PSA: Me

[Cortexian]

Some of you have been complaining that I was over-zealous in a thread when it came to handing out infractions which resulted in the TEMPORARY ban of a veteran user of this site. This action was taken due to the fact that the user explicitly broke the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). All action was condoned by the (active) site administration (jcap), and was only taken after discussion with the existing (active) staff. There will be no further discussion or justification about previous "incidents".

The AUP is here so that casual readers and lurkers don't need to wade through pages of shit-posting in order to find relevant information. If you insist on disregarding it then you will continue to receive infractions and may eventually be banned.

The continuous creation of new threads and derailing of other threads about this issue needs to stop, if it continues then I'm going to start handing out more bans.

I realize this is mostly limited to a limited group of individuals who've had it in for me for years now, without any real reason except because it seems to be a cool bandwagon to be on. For all of those legitimate users out there, please make sure you take a minute or two and re-read the AUP to make sure you don't make the same mistakes.

tl;dr - Stop making new threads/posts to complain about how horrible I am at moderating.

[TVTyrant]

The color on your name changed :O

[Kornman00]

[Bodzilla]

we as a site function best when left alone.

there is no direction for modacity to head in, we're a dieing site, deal with it and accept that the moderating that you do isn't needed, which is why almost none of the other staff go out of their way to do it.
by suppressing strong opinions, and quelling the dieing user base from posting anything even remotely offensive or opinionated your harming the only thing this site has going for it.

we're all friends here, lets talk to each other as friends and let the site handle itself.

[n00b1n8R]

I don't have anything against cortexian, it's freelancer I take issue with.

[Cortexian]

we as a site function best when left alone.

there is no direction for modacity to head in, we're a dieing site, deal with it and accept that the moderating that you do isn't needed, which is why almost none of the other staff go out of their way to do it.
by suppressing strong opinions, and quelling the dieing user base from posting anything even remotely offensive or opinionated your harming the only thing this site has going for it.

we're all friends here, lets talk to each other as friends and let the site handle itself.

None of the other staff are active, the ones that are active are no longer staff.

If you guys would prefer that we remove all rules (except for the obvious, no piracy/porn/NSFW/gross shit) then I'll take that up with jcap. Jcap will then take that up with TheGhost if/when he ever comes online to care about this site. Expect this to happen never.

[Bodzilla]

you do remember i was on the staff dont you?

i stepped down... and i was involved with planning for the next step.
and it's safe to say at this stage, there really is nothing that can be done to breathe life into this site, theres no major releases that the community in centreed around, all our escapes into other modding engines have been dead end because we dont have the user base to support branching out, and peoples interests whernt invested in the new engines anyway.......

Look it's just not useful or needed, it just harms the casual atmosphere which has made many of the people here friends for years and years.
we dont need the big red stick over our head to act civillised yet strongly opinionated.

we've been doing it for years remember...

look and i know you feel vindicated, but the truth is it's never been something personal, i have always called people out on wrong decisions, and i will always continue to do so. I think it's amicable the amount of time and effort you've put into the site, over the years, and as a long term user and a guy who tried to do the same with things like the original overclocking thread ect i understand where your coming from.

It's not about removing the existing rules, it's about just being more chilled, and understand that we're able to act civillised without having say, half of an inflammatory discussion suddenly disappearing.

just remember i cared enough to donate a significant amount to this website to keep it running, but it's time to acknowledge the site for what it is to us now.
it's changed over the years, and so have all of us.

[Cortexian]

It has changed, and I was appointed to staff to keep up the serious side of it.

There's a reason I changed my primary usergroup, it's obvious that this site literally cannot be serious anymore. I'm not going to bother sifting through that shit, all it does is add unneeded stress into my life and get a bunch of people posting bullshit all over the forums in every forum they can think of that might be vaguely relevant (honestly I should ban you for that).

So I give up, I'll go donate my time to overclock.net or NCIX.

[Warsaw]

I'm not going to bother sifting through that shit, all it does is add unneeded stress into my life and get a bunch of people posting bullshit all over the forums in every forum they can think of that might be vaguely relevant

And that is why I [usually] just stop posting in threads where people are popping blood vessels over something that isn't worth popping blood vessels over (Really, gun grips? Come on now, I've fired my fair share and do know what I'm talking about). If you (not you you, but general you) want to have a civilised chat or debate, hit me up on Steam or something that way you don't read meaning into a post that can't be clarified in real-time to prevent you from reading said meaning and then flying off the handle because of it.

As for moderating, I'm going to quote an old =EP= member, DTS 7.1, here:

Threads grow and evolve.

Unless it's a help thread or a discussion where it is absolutely critical to stay on-topic, there isn't much point to try and keep it on topic. Hell, usually, the tangent is at least related in a less-than-remote way.

[TVTyrant]

It has changed, and I was appointed to staff to keep up the serious side of it.

There's a reason I changed my primary usergroup, it's obvious that this site literally cannot be serious anymore. I'm not going to bother sifting through that shit, all it does is add unneeded stress into my life and get a bunch of people posting bullshit all over the forums in every forum they can think of that might be vaguely relevant (honestly I should ban you for that).

So I give up, I'll go donate my time to overclock.net or NCIX.

Nooooooo Lancer Don't leave us man