Revelations upon Forum Policy

As someone who regularly checks EoEO and WE, and have been the witness of some EoEO bannings, I have to say Staff's done a pretty good job of it. They don't ban views - they ban the way that that view was expressed. At least, from my experience here, and I've been around for a good long time.

I would have to agree with this banning if that thread was, in fact, made soon after his death. It wasn't a perma-ban, it was merely a temp-ban to show you that there are more reasonable ways to express your opinion.

That thread must have been hilarious. "I told u I was hardcore." :laugh:

I think the temp ban was unnessasary.

I was going to say something about eoeo that kind of ties in with this, so I'll say it here.
The "zero tolerance policy towards flaming and spam" is a load. Spamming and flaming is tolerated, sometimes it's just an edit, sometimes it's completly ignoring it(and no, a few times I know staff did see the post), but it's not zero. I remember when the eoeo bans were first put in place, Bleys, I think it was him, said how he felt kind of bad about the first person they did it too, because he didn't think she was trying to be terribly rude, but rules were rules! Maybe it wasn't Bleys who said that, maybe it was Unne or whoever else, I'm not trying to be all "oooh old staff rox more"

Sometimes it's a case of, "well, nobody bothered reporting the post, so I guess they aren't all that cut up about it".

It's because 92.7% of this forum is made up of socs and unbalanced mods.

Yes, there are communists everywhere these days.

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Originally Posted by Omecle

It's because 92.7% of this forum is made up of socs and unbalanced mods.

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92.8%, as it happens. ;)

My fair Britons, what exactly are socs?

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Originally Posted by nik0tine

My fair Britons, what exactly are socs?

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The EoFF Wiki reveals all!

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Originally Posted by Omecle

It's because 92.7% of this forum is made up of socs and unbalanced mods.

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Yah, that makes sense considering it's the stupid newbies that get away with spamming all the damn time.

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Originally Posted by MecaKane

Yah, that makes sense considering it's the stupid newbies that get away with spamming all the damn time.

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On topic, I wonder if you'd get an EoEO ban if you posted that there :)

I think you would, as you'd have to say "it's the newbies who I consider to be stupid" instead of "it's the stupid newbies" to get away with it.

Psy's catching on.

Big D speaks for me on this issue.

I'd say sharing your negative views on a particular celebrity figure in a thread is different than making a new one with the intent of bashing that person, especially when they had just passed away. There are much more civil ways of expressing yourself, see Big D or The Captain's posts for examples. And it was Shlup that did it. Always Shlup.

Please use the warn button if you come across posts that you think aren't in accordance with the rules of this message board. Just be nice! Remember, it's only two weeks, and they're over now.

Was your last paragraph sincere or were using sarcasm?

I don't think I ever banned anyone from EoEO. Remember: BoB is the new scapegoat. It was him!

But, yeah, if you had made a new thread... and just after he died. I think that crosses a line.

And, to be fair, I made a thread for expressing views on Hunter, in The Lounge no less. That was free for anyone to come in and express their views in a considerate manner.