Bananas and Nuts

the only person who can save this forum now is the one and only…judge floro.

The thing I don’t like at a bunch of other sites is how they split games up into multiple subforums. I prefer one general gaming forum. OO, GT, and some others are both the former.

Not for all the tea in China.

Troy

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So who do you think he should have left in charge? Just curious.

This is a truly disturbing turn of events. Within just a few days the trash ratio has changed dramatically. So this is a public plea to Tom (or anyone with such power) to give moderating powers to someone else. I’ve always appreciated the fact that this forum was closer to real life interaction than most; there seemed like a lot less hiding behind anonymity and just general tactless behavior. Yes, a handful of people are always present to mess it up (and it’s not the same people, which makes it even harder). I love the living room analogy.

But Tom’s living room has gotten pretty big, and the bigger the party, the harder it is for a single host to control it all. Just go all Joe Mayo with it, and start assigning people to guard the fish tank and such. PLEASE. I get so much information and insight from this forum; I don’t want it to go away (literally or figuratively).

If the doors could be locked and the influx of ruffians dealt with, that would be a good start.

We need another Chick of course… Jack Chick.

(that’s right, motorized guillotines.)

I could think of about a half-dozen forumgoers off the top of my head who care enough about this place not to let it go to the shitter.

If he doesn’t want to put into the work because he’s tired, then close the doors for good and let the community exist in its current state; don’t fling open the floodgates and ruin what so many enjoy.

If QT3 does go down the tubes it won’t be because of a legion of marketing spambots and malware pushers, it’ll be because Tom left us vulnerable to them in the first place.

Bill Dungsroman, BobJustBob, Lizard_King and zengonzo.

That would be awesome. But where’d you get zengonzo? I nominate Bahimiron instead.

I didn’t realize it would get so bad so quickly if I just opened the registration. Sorry about that. I’ve closed the offending accounts and I’ve stopped new accounts from automatically shunting into general population. I’ll try to figure out some other way to do it.

My intention is not and never has been to punish anyone or abandon the site. I’m just not interested in trying to wrangle people to match my expectations. I’m confident this site can mostly manage itself.

And thanks for all the kinds words.

 -Tom

I still vote for Jack Chick…

Thank you, Tom.

I think I agree with the previous posters who suggested that there are probably a good number of folks here who’d be willing and able to share the moderation load. I don’t know if you’re interested in that, though.

You’ve built a great community here, and I’m sorry that it’s turned out to cause you stress.

Tomas también se dio cuenta de que había comprado recientemente algunas nuevas máquinas de afeitar. Tomó una y considera las ranuras en el mango como se veía en el espejo y suspiró. El aliento desempeñado un repunte en todo el labio superior de una manera que era agradable. Sin embargo, sólo le recordaba a la antigua rompevientos que una vez que creció allí tan vibrantes, como rosal. ¡Era tan magnífico! ¿Fue llorando?

Takings also account occurred of which it had recently bought some new machines to shave. It took one and it considers the grooves in the handle as it were seen in the mirror and it sighed. The carried out breath to rise in all the upper lip of a way that was pleasant. Nevertheless, it only remembered to the old windbreaker him that eleven o’clock it grew there so vibrant, as roses. He was so magnificent! It was crying?

Well, I for one have enjoyed the decency meter on this site. Very little NSFW posts or in bad taste, and they’re roped in pretty quickly. You would think that people would “get that” and not propogate an inside joke that was tasteless to begin with. It only transitioned to meme status because so many people kept piling it on, and then for those people who weren’t even aware of the meme to keep it going to be thought of as part of the inside joke, well the joke is now on you.

I for one appreciate your expectations Tom and you’ve been very pointed in your posts when you find things not to your liking, as they match a large portion of the population on QT3.

It reminds me when my first kid was young and he slammed the kitchen door. I yelled and said “DON’T SLAM THE KITCHEN DOOR”, and then the next day, he was slamming the bathroom door and I said DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU SPECIFICALLY NOT TO SLAM EVERY SINGLE DOOR IN THIS HOUSE OR ARE YOU GOING TO GET IT THAT YOU DONT SLAM ANY DOOR?

This analogy will probably blow over the very same heads as your responses to indecency in the past.

Get with the program people.

In this post, Tmanpdx demonstrates how treating people like children, even when they are children, and might deserve to be treated as such, just doesn’t work.

I predicted this on my blog:

http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=1747648&postcount=208

Thanks, Tom! I’m not sure how I’ll discover the cool Casino sites now, but I’ll manage!

And Ryan, I don’t think Tom (or anyone else) meant to be paternalistic, if that’s what you are suggesting. He wasn’t trying to punish us by showing what life could be like around here. Sounds like an honest mistake in not realizing how quickly a site can be taken over with zero vetting.