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[staika]

@Smurf: I don't either I just like to point out when I get a number that is lucky. That way when I hit 77777 posts I can point back to that and say that this post is more lucky than this post.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

7777 posts....

Never gonna reach that unless I'm still posting in this thread in 2016

 

[Evil Smurf]

7777 posts....

Never gonna reach that unless I'm still posting in this thread in 2016

Or forum game a lot.

 

[staika]

Edit: Disregard that, apparently I am just stupid and forgot that that is what the site used to look like XD

Yeah, it's weird to think that "Posts:" and "Joined:" used to be ABOVE badges, not below (like they are now).

Also, we only used to be able to show 4 badges on posts, and avatars used to be left-aligned (not centered).

Huh I never noticed that many changes (especially the left-alignment) I only really noticed the number of badges. Oh and the report button used to be an actual button under the badges.

(btw, "ColdStorage" is [user]DigitalSushi[/user]. He renamed his account a while ago.)

Whatever happened to him? I haven't seen him in a few months and he hasn't been on the site in a while. I PMed him near when I came back but that was really the only time I saw him :/

 

[Evil Smurf]

Edit: Disregard that, apparently I am just stupid and forgot that that is what the site used to look like XD

Yeah, it's weird to think that "Posts:" and "Joined:" used to be ABOVE badges, not below (like they are now).

Also, we only used to be able to show 4 badges on posts, and avatars used to be left-aligned (not centered).

Huh I never noticed that many changes (especially the left-alignment) I only really noticed the number of badges. Oh and the report button used to be an actual button under the badges.

(btw, "ColdStorage" is [user]DigitalSushi[/user]. He renamed his account a while ago.)

Whatever happened to him? I haven't seen him in a few months and he hasn't been on the site in a while. I PMed him near when I came back but that was really the only time I saw him :/

Have you tried user groups?

 

[staika]

Whatever happened to him? I haven't seen him in a few months and he hasn't been on the site in a while. I PMed him near when I came back but that was really the only time I saw him :/

iirc, he asked for some time off, a while back.

Funnily enough, they let him keep his mod powers while he takes his time off.

[small][user]Copper Zen[/user] had his mod powers taken away, when he asked for some time off from moderating.
Must have something to do with 'time served' as a moderator, or something.[/small]

Ah so that must be what happened to [user]Caliostro[/user] as well since he hasn't been on in awhile either. Actually I remember back when there were a few mods that would never log on but were still listed in the mod list. (It's been awhile so I can't remember their names :/) Though at that time I wanted to be a mod quite badly so I would see which mods weren't on for months as a measuring stick to when they'd need a mod XD

Huh I never noticed that many changes (especially the left-alignment) I only really noticed the number of badges. Oh and the report button used to be an actual button under the badges.

From what I've heard, some people were reluctant to click the report button on the old forum layout.

Because it was under all the user details on the left (and it was a big red "REPORT" button), people incorrectly assumed the button was for reporting the entire user, rather than the post.

Now that it's next to the quote button, it's more obvious that it's just for reporting the post.

I guess that would make sense. I always knew that the big red button was only meant to report the post since there was the report button in the profile that was used for user reporting. But looking at it again once you point that out I can see how they could mistake that.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I once thought I'd be a mod, I'm so funny.

 

[thesilentman]

I once thought I'd be a mod, I'm so funny.

Dah, it'd suck up your free time. I like my free time. =P

 

[Evil Smurf]

I once thought I'd be a mod, I'm so funny.

Dah, it'd suck up your free time. I like my free time. =P

Free time is fun time!

 

[Evil Smurf]

Yeah, modding takes a loooong time. It's not a quick process.

We get people who report perfectly innocent posts, just to be annoying.
If it's a long post that's been reported, you have to read all the way through it, even if you find the subject matter completely and utterly boring. (R&P forum! Yay! -_-)
If it's part of a long quote chain, quite often you have to read a few posts leading up to it, to get an idea of context.
And those massive shitstorm threads we've been getting recently add a LOT to our workload. Sooo many posts get reported in there, you pretty much end up reading all the way through a 20-page thread.

So yeah, moderating is a lot of work!

Does it go on your résumé?

 

[General Twinkletoes]

Modding a minecraft server with 40 people for a while was enough of a pain in the ass for me :/

 

[Evil Smurf]

Yeah, modding takes a loooong time. It's not a quick process.

We get people who report perfectly innocent posts, just to be annoying.
If it's a long post that's been reported, you have to read all the way through it, even if you find the subject matter completely and utterly boring. (R&P forum! Yay! -_-)
If it's part of a long quote chain, quite often you have to read a few posts leading up to it, to get an idea of context.
And those massive shitstorm threads we've been getting recently add a LOT to our workload. Sooo many posts get reported in there, you pretty much end up reading all the way through a 20-page thread.

So yeah, moderating is a lot of work!

Especially since you have to issue a reason when it is hard to decipher one.

Thankfully, I am a good boy, got one of my green bits knocked off (didn't even notice)

Wish it went down a bit faster (like 3 months?) and its completely clean after a year. I doubt trolls would wait a full year to be obnoxious.

