EVE General Discussion

I might have said some things I shouldn't have the otherday & got my main banned for life. I hold the ISD directly responsible for this, they deliberately provoked me into a fit of rage with their ridiculous & continuous interjections & locks.

I am prepared to accept an apology & reinstatement of my posting privileges & forget the whole matter.
In return I promise never to say bad things about these valued volunteers again. (unless warranted) but I'll refrain from 'inappropriate' language in future.

I would like to suggest that everybody lighten up a little & perhaps these rampant control freaks ought to grow a thicker hide when dealing with the general discussion board, after all, sticks & stones & all that.

thank you.

Unfortunately for them, as these past 4 months have shown, the fact that the problem keeps waving its **** bad moderation in people's faces keeps the problem (and annoyance) fresh.

Its indeed annoying, i had some replies removed some were trolls but a few were normal replies (at least i thought ,they were).

What these forums need is the Hratli Smirks Guide to Posting™

Here you go: mods sticky this please tia

Hello, I'm Skymarshal H. Ratli Smirks, the hero of 49-U. I've been asked by Vinata to write a guide to help you eager Kugutsumen posters not smear virtual poop all over these forums. Which you persist in doing every time your webbed, cheeto-stained man-paw shoves your cursor over the “post new reply” button.

Yes, you are a bad poster. And by “you” I mean you personally. However, if you follow these guidelines you may become a less-bad poster, which is something we look forward to with the utmost anticipation.

1. No antiquated terrible meme posting. These are memes that were potentially at one point effective and maybe even amusing, then discarded, taken up by CAOD, SHC, and posters like you, and driven into the ground. They are obsolete. At this point seeing “u mad bro” posted, or references to people “being mad,” is like listening to your grandparents use slang ten years out of date. It is wince-inducing.

2. Images you pulled off 4chan. Yes, we know 4chan is hilarious and the captions are soooo funny! Post all the pictures you want there! But post words here you ******* illiterate.

3. Various permutations of the word “fail” that do not adhere to classic, pre-internet usage. Likewise "epic." Keep that **** at home.

4. I heartily encourage you to lurk before posting. Lurking is useful because it introduces you to local posting conventions and generally gives you a handle on the regular forum denizens.

5. When you find a good post, take a few moments to examine it critically and figure out what makes it a good post. What makes it amusing? What makes it enjoyable to read? Do the same to a bad post. What makes it garbage? What makes it painful to read? Try to incorporate what you learned into your next post.

6. Along the lines of #5, study the good posters and the good trolls. Look at their language, their tone, and even their gimmicks. What makes them effective? You don't have to copy them, but pay attention.

7. Don't do emotes in a post. This isn't a Vampire the Masquerade RP room on IRC.

8. Recognize ironicposting and written sarcasm.

Unless you are confident in your command of the Art of Posting, I recommend being succinct. Writing long, elaborate posts is really only fine if you are confident in your ability to hold the reader's attention and keep them interested/amused throughout the length of the post. You remember that scene from The Shawshank Redemption where Tim Robbins had to crawl five hundred yards through a raw sewage pipe? That's what reading a long bad post is like.

This goes for angry rageposting too. I don't personally endorse rageposting because it is terribly boring, but some of you ******* love rageposting like Suas loved cocaine. Whatever, I can't personally stop you. Just make it brief.

Posts about how awesome you and your legion of space badasses are and how you are about to rain **** and pit bulls onto your hapless space adversaries are also boring. If you post these, you will likely be trolled.

Don't get trolled. If someone posted something obviously provocatively wrong and you feel compelled to correct it and it wasn't posted by CrusaderKnight then you are probably about to get trolled. Looking at you, TEST.

Know when to get out of a thread. Threads usually degenerate into complete circular fuckery, and spending further time in that cesspit arguing is a waste. When it becomes clear that further debate is pointless, leave.

Gargant and Navigator for CSM 8

Because people like you turned something that could be potentially civilized and engage in constructive criticism instead utilized passive aggressive methods of communication and outright blasting the ISD and CCP.

Did they make mistakes? Yes, sure crap went down and they are trying to rectify it. But then you and others come along just blasting them instead of trying to do something constructive. It's a wonder this doesn't just get locked (and I hope it does).

Discussing forum moderation technically isn't even allowed. This is CCP's forum, not yours. If they have ISD running some parts of it, and the ISD mess up, that isn't your que to just bash CCP and ISD.

If you're going to criticize, do it with civility. Otherwise, kindly shut the **** up. You were previously civil and analytical in your posts here and I agreed with a lot you said, now you're just being an *******. A paragon like example of all that is wrong with the Eve Community.

Anslo is absolutely right.

Pipa Porto, if you are still eager to continue with your nonsensical crusade, there is always other alternatives.

And, as I keep trying to point out, the current rules do not prohibit the thing that ISD Suvetar claimed was prohibited.

To my knowledge, prohibiting something not previously prohibited is generally considered creating a new rule.

Wonderful. Hopefully it can be filled with pages of posts that look like the middle of this thread*.

*The most productive part, after the first part which had a lot of "welp the CCL idea has failed" and before we got bogged down in simply reporting on a series of crises.


As I've said a number of times. I hope the CCL can succeed. But I think they need much more training and experience (the old refrain "lurk moar" comes to mind) to be successful. There's only so many times you can claim growing pains without it becoming farcical.

Were you being an ass with said moderation? Because there is a rule about that. Stop trying to be a rules lawyer and try being a human being.