RPGnet's decay (TBP madness)

[Pat]

What are you talking about? This thread is new.

The person banned at TBP had necro'ed an 8 year-old thread for the post that got him banned.  So they're not talking about this thread.

Exactly. And, for once, this is not something I disagree with. "Yo! Remember when my parents were still together, you were in high-school and Ted was about to become a single dad? I just thought that...!"

Get a grip and open a new thread, unless there is a real, discernible reason to still be living in 2013.

I know, right? There should be a seven year moratorium on bringing up old things. Books written prior to 2014? Burn 'em!

A thread is not a book: it is something where many people interact, talking about things whose context could have been implicit at the time but not today, and when things had different values (how many debates about The Forge we see today?) It was something clear in the minds of the posters when it was still alive, but very possibly today you have to re-read everything to remember contents and context. Not to mention how many of the people posting on that thread can be no more around today.

If really a thread started during the XXIII Dynasty can become relevant again today just say so. "I stumbled into an old thread and I think that this part (insert here) is very relevant to the current debate because..." and then say your piece. Almost all forums I post in have rules against "necroing" - and for a reason.

Books are how we interact with people from thousands of years ago, who are "no more around today".

Exactly. Books, not forum threads.

Try to explain how that makes a difference. Should be entertaining.

I can throw in for free the difference between an apple and a 2021 Audi A8 if you want. Interested?

Do they different in significant ways that are relevant to this conversation, or is it as spurious your claim that thread necromancy is some horrible crime?

[Reckall]

I can throw in for free the difference between an apple and a 2021 Audi A8 if you want. Interested?

Do they different in significant ways that are relevant to this conversation, or is it as spurious your claim that thread necromancy is some horrible crime?
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If I were you I would check my wires - because by now they are irremediably crossed. 😂

[DocJones]

On the positive side, at least the quoting format on this forum seems to discourage top posting
which is probably more annoying. 

Instead of banning thread resurrection they should ban excessive quote threads.

[Pat]

I can throw in for free the difference between an apple and a 2021 Audi A8 if you want. Interested?

Do they different in significant ways that are relevant to this conversation, or is it as spurious your claim that thread necromancy is some horrible crime?

If I were you I would check my wires - because by now they are irremediably crossed. 😂

You should ban all those wires from 2013.

[Shasarak]

Could be worse it could be top posting excessive quote thread

On the positive side, at least the quoting format on this forum seems to discourage top posting
which is probably more annoying. 

Instead of banning thread resurrection they should ban excessive quote threads.

[Pat]

You're triggering my email PTSD.

Could be worse it could be top posting excessive quote thread

On the positive side, at least the quoting format on this forum seems to discourage top posting
which is probably more annoying. 

Instead of banning thread resurrection they should ban excessive quote threads.

[DM_Curt]

Once the quote pyramid is tall enough, we can make a sacrifice to the Sun God, right?

You're triggering my email PTSD.

Could be worse it could be top posting excessive quote thread

On the positive side, at least the quoting format on this forum seems to discourage top posting
which is probably more annoying. 

Instead of banning thread resurrection they should ban excessive quote threads.

[Shasarak]

What have I done?  I am just making it worse!

Once the quote pyramid is tall enough, we can make a sacrifice to the Sun God, right?

You're triggering my email PTSD.

Could be worse it could be top posting excessive quote thread

On the positive side, at least the quoting format on this forum seems to discourage top posting
which is probably more annoying. 

Instead of banning thread resurrection they should ban excessive quote threads.

[DM_Curt]

We can also bury a Pharoah underneath it. Next poster volunteers....

What have I done?  I am just making it worse!

Once the quote pyramid is tall enough, we can make a sacrifice to the Sun God, right?

You're triggering my email PTSD.

Could be worse it could be top posting excessive quote thread

On the positive side, at least the quoting format on this forum seems to discourage top posting
which is probably more annoying. 

Instead of banning thread resurrection they should ban excessive quote threads.

[KingCheops]

We can also bury a Pharoah underneath it. Next poster volunteers....

What have I done?  I am just making it worse!

