mthrnite is such a dick

[mthrnite]

Go ahead. Let 'er rip.

 

[mthrnite]

I think the mods/admins here have been extremely ridiculous as of late, especially with their little power trips since pokemon has been released. I thought this site was all about sharing information and helping people? I admit closing billions of pokemon threads is quite the way to go, but sitting there not only deleting post and locking threads, replacing their comments with silly pictures is just beyond power tripping. Mods on this site are seeming to take away peoples freedom of speech and opinion. To ban someone over something as silly as "identity crisis" is beyond stupid, especially when this person is helping people. Are you mods helping people? Or just satisfying your need for your version of control? You know, if you ban this guy, and keep him from helping, more and more pokemon threads will continue to pop up. This guy had the solution. And uh "buying the damn game" isn't a solution for a lot of people, so get off that band wagon. If you don't like the fact that people acquire the game through other methods then that is YOUR business, and should not be used as an excuse to treat people the way that you do. If you choose to lessen the validity of my post due to my post count, that is a serious problem and I suggest you evaluate your life and look and see if you're really that pathetic.

not replying to that mister great mod? :S

I'll do my best. When there is a significant release, especially if it doesn't "work on R4", the mod life gets very difficult. We are faced with tons of threads saying/asking the same thing, tons of reports of those threads, people joining just to get a patch and not really reading the rules, thus naming romsites and linking to roms, which CAN get us into trouble, and other horrors that may elude your understanding if you haven't been a moderator at a large site. The best we can do at those times is to try to stay relatively calm and just enforce the rules as we see them being broken. All the mods have their own personalities, and their own frustration limits, some even take a little time off when the heat is on and they find themselves being "reactive", I've done that myself.

I've drawn fire before for decisions I've made, decisions that weren't lightly made I might add. I've reversed decisions when it was shown I was being unreasonable, and I've learned different ways of tackling problems that have come up. I've gotta say, those that argue that I'm just enlarging my ball size by doing my moderating duties really just have no clue at all about who I am and how I work and play. This site has helped me a great deal, and I've promised that I will do all I can to help it in return. I've weathered a fair amount of crap due to this promise, and here I am again. Insults and unfounded and "easy" accusations I can handle.. I don't really have much of an ego to stroke, and I'm well past the age where ego-stroking is important anyway.

The impersonating thing, idunno, that wasn't why I banned him, I banned him for having 4 accounts, and yeah, that may not seem to you to be a big deal, but it's been established to us moderators that it is, what's more, it's in the rules that everyone agrees to when signing up. These board rules have been refined over time, and while they may not be perfect, they are the pin that holds the site together, and the "bible" that helps us moderate in an orderly fashion.

Buying the game is indeed an option for most people, and certainly I hope that most of you do. I was being a little snotty in saying that, but it at least had the kernel of sincerity.

The rest seems to be just more unfounded premises and insults.. which I don't feel the need to reply to. Hope this helps. In the time I've taken to type all this out, I'm sure some more posts have been rung up that I haven't seen. I'm a pretty busy guy in real life, so I may not respond right away.

My main reason for creating this thread was to let people throw some rocks at me and let some steam off, but also I hoped to learn something from some of the responses as well.

Thanks for listening 'tempers.

 

[Gengar]

"They're taking up server space!" is one of the stupidest arguments I've ever heard in my entire life and can only be posted by a person that has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever how a forum works and how much "space" letters are using.

Just unban this guy, what's the fucking big deal anyway?

 

[rockstar99]

I think the mods/admins here have been extremely ridiculous as of late, especially with their little power trips since pokemon has been released. I thought this site was all about sharing information and helping people? I admit closing billions of pokemon threads is quite the way to go, but sitting there not only deleting post and locking threads, replacing their comments with silly pictures is just beyond power tripping. Mods on this site are seeming to take away peoples freedom of speech and opinion. To ban someone over something as silly as "identity crisis" is beyond stupid, especially when this person is helping people. Are you mods helping people? Or just satisfying your need for your version of control? You know, if you ban this guy, and keep him from helping, more and more pokemon threads will continue to pop up. This guy had the solution. And uh "buying the damn game" isn't a solution for a lot of people, so get off that band wagon. If you don't like the fact that people acquire the game through other methods then that is YOUR business, and should not be used as an excuse to treat people the way that you do. If you choose to lessen the validity of my post due to my post count, that is a serious problem and I suggest you evaluate your life and look and see if you're really that pathetic.

