Roop Dirump wrote:

Secret Barborito wrote:

Consider something, Roop - every rule on this site is an extension of one principle:

DO NOT BREAK THE LAW AND DO NOT MAKE THE ADMINS WORK MORE THAN THEY HAVE TO.

Considering the only way to get banned is by making us have to work needlessly or legally jeapordizing the site, why is it wrong for me to be relieved when someone who makes me work for no good reason is gone for good?

Nor is all or even most of GA banned. People at GA who broke our rules are, but the 25% or so of people there that get off on following me around the Internet actively ruining anything I touch are not the majority of that channel - i still talk daily quite a bit to many of the people from the channel on IM. I do realize that irksome minority makes me a liability to Caltrops, and that's why I'm going to be trying to minimize my own role around here ala ES.

All of this has been said before, but there it is one more time just for you, Roop. Are you satisfied now?

--SB

I've never read a forum where there is so much paranoia about the internet cops, so much paranoia about being liable. Here's a thread on Gone Gold where every other post somebody talks about software they've warezed. O NO! Call the Internet Cops, hit DELETE DELETE DELETE Quick the shade wearing suits are going to bust through the apartment doors and throw me to the floor! What did they do? He called a few posters idiots, deleted the granny porn tag, then locked the topic so people stop posting, let it sink. BUT IT'S STILL ON THEIR SERVERS O NO! It's like the moderator shrugs and closes the topic and forgets it. No heart attacks, no drama. It's like, "big fucking deal." I know of forums where people actively talk about warez and trade software, they haven't gone anywhere, they've been up for years. Before you'll ever be a target of the internet police, there are far bigger fish. There are no internet cops, and they wouldn't give a fuck about this site if there were. All this work people are making for you? It's You.

That Fussbett, making all that work for you by providing the best content. What a headache.

The GA people trying to destroy Caltrops? Nobody was trying to destroy anything, they were just pushing your buttons. Successfully.

For every person you ban, make a goal to try and attract one new person to this forum to replace them, it would make your finger less itchy. It's easier to kill something than it is to build something, all I'm saying. Just think through what you're doing.

If OMM had had your rules, you never would have met Veronica. You would have been BANNED.

Roop