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Volpone
Zombie Hunter
So. Funny story. I was briefly a mod at WF on two occasions. The first time was during the Third Age of Wordforge. Astonishingly, Tasvir's been doing the same schtick for going on 20 years and the staff was discussing how to deal with it. Warnings had no effect and in those days they were loathe to permaban anyone. But we still had functioning rep. And Tasvir was very sensitive to his rep status. So every time he'd drop the N-bomb I'd dump a day's worth of negreps into his posts. It actually worked. But Elwood's position was that mods didn't engage in Rep War. I argued that I was using a board tool--one anyone could use--to moderate behavior. He disagreed. I said I wasn't going to stop. I quit or was fired, depending on who you asked. Luckily, as I said, not being a mod didn't prevent me from negrepping misbehaving posters so the campaign continued. Of course negrep has been done away with because apparently software designers decided it was "too mean."
Seph
* Eat Shit And Die *
You can still neg on xenforo software
Denny Crane
Well-known member
Point taken. This is why the internet feels so empty now. Bots everywhere. Do you want me to never come back again @Seph?
Seph
* Eat Shit And Die *
It's not what I want that matters really is it, abide by what the owner wants and stay as long as you like.
Don't and you can leave it's really up to you.
Personally I'd prefer you left all the racist bullshit at the door and stayed, but that on you to decide.
Denny Crane
Well-known member
Eat Shit And Die
Seph...
There is but you don't have that right, nobody gets it. The only times it has ever happened is when admins have nuked themselves on the way out the door.
Eat Shit And Die
Seph...
It's not a perk that is granted to anyone who has been a member here.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
Fair enough. But I will say I did not notice that the "EAT SHIT AND DIE" rep had any kind of weight. In Olden Dayes you had a big bar of rep under your avatar. Bright shining green for posrep and red for neg. Kinda like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. Without that, the effect of reps is somewhat lost to the casual user.
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
OH! But more on topic: I realized the other thing The Other Place drives me batty about: They'll say things that would make for an interesting discussion. But you realize you'll immediately go into the Idiocracy Pardox if you try to engage. Fantastic Four. Chick Silver Surfer. "Big deal. Make the character female. It makes no difference. What's the problem? Unless you hate women. Do you hate women?" Bitch, please. Flip the coin. If it makes no difference, why not cast a male Silver Surfer?
Here's the thing about storytelling: Don't create things in your story that you have to stop and explain. Black Little Mermaid. Chick Silver Surfer. Unless it is important to the story. Obviously, Fantastic Four isn't out for another month and a half plus, so maybe (I doubt it but maybe) there's a reason for the story that Silver Surfer is a chick. But the point is, other dya I was at the supermarket. And the floral section had balloons for sale. Captain America was white. Little Mermaid was the 1989 cartoon version. How do you explain to your kid why Cap/Little Mermaid looks different--when there's no reason to force your customer into that situation?
Why do a female Silver Surfer? What does it bring to the story? The totally ignorant viewer doesn't care one way or another if the Silver Surfer is a boy or a girl, because they've never heard of the Silver Surfer. The casual consumer may have noticed T-shirts in Wal*Mart or Target with the Silver Surfer. Or seen a comic or two. Or the...2007(?) movie. And wonder why the Silver Surfer is a chick. The die hard Fantastic Four fans (is that even a thing?) are going to wonder why they chose an obscure version of the Silver Surfer over the mainstream one.
In short, there's a million reasons to use a dude Silver Surfer and I don't know the reason to use a chick one. And the fact that Disney did last minute reshoots involving the character make me think this is an unforced error for them as well.
All this would add to an interesting and possibly enlightening discussion at The Other Place, except I realize if I post it there, my response will be "BRAWNDO HAS WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!" "WATER, LIKE FROM THE TOILET?!" So I just have to walk away. "There has been too much violence, too much pain. None here are without sin, but I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Leave the pump, the oil, the gasoline, and the whole compound, and I spare your lives. Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the wasteland. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror. I await your answer. You have one full day to decide."
