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We're not going to talk abut Stelek because he isn't here and it's against the rules.

Any more Stelek and I shall lock the thread.

Kill, whats with all the cute little asian chick pics you got stored away?

Your boy is the protagonist.

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jp400 wrote:Frazz, you are the only troll on these forums that I for one, would welcome as our new Overlord!

Age that pic a bit more and add a bottle in 1 hand

BOO!

Did it work? Are you scared yet?

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I think the real question is why hasn't a moderator limited Wrex to, say, 10 images or YouTube links a day.

Do note that I have been making these for all of you... ENJOY!!!

jp400 wrote:....

This part made me laugh the most .



How does that saying go?

Oh right... Wrex always laughs last .

I am excited now really not though.

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Ketara wrote:Then you do what's known as going, 'over their helmet'.



You copy and paste the PM into a new one, add that you were never replied to, and send it off to Yakface.

Hilarious , but good advice.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:The mistake we are all making (and I've certainly done it) is to assume we have 'rights' here.

We don't, this is private property, this is Yakface's back yard. He liked the folks who mod enough to ask them to mod. I think perhaps in our nice daily lives, we've been seeing too much eviction by popularity on reality tv shows, we are blurring this.

WE don't get a poll every week where we boot off the mod that we don't like much or certain frequent posters who, we feel, need to be ejected. The mods police according to the wishes of the owners of the site on a voluntary basis, they will take on board feedback regarding certain of the dakka membership and reconcile this against warnings issued, previous penalties dealt out and then discuss it between themselves to reach accord.

Personally I have no great issue with it. I've modded myself and it's fairly thankless and labour intensive and like all hobbies people extent into tasks, you have to be careful it doesn't kill your enthusiasm for the subject matter.

QFT. You already got your cookies though

Green Blow Fly wrote:I am excited now really not though.

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I liked your old avatar better...

Orkeosaurus wrote:I think the real question is why hasn't a moderator limited Wrex to, say, 10 images or YouTube links a day.

Hmmm... not too sure... (A challenge you say!!! This will only make the images much more precise, which may or may not be a bad thing ). I am usually pretty considerate of space in threads, but I just HAD TO drop a few funny bombs in here .

I liked my Watchman avatAr because I could easily identify with the Comedian but the new avatar is the chapter master of the Flesh Tearers. They signify all the bad things concentrated in the Blood Angels and to me that makes them tragic. Life can be tragic at times and gallows humor always makes me laugh. Life can be a thin veneer of morality stretched over a canvas of madness. If we can control our urges then maybe we can have some control. It's the things on life that happen we are not prepared for that affect the most. We try our best to eliminate randomness but it is always there.

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Obama knows how you feel... heh? ON SNAP A TRAIN!!!

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1490638,CST-NWS-obamaside23.article



Hmmm... this caption could use a bit of work, what do you think it should say?

*sigh*

I miss the daily show... which is back in a few days I think. HULU ROCKS!!! Cable tv however... in many more ways than one, does not rock... not at all.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:The mistake we are all making (and I've certainly done it) is to assume we have 'rights' here.

We don't, this is private property, this is Yakface's back yard. He liked the folks who mod enough to ask them to mod.

Based on my experiences as a mod elsewhere you don't ask the people you like to do the job.

Meanwhile, the mods here do a solid job. Light, but consistent touch. I wouldn't mind seeing a policy for punishing deliberate obtuseness, but that can be a tough one to properly moderate.

I think "almost" would work better than "sort of" for the gallows humor caption.

That's just me, though.

sebster wrote: I wouldn't mind seeing a policy for punishing deliberate obtuseness, but that can be a tough one to properly moderate.

I totally agree with this plan. There are a handful of posters that seem to delight in "not getting it."

I think that the only real problem with the moderation on dakka is that the Mods have far too little faith in their own ability to make decisions. There seems to be a bit of a "firefighter mentality," where simply putting out the flames is more important than dealing with the high level drama of actually
dealing with the trolls. It's understandable, but a bit counter productive.

