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Post by CkRtech on Nov 7, 2004 23:44:58 GMT -5
OOOOoooo. Stuff to talk about. Have you all seen the lockage?
EDIT: Turns out it was related to bad things from the general discussion forum.
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Post by StrykerX2K on Nov 8, 2004 13:09:47 GMT -5
I just saw that....looks like they locked all the GD stuff down to be fair to all the boards. I read some of the content and I can see where it was questionable in the least. Just sucks that the good posters get penalized along with the ones who created the issue in the first place......
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Post by Gunman_sr5 on Nov 8, 2004 16:01:36 GMT -5
Who all got in trouble? Anybody know?
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Post by StrykerX2K on Nov 8, 2004 16:34:19 GMT -5
That I couldn't tell. I didn't want to toil through all the garbage, but I couldn't pinpoint except in one thread where they were talking about something sexually oriented that had nothing to do witht he TF stuff. I gues this has been happening more regularly and they got tired of it. They shut down all the GD stuff in every section and posted warnings to stay on topic.....
Just a shame, because they have really cleaned up the board a lot and then they get a few crude spammers and it ruins it for all the good posters there...
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Post by CkRtech on Nov 8, 2004 19:15:07 GMT -5
I just saw that....looks like they locked all the GD stuff down to be fair to all the boards. I read some of the content and I can see where it was questionable in the least. Just sucks that the good posters get penalized along with the ones who created the issue in the first place...... That is one thing I severly dislike about TNI. They just punish the masses rather than the individuals. Kinda like elementary school P.E. - They see the ones that are disrupting class, but rather than pull them out they just say "aww screw it" and punish everyone. Don't even get me started about how TNI tends to follow the "ignore the problem and it will go away" Ahh well - maybe they will restore it in time. However, I haven't posted in there in months.
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Post by Mike on Nov 13, 2004 21:16:11 GMT -5
I guess I'll shed some light on this.
Over the summer, things were getting pretty bad in the GD area on TNI, political talk was the worst problem, it seemed like no one could control their opinions and refrain from attacking other peoples views. So we banned political talk for a while, some members got really upset with this, eventually we let it back because members were behaving themselves. But after a while the bickering came back, and a lot of problem as well with a lot of members bickering and arguing. We were hoping after the elections, that things would calm down.. but we were wrong, things still kept going on, with members arguing with the moderators about not being fair, and swearing, carrying on, attacking other members. It wasn't just an isolated incedent that we could have banned a couple members to solve the problem. It was a big problem between a lot of members and quite a few moderators as well.
So jay decided that the board as a whole was not responsible enough to have a GD area, after months of warnings, banning members, and even banning politics. It was not a decision that came easy.
The monkey room/Squishy room was locked because it wouldn't be fair to have the GD area locked, but the GD area in transformers forum left open. That is the only reason the Squishy room was locked.
Someone made a comment about the picture thread in the transformers area too, that thread was locked because of the sexual content and vulgarness that was being discussed. The picture thread had gone way off topic, and was showing no sign of returning to the original topic. so it was locked.
So well there were a few people that didn't cause problems in the GD area, majority of the people that did post in there were causing problems. rather then ban 10 to 15 members that post regularly on the board and in other sections, it was decided to just remove the GD area where all the problems were taking place.
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Post by Gunman_sr5 on Nov 13, 2004 21:18:30 GMT -5
Gotcha. Thanks for the explanation
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Post by CkRtech on Nov 13, 2004 21:19:11 GMT -5
Gosh, CD. I wish the few on that board could just stick with the rules you guys lay down. It would make other peoples lives so much easier.
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Post by Mike on Nov 13, 2004 21:22:55 GMT -5
yeah.. and it really sucks, because we were working on a plan to bring back the GD area with a new VERY tight set of rules and warning/banning system, but the guys that were causing problems, started causing problems in the feedback area, and caused 4 locked threads in there. So jay just said screw it, they aren't getting the GD area back ever now. The board blew their second chance at a GD area before we even got it ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png)
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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2004 21:27:02 GMT -5
that sucks. i went in and read alot of stuff on there. some things were interesting.
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Post by Mike on Nov 13, 2004 21:32:38 GMT -5
I miss the Squishy/Monkey room!! it was a great place to hang out and chat with people. I hated the GD area, because all I got to do was moderate people all the time.. ![>:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/angry.png) I wouldn't feel like posting anything. But Squishy room was good, and never ever had a problem in there ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by CkRtech on Nov 13, 2004 21:35:49 GMT -5
Hey how did "squishy" come about? Haha. I went in there one day and was like....say wha? ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Gunman_sr5 on Nov 13, 2004 21:37:45 GMT -5
Yea, and then he was in most sigs in Transformers. Whats up with that?
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Post by Devastator_2000 on Nov 13, 2004 21:40:47 GMT -5
I was surprised about the loss of the GD area and the Monkey room. When I left for vacation, they were there; but when I cam back they were gone.
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Post by Mike on Nov 13, 2004 21:43:56 GMT -5
lol my friend andrea and I were looking for some MSN emoticons, and we stumbled acrss the Squishy emoticon. He was suppose to be a frog, and we named in squishy.. then I showed him to Grady and rain in the monkey room, and we started making all these photoshop pictures with squishy in them, and grady made a picture of squishy killing monkey, so then I changed the name of the monkey room, to squishy's room, and voila!! ![](http://www.mess-icons.com/images/emoticons/animals/024.gif)
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Post by Gunman_sr5 on Nov 13, 2004 21:46:05 GMT -5
Cool so Squishy killed the monkey. Squishy not Monkey! ![](http://img8.photobucket.com/albums/v28/gunman_sr5/10_1_121.gif)
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Post by Mike on Nov 13, 2004 21:48:17 GMT -5
lol ya ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) things get pretty crazy when we are bored over there ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) A lot of members took a liking to squishy and were putting him in their signatures and stuff ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) even the people that didn't like him were making pictures of him getting squished or something ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png)
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Post by StrykerX2K on Nov 13, 2004 22:09:02 GMT -5
That's cool. I was wondering about Squishy, also. I am sorry they decided to punish everyone. Maybe Jay will rethink it in a few months....and Squish can live again!
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Post by Devastator_2000 on Nov 13, 2004 22:17:35 GMT -5
I wonder why this election was so heated? It is over now, but people are still heated up over it. I have even heard things as harsh as those in the blue states (voted Kerry) saying that they should do like in the civil war and secede from the United States.
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Post by Jo'Roq on Nov 13, 2004 22:49:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I've heard about the Blue State Secession. I say let them if they want to - I'd love to hear California's reactions when they realized that there energy imports are now an international negotiation rather than inter-state trade .....
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