The reasons I will no longer make game threads

[Darkwing Duck]

False.

That is the initial PM you sent me on the matter. I responded challenging how silly the profanity filter is. I was getting an infraction for actually going out of my way not to swear. It was your follow up answer that I found to be short, blunt and condescending.

Say what?

Using a symbol to replicate a letter is not going out of the way not to swear. Typing $!x instead of six isn't "going out of the way" to say six. You're still typing six. And that must be what you did as that's what circumventing the profanity filter can only be.

 

[sirkickyass]

False.

That is the initial PM you sent me on the matter. I responded challenging how silly the profanity filter is. I was getting an infraction for actually going out of my way not to swear. It was your follow up answer that I found to be short, blunt and condescending.

Ok. Based on "I've only had the chance to have 1 PM from him on an infraction I recieved" I presumed I didn't have to start looking for second level communications.

Apparently your response was

How is it "circumventing" the profanity filter if I simply typed in a word? Isn't the filter there to catch profanity? I made no effort to circumvent the filter and I think this warning is bogus.

to which I responded

Your original post (prior to editing) contained the word typed this way: [edited: in the original this was a filtered word with an asterick replacing a letter]

You intentionally put in the asterick yourself, and this caused every other letter to remain visibile. Had you "simply typed in the word" it would have appeared, as it does now post-editing, as a string of eight astrices.

You can see the post comparisons here: https://jazzfanz.com/posthistory.php?do=compare&p=28863

Furthermore, you received an infraction for the exact same profanity filter avoidance the previous day.

Again, I think this is pretty reasonable response.

You then responded, after what I think objectively is a pretty level-headed explanation:

Ok, now I have a better understanding of how the filter works. However, getting a warning for putting an asterik in a word, therefore making it a non-swear word just seems insane to me and nothing more than a chance to over-mod the visitors of this site. Maybe it's not your rule, but it's still a terrible one.

My response (and supposedly the one you find to be "unbelievably condescending") was:

Alas, it is one you agreed to when you joined the site.

I'm glad we can now consider this matter closed.

A bit perfunctory perhaps, but hardly in my top 100.

I give your grounds for being outraged a D+.

Completely routine.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

Ok, now I have a better understanding of how the filter works. However, getting a warning for putting an asterik in a word, therefore making it a non-swear word just seems insane to me and nothing more than a chance to over-mod the visitors of this site. Maybe it's not your rule, but it's still a terrible one.

Seriously? I guess ser*ously no longer means "seriously."

I gu*ss I c*n typ* an*thing *nd n*ver typ* a w*rd.

 

[Archie Moses]

Can we please go one week without you deciding you've been personally grieviously wounded and trying to start drama?

Archie, it's a bunch of childish, poorly photo-shopped photos. I'm not squashing the mona lisa. I'm not stopping some great work of art from getting out into the world. I didn't even delete your thread so no one could see the images you made.

There were three threads on the top that declared there would be games on three consecutive days. I knew that wasn't possible but because I don't carry a pocket schedule around I didn't know which thread was wrong. Game threads shouldn't confuse the reader as to which

If this really was something that you put so much effort into and cared so much about one would think that you would get an essential data point about the game correct.

Archie, I have been accused of many things but I have never been seriously accused of being passive aggressive. If anything, I am usually accused of being overly aggressive-aggressive. I certainly have no personal issue that needs to be resolved by keeping images of Al Jefferson on Al Jolson's body away from the world.

It truly came down to this: one of these solutions required exactly one step from me and the other required multiple steps. If it was about the next game on the schedule I probably would have just stickied it. Since it was three games out, had obvious an error, and it was 1 in the morning it was simply easier and seemed prudent at the time to hit the reset button.

If you had asked nicely and told me how much time you spent on your images and why they were so important that they should be stickied I might have been less lazy. But you decided to have a fit, so I won't.

Here's a PM I got from the elitist hack-a-noff mongler.

Just admit it, kicky, you do suffer from little man syndrome and you're as power hunger as it gets. The fact that you went out of your way to "lock" something that should never had been locked and then use some crappy excuse that "it was the easiest step for you to take" is lame. If it was anyone else that made that thread, you would never had touched it or locked it, simple, period, point blank. You locked it because you KNEW you were going to start something and you're little internet posse would have your back. To deny that is silly. Did you honestly think you were going to resolve something when you locked it, you condescending hack?

kicky for the win!!!!

