SHOULD THIS BOARD REVISE THE BANNING POLICY?

[whoreable]

I was really suprised to see how many people came here, I figured the move from ezboards would eliminate most of the newbies, but obviously it hasnt.

but onesty I kinda like how people dont really get banned here. I fucking hate boards were every person is a goddamn drama queen and ban people for stupid shit. Not that this would happen, but still I like how there is such little admin intervention. The best admins are the ones that dont use their power so much.

I wish I had a solution to get rid of these guys, I dont think that paying is the answer though. If you do that I doubt you would ever get new members, and you would lose alot of old members. The boards would get boring. I know I wouldnt pay if I had to, although I would definetly consider donating if not forced to.

[Anonymous]

this isn't meant to get rid of people we don't like. There wouldn't be a board if that was the case. It's just the millions of pointless posts, and the same three people calling each other fags in every thread sort of thing that I think needs to be gone.
Philo board is a good example of people who post in there that are hated, but I don't think any of the mods would want to ban them.

[whoreable]

still where exactly can you draw the line?

[noob3]

Guessing:

People like Wiffles (If it's not a character), who post nothing of meaning anywhere. Just "I like cheese", ect. Also, people who just argue with eachother and totally de-rail threads. IE, Matt Harty, Professor Cool. Captain Crunch, because he's worthless.

[Teenage_Zombie138]

im new i already feel like ive done somthing wrong

[Anonymous]

Essentially, I will be the one banning everybody and becoming a big drama queen, so that the pressure to become a drama queen will be taken off of the other moderators.

[whoreable]

not exactly what i meant... :/

[Wiffles]

Is Wiffles gonna get banned? Is I-Mockery afraid of Wiffles?

^_~

[CastroMotorOil]

I agree that something needs to be done about the needless posts people keep making. I will be honest and say i know i have done it every now and then (especially when i first arrived), but i do not reply to every goddamn thread on the board. I'd say i agree with feelevil that a 3 strike policy should be sufficient. 1 strike will ban a few too many people who may just fuck up again and actually be sorry. If you do it 3 times, you are not going to get better. Maybe a post limit per day, something like 15-20?

[AChimp]

• Ban most characters. Characters that should remain are the ones that are either tradition or prove that they can be funny to more than one or two people.
  
• Ban people who post really stupid/useless shit consistently. Once you reach 20-30 posts, you already know the ropes and are familiar with this board's atmosphere.
  
• Ban people with really annoying signatures who refuse to change them (not really a problem anymore with phpBB).
  
• Create a separate forum for veterans so we can escape all the bullshit without having to hide in the Philosophy board. This can be accomplished with phpBB's usergroups.

[Evil Robot]

Why dont we get a congressman to pass a bill forcing the courts to accept threads as admissible evidence. That might make people think twice about what they post.

[Cap'n Crunch]

Originally Posted by AChimp

• Create a separate forum for veterans so we can escape all the bullshit without having to hide in the Philosophy board. This can be accomplished with phpBB's usergroups.

But aren't these boards for free and to be used by everyone? Are there groups or titles of veterans and non-veterans to be given out? I think just more topics would settle most of these matters.

[FS]

I don't know. I'm as annoyed as most people about the way you see trios of people post in the same order, in the same threads over and over again, but I don't know if there's much to do about it. The problem as I see it, is that a few people who are despised by groups of mockers don't stop sucking because there's plenty of other people despised by groups of mockers that encourage their behavior.

Fwah. Maybe moderators could delete some replies here and there when a thread starts derailing (without it being humorous) or people start replying to each other over and over again with uninspired single-sentence posts. There's several people here for whom their 'recent posts' are ridiculously short, pointless and useless.

At least we mustn't forget that there's still plenty cool people who join the board. A paid board just doesn't help, and a private forum for the 'elite' is gay.

[AChimp]

You just mad because you wouldn't be included, you newbie homo.

EDIT: Yes, I mean you, FatSatan.

[Schimid]

If we're gonna talk about deleting characters, keep Violently Angry Rasta. He's great.

[Ninjavenom]

Aye, Rog said nix on the Usergroups when a asked a little while ago for one about ninjas.

I know i'd still be willing to join if you had to pay for these boards, but i don't like the idea of subscribing to a message board, having to pay just to post chatter or stuff that can essentially be talked about over AIM conversations, just on a much smaller scale. As for bannings, i think the problem would be solved by warning the nuisances, (with a banning to follow if they don't shape up) and posting a list of rules regarding behavior, with a link to (or a movement of) Chojin's newbie guide. It's in the Questions forum, where no one really sees it, and the problem is really only in this forum. The Philo board is indeed a great example of what GB should be, with people that are hated still posting, but not making as many shitty, whiny threads as possible.

