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So, this isn't really a very serious question, but I was wondering if Bungie blacklists people for seriously insulting their staff, or just anyone? Cause I'm pretty sure that someone just got blacklisted for calling "Achronos" (don't know anything other than he's someone at Bungie) a -blam-blam-. (Achronos, whomever he may be, is a nice enough guy, I'm sure. )Now, I personally think its funny that Bungie swatted the topic down in 3 minutes flat, but I was wondering if anyone else has seen someone getting blacklisted in the forums for bad-mouthing someone else? Just for some entertainment value, I thought it would be funny to read a few posts that have been blacklisted.

Achronos and Bungie - keep on'a slapping them bad-mouthin' folk, cause it makes for a good show for the rest of us...well, for me at least.

No hurt intended.

Please don't blacklist me.

Have a nice day!

  • 10.30.2006 8:39 PM PDT
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Oh yeah.

This forum isn't intended to be a place of disrespect. If you give anyone a hard time, you'll get a warning. Do it again, and you'll be blacklisted.

But telling the guy who's the Overlord of the site to "Go blam himself" is definitely grounds for a ban.

And if it's a ban from Achronos, you're gone for a loooooong time. People have no rights to badmouth anyone.

  • 10.30.2006 8:52 PM PDT
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Achronos is a Bungie staff member. Posting threads about anyone is not permitted.

When a thread is titled "Achronos is -blam!-" it is pretty easy for moderators to find and destroy. If it was anyone else like "Archra is -blam!-" they would've knocked it down just as fast (which is as fast as they see it).

The moderators here are pretty good at what they do and are pretty fair. And Achronos is a cool guy. Thats not me really brown nosing either, just look at his posts. He's a wise guy.

  • 10.30.2006 8:54 PM PDT
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Alright, alright. Thanks, gentleman. Where does it say making threads on staff members, or anyone for that matter, isn't allowed? Not that I'd be interested in doing so, but I didn't see them anywhere in the guidelines.

[Edited on 10/30/2006]

  • 10.30.2006 8:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: pray for jonas
Alright, alright. Thanks, gentleman. Where does it say making threads on staff members, or anyone for that matter, isn't allowed? Not that I'd be interested in doing so, but I didn't see them anywhere in the guidelines.


'Tis in the rules posted in the stickies. You won't find them here in the Septagon, for the rules cannot be seen here. But if you head to pretty much every other forum, and search for a rules sticky, you'll see it, in blue and darker blue print.

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Posted by: pray for jonas
Alright, alright. Thanks, gentleman. Where does it say making threads on staff members, or anyone for that matter, isn't allowed? Not that I'd be interested in doing so, but I didn't see them anywhere in the guidelines.


'Tis in the rules posted in the stickies. You won't find them here in the Septagon, for the rules cannot be seen here. But if you head to pretty much every other forum, and search for a rules sticky, you'll see it, in blue and darker blue print.


Thou art correct sir.

I had to hunt down Recon's sig. Here we go:

* Don't use the forums as a means of communicating with a specific person. That is what Private Messages are for.

If you're interested in checking out the Rules, try the link in Recon's sig.

But yeah, making a thread directed at anyone (even if it's something kind or positive) is against the Rules. And when it's a harmful thread, the proper action is taken.

[Edited on 10/30/2006]

  • 10.30.2006 9:09 PM PDT

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Well, first off, you must remember that the Bungie.net moderators are not part of the Bungie staff.. They're minions, more or less.

In Senor Leche's case, dairy producer, for the Bungie staff.

Regardless, insulting anyone on the forum to a serious extent is worthy of blacklisting. Depending on the moderator that sees it, weather and atmospheric conditions, and whether or not you've made social contact with a dog within the past week, you may or may not get blacklisted for an insult. Oh, and the severity of the insult may also be a factor involved, but that's unlikely.. .... ..

Achronos himself has said something along the lines of: "You [can express and opinion all you want, but] if [you get out of hand] and [start insulting, you're tozt.]"

:)

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Achronos is only the controller of the forums and community.

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Thanks for the help. Good to know that the majority of community members here at Bungie forums are well-behaved, civilized people, whereas on XBL, you'll hear someone telling you to, "Thank your mom for last night," every five seconds. Its refreshing, actually. The differing maturity levels are like comparing high school to college. If only there was a way to implicate the equivalent of a moderator on XBL; it'd work miracles for all the swearing jerks out there. I'm still shocked at the occasional outburst from a seemingly normal eight year old. Eh, I just usually tell them that, "If I had kids your age, then they wouldn't be allowed to hang around you - you're a bad kid." They then will most likely tell me to -blam- off. Our youth. What are you going to do?

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Posted by: pray for jonas
Thanks for the help. Good to know that the majority of community members here at Bungie forums are well-behaved, civilized people, whereas on XBL, you'll hear someone telling you to, "Thank your mom for last night," every five seconds. If only there was a way to implicate the equivalent of a moderator on XBL; it'd work miracles for all the swearing jerks out there. I'm still shocked at the occasional outburst from a seemingly normal eight year old. Eh, I just usually tell them that, "If I had kids your age, then they wouldn't be allowed to hang around you - you're a bad kid." They then will most likely tell me to -blam- off. Our youth. What are you going to do?


Well, keep in mind, we are the Septagon regulars. The Septagon is one of the most intelligent forums. If you want intelligence, I wouldn't even bother going to the Flood. Unless you were going to read one of my topics, or ICEMAN ASSASS1N's, or anyone intelligent.

  • 10.30.2006 10:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
Oh yeah.

This forum isn't intended to be a place of disrespect. If you give anyone a hard time, you'll get a warning. Do it again, and you'll be blacklisted.

