A fair few people are a little fed up with the community acting like a bunch of 10 year olds. Unlike in primary school, we aren't paid to be your friends.* Some of you people also try to take the rules into your own hands, which is kinda annoying. Let's take a recent*** example, some guy was hacked** because he was apparently calling someone else gay. The latter was getting fed up, therefore, he logged in as the other user to post spam. Which we admins/mods hate.

So, he ruins user A's reputation. He also makes our jobs more annoying. We REALLY hate that. We can tolerate spam, gives us a reason to ban you without question. Spamming AND making our jobs harder, no thanks.

This is not a primary school, as I've said, we aren't paid to be your friends. We (admins/mods) are here to make sure the rules are enforced. We're here to NOT be your friends, if you dislike the rules. You may have recently noticed we're being a bit harsher with the infractions. This is because we're getting tired of having to sift through bunches of shit you people call posts. I am asking for a slight bit of a general intelligence increase, and having you people read the rules, AGAIN. If you want to be a general moron, go to IRC. Go to #outside on IRC, we don't care what you do there, not even a little.

So please, post with good grammar, correct spelling, common sense, stay on topic, report posts that don't follow the rules instead of flaming them, don't flame, etc. Really. We'd really, REALLY appreciate it. At least, me and veb would. Also, please don't try to do our job for us. If you're meant to do our job, you'd have our position. Your job in the moderation is to use the report button.

*: Most of us aren't paid at all.
**: Insecure passwords, don't use them.
***: 5 minutes old.

Constructive comments welcome, forward spam to /dev/null.

I thought something was going down..

Way to take one for the team, suo.

It is pretty annoying though. Once they announced the 10k booster thing, all of the kids on the forum just spazzed the fuck out and spammed up a maelstrom of useless posts. Cevius even warned them, but they spammed over it like nobody's business and didn't even see it. (Or maybe they just said "tl;dr.")

I was kind of wondering why you were being so strict with the Infractions.

And it's not just the Admins/Mods who hate spam. Everyone hates spam, even the spammers if they're not the ones who spammed.


Thanks Suo.

I report about a post or two every 2 days, I don't flame. I've had 2 infractions for spamming, which I'm working to stop it. I don't go offtopic alot except in clan boards, which I still shouldn't do. I'll try to report every bad post I see.

I fully agree with this. Good work, Suo. It'll be nice whenever these annoyances known as members start maturing and stop being so idiotic.

I see where your coming from, but i think if we get sensible people to realise the report button, which I have never used in my forum life, it could definitely help

The thing is though, that some people (kids) are trying to rebel. One guy says "omg i got unfairly infracted" and a shitstorm starts, and people (kids) just starts to disrespect the rules, admins and moderators. People (kids) need to realise that the staff does EVERYTHING to make this forum appealing to everyone, and if you're a troublestarter then they need to get rid of you. Ehm, 2 cents.

I was once hacked for no reason. I just logged in to my account, happily went to look at my inventory, and nothing was there. :/
Hacks dont just happen because you get on someones bad side. Some people do it for kicks i guess...

Make sure and change your pass like once every two months. I think
it will somewhat help.

Also I believe that if the admins/mods stay strict some "people" will get a hint.