I don't know about the rest of you, but I personally don't enjoy the excessive amount of flaming in the forums as of late. I just don't see the point in so much hate and bitterness. If you have an opinion, please post something constructive.
That's all :wink:
ok, now lets turn this nice thread into a flame war too.....
ur all faggots BWAHHAHAH
I don't like the excessive amount of banning on the bots and IRC servers, we should change that too. UNBAN DZ!!
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nice one letter posts to form a phrase guys...lol!
if you would like to join my cult, just msg me :)
Wait a minute, are people blaming a lack of policy for the reason they can't be civil to each other?
everyone else has a policy that doesn't allow pointless flaming ... why doesn't ours? .... so in short .... YES ....
Reality check time ... this community is made up of quite a few people who are below 16 years of age .... know what that means? ... they are immature and needs rules to deal with that immaturity.. thats why all other forums on the internet have 3 page policies outlining in great detail what is acceptable and what isn't .... why don't we? ... liz posted a perfectly acceptable forum policy to the forum policy thread eon's ago.
Min
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why arn't we using that forum policy? ... whats wrong with it? ....
Some people on this forum are extremely afraid their "free speech" will be stepped on ... well ... its time to realize that on a internet forum, you don't have free speech, get used to it.
Min
why arn't we using that forum policy? ... whats wrong with it? ....
Some people on this forum are extremely afraid their "free speech" will be stepped on ... well ... its time to realize that on a internet forum, you don't have free speech, get used to it.
Min
I agree 100% with this post and the FMP it suggests using. In addition, to reply to Elvis, I was going to make a post earlier (as min has done now) about the fact that we are mostly young males here......and something to the effect that expecting a group of young or adolescent guys to be nice to each other is probably unrealistic.
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i guesss a lot of the younger players think breaking the rules is cool! ..sillly people.
peace
thats what we used to do in the ol' bbs days ... we'd have a full set of message area's with specific topics, some general ones, and then one for flaming ... with was used regularly for just that .. keeping the flaming out of the main forums mostly.
Min
