Banstick is ready.

**Proletariat** · 10-07-2005, 22:01

I'm posting this here, because I don't understand this closed message.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=55142

Originally Posted by solypsist

closed and banstick is ready.

I understand why the thread was closed, but not why the 'banstick' was ready.

If there was something ban-worthy in that thread, I'd like to know so I can readjust my posting style. There was another backroom mod participating in that thread who didn't seem to have his 'banstick' ready, to boot.

I'm confused.

**Goofball** · 10-07-2005, 22:05

Originally Posted by Proletariat

I'm posting this here, because I don't understand this closed message.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=55142

I understand why the thread was closed, but not why the 'banstick' was ready.

If there was something ban-worthy in that thread, I'd like to know so I can readjust my posting style. There was another backroom mod participating in that thread who didn't seem to have his 'banstick' ready, to boot.

I'm confused.

Ban her!

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 10-07-2005, 22:06

Soly's just likes the banstick.

Look at him go!

**Proletariat** · 10-07-2005, 22:16

Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

Soly's just likes the banstick.

Look at him go!

So... He's just being hilarious or cute? Or do we get banned now in the backroom for going back and forth in a thread where our heretofore mainstay mod was participating as well?

**Proletariat** · 10-07-2005, 22:07

Go excoriate yourself!

Whoops, I mean...

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 10-07-2005, 22:07

I was wondering the same thing - it seemed a little hasty to drag out the "banstick", especially in light of the leniency granted to several members.

Also, a quote from the Colombus day thread:

Originally Posted by solypsist

on any other board, you'd deserve to be banned for such over-the-top falseties. really.

This was in regards to comments Kaiser made about affirmative action in America. I would not characterise Kaiser's comments as "over-the-top falseties" and I doubt I'm alone in that.

Does the newest Backroom mod have an itchy trigger finger?

**Simetrical** · 10-07-2005, 22:09

Feh, solipsism is a dumb philosophy anyway.

**Kaiser of Arabia** · 10-07-2005, 22:18

Dispite some of the other problems I've had with Mods in the past (Hosa, Ser Clegane, etc) I could respect them, a little bit at least. Soly's just being a Incompatible language.

If he wants to ban me, DO IT. Don't make threats, especially indirect ones like "You deserved to be banned from other forums blah blah freakin blah." Well, guess what, this isn't another forum, this is Totalwar.org, the best online community I have ever had the pleasure of posting at.

All the mods are biased, but at least they don't let it get in the way of their moderation too much. Soly, on the other hand, seems to be unable too, and I doubt he was the best choice to moderate the backroom.

My two cents, take them as you will.

**Proletariat** · 10-07-2005, 22:29

Well, I doubt I'll have much more to add to this, but I don't understand becoming a mod and then revamping the way renegade threads are dealt with.

I wondered what soly meant when upon his arrival as a mod to the backroom when he said, 'expect things to happen.'

Usually when I've seen mods change in the backroom, you could expect a certain consistency amongst them. The place didn't change drastically from when A Saturnus left and Ser Clegane took over, and when Pape and Kukri make their appearances.

Unless for some reason soly was chosen specifically to shake up things or rattle a few cages, I just feel, if it isn't broke, don't fix it.

Respectfully, just my two cents.

**Templar Knight** · 10-07-2005, 22:32

Soly bringing the iron fist of imperial rule to the backroom?

**Papewaio** · 10-07-2005, 23:12

We have to close problem threads at the moment as the warning point system is yet to be activated.

2 things to note:

1) Abuse of this period of grace will be noted.
2) The warning system is going to get stiffer. This is a tie in with the junior membership account being reactivated and restricted posting. We are getting ready for a Barbarian Invasion crossed with a rush of console gamers.

**Geoffrey S** · 10-07-2005, 23:15

I'm presuming the people to whom the 'banstick' referred would be notified by PM, but the closing message of the topic is somewhat unclear.

**Reverend Joe** · 10-08-2005, 00:42

Originally Posted by Templar Knight

Soly bringing the iron fist of imperial rule to the backroom?

When I first heard of this Solypyst, I thought he was a sort of ressurected deity- but perhaps he is a Czar returned from exile. I fear posting in the backroom now- lest the cossacks of Solypyst run me down!