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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shrike on November 03, 2004, 08:29:38 pm

Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Shrike on November 03, 2004, 08:29:38 pm
You have until the end of tomorrow (thursday) to vent/exult your feelings over the elections.  After that any politics threads will be purged.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: redmenace on November 03, 2004, 09:13:08 pm
AMEN
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on November 03, 2004, 09:14:41 pm
sweet...

Go Bush!
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Eviscerator on November 03, 2004, 09:14:57 pm
Thank you.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Knight Templar on November 03, 2004, 09:58:44 pm
Meh.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Shrike on November 03, 2004, 11:17:06 pm
Actually, I changed my mind.  The purging begins when I wake up tomorrow, so you've got about 15 hours.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Taristin on November 03, 2004, 11:19:19 pm
Thank God. They're getting a bit ridiculous now...
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Setekh on November 04, 2004, 01:09:21 am
It wasn't even this bad when Howard was re-elected over here - and this is his fourth term. :p
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Gloriano on November 04, 2004, 01:29:00 am
Hurrah
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Bri_Dog on November 04, 2004, 01:36:01 am
YaY! It's over for 4 whole years!
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Sandwich on November 04, 2004, 01:57:18 am
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Originally posted by Shrike
Actually, I changed my mind.  The purging begins when I wake up tomorrow, so you've got about 15 hours.


Actually, I just woke up and locked one. But you can do the rest when you get up. ;)
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: aldo_14 on November 04, 2004, 07:52:42 am
Fair dos.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Fineus on November 04, 2004, 08:07:01 am
Nice one Shrike, I'm not sure I could've coped with much more...
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: an0n on November 04, 2004, 08:08:33 am
We never had this problem at NW........:p
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Taristin on November 04, 2004, 08:50:25 am
Damnit Shrike! WAKE UP!
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 09:06:09 am
Naaaa.... this is fun ;)

We've had about a month of not being able to hate each other in our own friendly way, we're just doing some bonding ;)
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: phreak on November 04, 2004, 09:34:43 am
more like bondage *shrug*
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 09:36:48 am
Heh, I just knew someone was going to say that :p

Edit : Seriously though, you people take this all much too seriously. Do you honestly think that by stamping down on political threads people won't find something else to scream at each other about?

One of the things I love about this place is the fact that you can have a really intense political debate with someone on the Main Forum and then chat perfectly normally about game modding with the same person on the Modding Forum and there are no hard feelings :)
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: vyper on November 04, 2004, 11:05:04 am
Democracy at work in here. I love it. :lol:
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: aldo_14 on November 04, 2004, 11:07:00 am
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Originally posted by Flipside
Heh, I just knew someone was going to say that :p

Edit : Seriously though, you people take this all much too seriously. Do you honestly think that by stamping down on political threads people won't find something else to scream at each other about?

One of the things I love about this place is the fact that you can have a really intense political debate with someone on the Main Forum and then chat perfectly normally about game modding with the same person on the Modding Forum and there are no hard feelings :)


Honestly, at the mo I think if HLP was a pub they'd have called the cops, the ambulance, the fire brigade and the army by now.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: vyper on November 04, 2004, 11:11:12 am
If HLP was a pub it'd be serving tennants. :wtf:

Nodewar would serve aftershock and imperial drops. :lol:
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: aldo_14 on November 04, 2004, 11:17:04 am
Why Tennents?
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 11:19:53 am
LOL Well my own opinion is, as long as the debate is about politics and people aren't calling each other Neo-Nazi bastards or the like, theres no reason to close it.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: vyper on November 04, 2004, 11:28:55 am
[q]Why Tennents?[/q]

Common. Cheap. Tasteless. In other words, not controversial. :)
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Fineus on November 04, 2004, 11:43:54 am
Meh, if we could have our own hosting and our own rules - things would be a lot less inoffensive (that is to say - I for one wouldn't worry so much about offending the social norm).

It's only because of GS that we have to enforce certain ways of doing things. That's how I see it anyhow.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Zarax on November 04, 2004, 11:49:24 am
Kalfireth, if you need hosting (although forum-only) just let me know and we'll see if i can help you.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: vyper on November 04, 2004, 11:52:21 am
:lol:
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Zarax on November 04, 2004, 11:59:40 am
? What do you find so funny vyper?
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 03:02:55 pm
Well, at least the forums might be up more often ;)

Definately Tennents ;)
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Poggle on November 04, 2004, 03:15:09 pm
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Originally posted by Flipside
LOL Well my own opinion is, as long as the debate is about politics and people aren't calling each other Neo-Nazi bastards or the like, theres no reason to close it.


