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Lots of the Demiurg background was on Warseer wasn't it? I can't believe the mods would have censored discussion of Squats on the forum, as Demiurg were just essentially a more modern re-imagining of the stunty ones.

 =Angel= wrote:

 Pacific wrote:


There is no situation, ever, where a terminator is better than a bike !

And if you think there is .. I will fight you about it! !!! Rarrghh!!

OT but I'll bite. Assaulting the third floor of a ruin?
Being shot at by Thousand sons or Battlecannons?
Being immune to small arms fire within the confines of a Landraider?
Teleporting clear across the board and firing melta rather than boosting there and hoping you live to fire said meltaguns?
Being charged by jetbikes with powerswords?

I was just (trying!) to joke,

Have absolutely no idea which is better than which, or what I was talking about!

You should have quickly converted and painted up a couple of squats and explained you are actually a keen squat enthusiast and have turned ultraviolet from holding your breath for so long for anything more than a throw away mention by GW.

Also, turns out the 'whine' at whineseer was the sound of the servers failing .

I hope any new warseerites on dakkadakka don't go mad with their new found freedom.

Did Icedcrow ever make it to Dakka? He was always interesting! Oh and Malorian, Malorian had some great OnG stuff on the fantasy side (was malorian even banned or did he just give up on Fantasy)?

 happygolucky wrote:
Well if Warseer is truly dead then RIP.

Probably had some good bits here and there but it did get the nickname "Whineseer" for a reason I would assume..

Now it is dead the more "Warseer Famous" Posters will be coming over to Dakka....

RIP Warseer because for Dakka I see a storm coming...

Spoiler:

If their mods make it over....

nareik wrote:

Did Icedcrow ever make it to Dakka? He was always interesting! Oh and Malorian, Malorian had some great OnG stuff on the fantasy side (was malorian even banned or did he just give up on Fantasy)?

Malorian is very much a tournament/competitive player and slowly started to migrate to Warmachine until he decided to stick to that exclusively. The last time I checked out his channel he mentioned he was looking into The 9th Age, but I haven't checked it out since (and that was a few months ago).

I only ever went to the GW General section, but that Wintermute character ruled with an iron fist, things got locked for just mentioning pricing (not in the pricing thread) because it was "off topic", threads talking about something that could have maybe gone elsewhere were locked, anything talking about Chapterhouse was deleted without a trace, same with that petition floating around; deleted without a trace, all records expunged. A lot of posts that wanted to start tangential discussions were removed without warning for being off topic in a thread discussing it. Those guys were basically complete GW stooges, and made BOLS look tame. If it's gone, then good riddance to bad rubbish.

 Grimtuff wrote:

 happygolucky wrote:
Well if Warseer is truly dead then RIP.

Probably had some good bits here and there but it did get the nickname "Whineseer" for a reason I would assume..

Now it is dead the more "Warseer Famous" Posters will be coming over to Dakka....

RIP Warseer because for Dakka I see a storm coming...

Spoiler:

If their mods make it over....

Spoiler:

I'm ready.

 KommissarKiln wrote:

Squats

I would imagine this was the real reason for your warning, not "spam" as they seemed to suggest. I'm sure the other guy got a big no-no for bringing them up as well. I mean, when you have reason to believe GW is listening in, Squats are more hush-hush than the Star Wars Holiday Special, for crying out loud.

Really! A few of us had a 300+ page thread and several sub-threads about the "Death of" said unnameable race.

 Azreal13 wrote:


I'm ready.

To our new Warseer refugees: Welcome. The moderation here is nothing like you're used to in that they are a friendly, personable bunch.

But if you should break the rules and step out of line, well...

Dakka Dakka is LVE, pure and simple.

Ohh, it's hard to argue with that dancing heart emoticon!

 BrookM wrote:
Dakka Dakka is L VE, pure and simple.

That's not a sanctioned emoticon BrookM, consider yourself on notice super secret probation.

 legoburner wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Dakka Dakka is L VE, pure and simple.

That's not a sanctioned emoticon BrookM, consider yourself on notice super secret probation.

It's a tough love..

 legoburner wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Dakka Dakka is L VE, pure and simple.

That's not a sanctioned emoticon BrookM, consider yourself on notice super secret probation.

Oh great, guess I'll have to dig out the ball gag and paddle again. Just be sure to you know, tenderize both sides equally this time around.

Warseer refugees may not be able to cope with non sanctioned and heretical posts about GW, let alone threads dedicated to other systems.

Imagine the ingrained pavlovian responses to Victoria miniatures latest not guard stuff or the many 'otoise in a niche' comments.

The new won freedom might be overwhelming for some. It's how I imagine North Koreans will feel, if the borders ever open.

 Shandara wrote:

 legoburner wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
Dakka Dakka is L VE, pure and simple.

