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Subject: Dealing with the Flood

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Posted by: mister death
I messaged deej about it. If only I had the ability to ban and lock threads...the flood would be normal-ish :P

There isn't anything to fix, really.

  • 04.17.2012 2:50 PM PDT
Subject: Nuking the Flood

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Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

Posted by: RC 1207 Sev
Posted by: dibbs089
"The Flood" (the people in it and all of your ideas about how those people behave and what they represent) is already contained in one place. It seems like that forum is doing it's job to me. Why would you want to get rid of that?
Why is it here in the first place?
The Flood Forum is Bungie.net's off-topic forum, and is for all discussions that abide by all other forum rules but do not fit within any of the above forums.Seeing as how the "everything else" conversation doesn't generally spill over into the other forums, I'd say the Flood is doing it's job.

To put it in a (highly generalized) way you would understand...all of the spam and nonsense is contained in one place. What do you think would happen if we got rid of that place (assuming a majority of users wouldn't take the initiative to get involved/create private groups)?

  • 04.17.2012 2:53 PM PDT
Subject: Dealing with the Flood

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Don't blame the group for the actions of a few. I enjoy the place. It's random, spontaneous, and a bit exciting at times.

  • 04.17.2012 2:54 PM PDT
Subject: Nuking the Flood

Posted by: dibbs089
Posted by: RC 1207 Sev
Posted by: dibbs089
"The Flood" (the people in it and all of your ideas about how those people behave and what they represent) is already contained in one place. It seems like that forum is doing it's job to me. Why would you want to get rid of that?
Why is it here in the first place?
The Flood Forum is Bungie.net's off-topic forum, and is for all discussions that abide by all other forum rules but do not fit within any of the above forums.Seeing as how the "everything else" conversation doesn't generally spill over into the other forums, I'd say the Flood is doing it's job.

To put it in a (highly generalized) way you would understand...all of the spam and nonsense is contained in one place. What do you think would happen if we got rid of that place (assuming a majority of users wouldn't take the initiative to get involved/create private groups)?
Okay, you sold me....

  • 04.17.2012 2:55 PM PDT
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And who are you, the proud lord said,
That I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat,
That's all the truth I know.


Posted by: RC 1207 Sev
If not nuking then restrictions or heavier bans on violators at least. 3 days for being a jackass....returns and continues....gets permabanned, makes new account and continues. Seems like a cycle.


A cycle repeated in a million different faces in a million different places in this massive collection of magnetic slabs of rock connected by light, electricity, and strings of ones and zeroes--- a network woven together with mathematics that are about as alien to your average person as magic spells.

Until you can tie a forum profile to someone's face and name, we're going to have this problem. Give a man a mask and he'll show you his real face. The only thing restricting us from unrestrained sadism is the fact that in everyday life acting like an animal might actually have consequences.

There are no consequences here. Banning someone is less than a slap on the wrist. If you wanna fix the problem of people being -blam!-s, you are going to have to do something a lot more dramatic than just pointing it out. You cannot "fix" The Flood, so stop trying.

  • 04.17.2012 2:55 PM PDT
Subject: Dealing with the Flood

Posted by: Surface Value

Posted by: RC 1207 Sev
If not nuking then restrictions or heavier bans on violators at least. 3 days for being a jackass....returns and continues....gets permabanned, makes new account and continues. Seems like a cycle.


A cycle repeated in a million different faces in a million different places in this massive collection of magnetic slabs of rock connected by light, electricity, and strings of ones and zeroes--- a network woven together with mathematics that are about as alien to your average person as magic spells.

Until you can tie a forum profile to someone's face and name, we're going to have this problem. Give a man a mask and he'll show you his real face. The only thing restricting us from unrestrained sadism is the fact that in everyday life acting like an animal might actually have consequences.

There are no consequences here. Banning someone is less than a slap on the wrist. If you wanna fix the problem of people being -blam!-s, you are going to have to do something a lot more dramatic than just pointing it out. You cannot "fix" The Flood, so stop trying.
Hard to fix but not impossible....and probably highly illegal. And on rare occasions that mask is removed by the user.

