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[Gabriel]

Of course. It offended someone in Tangency, so they had to take it out.

What non-clique member used it and against what clique member?

[Kyle Aaron]

What non-clique member used it and against what clique member?

I dunno, I stopped keeping track of all the Tangency cliques well over a year before I was bannzorzed. But that was the tone of it when it was announced, that the roll-eyes smilie was inherently offensive. And it hardly ever appeared in Roleplaying Open. TTRO was all and , not so much of that other shit.

Plus nine-tenths of the other rules of rpg.net ("no personal attacks, no group attacks, no panhandling except in the Ads/Open Promo forum, no suicide threads," etc, as opposed to what? "no piracy" for other subforums) evolved out of Tangency dramas, why wouldn't that one.

[Akrasia]

... Not really.  It's just the off-topic forum that's, uhm, sort of like, well, this forum!  

I politely disagree.  

Tangency at RPG.net is full of people who never post in the main RPG fora.  I post in the main RPG fora on a regular basis -- I know those people (even the bloody Exalted fans).  Tangency has different people.

Sorry, but that's a fact. :raise:

[Zachary The First]

I politely disagree.  

Tangency at RPG.net is full of people who never post in the main RPG fora.  I post in the main RPG fora on a regular basis -- I know those people (even the bloody Exalted fans).  Tangency has different people.

Sorry, but that's a fact. :raise:

Here I would politely concur.

[James McMurray]

What I find so interesting about all this is the sheer number of people on this board that dislike other boards but continue read them. Why do people do that? I figure that if you hate them and they've banned you, why bother?

[Akrasia]

What I find so interesting about all this is the sheer number of people on this board that dislike other boards but continue read them. Why do people do that? I figure that if you hate them and they've banned you, why bother?

I haven't been banned by RPG.net.  :pundit:

Yet!

And, in fact, I like the place.  The RPG section, that is (I have no comment on 'Tangency').

I've had many good conversations about C&C, AD&D, True 20, Buffy, Angel, Rolemaster, old OOP games, etc. there.

The RPG section of RPG.net is totally golden for me.  :cool:

[RedFox]

What I find so interesting about all this is the sheer number of people on this board that dislike other boards but continue read them. Why do people do that? I figure that if you hate them and they've banned you, why bother?

I certainly don't hate 'em.  The moderation policy is naff, and it's often hard to separate the wheat from the mountains of chaff, but it's still the biggest place to talk about RPGs shy of ENWorld.  And it's less D&D-specific than ENWorld.

And I also haven't been banned yet.

[Zalmoxis]

My only beef with RPGnet is that they ban people without question and without recourse.

[Ian Absentia]

Here I would politely concur.

And, just to make a point of distinction, I politely concur, asshole! :mad:

!i!

[Kester Pelagius]

I haven't been banned by RPG.net.  :pundit:

Yet!

And, in fact, I like the place.  The RPG section, that is (I have no comment on 'Tangency').

Like all things Tangency can be a fun diversion every now and again.  But too much Tangency, that can cause stomache upset and forum rage.

I've had many good conversations about C&C, AD&D, True 20, Buffy, Angel, Rolemaster, old OOP games, etc. there.

The RPG section of RPG.net is totally golden for me.  :cool:

You mean when y'all aren't posting threads complaining about Exalted/Palladium/the high price of game books/how D20 is going to implode the gaming industry?  :teehee:

[Dominus Nox]

Actually, of late, Tangency seems to be the place where folks burned out on gaming in general come to vent.  Didn't used to always be that way.




Speaking of encouragement I could use some.  What would you like to see in a space-opera supplement dealing with the hive of scum and villainy otherwise known as "frontier"?



You were banned?  I did not know that.  Then again it's hard to keep track of. . .  :rolleyes:

Duuuude.  :rolleyes:

This forum rocks!  :rolleyes:

(Sorry, they banned that smiley at RPGnet awhile ago.)

THEY BANNED A SMILEY?!?!?!?!

Could you provide more details, please?

[Dominus Nox]

My only beef with RPGnet is that they ban people without question and without recourse.

Actually on rpg.net they at least have to give a reason, AIR.

Now on SJG bans have no reasons given with them, but the common denominator seems to be if andy hackard likes you or not.

[Akrasia]

... You mean when y'all aren't posting threads complaining about Exalted/Palladium/the high price of game books/how D20 is going to implode the gaming industry?  :teehee:

:confused:

Not my threads, mate....

I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about, and frankly, I don't give a shit.

[RedFox]

:confused:

Not my threads, mate....

I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about, and frankly, I don't give a shit.

But I'm going to reply to it in emphasis and with bold.

[J Arcane]

Frankly, after a while I stopped paying much attention to RP Open.  It was what drew me to the site, but after a while itceased to be what kept me there.

There just ceased to be all that much in the way of threads that interested me, just tons of spectacularly idiotic and petty flamewars, and my own attempts at discussing things that would interest me tended to be universally ignored.  Thing was too, that while I like RPGs, and enjoy them a lot, they're only one aspect of my interests, and when presented with an open forum with which to discuss all of them, the RPGs are likely to wind up being less than a majority percentage.  

I've posted to and read more RPG-related posts on this site than I think I had in the last two or three years or more on RP Open at RPGnet.  

And there were enough other folks who wound up engaging in similar migration, that it sort of led to the odd split that's continued to this day.  

There are indeed a number of non-gamers who post in Tangency.  A lot of them came by way of friends or family who were gamers and long time RPGnet posters, but there were also some who just seemed to wander in from nowhere in particular and nest.  A lot of those didn't really last, with the exception of a rare one or two like bulletproof.  Most of the regular Tangency-exclusive posters are gamers, they just didn't really spend much time talking about them.

Point being that contrary to the popular opinions of a lot of folks in this thread, the non-gamers remained an exception rather than a rule.

The moderators have stated that the direction they'd intended for the site was more as a general geek hangout, than a specifically focused RPG-only site.  That's just the way it is, and it seems spectacularly unlikely to change anytime soon.  

I never quite understood why this pisses so many people off.  "How dare people talk about things you don't want to talk about!  They should only be allowed to talk about what I want to talk about!  But the mods are bad fascist censors!"