Bunch of nazi bastards!!!
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Zarax on November 04, 2004, 03:15:59 pm
incoming thread stop...
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 03:55:13 pm
ROFL Not unless someones sense of humour is running seriously short ;)
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Zarax on November 04, 2004, 03:56:23 pm
i hope so...
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Thorn on November 04, 2004, 04:01:35 pm
Shrike=Hero
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: 01010 on November 04, 2004, 04:24:39 pm
Aw man, surely I'm not the only one that absolutely creases up when Kazan thinks huge red font validates his point. I waited all month for that and now your going to deny me it.

Bastards.

:)
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Flipside on November 04, 2004, 04:29:42 pm
:lol:

Well, feel free to sample any other flavour of rant from the list in the main Forum :)
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: mitac on November 04, 2004, 06:33:58 pm
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Originally posted by Poggle


Bunch of nazi bastards!!!


Interesting way of saying "Hi, I'm new here." :wtf:

Edit: ah, not that new, I just looked at the postcount. ;)
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Black Wolf on November 04, 2004, 10:14:29 pm
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Originally posted by mitac


Interesting way of saying "Hi, I'm new here." :wtf:

Edit: ah, not that new, I just looked at the postcount. ;)


Are you kidding? That's one of the best entrances I can possibly think of. Welcome Poggle :D

:welcome:
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Rictor on November 04, 2004, 10:22:44 pm
wait wait, hold on a second.

Politics threads are business as usual, its just that their frequency and shall we say, passion level, have been somewhat inceased.

I can understanding enforcing a rule to normal standards, but not cracking down on politcal threads altogether. People will be talking about this election and the consequences thereof, for years to come, its simply an important world event.

Though I fully understand and support Hammer of Justice style administration for 25 point tall red letters and that sort of thing. You know, within reasonable limits.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Knight Templar on November 04, 2004, 11:23:31 pm
Indeed. The only way you could reasonably stop political threads in an open forum is never, and the only way you could really enforce it is through bannings.

:nervous:
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: aldo_14 on November 05, 2004, 03:12:46 am
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Originally posted by 01010
Aw man, surely I'm not the only one that absolutely creases up when Kazan thinks huge red font validates his point. I waited all month for that and now your going to deny me it.

Bastards.

:)

[SIZE=10]YOU'RE RIGHT!!!!1111ONEONEONETWO [/SIZE]
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: an0n on November 05, 2004, 03:41:46 am
I say we nominate me "HLP Hammer of Jo0stice" and give me the power to use the GS servers to mail out 1Gb horse-porn videos to tards and n00bs at random will.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: 01010 on November 05, 2004, 10:50:48 am
Aldo, you just made my day.

:D
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Terminator on November 05, 2004, 04:17:42 pm
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Originally posted by mitac


Interesting way of saying "Hi, I'm new here." :wtf:

Edit: ah, not that new, I just looked at the postcount. ;)


hey hey now, postcount does not always equal seniority in forums...;)
Title: well
Post by: Getter Robo G on November 05, 2004, 08:19:33 pm
Aren't there different levels in seniority?

   1 Registered date
   2 Post Count
   3 Lurking date
   4 Stupidity Level


   Personally I go with 1 & 4. Someone may have been here since the doors opened, but that doesn't mean the're immune to idiocy.
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: aldo_14 on November 06, 2004, 03:27:39 pm
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Originally posted by Terminator


hey hey now, postcount does not always equal seniority in forums...;)


Only if yours is small............

:nervous:
Title: The elections are over. Deal with it.
Post by: Mongoose on November 06, 2004, 04:27:33 pm
One suggestion would be to have a separate forum for political/ethical discussion and leave this one to general topics.  I've seen this work successfully for other forums, and it takes political threads out of the way of those who would otherwise ignore them but post in them because they're there.
Title: Thank you very much...
Post by: Poggle on November 11, 2004, 03:01:19 pm
In best Elvis tradition, this is one hedgehog who can only be himself and nobody else...i could never get anyone to gimme their skin/fur anyway....and it wont fit over my quills so I just leave the whole subject alone...although in earlier times with KA there were discussions over who would be most edible if squad was trapped on deserted planet....
Nice to meet you all...as you can clearly see Im an absolutely Insane Liberal!!! (Yes, in Alaska we all carry guns!!!)
For my Benefactors I wish you a hearty greetings and for my Detractors you get only raspberries and a kick in the pants!!!