Swifty
New Member
Lol, Pancakes
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Post by Swifty on Mar 20, 2008 10:25:44 GMT -5
Stop slagging off the n00bs man they provide good entertainment. Especially in the Pokémon forum. But thats a different kettle of fish.
Meh, its an okay place I guess, the layout takes some getting used to but it'll be an okay place.
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Post by Wreck and Rule on Mar 20, 2008 13:12:40 GMT -5
Well I'm here just in case a few more members suddenly get banned in ONM. Wreck, at least now I know what happened between the ban, and although the PM should have been kept as a PM, don't you think the integrity of the ONM staff has gone downhill since they've been lying to you and other members about the PM that occurred? I have a couple of suggestions to improve the forum, but I'll be posting those on the Forum Feedback later. This forum does have a chance to work if people stop inviting others to other forums. Just give this a chance, and hopefully it'll make ONM think twice before pressing their BAN button(s) (though there are one or two on there that do deserve it) Absolutely. The main reason I posted the PMs Mathers sent me was because I thought they needed to be seen publically. I had escaped a ban the day before I was actually banned, according to Mathers, by the vote of one staff member (my money's on Mr East). When I asked him what rules I'd broken, he ranted about me being a 'Che Guevara' figure who thought he was untouchable, and kept asserting I had issues with the team above and beyond the whole PBR thing. Not true - I just wanted to know why it hadn't been reviewed when it had been heavily featured in a special edition. The day before I was banned Chris PM'd me as 'having the argument in public wasn't any good for anyone'. He provided a defence of the PBR position, but still didn't answer the above question. He invited me to PM him back if I still had any queries, so I did, to no avail. I also suggested that if Chandra had a problem, he could PM me rather than delete my posts - to no avail. So Martin's PMs telling me I'd almost been banned and should curb my criticism to avoid this happening were rather surprising - I had no intention of letting my own integrity go to pot, so I thought, 'f**k it', this is the sort of thing that should be public. Bans are supposed to be discussed with the moderators before they happen. Mine wasn't, which is quite obvious from the reaction of a number of moderators (except Shaun 2005, who's been disconcertingly eager to stick the boot in - not least with his constant harping on about a 'spam attack' I never conducted). Whether I was argumentative, foul-mouthed and a 'bad egg' as Chris has it is by the by - a day after a staff vote on whether I should be banned as a result of my constant PBR criticism narrowly went my way, I was told by the Deputy Editor to stop it or risk a ban. I was banned. Everything else is simply retrospective justification - after all, if it was really for swearing, bad behaviour and so on, why not suspension before ban, as per the rules? I was only on a caution, after all. 'No-one is above the rules', they say. Except me, evidently - I had to go, because I was right.
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Xelviar
New Member
Who are you? Why am I here? Is that a sword??
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Post by Xelviar on Mar 20, 2008 13:56:23 GMT -5
I remember on a video on how to be a good forum member it said that "Admins who have a forum up can do whatever the hell they want. If you even start to cause an argument or fight, the admins will instantly get you exiled from the forum"
I have seen a couple of members going actually a bit loopy just recently. A few days after your ban, numerous console threads started spamming up the OT, and although one or two of them were fairly constructive (well a few words in the first post), it got a bit out of hand. Were they suspended or even warned about doing that stuff? I don't know but I think not.
The forum move over there seemed a good idea at the time, but it's just made people (like me) start resenting the new layouts and "management" of it all
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Post by Kirbizard on Mar 22, 2008 21:00:01 GMT -5
Here, only members who contributed positively to ONM can get through ...yeeeeeeeah. <(<_<)> I'm still clueless as to why I'm here. <(>_>)>
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Iarwain
New Member
SNAAAAAAKE?!
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Post by Iarwain on Mar 25, 2008 14:11:40 GMT -5
The problem with ONM is, there are too many members now who do think they're above the rules, or at least act like they think they are. They bypass the swear filter and act aggressively to other members, just so a few members start to regard them as a 'rebel'. A lot of members are being very confrontational, just to stand out from everyone else. I'm fine with people being different and standing out, it's what makes a member unique, but I don't like people acting aggressively and bad-mannered just so they eventually become idolised.
I'm not saying said members should be banned (don't even get me started on your ban, Wreck), but it's an emerging trait that I can't help but notice.
By no means am I going to cease posting on ONM, I've been active since the forum's beginning (more or less), and I've seen some genuinely funny and nice members come and go, but there are now (in my opinion of course) very few members who I enjoy talking to. I've joined this place to give my opinion on a few topics I've seen, I don't know whether I'm going to actively post here or not, because I'd rather help ONM and bring it back to the glorious heights it once was. You've invited who you say are 'the best' members who 'helped shape the ONM community', so surely we should be improving the current state of the forum rather than skulking away in the shadows, taking part in small discussions between ourselves?
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