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Subject: A Modest Proposal

Artes, Scientia, Veritas

Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"

For protecting the common users of Bungie.net from unjust bans, and making the moderating staff beneficial to the general public


It is a melancholy object to those who click through this great website, when they see the forums, crowded with users whose posts are obscured in red blacklisting notices and next to whose threads stand a monolithic padlock, deterring enthusiasm and hampering discussion. These posters, instead of honestly enjoying the forums like the more gifted amongst us, are stuck in a self-perpetuating cycle of bans and rage. Unable to work for the higher titles afforded to those who can spend their time observing the forum rules, they are forever stuck, by their own doing, at the bottom of the Bungie.net hierarchy.

I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of banned users is in the present deplorable state of the Column a very great additional grievance and, therefore, whoever could find a fair, cheap, and easy method of making these users useful members of our community would deserve so well of the public to have a custom avatar and title bar in his honor.

The first step should be reprieves for anybody currently banned under what we have already established is an unfair moderating system. Only through the gradual reconciliation of us commoners and the plutocratic moderating staff can we live up to the full potential that the full spectrum of the Seventh Column possesses.

But broad and general reprieves is not enough - the very system by which our moderating staff has been chosen is inherently flawed and inevitably leads to the oligarchical and elitist zeitgeist the site currently exudes. By allowing the web team to choose their own moderating staff, they thus drown out the overwhelmingly larger voice of the humble, loyal dedicated fans of theirs who have sacrificed their time, money, and effort making Bungie the corporate superpower that it is. Instead of behind-closed-doors meetings and conspiratorial selection processes, the moderation team needs to be selected by those whom they will be governing, with equal opportunity allowed to all thereof.

A simple election, however, will not suffice. Not only is the average forumgoer not of adequate savvy to judge the merits of the thousands of potential candidates, but this matter is of such pressing urgance that there is simply not enough time for the formalities an election requires. Something more quick and drastic needs to take place.

First, we much establish the criteria a moderator must possess - dedication, vigilance, keenness, fairness, organization, communication, and intelligence. My proposed system will allow for a swift changing of the guard from the present aristocracy to a system governed by those truly fit to rule.

On an undisclosed day at midnight, Bungie Time, the process will begin. Bungie will flip the switch, stripping all present mods of their authority, making all users of equal power. The keen will notice this change, and prepare for the next day, which I will describe momentarily, by amassing armies of their peers vying for control of the site.

The Day of Judgment begins exactly twenty-four hours thereafter. The second switch is flipped, granting all users of Bungie.net moderating authority, with the ability to ban each other from moderating. A bloodbath ensues - users recklessly and indiscriminately banning other users. Dozens fall within seconds; thousands within minutes. But as the numbers of those remaining dwindle, order arises out of chaos. You see, the users with the most popular moderating philosophy will have a large, vigilant group of supporters who will report moderating injustice to their choice of moderator candidates, who will proceed to ban the poorer moderators. Through days of endless banning, a select few, whose popularity amongst users will have given them the upper edge over the less apt, will form a community a tight-knit community of popular-yet-effective moderators deemed fit by this process to rule over us all. Any misstep within their ranks will lead to their immediate dismissal. Once the community of moderators is content with those within their ranks, they will report to the Bungie that they are ready, and a new era of Bungie.net will ensue - one recognizable by its fairly chosen moderating team.

Your move, Bungie.

-J.S.

[Edited on 08.15.2011 2:38 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2011 7:33 PM PDT
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cool modest proposal, br0

  • 08.14.2011 7:34 PM PDT

Sounds like you put a lot of thought into something that won't do anything beneficial at all.

  • 08.14.2011 7:35 PM PDT

~B.B.

Posted by: Obi Wan Stevobi
He [me] is a tall, Nordic looking guy. He could pass as a Die Hard villain.

Games Played = Win | The WorkPLace

*APPROVED*

This thread airs a previously unknown problem with the forums then, unlike most threads, proposes a completely reasonable and universally acceptable solution to said problem.

I approve of this reasoning.


Also, lol.

[Edited on 08.14.2011 7:48 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2011 7:35 PM PDT

Artes, Scientia, Veritas

Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"


Posted by: LordOfBlah51
Sounds like you put a lot of thought into something that won't do anything beneficial at all.
I have trouble believing it took you less than three minutes to read, comprehend, assess, and reply to the entirety of my post.

  • 08.14.2011 7:36 PM PDT

So when do we start eating babies?

  • 08.14.2011 7:36 PM PDT

~B.B.

Posted by: Obi Wan Stevobi
He [me] is a tall, Nordic looking guy. He could pass as a Die Hard villain.