^ THIS.


THIIIIIIS.

You do know that all these pokemon threads waste server space, and are REALLY annoying to the regular members here.

THIS
ALL U NOOBS ARE ANNOYING!!!

shut up. You'll never become a mod, dream as you may.

Haha, dont even want to beacuse I would have to deal with all you suckers.

 

[Subtle Demise]

Can someone else at least take over that little project? If someone like that dude could figure it out, it wouldn't take much to finish the work.

 

[ambitous21]

By the way, my two cents on the whole mods abusing power thing-

Having been a moderator on multiple sites and a World of Warcraft GM, I can say this:
Power DOES corrupt your ability to make rational, fair decisions. I'm not saying it makes you totally egoistical and idiotic, but it doesn't make you do things that you previously wouldn't do, or you just do things without putting in as much thought as you would before.

Now, again, the amount of change depends on the person, but it affects everyone who gets a higher power in a community involving people/players. Anyone who denies that is either lying or doesn't realize it themselves.


I'm not accusing anyone or saying that all admins/GMs/Mods/Ops are bad, its a fact.

The one thing that I, and most others, would ask of them is this-
When you choose to do something, please give the members a good explanation for why you do it. This keeps things understandable and reduces room for miscommunication and possible spite.

A simple but strong explanation for why you lock something/ban someone with CLEAR strong justifiable reasons is GOOD.


ALSO realize this, and again this is coming from my experience: Understand that you are NOT a God and that you're word IS NOT the law, and you CAN MAKE MISTAKES. If members of the community (and keep in mind that as a MOD/OP, you're ultimate job is to serve the people). If you make an error in locking something or banning someone, you can always go back and unlock/unban that person.
Fluidity is better than rigidness.


Thats all, and I hope you actually read this and take into consideration what I said.
Thank you so much. ~Brofaux

Another good post that deserves a quoting.

 

[Mr.Mysterio]

I dont see the problem at all. He was breaking the rules and the mods had to ban him. It's not like there wont be another patch. Infact, he just opened a thread on a ROM site about this. Says the updates wont be as fast but he promised to deliver it in the near future. A simple google search would be enough to find the thread.

 

[purplesludge]

Look at the join date of most of the staff haters. lol
Break the rules and get banned its very simple. Evade ban get banned. Don't like it go to another site and then see the mods. The site has some pretty cool/lenient mods compared to other forums.

 

[Law]

but without the hug because that'd be gay

QUOTE(Gengar @ Mar 21 2010, 03:58 PM)
"They're taking up server space!" is one of the stupidest arguments I've ever heard in my entire life and can only be posted by a person that has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever how a forum works and how much "space" letters are using.

Just unban this guy, what's the fucking big deal anyway?

Rules are rules, all members must abide by them.

 

[Jakob95]

LOCK THIS JUNK THREAD WITH FUCKING NOOBS

Lol your one of them right?

Sorry for not defending you.

 

[rockstar99]

LOCK THIS JUNK THREAD WITH FUCKING NOOBS

Lol your one of them right?

Sorry for not defending you.

Idk about you, atleast your better than the other 156 people posting shit

 

[EriitoOokami]

well they are not very good at catching ban evaders...let me tell u...

 

[Domination]

All actions, moderation and administration of GBAtemp are decided by the staff only and are not open to debate.

I'm no mod, but here's what I think: If you can't accept our rules, you shouldn't really make an account and join in. As much as I welcome friendly discussion, I'm tired of seeing all this flooding and hostility. I swear, in my 2 years here, and all the major releases I've seen, this is the definite worst.