I've staved off two probations recently.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I've staved off two probations recently.

I have no idea how you keep managing to do that. I thought the appeals process wasn't supposed to function as a 'get out of jail free' card.

Myself and a few others have been wrathed for really stupid reasons in the past, and been unable to appeal them. And yet you keep (allegedly) breaking the rules, and getting let off the hook each and every time.

I don't want to be the one to shout "favoritism", but I can't think of anything else it could be.

(Not meaning to be rude.)

I'm not rude when I appeal, I'm calm, cool and collected. It could be that a have a guardian staff member too I suppose.

 

[staika]

I think me avatar be busted, I blame kross.

On the topic of appeals I think sometimes I question why some people get their bans repealed when they really shouldn't. IE Danyal was banned once and then won an appeal to get unbanned. I never understood why they accepted his appeal since he was one of the worst members of the R&P forum. Though he's banned now so it's all good now, the inconsistency is a problem though and should be fixed.

Edit: Oh I see my pub club expired, now to go renew it.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Thankfully, I am a good boy, got one of my green bits knocked off (didn't even notice)

Oddly, it doesn't notify you when it goes down a notch. A block just quietly disappears by itself.

Wish it went down a bit faster (like 3 months?) and its completely clean after a year. I doubt trolls would wait a full year to be obnoxious.

Some trolls are clever though.

I remember a particularly annoying troll (they got banned a while back), who would troll people and threads all the time, but only actually crossed the line once every 4 - 5 months.
So they never got amnesty. (They couldn't last a full 6 months without breaking the rules again.)

It would've been annoying if they kept getting amnesty sooner (3 months, for instance), and kept on trolling. They'd probably still be trolling today if the amnesty period was shorter.

Edit: Oh I see my pub club expired, now to go renew it.

Yeah, when a pubclub subscription expires, it resets your avatar back to the default.

I think it's so that people aren't able to keep using a larger avatar on a non-pubclub account (since the Escapist can't resize avatars, particularly animated ones).

EDIT:

Danyal

Zeel is another good example of this.

After his ban was lifted, he lasted only a matter of hours before he was banned again.

Zeel was crazy!

 

[thesilentman]

Thankfully, I am a good boy, got one of my green bits knocked off (didn't even notice)

Oddly, it doesn't notify you when it goes down a notch. A block just quietly disappears by itself.

Wish it went down a bit faster (like 3 months?) and its completely clean after a year. I doubt trolls would wait a full year to be obnoxious.

Some trolls are clever though.

I remember a particularly annoying troll (they got banned a while back), who would troll people and threads all the time, but only actually crossed the line once every 4 - 5 months.
So they never got amnesty. (They couldn't last a full 6 months without breaking the rules again.)

It would've been annoying if they kept getting amnesty sooner (3 months, for instance), and kept on trolling. They'd probably still be trolling today if the amnesty period was shorter.

Edit: Oh I see my pub club expired, now to go renew it.

Yeah, when a pubclub subscription expires, it resets your avatar back to the default.

I think it's so that people aren't able to keep using a larger avatar on a non-pubclub account (since the Escapist can't resize avatars, particularly animated ones).

EDIT:

Danyal

Zeel is another good example of this.

After his ban was lifted, he lasted only a matter of hours before he was banned again.

Zeel was crazy!

I prefer calling him a bit strong. I didn't think he was that bad, just someone who likes to overreact. A lot.

Then again, I wasn't around for Mass Effect 3... x-D

 

[Evil Smurf]

Thankfully, I am a good boy, got one of my green bits knocked off (didn't even notice)

Oddly, it doesn't notify you when it goes down a notch. A block just quietly disappears by itself.

Wish it went down a bit faster (like 3 months?) and its completely clean after a year. I doubt trolls would wait a full year to be obnoxious.

Some trolls are clever though.

I remember a particularly annoying troll (they got banned a while back), who would troll people and threads all the time, but only actually crossed the line once every 4 - 5 months.
So they never got amnesty. (They couldn't last a full 6 months without breaking the rules again.)

It would've been annoying if they kept getting amnesty sooner (3 months, for instance), and kept on trolling. They'd probably still be trolling today if the amnesty period was shorter.

Edit: Oh I see my pub club expired, now to go renew it.

Yeah, when a pubclub subscription expires, it resets your avatar back to the default.

I think it's so that people aren't able to keep using a larger avatar on a non-pubclub account (since the Escapist can't resize avatars, particularly animated ones).

EDIT:

Danyal

Zeel is another good example of this.

After his ban was lifted, he lasted only a matter of hours before he was banned again.

Zeel was crazy!

I prefer calling him a bit strong. I didn't think he was that bad, just someone who likes to overreact. A lot.

Then again, I wasn't around for Mass Effect 3... x-D

I avoided all those threads.

 

[Evil Smurf]

AgeueuekeejSHRISHEKAJSJAOAQBDIWIWIEOEEB! WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE AUSTRALIA WILL HAVE A **** IN POWER?

 

[Evil Smurf]

Fucking hell.