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Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.

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  • 05.22.2006 7:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Don't take a blocked PM Box or an unanswered PM as an insult. We're people. With the exception of Shishka we don't know anymore about special projects or release dates than any of you do.
Proof Shishka is a robot. I knew man couldn't be made that perfect.

  • 05.22.2006 7:19 PM PDT

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Shishka's no mortal.....Reading the post GJJ posted above made me realize how much I love that guy, in a non-homo-blam!- way. He rambles on, yes, but he's also to the point no matter how long he has to make his post to prove it. That kind of made no sense, but whatever. My point here is just obey the freaking rules and you will not get banned. Heck, forget the rules and just use common sense.

  • 05.22.2006 8:18 PM PDT

How many times have I told you guys I don't want no horsin' around on the airplane!

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Posted by: Snowman
I am upset right now with VII Toast. I was banned seven days ago, and honestly do not know precisely why. For some reason he is not accepting PMs, which seems like a dumb thing for a moderator to do. Since I couldn't contact him I tried Shishka, but no luck there.


The other moderators generally don't know why a particular person has been banned unless the banning moderator chooses to tell us, but mostly it's not necessary. So Shishka probably had no idea what you were talking about.



I explained the situation fully and asked Shishka if there was any way he could contact VII Toast (if I remember correctly.)

  • 05.22.2006 8:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Posted by: Snowman
I am upset right now with VII Toast. I was banned seven days ago, and honestly do not know precisely why. For some reason he is not accepting PMs, which seems like a dumb thing for a moderator to do. Since I couldn't contact him I tried Shishka, but no luck there.


The other moderators generally don't know why a particular person has been banned unless the banning moderator chooses to tell us, but mostly it's not necessary. So Shishka probably had no idea what you were talking about.

And yes, sometimes a Mod may stop accepting PMs. You might too if you built up 100+ messages a day. And hardly any of them are nice. I can't answer all of my PMs either, and rumor has it that Shishka's past 2000 PMs.

Don't take a blocked PM Box or an unanswered PM as an insult. We're people. With the exception of Shishka we don't know anymore about special projects or release dates than any of you do.

With the exception of the Master Moderators and Achronos, we can't mess with your blacklist so don't ask us to shorten it or unban it. The moderators have a level of trust in each others judgement that a PM from a member isn't going to break, so it's not likely you'll ever get something overturned by "going over our heads". As Achronos will tell you, we were made moderators because we were deemed trustable. It's a small group of moderators, and if my personal experience is similar to the others, we spend full time hours here to help Achronos keep the forum running smoothly.

I know that as a moderator, there will always be resentment from some members. That can't be helped. But next time you want to say that we're overbearing, or doing a poor job, just remember that we do this out of loyalty to Bungie.net, and the welfare of the forum and the rule-abiding members comes first. With (minimum) 700,000 users, and a good 30% of that ignoring the rules count yourself lucky if you even get a PM with a terse message. We do make an assumption that since you are participating on a text-based forum, that you can read, and that you have the common sense to realize that the rules aren't there as placeholders.

If this post is rambling, forgive me, I've been juggling two children, an unruly forum, and kitchen duties since 5:30 AM. It's only 10:00 PM now, but I'm awfully tired. Bless my wife's heart for handling those kids every day.


I personally have always recieved responses from PM's that I have sent to moderators. Remember that as a moderator they have duties to perform to keep their moderator status. Therefore when us underlings act stupid, are jerks, make off topic threads, flame, etc.....
They have no choice but to issue a ban.

  • 05.23.2006 6:43 AM PDT

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Reading through this made me recall what Achronos once said about giving warnings in a different thread. He essentially said that a seven day ban is your warning that if you keep breaking the rules you'll be perma-banned. The way I see it, a lot of people on Bungie.net should feel lucky that the moderators aren't being harsher than they actually are.

To answer the original question though, I'm with Goldilocks on this one when I say that they're "Juuust right".

  • 05.23.2006 9:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
And yes, sometimes a Mod may stop accepting PMs. You might too if you built up 100+ messages a day. And hardly any of them are nice. I can't answer all of my PMs either, and rumor has it that Shishka's past 2000 PMs.


