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The Guiding Principles and New Rules
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Oh hi thar again (a.k.a. READ THIS, IT IS ALL THE WARNING YOU WILL GET)
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Alts have been around for years, this has never happened.
So thanks for the strawman but I think we're safe from the Alt Menace
alts for making topics are fine to me, people hold grudges and remember petty shit and I know that if If my dick was dripping fluids or my grandmother had a heroin addiction, that's generally stuff I would not want associated with my account. There are plenty of bad people around here that would love to wait a few years and go
Hey Rane how's your dick, still dripping blood? hahaha
if you couldn't make an alt, it'd make people less likely to ask the forum for help/advice
same thing for lesser stuff. People have friends and relatives that read the forums. Even employers and FUTURE employers. Connections would be made and the anonymity of it would be ruined, again discouraging people from asking for help and advice
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BAHAHAHA. I can only imagine this statement was meant to be ironic.
Edit: To be on topic, congrats on being a mod again ceres!
I play WoW with ceres, this is not the case
(I'm kidding, please keep healing me on Halion)
Oh my goodness can I ever rage. Also if you're one of the outside guys on that fight you're not my problem anyway, I usually end up stuck on the inside.
I would be more likely to believe it's a deterrent.
oh no i am misremembering how you are
I demand a new mod!
Perpetual, you have some funny ideas about the nature of advice.
something something getting themselves selected something under no circumstances be given the job.
Also ceres I did not know you used to be a mod but I can not think of a better choice, you are always so calm and cool and collected and your posts are often lengthy and well thought out.
I consider it very disrespectful to ask for advice with no intent of either following it, or at least taking it into serious consideration. In addition, the more knowledgeable people who give a particular line of advice, the more it behooves someone to listen to it (especially if the asker admits to not knowing what to do in a given situation).
Sure, people disagree a lot in relationship threads, but there are a lot of times when someone says something brilliant, multiple people lime them, and the OP goes and does the exact opposite (and the inarguably stupid) thing. And they waste everyone's time when they do that. "Oh hey, we just discussed this and tried to be helpful for four pages, but you were going to go do your own thing anyway. Cool."
Relationships and feelings and all that bullshit are always more complicated from the inside than the outside. No matter how well we think we know a situation, the fact is, we don't. We advise from a position of generality and one-sided ambiguity. This doesn't make the advice given here worthless; on the contrary, it makes it a valuable tool for reflection on the problem. Ultimately, however, the OP needs to decide based on the volumes of information he has that we don't (sometimes including his own feelings) which course of action he will take. This is not necessarily disrespect.
Asking advice does not obligate the seeker to take it, nor does it cost the advisors anything to give. It's always satisfying to see the kind of resolution you'd like, but the attitude that you are owed it is not a good one to post with.
Aside from all practicalities involved, these are among the reasons that you will probably not see rules made about following advice provided under pretty much any circumstance.
Oh, I'm sure we'll find ways to still do that.
What you should NOT see is name-calling, or "you kicked somebody in the shin so you deserve to burn in hell." These are not acceptable.
To recap:
ACCEPTABLE: "You scratched the paint on someone else's car on purpose because you were pissed, so you should probably suck it up and pay for it and take it as a lesson to control your temper."
NOT ACCEPTABLE: "You kissed another girl while you were drunk and I hope your wife sets your dick on fire you wretched man-tramp."
I really hope the difference is clear between 1) not condoning someone's actions and suggesting that taking the consequences assigned is the right thing to do and 2) calling someone names and telling them that you hope to see them burn to the fullest extent that a hell can provide. One of these things will always be allowed; the other never was.
I do believe that the tipping thread is one of those that is subject to a moratorium in D&D.
It never ends well, because different countries have wildly different approaches to, and cultural perceptions of, labour law.
Or, we could just not click on threads we don't want to read. I don't think we need a rule for this kind of thing.
That would only work in a perfect world. They always, always, always turn into shitfests. Thanks for the snark though.
He does have a point though when some posters want to ban the ability to have a certain thread but seem incapable of posting in it themselves.
So, report them to the mods, if that is what is happening. Hell, tip threads don't seem very common, certainly not common enough to require a rule.
Lighten up, Francis. Notice the mood in here is not deadly serious.
I think you meant "not" posting in it
Ed: whatever, not worth it
That I did.
I don't mind the suggestions, just be aware that I am not equipped to re-code the forum.