Question for other mods, do you usually go out of your way to lock threads because of typos? Do you usually try to resolve things by locking threads because it takes less clicks?

 

[CONAN]

This thread should be pinned. Some unsurprising items being brought forth but still very entertaining.

 

[VINYLONE]

I'm actually with you on that one. I mean, I like both of 'em, but Vinny just irritates me more than Archie. Vinny's shtick gets old fast and is almost as annoying as Hopper's. Dunno where the hell all the hate for Archie is coming from, because since this board's triumphant return, he's been very tolerable AND of worth.

**** man. Im not sure what Im supposed to do now.

 

[sirkickyass]

Here's a PM I got from the elitist hack-a-noff mongler.

For the record, I sent this PM prior to this thread being created.

This was also in response to the following PMs sent by Archie.

You're an ***. I put a lot of work into that thread and for you to lock it because of a typo I can only ask one question, what's your problem? Seriously? Does it make you feel powerful? Nice job, chump, I'm not making any more game threads and go **** yourself. I hope I get a warning for that too, I really do.

You're truly a dumb *** (for lack of better word) if you thinking changing a "21" to "22" is along the same line as changing a thread title to make a smug and condescending remark towards my intelligence. The fact that you closed the thread rather than fix this, shows your "passive/aggressiveness" towards me. Seriously, dude, what's the problem? Don't act like you're so innocent.

I don't think my response was overly aggressive given that Archie's first recourse (and continued preferred way of dealing with the stupidest "controversy" imaginable) is to try name-calling.

Just admit it, kicky, you do suffer from little man syndrome and you're as power hunger as it gets.

Re: Little man syndrome. I'm 5'10". Usually this is associated with people far below median heights and builds. I sometimes think you believe I'm 5'3" and weigh under 100 pounds.

As to "power hungry," I've always been highly confused by this claim. It's not like I'm getting more power by doing something like locking your thread. It's not even as if I'm consolidating control over anything. There's no power to be gained.

On the other hand I can think of one Mike McKell who has publicly attempted to become a mod multiple times and been turned down. That may be where your obsession over the power dynamic involved comes from.

The fact that you went out of your way to "lock" something that should never had been locked and then use some crappy excuse that "it was the easiest step for you to take" is lame.

Actually, I did the easiest thing possible. I simply had to click a box when I replied to lock it instead of going through the editing boxes and typing in reasons why it was edited.

As I've told you before, if you had simply created the exact same thread with the correct date I would have stickied the new thread. Instead, you've decided to go this route.

If it was anyone else that made that thread, you would never had touched it or locked it, simple, period, point blank.

Many posters believe I am singling them out. By definition, they can't all be right.

I deny your claim. Of course, we don't have another test case where this happened.

Obviously, you believe what you believe. But come on, is this really something worth getting this upset about?

You locked it because you KNEW you were going to start something

Trust me when I say I had no idea you were going to have a public meltdown.

and you're little internet posse would have your back.

I have an internet posse? So now not only do I have a personal vendetta against you but there's a conspiracy I direct against you as well?

Sorry dude. You're not that important.

And seriously, this "issue" isn't that important either. You're overreacting. Deal with it and move on.

 

[sirkickyass]

I will admit I started a new game thread today just to tweak you after you threw such a huge tantrum.

I have to get my small pleasures somewhere.

 

[Archie Moses]

Dude, it's sad that kicky just doesn't get it. I give his debate team experience and his law school props though, because he sure can argue anything and make it seem like he's right. Dude, we all know the easiest step would have been to leave it alone (quit saying you did the easiest thing by locking it. The only one that believes that is you) I didn't do anything that deserved for that thread to be locked, unless mixing up 21 with 22 is deserving for a lock, and that's the point. It's that simple and you know it. You're pulling a carolinajazz on us acting like you don't know why this would upset me. I wouldn't have been a big deal, but YOU made it a big deal, because you SINGLE people out. Ever wonder why you're accused of it so often? Coincidence? I think not. You just can't see it, can you Mr. Adam Romney? Anyways, props for making the new game thread and acting like you're putting salt in the wound, very mature of you. (I know, right?) Why don't you go brag about having to stop for bobby-pins again, big man.


