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  1. Amaris

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    Enlighten me, please.
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  2. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    The problem is facebook, twitter and Reddit, not "problem posters".
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    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Eliminate half the forums by merging them and then each forum will get twice as many posts per day. You want traffic and new posters? Then they need to see active subforums not dead forums no one posts in.

    More forums just results in the same number of posts being divided more ways so there is less visible activity in each subforum.
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  4. Amaris

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    Facebook, Twitter (less so these days), and Reddit are indeed juggernauts, and make smaller boards work harder to keep their communities together, but what good is a community discussion board when some of the members just go around fucking with people constantly? If you start a thread and want to discuss a topic important to you, and someone comes in and consistently derails it time and time again, does not listen to warnings, moves on to other threads, and then comes back and does it again, how likely are you going to bother posting here?
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  5. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Spoken like the little wanna be dictator we have always know you to be. "The plebs wish to provide feedback and input?! How dare they! Can you believe their gall for wanting to been consulted before major changes?":rolleyes:
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  6. Amaris

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    The Violet Room is for call out threads, spam, and posters who can't do anything but derail threads and generally fuck around with the rest of the community. The Red Room will still remain the most popular part of the board.
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  7. Amaris

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    Feedback good. Flaming not good, or at least not in the Help Desk. That's not a new rule, @Dinner, and you've been here long enough to know that.
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  8. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    I've had plenty of my threads derailed, I don't think it merits a separate room.
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    So much for your supposed desire for frank discussion, eh?
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    We all say borderline shit. It's Wordforge after all. That's it's tradition. So you're all good.
    But if you post 900 fucking threads a day with the same shit over and over, no, you're not all good.
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  11. Amaris

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    You may not, but I do. I'm tired of derailed threads. I'm tired of spam taking up huge chunks of the Red Room, and I'm tired of people like @gturner pushing people away because of shitposting.
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  12. Amaris

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    Who said anything about frank discussion? That said, frank discussion means being blunt, but you're not being blunt, you're just moving to insults. You can hate the new room all you want, but the Help Desk rules have not changed.
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  13. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    And who has done that?
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  14. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    gturner is pushing no one away. What's wrong with ignore?
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  15. markb

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    Lol. They have huge restraint, IMO. If it was me in their place the ax would fall. And I mean a literal ax.
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    The original purpose of the Red Room was to be a substitute for old skool TNZ. Then it got clogged up and bogged down with TBBS bitch threads, so they split that off into the Gray Room, which folded back into the RR when no one had need for it.

    Now, we've got a separate space for the call out stuff as well as the original Red Room for heated discussion without sorting through Baba threads or Dayton pissmatches.

    How is giving someone more choices an attempt to chase them off?

    We've gotten PMs from several people about this stuff. And making good changes to the board for the greater good is no new thing.

    Faceman digging for troll fodder is why the BR is locked.

    The never ending discussions on rep is why Lanz took the negrep points off.

    Anc pointing out that the Gray Room was just becoming a beacon for TBBS asshattery to use us as their personal army is a big reason we got rid of that, especially since T'Bonz isn't banning people for posting here.

    The abuse of power with past owners and Lanz being unavailable for much of 2011 when big shit was happening is why we have Four Horsemen, even if @evenflow isn't around much.

    Even if we wanted to stealth ban someone, we could hardly get away with it on a board this small. It would be the end of this board and everything it stood for. But we honestly should've considered something like this years ago.
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  17. Amaris

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    Baba. Have you seen the handful of threads I moved to the Violet Room just from baba alone? That's just the first few pages of the Red Room. Just by removing those, the Red Room thread list become so much less cluttered, and baba gets to continue discussing whatever weird poster centered fantasies that he has up to this point.
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    Please show us one poster he has supposedly "pushed away" and then explain why making use of the existing ignore feature would not have worked.

    I doubt you can because you reek of false justifications when your actual goal is obviously to silence posters you dislike.
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  19. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Again, what's wrong with ignore?
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    Yelling Bird Probably a Dual

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    Do you remember Starguard?
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    What makes you think they want to silence posters? Wouldn't a permaban be so much easier if that was the case?
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    :lol: A fantasy world post if ever there was one. Why is it the guys who always claim the mantel of victimhood become little Adolfs the moment they get a little power? Get real with your persecution complex.

    You have said it yourself, your main goal is to silence posters you dislike. Sorry, but I don't think that is a worthy goal and instead is just obvious abuse as well as bad for the forum's activity.
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    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    I doubt it. Starguard's last posts here were in early 2010.
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  24. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    We need a rolleyes smilie. If these post was made by Dayton or someone John didn't like we all know he would be screaming about supposed death threats to justify a ban. That is why I say the less latitude for mod abuse the better.
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  25. Amaris

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    Where did I say it was to silence posters I dislike? Not interpretation, my actual words.
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    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    :rolleyes: : rolleyes :
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  27. Amaris

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    No false justifications. gturner's behavior is the kind of behavior that turns away posters. You don't have to like it, but that's how it is.
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    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    A guy who hardly posted here and who last posted in 2010 years before GT joined here?
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    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Yet you can't come up with a single poster he has supposedly run off nor can you explain why the existing ignore feature would not solve the supposed problem.

    Yeah, sure, it is perfectly clear. Zieg heil, baby. :rolleyes:
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    I am talking about in rep. A rep smilie.
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