I do wish to inquire, how many of you actually intend to stay after you get the patch? There will be a number, but a small number. You don't care about our site, you care about the patch. Our mods are just doing what they are supposed to do for our forum, is there really a need to bash them? So what would come out of this argument? Nothing.

A patch will come when it comes, there are plenty of releases at hand that you can play. Take for example, Infinite Space. You can play it. I'm sure it doesn't lose out to HG/SS as a RPG. You could play G/S/C if you haven't already. I mean, why restrict your choices to this one game and get heated up all the time, when you can have fun? I'm sure there are tons of PC games too.

Why can't we just be peaceful and wait for the patch?

Rules are rules. In the real world, you go to jail once you break the law. An internet forum should be no difference.

 

[Influ]

Please don't flame the mods for doing their job. No one is above the rules however much good he's doing for the community.

Also, this guy is still working on the patch and is posting the updates on another site. I'm sure someone will eventually post the updates (there's none atm) here.

 

[Jakob95]

Anyways this thread should be closed.

+1 to post count

 

[Eruonen]

mthrnite is actually one of two mods I truly like. I don't dislike any of them, though. I am completely indifferent towards all but mthrnite and the other being shaunj66

 

[Slyakin]

You wouldn't actually ban God, would you?

 

[dice]

All actions, moderation and administration of GBAtemp are decided by the staff only and are not open to debate.

I'm no mod, but here's what I think: If you can't accept our rules, you shouldn't really make an account and join in. As much as I welcome friendly discussion, I'm tired of seeing all this flooding and hostility. I swear, in my 2 years here, and all the major releases I've seen, this is the definite worst.

I do wish to inquire, how many of you actually intend to stay after you get the patch? There will be a number, but a small number. You don't care about our site, you care about the patch. Our mods are just doing what they are supposed to do for our forum, is there really a need to bash them? So what would come out of this argument? Nothing.

A patch will come when it comes, there are plenty of releases at hand that you can play. Take for example, Infinite Space. You can play it. I'm sure it doesn't lose out to HG/SS as a RPG. You could play G/S/C if you haven't already. I mean, why restrict your choices to this one game and get heated up all the time, when you can have fun? I'm sure there are tons of PC games too.

Why can't we just be peaceful and wait for the patch?

Rules are rules. In the real world, you go to jail once you break the law. An internet forum should be no difference.

I was like, totally just about to say this

(EDIT: and after the 4th ban, asking for co-operation isn't an option.)

 

[Wyden]

the guy moved to another forum, can't say which one on here though but it rymes with congratulation!

 

[MasterM]

Forum rules:
"If you have an issue with a member or moderation decision contact the member in question or a staff member via PM. DO NOT air your grievances publicly in the original topic or otherwise."

To all those tree-hugging-pokemon-loving-raging-fanatics - honestly, anyone who disagree with forum rules should be banned. And to those "omg onoz ban every1 and no one will be left" - nobody will miss u. Go away.

 

[rockstar99]

All actions, moderation and administration of GBAtemp are decided by the staff only and are not open to debate.

I'm no mod, but here's what I think: If you can't accept our rules, you shouldn't really make an account and join in. As much as I welcome friendly discussion, I'm tired of seeing all this flooding and hostility. I swear, in my 2 years here, and all the major releases I've seen, this is the definite worst.

I do wish to inquire, how many of you actually intend to stay after you get the patch? There will be a number, but a small number. You don't care about our site, you care about the patch. Our mods are just doing what they are supposed to do for our forum, is there really a need to bash them? So what would come out of this argument? Nothing.

A patch will come when it comes, there are plenty of releases at hand that you can play. Take for example, Infinite Space. You can play it. I'm sure it doesn't lose out to HG/SS as a RPG. You could play G/S/C if you haven't already. I mean, why restrict your choices to this one game and get heated up all the time, when you can have fun? I'm sure there are tons of PC games too.

Why can't we just be peaceful and wait for the patch?

Rules are rules. In the real world, you go to jail once you break the law. An internet forum should be no difference.

Dommy those are some amazing words you got there

Dommy for Mod!