ATTN:Maj Gen Franklin Kirby

[cheezer]

I'm sorry, I will stop now. It just makes me sad to see so many of these new people like myself pushed and prodded like cattle until they snap, then raped of their desire to belong and voice their individuality. How many of these people would have brought a new persepective to our lives? Become a great friend of ours? Made us laugh? Maybe none, but it's worth consideration.

A lot of noobs come in and are treated just fine. I was treated fine.
Also, repeating jokes too often or too soon does kinda kill them. Not a noob thing, just a how it works anyway thing.

It wasn't really a joke, more of a recognition.

[Lies]

Whatever it is, it's not funny and it's old now.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I'm sorry, I will stop now. It just makes me sad to see so many of these new people like myself pushed and prodded like cattle until they snap, then raped of their desire to belong and voice their individuality. How many of these people would have brought a new persepective to our lives? Become a great friend of ours? Made us laugh? Maybe none, but it's worth consideration.

A lot of noobs come in and are treated just fine. I was treated fine.
Also, repeating jokes too often or too soon does kinda kill them. Not a noob thing, just a how it works anyway thing.

It wasn't really a joke, more of a recognition.

Well, either way, you reposted  variant of the same line from Illuminatus 3 separate times. Not saying is necessarily a bad thing, but you know.
Plus this guy got hostile quick and intentionally broke the rules in such a way that he knew he would get banned.

[Salty]

I'm sorry, I will stop now. It just makes me sad to see so many of these new people like myself pushed and prodded like cattle until they snap, then raped of their desire to belong and voice their individuality. How many of these people would have brought a new persepective to our lives? Become a great friend of ours? Made us laugh? Maybe none, but it's worth consideration.

Wait.
Some guy comes in, gets into a little strife, SPAMS the fuck out of the place (breaking one of the very few rules here), gets banned...

...is he thus raped of his desire to belong here?

Is that what you're saying?

[Triple Zero]

Raped with a cattleprod, to be exact.

[Placid Dingo]

I remember that it was pretty unpleasant, getting a heaped serving of negativity early on in conversations here. That said, I'm old enough to cop it, and have ended up enjoying this place, so i do appreciate what you mean; sometimes I see a debate on nothing escalate so fast that I really do feel for the 'new folk' who want to join in, and sometime I think, hey, that's how i'd have reacted maybe five years ago. It's a shame that there's not a carrot on the other side of that stick.

That said, the spam bugged me.

[Cain]

Spamming ruins it for everyone (hence why it is a favoured HIMEOBS tactic), and I feel exactly 0% regret at shitcanning someone who is willing to fuck it up for everyone else, because a few people hurt his precious feelings.

[Triple Zero]

I remember that it was pretty unpleasant, getting a heaped serving of negativity early on in conversations here. That said, I'm old enough to cop it, and have ended up enjoying this place, so i do appreciate what you mean; sometimes I see a debate on nothing escalate so fast that I really do feel for the 'new folk' who want to join in, and sometime I think, hey, that's how i'd have reacted maybe five years ago. It's a shame that there's not a carrot on the other side of that stick.

That said, the spam bugged me.

Well, we used to have the "50 post suggestion", to keep off people's backs until they had 50 posts to lose their pineal. But as it says, it's just a suggestion. And recently n00bs are coming so fast people might not have the patience to deal with the more "difficult" ones.

Also the 50 posts barrier is harder to notice since I garbled the postcount eh Which is actually why I would want to suggest to change the <50 posts user title from "Known" to something more obvious, such as "n00b" or "Possibly Pineal", what do people think?

[Lies]

I remember that it was pretty unpleasant, getting a heaped serving of negativity early on in conversations here. That said, I'm old enough to cop it, and have ended up enjoying this place, so i do appreciate what you mean; sometimes I see a debate on nothing escalate so fast that I really do feel for the 'new folk' who want to join in, and sometime I think, hey, that's how i'd have reacted maybe five years ago. It's a shame that there's not a carrot on the other side of that stick.

That said, the spam bugged me.

Well, we used to have the "50 post suggestion", to keep off people's backs until they had 50 posts to lose their pineal. But as it says, it's just a suggestion. And recently n00bs are coming so fast people might not have the patience to deal with the more "difficult" ones.

Also the 50 posts barrier is harder to notice since I garbled the postcount eh Which is actually why I would want to suggest to change the <50 posts user title from "Known" to something more obvious, such as "n00b" or "Possibly Pineal", what do people think?

I like the possibly pineal thing.

[Kai]

Did all of this happen last night, while I was asleep? Sounds like the best action was taken.

[Cain]

Early this morning, European time.  Not sure when Trip banned, but I'm guessing just minutes before I logged on, and it sort of went on until 10am or so.

[Kai]

Early this morning, European time.  Not sure when Trip banned, but I'm guessing just minutes before I logged on, and it sort of went on until 10am or so.

Huh. Maybe that's why I woke up in pain around 330 am, and only got back to sleep with great trouble. 

[Triple Zero]

Yeah I woke up to the spammage, and think I decided to ban around something like 8:30am (that's 2:30am in NY), he wasn't online then.

He came back as "salty" and, well, read the Introductions thread.

[Placid Dingo]

I'm newish, and I've managed too work out that below 50 = known pretty quickly. So I suspect it's obvious.

[Lies]

Yeah I woke up to the spammage, and think I decided to ban around something like 8:30am (that's 2:30am in NY), he wasn't online then.

He came back as "salty" and, well, read the Introductions thread.

Sally. It was sally.