Quote from: AnemoneI too first heard of it and signed on when JimBob got banned without justifiable cause from RPGNet.

He did?

Seanchai

Yes, I was banned from rpg.net; though because it was under rule 10 of the rules & guidelines - "Rule 10: Respect our decisions. The moderation team reserves the right to warn, suspend, or permanently ban users judged to be acting against the spirit of the rules, even users conforming to the letter." - whether it was justifiable is of course debatable. It's discussed in a lengthy thread here, and that thread references a couple of rpg.net threads. I'd considered it a personal favour if you did not necro that discussion; overall I'd rather focus on posting interesting, fun and useful stuff where I'm not banned, than bitching about where I've been banned from (only rpg.net). If you've any queries, please direct them to me in PM or preferably email.

Oh...and JimBob pointed me toward the Big Purple& Pink . Thats how I wound up on there last August.

- E.W.C.

It seems like a nice place.  In that back-alley, old-west saloon kinda way...and I mean that as a compliment.

I still go to RPG.net, and have never actually had any real problems with anyone there, but I saw mention of this place pop up a few times, notably as a link in one poster's sig, so I thought I'd pop in.  I'll stick around, see if I can't contribute something useful or interesting.

If not, I'll just lurk and read everyone else's comments...=)

Quote from: JimBobOzAnd by the same token, you shouldn't ditch a forum just because someone you like gets banned from it, regardless of whether or not it had cause.

But I guess if the moderators put you off the place, the moderators put you off the place, what can you do. You can post quite happily for quite some time ignoring them, but eventually you'll get banned - tends to happen when you ignore the mods

Oh, I didn't.  I still post there, just a lot less because I don't feel very engaged by it these days.  It's still a good place to post actual play threads and ask general questions.

Quote from: flyingmiceI'm afraid to post on rpgnet after receiving a warning for deleting my own post.

Wait...  what?  You're kidding, right?

...right?

Quote from: RedFoxWait...  what?  You're kidding, right?

...right?

Dude, it's RPGnet. When there's no limit to what the moderators can address or how they address them, there's no limit to what they'll do...

Seanchai

Quote from: RedFoxWait...  what?  You're kidding, right?

...right?

Nope. Straight truth, Red! Now I just avoid posting unless it's in reply to a post about one of my games. I have no idea if something I say may in all innocense get me yanked, and I need to be there to answer those questions when they - infrequently* - pop up.

* RPGNet is a hotbed of Flying Mice apathy, after all

-clash

Quote from: flyingmiceNope. Straight truth, Red! Now I just avoid posting unless it's in reply to a post about one of my games. I have no idea if something I say may in all innocense get me yanked, and I need to be there to answer those questions when they - infrequently* - pop up.

* RPGNet is a hotbed of Flying Mice apathy, after all

-clash

I must say, my posting there is down quite a bit for just the same concerns. The need to be able to post press releases and such is just too important to risk on using a word some group finds offensive. Like calling Amish technologically challenged. :rolleyes:

Bill

Would they be considered "challenged" if they're consciously avoiding technology?

You know, not to derail the thread or anything...

Quote from: HinterWeltI must say, my posting there is down quite a bit for just the same concerns. The need to be able to post press releases and such is just too important to risk on using a word some group finds offensive. Like calling Amish technologically challenged. :rolleyes:

Bill

Exactly, Bill!

-clash

The GNS/Forge movement had me suspicious, I'm not sure why. Stumbling over Pundit's blog I began to understand. There he mentioned this site and his board philosophy. Then I noticed the content to noise ratio was to my liking. I also tend to the snark in a knee jerk sort of way, I always would worry so much at the purple site that I'd refrain from posting.

Here it's as things should be. You can speak your mind and you'll get called on the carpet by your fellow posters if its out of line, not policed according to the rule du jour.

I found the big purple increasingly tightly moderated to the point it was vaguely unpleasant. I never ran afoul of them myself - having received a single admonition in my time there - but I often found they shut down opinions based on popularity rather than merit and banned a poster immediately after a post I felt 'needed to be said'. I'd found the Pundit's blog a breath of fresh air from having someone suggest Sorceror or Exalted for every fucking issue with gaming, and felt I'd enjoy a forum he owned. I've gone back and forth in my agreement with his goals (winning the 'War', for instance), but I find the conversation here to be a mark above the Big Purple, even if it's less useful for the mass trawl-farming of other people's ideas.

And If it's any consolation, gents, your presence here has me putting my eye on the Hinterwelt and Flying Mice websites. Since I quite like the size of my tax refund this year, I'm just waiting on a Paypal transfer to finish so I can load up on small press goodness. I've been needing a new sci-fi game or two anyway.

EDIT: And let me just say, "Transhuman Theonarcissism" sold me like nothing else.

I came here largely because the Tool and Nine Inch Nails fans here are locked squarely in the closet, where they belong.

(Note to the above population: It hasn't been 1994 for thirteen years.  The norms are squarely unfreaked.  You can put your black T-shirts away.)

The other big thing is I just tend to like smaller fora for their lack of injokes and recursive bullshit that larger, more established fora accumulate like so many zebra mussels.  That makes them easier to handle, easier to assimilate into.

I chose RPGsite because I feel the gaming opinions here are generally more genuine than on RPG.net, where a lot of people pretend to like games they have never played.

You get the same range of opinions, ranging from the correct ones to the utterly fucked up. But they are more tangible. And when they are not, you can call people on their bullshit.

I also prefer the moderation here at this point.

Finally, the lower traffic is a real plus. If the gaming sections could be reworked a little (so we get an authentic game design forum, for instance) it would be almost perfect.