Actually, I'm well past 10,000 messages now. I recieve anywhere from 10-50 every day. And no, not all of them are "omfg, why did you blacklist me~?"

As was said by someone above me, the seven day blacklist IS your warning. 7 day blacklistings are considered minor punishments, here, and I'm not going to keep notes on the reason for each user on the website that gets a 7 day. Especially not when they were blacklisted by another moderator.

  • 05.23.2006 9:47 AM PDT

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Well, as tony the tiger would say


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  • 05.23.2006 10:49 AM PDT
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Try imagining what this place would be like without them.

If you want to talk about politics and religion there are groups for that. If you watch where you say it you can say more or less anything within reason in the right place.

  • 05.23.2006 2:10 PM PDT

Their all awsome and nice except shishka he gives me nightmares where he crushes me to death with his banhammer.

  • 05.23.2006 2:34 PM PDT

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  • 05.23.2006 3:07 PM PDT
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Well let's get a few things straight here for a minute.

GameJunkieJim is the man, has big balls and a beard.

Dmbfan09 is someone I respect a lot, as is GP but he is a corrupt bastard, but gets me poll results, so I'm 'down' with DAT (digital audio tape).

Everyone else is either boring, very young or has lost my respect in one way or another.

  • 05.23.2006 3:26 PM PDT
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Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.

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Posted by: JAY132
Well let's get a few things straight here for a minute.

GameJunkieJim is the man, has big balls and a beard.

Dmbfan09 is someone I respect a lot, as is GP but he is a corrupt bastard, but gets me poll results, so I'm 'down' with DAT (digital audio tape).

Everyone else is either boring, very young or has lost my respect in one way or another.


What about Shishka? From the list above, I would say "lost respect" is the only thing that it could be.

What do you mean by very young?

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TGP is 16 I believe the youngest of the said ninjas

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I have his respect, and I'm very young. Oh I'm confused. :/

-TGP-

  • 05.23.2006 5:56 PM PDT

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Great_pretender i wanted to private message But i couldnt

I want to recomend you a game that I think is like Myth is called age of Mythology you shoul try it

  • 05.23.2006 6:12 PM PDT
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Great_pretender i wanted to private message But i couldnt

I want to recomend you a game that I think is like Myth is called age of Mythology you shoul try it


But wait! There's more! If you buy Age of Mythology right now, you will get this free: Age of Empires, Age of Empires 2 and the expansion! All for the small monthly payment of $29.99!

In other words, that game isn't really like Myth aside from the fact that it's an RTS. It's really just a different version of the other games I mentioned.

Oh, and Mods suck.

  • 05.23.2006 6:17 PM PDT

If you don't got it, you want it. If you got it, you want more of it. Of course if you don't know what it is, it's hard to get any in the first place.

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  • 05.23.2006 6:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: JAY132
Well let's get a few things straight here for a minute.

GameJunkieJim is the man, has big balls and a beard.

Dmbfan09 is someone I respect a lot, as is GP but he is a corrupt bastard, but gets me poll results, so I'm 'down' with DAT (digital audio tape).

Everyone else is either boring, very young or has lost my respect in one way or another.


Not shishka, with his cruel humour and everything.

  • 05.23.2006 7:31 PM PDT

Skillet was here and referred to himself in the third person.

Well...Toast blocked me after I asked a question about his avie!

THAT'S JUST RUDE!

Other than that...I kinda like the mods...they seem to do there jobs ok and I don't think Bungie needs anymore.

  • 05.23.2006 8:06 PM PDT
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GJJ and I have shared many a special moment together....so he is the best....

  • 05.23.2006 8:42 PM PDT
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I think they are Meh.

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Posted by: JAVA24
GJJ and I have shared many a special moment together....so he is the best....

So that's where you've been...we're through! Now I have to go find Yoozel and beg for forgiveness.

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Posted by: JAVA24
GJJ and I have shared many a special moment together....so he is the best....

So that's where you've been...we're through! Now I have to go find Yoozel and beg for forgiveness.


AWw, come on now, dont be like that....

  • 05.23.2006 8:51 PM PDT

I've always liked the moderators here at Bungie.net!

  • 05.23.2006 9:01 PM PDT