lolclear and blatant abuse.NA
Thax has taken a liking to using chat stir up arguments about race (borderline racism in most cases) and regularly spamming with spoilers to later Game of Thrones seasons for several months, solely to grief, and if I searched his chat logs I would probably find even worse things that weren't posted. I have warned him repeatedly in the past to behave, have muted him when I'm on, and told him that he will end up being banned when people start complaining. If you recall, Zisa had a breakdown on these forums because Thax, on alternate accounts, went on racist rants daily and provoked Zisa into tk'ing him and being banned for it.
This time, he was griefing. Spamming the chat with spoilers to anticipated or popular things is griefing. For those who don't know, griefing is just finding ways in a multiplayer game to ruin the enjoyment for others, often without in game penalty (except from server admins who catch and prevent it)
That's my excuse. What's the excuse for this thread, in general discussion, posted by one of the most notorious Ban Request Forum trolls?
I'm not a forum moderator, I'm an admin of the game servers, so just report posts that look like spoilers or something and maybe they will get spoiler texted. I'm not even trying to be a dick to you, Anders, but I'm just calling this thread out as an attempt 2 start drama instead of discuss rules. Probably a mix of both, but I hope I clarified this griefing thing and don't mind a series of personal insults by random posters.
I'm pretty tolerant of most things in chat, and give people chances with mutes and warnings unless they don't get it, or its legitimately disrupting the server. My ban justification of "I TAKE GOT SPOILERS SERIOUSLY" was me being a bit sarcastic, but honestly its one of the most blatant and overused methods of griefing on the internet since the show got popular. Often book-readers feel entitled to grief with these spoilers and not get in trouble because "heh, shoulda read the book, noobs 8-)" like it changes anything, but I think most understand its a dumb excuse and just want to ruin the series for people, for their own amusement.
Ironically, Tears of Destiny resigned as admin mostly in a fit of rage that he thought I was too lenient in letting people grief in chat, because I was an LLJK troll myself with no regard to the rules. He then banned someone for 3 weeks because they said "cracker" once in chat, blamed me for single handedly ruining cRPG and demanded I be deadminned in a series of horrible yet hilarious posts and threads until he was fired. However in this situation, where I gave a reasonable punishment to a repeat offender for blatant chat abuse, he begins +1'ing every post saying this is me abusing my admin powers. Never change, Tears.
Ironically, Tears of Destiny resigned as admin mostly in a fit of rage that he thought I was too lenient in letting people grief in chat, because I was an LLJK troll myself with no regard to the rules. He then banned someone for 3 weeks because they said "cracker" once in chat, blamed me for single handedly ruining cRPG and demanded I be deadminned in a series of horrible yet hilarious posts and threads until he was fired. However in this situation, where I gave a reasonable punishment to a repeat offender for blatant chat abuse, he begins +1'ing every post saying this is me abusing my admin powers. Never change, Tears.
GAME OF THRONES ARE SRS BSNS!!!11111
Dark Vador is Luke father.OMG! NO! BAN!
Dark Vador is Luke father.
what happened to freedom of speechYoud think Smooth out of all ppl what understand that right..... lol
and regularly spamming with spoilers to later Game of Thrones seasons for several months, solely to grief,
Soo, was he right about those spoilers?
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24h for a GoT spoiler? Softie.
There's a trick to avoid spoilers that relate to the TV-series
Books aren't evil!
24h for a GoT spoiler? Softie.Yeah, what's with the americans giving out such short bans anyway? 8-12 hours seems to be the standard :/ Seems they need someone to teach them a thing or two about punishments.
You probably just watched smth on youtube, it seems. :mrgreen:Oh I've watched both GoT seasons. First one couple of times actually :mrgreen:. Then again I'm sure I've watched every Supernatural episode atleast 2 times, if not 3. Because you just don't see everything during the first watch...
Uncles ruckus is a legend. Just saying. Much of what goes on in our ts is related to what he says.*Attempts to join Mercs* Ruckus is awesome.
If you can get banned for saying a spoiler for a TV show...Obvious griefing!
If you can get banned for saying a spoiler for a TV show...
Thax has taken a liking to using chat stir up arguments about race (borderline racism in most cases) and regularly spamming with spoilers to later Game of Thrones seasons for several months, solely to grief, and if I searched his chat logs I would probably find even worse things that weren't posted. I have warned him repeatedly in the past to behave, have muted him when I'm on, and told him that he will end up being banned when people start complaining. If you recall, Zisa had a breakdown on these forums because Thax, on alternate accounts, went on racist rants daily and provoked Zisa into tk'ing him and being banned for it.Calm down nerds.
This time, he was griefing. Spamming the chat with spoilers to anticipated or popular things is griefing. For those who don't know, griefing is just finding ways in a multiplayer game to ruin the enjoyment for others, often without in game penalty (except from server admins who catch and prevent it)
http://forum.meleegaming.com/announcements/official-server-rules/
No abuse of in-game chat (racism, insulting, griefing...)
He's breaking the rules. He has a history of doing the same thing. I banned him for 24 hours.
