Mod Bias!
I'd like to report one of the mods for living upside down and refusing to return my emails. I've had enough of this site. This is the last time you'll hear from me. The next complaint will come from my lawyer.
(Sorry, but the mods haven't been friendly lately, and by rule, it's our job to draw your heads out so we can play whack-a-mod)
Conserative Morality
02-10-2008, 23:42
Would this go as spam? or is this a serious "I'm leaving" thread? Or am I not reading the words in teh white correctly?
Forensatha
02-10-2008, 23:48
Personally, I find the mods to definitely be guilty of bias. After all, favoring the rules and sensible interpretations of them while trying not to give in to urges to randomly kill people who annoy you is still a bias, even if it is a good one.
There. Mod bias.
Frisbeeteria
03-10-2008, 00:04
I'd like to report one of the mods for living upside down and refusing to return my emails.
Given how little personal information I've given out over the years, how the hell did you figure out that I live upside down? That's a closely guarded secret. Given that the only NSers I've met in person were Erastide and TJHairball, both mods who know that OPSEC is the key to airpower, I can't imagine how you made this discovery.
... ahhh, that's right. Gasponia was traveling with Erastide, and of course has an eidetic memory. He must have noticed the giveaway facial flushes and passed the information around the secret back-channel InvisionFree sites I'm not supposed to know about.
Curse you, Gaspo! Curse you!
Katganistan
03-10-2008, 00:13
*repeatedly deletes and resurrects Jocabia*
Sarkhaan
03-10-2008, 00:16
*repeatedly deletes and resurrects Jocabia*
Would that count as cheating for the mod olympics?
Svalbardania
03-10-2008, 00:30
*repeatedly deletes and resurrects Jocabia*
Sounds fun. Theraputic.
Would that count as cheating for the mod olympics?
The other mods are bigger cheaters. As such, I encourage and endorse leveling the playing field through such tactics.
Also, one of the mods compared me to her children. I'm frickin' 34 years old. Isn't there an age where that particular means of talking down to me is no longer appropriate? I mean, just because I hold my breath when people don't pay enough attention to me doesn't justify talking down to me. Especially by people who litterly live below me.
Would this go as spam? or is this a serious "I'm leaving" thread? Or am I not reading the words in teh white correctly?
Of course I'm leaving. My nation is an inoffensive centrist democracy and I can't have that associated with my name any longer in good conscious. Worse, I'm a superpower. A superpower and inoffensive. I'm so embarrassed.
Or possibly I'm just tired of petty bickering and a little bored.
....
Third Grade. NCLB except that one time at the museum. Sorry, Umberto.
Katganistan
03-10-2008, 00:43
Would that count as cheating for the mod olympics?
DAMN! Caught me....
Ardchoille
03-10-2008, 00:49
I don't litterly live below anyone. In fact, I live above most. My contribution to the litter quotient is so high, it's majestic -- rivalled only by Kat's gum-wrappers and Tsar's applecores.
And I never compare players to my children. I tell everyone to go play in traffic.
Kat, that link in your sig seriously broke my computer. I had to reboot. Red card.
Also, I lobbed a softball to you Ard and you whiffed. Red card.
Anyone else feeling froggy?
SalusaSecondus
03-10-2008, 01:04
Especially by people who litterly live below me.
Ah, but you're forgetting that since we live upside-down in the first place, our living below you means that you are still beneath us (and because of the floor, beneath our notice)!
Katganistan
03-10-2008, 01:08
It's two separate links, so nyah. Whatever you do, do NOT click the second one.
Damn you and your logic.
SalusaSecondus - yellow card for the comment and red card for making me try to spell your name three different times.
It's two separate links, so nyah. Whatever you do, do NOT click the second one.
That was the one that broke my computer. Don't worry about the red card. If you don't get in trouble for seven days, it goes away.
Katganistan
03-10-2008, 01:37
That was the one that broke my computer. Don't worry about the red card. If you don't get in trouble for seven days, it goes away.
