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Subject: Seven
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It's not uncommon for members to make threads celebrating their Bungie.net birthdays as they get older, so here's mine. However, because of the simple fact that it's me posting it, I will probably be banned.

My last ban just wore off a few minutes ago, about 10 minutes late!

Here are some of my "Bungie.net Achievements" from the last seven years:

-Joined, 7.3.2004
-Became a Mythic Member after the first title tweak
-Created the best group on Bungie.net, Mythic Members
-Went to PAX 08 and met a bunch of Bungie and Bungie.net people
-Became a Bungie.net Moderator
-Had a name change
-Instigated the end of community carnages
-Instigated the permaban of impurity
-Instigated the permaban of drabominable and the subsequent deletion of the DO YOU LIKE PIE thread
-Resigned as moderator
-Still have a custom avatar (which I really appreciate)
-Went ban and warning free for 6 years
-First warning from Duardo
-First ban from Achronos
-Another several bans from incompetent moderators
-Became a super magnet for moderator attention

So yeah, I've enjoyed my time here.

New people, chill out and stop posting crap.
Moderators, quit being petty.
Mythic Members, you're awesome.

Here's to another ridiculous amount of time on this site. Hurray.

Now, so you can discuss something.

Do you think that the community and moderators encourage or discourage older members from being active in the community and why?

  • 07.03.2011 7:44 PM PDT

I think moderators should just ban everyone they don't like.

  • 07.03.2011 7:49 PM PDT

They already do.

  • 07.03.2011 7:50 PM PDT

HACK THE PLANET!

Congrats, 7 years and still going, especially with your crazy history.

[Edited on 07.03.2011 8:05 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2011 7:50 PM PDT

They already do that.
Posted by: HappyMeals
I think moderators should just ban everyone they don't like.

  • 07.03.2011 7:50 PM PDT

When I grow up I want to be bitter and spiteful.

"i liked the reality where everything was on fire better"
-legato on remedial chaos theory

Hurray!

  • 07.03.2011 7:51 PM PDT

Chunky_Lover's Average Joe Interview

Bungie All Star Contest Winner Weeks 6,8 and 12

I don't think they care. Well unless you suck up to them like this entire Forum does.

  • 07.03.2011 7:55 PM PDT

READ IT.

I won the Star. With this on Week 18.

Lol.

Skibur, you asking for banz now?

  • 07.03.2011 8:00 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

My seventh is in seven days!

You are very unique skibur.

  • 07.03.2011 8:01 PM PDT

Well here I was clicking this thread hoping for a birthday thread full of rage. I'm sad now :(

Happy Birthday, I got you a tinfoil hat to protect you from the mods that are out to get you :D

  • 07.03.2011 8:02 PM PDT

READ IT.

I won the Star. With this on Week 18.


Posted by: Chunky_Lover
I don't think they care. Well unless you suck up to them like this entire Forum does.

I use a plunger to suck them out of the toilet.

  • 07.03.2011 8:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: Top_Gun_2021
My seventh is in seven days!
High Five! We're both so close to Bungie Day too :) I bet you wish you joined a few days earlier like I wish I joied a few days later...

  • 07.03.2011 8:02 PM PDT

( \ / ) The Bunny
(O.o) Add him to your signature
(> <) Help him rule the world
/_||_\ Prosper at his side

Seriously, check this out.

A thread about this... seriously Skibur...

Lock this.

  • 07.03.2011 8:02 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.


Posted by: Skibur
Posted by: Top_Gun_2021
My seventh is in seven days!
High Five! We're both so close to Bungie Day too :) I bet you wish you joined a few days earlier like I wish I joied a few days later...


I know. UGH

We should get something from Bungie.

[Edited on 07.03.2011 8:05 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2011 8:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nerd Boi
Well here I was clicking this thread hoping for a birthday thread full of rage. I'm sad now :(
Well, I just woke up (at 12pm) and I feel great, so it's hard to rage... ;)

Not like raging would fix anything anyway... It's long past the point of being fixed.

  • 07.03.2011 8:04 PM PDT

My Reach stats

Posted by: Mike Huntt
Stupid colonels trying to talk down to people above them. They're like the homeless people of Halo's socioeconomic scale. They stink, they get in the way, they abuse people they shouldn't and they think they can do anything.

Get out of here you smelly colonels.


Posted by: Fuzzy McDoodle
A thread about... Skibur...

Lock this.
Wut

  • 07.03.2011 8:05 PM PDT
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GT: Greg Is So Hot

Damn right I'm awesome.

  • 07.03.2011 8:05 PM PDT

For Carnage, Apply Within - BEST GROUP EVER!
Mythic Members - OTHER BEST GROUP EVER!
My Trek to Bungie
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Congrats Skibur you are very misunderstood.

  • 07.03.2011 8:05 PM PDT


Posted by: All of humanity
They already do that.
Posted by: HappyMeals
I think moderators should just ban everyone they don't like.


That was the joke.

  • 07.03.2011 8:06 PM PDT

READ IT.

I won the Star. With this on Week 18.


