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26. October 2006 @ 16:45 |
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I'm subscribed to the "What are you listening to?" thread & I come in for a chat now and again, just for a break from the forums, don't forget that I've been helping people for the last year, so I see this as a great achievement...
Seems as if thoose who post in the game forums (like yourself) hit Addict inside a few monthes (Svtsang, iPirate, TheReturn), they must be fast.
Yeah I do agree people who do post in the video game console area do hit addict level fast but what can you really do right? And dont forget you posted in the "need a sig look no further" thread as well. But yeah I guess your right you didint post as many times as I thought you did.
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i think post counts should be removed from console forum posts. (in fact i should request this of the Admins); maybe then some of the utter crap posting will cease (and along with it a lot of irrelevant questions like status and post counts would decrease); i am sick and tired of reading thru kiddie posts full of pointless little one liners such as "lol" and you're gay" and "what console is better than what console". ARGHHHHHHHHHh /end rant
Ahhhh I would stil be at newbie status then. And that wouldent be cool. Maybe every 3 times you post in the video game console forums it is only worth 1. So every three post turn out to be 1 full one in any other section. Also I do see a lot of pointless post in the video game console forums and I agree with you and I my self may sometimes do that to but I dont really notice because I am only trying to have a conversation with them.
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could you create a petition for members to sign to help win such a banning spree? i'd sign...and create accounts to sign with, too! :-P
That would be an awseome Idea I would join in thats cool.
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would it be possible to drop the rank, or keep it, but have some thing like a karma system where you give them points toward if they are helpful or useless? I seen it on other forums, looked cool.
I dont think so but it would be a cool idea. But why would they get their rank droped in the first place? I nkow for useless edvice but that would be hard to keep track off.
Oh yeah and I dont post in the video game consoles just to get my rank up because once I reach the "afterdawn addict" status I will still post their because I enjoy doing so thats all.
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26. October 2006 @ 21:44 |
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I nkow for useless edvice but that would be hard to keep track off.
- actually it's real easy to track, if more people understood that we mods and the regulars, do know what goes on around the site, maybe we'd have less crap posting (of course that won't happen because the majority of the little tikes act like they're in a school playground).
Just because a mod doesn't post in a thread doesn't mean the little tikes are necessarily running amok. For example I lurk on one hell of a lot of posts (15159 at the moment) and don't always 'pounce' right away. My point is that we most certainly know who the worst idiots are (not that we need to try very hard, crap posting on a highly popular and very public site is like a huge police siren/700foot high sign pointing down at the posts)
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26. October 2006 @ 21:52 |
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Who are you referring to, exactly, creaky?
As for mods being reglars and the fact that they know what's going on, is obvious. In fact, I read this on another forum site - "The Mods and Admins are the 'Gods' of this site. Mess with them and...." (you can guess the rest of it)
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26. October 2006 @ 21:56 |
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i wasn't referring to anyone in particular, just making the point that whoever the idiots are, we (and the regular posters) know who they are, some of them we get rid of, some of them come back, but of course there's a never-ending influx of rude lazy pointless kids (and spammers though i think everybody hates spammers)
another case in point - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/412518/2490892 (but as long as that poster's posts improve it's not a problem)
and another example of utter pointlessness - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/412558
and another example - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/406723 however in that thread the guys managed to wean the original poster off one of the worst cases of text speak i've ever seen
it's 07:26 and already i'm wondering why i bother trying to keep this place clean :P
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27. October 2006 @ 00:27 |
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I see your point now, creaky. I mean, one of those threads was actually for saying goodnight...GOODNIGHT!!??!
Like saying 'Howz your dog?' in a parlimentary session...
EDIT: Just noticed the end of that.."Closed because of stupidity"
8-) Made me giggle
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27. October 2006 @ 00:39 |
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LOL, creaky, I just had a look at that link, the one conerning NERD files...
Is that a joke? I mean c'mon...
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NERD file format
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plays in BS player
Surely this guy is taking the p*ss? Oh well
/me runs off and cries :P
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27. October 2006 @ 00:59 |
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~LoL~ Ripper!
Sounds like there taking the piss, but google 'um, there legit...o.0,
Originally posted by Creaky:
i think post counts should be removed from console forum posts. (in fact i should request this of the Admins); maybe then some of the utter crap posting will cease (and along with it a lot of irrelevant questions like status and post counts would decrease); i am sick and tired of reading thru kiddie posts full of pointless little one liners such as "lol" and you're gay" and "what console is better than what console". ARGHHHHHHHHHh /end rant
Exactly how I feel^^.
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27. October 2006 @ 01:42 |
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Rly Rav? Lol, I was too pissed off that I'm using Tor to get on Ad (long story), that I couldn't be bothered to even Google it :P
Anyway, back on topic (well kinda), I rarely go in the console forums; and when I do I, along with everyone else it seems, get bogged down and trampled upon by the rampaging fanboys, flamers, idiots, children etc, the list goes on.
I disagree that all console posts shouldn't go towards the post count, because for all of the (the few) legit. posters in there, that "specialise" (if you will) in that area, get tarred with everyone else's brush...
GRRRRR :)
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27. October 2006 @ 03:07 |
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~LoL~, yep, honest they are :-)
And you have a valid point, the best example I can think of personally is Janrocks, she was a great member who used to post in the game forums (aswell as the linux & windows forums).
