Wow, what are they going to ban next? I am just as outraged as you are!

Hobart Bliggity Posted:

I’ve heard rumors around that the mod/dev team is working on a set of rules for IDC that will outlaw the type of hilarious antics that went on this afternoon. Is this true, and if so, why? A good 8-9 people had a blast taking advantage of a noob, more people are living vicariously thought the thread posted about it, and the only strain it put on the mod staff was having to click “close thread” 4 times and delete one bogus bug report. It’s not like any hard judgement calls had to be made, and if n_gger had read any of the rules or walkthroughs or database or wiki or anything pretty much he wouldn’t have made the threads or the bug report.

Why, in the near future, would I be held responsible for another posters ignorance? How can you very clearly have the expectation that everyone read the rules before posting, then place the blame on anyone but the poster that didn’t read the rules?

In days gone by I have pulled the same bug report trolling, and even when the mod staff was 2/7 the size it currently is, it was laughed off as a joke.

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]You can’t tell me that, with the relaxed image rules and new setup, the strain on the mod staff is more than 5-fold what it used to be.

Don’t take this opportunity to have fun here away from us. I understand it’s a bit frustrating to have to deal with idiots, but we’re not here to make your lives as easy as possible. We’re here to have fun, and if that fun slightly inconveniences you, I really don’t care. You’ll have to deal with the idiots anyway sometime, so let us at them first.

You know, for a self-professed Troll, you’re BAWWWWing pretty loudly.

MOD EDIT: User banned for trolling in CD.

MercWithMouth was banned for this post by Nicco

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MercWithMouth Posted:

You know, for a self-professed Troll, you’re BAWWWWing pretty loudly.

ye if this online game about trolling people online gets to the point where no trolling is allowed, its just going to be a bad game with nothing going for it, and people like you playing.

Mod Edit: User banned for Trolling in CD. The original post was trolling, regardless of your attempt to edit it.

Melanin-Enhanced Individual was banned for this post by Sergeant Cid

MercWithMouth Posted:

You know, for a self-professed Troll, you’re BAWWWWing pretty loudly.

Lee_Harvey_Oswald Posted:

ye if this online game about trolling people online gets to the point where no trolling is allowed, its just going to be a bad game with nothing going for it.

And this is still in Civil Discussion, gentlemen. We can discuss this ‘rumor’ without making snide remarks.

lee has a point though, trolling and general bumhattery is part of what makes this game special and when the trolling is reduced forumwarz becomes more like “another one of those browser games”

in other news, i do not believe the rumor

Lee_Harvey_Oswald Posted:

ye if this online game about trolling people online gets to the point where no trolling is allowed, its just going to be a bad game with nothing going for it, and people like you playing.

Mod Edit: User banned for Trolling in CD. The original post was trolling, regardless of your attempt to edit it.

? So no edits then?

can we request that single posts be made non-rp?

was Posted:

? So no edits then?

I reverted his post back to the original.

was Posted:

Why? I can only bumume that he edited his post to something that wasn’t trolling within one minute. This seems like a strange precedent. Strange probably not being the right word.

He and Merc both committed a trolling offense. I saw both posts in their original version, and began to respond. My intention was to let both off with a warning. While I was responding, Merc was banned for his trolling act by another Mod. During that time, LHO edited his post. Banning one but not the other would have been unfair. I therefore banned LHO for his trolling, and reverted the original post, to show what he was banned for.

Both players were banned for trolling in the same thread. The fact that one decided to edit his post and the other did not doesn’t change the facts of the original offenses. I based my decision on what I saw, not what it was changed to.

As far as a ‘precedent’, this is nothing new. If you make a trolling post, and it is reported, and you then edit your post, the original post is still part of the original report. If the original post breaks the rules, then it doesn’t matter what you ‘edited’ it to. You still broke the rules, and you still face the potential consequences. We’ve banned numerous people for making troll posts even though the edited them after they were reported.