That's my excuse. What's the excuse for this thread, in general discussion, posted by one of the most notorious Ban Request Forum trolls?
the fuck i read the spoiler. fuck this shit. deserved ban, god i am pissed now fuck.
I haven't seen "The Dictator" yet. So if ppl are talking about it in the server would it be a legit reason to cry for a ban?
All I was doing was asking a question. I'm sry though, this whole rule seems silly to me. It's just my opinion, but I wouldn't give a shit about what he said even if I watched game of thrones. Although it's funny that u think I'm shit-talking you.
And yes, this has happened to me b4. Ppl "spoiling" the primary quest for skyrim for example. I really don't give a shit about spoilers.
Sounds like ppl get too tied into the suspense and less into the true enjoyment of the episode. (unless u find suspense enjoyable. :rolleyes:).
This is fucking ridiculous... :|
Smooth, you're exaggerating.
Spoilers aren't serious business.
But I do understand why you banned the dude. Because he's a dick.
And that's the only important thing here.
On the serious side,
Banning someone for giving out spoilers is the lamest, dumbest, shittiest, most idiotic thing to do!
So, lets start from the statement that giving spoilers is griefing.
In order for something to be griefing, the other party needs get annoyed, irritated etc. Now, if someone gives spoilers about tv show, or something else, some people will get irritated, in which case to them it is griefing, and some won't, in which case its no offense at all. Now, we already have a split conditional offense.
Should my neighbour be arrested for having bbq that produces smell which bothers me? or should I just close the window? Now, what about those who do find it offensive? should a man giving out spoilers be banned , or should those who find it offensive just mute him?
Offense he did, was personal, and it CAN be solved personally. Global punishment is only for something that that individual cannot resolve himself.
On the serious side,
Banning someone for giving out spoilers is the lamest, dumbest, shittiest, most idiotic thing to do!
So, lets start from the statement that giving spoilers is griefing.
In order for something to be griefing, the other party needs get annoyed, irritated etc. Now, if someone gives spoilers about tv show, or something else, some people will get irritated, in which case to them it is griefing, and some won't, in which case its no offense at all. Now, we already have a split conditional offense.
Should my neighbour be arrested for having bbq that produces smell which bothers me? or should I just close the window? Now, what about those who do find it offensive? should a man giving out spoilers be banned , or should those who find it offensive just mute him?
Offense he did, was personal, and it CAN be solved personally. Global punishment is only for something that that individual cannot resolve himself.
Being a douchebag is not against the law IRL (in most countries). However being a douchebag at a private store or company, could easily result in you being throw out, or banned for life.
I'm glad I could show you how your analogy was facetious.
If someone is trying to be a douchebag and posting spoilers about something as epic as Game of Thrones (or A song of ice and fire books) they should be punished (muted, and if repeated over and over, banned). 24 hours isn't the end of the world, stop acting like a douchebag and you won't get banned.
It's pretty simple. I try not to act like a douchebag in game, and I've never been banned. It's not hard to avoid being banned.
rofl no TV show is "epic"
rofl no TV show is "epic"
The book's sure as fuck are, I've only seen the first season of the TV show, and am only about 1/5th into the 2nd book, but I still really liked the first season on TV. It's not nearly as epic or in depth as the first book, but the visuals are awesome, you get people who are acting, and you can see the actual fighting and sparring taking place. There's +'s and -'s to both formats, although the book is way more in depth (you get insight into what characters are thinking).
Since Tears and Skyline both +'ed Gazda's post, they must not realize the difference between something being against the law, and something being against a private companies policy.
It might not be illegal to walk around smelling like shit, but if you show up to your job reeking of alcohol and shit, you're probably going to be asked to leave, and never return.
Since Tears and Skyline both +'ed Gazda's post, they must not realize the difference between something being against the law, and something being against a private companies policy.
It might not be illegal to walk around smelling like shit, but if you show up to your job reeking of alcohol and shit, you're probably going to be asked to leave, and never return.
Now I feel like watching the full Rome season
That was fucking epic smoothdick. I'd never seen anything from the Rome show before...guess I'll have to check it out now.
HBO makes the best shows. Rome is a BBC/HBO co-production, thus "BRITmy old friendS NOT SPEAKING PROPER CLASSICAL LATIN" or whatever these complaints are about is kind of silly.
Rome is only 2 seasons long too, it sadly was ended prematurely because HBO didn't think a show as expensive as Rome was worth it. Eventually they realized their mistake, because Rome was amazing, and still very popular in DVD sales and with critics. Game of Thrones was their attempt to return to this kind of epic storytelling, and has succeeded beyond their highest expectations.
Suffice to say, if you think Game of Thrones is good, you will not be disappointed by Rome. It follows the events of Caesar's Civil War to the rise of the Roman Empire, from the perspectives of the senators, Caesar, Cleopatra, Augustus, Marc Antony, etc along with the two dudes in that pro clip, regular soldiers in Caesar's elite personal legion. There you get to see family, military, and civic duties from a more common-man perspective that is lacking in lots of historical dramas. Tremendously entertaining and funny the entire time too, a true epic. A++ would watch again
Now I feel like watching the full Rome season
Why they dont speak latin in ROME? Its unrealistic, nerf it.