amaranthus Posted:

My Two Cents:

Minimodding is a form of trolling, and therefore it should be allowed only in RP forums.

Revealing other people’s alts is not trolling; it’s griefing. It should be bannable everywhere.

QTF. my thoughts exactly. Except I’d say no minimodding anywhere. RP forums don’t need moderation like that since the only real bannable thing is shock and racism titles which is fixed with a report, no questions or arguments involved.

TUBSWEETIE Posted:

Except I’d say no minimodding anywhere. RP forums don’t need moderation like that

I guess I was thinking that minimodding in RP would be acceptable as a form of RP. And even if not intended that way, that’s how it should be taken — i.e., as very SRS business.

a real hack would usually be more serious tho so mabe it was server crapping out, i dont know

theirishboxer Posted:

why are you banning any one unless there doing something completely malicious shock images are funny 99.99% of the time and no one who plays this game can honestly say that they don’t or haven’t ever looked at porn and further more nitpicking on the font or the fact that caps is used is even sillier the whole adding rules just cause some one forgot what they typed when they entered this game the first time and got buthur’t by some one with a since of humor is very special

I didn’t even bother reading this. Use some punctuation man. Log in to see images!

Moderating/banning rules never go anywhere good… the less rules the better. Mods are all ‘grown ups’ they should be able to use their judgment to ban people rather than blindly following rules even if they don’t actually think it’s ban-worthy that is just Log in to see images! elenaratelimit edited this message on 01/13/2009 9:07AM

elenaratelimit Posted:

Moderating/banning rules never go anywhere good… the less rules the better. Mods are all ‘grown ups’ they should be able to use their judgment to ban people rather than blindly following rules even if they don’t actually think it’s ban-worthy that is just Log in to see images!

Combine this with an official ‘warning’ system if someone crosses the line.

For example, if we kept the ‘rule’ about ‘no ALL CAPS posts’ in a non-RP forum, then if McBanny sees someone do so in GD, they can send a warning with an explanation of why that person was warned. The warning stays somewhere on their screen while in Flamebate as a reminder for 24 hours (maybe on the post screen, like the non-RP reminder. If they do it again within that time period, then they get banned, for however long the Mod decides.

Certain rules should stay enforced however, such as divulging personal information (although I hope wishing someone a Happy Birthday isn’t bannable), , browser hijackers, or any type child-exploitation images. And for non-RP, we should still have a restriction on shock images or intentionally offensive language (talking about ‘fine upstanding gentlemen’ in the TrollHole is ‘appropriate’. Doing so in GD obviously isn’t.

There should only be a handful of hard & fast rules. The rest should be moderator evaluation, with some type of warning system available.