Wow...your computer must be lightweight if it couldn't handle fearsome mod--
But I'd better say no more. Can't be responsible for others being harmed by our inherent glory.
Forensatha
03-10-2008, 01:41
So it's true that to look upon the face of a mod will cause you to be struck by blindness and live the rest of your days without sight?
Hammurab
03-10-2008, 02:23
I am appalled by this entire thread.
For the mods to even entertain this kind of absurd frivolity in so austere and dignified an arena as the moderation forum is an insult to everyone on this board.
This is a place for serious, sombre, sober, restrained discussion, not for people to indulge their own penchant for "humor".
I expected better from Jocabia to have instigated this sort of thing, and I am gravely disappointed in Katganistan for her participation in this unseemly conduct.
I renew my calls for her removal as a moderator, and remind you of that time she kicked a police horse in the nuts.
So it's true that to look upon the face of a mod will cause you to be struck by blindness and live the rest of your days without sight?
I've heards it more like opening the Ark. You'll have absolute power for the 3 or 4 seconds before you're face melts.
Forensatha
03-10-2008, 03:19
I've heards it more like opening the Ark. You'll have absolute power for the 3 or 4 seconds before you're face melts.
But what would I do with the remaining 2-3 seconds after destroying the universe?
But what would I do with the remaining 2-3 seconds after destroying the universe?
Blink a couple of times until your face melts.
Given how little personal information I've given out over the years, how the hell did you figure out that I live upside down? That's a closely guarded secret. Given that the only NSers I've met in person were Erastide and TJHairball, both mods who know that OPSEC is the key to airpower, I can't imagine how you made this discovery.
... ahhh, that's right. Gasponia was traveling with Erastide, and of course has an eidetic memory. He must have noticed the giveaway facial flushes and passed the information around the secret back-channel InvisionFree sites I'm not supposed to know about.
Curse you, Gaspo! Curse you!
You fail at OPSEC. You should have denied it. Instead you confirmed it for the rest of us.
Ardchoille
03-10-2008, 05:21
i am appalled by this entire thread.
For the mods to even entertain this kind of absurd frivolity in so austere and dignified an arena as the moderation forum is an insult to everyone on this board.
This is a place for serious, sombre, sober, restrained discussion, not for people to indulge their own penchant for "humor".
I expected better from jocabia to have instigated this sort of thing, and i am gravely disappointed in katganistan for her participation in this unseemly conduct.
I renew my calls for her removal as a moderator, and remind you of that time she kicked a police horse in the nuts.
poster bias!
Hammurab
03-10-2008, 06:13
poster bias!
Ardchoille, when I get some dirt on you, I will make it very public, and your carefully cultivated image will drop to the floor like the bathrobe from a porn star right before principal photography on the classic 1980's cinematic series "Taboo: American Style".
How come I never get invited to moderation spam offs :mad:
Jocabia: Threaten to hold your breath until you die. I find it always works.
Ardchoille, when I get some dirt on you, I will make it very public, and your carefully cultivated image will drop to the floor like the bathrobe from a porn star right before principal photography on the classic 1980's cinematic series "Taboo: American Style".
She's a ranga who likes platypus style sex with wombats?
DAMN! Caught me....
I thought that one was done away with due to the self-service...
Ardchoille, when I get some dirt on you, I will make it very pubic, and your carefully cultivated image will drop to the floor like the bathrobe from a porn star right before principal photography on the classic 1980's cinematic series "Taboo: American Style".
Fixed.
Ardchoille
03-10-2008, 14:31
Well, now, *insert name here*, I'm not goin' to reply to that post the way you want me to. I'm goin' to talk directly to that great NationStates community out there of whom I'm so proud to be a maverick member of which. Just sayin', this is somethin' we talk about around our kitchen table, and I don't need to be a fancypants Harvard law professor to talk directly to that great NationStates community out there of whom ...
Deus Malum
03-10-2008, 14:35
I'd like to report one of the mods for living upside down and refusing to return my emails. I've had enough of this site. This is the last time you'll hear from me. The next complaint will come from my lawyer.
