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I think the notion of not liking people who primarily post to a different forum on the same site is absolutely ridiculous. I doubt that there is a good reason for this, only biased and ignorant opinions. I think the biggest thing is that most Flood see this as too serious and most people who post elsewhere see the Flood as too loose and undisciplined.

  • 09.23.2011 9:07 PM PDT

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Posted by: True Underdog
Do me a favor snipes, since you obviously know the rules better than me, where do the rules say inb4 and other memes are bannable offenses?

Thanks.

I've been banned (7 days) for saying "inb4" once. I learned my lesson, though.

  • 09.23.2011 9:08 PM PDT

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Posted by: Commander GX
They both get a ton of -blam!-. The Flood is off topic, making it harder to see the line of "good" and "you've gone too far".

Both have their problems, but the Reach forum is more of a gathering place to talk about individuals likings, concerns, and complaints. As the flood is just an organization of scattered interests (not saying that it isn't extremely interesting). Simply, in the Reach forum you have a general idea of what your getting into, but in the Flood it's a random mix.

Seeing as the Community is more about Bungie then their games, more people that post here also tend to post in the flood, exposing the bad.
This is why we need to stop posting on the community forum about the Flood.

  • 09.23.2011 9:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: X Rampancy X
I came from the flood, and now I'm better than all of you!

Deal with it, haters.

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  • 09.23.2011 9:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: X Rampancy X
I came from the flood, and now I'm better than all of you!

Deal with it, haters.

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  • 09.23.2011 9:47 PM PDT

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  • 09.23.2011 9:52 PM PDT

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Posted by: True Underdog
Do me a favor snipes, since you obviously know the rules better than me, where do the rules say inb4 and other memes are bannable offenses?

Thanks.
I've been banned (7 days) for saying "inb4" once. I learned my lesson, though.
Pretty sure it depends entirely on whether your post has any actual substance to it, rather than whether or not you say 'inb4'. Same applies to memes, a meme by itself may be spam but a meme doesn't automatically make a post spam.

inb4 someone points out how common these attempts at irony are here

  • 09.23.2011 9:59 PM PDT

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I feel Flood is a pretty good forum. The forums for the games are worse.

Only thing I think that's bad about the Flood is when it goes too far in a thread they hit 4chan territory sometimes. Doesn't happen often enough for me to dislike it though.

  • 09.23.2011 10:10 PM PDT

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Because it's the natural order of things.

The Flood tries to mind its own business most of the time, but other times certain people get out of hand and then the Septagon discusses ways to ban people leading some people to make outrageous claims about Achronos threatening to delete the Flood to which Achronos comes in and says that's incorrect.

Then Achronos decides to post in a thread, for example let's say a thread about Titles with one cryptic, possible joke that gets overblown causing us to see threads about titles for a week or more.

That's what happens here. I now see why employees don't post here as often (although lately that's changed). It would be like baby sitting little kids that view you as their hero, but turn their admiration into borderline stalkish behaviors.

Honestly, don't take posts in the Septagon seriously. The Flood isn't innocent from stuff that's happened in the past, but it's the internet. Let's not overreact.

  • 09.23.2011 10:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: True Underdog
Do me a favor snipes, since you obviously know the rules better than me, where do the rules say inb4 and other memes are bannable offenses?

Thanks.
I obviously don't know the rules better than you do, Underdog. You're a Forum Ninja who has experience with the Forum Rules on, what I'm sure is, a daily or at the very least bi-daily basis.

Also, I never said that it said 'inb4-ing is illegal' in the rules. I'm saying I've seen people get banned for it before, citing the reason as spam. Please don't read too much into what I say. I'm not a deeply philosophical person and what I say is usually what I mean.


What Underdog is saying is your acting like a know-it-all....which you are.

The flood is a decent place, if you can't take a joke, get off the internet.

They've been doing their job longer then you have, they know what their doing. Leave it alone.

[Edited on 09.23.2011 10:40 PM PDT]

  • 09.23.2011 10:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: CrazzySnipe55

Posted by: True Underdog
Do me a favor snipes, since you obviously know the rules better than me, where do the rules say inb4 and other memes are bannable offenses?

Thanks.
I obviously don't know the rules better than you do, Underdog. You're a Forum Ninja who has experience with the Forum Rules on, what I'm sure is, a daily or at the very least bi-daily basis.

Also, I never said that it said 'inb4-ing is illegal' in the rules. I'm saying I've seen people get banned for it before, citing the reason as spam. Please don't read too much into what I say. I'm not a deeply philosophical person and what I say is usually what I mean.


What Underdog is saying is your acting like a know-it-all....which you are.

The flood is a decent place, if you can't take a joke, get off the internet.