Once the quote pyramid is tall enough, we can make a sacrifice to the Sun God, right?

You're triggering my email PTSD.

Could be worse it could be top posting excessive quote thread

On the positive side, at least the quoting format on this forum seems to discourage top posting
which is probably more annoying. 

Instead of banning thread resurrection they should ban excessive quote threads.

I feel this is appropriate on multiple levels.

[Ghostmaker]

You people and your fancy-pants pyramid building...

Jokes aside, huh. TBP hasn't banned anyone since that one guy on Friday. Not even warnings.

I stand by my assertion: they've driven off or banned everyone who might espouse a differing opinion. Now it's on to the inevitable struggle sessions and purity spirals, though it'll probably take longer. Still, proof is in the pudding: has anyone seen them break 250 registered users online?

'Cause I sure haven't.

[Wntrlnd]

You people and your fancy-pants pyramid building...

Jokes aside, huh. TBP hasn't banned anyone since that one guy on Friday. Not even warnings.

I stand by my assertion: they've driven off or banned everyone who might espouse a differing opinion. Now it's on to the inevitable struggle sessions and purity spirals, though it'll probably take longer. Still, proof is in the pudding: has anyone seen them break 250 registered users online?

'Cause I sure haven't.

They did hit 250 this friday or saturday when it was late afternoon in the US and late evening in Europe. It needs both continents users during their peak hours to barely break it.

edit: just checked. 259 exactly this minute of posting this.

[Ghostmaker]

Welcome back to another edition of 'fantasy racism is totes real racism, you guise!'

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/constantine-xi-receives-a-%F0%9F%94%B4-warning-thread-ban.887787/

Constantine is absolutely right, of course. But you can't SAY that because (a) it might affect WotC's bottom line if people realize they're shit, and (b) it makes someone have the sad feels.

How did the line go? We're going to wind up playing grey blobs, wandering around with other grey blobs, and not actually fighting anything?

I'm so, so sorely tempted to slap together a burner account, and start arguing for better treatment of otyughs in game settings there.

EDIT: Holy shit.

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/ikoma-receives-a-%F0%9F%9A%AB-thirty-day-ban.887794/

How Ikoma didn't eat a full on permaban is beyond me. Q99 (and presumably the other mods) completely missed the point they were making -- that promoting sippenhaft, blood guilt, is a very, very bad idea. And that no matter how you slice it, trying to push reparations for people who are LONG dead (they trot out some folks of a more recent vintage -- but the argument about reparations is about slavery, not segregation) is stupid and asking for trouble.

If I was Ikoma, I wouldn't go back. That snotty 'educate yourself' really is the cherry on the shit sundae.

But hey, TBP mods support ancestral guilt confirmed.

[Fergurg]

Welcome back to another edition of 'fantasy racism is totes real racism, you guise!'

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/constantine-xi-receives-a-%F0%9F%94%B4-warning-thread-ban.887787/

Constantine is absolutely right, of course. But you can't SAY that because (a) it might affect WotC's bottom line if people realize they're shit, and (b) it makes someone have the sad feels.

How did the line go? We're going to wind up playing grey blobs, wandering around with other grey blobs, and not actually fighting anything?

I'm so, so sorely tempted to slap together a burner account, and start arguing for better treatment of otyughs in game settings there.

You could, but the True Believers there have already gone past that to demand that demons and devils shouldn't be usually evil.

[Ghostmaker]

Welcome back to another edition of 'fantasy racism is totes real racism, you guise!'

https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/constantine-xi-receives-a-%F0%9F%94%B4-warning-thread-ban.887787/

Constantine is absolutely right, of course. But you can't SAY that because (a) it might affect WotC's bottom line if people realize they're shit, and (b) it makes someone have the sad feels.

How did the line go? We're going to wind up playing grey blobs, wandering around with other grey blobs, and not actually fighting anything?

I'm so, so sorely tempted to slap together a burner account, and start arguing for better treatment of otyughs in game settings there.

You could, but the True Believers there have already gone past that to demand that demons and devils shouldn't be usually evil.

Quite true.