She stood here ground wherever she posted with a firm knowledge of each of those fields, she left aD because she was sick of being flamed by the 'tards in the game forums & sacked it, IMO she and a few others where the only REAL posters in those forums, the rest of the kiddie-winks I see posting in there these days talk cr@p & flame, grrr!!!!
No-one can thruthfully say otherwise....
Anywhoo, I suppose the console forums are forums none the less, the qaulity of them HAS improved, due to tighter & stricter moderation, though I still see too much chit-chat, they are valid in some nature a percentage of the time, don't burn me for saying this but cutting off status upgrades for posts in there may cause more problems than its worth in them boards, though I personally think its a feasible solution.
What I suggest is just police them harder, encourage the use of the "report offensive post" button, rather than participating in the flame war's & lay down the rules harder, it'll stop...it worked that month when dRD announced a "Ban now, ask questions later" policy, didn't it??
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27. October 2006 @ 05:23 |
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Yeah Rav, I think it should be "Ban now ask questions later month", every month!
But that's just what I think ;-)
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27. October 2006 @ 05:45 |
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now that's something i agree with :P
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27. October 2006 @ 11:50 |
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Lol, good to know people like my ideas :P
~hehe~
Not that the moderating isn't good enough in the consoles to keep it under wraps, it is just that the console idiots spawn faster than Mods do, (in true gamer talk - lol, spawn.)!
All in favour of ban em all year say I :D
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27. October 2006 @ 19:09 |
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just found this one, and i agree with most of it. i lurk on here alot, i dont usually post outside of the safety valve, i dont like dealing with all the crap that goes on in the other forums. ever once in a great while ill go out into the audio or cd-r forums and look around a bit, maybe post. honestly i dont much care about my post count. (it shows, i only have about 200 or so) its only a number anyway. no big deal.
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28. October 2006 @ 04:15 |
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Yeah Rav, I think it should be "Ban now ask questions later month", every month!
I couldn't disagree with that more, if it were so I'd be long gone, I messed up my sig once, I didn't even have a clue about it, it was a matter of pasting one URL as aposed to another, which led to the 2-day suspension...
read more here:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/108/322699#2463766
People make mistakes, no-ones perfect, aD aren't Nazi's..."Ban now ask questions later month, every month!" is wrong.
Thats just me anyways, I love aD the way it is, dRD & the admins/staff do a great job =D
Anyways, **back on topic**.
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If they would disable member ranking all together with the exception of Mods, Admin and Staff Members and maybe just show your post count these threads may stop popping up.
Great idea LOCO, but it'll encourage post padders, I've seen it happen many a time, for example @ RN (if you don't know what that is, you don't need to).
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28. October 2006 @ 04:21 |
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we only ban idiots/miscreants/pointless irritating pre-schoolers/drug addicts/murderers and lest we forget - SPAMMERS, arghhhhhhhhh
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28. October 2006 @ 04:24 |
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we only ban idiots/miscreants/pointless irritating pre-schoolers/drug addicts/murderers and lest we forget - SPAMMERS, arghhhhhhhhh
That Jorahan kid comes to mind... ;-)
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28. October 2006 @ 04:25 |
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28. October 2006 @ 04:32 |
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..one chance or you're banned, this site is already chock full of bored pointless kids and they're being weeded out
Strong words, I agree with 'em tho..that one in particular had a sig which is almost 300kb!! :-X
Took 'em two threads to work out how to use gawd darn BB codes, tut, tut, tut....
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28. October 2006 @ 04:42 |
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Rav how can you say you agree with that, yet disagree with what I said about ban em all month thing. That's contradiction my friend :P
And anyway you got a temp ban for your sig, I allready knew why, but it's not as if a senior, like you, would be banned over something like that. It is all about setting an example to the new people that think they run the place.
However, I didn't jump on this thread to get confrontational with people, especially you matey. :-)
So for now, Ripper's out.
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28. October 2006 @ 05:25 |
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Are all of you above aware that the title of this thread is 'Post counter filter'?
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28. October 2006 @ 05:37 |
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Yes I think we are actually. But the conversation that is going on is of a constructive level. Also serveral mods have been regularly posting in the thread.
What are you trying to do? By saying that, you are only dragging the topic further adrift.
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28. October 2006 @ 07:03 |
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@Ripper, I agree w/ there being idiots on this site, but banning em all no qeustions asked just aint right, not being confrontational or anything, just having a bit of civilised debate :-)
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28. October 2006 @ 07:11 |
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it all depends on the crime, if it's sufficient to ba canned, they're canned. my view is this - you just do not see same level of misbehaving on other sites, and i don't even see the amount of moderator comments re bannings/endless requests for posters to be civil/conform/mature/etc as we have to do here..
...so the only way is good old school punishment (from my school days, not modern day lack of discipline schools) - short/sharp discipline - no bickering, whinging bleating or crying. that's the only way to get this place clean
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28. October 2006 @ 07:15 |
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I know Rav, no hard feelings mate. Love a good debate in the afternoon! Lol, anyway at the end of the day, there is nowt I can do about it, as much as I'd like to be able to, I can't ;-)
So for now, creaky can do as he pleases :P
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28. October 2006 @ 07:21 |
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By saying that, you are only dragging the topic further adrift.
But how?
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