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Subject: Can we add some new rules to Bungie.Net?
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I think its time too add some new rules to Bungie.Net

Here are some that I think ought to be added:

1) No VS threads. These are just annoying. They clog up the forums with flame wars.

2) It should be a rule that you are not allowed to say "This user is an alternate account". I see this a lot on Opti-Match. Ok, well if you think that is a problem just report that too a moderator. That just derails the thread and turns the thread into an argument about that user. IMO this should equal a warning the first time and a 3 day ban the second time. Note: This does not mean pointing out a user does not have an XBL Gold account linked to their profile. All it does mean is that you can't say "You are an alt account so please stop talking". Well maybe people don't say things like that but seriously that has to stop its annoying and it clogs up the forums. I can understand the need to ban alternate accounts, especially alternate accounts messing up the forums. But how about we keep that to moderators! PM your suspicions or something, I'm sure the moderators will ban them if they are one who is misbehaving! But why post that on the forums? Especially in Opti-match where its supposed to be flame/personal attack free how is that allowed? Isn't commenting that somebody is an alternate account a "personal attack".

If its such a big deal just make it so you need XBL Gold (but it can be hidden) to post but seriously I think saying "You are probably an alt account" should just stop by everybody who isn't a moderator/Bungie Staff. Its the equivalent of a personal attack, and its worse because its attacking the legitimacy of the account itself. Especially if the accuser is wrong....

3) I don't know about "MLG" discussion but I don't think people should be bringing up "MLG is (insert profanity of your choice here). " on a BR thread. I don't think that is specific enough too be rule though. The same applies to the opposite "Non MLG = (Insert profanity here)".

I'm probably missing some. If you ask me these 2 things are kind of bad and are messing up our forums. Anybody else know of something that is making our forums bad?

[Edited on 01.15.2008 9:39 PM PST]

  • 01.15.2008 9:36 PM PDT
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People just whining about everything. there's a line between "what needs 2 be fixed" and "BUNGY SUX TEM SLEYER NEEES FIXING"

People who don't ever come on here do just so they can -blam!-.

  • 01.15.2008 9:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: Primum Agmen
A tosser is the same as a wanker. To toss oneself off is to fondle the trouser weasel.


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The No VS threads rule would make Bungie.net's forums a better place.

  • 01.15.2008 10:37 PM PDT

Oh, and please, please, please for the love of all that is holy and just, make "Mini-City" links (outside of sigs, of course) a bannable offense.

  • 01.15.2008 11:44 PM PDT

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whats mini city?


A city thats mini...

  • 01.16.2008 4:41 AM PDT

Posted by: ExiledTexan
Oh, and please, please, please for the love of all that is holy and just, make "Mini-City" links (outside of sigs, of course) a bannable offense.

Mini City is againest the rules already. Report it if you like. =)
That's what Recon told me.

  • 01.16.2008 5:13 AM PDT

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We're barely, we're just a collection of cells
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There are already rules in place to keep the things you listed off the site. As far as the vs. threads are concerned, they shouldnt be excluded from the site because you or I dont like them. I dont like MLG threads, so you know what I do, I dont open them. Problem solved.

There isnt a need for anything else.

  • 01.16.2008 7:14 AM PDT
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The rules are sort of fine the way they are. Although I wouldn't mind any improvements. Nothing is bad to improve on. If you disagree with that then you have problems. Thanks

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  • 01.16.2008 7:33 AM PDT

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1) What's VS stand for? (oh, got it, never mind)

2) No. Alternate accounts are a nuisance. If someone has two accounts for GAMERTAG linking problems etc., fine, but they'd better not use both. It bothers me to no end, to know someone can act like some goody angel on one account, then use their other to be a jerk. I'm so glad people at least get a little punished for even signing in with both of them. Call me a jerk, but hey, I'm sick of jerks.

3) MLG Vs. Non-MLG, vice versa, and all things pertaining to this are against the rules. Good thing, too. They just cause trouble, massive flame wars, and usually end up with many people blacklisted.

[Edited on 01.16.2008 10:05 AM PST]

  • 01.16.2008 8:50 AM PDT

MLG vs. This user is an alternate account..............discuss


No, we don't need more rules. If you see a vs. thread, don't click on it. If you see an MLG discussion, don't click on it. If someone is being abusive in the Optimatch Forum, report it.

  • 01.16.2008 8:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: atomic weggie
MLG vs. This user is an alternate account..............discuss

I think alternate accounts are unbalanced and Halo 3 is overbalanced by Bungie. And only BA's (Bad Adults) like Weggie would play something so stupid on his seperate account.

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  • 01.16.2008 8:59 AM PDT

Strange evolution how people have come to believe
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We're barely, we're just a collection of cells
Overrating themselves

Edit: pphhhbbtttttttt!

[Edited on 01.16.2008 9:44 AM PST]

  • 01.16.2008 9:23 AM PDT

Posted by: ExiledTexan
Oh, and please, please, please for the love of all that is holy and just, make "Mini-City" links (outside of sigs, of course) a bannable offense.

