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 Motograter wrote:
Whineseer wont be missed. Nor many of the people on it to be fair. Awful place.

Paint logs were cool but that's about it.

Long may whineseer stay dead and lets hope any new members here aren't the dead weights from there

Agreed. I left that dump of a site 7 years ago. Never looked back, and couldn't care less if it were scrubbed from the net.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 totgeboren wrote:
I just don't get what so many of you did to get banned?

I don't get it either. And when one don't get why one was banned, it's usually bad .

To be fair, in most cases it was entirely obvious to everyone except themselves that they would get banned. A good example is the "bikes vs termies" debate previously mentioned that resulted in a ban. If you can't accept that there are situations in the game where a Terminator will be of better use than a bike, and you have to insult everyone that don't agree with you in a really rude manner, then you might get banned.
Of course there are situations to the contrary, where people got banned even though they were only baited by trolls or whatever.

But in my experience, most people who got banned, where I followed the thread that resulted in the ban, deserved it. Or at the very least I could fully understand the decision of the mod. :p

How hard can it be to keep a civil tone on the web? It shouldn't be as hard as many make it out to be.

 totgeboren wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 totgeboren wrote:
I just don't get what so many of you did to get banned?

I don't get it either. And when one don't get why one was banned, it's usually bad .

To be fair, in most cases it was entirely obvious to everyone except themselves that they would get banned. A good example is the "bikes vs termies" debate previously mentioned that resulted in a ban. If you can't accept that there are situations in the game where a Terminator will be of better use than a bike, and you have to insult everyone that don't agree with you in a really rude manner, then you might get banned.
Of course there are situations to the contrary, where people got banned even though they were only baited by trolls or whatever.

But in my experience, most people who got banned, where I followed the thread that resulted in the ban, deserved it. :p

How hard can it be to keep a civil tone on the web? It shouldn't be as hard as many make it out to be.

So, do you get banned just for thinking Terminators are inferior to bikes in every way or being rude? Because the wording of your statement implies the former...

 totgeboren wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 totgeboren wrote:
I just don't get what so many of you did to get banned?

I don't get it either. And when one don't get why one was banned, it's usually bad .

To be fair, in most cases it was entirely obvious to everyone except themselves that they would get banned. A good example is the "bikes vs termies" debate previously mentioned that resulted in a ban. If you can't accept that there are situations in the game where a Terminator will be of better use than a bike, and you have to insult everyone that don't agree with you in a really rude manner, then you might get banned.
Of course there are situations to the contrary, where people got banned even though they were only baited by trolls or whatever.

But in my experience, most people who got banned, where I followed the thread that resulted in the ban, deserved it. Or at the very least I could fully understand the decision of the mod. :p

How hard can it be to keep a civil tone on the web? It shouldn't be as hard as many make it out to be.

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!!

(Welcome to Dakka )

To be fair, being bated into being banned by an act of trollship happens everywhere. Sadly, it's rare that the troll themselves ever seems to get banned (although there is the 'ignore' button, which helps somewhat as long as you have willpower not to click on 'reveal' )

 Pacific wrote:

 totgeboren wrote:

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 totgeboren wrote:
I just don't get what so many of you did to get banned?

I don't get it either. And when one don't get why one was banned, it's usually bad .

To be fair, in most cases it was entirely obvious to everyone except themselves that they would get banned. A good example is the "bikes vs termies" debate previously mentioned that resulted in a ban. If you can't accept that there are situations in the game where a Terminator will be of better use than a bike, and you have to insult everyone that don't agree with you in a really rude manner, then you might get banned.
Of course there are situations to the contrary, where people got banned even though they were only baited by trolls or whatever.

But in my experience, most people who got banned, where I followed the thread that resulted in the ban, deserved it. Or at the very least I could fully understand the decision of the mod. :p

How hard can it be to keep a civil tone on the web? It shouldn't be as hard as many make it out to be.

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!!

(Welcome to Dakka )

To be fair, being bated into being banned by an act of trollship happens everywhere. Sadly, it's rare that the troll themselves ever seems to get banned (although there is the 'ignore' button, which helps somewhat as long as you have willpower not to click on 'reveal' )

A terminator is much better at being terrible than a bike.

Repair work is continuing, even as you slouch reading this in a dispirited -- being Dakka possibly drunkenly as well -- fashion.

Databases and servers are being worked on.

There are no legal issues.

Rest assured one day soon the MODs there will be crushing your hopes and dreams once again.

 totgeboren wrote:
I just don't get what so many of you did to get banned?
I had I think around 2.5k posts over there, and only received a warning once (for making fun of a furry, which I guess is sorta rude, but seriously...)

Perhaps that place was a lot nicer if you were only really into 40k?

Oh, no. the GW forums was the biggest collection of toxic masochists I've ever seen;
"I hate GW! 40k is rubbish!"