But telling the guy who's the Overlord of the site to "Go blam himself" is definitely grounds for a ban.

And if it's a ban from Achronos, you're gone for a loooooong time. People have no rights to badmouth anyone.


That pretty much sums it up, Bungie.net is a perfect socialist state.

  • 10.30.2006 10:43 PM PDT
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  • 10.31.2006 2:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: pray for jonas
...Good to know that the majority of community members here at Bungie forums are well-behaved, civilized people, whereas on XBL, you'll hear someone telling you to, "Thank your mom for last night," every five seconds...

Oh absolutely. You won't find any mom jokes here in the Septagon. ¬.¬

It's an unfortunate artifact of the forum system that you'll see alot more posts from idiots than from sensible people. If a sensible person doesn't have anything to say then he won't post, whereas an idiot will flame your mother/Halo 2 skills/etc...

And while the level of maturity seems to vary within the forums you'll find quite often that people who you'd label as immature idiots are sometimes normal people just letting go for a while and goofing around.

Like so:

Posted by: pray for jonas
...What are you going to do?

If by -what-, you mean -who-, then... Your mom!

Roflcopter, away!!1 LOLOLOLoLoolOLllololololololl....

  • 10.31.2006 6:19 AM PDT
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People who bad mouth other users right fully deserve to be blacklisted. I seriously don't think it's fair that you should get banned immediately for telling the overlord to go blam! himself while doing it to anyone else gets you a warning. But as most of you know life isn't fair and if Achronos has the power, he may abuse it at his own free will.

  • 10.31.2006 6:27 AM PDT
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Beratta:
People who bad mouth other users right fully deserve to be blacklisted. I seriously don't think it's fair that you should get banned immediately for telling the overlord to go blam! himself while doing it to anyone else gets you a warning.


Yeah, but I guess its their right to blacklist people, whatever the severity of the "infraction" may be. The "damage" caused by remarks is somewhat relative, and Bungie always gets the final say. I do agree though, that they should be fair in judgment, although I can't say if they have been, personally. Not that they've been unfair , I just haven't been participating long enough to know.

  • 10.31.2006 10:14 AM PDT
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Edited below.

[Edited on 10/31/2006]

  • 10.31.2006 10:18 AM PDT
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posted by Saint:
And while the level of maturity seems to vary within the forums you'll find quite often that people who you'd label as immature idiots are sometimes normal people just letting go for a while and goofing around.


I'm a jerk undercover, I confess, lol.

[Edited on 10/31/2006]

  • 10.31.2006 10:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
Oh yeah.

This forum isn't intended to be a place of disrespect. If you give anyone a hard time, you'll get a warning. Do it again, and you'll be blacklisted.

But telling the guy who's the Overlord of the site to "Go blam himself" is definitely grounds for a ban.

And if it's a ban from Achronos, you're gone for a loooooong time. People have no rights to badmouth anyone.


I have been blacklisted 4 times without a warning and it said I was blacklisted on 5:00 am and I was never on at that time I was asleep!

  • 10.31.2006 10:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
Oh yeah.

This forum isn't intended to be a place of disrespect. If you give anyone a hard time, you'll get a warning. Do it again, and you'll be blacklisted.

But telling the guy who's the Overlord of the site to "Go blam himself" is definitely grounds for a ban.

And if it's a ban from Achronos, you're gone for a loooooong time. People have no rights to badmouth anyone.


I have been blacklisted 4 times without a warning and it said I was blacklisted on 5:00 am and I was never on at that time I was asleep!


It could have been that a moderator may have seen something you did and blacklisted you for that, even if it were hours after you had said it.

And I should have clarified a bit about the warning part. Some moderators will give out warnings, which typically consists of editing the post with a message, or simply PM'ing the member and asking him/her to stop.

Then there are those who consider a seven day Blacklist to be a warning. But it kind of depends on who's deciding. I don't know if there's a set code that they have to follow, but from what I've seen, a lot of it is based on said moderator's discretion.

  • 10.31.2006 11:10 AM PDT

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I always find it amusing when people on the Internet try to insult me. Just today, someone tried to tell me I was "retarded", except they spelled retarded "retarted". Too bad the user in question probably doesn't even understand the concept of irony, so they won't know why that's funny. Here's a clue for would be spammers - I am not you. This means I likely have a far better self-image than you and don't really care if some guy on the Internet can say some naughty words and hit "submit". I've probably heard far worse, anyway.

I don't personally ban people (usually) who try and insult me, as it is somewhat pathetic that they are bothering to do so in the first place. But, making posts about specific users in the public forums is against the rules, and the moderators will enforce it, especially if such a post falls into breaking other rules, like the "play nice rule."

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Even so guys, best thing to do is just ignore them. I mean, even though we have people like Achronos and such monitoring when they can, these kids just want to bait you into a flamewar.

In my experience, I just leave 'em alone. Let them flamebait themselves to a warm crisp.

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Like when people tell me over XBL that they're going to, "Kick my -blam-." Its hard to be offended when those words are just wasted breath, and don't have any action to back them. Getting into fights on the internet has most always been funny to me, especially when you get into a fight with someone who is a teribal spellar, lol.

  • 10.31.2006 12:30 PM PDT

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I am not you. This means I likely have a far better self-image than you[snip]


Hmm, by jove!

I think you're on to something. The uh, "not you" part. ..

Oh, and you probably do have a better self-image. It's hard to acquire one, when you constantly get harassed by people like Senor Leche. :(

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  • 10.31.2006 12:33 PM PDT
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wait, who's Leche?

  • 10.31.2006 12:35 PM PDT

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