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Subject: What motivates you to follow the rules?

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you dont need to follow rules if your just act like a normal person on the internet.

  • 01.05.2012 2:12 AM PDT
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Leadership by example.

  • 01.05.2012 2:14 AM PDT

There comes a time in every mans life... and that time is not now.


Posted by: BadBall3r47
Posted by: r c takedown
I don't want to get banned.
I don't want this guy to get banned.

I also follow the rules so i don't disappoint Badballer.

  • 01.05.2012 2:24 AM PDT

Hello! I'm Bunie.net's resident medical student (hell i'm sure there are more but I'm the only one who openly declares it!) I love my emblem, and I am periodically active.
I have a Twitter

To avoid being punished, i oddly enough dont feel like being chastised,

I've never really felt like breaking the rules.

  • 01.05.2012 2:43 AM PDT

Key

I don't think anything keeps me in line. Fresh off (what I think is) my second ban for not playing nicely.

  • 01.05.2012 3:12 AM PDT

"Except we, we're the zebras. All fenced in...and ready for the slaughter!"

||S-fen Knee-cheh
||19th Shock Troops Battalion

To follow the rules is conducive to being a good person. I enjoy being a good person; so I follow them. It's really that simple.

[Edited on 01.05.2012 3:51 AM PST]

  • 01.05.2012 3:51 AM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

B.net forums are far too convenient a time waster to be banned from them.

  • 01.05.2012 4:16 AM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything


Posted by: Sven Nietzsche
To follow the rules is conducive to being a good person. I enjoy being a good person; so I follow them. It's really that simple.
If there were no rules, would you still be able to be a good person? I follow my own morals, not necessarily the rules of the site. Sometimes this gets me into trouble, but often it does not.

  • 01.05.2012 4:18 AM PDT

"Except we, we're the zebras. All fenced in...and ready for the slaughter!"

||S-fen Knee-cheh
||19th Shock Troops Battalion

Posted by: Kickimanjaro
Posted by: Sven Nietzsche
To follow the rules is conducive to being a good person. I enjoy being a good person; so I follow them. It's really that simple.
If there were no rules, would you still be able to be a good person? I follow my own morals, not necessarily the rules of the site. Sometimes this gets me into trouble, but often it does not.
My own moral code leads me to follow the rules. It allows places like this to function which gives me a sense of satisfaction. If there were no rules then this place would inevitably fall apart. What I'm trying to say is that structure gives me utility; with that comes satisfaction. I am a cog in a larger machine, a member of a community. That alone is what drives me to follow the rules.

Internet communities are extremely similar to the communities you interact with every day. Friends, family, work; these are all communities with their own codes and rules. To thrive in such communities one must abide by them.

Additionally, opposing "rules" are of equal importance. this drives "rule followers" to further progress. So I suppose rule breakers are important as well. To those who break the rules, I thank you for being my wisest teacher. W/o you I would be nothing.

I'm not sure I can answer your question. W/o rules, culture and moral codes there would be no distinction between good and evil. With that there would be no foundation for humanity to thrive; to become the "superpower" of all living creatures on this planet. The fact that this discussion is taking place points to the importance of "rules" in the evolution of man and the human experience.



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  • 01.05.2012 4:27 AM PDT
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The rules are mostly just decent treatment of other users, and that comes fairly naturally to me.

  • 01.05.2012 4:27 AM PDT

Honestly I don't. I just try to be on topic to the threads title.

  • 01.05.2012 4:31 AM PDT

Actually, going through my ban history, most of what I have been banned for are spam/off-topic threads/threads in the wrong forum/ other misc. rules that aren't really that serious. Of course there are about 3 exceptions, but most of them are for things for which a warning probably would have sufficed.

So I pretty much obey the rules that are important because I find them important, I suppose. I have to say that the rules you break are the ones you don't care about as much, which is reflected in long ban histories.

[Edited on 01.05.2012 5:02 AM PST]

  • 01.05.2012 4:35 AM PDT

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Because I'm not a complete ass, and I find it easy to follow the rules.

  • 01.05.2012 4:49 AM PDT

Im just a guy.


Posted by: Ada Astra
Until it is time for the resistance....

Zanzibar shall rise again!!!!

No.

  • 01.05.2012 4:55 AM PDT

@spawn031

"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams

Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a revolution. It'll be sweet.
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a revolution. It'll be sweet.
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a revolution. It'll be sweet.

  • 01.05.2012 4:58 AM PDT

>implying everyone that breaks the rules are complete asses

Well, there you have it, 90% of site regulars; we're complete asses. I have to say that I've never seen a stupider insinuation ever. Yayyyyy arrogance! *slow clap*
Posted by: snipe champpppp
Because I'm not a complete ass, and I find it easy to follow the rules.

  • 01.05.2012 4:59 AM PDT

"Except we, we're the zebras. All fenced in...and ready for the slaughter!"

||S-fen Knee-cheh
||19th Shock Troops Battalion

Posted by: spawn031
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a riot. It'll be sweet.
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a riot. It'll be sweet.
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a riot. It'll be sweet.
fixed.

  • 01.05.2012 5:01 AM PDT
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It's natural for me to be nice on message boards. I always attempt to abide by the rules.

  • 01.05.2012 5:02 AM PDT

Unfortunately, being nice isn't the same as obeying the rules. You can be nice to everyone almost all of the time and still get banned often.
Posted by: ThirstyAvenge
It's natural for me to be nice on message boards. I always attempt to abide by the rules.

  • 01.05.2012 5:09 AM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything


Posted by: Sven Nietzsche
Posted by: spawn031
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a revolution. It'll be sweet.
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a revolution. It'll be sweet.
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a revolution. It'll be sweet.
fixed.
fix'd

  • 01.05.2012 5:09 AM PDT

"Except we, we're the zebras. All fenced in...and ready for the slaughter!"

||S-fen Knee-cheh
||19th Shock Troops Battalion

Posted by: Kickimanjaro
Posted by: Sven Nietzsche
Posted by: spawn031
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a revolution. It'll be sweet.
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a revolution. It'll be sweet.
Posted by: cortana 5
Let's start a revolution. It'll be sweet.
fixed.
fix'd
Completely agree.

edit: After reading your post I went on a "Beatles binge". Thank you.

[Edited on 01.05.2012 6:45 AM PST]

  • 01.05.2012 5:19 AM PDT

I've always feared the whip.

  • 01.05.2012 5:26 AM PDT
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Whoo.

I don't give a -blam!-.

  • 01.05.2012 5:35 AM PDT

Does anyone even read these?

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Posted by: BadBall3r47
Posted by: r c takedown
I don't want to get banned.
I don't want this guy to get banned.

I also follow the rules so i don't disappoint Badballer.
I don't want to be disappointed.

  • 01.05.2012 5:42 AM PDT
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Why are you reading my signature? Who actually opens these things and reads them!

And as always, SEND ME A PM. Please. Or really bad things will happen to you.

It just happens. Trust me, as an Exalted member you really don't get any special recognition even though you've followed the rules forever.

  • 01.05.2012 5:47 AM PDT