[Edited on 04.17.2012 2:59 PM PDT]

  • 04.17.2012 2:58 PM PDT
Subject: Nuking the Flood

The Forerunner, the Great Journey, and Heaven Theory

[Announcement Trailer] Halo: Forerunner

Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

Posted by: RC 1207 SevNow all you need to do is ignore things you don't like (excluding things that are... morally I guess would be the right word - just not factually - wrong) instead of trying to destroy all traces of them.

Some people might like those things.

  • 04.17.2012 2:59 PM PDT
Subject: Dealing with the Flood

>Implying I have a signature

You kids need to stop crying about something that doesn't effect you in anyway.

If you don't like the antics of the "OFF TOPIC" board then don't visit it, how complicated is that?

If the flood didn't exist there would be no forum. The flood is the only relatively active board on this entire site. I find you all ridiculous.

ITT: STOP LIKING THINGS I DON'T LIKE HURRRDURRRR.


Posted by: mister death
I messaged deej about it. If only I had the ability to ban and lock threads...the flood would be normal-ish :P


I dislike you with the passion and fury of a billion supernova's combusting in unison.

[Edited on 04.17.2012 3:03 PM PDT]

  • 04.17.2012 3:00 PM PDT
Subject: Nuking the Flood

Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo Reach > Halo CE

Based on campaigns.

Containment protocols dictate that the Flood must be kept for studying to find out their origins and how a Floodians brain works.

  • 04.17.2012 3:02 PM PDT

Posted by: dibbs089
Posted by: RC 1207 SevNow all you need to do is ignore things you don't like (excluding things that are... morally I guess would be the right word - just not factually - wrong) instead of trying to destroy all traces of them.

Some people might like those things.
Hard to ignore those 4 links on the front page, shat sticks out like a bad stench. But I see what you're saying.

  • 04.17.2012 3:02 PM PDT
Subject: Dealing with the Flood

The Forerunner, the Great Journey, and Heaven Theory

[Announcement Trailer] Halo: Forerunner

Posted by: Agustus
I lol'd at the absurd miscommunication that occurs whenever dibbs post something. Perhaps his brain is so highly evolved that he can no longer clearly communicate with lesser life forms, even among his own species.

Posted by: CptMippleFinger
I find you all ridiculous.
You're right. You are better than everyone else.

  • 04.17.2012 3:02 PM PDT

Posted by: CptMippleFinger
You kids need to stop crying about something that doesn't effect you in anyway.

If you don't like the antics of the "OFF TOPIC" board then don't visit it, how complicated is that?

If the flood didn't exist there would be no forum. The flood is the only relatively active board on this entire site. I find you all ridiculous.

ITT: STOP LIKING THINGS I DON'T LIKE HURRRDURRRR.
Zero credibility.

  • 04.17.2012 3:03 PM PDT

>Implying I have a signature


Posted by: dibbs089
Posted by: CptMippleFinger
I find you all ridiculous.
You're right. You are better than everyone else.


I know, I'm glad you finally realized it. I'll let you feed me grapes and fan me later. There is business to attend to at the moment.

  • 04.17.2012 3:05 PM PDT

I r guy who gun to teach u lesson

Same thing here OP.

  • 04.17.2012 3:07 PM PDT
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And who are you, the proud lord said,
That I must bow so low?
Only a cat of a different coat,
That's all the truth I know.

To put it in a (highly generalized) way you would understand... you are a tourist traveling along a river on a canoe, and you're yelling at the guys behind you saying that ---look man, I don't care what the tour guide says, we're going down the niagara river right now and I hear something loud coming up ahead.--- and meanwhile your flailing arms knock the rower next to you out into the churning waters.

