Why do you feel the need to be a troll to have this discussion? As a mod, shouldn't you, at the very least, be respectful of the fact that, at present, the poll is not in your favour and therefore there might actually be debate to be had without this nonsense? After all, you may have to enforce the outcome if what you say above is true. More evidence of why the modship here is stale and needs refreshing.
"Bub" is not, and has never been a derogatory term. And before we continue, lemme ask, are you drunk? Cuz your posts are little more than unfunny insults. You really don't seen the connection between your av and your comments? Are you fucking blind?! All this talk about making the board better and here you are trolling another member with your av and signature.
No, the staff should have been listening to Clyde. He was the only staff member through this whole mess with a damned lick of common fucking sense.
Spare me, clearly The Exception has some issue with me, has had for awhile now. My side is winning? My side isn't even a voting option.
Probably because you have the board's best interests at heart and he never did. Ballsack came back on staff for one reason and one reason only: to fuck the board. Once he did that, oh, well, suddenly he's got a job and no time for this shit.
Give me a break. That wasn't his call. He was following Lanzman's orders. You're hounding him over that? Your bitterness over this rep issue has hit new lows.
I think that's not a problem of the board itself. It's just that the situation has changed. In 2003, the lines were clear: you were either for or against Bush's Iraq adventure. We could discuss that ad infinitum, have fun with it and we did. These days the topics are so complicated that when you ask ten professors of Economics you'll get eleven opinions on what's really going on. We cannot even start talking about it without writing an initial post of less than 200.000 words nobody understands. The left and the right are equals now in their helplessness. They just differ in their amateur opinions as to what could, might be a way out - the righties wanting more 'freedom' which lead to the whole disaster in the first place, the lefties wanting more regulation bordering on communism without thinking about what happened to that. It's all about as interesting as a computer nerd as the villain in a DIE HARD movie. Also,
Wrong on both counts. When you all decided to do the reset, it was Ballsack who jumped up to rejoin the staff going, "Oooo! Oooo! I know how to do that!" I have no bitterness over the rep issue. I'm just telling you where you went wrong. You'll either listen or you won't.
A lot of the people who voted a few months ago to leave it alone aren't here anymore. But do whatever. Experientia magistra stultorum.
Surely the relevant opinion is that of the people who are posting now? I had to laugh at your little list of "good" posters a page back. Sokar? Really? What does he offer the place? He doesn't even try and debate, just plays the big bad keyboard warrior. If someone leaves because of a little rep toy, then they're nothing but children. "Waaaaah, I can't troll with my rep. Waaaah. ". Good riddance. Pathetic that something like that should take on such importance for some people. Did peoplle really leave TNZ for a rep system?
Sokar actually brings a lot to the board. You just don't like him because you disagree with him. He puts the left, including you, in their place. Nobody left TNZ for a rep system. We left for a better board. We had it for awhile, but some couldn't leave well enough alone and had to fix something that wasn't broken. As for trolling, looking at your AV and sig, you're a good one to talk.
And if Nick hadn't stepped up, you don't think Lanz would've asked O2C or someone else with mad haxxorz skillz? The reservations people had about his return to the staff--and that includes me--is well earned, but credit where it's due. He did his job, and left quietly with none of his infamous drama queen temper tantrums--like an adult.
Save that I am not "the left". You only assume I am because I am to the left of you on foreign policy and not a racist. What exactly are Sokar's view on things? Can you tell me? There was no rep system when we came here. So your better board didn't have the toy you so desperately pine after. And you're the righteous one who now changes he av to use personal info against me - yet criticises people for "playing hard and fast" with personal info. I'm glad you've changed your av actually, because it was this little trick that you've just pulled that forced me to reveal the info it relates to in the first place, the first time you did it. So, we can refer to this post next time you spew some righteous indignation. You're no better than anyone else. Btw, it ain't gonna work to your advantage this time. No dramaz I'm afraid.
Good for you. I don't speak for Sokar. If you want to know his opinion, ask him. You're finally getting something right. No, there wasn't a rep system when we came here. But we got one and it even evolved from ABCABC to ABABAB to AAAAAA to accomodate rep warring. What's wrong with my AV? You got something against black people?
You said "good". And I thought Ward was just "busy with RL" not sulking off like you did... As to the poll, as much as I hate seeing some people in the green, I say leave it it as it is now. For the most part, the only ones that want to change it back were the ones that abused it in the extreme.
If that's the case, it has nothing to do with rep. Rep was a blunt trauma instrument used to bully posters who weren't liked by the gang of bullies. That doesn't add quality to discussion.
If for no other reason, rep should be left alone because the arguments by Muad and company are so pathetic.
Nah, the Clyde is contrarian and therefore wrong isn't my thing. Muad, Volpone, and Sokar are at their most entertaining when they whine about not being able to put liberals in their place. If they had the talent of a Clyde, they wouldn't need rep for that.
Let's leave it alone but keep running polls every couple of months, just for the entertainment value of all the butthurt.
Truly the gift that keeps on giving. You'd think after seven months and a self imposed exile they would have gotten over it and moved on. I'd bump it put to yearly though. These threads are certainly good for a laugh, but no need to clutter the board with repwhine drama.
I couldn't care less what you guys do with it. Ultimately anyone who wants the old system back is doomed to beratement from individuals who seem to think it''s A-Ok to troll members with their Avs using the target's pics hiding behind rules intended to make the place better, not for fuckwaddery. Astonishing. Given an actual choice I would go with putting it back but we all know that isn't going to happen so why bother with all of this? Do whatever, I have RL to deal with.
Is that so? gul is somewhat to the left of the political spectrum. I don't recall him getting negged into the red. Same is true for Anc, Diacanu, and a few others. The negrepping wasn't over political affiliations; it was over pure and simple asshattery. Act like an asshat and you get negged. If you don't care about rep, you'll keep right on acting like an asshat. If you do care about rep, you'll stop.
