Is GAF too strict?

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cashman said:
Most of those port begging bans look really harmless
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It's one of those things where it existing as a "rule" makes no sense. A passing comment in a thread is not the same as whining on and derailing conversation. Getting banned for stating your opinion is unconstitutional.

Unless said opinion is like, racist, or something.
 
Holy Wars said:
It's one of those things where it existing as a "rule" makes no sense. A passing comment in a thread is not the same as whining on and derailing conversation. Getting banned for stating your opinion is unconstitutional.

Unless said opinion is like, racist, or something.
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There's a GAF constitution?
 
Mumei said:
You are probably correct, but as other posters said it is not the posts in isolation that are problematic but what they do collectively to a thread. So they are banned individually, even though they might not be problematic all on their lonesome.
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I was wondering, one thing i don't see often on GAF is mod warnings in threads.
In the portbegging example for instance, a post going "ok, further port arguments will be punished" or the like, instead of straight out banning, wouldn't have been better? I have seen a few of said posts in my time on GAF, but relatively few.
In the forum i moderated a few years back, that was usually the course of action, especially for OTs, but for other stuff, too (including warning users getting heated).
I'm not necessarily saying GAF should do it, but i'm wondering if there's a reasoning behind it, if it's even a deliberate choice or what.
I guess GAF is too big for such a measure?
 
LostVoyager said:
Well people keep equating everything I post with "ism". I complained about Santorum manipulating people and it was "smartism". I made a thread dispelling a stereotype (it was equated with my other threads) and it got ruined with "toothism" mocking posts and basically I can not complain about anything that is unfair or wrong without people mocking said posts with "ism" suffix attachment.

All because I made threads about lookism and heightism (which were largely ridiculed) but I did not event the terms... I equated them to racism in my earlier posts but apologized before I started said threads and admitted I was wrong. Basically I have to change my username to escape this ****ing label that people put on me but the administrator I contacted said I could not have a new one.
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I will swap you. You can have my tag and all that comes with it, and I will be associated with ism. Deal?

UrbanRats said:
I was wondering, one thing i don't see often on GAF is mod warnings in threads.
In the portbegging example for instance, a post going "ok, further port arguments will be punished" or the like, instead of straight out banning, wouldn't have been better? I have seen a few of said posts in my time on GAF, but relatively few.
In the forum i moderated a few years back, that was usually the course of action, especially for OTs, but for other stuff, too (including warning users getting heated).
I'm not necessarily saying GAF should do it, but i'm wondering if there's a reasoning behind it, if it's even a deliberate choice or what.
I guess GAF is too big for such a measure?
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Portbegging has been bannable for years. It has not always been strictly enforced, but whenever a thread is getting derailed with it it tends to be.
 
Devolution said:
Where did that come from anyway?
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Ask Bish, I posted in his tag fishing thread to get to see what happens if someone wanted their tag removed in a fishing thread (the old one was P to the owned etc) and this is what he came up with. Tag fishing is an art I seem not to have. At least it is memorable I guess.
 
Dead Man said:
Portbegging has been bannable for years. It has not always been strictly enforced, but whenever a thread is getting derailed with it it tends to be.
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I know, but since its enforcement is based on the saturation of it in the thread, i think my question is still relevant.
 
krioto said:
You haven't spent much time in the real world, or are the best damn in-character troll I've come across. Congrats either way
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Yeah, for a while I genuinely thought he was that sheltered or had some mental problems (which would be mean to make fun of), but he's playing it up SO hard it's pretty hard to take him seriously.

In one of my history classes, there was one kid who did this; every day he'd interrupt the teacher JUST to be a contrarian to the topic. World war 2? Let's see it from the Nazi point of view. Cold War? Maybe communism was right. Voting? Always said the opposite candidate of every opinion. People rolled their eyes and audibly groaned and he was horribly unpopular as a result but he KEPT ON DOING IT.

After a while, I noticed that he was fully aware that people reacted badly and he complained to the teacher that people didn't like what he had to say. Yet...he kept on doing it. He liked the negative attention, like a religious persecution complex, the more people disagreed the more it proved he was A Man Alone, Fighting Against The Evil Majority.
 
 
After the last week or so, with some of the comments I've read, no Gaf is far from strict. I've seen hints of holocaust denial, calls to end freedom of speech.
 
The Crusty Juggler said:
After the last week or so, with some of the comments I've read, no Gaf is far from strict. I've seen hints of holocaust denial, calls to end freedom of speech.
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No, that's every forum ever that's more than 100 people.

It's impossible in a worldwide medium (the internet) NOT to find people who will have bizarre points of view you've never encountered before.
 
LostVoyager said:
It is not a joke, some members are more popular and get preferential treatment here. Some of that popularity is inspired by the posting pictures thread that establishes a face to said poster. This can be evident in the parade of praise some picture up-loaders receive in said thread.

I would imagine other posters object to the posting pictures thread as well but there is not a place to discuss it asside from this thread. I am basically saying that unless the moderators and administrators are 100% not racist/sexist/etc. Than it is rather unreasonable to let people detirmine what their gender/race is in a discussion that should be on merit.

Maybe the thread can remain but usernames/profiles not show. Then all the users that want praise can have their picture praised but not reap the benefits of a certain appearance from more active modding.
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This is crazy. It's an accepted truth that attractive people get preferential treatment, that's just human nature. Why should GAF be any different?

There are plenty of hot members on GAF, Inanna, Devo, Anti, MVP, Trin, but they don't get wrapped in cotton wool. If someone wants to have it out with them, they'll have it out. I know I have!

LV, you seem like a gentle soul, and I don't want to insult you. But you really need to develop a thicker skin, and "man up" so to speak. You've only been member for a few months, and already, I know before reading one of your posts that it'll be some "woe is me" BS.

If you want to be seen as more attractive, then lighten up. Happy go lucky, life and soul of the party, that's attractive. Self deprecating misery? Not so much.

Don't mean to be harsh man, but come on! It's just a forum, try to develop a more amiable persona.
 
Why do some threads get put in community but others allowed to live in prime time Off Topic? Like, what's the difference between the post your pic thread, the gay thread and Avengers thread and the Community threads like "Real GAF", "GirlGAF" and Wrasslin'?

I hate the community forum and dislike having to use it, so I want others to suffer too. Please make them suffer.
 
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