Claiming any forum on this website has some kind of moral superiority over another might as well be about as productive. Delete the Flood and here's what will happen: a couple guys who post there are going to get pissed, their screams having about as much meaning as someone complaining loudly in a forest with nobody there to hear, and meanwhile the quality of the other forums will stay exactly the same.

[Edited on 04.17.2012 3:09 PM PDT]

  • 04.17.2012 3:08 PM PDT

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
~M.D~


Posted by: Arbiduck

Posted by: mister death
I messaged deej about it. If only I had the ability to ban and lock threads...the flood would be normal-ish :P

There isn't anything to fix, really.

I beg to differ. Too many parody threads going around....Too many trolls that need to be dealt with.

  • 04.17.2012 3:09 PM PDT
Subject: Nuking the Flood

Where will all the of Floodians go if the forum is removed?
Run for cover.

  • 04.17.2012 3:10 PM PDT
Subject: Dealing with the Flood

Please stop complaining about the 'death of a loved one' it's my job. They probably deserved it anyways. Here's a warning, if you keep making pentagrams out of the neighbors livestock I will personally come to your house and kill everyone you love. Now leave me alone, I got to get back to work.
~M.D~


Posted by: CptMippleFinger
You kids need to stop crying about something that doesn't effect you in anyway.

If you don't like the antics of the "OFF TOPIC" board then don't visit it, how complicated is that?

If the flood didn't exist there would be no forum. The flood is the only relatively active board on this entire site. I find you all ridiculous.

ITT: STOP LIKING THINGS I DON'T LIKE HURRRDURRRR.


Posted by: mister death
I messaged deej about it. If only I had the ability to ban and lock threads...the flood would be normal-ish :P


I dislike you with the passion and fury of a billion supernova's combusting in unison.

Your opinion of me matters not. But....you should change your avatar so you don't look like ME.

  • 04.17.2012 3:11 PM PDT

Nope.

  • 04.17.2012 3:14 PM PDT

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Oh snap! The OP has an opinion! Everybody quick, take it seriously!

  • 04.17.2012 3:15 PM PDT

I r guy who gun to teach u lesson


Posted by: mister death

Posted by: Arbiduck

Posted by: mister death
I messaged deej about it. If only I had the ability to ban and lock threads...the flood would be normal-ish :P

There isn't anything to fix, really.

I beg to differ. Too many parody threads going around....Too many trolls that need to be dealt with.


No there are not. I don't know if you understand, but if there was a legit reason that needed to be immediately fixed, it would have been dealt with already. We are not mods and we don't work at Bungie. Our feedback is always welcomed, but it really isn't needed in this situation. If there is anything that needs attention, then the mods/whatever will deal with it. If the flood is such a problem, there would have already been something done. Whatever you think is not always the best. Bungie hires people to deal with the website, and as long as they hire good people, there will never be a problem that stays for to long. The day may come where they ask us for help or advice, but for now these "The flood is awful, so many trolls, lets nuke it!" threads are not needed.

This thread is pointless. (/thread)

TL;DR Stop being forum cops with these threads and let the people who run this site do there job. (Excluding things like reporting rule-breaking, etc, because they can always use that help)

[Edited on 04.17.2012 3:20 PM PDT]

  • 04.17.2012 3:16 PM PDT

Posted by: Statefarm98

Posted by: mister death

Posted by: Arbiduck

Posted by: mister death
I messaged deej about it. If only I had the ability to ban and lock threads...the flood would be normal-ish :P

There isn't anything to fix, really.

I beg to differ. Too many parody threads going around....Too many trolls that need to be dealt with.


No there are not. I don't know if you understand, but if there was a legit reason that needed to be immediately fixed, it would have been dealt with already. We are not mods and we don't work at Bungie. Our feedback is always welcomed, but it really isn't needed in this situation. If there is anything that needs attention, then the mods/whatever will deal with it. If the flood is such a problem, there would have already been something done. Whatever you think is not always the best. Bungie hires people to deal with the website, and as long as they hire good people, there will never be a problem that stays for to long. The day may come where they ask us for help or advice, but for now these "The flood is awful, so many trolls, lets nuke it!" threads are not needed.

