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[Ian Absentia]

I think the mods on rpg.net would take great pleasure in seeing a thread bitching about them here...

You know, it's even crossed my mind that they may actually be counting on sites like theRPGsite to handle the overflow of people marginalised by the non-RPG-ing character of the contemporary RPG.net.  Not to venture too deeply into Nox-conspiracy territory.

We have better things to talk about IMO than another site's errors, writ large as they undoubtedly are.

I think there's also a very real need to vent a little about it.  While many of our more illustrious members were punted from the site, probably more of us here were elbowed rudely out of the way from a site we never intended to leave.  That said, upwards of 20 pages probably more than addresses this need.

!i!

[Consonant Dude]

I think these threads will occur once in a while. It's pretty tough for a website such as this not to have discussions about "big things". RPG.net, ENworld, D&D, WotC... that kind of stuff gets a lot of attention.

The one thing I really like about these discussions is that they do reflect what each user wants (or doesn't want) to happen here. Now, not everybody agrees about what's right or wrong over there but I find that it helps to know what users think.

[Bradford C. Walker]

There.  I said it.

Agreed.  Increasingly, I get the "Please victimize me!  I am weak and pathetic!" vibe.

[Ian Absentia]

Increasingly, I get the "Please victimize me!  I am weak and pathetic!" vibe.

I think it's more akin to the "Little Dog" effect, really.  They snarl and yap viciously as long as they're safely under someone else's protection, then go back to shivering nervously.

I'm sorry.  That was cruel.

Okay, I'm not that sorry.  It's cruel, but true.

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[James McMurray]

I'm still curious about the "talking about X gets you banned" phenomenon. Can someone give me a short list of topics (beyond racist rants and whatnot) that have gotten people banned? I'd like to perform an experiment.

[Settembrini]

Don´t call Borgstrom a would be c-grade novelist.

[James McMurray]

I'd like to avoid actual insults, since that's the experiment.

[The Yann Waters]

Don´t call Borgstrom a would be c-grade novelist.

Or Pundit "a raving madman"...

There's no list of banned topics, as far as I can remember, with the possible exception of Fred Phelps. Pimp: the Backhanding used to be under a topic ban, but that was lifted some time ago.

[James McMurray]

Not banned topics, topics that get people banned. People in this thread and others have said that certain topics will get you banned. Others have replied that no, talking about those topics like an ass gets you banned. I want to take a list of those topics and discuss them politely and pleasantly and see if I get banned.

[Balbinus]

To be honest, if something is explicitly a banned topic and someone posts about it, well what does one expect?

Banned topics are usually listed in the rules I think at the top of the page, the Phelps family are still a banned topic I think.

But clearly banned topics aren't the problem, it's the increasinbly broad interpretation of things like the personal and group attack rules and the somewhat gung ho attitude of some of the mods.  There was a chap the other day who complained on trouble tickets, his thread was closed but three different mods posted to it hammering him, and of course the thread being closed he couldn't reply as only the mods had the power to open it to make a post and then close it again.

That's the issue.  Guys like Mr A getting tempbanned for saying that reading Dr'lizzt novels or however you spell it is a waste of your life.  That got him banned for a bit for a group attack on readers of those novels.

[The Yann Waters]

People in this thread and others have said that certain topics will get you banned. Others have replied that no, talking about those topics like an ass gets you banned.

Ah. Well, I'd say that it's the latter. Group attacks are by far the most commonly cited reason for bans.

[RPGPundit]

I just had an idea. I'm gonna start a thread!

And a very good thread it was.

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[J Arcane]

Not banned topics, topics that get people banned. People in this thread and others have said that certain topics will get you banned. Others have replied that no, talking about those topics like an ass gets you banned. I want to take a list of those topics and discuss them politely and pleasantly and see if I get banned.

Try discussing at length how your religion forbids homosexuality and/or gay marriage.  

You'll be gone in a week.

[James McMurray]

Try discussing at length how your religion forbids homosexuality and/or gay marriage.  

You'll be gone in a week.

Anything actually RPG related?

[RPGPundit]

Brain Damage.  Actually daring to talk about Edward's Brain Damage comment is the RPG equivalent of the gays-religion topic.

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