(Sorry, but the mods haven't been friendly lately, and by rule, it's our job to draw your heads out so we can play whack-a-mod)
See, now this is why you need to cut back on your drinking.
Well, now, *insert name here*, I'm not goin' to reply to that post the way you want me to. I'm goin' to talk directly to that great NationStates community out there of whom I'm so proud to be a maverick member of which. Just sayin', this is somethin' we talk about around our kitchen table, and I don't need to be a fancypants Harvard law professor to talk directly to that great NationStates community out there of whom ...
You betcha.
Deus: Or increase it. This is what happens when I'm bone sober. I'm bizarro Ruffy.
Deus Malum
03-10-2008, 19:33
You betcha.
Deus: Or increase it. This is what happens when I'm bone sober. I'm bizarro Ruffy.
I didn't think it was possible for you to be sober. I said cut back. Not stop.
Grave_n_idle
03-10-2008, 21:16
I didn't think it was possible for you to be sober. I said cut back. Not stop.
Oh dear. Jocabia is knurd again.
Oh dear. Jocabia is knurd again.
WOOT Terry Pratchet!
Axis Nova
04-10-2008, 20:17
Feel-good thread of the week
Heikoku 2
04-10-2008, 20:32
And now...
Number one...
Red card:
http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/ff6/characters.php?character=Setzer
Red card!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_card#Red_card
Red card...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedCard_(video_game)
Red card.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Card
And now...
Number one...
Blue chip!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_chip_(stock_market)
Katganistan
05-10-2008, 16:53
I thought that one was done away with due to the self-service...
You assume people read the stickies. And when you assume.....
You assume people read the stickies. And when you assume.....
Kat, that's another infraction. That was clear flamebaiting. That your statement is logical is no excuse.
Take a day off and come back when you're willing to lay logic to the side and be appropriately biased.
I'm going to call mod bias against me. Whenever I spam in the mod forum I'm never allowed to get it to three pages.
Belschaft
05-10-2008, 19:16
And what about the general bias against spamers the mods have? I mean what have we done to them?
Forensatha
05-10-2008, 19:40
And what about the general bias against spamers the mods have? I mean what have we done to them?
The 11th Commandment, which was hidden from mankind for it being confusing.
"And, lo, the spammer shall be put to the stake and burned, for they are the children of Satan."
You know what I love about the occasional fun mod thread. They always end with someone complaining about mod bias. Every single time.
It's not mod bias that they'll allow an occasional fun thread, but won't allow you to spam threads that are meant for actual resolutions. It's practical and they're pretty clear about what's okay and what's not.
Similarly, the occasional thread in NSG that is about Ruffy's favorite color sock gets through for a bit, because it's fun. When 8 threads come up about each poster's favorite color thread, they crack down. It's not complicated.
You assume people read the stickies. And when you assume.....
You get free pie? =D
Ardchoille
05-10-2008, 23:45
I'm going to call mod bias against me. Whenever I spam in the mod forum I'm never allowed to get it to three pages.
And what about the general bias against spamers the mods have? I mean what have we done to them?
It's nothing personal, comrades. It's just the inevitable victory of the socialist imperative. Bourgeois such as yourselves have been caught in the flailing death throes of the collapsing capitalist war machine, and will become nothing more than a footnote of history. You are paying the price of la trahison des clercs.
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Did I mention bourgeois? Bourgeois!
Belschaft
05-10-2008, 23:57
It's nothing personal, comrades. It's just the inevitable victory of the socialist imperative. Bourgeois such as yourselves have been caught in the flailing death throes of the collapsing capitalist war machine, and will become nothing more than a footnote of history. You are paying the price of la trahison des clercs.
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Did I mention bourgeois? Bourgeois!