"Then why don't you house rule the bits you don't like, or play something else?"

"House rules are evil, and only cheats use them. And I don't like other games, only GW."

Riiight. *backs away slowly* "NURSE! he's out of bed again!"

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
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Riiight. *backs away slowly* "NURSE! he's out of bed again!"

You'll get banned on Warseer for that language, better censor it!

 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?

When members get too popular on Warseer, the mods start watching them like hawks for any excuse to get rid of them.

I got a strike for "flamebaiting" when I posted a Kid_Kyoto styled satirical codex review. And then a suspension for a thread in their version of Nuts&Bolts asking why satire isn't allowed. A link to an anti-furry comic sealed the deal.

Same story with many others I considered pillars of the community. Maybe most notably Lord Malek, who would answer any rules question within minutes, complete with page references.

It was an odd place indeed. I had a thread started in Off Topic over there about Hot Chicken Wings. It got locked as inappropriate. ??

 lord_blackfang wrote:
When members get too popular on Warseer, the mods start watching them like hawks for any excuse to get rid of them.

I got a strike for "flamebaiting" when I posted a Kid_Kyoto styled satirical codex review. And then a suspension for a thread in their version of Nuts&Bolts asking why satire isn't allowed. A link to an anti-furry comic sealed the deal.

Same story with many others I considered pillars of the community. Maybe most notably Lord Malek, who would answer any rules question within minutes, complete with page references.

Although in his case, the fact that every now and then he'd have a sudden and unexpected rage break was what struck him out.

 reds8n wrote:
Rest assured one day soon the MODs there will be crushing your hopes and dreams once again.

They cannot do that if I don't go there. And I cannot go there because I am banned .
Seriously, I cannot even remember how/when/why I was banned. Just that it felt terribly unfair and that I don't want to go there anymore.

AndrewGPaul wrote:Oh, no. the GW forums was the biggest collection of toxic masochists I've ever seen;
"I hate GW! 40k is rubbish!"

"Then why don't you house rule the bits you don't like, or play something else?"

"House rules are evil, and only cheats use them. And I don't like other games, only GW."

Riiight. *backs away slowly* "NURSE! he's out of bed again!"

Blimey, yes. I rarely looked twice at the 40K boards, but just some of the ocassional threads in GW General would stump you. There were a number of threads along the lines of 'what would you do if GW folded?' or 'what other games would you move to?'. In all the responses to them, I kept seeing people who'd say they'd quit gaming altogether without 40K, but only one or two who said they still played 40K because of the rules. Most stuck around because of the fluff, or sometimes the models. But they wouldn't port the fluff and models to a different, arguably better set of rules because it's 'not 40K'.

Hence my previous post.

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:
They cannot do that if I don't go there. And I cannot go there because I am banned .
Seriously, I cannot even remember how/when/why I was banned. Just that it felt terribly unfair and that I don't want to go there anymore.

Ditto! Except I remember. And before Totbegoren starts casting aspersions again, it was for an offhand giggle that wouldn't earn me a warning here.
(In fact, after some anecdotes here, I get a little paranoid that it was 'looking twice at the 40K boards' that really did me in.)

And the bleedin' forum software still sent me a 'Happy Birthday from Warseer!' email on the day...

Oh yeah I just remembered how one time we all got strikes for very roundabout mentions of things from a leaked codex scan, around the same time as a mod posted a full review of the codex based on the same leaked scan. The mods also read users' Private Messages for mentions of the leak.

I got clobbered for linking to Space Hulk board section scans on Boardgame Geek (with permission to photocopy markers on them) in a thread filled with scans of Space Hulk board sections which continued to exist long after

Warseer is barmey, especially the shifting rules

 Vermis wrote:
Oguhmek's mention of the xenos plog board reminds me that there were more subdivisions than that. But by the same token, yeah - a coupla 40K plog boards, fantasy plog board, terrain plog board, and 'everything else'.

Maybe Dakka could use a bit more division in it's plogs, or more sorting mechanisms, but TBH I think GW-only fans could use an RDA of 'everything else' every so often. Lets them get used to new experiences so they don't freak out and start snapping when unfamiliar things pop up.

I saw Cesar Milan do it, once.

I think that's part of it, but from everything I've seen in the various discussion about new subforums, the Admin team puts a high priority on keeping traffic in each board high. The factor I've seen tossed around is age of oldest thread on the first page of a board. If you look at P&M blogs right now, you'll see threads with last posts of about 20 hours ago, which actually makes it one of the more vibrant boards on Dakka. Dakka Discussions has two week old threads on page one, News & Rumors is about 24 hours, even the dread OT has ten day old threads on page one.

However... such high churn rewards the bloggers that are updating regularly, or have a lot of followers commenting. The cream rises to the top.