This thread is pointless. (/thread)

TL;DR Stop being forum cops and let the people who run this site do there job. (Excluding things like reporting rule-breaking, etc, because they can always use that help)
And when the staff here aren't around to do their job?

  • 04.17.2012 3:20 PM PDT

I r guy who gun to teach u lesson


Posted by: RC 1207 Sev
Posted by: Statefarm98

Posted by: mister death

Posted by: Arbiduck

Posted by: mister death
I messaged deej about it. If only I had the ability to ban and lock threads...the flood would be normal-ish :P

There isn't anything to fix, really.

I beg to differ. Too many parody threads going around....Too many trolls that need to be dealt with.


No there are not. I don't know if you understand, but if there was a legit reason that needed to be immediately fixed, it would have been dealt with already. We are not mods and we don't work at Bungie. Our feedback is always welcomed, but it really isn't needed in this situation. If there is anything that needs attention, then the mods/whatever will deal with it. If the flood is such a problem, there would have already been something done. Whatever you think is not always the best. Bungie hires people to deal with the website, and as long as they hire good people, there will never be a problem that stays for to long. The day may come where they ask us for help or advice, but for now these "The flood is awful, so many trolls, lets nuke it!" threads are not needed.

This thread is pointless. (/thread)

TL;DR Stop being forum cops and let the people who run this site do there job. (Excluding things like reporting rule-breaking, etc, because they can always use that help)
And when the staff here aren't around to do their job?


There will always be staff around. Your basically offending Bungie and saying they don't run their site well. There are mods from all time zones.

If there isn't staff around, you should be asking for more mods on most of the time, not discussing how bad the flood is.

[Edited on 04.17.2012 3:22 PM PDT]

  • 04.17.2012 3:21 PM PDT

So I says to myself,

"Wonder what they're doing in the new Septagon?"

And then some dude I don't even know magically appears outside my door, like a rabbit coming into existence in a magician's hat, and says:

"Still circle-jerking, man."

I look to him for a moment -not the least bit surprised- then my face turns back to my computer screen, and the sickly light coming from my moniter reflects from my glasses and makes it so you can't see my eyes.

"Yeah," I mutter to myself distractedly, "-that's what I figured."

  • 04.17.2012 3:26 PM PDT

Posted by: Statefarm98

Posted by: RC 1207 Sev

I messaged deej about it. If only I had the ability to ban and lock threads...the flood would be normal-ish :P[/quote]
There isn't anything to fix, really.[/quote]
I beg to differ. Too many parody threads going around....Too many trolls that need to be dealt with.[/quote]

No there are not. I don't know if you understand, but if there was a legit reason that needed to be immediately fixed, it would have been dealt with already. We are not mods and we don't work at Bungie. Our feedback is always welcomed, but it really isn't needed in this situation. If there is anything that needs attention, then the mods/whatever will deal with it. If the flood is such a problem, there would have already been something done. Whatever you think is not always the best. Bungie hires people to deal with the website, and as long as they hire good people, there will never be a problem that stays for to long. The day may come where they ask us for help or advice, but for now these "The flood is awful, so many trolls, lets nuke it!" threads are not needed.

This thread is pointless. (/thread)

TL;DR Stop being forum cops and let the people who run this site do there job. (Excluding things like reporting rule-breaking, etc, because they can always use that help)[/quote]And when the staff here aren't around to do their job?


There will always be staff around. Your basically offending Bungie and saying they don't run their site well. There are mods from all time zones.

If there isn't staff around, you should be asking for more mods on most of the time, not discussing how bad the flood is.
You must've not been here 2 days ago....and if expressing my personal concerns qualifies as offending someone than this place is even more ass-backwards than I thought. Asking ninjas to be on longer is not an option simply because life happens....and that would result in asking for more ninjas to be created and those get shot down pretty quick by the admin staff.

  • 04.17.2012 3:33 PM PDT

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