Suggestions on how to improve the forums

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

Hey, we've only done that once that I know of, and it was so serious, all traces of the conversation about it were even removed from the mod board.

Was it The Doctor?

[GuruGuru214]

How about we don't talk about who it was so I don't have to start...the cleansing.

[ryannumber1gamer]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

Pfft, I didn't. That said, it really does suck when you have to ban a regular. I have no problem with banning assholes, though.

Am i a regular?

Edit:Just noticed,It's been almost 2 years since i joined the fourms

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by ryannumber1gamer

Am i a regular?

Edit:Just noticed,It's been almost 2 years since i joined the fourms

Ah, good. Now seems the perfect time to ban you, then, to meet their bannage of regulars quota.

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by Ribs

Ah, good. Now seems the perfect time to ban you, then, to meet their bannage of regulars quota.

I thought that JedEx already signed up to be the next banned regular?

[Gman5852]

But what am I here for then?

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by Gman5852

But what am I here for then?

Target practice.

[Gman5852]

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

Target practice.

That explains the arrows that keep flying past me.

[divisionten]

Oops, sorry. That's why they don't give the blind moderator a bow and arrow. I have katana.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

Noooo, noooo, the best ones go "It's 11 pm now where I live, where is the episode". That's best for Asians and Australians.

I kept the where I live part out on purpose because those users usually think it's the same time everywhere on the globe.

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

Hey, we've only done that once that I know of, and it was so serious, all traces of the conversation about it were even removed from the mod board.

Confession time.

I would have said exactly that six months ago with the purest knowledge that it was the case back then. Those good times are over. The amount of racist crap we got in TWD forums for whatever reason had to be killed off in exactly that way (and Mike once deleted about three pages of a thread himself just for the thread to get a new chance). And the level of personal insults was so damn high that a simple ban often wouldn't have sufficed because the unbearable thrice quoted verbal injuries to community members would still explode in uncontrollable flaming.

Then, at least one particular member went so overboard with his idea that a certain dead character should be miraculously revived (or, wasn't dead to begin with), with account after account of untraceable IPs, that the ONLY way to finally get him off the forums was to make clear that all his insistent protest efforts do not leave ANY trace on the forums. I openly apologized to the Walking Dead community in one extreme case, and I had to rid the thread of about 60 comments (not kidding). Got a PM by one concerned member who didn't like all that censoring shit, and I applauded him, but saw no_other_way. We'd still have the same mofo around if he had considered his 'work' even remotely fruitful.

Also, I deleted quite a few announcements of piracy without trace; I originally intended to leave these in as a warning... but instead one such announcement would usually spawn two to three enthusiastic consents by other members, whom in turn I had to ban as well.

BATTLEFIELD there. I hope Fables works out far smoother. I hate this crap. It's work for nothing, and you NEVER want to do it.

I do sharply contest the notion that such extreme cases are "a real ban" though. A "real ban" neither means all posts deleted nor thrown out forever, else we'd almost only call the spambot bans "real bans".

[GuruGuru214]

Those are good points, and I agree, the Walking Dead boards have been a hellhole at times, but I was referring to hard deletion. Not a trace left even for us.

[ryannumber1gamer]

Also there was that thread someone made with a fake title to discuss something in Ep 1 or 2 and the person had just put loads of Ep 3 spoilers in it.!!!

[GuruGuru214]

Yeah, during the release of episodes 3 and 4, we had an asshole who was determined to play the game immediately after it came out, then show up on the forums and do his best to spoil it for everybody. Thankfully, he got bored fairly quickly and left both times, but it was just another pain we didn't need on top of an already hectic release period, especially during episode 3's release, when the forums were short staffed, with Puzzlebox, Icedhope, and myself at PAX.

[der_ketzer]

Originally Posted by Vainamoinen

Also, I deleted quite a few announcements of piracy without trace; I originally intended to leave these in as a warning... but instead one such announcement would usually spawn two to three enthusiastic consents by other members, whom in turn I had to ban as well.

Yes. It can be a ton of work and if it is done right no one will ever notice it. And that can be both satisfying and frustrating. So hey. Here is a little Thank You to all the mods that do stuff around here so I can come back any time and wonder if there are ever any problems here.

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

Those are good points, and I agree, the Walking Dead boards have been a hellhole at times, but I was referring to hard deletion. Not a trace left even for us.

Ahhhhh I see - doesn't make much of a difference for the_ketzer though.

Originally Posted by der_ketzer

Yes. It can be a ton of work and if it is done right no one will ever notice it. And that can be both satisfying and frustrating. So hey. Here is a little Thank You to all the mods that do stuff around here so I can come back any time and wonder if there are ever any problems here.

Those... words... from... you?!? I think I have something in my eye. Thanks man.

[der_ketzer]

is it sand?

[ryannumber1gamer]

It was so annoying i had almost all of Ep 3 spoiled and because of someone who didn't put [Spoiler!] at the start of the name of the thread, i got it spoiled that you can pick to save Ben or let him fall

Also i'm guessing coolsome came up with the tags for the thread?

Edit:Thanks do go to mods, they put up with all the crap in the TWD fourms and put up with crap from spambots.

[Friar]

This thread is awesome. I miss the whatever thread.

What sort of Modly powers do you have now Darth Modsden? Do you have the power to create life as well as destroy it with the mighty banhammer? Can you ever be certain that the banhammer doesn't kill the user in question, in addition to their account? Can you bake me a cake?

[der_ketzer]

Completely off topic....

Originally Posted by ryannumber1gamer

It was so annoying i had almost all of Ep 3 spoiled and because of someone who didn't put [Spoiler!] at the start of the name of the thread, i got it spoiled that you can pick to save Ben or let him fall

I watched 2 full playthroughs of Episode 1 before even buying the game in a Steamsale because I really don't mind spoilers. I have no idea why people mind them that much...
What I minded more was that both players picked Carley because the game really pushes her. You spend 5 minutes with Doug and a lot more with her including several presentations of her skill with guns. Every time they shoved her into my face and basically said: "You should really pick her" it made me sick. So sich that I went with Dough who, in the end, was much more fun to have around.
Same with the situation in the spoiler. They make that character fail again and again and then they give you the choice. But this time less players fell for it if I look at the statistics.