Everybody, if you do not like the rules you can leave. If you make posts to complain about the rules I will show you the door. You will be permanently banned from Gamesquad. Follow the rules.
Spent all that money to acquire it, and now you'll drive everything that made it what it was away. Well done sir. Well done indeed. -- jim
I think of it more like flushing a full toilet. If getting rid of its contents destroys Gamesquad and everybody leaves, so be it. I do not think that will happen. I think the hundreds of members that are here for talking about games, ASL specifically, will bid their time as the trash is disposed of. Once that is done, the disruptions stop and those who remain will enjoy Gamesquad even more.
That's the nicest way someone has ever called me shit. Congratulations. Does that violate the new terms of service? What if instead of alluding to a flush, I said "wiped away". Is that more offensive?
You don't get "big boys" by treating them like children. As far as following you're new rules, I am sure they won't. They couldn't follow social norms before. I don't know what makes you think they will now. They haven't followed them in this thread. I don't think you could write the rules down if you tried. Good behavior is like pornography. No one can tell you what it is but we all know it when we see it, even if each of our definitions varies person to person. That's why most of the people in the US watched the Super Bowl half-time show and were like "meh" and a smaller group watched it and decried the pornographic nature and the demeaning stereo-types towards women. Good luck. Glad it isn't up to me to read your mind. -- jim
Why thank you, I rewrote it several times, to soften the blow. We can ask the SCOTUS if it is a violation in the future but now is not the time. The point to to be a non-offensive as possible.
If they act like children then that is how they will be treated. If they cannot follow social norms, if they cannot follow these rules and continue to violate them, causing a disruption, they will be ejected from the forum. I have noticed the lack of adherence to the rules in this thread.
I could go on and on because hypocritical behavior always fascinates me. Saying "non-offensive" as possible is an admission it was in fact offensive. Saying you thought about it means you willfully and intentionally made the post know it was. You then go on to threaten to "eject" anyone that can't meet the standard you just violated. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Non est bonum esse regem. Nice quod oportet esse supra praecepta. -- jim
I know of several places you can go to observe hypocritical behavior, even some television and radio programs for hours on end.
Well said.
As you so eloquently alluded, it's your toilet. It is good to see you recognize highlighting your own behavior distracts from the standard you're trying to enact. I would run from it too, were I you. -- jim
Yes, it's my 'throne', I want it as clean as I can get it. I understand that I, like everybody else, am imperfect but I try to do as good as I can by striving to follow the sensible rules. I invite all to do the same. If they cannot or refuse to adjust then they will be removed.
Present poster excepted of course. He is free to ignore the standard. After all, the king's robes are the finest in the land. -- jim
You got somebody better in mind?
Your previous post was one word of profanity. Why did you post it? Enlighten all to its purpose to the conversation.
The word was a common word of profanity in Spanish, which is a lingua franca here in New Mexico. It's meaning in this instance was "Thou art somewhat heavy handed."
I am certain you missed the point of this story, your majesty. -- jim
And what exactly is the point? What is it you're advocating for, exactly? You've been complaining for two days about how expecting civility is hypocrisy, and how convinced you are that civility is impossible to attain. You've tried to make the point with unflattering comparisons between GS and FB. Yet the FB groups are models of civility, which only defeats your argument.
No Michael. It was reset because you whinged about my reaction to your actions. As you noticed you were climbing the reputation ladder, you would negatively rep others so you could climb faster. It was first recognize by Glennbo. He told me he that when you negged him, he would double up the neg on you and you stopped acting like a child. When I was next on the list--not that I cared one whit but it apparently meant something to you--I decided to also one-up your actions so you would move along. I figured you wouldn't enjoy being fed your own dog food. I was right. After all, the reputation system was nothing but a popularity contest and you were far more unpopular than I at the time. -- jim