I feel like the guy who has to keep the crusty old dog because he's too attached to shoot it. The irony is that this is what the Metal board at the EZBoard was like, but now the new Metal Board is what the old GB was like. :/

I've been on a few other message boards, and the ones that are the best and most useful are the ones that post the rules. I know rules to the forums seems kind of Anti-Mockery, but i'll say now i'd rather be a little anti-semitic about what i read than be constantly annoyed by people who seem to take the right to post for granted. I'm also sure that Rog doesn't exactly like the idea of paying good money just to read the kind of crap that floods GB on an endless scale, like an atomic-bomb of stupidity.

[James]

I think the problem isn't that we got so many new users who suck. I think the problem is that we've gotten soft and haven't given them the shit they deserve.

On top of that, we did lose people in the move, but they were all good. Wille, Scott and Edorian don't seem to come around much, and Cecropia's vanished. I'm sure there's others, but I can't think of them.

Anyway, deciding what makes for a reason to ban an idiot is impossible to set in stone, without it being a double standard and/or not holding true at all.

"I say we ban 'insert name here,' because he's annoying. Why's he annoying? I don't know, he just is. He ruins things."

How do you make a rule based on some newbie being fucking retarded?

[AChimp]

Sorry, but some people's posts have gone completely downhill in the last few months, especially after it BECAME FASHIONABLE TO POST IN ALL CAPS and say that people are faggorts!! LOL! LOL! ROFL!!!!!!!

I say that we should banning should be well-thought out, but there should also be the possibility of knee-jerk reaction bannings.

[whoreable]

I think rog needs to add the ignore feature. then all of us can ignore the dumbfucks.

but i have to kinda agree with Jamesman here. People arent the cruel bastards they used to be. People now seem to think just because no one gives them shit that they are automatically accepted and can start posting all the dumb crap they can.

Just take a look at how much waterwich posts now.

[AChimp]

We don't attack them anymore because it stopped working. The stupid newbies ended being characters made by people who had already been accepted, or the newbies were so goddamned dense that they just didn't get it that we didn't want them around.

What's the point in trying to bail out the ship with a teaspoon when have better things to do?

Most of the good attackers rarely come here anymore. Where's Jaeger? McClain shows up once in a while. I think Carni doesn't bother anymore because he probably feels the same as me.

[Professor Cool]

Isn't there someway you can tag a person for being a useless and annoying poster, that way when they see the tag, now one will give a damn about them, and like an ignored bully they will just go away, and if they are constant offenders then they are just banned.

[Black Flag]

We need george to come back and stir up some trouble.

[Anonymous]

I think Boogie and I are the only really grumpy mods, and we have been mods the longest and have yet to abuse our powers. I don't think anyone needs to worry about things getting out of control

[Mockery]

Basically, what I think is gonna happen is I'm going to post a revised board rules thing here in general blabber and start enforcing it more strictly. The only thing I ever keep an eye on is people's signatures, I'm constantly telling people to resize their sigs (Speaking of which, Cap'n, your sig is too tall, change it now.)

Right now I'm not pointing fingers at anybody, but you'll know if you're fucking up once these new rules are implemented. Chances are, I'm going to have it so you get a few warnings and then if you're still fucking up, you'll get banned for a month. Then if you're still acting like an ass, you'll just be banned for good.

I hardly even read General Blabber anymore... the other forums are MUCH more interesting. And for the record, there are some really good newbies joining... but they're not posting in this forum and trying to be all "LOOK AT ME. I AM THE MISTER FUNNIES TOO! ROFLROFL!" They're making normal posts and adding something valuable to the conversations rather than just replying to every thread for the sake of replying.

And yes, as someone already stated, it's hard to pay for a board each year (which many of the board veterans donated to) when you see people filling up the most active forum (general blabber) with 99% usel drivel.

I'll probably post the revised board rules in the next day or so. In the meantime, I strongly suggest those of you who haven't read chojin's old newbie guide (which is meant to HELP you get used to these forums, not mock you) for starters.

If any of you have suggestions for things you'd like to see in the rules (ie: problems that keep coming up on the board) by all means post them here and I'll take 'em into consideration.

-RoG-

[Krythor]

I'm gonna have to agree with both Jamesman on the cruel thing, and Jixby's idea of taking out the post count. It's not used for anything anyway, but some people see it as a "TOTALLY RAD INTRONET SCORE" or something.

I remember how cruel, mean and funny this board was when I was lurking, and it just seems that people have given up putting any effort into giving the idiots, who think they're something that they're not, what they deserve.