Posted by: Skibur
Posted by: Nerd Boi
Well here I was clicking this thread hoping for a birthday thread full of rage. I'm sad now :(
Well, I just woke up (at 12pm) and I feel great, so it's hard to rage... ;)

Not like raging would fix anything anyway... It's long past the point of being fixed.

The first step is admitting you are the problem... I mean, you have a problem... I mean...


Okay, Skibur, are you a -blam!-?

DAMN IT... that beautiful word is blocked... Are you one of those people who get pleasure from being the cause of your own pain and suffering?

[Edited on 07.03.2011 8:09 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2011 8:07 PM PDT

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. And it is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves the flag, whose coffin is draped in the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag.Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC

Skibur is such a liar. jk

  • 07.03.2011 8:08 PM PDT
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Ohhhhhhh yeahhhhhh, I remember what I was going to rage about now...

LOCK vs WARN vs BAN

-Locking does the job, warning gets the message across, banning just pisses people off and they come back angry.

-The mods ban too much, and for too long. I made a thread that was decided to be spam, and I was banned for 7 days. If my thread had been locked I wouldn't have created a new one, or gone on a rampage... It would have been over and the moderator and I would have gone on with out merry lives. Instead, I was banned, lost my Mythic, posted in MM about how terrible the moderator is, read posts from a number of other Mythix agreeing and now I have a chip on my shoulder that could have been avoided entirely.

-Do not underestimate the positive power of locking and warning, and the destructive power of bans. Especially on older members, bans are not doing a good job.

-There's also the issue of getting entirely different treatment from different moderators. You should all be consistent with each other. The rules are very simple to interpret.

-If in doubt, DON'T BAN. Don't sit there and ponder if something is rule breaking, or forward something on to another mod to see what they think... If in doubt, don't.

-Let the forums work it out for themselves. If someone makes a stupid thread, let it drop off the front page. It's not neccessary to unleash ninjas on them when they can learn a more valuable lesson by watching the way the forums work.

-There's a difference between "Spam" and "Spamming". Actually, how can a moderator ban for "Spam"!?? That's like banning for "a stupid thread" which is totally subjective.

[Edited on 07.03.2011 8:49 PM PDT]

  • 07.03.2011 8:11 PM PDT

inb4trueunderdog bans skibur.

Also, congrats on the accomplishment skibur. Not many people can tolerate the -blam!- that goes on here for that long.

  • 07.03.2011 8:13 PM PDT

Posted by: A Bit Of Zero
This thread would have appealed to me more if it was written with crayons.
Posted by: King Dutchy
I broke one of the cords for my X11s because I couldn't get past the final American course in Doritos Crash Course.

Just realised mines today too, 4 years, I'll do my history too.

Joined Bungie.net
got banned
got unbanned
posted in this thread

sorry, I'm totaly stealing you thunder.

  • 07.03.2011 8:13 PM PDT

Whisper Game Studios - shhhh, it's a public secret.
Webcam MVP
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Bnet PM Policy

[*Please note that anything in my posts is likely to be filled with sarcasm, and should be taken with a pinch of salt. I tend to help people, usually*]

Posted by: Skibur
Do you think that the community and moderators encourage or discourage older members from being active in the community and why?
I think it's a natural reaction to being a part of a community for so long, and making that community be a part of your regular lifestyle. That last bit there is important.

As soon as people hit the 4 year mark, I've noticed that they start to lose their real drive to be a part of a community. Unless they have a real stake in it. I think that's what my problem was back around that 4-year mark. I had no real investment in the site other than my smexy title, the thousands of wtfiswebcammvp PMs, my quick-replies (which were honestly just a result of sheer boredom and refreshing the forums until something popped up) and my general love of seeing what the community were up to and commenting on it.

After I took over the Community Carnages for a while, I invested more into that than I think was obvious at face-value. When they were cut down, I felt like I had no reason to be a part of the community anymore, because I'd mistaken investment for participation, and so began my slow descent into frustration and hatred to this site. I had made it such a habit and daily routine for myself that it was surprisingly hard to get out of.

Of course, I don't think the dolts helped my case much.

I took a couple months to concentrate on what was important in my life, and when I came back here, I found that I could be so much more chill and just post now and again.

I don't think that the community as a whole appreciates or disapproves of long-term site commitment. I don't think that it's a general consensus that anyone who stands out for being here for a long time is to be loved or hated, explicitly. I actually think for the most part that nobody cares, because I sure as hell know I don't care how long anyone else has been here for.

As for the moderators, I think they react appropriately to how the members behave. A lot of it will be judgement calls, but really the whole point of them is to look after the forums and make sure that nothing inappropriate is goin' awn. So if a member is acting out or doing something against the rules, even lightly, it's up to them to respond.

If older community members are getting irate and doing things that they didn't when they were younger bnetters.

Take for example my reaction to the dolts who were looking for a reaction. I defended myself, called them a name, I got in trouble. In my younger bnet days, I knew that that would be taking the bait, but in my self-acclaimed "prime" I was under the impression my voice was important and that I was able to use the forums publicly to fight my battles.

So in a long sort of way, I think you bring about your own problems, and if you think everyone else is out to get you, it's very likely the problem is your own.

  • 07.03.2011 8:36 PM PDT