4341

When I say plonk, I mean it!

P.S. My ignore list is HUGE.

4342

See? This is why having regulars around is fun. Tim and I can go at it and nobody has to get banned or be accused of picking on someone and shit.

4343

Did you know that in some parts of the country (okay, just my cousin’s backyard), that’s also called plonking?

The legal age for melons in Louisiana, where he lives, is 13.

4344

Hey, PLONK you, stusser. PLONK back?

4345

My two cents:

I think the incidents of moderation have increased as the member list has increased because it’s more difficult now to know where people’s tolerance level is.

Not trying to bring up “the good ol’ days,” (if they were that), but I do agree that Qt3 was a kinder, more polite place 6-7 years ago. Does that mean there weren’t flamewars, or that people didn’t get into it? Of course not. But assholes were assholes, and they were equal-opportunity assholes, and with just a few exceptions, battles didn’t drag out for weeks through multiple threads because people just couldn’t let shit go.

I’ve said dumb stuff here, and I’ve been called an idiot for it. But that same person who just called me an idiot for something I said in P&R (there’s a reason I don’t go there anymore) can have a totally reasonable conversation about Dragon Age with me over in the games thread, and I can recount to him a story of what fixed my computer when it was displaying the same symptoms as his were over in hardware.

But the battles were easier to fight, because the community was small enough that we knew what to expect. We knew who could take it and who couldn’t, and what’s more, we knew who was just…like that. It made moderation less necessary, because mostly we kinda kept ourselves and each other in check.

But as the community grows, Tom has to do his best to keep things civil. Sometimes he’s going to be inconsistent, some days he’s just gonna wake up grouchy, and some days he’s gonna make the wrong call. This is still his house, he can do what he wants.

I’ve thrown parties, I’ve had fights break out, and I’ve asked people to leave and discovered later, when I had all the facts, that maybe the OTHER person should’ve been the one I sent home. Shit happens. You don’t like it, don’t come to my parties.

This is Tom’s party, and you guys are free to get pissed off if you want – he is far more tolerant than a lot of people would be – but at the end of the day, he’s the only one who decides who goes, and who stays.

I just hope he doesn’t decide to stop throwing parties.

EDIT: Yes, this was more topical 2 or 3 pages ago, but I wasn’t here to say it then. Basically, I respect all of your opinions, but stop being assholes to Tom, because I like partyin’ here.

4346

If you cut a hole in the shell of the melon and then upend a good bottle of whiskey into it, you can pretty much do whatever you want to the cantaloupe.

OR SO I’M TOLD.

4347

Pileons are those towers that hold high voltage cables.

4348

No, Pileons are one of the evolutionary forms of Eevee. I think it requires a Rage Stone.

4349

My two cents:

Nobody these days would dare start a poll thread asking whether or not your or anyone else’s marriage would last, Murph.

4350

And what a shame that is. :-p

4351

I think Bill’s point is that threads like the one he mentions are a pretty good counterargument to the “Qt3 used to be more polite” fallacy.

4352

I thought i had to construct additional pileons?

4353

Oh I get his point, entirely. But I still stand by everything I said. Sure, sometimes people were assholes, but it was a a whole different kind of asshole in a community where…well, I knew what to expect from Jeff, just as he knew what to expect from me.

“Polite” might not have been the best word one could’ve used to describe the back-in-the-day Qt3, but there was a very different feel to the community, and even when people were being all-out dicks to each other, the overall tone was one of respect.

I still love this place, but I don’t feel like that’s as true as it used to be.

4354

It’s like a former community where someone let in a whole bunch of assholes and they won’t leave and now the whole place has gone to hell.

4355

Classy.

Of course no one would dare. Tom laid the law down on that one pretty hard, didn’t he?

Kind of like he’s laying down the law on people who go around picking fights across threads.

4356

More arseholery and less of the spiteful, cross post, thread coppery and moral police dogpiling [edit] while crying how you aren’t sure how much of a spiteful thread/morality cop you get to be before Tom bans you [/edit] would be nice.

And yes, I know that means I love child abusers.

4357

I’d like to point out how different this thread has become in the past few months. As the morality brigade has had its numbers thinned, it’s almost as if with every new ban more and more people have been free to express their support of the farewell tickets to the self-appointed thread cops. Almost as if they’re not afraid they’re going to be dogpiled and slandered in other threads they post in now.

4358

I’d like to know who is part of this morality brigade and what exactly they stand for, as I think I would like to subscribe to their newsletter.

4359

Can you maybe whine a LITTLE more about the “morality brigade”?

I mean, yeah, we know you got your poor widdle feewings hurt by some mean kids on the forum, but man the fuck up already.

4360

That was his point, genius. Bill was countering Murph’s point; QT3 was not actually a kinder or gentler a couple years ago.

It’s almost as if you try to fit reality into your idiotic narrative. There were a couple people that supported Tom’s handling of Munky at the time, and there are a couple people that support it now. Not many have vocalized support (then or now), but it has consistently happened.

Remember what I told you about earning respect? You’re doing it wrong.