Oh, btw, who wouldn't want me as a mod? I don't have short man, power hungry syndrome.

 

[sirkickyass]

Dude, we all know the easiest step would have been to leave it alone (quit saying you did the easiest thing by locking it. The only one that believes that is you)

Sure. Also the easiest step would be for me to never moderate anything.

I didn't do anything that deserved for that thread to be locked, unless mixing up 21 with 22 is deserving for a lock, and that's the point.

Game threads, at their core, provide a couple of basic points of information. The opponent, the location, and the date of the game. You blew the basics. I fully acknowledge I could have edited it. But it was 1AM and hitting the reset button was easier. Then you threw a tantrum over the most minor stakes imaginable and you didn't exactly endear me to your cause in the process.

The other reason (and I wrote this in the mod forum at the time) was that several of the things in the thread were of a questionable nature. At least one of your captions seemed to potentially run up against the recent statement about cutting it out with the gay jokes and the Al Jefferson/ Al Jolson picture is pretty provocative. An editing job would have been more extensive than changing the date.

As to the way I wrote the post: brevity is the soul of wit.

You're pulling a carolinajazz on us acting like you don't know why this would upset me.

I still don't know why you're this upset. It's a non-event.

I wouldn't have been a big deal, but YOU made it a big deal,

You're right. I apologize for starting an entire thread about why my feelings got hurt.

YOU single people out. Ever wonder why you're accused of it so often? Coincidence? I think not.

I always figure it's because people are self-centered whiners. A few times a year posters complain they're singled out because they get a warning or infraction for circumventing the profanity filter even though that's the most consistently applied rule on the board.

Everyone thinks they're special.

By definition if I'm supposedly targeting a lot of people I'm not singling ANYBODY out.

Anyways, props for making the new game thread and acting like you're putting salt in the wound,

Isn't the real joke here that there's actually a wound?

Why don't you go brag about having to stop for bobby-pins again, big man.

You got that wrong. That story is about big breasts.

 

[Archie Moses]

Sure. Also the easiest step would be for me to never moderate anything.

The thread didn't need to be locked. The fact you don't get that boggles my mind.

Game threads, at their core, provide a couple of basic points of information. The opponent, the location, and the date of the game. You blew the basics. I fully acknowledge I could have edited it. But it was 1AM and hitting the reset button was easier. Then you threw a tantrum over the most minor stakes imaginable and you didn't exactly endear me to your cause in the process.

This is a message board, not English class. Why don't you go lock every thread with a typo? Quit comparing the time you changed the thread title (at my expense) with changing a 21 to a 22.

The other reason (and I wrote this in the mod forum at the time) was that several of the things in the thread were of a questionable nature. At least one of your captions seemed to potentially run up against the recent statement about cutting it out with the gay jokes and the Al Jefferson/ Al Jolson picture is pretty provocative. An editing job would have been more extensive than changing the date.

Fail.

As to the way I wrote the post: brevity is the sole of wit.

I'm gonna make something up for this: Elitistism.

I still don't know why you're this upset. It's a non-event.

lol,yeah, go a head a play that card. I wish I saw your face when you locked the thread.

You're right. I apologize for starting an entire thread about why my feelings got hurt.

No, you didn't start the thread. I did, but I'm pretty sure you were the spark to the fire.

I always figure it's because people are self-centered whiners. A few times a year posters complain they're singled out because they get a warning or infraction for circumventing the profanity filter even though that's the most consistently applied rule on the board.

Or because you single people out and are extremely condescending.
*See your new game thread at the multiple smug remarks about, none other than me. Oh innocent kicky doesn't know why people feel the way they do.

Everyone thinks they're special.

I am special. Just not in a Vinylone way.

By definition if I'm supposedly targgeting a lot of people I'm not singling ANYBODY out.

*targeting. If I were a mod, I would have locked this thread because of that.

Isn't the real joke here that there's actually a wound?

It was an expression.

You got that wrong. That story is about big breasts.

No ****, Sherlock. Even fat dudes have cleavage.

 

[sirkickyass]

Even fat dudes have cleavage.

Didn't you throw a tantrum because I made a joke about the Salt Lake City modeling industry recently?

This is hardly the first time you've gone here. One reason I find it exceedingly difficult to take you seriously when you behave as if you're taking the high road.