That's not a sanctioned emoticon BrookM, consider yourself on notice super secret probation.

It's a tough love..

Tough but fair!



He knows the drill...

All kidding aside, Warseer will be back - and when it is, go there, or don't go there, but if everyone could dial back the venom a bit, that would be...nice.

I had an account there i think and one at 40konline and another one can't remember.
But as i dabble in many systems and use proxies and commit heresy on the perfect Space marine form posting in some of those forums became problematic.

But i wouldn't like warseer to vanish, Echo chambers have their place too

Only used to go there for rumours and leaks, which they broke quite a few of in the last year, and background. Though that got less fun, when you do a what if? scenario and someones saying only GDubs can come up with theorys about anything.

I got warned for calling the Ecclesiarchy, bible thumpers.
Banned for bypassing the swear filter with Asterix swearing. @#%^@*&.

 Alpharius wrote:

Tough but fair!



He knows the drill...

Sons of Alpharius! Where do I sign up?

You tattoo your signature on the closest Alpharius in the room you currently are.

Any community where the Moderation team is harsh, irrational, and inconsistent will diminish the community. It is to be expected.

For those joining Dakka, welcome and don't stress over the transition.

Indeed, mandatory indoctrination sessions will see to that.

 Mr. Burning wrote:
Warseer refugees may not be able to cope with non sanctioned and heretical posts about GW, let alone

Moderation aside Warseer's biggest problem was the awful eclectic forum layout. It wasn't a great place to hang out if you didn't like GW games. In that respect it hadn't changed that much since I first started lurking on Portent (drawn in my the GW rumours with reliablility ratings of all things). Dakka's 'other games' (Warmachine and Flames of War) support was the best of the major forums back when I first stopped lurking and started posting here (a million years ago) and is arguably still the best available.

 George Spiggott wrote:

 Mr. Burning wrote:
Warseer refugees may not be able to cope with non sanctioned and heretical posts about GW, let alone

Moderation aside Warseer's biggest problem was the awful eclectic forum layout. It wasn't a great place to hang out if you didn't like GW games. In that respect it hadn't changed that much since I first started lurking on Portent (drawn in my the GW rumours with reliablility ratings of all things). Dakka's 'other games' (Warmachine and Flames of War) support was the best of the major forums back when I first stopped lurking and started posting here (a million years ago) and is arguably still the best available.

A layout that was enforced to the point of handing out infractions to people for posting a third-party 40k-related product in the 40k News forum.

Their inflexibility always reminds me of a good saying in my language that I can't find in English but translates to "clinging to [the rules] like a drunk to a fence post."

 Vermis wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

Tough but fair!



He knows the drill...

Sons of Alpharius! Where do I sign up?

You may have already.

How would you know if you hadn't?

I have to admit I'm surprised to hear all about this banning. I only joined Warseer8 weeks ago and just missed it except for one guy posters
Pointed out was banned before he returned a day or two later. This was all above my head I guess

Anyway, I did like the GW specific board (or whatever the correct term for that is) even if the content was sometimes well, just hilarious yeah, from my little experience Dakka is harder to navigate but it's just preference i guess. Love the flags and of course, ork emoticons seals the deal.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
A layout that was enforced to the point of handing out infractions to people for posting a third-party 40k-related product in the 40k News forum.

Dozens of separate rumours forums for games that barely generated a thread's worth of rumours. Unnavigable madness.

Ironically I was told not to post here because I use orange, yet I have only ever been warned on Warseer (and deserved it, as I was swearing up a storm at someone).

Rose-colored glasses when people divide themselves into groups, always. I will fade back into the night, though I will say this: at least some of the people on Warseer who made it worth reading will simply walk away, rather than continue with the hobby.

This is always the real tragedy of things vanishing.

Where's the irony in being told not to do something that's against the rules, when you explicitly and implicitly agree to abide by those rules when creating an account on a privately owned site you have no given right to access to?

 Azreal13 wrote:
Where's the irony in being told not to do something that's against the rules, when you explicitly and implicitly agree to abide by those rules when creating an account on a privately owned site you have no given right to access to?

The irony is given the prior several pages of "oh but the iron-fisted mods", and yet the guy who swears all the time and throws some extremely sharp elbows is somehow given a hard time at the place with the allegedly loose moderating and vice-versa.

This is actually not intended as criticism of Dakka - they are welcome to do whatever they want! It is their site! And, honestly, it's probably pretty well run? I don't really know. Strange to have the ability to post in colors and then ban the posting of colors which are already all over the theme of the website itself, but weirder things have happened. I am instead suggesting that one should not believe everything one hears on the internet (shocking), and that the moderation at Warseer is actually pretty reasonable given the amount of garbage they have to deal with.