THESE ARE CRAZY RULES. These forums used to be cool without all of these new silly "strike systems" or bickering popping up everywhere. All this is is a flame war with gas poured on the fuse; actually, not just this thread, but for the whole dang site. People can *SIMPLY* get another username and come right back in the door. I don't think you can ban IPs, because everybody with that certain IP wouldn't be able to come to this forum. An innocent person wanting to join probably couldn't because of these dumb "rules."
"~If broken three times, you are at the mercy of the admins' discretion, meaning you are subject to being banned."
Pff, what would Deezer or MB do? They probably don't give a hoot about this.
"~However, if you EDIT your OWN remarks after realizing you could get a "strike" for it, and it's BEFORE a mod/admin has to edit it, you'll be fine."
Who in the right mind would waste their time coming back to edit a post because they are scared of "the strike." How would they know what was right or wrong?
"In other words, if a post has to be edited for lack of following a rule, STRIKE."
How stupid is this? jon, I am really beginning to believe you when you say that certain people are acting as if they own the place. Talk about power-hungry; HA, and everyone said Meowrik and I were power hungry when I kicked two people and Meowrik kicked three at the chatroom (over the whole time of being mods). It's just that nobody gives one crap because Sapphira/etc. are mods/admins and favorites among some members here.
"Every time a person's post is edited, I will discretely put at the bottom 'Warning,' 'Strike 1,' etc."
But what if you edit it to fix a link or something, huh?
"...but something like posting porn, etc, is an automatic ban. (But you all knew that)"
So, uh, why'd you say it?
"I apologize for having to be so strict; I really don't WANT to have to do this..."
You better apoligize... then don't do it if you don't. I really don't think it's neccesary.
"...but these boards have gotten out of hand."
NAH...
"Don't trifle with me on this one."
I'm not gonna trifle; I'm gonna rifle myself in the head because of the level of foolishness here...
"---This is the OFFICIAL start now, as in the staff/mods will back me up now."
Because you are the only female?
"I'll post the statistics here to keep track (for the mods/admins and myself, mostly.)"
Oh, great...
"...there's no 'excuse' for 'misbehavior.'"
Sure there can be.
"Please, any mods/admins report "misbehavior" here, so I can keep track of everything.---"
Oh, how formal.
"~NOTE: Editing your post AFTER a mod/admin has edited it (to cover the edit up) is an automatic strike, too."
Rubbish. I don't think anyone in the world would care on bit.
"Todd Begin: 0
Childofthepotatoe: 0"
Did they ask? Why did you randomly put their "strike levels" there.
HA, OF COURSE I will get a strike for speaking my mind. It'll probably be and automatic ban because I am stating my opinions against Sapphira's which she'll get fired up about because she is right and we're all wrong. Nobody else in the world is right; all of these new mods are right. Bow down to them...
"Don't get caught. >:P"
I won't be caught because I'm leaving these idiotic forums.
Edited by - Trainman on 4/4/2004 7:25:11 PM
