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Conegamer on 23 January 2015
Aeolus451 said:
Conegamer said:
Fusioncode said:

Why am I not allowed to insult users who make stupid threads over and over again? 

Because you should report the users and signal the threads to us. We track patterns of these things so repeat offenders are, indeed, acted upon. It's something that will hopefully be more rigorous soon, but you'll have to wait a little longer for that.

Because if you insult the user, then you're no better than the user and the problem is never resolved. Instead of actually having good, decent discussion, we just have toxic discussions of users attacking each other and saying "it's a ____ thread, figures". Actually making note of such users and clamping down on such behaviour is so much better than just insulting another user, both for the site and for you. Do you not agree?


Blocking would work perfectly for that.

Maybe, but blocking ain't happening I'm afraid. If you want to use it desperately ask the user gnac to help you out. Aside from that, there's not a lot we can do unfortunately. 



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

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fatslob-:O on 23 January 2015

So what do we do about this guys name ?



Mr Khan on 23 January 2015
fatslob-:O said:

So what do we do about this guys name ?

The name has non-pornographic meanings as well. We can just presume that.



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fatslob-:O on 23 January 2015
Mr Khan said:

The name has non-pornographic meanings as well. We can just presume that.

More often than not it is a pornographic meaning ...



Aeolus451 on 23 January 2015

Nothing wrong with that name.



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gergroy on 23 January 2015
Mr Khan said:
fatslob-:O said:

So what do we do about this guys name ?

The name has non-pornographic meanings as well. We can just presume that.


It does?  So if i google it, what is going to pop up? 



Smeags on 23 January 2015

We've already had to ban a few users who have been members for a while with inappropriate names. It caused a pretty big uproar.

Even now there are still members with inappropriate names that have been part of the community for a long while (hentai11 and jizz_beard), who should have been banned the moment they signed up (and of course allowed to make a different account). That was our fault, as it's not necessarily a black/white rule that we have since it's text and not images (although it goes against our overall Work-Safe content rules and we should have used that).

Now they're classic and intrenched members. So what do we do? It's still an ongoing debate. Some say bite the bullet, admit we goofed, but apply a Grandfather Clause to the older, more classic members. Others say that in fairness to the rules we need to be even handed and have the users make new accounts, despite how intrenched they are in the community.



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gergroy on 23 January 2015
Smeags said:
We've already had to ban a few users who have been members for a while with inappropriate names. It caused a pretty big uproar.

Even now there are still members with inappropriate names that have been part of the community for a long while (hentai11 and jizz_beard), who should have been banned the moment they signed up (and of course allowed to make a different account). That was our fault, as it's not necessarily a black/white rule that we have since it's text and not images (although it goes against our overall Work-Safe content rules and we should have used that).

Now they're classic and intrenched members. So what do we do? It's still an ongoing debate. Some say bite the bullet, admit we goofed, but apply a Grandfather Clause to the older, more classic members. Others say that in fairness to the rules we need to be even handed and have the users make new accounts, despite how intrenched they are in the community.


I understand the dillema, but if you are going to allow some people to have inappropriate names, whats the point of banning others and making them make new accounts?  Just because they were there first?  This seems like an all or nothing issue.  Either you put your foot down and enforce it or you dont.  

You arent going to please everybody whichever side you come down on, but the mods need to pick a side and stick with it.



Mr Khan on 23 January 2015
gergroy said:
Smeags said:
We've already had to ban a few users who have been members for a while with inappropriate names. It caused a pretty big uproar.

Even now there are still members with inappropriate names that have been part of the community for a long while (hentai11 and jizz_beard), who should have been banned the moment they signed up (and of course allowed to make a different account). That was our fault, as it's not necessarily a black/white rule that we have since it's text and not images (although it goes against our overall Work-Safe content rules and we should have used that).

Now they're classic and intrenched members. So what do we do? It's still an ongoing debate. Some say bite the bullet, admit we goofed, but apply a Grandfather Clause to the older, more classic members. Others say that in fairness to the rules we need to be even handed and have the users make new accounts, despite how intrenched they are in the community.


I understand the dillema, but if you are going to allow some people to have inappropriate names, whats the point of banning others and making them make new accounts?  Just because they were there first?  This seems like an all or nothing issue.  Either you put your foot down and enforce it or you dont.  

You arent going to please everybody whichever side you come down on, but the mods need to pick a side and stick with it.

Grandfather clause is a good part of what we do here. It's probably the only reason snesboy never gets perma'd, for one.

It is not hypocritical to appreciate the past while regulating the present differently, like all of the tributes i see to my city's old negro league baseball team around here.



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gergroy on 23 January 2015
Mr Khan said:
gergroy said:

I understand the dillema, but if you are going to allow some people to have inappropriate names, whats the point of banning others and making them make new accounts?  Just because they were there first?  This seems like an all or nothing issue.  Either you put your foot down and enforce it or you dont.  

You arent going to please everybody whichever side you come down on, but the mods need to pick a side and stick with it.

Grandfather clause is a good part of what we do here. It's probably the only reason snesboy never gets perma'd, for one.

It is not hypocritical to appreciate the past while regulating the present differently, like all of the tributes i see to my city's old negro league baseball team around here.

Ok, look at it this way.  What problem are you trying to solve by making people start new acounts that have inappropriate names?  If you allow some people to be grandfathered in, have you solved the problem?  If the problem is still there and you arent going to do anything about it, what is the point of cracking down on newer members?