The other thing to remember about private PM warnings: users don't see them going out, only going in. When you respond to a long time troll here, and get a PM warning, the first thought is "why am I getting yelled at when this guy says worse stuff every day?" It's what creates the impression, which isn't entirely true, that far from punishing the most notorious trolls, the mods are actually protecting them, by warning those that are too mean to them.

there's also the simple principle that when the people don't see the trials or the punishments, they're not seeing the repercussions of breaking rules. That can lead to more people breaking rules, because they simply don't see anybody getting sanctioned for it.

I say we do all of the aforementioned, but for one exception:

Open season on all weeaboos and furries.

Oooh, I second the "drag them into the street kicking and screaming" idea.

Polonius wrote:there's also the simple principle that when the people don't see the trials or the punishments, they're not seeing the repercussions of breaking rules. That can lead to more people breaking rules, because they simply don't see anybody getting sanctioned for it.

DakkaDakka is self moderating to a degree that even the most well behaved forums tend to drift away from. The lack of a need for a public pelting ground is a very good sign for the community on the whole... well, many threads become their own mini-pelting grounds... I prefer the watermelon-hammer stance myself, but many prefer a more direct approach... which I refer to on occasion as the banana-staff style, and I think it works quite well. I have been known... on occasion, to implement the more sneaky "Glenn Beck is a tomato" approach, but it's popularity has declined so has my use of it as a conversation tool... of sorts.

My point being that the only salad that can be as diverse as possible is a fruit salad, but on occasion even the best fruit salad has been known to be in keeping with the walnut style of a more traditional salad. Salmon with lemon juice?

Unofficial Glenn Beck quote=
"See what I did there? Neither did I..."



I prefer the system we have now... it is a learning process that some choose to ignore . The boot follows the worst and they fly thus forth into the rest of the web... and stuff

Wrexasaur wrote:

This is the best picture yet.

What I find amusing is that this thread is directed at me when personal vendettas can be taken up with a mod or Yakface instead. There's also a very obvious 'Ignore' button, which I'm shocked that more people don't use (especially regarding me).

donkey-caves like you are hard to ignore.

Cheese Elemental wrote:What I find amusing is that this thread is directed at me when personal vendettas can be taken up with a mod or Yakface instead. There's also a very obvious 'Ignore' button, which I'm shocked that more people don't use (especially regarding me).

It is?

I thought it was about the YMDC area of the forum existing in a constant state wherein any thread over 2 pages long is heading for a lock due to someone who just can't let it the feth go and has to post his same argument ad infinitum after everyone else's posts until he cries out that he's 'won' due to everyone else just packing up and going home.

I like you cheesey, your an unstable gibbering loon but you're our unstable gibbering loon and very far down the scale of ebil on Dakka IMO.

BrookM wrote:donkey-caves like you are hard to ignore.

...what? Isn't the ignore button enough? Do you have some strange compulsion to click 'show this post' when you see it?

Back in your corners now gents, lets not get this one locked down...

This thread, Wrexy's picture walls notwithstanding, has generated some interesting debate. Lets keep it on track (ish).

@cheese - not gonna get into your spat here, but an issue with the ignore button is that it fails to ignore posts where-in people quote others. Case-in-point, MGS's previous post. Just saying.

Its always fun to 'just say'.

: )

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The Mods are some of the worst trolls on Dakka. Dakka used to be a great forum back in the day. Now its just a bunch of teens and tweens. The best thing on dakka the last couple of years starts something like this...." I just saw this on warseer (or some other forum)"

Tigerone wrote:The Mods are some of the worst trolls on Dakka. Dakka used to be a great forum back in the day. Now its just a bunch of teens and tweens. The best thing on dakka the last couple of years starts something like this...." I just saw this on warseer (or some other forum)"

I just took a look at your contribution to dakka in the considerable time since you created your online persona here, 30ish posts, mostly concerned with 'happening to mention' that you spend several thousand dollaz on GW stuff. I especially liked the line 'I spend more on GW stuff than many of you make in a year'.

Grats, thanks for sharing with the group. Is that the sort of post I was missing way back when? gak on me, guess I really lost out...

Think I'd rather be listening to a teen excitedly contributing limited usage fluff info he's dreamed up than any more of what your selling mate.