At least that's the way it used to be in 4life when more mods had access to ip addresses.

As much as I hate war, i really am starting to feel that killing all terrorists and their sympathizers is the best overall solution for society as a whole. I just don't see a better option. When people are willing to commit suicide and behead innocent people how do you reach them? How do you change them?

I'm posting this in the unchained forum (while it's still here) because I realize i'm espousing an extreme and possibly racist point of view when I throw my hands up and just say kill them, but it's how i'm feeling. There's something beyond horrifying to me about beheading, even though others have pointed out it's really no worse than an innocent child being accidentally blown up by an errant missile.





uh oh. just realized that i went off on a low content tangent in one of the more serious politics unchained threads.

I trust the president on this one. if he thinks non-obvious gimmicks are okay, that's enough for me.

The problem is that it's fairly reasonable to suppose that an attempt to kill all the terrorists ends up killing a lot of otherwise innocent people and creating new terrorists

why do you want to continue to derail this thread? are you saying that the survivors of mass bombings might create new gimmick accounts? i don't think that's a problem, nor does the CIA last I heard.

Some men just want to watch the forum burn

Spank, you're the only person here. The rest of us are bots.

Serious question: What's the rule on gimmicks currently? Both obvious and non obvious acceptable?

"It depends." There are no firm rules, but here are some guidelines:

If you keep the gimmick to forums like Unchained or BBV4L or some other places that are less focused on having "serious" discussion with "quality" threads, you can basically do whatever you want.

Silly gimmicks, like Carlos Danger, Terry "Hulk" Hogan or Chimpstare need to be cautious in venturing out of those areas, but it can be done if it's done very, very selectively, but you risk a ban. If you do it a lot, that gimmick will likely get banned. And don't even mess with Killa, but that's a general rule which you've recently learned.

When it comes to "non obvious" gimmicks where you're behaving like a person, whether you're simply looking for a clean slate or trying to create an army of faux personnas to agree with each other, falsely convincing people that more people agree with your dumbass nonsense than actually do, AKA sock puppets, such as myself and Peter Porker or Low Key/Anais/Gizmo/Spaceman Bryce, it's pretty much allowed anywhere, but mods who have the power to check IPs (most greens don't) might out you if they don't like you. If it's Wookie that doesn't like you, he almost certainly will, so you personally probably can't do this. Pretty hypocritical of him, but it is what it is.

P.S. - Any time someone says something like "ZOMG, those guys never agree, wow, it must mean they're right if they're agreeing", that's a sure sign you're dealing with some trolls/gimmicks.

Thanks for the rundown. DudeImTempBanned might make an appearance the next time I look at a mod the wrong way.

I don't really keep track of this stuff. What are some gimmicks that have been outed by Wookie because he doesn't like the poster?

Oh, that's one actual rule I missed. Posting on a gimmick while your "main" is temp banned is a good way to get a perm ban.

Wack. Now I'm gonna get framed during my next temp.

FWIW, the guy who posted the anti Fly thread in PUC while I was doing time was NOT me, despite the claims of respondents. IP that shiz if it's doubted.

Peter Porker for one. He regularly gives clues as to who an account is or is not. Usually it's for people who have been previously banned, but not always. He seldom outright says it, but the clues he gives are often all that's needed.

Gimmicks where people keep posting in the exact same style as they were before aren't that hard to spot.

Alex, you think I'm a sockpuppet?

A shocking suggestion, I know. I expect I'm the first person on 2+2 to ever suggest it!

Turtlely Unrealz!

It's just funny because I've met so many 2p2ers. And so had lk.

Also it's somewhat unclear when Alex just finished whining about how other people use gimmicks to create a false sense of consensus to also whine about how people figured out his PP gimmick... What is the actual point of all this? IIRC, the only people who consistently use sockpuppets are MD and AlexM.

To suggest it seriously, yes.

Maybe me and gizmo are really mat sklansky gimmicks

I'm sorry, I'm not programmed to respond to that statement.

Maybe so. Hell if I know.

Who is Peter Porker?

Spiderman?