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Posted January 17, 2013
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hedwards: 'snip

Well, mostly, we can't curse as much as we like, they just don't care about it unless it's in the title or directed at somebody. But, I'm t sure they enforce it unless it's in the title.

Or at least I can't recall the last time I saw them enforce that rule.
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Thunderstone: That's why I added in "within reason." I don't think T would keep a topic open if it was all about cussing, well maybe he would as long as it doesn't turn hostile. *shrugs*
My reading comprehension lately has been poor. Even after you said "within reason" I had to reread it twice to see that you had written it. Sigh, 13 days from now I'll be on a plane to Korea and ultimately the US.
Posted January 17, 2013
I cuss so my posts can appeal to the plebs.
Posted January 17, 2013
Well actually it seems that people started using curse words in thread titles AFTER mods asked them not to even more. Because... I don't know, because people?
Posted January 17, 2013
Yeah, it looks like some attention whores want to "tease" with blue texts a little. Typical spam threads.
Posted January 17, 2013
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jackalKnight: POOOOOOOOOOOOOOP
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Vestin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m1BpUIG-sQ]
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Okay, that works too :)
Posted January 17, 2013
or this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCFVMaAuMc
Post edited January 17, 2013 by dragonbeast
Posted January 17, 2013
look! another youtube link!

Anyways, how many threads with cuss words do we actually get? one every 3 months?
Posted January 17, 2013
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HereForTheBeer: I thought LESS moderation is one of the things we like so much about the place.
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CaptainGyro: It is?
I'd actually rather have level headed mods instead of all the low rated posts with the mod-by-community method that has been going on
None of the low rated posts that are still here give reason to mod them away. So these two things are pretty much seperate.
Posted January 17, 2013
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CaptainGyro: It is?
I'd actually rather have level headed mods instead of all the low rated posts with the mod-by-community method that has been going on
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Darkcloud: None of the low rated posts that are still here give reason to mod them away. So these two things are pretty much seperate.
I wasn't going to expect any of them to mod away any low ratings that had already occurred.
Anyways, the point is that I have no problem with actual official gog mods appearing on the boards more frequently. Before anybody says "well mods are douchegbags on power trips man. Just look at steam or gamefaqs.", note that I said level headed mods. I've seen plenty of them over the years on the internet. I highly doubt that their modding would be worse than the community modding done here.


With all that said, I don't even give a shit about it that much either way.
Post edited January 17, 2013 by CaptainGyro
Posted January 17, 2013
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Thunderstone: That's why I added in "within reason." I don't think T would keep a topic open if it was all about cussing, well maybe he would as long as it doesn't turn hostile. *shrugs*
Probably I would keep it open unless it was an attack on someone. Anyone who's worked with me in the office can attest that I swear like a sailor, so taking offense at that would be pretty silly.
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Fictionvision: They should get the web team to look into putting automatic filters for topics. That would eliminate the problem and save the mods some headaches. As long as they don't touch the actual content of the posts I don't see a problem with it. Plus it might make for some unintentional comedy, like seeing "This is a bunch of POOPIE!" for a title.
Enh. Then it can easily become a game of, "circumvent the filter." When there's no filter but just a rule of etiquette, you can't exactly gloat over your cleverness of typing "fuck" in the post title.
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WBGhiro: Anyways, how many threads with cuss words do we actually get? one every 3 months?
It was 2 years before we got the first one. Now we tend to get about 1 a month.
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CaptainGyro: Before anybody says "well mods are douchegbags on power trips man. Just look at steam or gamefaqs.", note that I said level headed mods. I've seen plenty of them over the years on the internet. I highly doubt that their modding would be worse than the community modding done here.
It is very, very easy for mods to ruin a community. It is actually substantially harder for the community to ruin itself--although that can happen, too.
Post edited January 17, 2013 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted January 17, 2013
Eh, I've seen plenty of communities that have survived just fine with mods.
I've also seen communities without mods that are complete shitholes.
Post edited January 17, 2013 by CaptainGyro
Posted January 17, 2013
They will see a load of swearing inside the threads, so modding the titles won't do much.
Posted January 17, 2013
I think it's gotten to the point where people post cursewords in titles just to get attention, this happened after they saw that Mods actively edit them

Anyone else remember that horrible day when the GOG mods edited "GOG kicks ass" to "GOG kicks Gluteus Maximus"?

Things really snowballed from there....
Posted January 17, 2013
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Roman5: Anyone else remember that horrible day when the GOG mods edited "GOG kicks ass" to "GOG kicks Gluteus Maximus"?
I remember that. It was so scary, I was sure it was gonna be the end of GOG....
Posted January 17, 2013
I agree and applaud KneeTheCap (the original poster)

Bravo to you Sir +1
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