that extended downtime sucked ass.  i hadn't realized how much time i spend here.

that's all

Thank fuck for that.

Quote from: One Horse TownThank fuck for that.

yeah, i ended up lurking around rpg.net, looking for info and familiar faces.  ick.  did NOT have a good time.

next time something like this happens i'll just touch base with pundit's blog for info.

I saw you brown nosing over there!

I didn't realise how much this place suited me until i couldn't view it any more. I spent half my time elsewhere biting my tongue. No need to here!

no shit.  i tend to lurk more than post here.  but over there my snark factor just kept rising, until i finally went "wtf?" and just left again.

I was surprised by the amount of disdain RPGnet has for this place. I mean, Holy Fuck!

I am also definitely glad that theRPGsite is back up.

Quote from: jeff37923I was surprised by the amount of disdain RPGnet has for this place. I mean, Holy Fuck!

I am also definitely glad that theRPGsite is back up.

Yeah. I don't get that either. Some kind of cult-think maybe

Quote from: jeff37923I was surprised by the amount of disdain RPGnet has for this place. I mean, Holy Fuck!

I am also definitely glad that theRPGsite is back up.

I wasn't surprised by that.

- Ed C.

Quote from: KoltarI wasn't surprised by that.

- Ed C.

Sadly, I wasn't surprised either. Nina's sarcasm towards you was neither clever nor cute. Her attitude, and that of the other mods was unnecessarily snarky. Their "mission statement" makes a big deal about being "friendly and welcoming". The moderation displayed neither of those qualities. I'm disappointed. The mods were very quick to dogpile on you, Koltar. Come to think of it, a few of the posters were happily dogpiling you as well. I really think they were looking for an excuse to start some shit.

There really wasn't any snark from the posters in the thread for the first few pages, until the moderators started some minor shit, then subsequently hid the thread in Tangency, soon after locking it entirely. Darren (a mod) posted about the irony of not being able to respond to passive-aggressiveness, yet HE was being passive-aggressive. What the fuck is up with that shit?

I mean, you KNEW they'd send the thread to Tangency, Koltar. You weren't exactly diplomatic about saying it, but what you said didn't merit a dogpile (which you kinda received). It was a pretty blatant attempt on the rpgnet moderation's part to hide the thread, and if we dare suggest that's what they're doing, they will mock us, and then quickly lock the thread. There's no way in Hell a post about ENWorld would have been sent over to Tangency. But if you dare post about therpgsite....

The thread in question was about a site about ROLEPLAYING GAMES. Logic dictates it would be in the rpg section by default. No such luck.

I've come to the conclusion that the moderation on RPGnet feigns apathy about this website. But....

....they are VERY aware of this place, while officially PRETENDING it doesn't exist. What is it about this place that makes them so nervous? Because if they didn't care about this site, they wouldn't relocate and lock threads about this website so damn fast. I want to repeat:

They would never send an ENWorld post over to Tangency. NEVER.

So what's up with that? Can anyone tell me? :confused:

P.S. I wouldn't dare ask this on RPGnet. They'd probably derisively throttle me over this issue, so it's better to ask here.

Oh, and by the way.....yay! Therpgsite is back up! Heh.

In various places I got used to either being the underdog or the minority.
That changed about 10 to 15 years ago.
RPG.net is kind of like that for me at times.  RPG.net just reminds me of people that never got out of High School mentally and hate it when you call them on it.

- Ed C.

Quote from: Sacrificial LambThey would never send an ENWorld post over to Tangency. NEVER.

nah, they'd bury it in that stupid d20 forum instead

Funniest thing I've read all day:

QuoteOriginally Posted by Darren MacLennan  View Post
The amazing irony is that I've worked long and hard creating an environment in which I'm not allowed to respond to childish taunts and passive-aggressive nonsense without violating the rules that I spent so much time setting up in the first place; kind of like a vampire working a long time to make sure that every place in his lair is flooded with sunlight.

Have things really changed to the point that he can't wave his cock around and sodomize posters just for giggles, or was he being hyperbolic? If its true, then I can't imagine he'll remain a mod for much longer - be more fun to find people to curb-stomp when the pubs let out.

Quote from: Sacrificial LambI've come to the conclusion that the moderation on RPGnet feigns apathy about this website. But....

....they are VERY aware of this place, while officially PRETENDING it doesn't exist. What is it about this place that makes them so nervous? Because if they didn't care about this site, they wouldn't relocate and lock threads about this website so damn fast. I want to repeat:

They would never send an ENWorld post over to Tangency. NEVER.

So what's up with that? Can anyone tell me? :confused:

P.S. I wouldn't dare ask this on RPGnet. They'd probably derisively throttle me over this issue, so it's better to ask here.

They are, as usual, scared shitless of anything I do. It makes me all warm inside.

The RPG.net modclique has been predicting a future of "failure" and "irrelevance" for me from the moment they decided to ban me from RPG.net. And every time they have, I've ended up frustrating them by becoming a bigger and bigger success.

My blog was bad enough, but when I took over this place you should have heard the screeching and caterwauling about how I would never get the place off the ground, or how I would quickly turn into a hypocritical authoritarian mod.  Of course, neither of these things happened, in fact this site has succeeded even beyond my expectations, and its driving them up the fucking wall.

You see, the part that really scares them is the moderation policy here. Its already forced them to have to loosen up a great deal (way more than they would want) on moderation over at RPG.net (going from "ultra-fascist" to just "fascist" modes), because more and more people have noticed that over here, freedom of speech has functioned just fine. Its proven the lie to the claim the Mods at RPG.net have used to try to hold onto their power for all this time: the idea that somehow if they didn't have the power to ban anything that moves just because they feel like it, RPG.net would somehow fall into chaos.

Now they can't make that claim anymore, or at least it isn't nearly as credible as it used to be. Thanks to me.

RPGPundit

Quote from: jeff37923I was surprised by the amount of disdain RPGnet has for this place. I mean, Holy Fuck!

I am also definitely glad that theRPGsite is back up.

Heh.  As opposed to the amount of disdain the RPGsite has for RPGnet?  Wow...imagine that...