Bah. You should all prepare for the arival of super capatlism. All hail the mega corporations, and their eventual triumph over such concepts of charity and 'sharing'.
http://www.octavian.biz/files/imce/dollarman.jpg
It's nothing personal, comrades. It's just the inevitable victory of the socialist imperative. Bourgeois such as yourselves have been caught in the flailing death throes of the collapsing capitalist war machine, and will become nothing more than a footnote of history. You are paying the price of la trahison des clercs.
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Did I mention bourgeois? Bourgeois!
Archy is Andaras...it all makes sense now.
Katganistan
06-10-2008, 02:18
...it all makes sense now.
It does? Then we're not trying hard enough!
Wibble wibble wibble wok!
It does? Then we're not trying hard enough!
Wibble wibble wibble wok!
You're working on the wrong person. Recall, I'm a member of the SSA. The SSA makes less sense than Andaras and LG combined.
Vojvodina-Nihon
06-10-2008, 04:20
I must protest moderation's recent disdain for bolded red text. Since when are they allowed to issue warnings in regular text? That is completely unfair to users used to recognizing official warnings solely by the fact that they are in bolded red text.
In addition, I must complain that some users have taken to using bolded red text in their signatures or, yet worse, in posts! Now that moderators can no longer be recognized solely by their avatars or custom titles, use of bolded red text in posts by ordinary posters leads me to imagine I am being issued an official warning, and causes increased heart rate and hyperventilation. And what's worse is that mods are completely oblivious to this! If I get an asthma attack due to some idiot using bolded red text in their post, I will not hesitate to sue the moderators and do my utmost to get them taken off Max Barry's payroll altogether!
*previews post*
*runs for inhaler*
Good point.
violet gets a red card, too. The mods are on a roll.
Katganistan
06-10-2008, 04:40
The mods are on a roll.
Sushi? or dinner?
Sushi? or dinner?
You are trouble.
Not to mention, don't you have two red cards already. Are you posting around a mod ban?
Knights of Liberty
06-10-2008, 04:55
Im confused on epic proportions.
Ardchoille
06-10-2008, 04:58
Good point.
violet gets a red card, too. The mods are on a roll.
If a person unnamed (note generality) were giving away all his cards to us (note subjunctive), would that suggest that he is not playing with the full deck? (note question-mark)
*the above ponderously-written post believes it has been flameunised. Idiot.*
Also, Vojvodina-Nihon is a sooky sooky sook!
Im confused on epic proportions.
That easily?
You are trouble.
Not to mention, don't you have two red cards already. Are you posting around a mod ban?
Archy is trouble. RED CARD for her.
Tmutarakhan
06-10-2008, 19:33
And what about the general bias against spamers the mods have? I mean what have we done to them?
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health?
Belschaft
06-10-2008, 20:04
*issues red card to thread*
http://www.eteamz.com/concordsoccerrefs/images/BaldrefwithRedCard.jpg
I'm just waiting for all the other mods to show up and see what Kat and Archy have been up to in their absence.
I V Stalin
06-10-2008, 20:07
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health?
Brought peace?
Wait... :p
Deus Malum
06-10-2008, 21:04
*issues red card to thread*
http://www.eteamz.com/concordsoccerrefs/images/BaldrefwithRedCard.jpg
I'm just waiting for all the other mods to show up and see what Kat and Archy have been up to in their absence.
I'm pretty sure most of the other mods are just jealous they didn't jump in sooner.
Katganistan
06-10-2008, 22:51
Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health?
Brought peace?
Wait... :p
Oh, peace? Shut up.
Belschaft
06-10-2008, 23:02
Oh, peace? Shut up.
Don't you bellieve in the positive effects of spam on the socio-political nature of global world peace?
Heikoku 2
06-10-2008, 23:32
Don't you bellieve in the positive effects of spam on the socio-political nature of global world peace?
I believe in the positive effects of spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam on the socio-political spam nature of global world peace spam.
I believe in the positive effects of spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam on the socio-political spam nature of global world peace spam.
Postcount+1
Ardchoille
06-10-2008, 23:54
*sound of camel's back breaking*
Well, it's been fun. Gotta go now. Catchya later.