPG discussion. If I'm offended about political discussions, well, so what? I'm here for the RPGs. Now if the RPG discussion was offensive, that's another matter because that's my primary purpose in coming here...

It's always been a mystery why some boycotted the RPG forums because they didn't like the talk there. Even more mysterious was some of those doing this were the ones accusing folks of only being here for the politics... :eek:
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#168
January 27, 2009, 03:01:45 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;280722Ohhh-kay. So you are screaming at the top of your lungs that they were banned for what they said, but you don't actually know what they were banned for saying...

Why would I have to know the details of what they said, particularly if a) it is as you say and they're banned based on behavior, b) I'm arguing generalities, and c) I'm arguing about your behavior, not theirs?  

Quote from: RPGPundit;280722..."turning every thread, including utterly unrelated ones, into a soapbox of their personal issues about 4e", which no one is doing right now)....

Have you looked in a mirror?

Quote from: RPGPundit;280722..does not mean that they were banned because of their political speech.

Except you just said that if they'd been talking about RPGs, they wouldn't have been banned ("I'm much more cautious about taking action when people are expressing behaviour related to talk about RPGs. On the other hand, I have already expressed that I'll be much less tolerant when it comes to politics and other off-topic subjects, which are NOT the focus of this site.").

Quote from: RPGPundit;280722The fact that you can't actually explain what speech they were supposedly banned for pretty much means your line of pathetic argument has gone down in flames.

But I have: the speech they were banned for was political in nature.

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#169
January 27, 2009, 03:04:00 PM Last Edit: January 27, 2009, 03:08:48 PM by gleichman
Quote from: Engine;280840I'm done talking about me, by the way. If anyone else would like to continue to whine about how a community that lasted a decade and produced over half a million posts is a "failure," please, feel free to do so.

But I was calling it a success.

And I was begging you to do it again. Leave. Do. Now.
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Seanchai

#170
January 27, 2009, 03:07:19 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;280725The only way you could claim that is if you suggest "I was banned for talking about politics", as in PERIOD, that it wasn't any particular politics, just talking about politics itself got you banned; and this is demonstrably false given that we have lots of people talking about politics who have not gotten banned.

And we have lots of other folks engaging in the behavior you said was at the root of the banning but aren't banned themselves. For example, you.

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Seanchai

#171
January 27, 2009, 03:08:02 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;280727Pardon me? When do we "shut down" RPG discussion?  We have, on one or two occasions, shut down a thread when it has de-evolved into nothing more than a pissing match (usually after a dozen or more pages);

So...you asked Serious Paul, then answered your own question?

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Engine

#172
January 27, 2009, 03:10:31 PM
Quote from: gleichman;280844Leave.
Not while there's a single chance I might cause you to feel a even moment's displeasure, Brian. Your unhappiness is like nectar to me; I'm your personal Horror, drinking in the sustenance provided by your irritation. Oh, so sweet, so sweet, like a baby's tears...
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HinterWelt

#173
January 27, 2009, 03:14:12 PM
Quote from: Engine;280848Not while there's a single chance I might cause you to feel a even moment's displeasure, Brian. Your unhappiness is like nectar to me; I'm your personal Horror, drinking in the sustenance provided by your irritation. Oh, so sweet, so sweet, like a baby's tears...

Nice but you really need more homo-erotic references. ;)
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#174
January 27, 2009, 03:17:30 PM
Quote from: CavScout;280724I mean if it was the "behavior" of engaging Jackie occasionally, I am not sure why others who certainly took delight in it, say Spike or Bill, didn't share the same fate.

The difference is that when I do it, its funny.
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#175
January 27, 2009, 03:18:39 PM
Quote from: Engine;280848Not while there's a single chance I might cause you to feel a even moment's displeasure, Brian.

You don't displease me at all Engine. In fact, you're living proof of much that I believe in. The natural failure of mankind, etc. You're important, for the very things you represent.

I do pity you. But in the end, it was your choice. Not mine.
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Engine

#176
January 27, 2009, 03:28:03 PM
Quote from: HinterWelt;280850Nice but you really need more homo-erotic references. ;)
Damn it! I knew I forgot something. I probably should have called him a turdburglar - pardon me, a "TURDBURGLAR" - too, in the spirit of the thread. I am an icon for the failure of all mankind! :D
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CavScout

#177
January 27, 2009, 03:28:16 PM
Quote from: Spike;280852The difference is that when I do it, its funny.

Perhaps, as I do chuckle at some of your stuff, but in the end, the behavior is the same, what we are saying is the only real difference.
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Pseudoephedrine

#178
January 27, 2009, 03:33:35 PM
Quote from: CavScout;280839Man, look at this... some thread crapping and folks turning a thread into something about them and their own little petty pissing matches. Perhaps some forum bannings are in order. :D

To be fair, gleichman was our interstitial troll between Nox's days and the appearance of you and He-Who-Smites-Turdburglars. Now that you've tamped down a bit, gleichman, who could not pass the Turing test if he tried, is back for attention.
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gleichman

#179
January 27, 2009, 03:39:49 PM
Quote from: Pseudoephedrine;280861To be fair, gleichman was our interstitial troll between Nox's days and the appearance of you and He-Who-Smites-Turdburglars. Now that you've tamped down a bit, gleichman, who could not pass the Turing test if he tried, is back for attention.

This from a guy who tried to steal credit from another man. I suppose lying and self-inflating importance passes the Turing test however.
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