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    Default Banstick is ready.

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

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

    Quote 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.

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    Quote 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.
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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    Soly's just likes the banstick.

    Look at him go!
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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    Go excoriate yourself!

    Whoops, I mean...

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    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:

    Quote 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?

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    Feh, solipsism is a dumb philosophy anyway.
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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    Quote 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?

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    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.

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    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.
    Last edited by Proletariat; 10-07-2005 at 22:33.

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

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

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    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.
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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    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.
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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
    1) Abuse of this period of grace will be noted.
    Abuse by all parties?

    Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
    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.
    Do the mods think BI or Spartan will cause any immediate rush to the backroom?

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    I understand why the thread was closed, but not why the 'banstick' was ready.
    That reason would probably be personal insults directed at another poster by me .
    Though I toned down what I really would have liked to write , it is still against the forum rules to insult people that way .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
    I understand why the thread was closed, but not why the 'banstick' was ready.
    That reason would probably be personal insults directed at another poster by me .
    Though I toned down what I really would have liked to write , it is still against the forum rules to insult people that way .
    Honestly, don't worry about it man. Feel free to PM me with any insults, any time. I'll curse off back, but it'd be out of our system.s

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    Where you posted this, Tribesman?

    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
    Don't even think to tell me about things that you know bugger all about
    Or this?

    Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
    Forum rules prevent me from making a more colourful attack on your ignorance .
    Or even this?

    Which is why it is strange that Bush links it to the war on Al-Qaida .
    Sufism is widely condemned by the Wahabbis so why would they be linked ?
    The Chechens declared the creation of a Secular state , so where is the fundamentalist empire ?
    It makes as much sense as members of the ex-governmnet in Spain still insisting that ETA is linked to Al-Qaida .
    Therefore ...what a muppet...and thats without even going into his lines about Pakistan in that speech .
    If any of these qualify as personal insults, than I guess we should all just stop posting in the backroom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proletariat
    Where you posted this, Tribesman?



    Or this?



    Or even this?



    If any of these qualify as personal insults, than I guess we should all just stop posting in the backroom.
    I think it was more or less in the context of which he used your first two quotes. They're not too bad though, but kinda pissess me off (as just about everything pissess me off, I steam with anger when someone walks into me).

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    The US is marching backward to the values of Michael Stivic.

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    Or even this?
    No that last one is an insult to Bush , as far as I know he is not on these forums therefore is OK to insult , hence the title of that topic
    "what a muppet"

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    Well, yeah. That's my point. Nothing you wrote there is within the realm of offensive.

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    Quote 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!

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    I guess the issue is being discussed behind the curtains since there are only 2 short Mod reactions in this 22-post Watchtower backroom thread. Wait and see.. Hmm..

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    Quote Originally Posted by meatwad
    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!
    And I'm the Kaiser
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    Hahah, enough spam now, going back to the topic at hand.

    I hope somthing is done about this. At least Soly can't ban me for posting in the Watchtower, that's Tosa's turf. So I should be safe for now... lets hope we get some positive news soon.

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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    I went and read the thread in question,
    IMHO Ive seen worse in the back room, And ive seen them stay open with out people getting banned.

    Personaly I think some 1 has gone crazy with power..

    Not a uncommon trait. "expesialy on forums"
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    Default Re: Banstick is ready.

    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.
    This to me is totally unacceptable actions or should I say comments by a mod. To threaten or make a person feel threatened for making comments that you dont agree with is over the top. Seems Solys trip to Japan didnt improve his opinion of conservatism.
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    A pinch of salt gentleman.
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    i have a solution... close the backroom.
    now i'm here, and history is vindicated.

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    Banstick must be a deodorant of some sort

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    Much Ado about Nothing

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    Isn't it cute how his name is mispelled?

    Solipsist means he thinks that he only exists and the rest of us don't. Get it?

    Here's what the sophists thought about when they invented solipsism:

    1. Nothing exists
    2. Even if something exists, nothing can be known about it, and
    3. Even if something could be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others
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    I think he was exaggerating for effect.

    Let's face it all you guys have done it at some time not sure about the girls though

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