Agreed. I have one, but I find it annoying when people post them.

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Posted by: Primum Agmen
A tosser is the same as a wanker. To toss oneself off is to fondle the trouser weasel.


Achronos

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Posted by: atomic weggie
MLG vs. This user is an alternate account..............discuss


No, we don't need more rules. If you see a vs. thread, don't click on it. If you see an MLG discussion, don't click on it. If someone is being abusive in the Optimatch Forum, report it.

Yeah, if you don't like violence in your country don't look at it, just look the other way!

The point is, these threads look ugly, usually get over 20 replies and keep the good and useful threads in the second page.

  • 01.16.2008 11:02 AM PDT
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on this two gamertag issue, I have a question...
why is it bad to have more than one GT?

I have one that I use 99% of the time.The other is my old account that hasn't expired yet.I let my friends play on this account so that when they come over to play,we can play ranked instead of unranked.I play on this one every once in a while.

So far (6 months) I've had no problems at all having two accounts. And I think it would be pretty dumb if I was to get banned for that. I have not abused these accounts and when the other one expires, it won't be reactivated.

Also, what about parents that buy the accounts for their...let's say 3 kids? The parent has 3 accounts under their name.So they should be banned too?

So you still feel that this is wrong?

I think that regardless if you have 1 account or 10,if you're doing something bad you'll eventually get punished.

  • 01.16.2008 11:34 AM PDT

etc etc/glaringly obvious/and so on, and such <=Not redundant!
Posted by: Cr4ne Style
Taxes do nothing to affect the share of wealth, since taxes are only applied to income.

So that's not even a part of the conversation at all, so it's pointless talking about it....

"for a "best" moral to exist, there must exist the "best" moral base. If the base of morality varies from location to location, culture to culture...then there can't be an absolute moral..

what is a 'VS" thread?

you brought up how people post about alt accounts. this can be done in ways that are personal attacks, and it can be done in ways that do not. if you see someone say negative things about a user, then you can report the post and it will be looked at. this goes for all forms of personal attacks, and it applies to personal attacks that apply to accounts that are called alt accounts. but, simply mentioning that a specific brand new account with loads of activity has all of the trappings of an alt account hardly seems like a personal attack.

let's imagine that i make posts every day defending the rank system and various settings in team hardcore. then i get banned on 1/20, and i am not able to post. if on 1/20 a brand new account with no gamertag linked pops up with the name 'foot and a halflong word' pops up and continues along the exact same lines and argues all of the same points in all of the same threads, it might look suspicious. now let's suppose that 'foot and a half long word' gets banned on 1/23, and on 1/23 a brand new alt account pops up with no gamertag linked with the name 'very long word', and does the same stuff. now, on 1/27, after a 7 day ban, my account gets the ban lifted, and all of a sudden the activity of the other two accounts stops entirely, and they remain inactive until my account gets banned, and then the cycle continues.

do you think that it would be a personal attack to mention that 'foot and a half long word' and 'very long word' look like alt accounts?

  • 01.16.2008 12:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: Primum Agmen
A tosser is the same as a wanker. To toss oneself off is to fondle the trouser weasel.


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Posted by: sesquipadelian
what is a 'VS" thread?


VS thread would be something like "COD4 is better than Halo 3".

  • 01.16.2008 12:45 PM PDT

Posted by: Yuke

The point is, these threads look ugly, usually get over 20 replies and keep the good and useful threads in the second page.


Cmon, seriously guys. Every day we come to this forum and see more "we need more rules" for this annoyance or this injustice. IMO, these threads are more annoying than the actual so-called problems that you see as plagueing our pristine community.

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  • 01.16.2008 12:50 PM PDT

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New Rules:
nO WeGggies aloud

I think it works. Next we'll start up G.R.O.S.S. :D

  • 01.16.2008 12:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: Yuke
Posted by: sesquipadelian
what is a 'VS" thread?

VS thread would be something like "COD4 is better than Halo 3".

I think the OP was referring to Samus vs. Hello Kitty: Who would win? type threads.

  • 01.16.2008 1:02 PM PDT
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Banning someone because the called someone an alternate account? And what if they're right? That doesn't make any sense and I don't think Bungie needs any more rules.

  • 01.16.2008 1:09 PM PDT
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Maybe we could have a "New Rules, Changes, and B.net Ideas" as a Sticky Thread , so that way we could have a community forum, because all the good community threads always get pushed down to page 2.

  • 01.16.2008 1:18 PM PDT

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I have to admit that i have two accounts, the reason being was to link my gamertag so I can use the file-share and use a bunch of other stuff.
Its pretty easy to see that i have two accounts by just looking at my recent posts I have the same name apart from a "x" so people can tell that's it me.
If there is a way to link my actual "x black kn1ght" gamertag to this account i would do so.

  • 01.16.2008 1:26 PM PDT

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