Quote from: Marleycat;946941In your refrigerator I'd imagine, unless you get off your old and fat ass to walk over to it and get it yourself? I just assume you're fat, but I know you're old and irrelevant to my gaming experience and opinions. I figure you have to be at legal retirement age and still playing a game created 40+ years ago and believing it's scripture like The Bible?

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;946951Drink soup made from the brown crusty patches in my underpants, asshole.

Weaksauace RPG.Net bitch. You bore me old man, I suggest you modernize, and up your game you Tangency fuck. At least I still go under the same name at both sites and never grovel at either of them Old Geezer or ripoff Conan name? Take your choice because I will disrespect any choice you pick. Unless you up your game pee hole boy.

I'm somewhat amused at how desperate everyone is to clear themselves of my unfounded accusations of civility...

Quote from: san dee jota;946893I'm honestly thinking it's like the difference between attending a formal event and jumping in a mosh pit.

I dunno. I mean, the mosh pit part might be accurate, that remains to be seen. But rpg.net, a formal event? No - a formal event requires decorum and civility from everyone attending it. The kind of freakouts that are explicitly protected (I would go so far as to say, encouraged) at rpg.net wouldn't fly at a fancy dinner. It'd be like, "I say, Humphrey, compose yourself! This kind of behaviour is most unbecoming of a gentleman!"

Quote from: Marleycat;946942Interesting take. It isn't polite or friendly, it's the Old West. If you have a gun and can use it you're fine.

Funnily enough, I've been thinking about rpg.net as the Old West - but when I think about the Old West, I don't think about rugged gunslingers settling their differences one on one, I think about posses and lynch mobs forming at the drop of a hat, and about brimstone preachers and corrupt sheriffs whipping the townsfolk into a frenzy against anyone who doesn't fit in. Frontier justice. Mob rule. The best way to avoid being strung up is to be the one who's first to call for someone else to be strung up.

... yeah, I apparently have a lot of bitterness on the subject.

Quote from: Marleycat;946942It's all about "you like it? So tell me why... and don't be mad if I hate it.... or you didn't explain it clearly".

That I can live with. I tend to pretty much assume that everyone hates whatever I like - or at least that they think I like it for all the wrong reasons. I'm always surprised when someone agrees with me, it just feels unnatural somehow.

Quote from: Baeraad;946957I'm somewhat amused at how desperate everyone is to clear themselves of my unfounded accusations of civility...



I dunno. I mean, the mosh pit part might be accurate, that remains to be seen. But rpg.net, a formal event? No - a formal event requires decorum and civility from everyone attending it. The kind of freakouts that are explicitly protected (I would go so far as to say, encouraged) at rpg.net wouldn't fly at a fancy dinner. It'd be like, "I say, Humphrey, compose yourself! This kind of behaviour is most unbecoming of a gentleman!"



Funnily enough, I've been thinking about rpg.net as the Old West - but when I think about the Old West, I don't think about rugged gunslingers settling their differences one on one, I think about posses and lynch mobs forming at the drop of a hat, and about brimstone preachers and corrupt sheriffs whipping the townsfolk into a frenzy against anyone who doesn't fit in. Frontier justice. Mob rule. The best way to avoid being strung up is to be the one who's first to call for someone else to be strung up.

... yeah, I apparently have a lot of bitterness on the subject.



That I can live with. I tend to pretty much assume that everyone hates whatever I like - or at least that they think I like it for all the wrong reasons. I'm always surprised when someone agrees with me, it just feels unnatural somehow.

Welcome to the Old West(TheRPGSiite). This site is more about one on one, not mob rule like TBP. We all hate everything that isn't our preference. Just be real Honey.

Quote from: Baeraad;946957I'm somewhat amused at how desperate everyone is to clear themselves of my unfounded accusations of civility...

You're gonna fit right in!

Quote from: Baeraad;946957I'm somewhat amused at how desperate everyone is to clear themselves of my unfounded accusations of civility...

Oh not at all! I'm actually nice! Come sit by me and we can people watch here in peace.

( I'm just infectious crazy. But don't tell everyone! They think they're catching on. Little do they know this is me roleplaying being sane! )

Quote from: san dee jota;946830Since it seems relevant, I'm also a newcomer here who jumped ship from there.  I never got a ban that I recall, and only ever got one warning a few years ago (actually staying in the rpg sections of a site devoted to rpgs certainly helped).  