Games Played = Win | The WorkPLace

Next thursday.
Posted by: everywhere116
So when do we start eating babies?

  • 08.14.2011 7:37 PM PDT

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Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"


Posted by: Skittles x
Next thursday.
Posted by: everywhere116
So when do we start eating babies?
If they release the date, it will defeat the purpose. Then it would just be a bunch of try-hards on a caffeine high.

  • 08.14.2011 7:37 PM PDT

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Unfortunately this has been done before. Clever though. I'll take my infants grilled and marinated.

  • 08.14.2011 7:38 PM PDT

Posted by: Baph117
This is an incredible step forward to being able to cure Downss sybndonre mn humans bineg.s

Cool self importance, bro. This isn't a democracy. Despite the fact that they truly do pay attention to the wishes of the community, the final say will always be in the hands of the web team, and that's the way it should be. Nobody in the community has any right to dictate what they should do with their site. It's their property, not a shared living area.

Edit: I see. Very funny. And here I was assuming you were just being contrary, and anti-establishment.

[Edited on 08.14.2011 7:43 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2011 7:39 PM PDT

I was hoping for a more hilarious post.
:(

Oh well. Anyways, you're basically suggesting a popularity contest. So... question: Why would anybody start reporting things to those people whose judgement they support? If everybody has powers, they'd just take action themselves.

  • 08.14.2011 7:42 PM PDT

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Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"


Posted by: burritosenior
I was hoping for a more hilarious post.
:(
I tried.

  • 08.14.2011 7:42 PM PDT

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  • 08.14.2011 7:44 PM PDT

Oh, this was a reference to something.
That flew right over my head :/

[Edited on 08.14.2011 7:50 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2011 7:44 PM PDT

Hey at the very least it was entertaining, if not hilarious.
:)

  • 08.14.2011 7:44 PM PDT

Artes, Scientia, Veritas

Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"


Posted by: burritosenior
Hey at the very least it was entertaining, if not hilarious.
:)
I'll settle for that, I suppose.

  • 08.14.2011 7:45 PM PDT

Posted by: Changsta inc
Racism isn't wrong if it's funny.

T.


L;


D.


R.

  • 08.14.2011 7:45 PM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-

Posted by: everywhere116
So when do we start eating babies?

That was my first thought when I saw this thread. I have to say I was disappointed in the content.

I didn't even give this thread the courtesy of a full read after reading, "After what we have already established as an unjust moderating system."
I pretty much checked this under: mindless rant about how users should get more rights and blah blah blah.

I skimmed the thread though, and it seems as though the OP wants Bungie.net to be a democracy where our moderators are voted on. Let me ask you OP, do you vote on who becomes a police officer?

  • 08.14.2011 7:45 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

It flew over my head.

  • 08.14.2011 7:46 PM PDT


Posted by: Old Papa Rich
Google Jonathan Swift guys.
Google Dr. Seuss. He's much more kid friendly, since Swift is the opposite of kid friendly.

  • 08.14.2011 7:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: EAGLES5
It flew over my head.
Read this and try again.

  • 08.14.2011 7:47 PM PDT

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Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"


Posted by: Xplode441

I skimmed the thread though, and it seems as though the OP wants Bungie.net to be a democracy where our moderators are voted on.
I specifically stated that that is not the case.

  • 08.14.2011 7:47 PM PDT

Posted by: Xplode441I think the point was that he was trying to make an equally absurd proposal. You should read it. It wasn't half bad!

Though in retrospect, I suppose I shouldn't have made a semi-serious comment to start things off with.

  • 08.14.2011 7:48 PM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-

Posted by: burritosenior
Posted by: Xplode441I think the point was that he was trying to make an equally absurd proposal. You should read it. It wasn't half bad!

Though in retrospect, I suppose I shouldn't have made a semi-serious comment to start things off with.

Well I am busy with my nostalgia over X-men, but I'll give it a read. It's not that long.

[edit] I didn't think it was as good as harvesting babies from the poor and feeding them to the rich to come out of terrible economic times. *Sends letter to Obama* [/edit]

[Edited on 08.14.2011 7:53 PM PDT]

  • 08.14.2011 7:50 PM PDT

Artes, Scientia, Veritas

Sapere Aude

"But I do not think we're invincible"


Posted by: Xplode441

[edit] I didn't think it was as good as harvesting babies from the poor and feeding them to the rich to come out of terrible economic times. *Sends letter to Obama* [/edit]
There's only so much one can do within the context of a website...

  • 08.14.2011 7:54 PM PDT

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