Sorting Plogs by content also limits the OP to that topic. I started a blog with the New Year, initially showing the painting of my KOW Ogre Mega Armies. However, I'll want to branch out to my other projects without starting a new blog.

 Vermis wrote:


Ditto! Except I remember. And before Totbegoren starts casting aspersions again, it was for an offhand giggle that wouldn't earn me a warning here.
(In fact, after some anecdotes here, I get a little paranoid that it was 'looking twice at the 40K boards' that really did me in.)

I didn't intend to cast aspersions at anyone, it was just that I saw on more than one occasion someone acting like a total dick, get banned, then make a new user and act like they had been super unfairly treated, even though their behaviour was avalible for all to see just by reading the thread.

The only thing that bothered me about that board was the language rules. Seriously, did they think their readers were a bunch of 8-year olds?
I mean, I would be surprised if less than 99% of the board members are at least teenagers or above, and if you can't handle at least some coarse language at that age, you have no business playing games about people hacking each other to bits.

Though, perhaps my use of the word 'dick' is a bannable offence here too? :p

 totgeboren wrote:

Though, perhaps my use of the word 'dick' is a bannable offence here too? :p

Its not been obliterated by the childish 'profanity' filter so your probably fine.

I can't even remember if I was banned from Warseer, I suspect I just stopped posting there.

 totgeboren wrote:

Though, perhaps my use of the word 'dick' is a bannable offence here too? :p

Nah, it's pretty liberal here. Some words are changed by the expletive filter such as feth and gak. But lesser insults don't tend to attract a visit from bane...

I don't care too much.

It was my primary forum until I got banned in September it think?

Meh... I think I said something along the lines of,

"troll?... I have not yet begun to troll young man! And when do, you'll be scared of bridges for life....

....The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!"

The later being a quote from a favourite scientists of mine.

That was because someone was infact chatting utter nonsense about a reel of games. Pointing out their flaws in an attempt to make his one, preferred, perfect game system appear spotlessly perfect.

I don't normally flame but if you'd have read the drivel coming out, you'd have flashed too ;-)

Well that's nice. Perhaps I will move over here on a more permanent basis.
Would be nice to be able to have a normal conversation with other adults without having to pretend like I'm in a mormon church or something.

 zedmeister wrote:

 totgeboren wrote:

Though, perhaps my use of the word 'dick' is a bannable offence here too? :p

Nah, it's pretty liberal here. Some words are changed by the expletive filter such as feth and gak. But lesser insults don't tend to attract a visit from bane...

Calling someone on here a dick directly would probably get you in trouble (post removed with light reprimand), but calling somebody like the dick who raised the price on AIDS treatment and is the most hated man in the world? It's okay to call him a dick.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 reds8n wrote:
Rest assured one day soon the MODs there will be crushing your hopes and dreams once again.

They cannot do that if I don't go there. And I cannot go there because I am banned .
Seriously, I cannot even remember how/when/why I was banned. Just that it felt terribly unfair and that I don't want to go there anymore.

Warseer's main purpose as a site was to try the latest ban-dodging skillz


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 totgeboren wrote:


Though, perhaps my use of the word 'dick' is a bannable offence here too? :p

It's random. Depends on the mod in question, his current mood and the person you call a dick. There must be a formula somewhere!

I'm now getting a 404 not found error when I try to go there, earlier it was Connection Refused.

I'm using Chrome, but it probably doesn't make a difference.

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...

 lord_blackfang wrote:
When members get too popular on Warseer, the mods start watching them like hawks for any excuse to get rid of them.

I got a strike for "flamebaiting" when I posted a Kid_Kyoto styled satirical codex review. And then a suspension for a thread in their version of Nuts&Bolts asking why satire isn't allowed. A link to an anti-furry comic sealed the deal.

Same story with many others I considered pillars of the community. Maybe most notably Lord Malek, who would answer any rules question within minutes, complete with page references.

I once got a warning for replying to someone else's mildly humorous comment stating that I thought it was funny and furthering the joke. (Can't remember the specifics, but it was completely innocuous and inoffensive; something related to the fluff of a codex under discussion, or something.) The reason for the warning was I had been making "spam" posts. It was my only reply to the entire thread that was several pages long.

That was the last time I posted there; I decided that this level of moderation was too high for my entertainment threshold to endure.

Edit: I found the old thread. It was on the rumors for the DE codex (two DE codices ago). Someone wrote, "About the only thing we know for sure is that Squats aren't coming out this year." I responded with, "What, no Squats? Nooooooooo!" That resulted in the warning.

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.

 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.

This is the quote from the e-mail they sent me:

"This is spam. Don't do it. This is a verbal warning. "

Saldiven wrote:


This is the quote from the e-mail they sent me:

"This is spam. Don't do it. This is a verbal warning. "

I hope they included a sound file with the e-mail "This is a warning!"