Here's the thing about storytelling: Don't create things in your story that you have to stop and explain. Black Little Mermaid. Chick Silver Surfer. Unless it is important to the story. Obviously, Fantastic Four isn't out for another month and a half plus, so maybe (I doubt it but maybe) there's a reason for the story that Silver Surfer is a chick. But the point is, other dya I was at the supermarket. And the floral section had balloons for sale. Captain America was white. Little Mermaid was the 1989 cartoon version. How do you explain to your kid why Cap/Little Mermaid looks different--when there's no reason to force your customer into that situation?
Why do a female Silver Surfer? What does it bring to the story? The totally ignorant viewer doesn't care one way or another if the Silver Surfer is a boy or a girl, because they've never heard of the Silver Surfer. The casual consumer may have noticed T-shirts in Wal*Mart or Target with the Silver Surfer. Or seen a comic or two. Or the...2007(?) movie. And wonder why the Silver Surfer is a chick. The die hard Fantastic Four fans (is that even a thing?) are going to wonder why they chose an obscure version of the Silver Surfer over the mainstream one.
In short, there's a million reasons to use a dude Silver Surfer and I don't know the reason to use a chick one. And the fact that Disney did last minute reshoots involving the character make me think this is an unforced error for them as well.
All this would add to an interesting and possibly enlightening discussion at The Other Place, except I realize if I post it there, my response will be "BRAWNDO HAS WHAT PLANTS CRAVE!" "WATER, LIKE FROM THE TOILET?!" So I just have to walk away. "There has been too much violence, too much pain. None here are without sin, but I have an honorable compromise. Just walk away. Leave the pump, the oil, the gasoline, and the whole compound, and I spare your lives. Just walk away. I will give you safe passage in the wasteland. Just walk away and there will be an end to the horror. I await your answer. You have one full day to decide."
Denny Crane
Well-known member
Can I ask an admin to delete everything though?
Volpone
Zombie Hunter
OR! You could just be a man and stop being a boring 1 dimensional douche and contribute to the board.
Just sayin'. You wouldn't even have to apologize. Just stop sucking and being boring.
Eat Shit And Die
Seph...
I'm an admin, and no. That's what I already told you.
Eat Shit And Die
Seph...
That was the vBulletin days though no?
Denny Crane
Well-known member
Contribute what exactly? Diatribes like yours? Go fuck yourself with your idiocy. I am more interesting than anyone else ever will be.
Bickendan
Shifty sumbitch
Don't know about here, but the owners changed it at WF so neg karma didn't affect score before I came on staff, and there's been no desire to change it back.
Bickendan
Shifty sumbitch
On paper, it shouldn't matter what race/sex a character is. In practice, outside of instances like Samuel L. Nick Fury, I agree, it has to make narrative sense.
But for the most part, I don't really give a fuck and for the most part, people bitch for the sake of bitching. And by that, I mean they bitch with their wallet, so there's that.
Eat Shit And Die
Seph...
do you have any interest in politics, TV Shows, Movies, Music, sports, outdoorsy shit like fishing, video games there a thousand things you can contribute here and one that is removed at the request of the owner.
He has plans to revamp this forum over the next year or so and being that there are always like 100+ unique visitors that are not bots and webcrawlers and stuff he has plans to advertise to unregistered visitors something it will be extremely hard to achieve if not impossible if the whole site is head to toe in racist and homophobic remarks I mean it will literally mess with his ability to monetise the site in some way, he has been paying to keep this place up since he took it on in 2010 that's 15years of outgoings with zero income, people should be thankful that it's even still up at this point not pissing and moaning that he may want the fucking place to cover a small amount of its own rent.
But as I said I'd rather you left the shit at the door and joined in with the rest of us but if that's not something you can manage it was nice knowing you.
I hope this adequately explains why it's not tolerated anymore and hasn't be on TK in at least 4 or 5 years at least.
Seph.
Denny Crane
Well-known member
If weare still talking about Fantastic Four I think I saw they were gonna have a big opening weekend? So the Surfer being a Surfette really doesn't bother non-comics readers, unlike us. Only movie I am prebooking this summer is Jurassic World. I have no interest in watching OLD Susan Richards.