They've been doing their job longer then you have, they know what their doing. Leave it alone.
I know they have... The only thing I'm saying is my opinion of the flood, along with the reasons that I think this.

  • 09.24.2011 7:41 AM PDT

Because the Flood is filled with loons, idiots, and overall assh0les. That's where I like to hang out a lot. I'm one of those idiot loons who likes to be an assh0le.

  • 09.24.2011 7:45 AM PDT

I spend too much time here.. too much time indeed.

I tweet?

You don't do a very good job at it. You should probably take some pointers from Rampancy.
Posted by: FailureAtLife001
Because the Flood is filled with loons, idiots, and overall assh0les. That's where I like to hang out a lot. I'm one of those idiot loons who likes to be an assh0le.

  • 09.24.2011 7:54 AM PDT

I agree, to an extent. Having regulared the Flood for a short time, I've noticed that they tend to get away with a lot more than we could in here, although OP bans are common in there. Maybe it's just because the Flood is faster and gets more traffic, I dunno.

While this is true, it's not awful. I don't hate the Flood, but they can be cruel at times. If I took Snipes's post, and replaced "The Flood" with "the Reach Forum," I would agree entirely. It's awful. I even posted a thread where I was just totally trolled, and Mods saw it, and did nothing.

It's ridiculous in there. The Flood looks like Heaven compared to it.
Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
I am saying that. While it is a safe haven for people who want to discuss current events, MLP, music, and Gears of War 3, but the users of it troll and provide illegitimate spam-like responses MUCH more so than any other forum. If the ninjas enforced inb4's (people have been banned for it before), memes (people have been banned for it before), and rude, excessively insensitive responses to legitimate queries (people have been banned for it before) as they do in the Septagon and other forums, it would be a much emptier place.
Posted by: True Underdog
I don't get it. By this, are you saying that I underestimate how "bad" The Flood is? If so, then you're wrong. The Flood, while a bit silly at times, is nowhere near as bad you and plenty others make it out to be. Even if you wanted to refer to it as bad it's nowhere near as "bad" as it once was.

Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Once again:

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  • 09.24.2011 8:17 AM PDT

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Edited second last response to Underdog, (shown above), so that I don't sound like as much of a know-it-all douche.

  • 09.24.2011 8:21 AM PDT

This is ridiculous. I sort of wish Ninjas wouldn't post anymore; they influence the discussion in threads like this too much. Since TU disagreed with Snipes, everyone decides to say that they absolutely love the Flood, while I've seen SEVERAL threads hating it, and I'm pretty sure several of these users posted in them.

Really, guys?

  • 09.24.2011 8:23 AM PDT

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Posted by: ctjl96
This is ridiculous. I sort of wish Ninjas wouldn't post anymore; they influence the discussion in threads like this too much. Since TU disagreed with Snipes, everyone decides to say that they absolutely love the Flood, while I've seen SEVERAL threads hating it, and I'm pretty sure several of these users posted in them.

Really, guys?
No... I acted like a douche. Also, lots of people agreed with me. Are you reading the same thread I'm reading?

  • 09.24.2011 8:25 AM PDT

Which is not uncommon. Dunno why, but you've been bein' a dick lately. But, +1 for not kissing ass. And yes, many people have said that they have no problem with The Flood, while past behaviors have shown otherwise.

C'mon, guys, it's 10am where I am. We don't need to be fighting in the morning.
Posted by: CraazySnipe55
No... I acted like a douche.

  • 09.24.2011 8:35 AM PDT

I have seen many more 'why do you guys hate the flood' threads than I have 'we hate the Flood' threads. People in that forum think way too highly of themselves. Most of us do not give a damn about them.

  • 09.24.2011 8:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: burritosenior
I have seen many more 'why do you guys hate the flood' threads than I have 'we hate the Flood' threads. People in that forum think way too highly of themselves. Most of us do not give a damn about them.

Exactly.
If people didn't keep dragging the Flood trash in to the community threads, there would likely be NO discussion of anything remotely related to Flood/Floodidians here at all.


To bad this will go unheaded.
If they would just keep the Flood in the Flood, no one here would ever care. Actually it would be appreciated.

  • 09.24.2011 8:51 AM PDT


Posted by: Specter Wolf
You don't do a very good job at it. You should probably take some pointers from Rampancy.
Posted by: FailureAtLife001
Because the Flood is filled with loons, idiots, and overall assh0les. That's where I like to hang out a lot. I'm one of those idiot loons who likes to be an assh0le.

Lol. And you took the time to look, didn't you?

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Posted by: Qbix89
The Flood - Where da real nerds' at.

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  • 09.24.2011 12:11 PM PDT
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Because the flood is a place where alot of immature people hang out and talk about stupid things, thats a viable answer.

  • 09.24.2011 12:13 PM PDT

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