Q23 - This is what happens when your admin isn't me.

[schild]

Where else would Sinij go? Broughden is too stupid to know another site exists for the children we eat, so Lum may be spared of that one.

[Hutch]

Slayerik, Here is some background. I was in the same boat re: WUA until I read that thread.

To be fair, the reason people are in the dark about the WUA ban, and others, is because - ahem, we're not Tom Chick.

Now we're full circle. Let's go back to laughing about that train wreck.

I didn't mean for that to come off as a complaint. Learning that WUA was ragequit/banned was an aha! moment for me, and I was sharing in the discovery.

[schild]

Didn't actually take it as a complain. No worries.

Your avatar is calming (yes, I've seen the full image).

[Soln]

Read thread, see Brad Wardell post, get mad about Elemental all over again. Good times.

Yeah.  They banned finally Matt Gallant (and his wife) and his alts for the trolling I thought. I've had an account there maybe 6-7 years?  Same kind of activity as AP.

[Engels]

Quick, everyone provoke schild into a genocidal bannination and we can all reunite the diaspora on Lum's new blog/forum/thing!

[Sjofn]

Wait, was his wife Angie Gallant? She was the one who posted the best thread on that forum! 

[Ingmar]

Yeah her content was the only content there I bothered with. Invite her here, what's the worst that could happen. 

[schild]

Nah, we're good. She's already peaked.

[WayAbvPar]

Yeah her content was the only content there I bothered with. Invite her here, what's the worst that could happen. 

She would upset our carefully cultivated 9.7 male-to-female ratio. And if she is straight it would REALLY screw things up.

[ghost]

It's that high?  Which of you guys are masquerading as dudes, then?

[Sjofn]

People sometimes think I'm a dude, does that count?

[Lantyssa]

9.7 seems low, not high.

People sometimes think I'm a dude, does that count?

We have a counter to you, but I'm not going to call him out on it.

[ghost]

No, Paelos isn't a girl.   

[WayAbvPar]

Now, now- it is just a strange coincidence that Furiously never plays male characters in MMOGs.

[Sheepherder]

Which is where people are getting that wacky notion that maybe Tom's ban system works differently for different people. That he has different thresholds and the rules then get applied differently. Because they do. One thing's for certain, pointing that out might get you a ban.

http://brokenforum.com/index.php?threads/so-what-did-you-get-banned-for.320/page-2#post-6167

Someone should worship Tom Chick to see if they get mazed.

[Sjofn]

9.7 seems low, not high.

People sometimes think I'm a dude, does that count?

We have a counter to you, but I'm not going to call him out on it.

I hope it's Kildorn!

[MuffinMan]

The perfect way to throw people off is by having "Man" right in your name.

[ghost]

You also don't grow a mustache like Muffin unless you are a really hot chick.  

Edit:  back on topic a bit-  Chick should really get some moderators that he trusts.  The people here do a good job and probably save you a lot of headaches, schild. 

[Paelos]

No, Paelos isn't a girl.   

 

[Xanthippe]

No, Paelos isn't a girl.   

Not any more, at any rate.

[Xanthippe]

I notice Schild is now banned over there. Nice last post, though.

[schild]

You have been banned for the following reason:
No reason was specified.

Date the ban will be lifted: Never

Not only a bad admin, but an unfun one. I always put reasons when applicable.

I bet he doesn't even look at usernames when he's on banning sprees.

[schild]

He desperately needs staff. I could have posted a thousand dicks a thousand different times and driven his entire userbase away over the course of a day. One man can not run a community alone, I don't care what size it is.

[Arthur_Parker]

I was tempted to see if I could get banned with my first post, something fairly bland like a "hey guys what's going on in this thread" image, but resisted the impulse as the guy does seem to be having some kind of breakdown.  Also he signs his posts which I've always been very suspicious about.

1st rate drama though.

[schild]

He's not having a breakdown. He's always been a sort of ego-driven self-interested douchey. As such, I'm fairly sure this is the constant state of his clearly 1st-world-agonizing sort of life.

[Ironwood]

 Also he signs his posts which I've always been very suspicious about.

You said it.

Bring the noise.
Cheers.............

[Ingmar]

A lot of old Usenet people have that post-signing tic, since the format of that often didn't easily identify you, but dude... it is 2011.

[MahrinSkel]

Also he signs his posts which I've always been very suspicious about.

It's a common habit for people who started out with Usenet in the early 90's.  Back then, the conventions were those of a correspondence, rather than a conversation.  And once you've gotten in that habit, it's not easy to break (nor does there seem to be much of a point).

--Dave

[lamaros]

Once you've gotten in that habit, it's not easy to break (nor does there seem to be much of a point).

--Dave

Apart from pissing everyone else off.

[WayAbvPar]

 Also he signs his posts which I've always been very suspicious about.

You said it.

Bring the noise.
Cheers.............

 

[Sjofn]

but dude... it is 2011.

No it isn't. 

[UnSub]

The priority is on how you treat each other. I expect spats, arguments, occasional insults, and even inevitable grudges. We've all done that. But in the end, I expect you to act like a group of friends who care about each other, no matter how dumb some of us might be, no matter what political opinions some of us hold, no matter what games some of us like or dislike. This community is small enough, intimate enough, that I feel it's a reasonable expectation.

Q23 is an online community, not an episode of "Family Ties".

"Be civil" is about as good as it gets, particularly if you let people talk about controversial issues such as politics, abortion or tanks versus mechs.

[Sheepherder]

"I made this thread about the topic of my moderation.  If you post in this thread about my moderation using language that isn't over-the-top pandering, I will shoot you.  By the way, this is totally not a honeypot."

 

[UnSub]

Is this the same guy that writes the Chick Tracts ?

Tom Chick has been around a while, and possibly his most famous mis-step (that I'm aware of) was giving Deus Ex a low score when he reviewed it at launch.

Other than that, he's been a reasonable writer when I've looked at his work, but in this particular event he has let the Drama consume him rather than getting some extra admins in to keep things clean.

[Ingmar]

There's also an utter failure to recognize that the value of an online community is mostly down to the content generated by, and the interaction between the members of said community, and he's now got a lot of that value walking out the door.