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« on: March 08, 2007, 09:15:05 AM »
For the record, fuck that shit.  This isn't RPG.net where the "mods" are special elite people with authority mere mortals are not permitted to imitate.

The whole basis of what can make this place work is community reinforcement. Now, if someone starts tossing around orders, when they aren't actually an Admin, they're probably putting on airs and you can tell them to fuck off.  But I don't accept the "you're not a mod" response to someone who's just pointing out shit you're doing that's less than ideal.

This place will work because people can call each other on their shitty behaviour, knowing that its not because they have the authority of a "mod" that they can do so, but just because they're part of the site.

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« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2007, 09:15:55 AM »
We are all mods.
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« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2007, 10:18:51 AM »
Okay , but I'm not getting one of those scooters just to be a "mod".

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« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2007, 10:44:44 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2007, 11:34:56 AM »
If we're all mods and we all call each other, doesn't that mean we can all play the RPGnet-style "I'm just an overworked volunteer" martyr card when challenged?

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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2007, 11:54:55 AM »
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If we're all mods and we all call each other, doesn't that mean we can all play the RPGnet-style "I'm just an overworked volunteer" martyr card when challenged?

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Fuck man, I'm just trying to have a good time talking about dice and the finer points of orc-slaughter when you have to step in and mess things up, by posting.

I paraphrase Tom Petty:

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Just how much I mod for thee

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« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2007, 12:21:20 PM »
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Fuck man, I'm just trying to have a good time talking about dice and the finer points of orc-slaughter when you have to step in and mess things up, by posting.

I paraphrase Tom Petty:

Let me ban you tonight
I'll take put on a ignore file
It's torture that you folks don't see
Just how much I mod for thee

But let me get to the whole, I'll ban another troll
And turn the snark up loud, I'm too alone to be proud
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You don't know how it feels to be me!


I'm sorry, but poetry is against the rules. As a mod, I made this ruling up on a whim, don't have to inform anyone about it before I enforce it, and will now threaten you with the mod hammer if you don't immediately acquiesce to my infantile power trip fantasies.

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« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2007, 12:54:29 PM »
You are all cocksmocks.  I'm banning every single one of you fucktards.  Consider this topic locked.  Any attempts to start a new thread will be dealt with.

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« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2007, 12:55:08 PM »
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I'm sorry, but poetry is against the rules. As a mod, I made this ruling up on a whim, don't have to inform anyone about it before I enforce it, and will now threaten you with the mod hammer if you don't immediately acquiesce to my infantile power trip fantasies.


That's a group attack on Poets, and as such consider this a warning.

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« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2007, 12:58:18 PM »
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You are all cocksmocks.  I'm banning every single one of you fucktards.  Consider this topic locked.  Any attempts to start a new thread will be dealt with.



 Who let Curt in ?




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« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2007, 01:08:43 PM »
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Who let Curt in ?




(ITs a joke - alright?)



 I meant the above as a joke - then I go over to the big Purple & Pink - and see that he just got suspended.
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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2007, 01:22:36 PM »
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I meant the above as a joke - then I go over to the big Purple & Pink - and see that he just got suspended.


That's alright, he'll be back as a mod again soon enough and that'll force him back into more moderate language again. Although, it's a tad dubious that the actual attack has been edited from existence. Probably to stop it being used against him in the future, which i can understand. But hey, if you're going to be the police, you should police yourself so that editing previous remarks shouldn't be necessary.

Edit: Erm...he's logged on over there right now.

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« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2007, 01:28:55 PM »
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That's a group attack on Poets, and as such consider this a warning.

My mod voice is Plum.


Damn!

But I thought the group attack rule only applied if you were originally part of a group that is between six and twelve million members that you once self-identified with but now realize that you consciously had no choice to be a member of. Oh, and isn't a frat or the Republicans.

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« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2007, 02:25:33 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2007, 03:33:58 PM »
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I meant the above as a joke - then I go over to the big Purple & Pink - and see that he just got suspended.

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