Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
First of all, Tribesman was not banned. He left the forum of his own volition.
Honest mistake, but thanks for riding my ***, obviously you think this is late 2008 and the EB tavern is going to make your internet life hell all over again before you even read what I say.

If the Backroom suffers poor discourse, then it is up to the members to improve it. Above, you consider us too restrictive but the rules are in place to encourage respect and higher standards of discussion. There are plenty of places on the internet where people can abuse one another and swear. This has never been one of them.

The biggest challenge facing this site is that fewer and fewer new members are signing up. I respectfully suggest that may have something to with the fact that the Totalwar games are not as compelling as they used to be.

We have a decent community in the off-topic fora, but I am fairly sure that it would disintegrate even faster should we loosen the rules. I really don't see what is so difficult about treating other people with respect and dignity.
1. Not asking for people to be able to swear. Did I say I wanted that? No, so good job making your self to be a fool who can't figure out where someone is coming from before posting. I am asking for more discussion and threads, and fresh blood bringing in new topics. The discourse is poor from the same people posting on the same issues. I already gave an example in a previous post, I'm talking about the discourse in that one of the backroom threads is "What is better then sex?", that's a terrible discourse we have if that is one of the most popular threads right now. China is showing off a new stealth bomber, where is the thread about it's implications?

2. Again you did not read anything of what I have been saying. Way to go. Good job mod. The whole point of what I have said was that there needs to be more people and the crappy total war games recently is what is causing the lack of membership. You repeating my entire point as if you just came up with it shows you do not even want to communicate on the same level as me.

3. Not asking for people not to treat each other with respect and dignity. As I said in my very first post "I don't know what the answer is but I feel like this forum is going to have a problem this next year if new people are not coming in." How is that, "hey guys I want to turn this place into 4chan."?

Long story short, you are a terrible mod if you are coming into a discussion with a preconceived notion of what someone is saying without even reading it properly.