What snapped for me was a while back some guy joined.  He was enthusiastic, passionate, and... a bit annoying.  One of those "what system would you use for this obscure anime/80's cartoon/movie/show I really love" types who'd chime in after the discussion had started, except you might get 12 posts like that a month.  Mods banned him because they said he was posting stuff like this every day and not responding to his posts, and encouraged us to use the search function if we doubted them.

So I did.

And like I said, he posted at worst 12 times in one month, but he also -would- contribute in some of his threads that got traction.  I pointed this out in a thread, and the thread got locked, and it's bugged me ever since.  I never knew the guy, I doubt he'd fit in better here than he did there, but it was just such a shitty way to lie about something to justify kicking them out because they were annoying (not breaking rules, not even being rude, just... annoying).  

Anyway, that's my story.  Hello.

Welcome to the adult swim;)!

Quote from: cranebump;946837After what I considered a sketchy reason for bounding me from a thread, I actually PM'ed them and told them to go fuck themselves. Lifetime ban. and worth it!:-)

I'm yet to decide whether it's worth it, but I can understand both stances:).

Quote from: Baeraad;946842Well, that's shit.

I knew another user who got banned. Nicest guy you'd ever meet, all smiles and good cheer, a bit weird and all over the place but just about the most fundamentally harmless person you'd meet. He'd been there for years, too, and contributed in all sorts of ways. But he got his ass permabanned anyway.

Why, you ask? For disruptive and offensive behaviour? No. For triggering someone? Not at all. For telling people to please, please, please stop getting triggered by every single aspect of the universe? If I ever get banned, I'll bet you dollars to donuts that'll be why, but he never seemed to have any trouble avoiding it.

No, he hinted - just hinted - at something in the A Song of Ice and Fire series of books. In a thread devoted to the Game of Thrones TV show.

Permabanned. For very mild spoilers.

I try not to be paranoid, but... I can't help it note that while the guy never told anyone to stop being triggered, he also had a habit of going, "aw, c'mon, it's not that bad!" at people. Like I said, he was one of those super-positive sorts. And that's not against site rules, but it does kind of go against the "the world is a horrible, horrible place and that's why we need to be so vigilant against Bad Elements" philosophy that it runs on. So I have to wonder if that didn't play a part in some way.

I try not to be paranoid, too. But when "it's not that bad" starts amounting to bucking the party line, something is seriously fucked up.

Quote from: san dee jota;946848It's very much a game of favoritism and moving goal posts.  

I'm sure I got away with stuff a new member wouldn't simply because they saw I had thousands of posts, dozens of reviews, and no recent warnings/bans.  And I can see the logic, but it's about as biased as you can get.  And ideally mods should be more impartial than that, but the mods don't want to be impartial.  They want to shape and sculpt things a certain way, and that way changes over time, and changes from mod to mod.

So you have a bunch of cops who basically do what they want, and it's grating.  

By comparison, this place seems pretty much self-moderated, and more civil and easy going for it.

Probably the best description of TBP. Not so true on this site,though, as I see you had had the opportunity to notice:D!

Quote from: Baeraad;946865Yeah... that's my impression too, unfortunately. They're not enforcing the rules, they're enforcing what they see as the point of the rules, which is to keep the bad people out. Wouldn't want any bad people to slip in just because they managed to obey the letter of the law, would you? And that logic sounds compelling, right up until the point where you're the only one who's still allowed inside and you end up throwing yourself out because you catch yourself thinking that perhaps you shouldn't have thrown everyone else out.

As for this place, I'm as new as you are, so I might just not have seen its sordid underbelly yet. But yes, so far I'm finding it surprisingly polite and friendly.

It's friendly like a bar where punching someone would lead to like retribution. Everyone is friendly, right until that changes, and then things go rapidly downhills;).
OTOH, nobody has been punched because of mouthing off to another poster, at least to the best of my knowledge.

Quote from: san dee jota;946893I'm honestly thinking it's like the difference between attending a formal event and jumping in a mosh pit.  I'm not saying one is better than the other, but people tend to prefer one or the other.
 
Another way to look at it: at my table we tell jokes about sodomy, and once encouraged a player to try to go out in public and explain how "niggardly" has no etymological relation to another word (I mean, he was absolutely right when he brought it up, so what harm could it do to him?).  Just typing that elsewhere would probably get me at least a warning from the mod staff, here... we'll see how good a fit I am (*rolls on FATAL anal circumference tables*).

I am saying one is better than the other;).