Man, did I have a terribad avatar back then.

And it's amazing how many folks offered to be a mod. Myself included.

I'm pretty sure I was too.

based on the ban history basically no one on this forum would be able to post consistently if the mods used earlier rules of decorum as precedence

god that meb post is pure gold.

That April '06 to ~ September '07 period was a fun time in SE where it seemed every poster in the forum knew who every other poster was. It was during that time period that it was voted most popular and best ran forum on 2+2 in an incredibly unscientific poll. The SE of today has shifted to be way more of a just general off-topic forum with the discussion in general being based around sports. It has been as the more of the OOT/BBV4L mentality has slowly seeped into the forum that the moderation has slowly evolved over time.

Once you hit this level of traffic, there really is no winning anymore as a mod. You will either have one group think you are too lenient and complain about trolls gone wild, or you'll have another group think you are too harsh and complain about mod abuse. The thread where Clark was added as a mod shows a lot of this mentality starting. I think a lot of this dates back to when iron-fisted law was introduced in OOT. Before that regime came in the few mods on 2+2 were all in general low-visibility laid back and never really the topic of discussion. It was when personalities like [censored], diebitter, and NT! were made mods that the mods became this huge part of the discussion of the forum and way higher visibility.

I wish we could go back to the old ways, but those ways were fit to a smaller and in general more respectful community.

I probably need to implement the NCAAF thread idea huh?

edit: Epic

We should do this for Lakers fans.

even if joa was a troll at some point i find it hard to believe he was more of a troll than tuq or clark

lol i have 0 memory of making or posting in this thread. i was reading it just now and it's like reading someone else's posts.

wut

i mean, a lot of your posts are funny but they could def be interpreted as trolling

lol @ u

i imagine this is not unlike half your other posts in this forum

yeah i just used the 'not unlike' construction in an insult, big whoop, want to fight about it?

wat

Custom titles were a lot easier to give with the old software right?

yeah any mod could hand them out

now you have to get an admin to do it

but the best part was that mods couldn't change their own title (with good reason, as evidenced by just about every mod who has given himself a title since the software change)

So in 4ish years I may be ok at the Internet/not universally hated here? Only 48 months to go...

its really up to you

Start posting 40 times a day and they may even let you run this place with tu.q

He's already on pace for more than 7000 posts/year, easy now.

I don't really understand how I piss people off, and no one will give me any ideas in the bad se posters thread. A little nudge in the right direction would be nice.

I'm sure this is sarcastic, but I think I'm over 40 ppd since I found se, and I think my volume is probably part of the problem.

Sorry if this looks like attention whoring or whatever, but it's pretty apparent you guys don't like me, and the quality of the discussion here >>> any other forum, so I'd like to try to stick around, but won't if I'm the village idiot. Don't want to be THAT guy (which it appears I am at this point).

dschmieds should be coming back when everyone starts NBAing, plus we've always got Greear, so you're no worse than the third village idiot. For a 17 year old USC fan, you're probably running at about expectation

uscpf, you post like you are 18. Thats pretty much it.

So yeah, its up to you mostly.


FWIW I think a lot of us have just been pilling on and having some fun picking on you.

18*, important distinction as I can now discuss cigars with some knowledge, important during baseball playoff time of course.