i voted no - but i would say that people should be able to defend themselves - if someone starts talking smack to me i'm going to let them have a piece of my monkey mind

the problem i had with flaming noobs was it was automatic, repetitive, and, largely, unfunny... the typical was "hi, i'm johnny and i like horror" followed by 80 responses of "STFU Noob" and "Your mother sucks c**ks in hell" etc. what had poor little johnny done to deserve the abuse and why is an endless stream of STFU supposed to be witty.

so, in closing, insults that are appropriate, justified and, most importantly, FUNNY are cool in my book - mindless flaming of noobs is not

I think we should be able to say whatever we want. If I walked up to Wytch on the street and called him a fucking retarded fagget that likes to get buttfucked by his dad in between sessions of blowing his 2 little brothers, there would not be a mod to run up and tell me I can't say that. Freedom of speech means just what it sounds like it means. If I said that to someone on the street, they couldnt ban me, they would be on their own to retort, ignore me, punch me, etc... but the fact remains they'd be forced to deal with it themselves, without anyone stepping in and wagging a finger at them.

How about making the rule that flaming is allowed if it's warranted? I'm sorry mods, but this wytch retard deserves to be flamed when he sits on here all night and writes 1 word posts in every single forum. He's obviously not here for any reason except to try and fuck with people so why shouldn't be able to tell him to fuck off?





Or you can just make me a mod too since I'm online overnight when most of the mods are nowhere to be seen and that's when most of the problems seem to occur... I'd be an exemplary moderator too just like BR! :D (*Whispers to all non-mods* Psst. I can be bought.) ;)

and we'd say, what do you call yourselves and they'd say . . .


THE ARISTOCRATS

Return, I totally understand where you're coming from with your last comments, and you're probably right. The point is, though, you did get angry and you did reply. So maybe instead of arguing, as you suggested we not do, we should just post one reply expressing our displeasure at the person who is causing problems We could just have that one moment to have our say, and get it off of our chest. That one post should suffice, and therefore, there's no need to keep arguing with some jerk. After that one reply, we can then ignore them All we have to do is keep the anger in check.

Nah. there's no need for it.

Only if there was a forum for it.

To blindly flame a noob-----NO....its immature and counterproductive. Not everybody is hardened to forums and we could lose a potentially good poster. Sure...it can be humorous, but overall makes us look like bullys.....and we all know thats not the case.....for the most part.

As far as disruptive posters i.e. Darth Bane and the like....i leave you with a quote i found.


Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

don't believe her - she bashes me all the time


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So lemme see if I'm reading ya right....



You think that while 'flaming' should remain officially banned, the mods should turn a blind eye when the person being flamed is someone that deserves it? (Such as darthbane, wytch, and the other obvious trolls that show up from time to time.)

Seems fair enough to me, but is that what you were saying?