About the situation on the EB forums as of late

**Krusader** · 08-03-2009, 02:25

On behalf of the EB team.

Lately, the EB forums have deteriorated down to a level the EB team is not happy with. Spam, "in before the lock", insults, derailing threads with off-topic nonsense, with the Romaioktonoi and the silly Romans VS Hellenes one-liners are prime examples. No one, I repeat no-one within the EB team finds that funny at all. The last thing the EB team wants is the forums to devolve into a personal playground for a select few, as this makes newcomers hesitant to post on a forum that will not feel open. We want these forums to be about EB and a place to discuss history. That does not mean we want only educated academic discourse on our fora, far from it: we simply don't want to spend our time cleaning up SPAM, issuing warnings and closely monitoring our public fora, when we could be developing (not to mention bugfixing) EB.

Consider this a warning. If anyone continues with derailing threads, pointless spamming, trolling, posting offtopic Romaioktonoi/anti-Roman/anti-Greek nonsense, insults, trying to lock threads etc. that goes against ORG policy will have their access removed. You won't be able to post here again. No exceptions.

**option** · 08-03-2009, 05:42

*applause*

**Skullheadhq** · 08-03-2009, 10:59

Why is this in the EB1 and EB2 forum?

**Alsatia** · 08-03-2009, 11:27

Because this incident is on all the EB forums.

I also sorry for any spam I have introduced lately.

**Space_Ed** · 08-03-2009, 14:07

Originally Posted by Krusader

Lately, the EB forums have deteriorated down to a level the EB team is not happy with. Spam, "in before the lock", insults, derailing threads with off-topic nonsense, with the Romaioktonoi and the silly Romans VS Hellenes one-liners are prime examples. No one, I repeat no-one within the EB team finds that funny at all. The last thing the EB team wants is the forums to devolve into a personal playground for a select few, as this makes newcomers hesitant to post on a forum that will not feel open. We want these forums to be about EB and a place to discuss history. That does not mean we want only educated academic discourse on our fora, far from it: we simply don't want to spend our time cleaning up SPAM, issuing warnings and closely monitoring our public fora, when we could be developing (not to mention bugfixing) EB.

Consider this a warning. If anyone continues with derailing threads, pointless spamming, trolling, posting offtopic Romaioktonoi/anti-Roman/anti-Greek nonsense, insults, trying to lock threads etc. that goes against ORG policy will have their access removed. You won't be able to post here again. No exceptions.

Fair enough. Yes I think people are getting a bit defensive and rude with each other.

**Phalanx300** · 08-03-2009, 16:08

Fair enough I gues, though human nature prooves we go crazy if we can't talk offtopic once in a while.

But more interesting, possible bug fixing?

**a completely inoffensive name** · 08-04-2009, 03:47

Thank you Krusader, it's time we clean this place up. I am getting sick of people's interesting predictions on EB2 get overrun by such nonsense.

**machinor** · 08-04-2009, 09:58

Thank you very much.

**paramedicguyer** · 08-04-2009, 16:59

Fair enough, I'll stop asking repetetive questions. Tho, I've never been rude (besides my extremely offensive signaure), and I havent experienced a whole lot of rudeness in the EB forums, just very tort answers to questions that have been asked a billion and one times. I think people are just on edge trying to wait for EB while dealing with the aftermath of ETW, because, honestly if you want bad behavior go there and see wats being said there.

I'll be a good boy.

Thanks and good luck

**Megas Methuselah** · 08-05-2009, 00:13

Thank God. I hope those "roman-haters" finally get the sense to stay on topic.

**Celtic_Punk** · 08-18-2009, 12:29

don't try to play innocent, meth... at least a quarter of your post count is spam. You've got only 4 months longer on the .org than me and almost 3 times as many posts.

**Julius Augustus** · 08-18-2009, 16:06

I would agree that cutting down on thins like in before the lock posts is good, but don't you think you are taking this too far? What you are saying seems to indicate that a completely innocent comment would get you banned. Say somebody was viewing an aar where the Romans were wiped out and said, "Yay! The Romans are dead!" According to your policy, that could get you in trouble. That kind of overrestrictive moderating seems kind of ridiculous. I know that your overall goal is good, I'm just asking that you don't take this policy to an extreme. Just my two cents.

**Ludens** · 08-18-2009, 18:25

In case it's unclear, we are referring to repeated spamming and/or attacks. Just posting "in before the lock" nonsense once will get you a warning, nothing more.