[karajorma]

Also I'm sort of giggling over the fact you have people on ignore, as an administrator, after we had a huge blowout during Batts' tenure as a moderator over his doing just that. Apparently nothing was learned from that episode. C'est la vie; let the stupidity roll.

I basically stuck you on ignore cause there was little point in my replying to you. It always ends in some stupid discussion and I have neither the time nor the interest to partake in them. On the occasions you've had reported posts since, I've let others moderate. This is probably the only reason you're still posting. I tend to be much harsher all round than the other admins, so the fact that I haven't been moderating your threads has actually worked out better for you.

If you really want parity with the other posters. I'll give it to you. But it means a weeks ban for calling me an asshole. Same as I'd give any other poster who had done that to anyone else on the board.

Is that really what you want? Or are you just posting this cause I've proved you wrong earlier and you're trying to stir up trouble?

[swashmebuckle]

Sadly, it's been a banner (haha) week for the casual abuse of the British by their American counterparts, but hopefully there is a valuable lesson here that can benefit the entire world: don't vote for Romney watch TV.

[The E]

Also I'm sort of giggling over the fact you have people on ignore, as an administrator, after we had a huge blowout during Batts' tenure as a moderator over his doing just that. Apparently nothing was learned from that episode. C'est la vie; let the stupidity roll.

You are taking a single facet of Battuta's misbehaviour here. Is it a good idea for a Moderator to habitually ignore posts? No. Does it make the moderator completely unable to do his/her job? No. Is the desire to not have avoidable conflicts a good thing to have on an internet forum? Yes, absolutely.

Anyone on this board is free to use the provided functions of this board as they see fit, provided this use does not cause disruption elsewhere. Kara using the ignore function in order to insulate himself from getting stressed out is perfectly alright. Battuta using the ignore function to ignore posts by those he judges to be bad posters, but then moderating a thread with a high level of participation by those he ignores, that's bad.

Your unilateral decision to turn "Moderators shall not use the ignore function on pain of privilege stripping" into a thing that exists is neither indicated by what happened in the quoted thread (Specifically, me disapproving of Batman's use of said function), nor is your call to strip Karajorma of his admin position warranted or appreciated.

[karajorma]

Since The_E lacks the ability to give out an monkey, on his request I've switched NGTM-1R's 1 day ban into a monkeying for a day.

I do have to love the irony of being the one actually reducing his sentence.

[Colonol Dekker]

On that note i'm hoping that everyone can play nice.

Aside from the obvious, it was getting to be quite an interesting discussion.

[Polpolion]

I have a feeling that this thread would've gone a lot better if it weren't such a charged subject. I guess the main points at the end of the thread, barring a couple posts that should've been in a PM, were that if NBC thinks that their audience wants to see something, within reason and some topic bounds, it's unrealistic to expect them to show something else. On the other hand, people expect them to show tribute to the 7/7 bombings because 1) it's a tribute to victims of a terrorist attack and 2) it's part of the opening ceremony, but mostly 1.

I honestly don't think there's going to be much good discussion WRT that area. One side wants a for-profit media institution to have shown the tribute, but they didn't, and I doubt they'll be re-broadcasting the opening ceremony any time soon, so there's really nothing left to do but sit here and be mad about everything. (which I guess is what's been happening here already )

I'm pretty sure no one's been arguing about this point for a page or so but I'm going to talk about it more anyway because why not: Despite NBC being responsible for putting programming on TV that's genuinely relevant and interesting to and for its viewers, that by no means reflects what their viewers actually think. Before anyone gets in a stink about this think about Fox and all of its subsidiaries. Since when do media giants always reflect their audience? I think this is exactly a case of NBC trying to tell people what they want to watch.

There was also something else I wanted to say but I forgot what it was. Whenever this happens usually the very next post is something that I would've addressed in the part I forgot, too.

[karajorma]

Since when do media giants always reflect their audience

Well I'm sure everyone on the entire internet will agree that Fox knew what they were doing when they cancelled Firefly.

[redsniper]

Hard Light Productions: "there's really nothing left to do but sit here and be mad about everything."

[headdie]

Hard Light Productions: "there's really nothing left to do but sit here and be mad about everything."

sounds like a good episode of grumpy old men

[Colonol Dekker]

I'm only 30 

[headdie]

I'm only 30 

28 here

[Wobble73]

"Get off my lawn!!! Darn kids!!!"

39 here   

[qazwsx]

AW YISS
MOTHER ****ING BRITISH MEDALS.

[jr2]

I'm only

I'm only 30 

28 here

30 

27 'til December.

"Get off my lawn!!! Darn kids!!!"

39 here   

Holy shizzle. 

[Dilmah G]

And the Australians are really sucking this time 'round. Did this clown, Magnussen, get any air-time in you folks' country?

[headdie]

"Get off my lawn!!! Darn kids!!!"
39 here   

Holy shizzle. 

There was a 60 something yr old in my old CS clan back in 2002ish

[Klaustrophobia]

i remember playing FS2 with a 60-ish year old (at least that's what he said) back in the twilight days of PXO.

[Thaeris]

"Get off my lawn!!! Darn kids!!!"
39 here   

Holy shizzle. 

There was a 60 something yr old in my old CS clan back in 2002ish

There are the old,

There are the bold,

Many sources say you cannot be both, but indeed some are,

But then there are just the old, bored, and youthfully inclined towards irrelevant pastimes.

[Zacam]

I find it interesting that there are moderation reports still open on this topic.

So, being somebody that is entirely uninvolved with the conversation in any way (and good god, I'm posting in Gen Disc, I need a shower now), I can only hope that things are as settled as they are liable to get. I'll keep the reports in mind, but I will close them for now with the following: If I have to take action (which I'd rather not have to do) then I will, and rank/status be damned.

You may now resume whatever it was that you were doing, so long as it wasn't causing for the moderation reports.

[Wobble73]

"Get off my lawn!!! Darn kids!!!"
39 here   

Holy shizzle. 

There was a 60 something yr old in my old CS clan back in 2002ish

There are the old,

There are the bold,

Many sources say you cannot be both, but indeed some are,

But then there are just the old, bored, and youthfully inclined towards irrelevant pastimes.

I think I fall into that category!