Fuckdiculous MTGS Moderation

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Biyearly entertainment.

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Several staff members still feel that there's significant bad blood between you and the staff, especially given that DTR has smilies for mocking iridium members. There have also been several instances of iridium members' personal information being made public on/through DTR. What are your thoughts on that situation? How would you suggest that we proceed with moving past the current antagonistic atmosphere we seem to have, burying the hatchets & moving forward from where we're at now?

Wants to bury the hatchets

Won't unban people wrongly banned

[Captain Murphy]

I actually only wanted the new mods to read the story of how people got mad over backwards Morse code Spanish in the form of smileys.

Lol still my sig on Sally even though they tried a good amount of times to get it removed. Once for the red text which I then changed, then for it being too big (said a mod with a larger sig than mine) and then because it would confuse people thinking there was an actual post even though it's in my sig.

Good times

[Captain Murphy]

Lol the logic of "you say things on another site so you can't be on this site" is retarded

[Kaitscralt]

I truly think the only way to bury the hatchet and achieve world peace is if some of us including and maybe especially myself are publicly executed

[Kaitscralt]

something for which I volunteer

[Blackhound]

I would raid but you cant register at moment.

[Stardust]

I truly think the only way to bury the hatchet and achieve world peace is if some of us including and maybe especially myself are publicly executed

I'd happily look on as you cried freedom.

[Kaitscralt]

Freedumb

[Stardust]

They're hoarding all the dumb to themselves? How selfish.

[Blackhound]

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[Blackhound]

I can not raid

[Stardust]

What is best in life, Blackhound?

[Blackhound]

What ?

[hamfactorial]

Blackhound, ya blew it.

[Stardust]

The open steppe, a fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair?

Wrong!

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!

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They must be mad to come here just to get mad.

[Col. Khaddafi]

Anger is the fuel they use for carrying on with their ordeal

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Rage

[Col. Khaddafi]

lapdog because he already read all of MTGS posts and he is now on a quest to read all the posts about MTGS on the Internet

[Kaitscralt]

and he has succeeded

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#StillSore

[Kaitscralt]

#guestright

[Corruption Watch]

A classic from the Lapdog:

While I can line-by-line your posts, I can tell you from experience how that plays out. It's an exhaustive process from all sides and only very rarely achieves a shared understanding on a reasonable time scale. More amusingly, it's the more "robotic" way of approaching it. Instead of instilling the human search for understanding and the true meaning behind your words, I'd be addressing them point by point. Input would directly equal output.

Instead I am, as a human, searching for the meaning behind your posts and then to understand and resynthesize to allow me to address the thrust of your points, rather than the minutia. Now, let's turn that back on its head. Are you attempting to do the same to me? No. Instead you see that input does not directly equal output and you're rejecting it on its face. While the irony is amusing to me, the pedantry is not.

Moving back to the issue at hand, I think you need to step back and ask yourself "what is harm?". The "true" harm that can be wrought on a web forum is malicious disclosure (doxxing), fraud (ripping), and psychological abuse (flaming). These are not the only concerns of moderators. We instead look at purpose. Why are we here? We are here to discuss Magic. In the Rumour Mill we look ahead. In Legacy, we discuss Magic's greatest constructed format. All of these have purpose. And in most, mild socialization does not run counter to purpose, instead it may even help foster a collaborative spirit at times. Indeed, this has led to Community Threads propagating out of the Cube forum and into most other forums. But Rulings is different. It has a very different purpose - that of a resource, both concise and searchable, and not of a medium of discussion. I've outlined all of that in preceding posts.

I understand that you do not agree with the rules of the Rulings forum. I agree with you that rules should make sense. Indeed, we've significantly loosened and slimmed the rules since 2011. But your lack of understanding for the purpose of the rules in Rulings does not make them not exist. And your hostile disregard for them has caused you to disrupt the purpose of the forum as described above.

If you want my personal opinion, read this post. As much as I am speaking for the staff here, the words here are my own and I write what I mean. If you were hoping for an automaton blindly following the rules, you will find yourself disappointed. I was an admin here for over two years. I literally wrote many of the rules or crafted or rethought our enforcement of them (both at admin and global). When I disagree with you, it is not an opinion borne of ignorance. Nor is it a blind veneration of a vestigial codex. No, it is what I understand from having literally run the site and from what I understand from being a user and local mod after stepping down. When I engage with you, I try to do so in plain speech. My words may be eccentric, but I'm not looking to turn this into a debate class. I am engaging with the crux of your arguments with as much brevity as I can muster so as to improve the likelihood of us reaching a common understanding.

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[Col. Khaddafi]

so many words...

[Corruption Watch]

The best bit is where he claims to be using "plain speech" and "brevity". What a chucklehead.

[Stardust]

That is a pretty amazing post. No sarcasm. I am in awe.

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Hashtag unauthorized use of information submitted privately.

[Corruption Watch]

Corruption!

[Blackhound]

That guy needs to get laid more than I do.

[Manders]

So, r_0 told me a tale the other day that I think I forgot to tell you guys.

So, he was a mod, but he went AWOL for a while after we left, so they de-modded him, which was expected, of course. However, they didn't remove his mod lounge access, so he would GRRRR from time to time.

This one time, he said something (doesn't remember what) that good ol' Rabbit Shoes found offensive.

Any guesses as to what happened next?

[Corruption Watch]

Raged about it behind closed doors in some obscure Viking language?

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The other guy's sensitivity was protected?

[Col. Khaddafi]

hahahahahaha

[Corruption Watch]

Don't leave us hanging Manders.

[Col. Khaddafi]

I mean its obvious he couldn't find its way to GRRRR any longer

[Manders]

Yeah, he lost his Mod Lounge access after that.

[Manders]

The other guy's sensitivity was protected?

Of course they pandered to POOR RABBITSHOES.

Cause, you know, that guy has a hard enough time in life what with being trans and pansexual and just overall weird.

No one understands him but MTGS mods.