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  1. aluminiumtrioxid
    Sorry, but... what?
  2. aluminiumtrioxid
    But that's kind of my point: if you intervene in time, there is no need for people to get the hammer to begin with. Spending some time and effort on prevention generally tends to pay off down the line, I'd be surprised if the principle didn't apply to forum discussions. Well, if that's what it takes to make the goddamn trains run on time... (Which Mussolini didn't.)
  3. aluminiumtrioxid
    There's a subtle difference between "not tolerated" and "disincentivized". "Not tolerated" makes it sound like I want to ban people for the things I believe the rules should discourage. It's like... calling the other guy a liar in a debate is sure as hell not going to help the discussion proceed in a constructive manner (it's actually pretty much granted to blow up at that point), but "interpreting others' posts in bad faith and using needlessly inflammatory language are not tolerated" makes it sound like you'd throw someone out basically for getting frustrated. "Active moderation is bad moderation" is a stupid meme. In my experience, the more active the moderation, the better the signal-to-noise ratio of a forum. Now, you can argue that signal-to-noise ratio isn't the most important metric by which to measure the quality of a forum, but... the validity of that statement really varies on a case-by-case basis.
  4. aluminiumtrioxid
    That's ass-backwards logic. "The right of a person to ruin a discussion is more valuable than the desire of others to see the discussion un-ruined" is putting the cart before the horse. "Should not be tolerated" is approaching the problem from the wrong angle. I don't want less discussion, I want better discussion. Rules that facilitate a constructive exchange of ideas. Mods who step in before problems become problems. Research says that the overwhelming majority of toxic behavior is coming from people who are otherwise perfectly civil - this suggests that you could probably get great results simply by reminding them to conduct themselves with decorum when things start to turn nasty, before their brain kicks into full-on poo-flinging mode.
  5. aluminiumtrioxid
    Feudalism sure is fun if you get to be the king. For literally everyone else, on the other hand...
  6. aluminiumtrioxid
    If I understood him clearly, it went something like this: - fourth wall-breaking observations in the game are, by themselves, not bad - however, fourth wall-breaking observations in the character selection dialogue can get really repetitive, therefore they should be judged more harshly since the player will hear them much more frequently than, say, they will read the halberd's item description - moreover, the goblin's dialogue is specifically bad as an on selection dialogue because it does not react to the player input itself (ie. the act of selecting the character, or instructing them to do something), so it's doubly immersion-breaking: first for mucking with narrative flow by breaking the fourth wall (which is a tradeoff: it can get a chuckle out of the player, but at the cost of yanking them out of the game, and repetition definitely does have diminishing returns here), and secondly for creating a dissonance between player action and the game's reaction Would this be a fair assessment of the point you were making, HP?
  7. aluminiumtrioxid
    Your constant hostile misrepresentation of the points brought up wasn't half as annoying if you weren't at the same time admitting that you categorically refuse to even attempt to understand the other side. Except the rules give us little to no basis to report people unless they engage in "racial, ethnic, gender, religious, disablement, and/or sexually discriminating remarks". The definition of what constitutes "harassment" is so vague as to be useless ("Personal attacks that are intended to cause unwanted attention, embarrassment, or harm will not be tolerated" - are there any other kinds of personal attacks?). At the same time, the rules that are clearly phrased ("it is not within the spirit of our forums to allow disrespectful posts about other company's policies, employees, or moderators") are pretty much never enforced as far as I can see.
  8. aluminiumtrioxid
    You know, I thought this might be the first line of defence. "Cuckold" certainly isn't a new term, but it's undeniable that it has seen a sudden surge in popularity among the alt-right over the last year or so. According to Know Your Meme, its recent usage originated either with GamerGate or 4chan (around the same time). After that, it then traced a (rather telling) path through the alt-right, through Red Pill MRA/PUA types, white supremacists, and most recently to Donald Trump supporters. On the other hand, it's a super useful term too, because much like "beta", as soon as I see someone use it unironically, I can rest assured that the person in question is an utter moron.
  9. aluminiumtrioxid
    That's... not really a reference to the "cuck" meme. Seems like regular ol' codexian confirmation bias in action. Honestly, considering how explicitly "SJW-friendly" the source material (ie. the tabletop game) is, with fairly even-handed illustrations and the text explicitly calling out that cishet people aren't considered to be "the default" on the Ninth World, I'd be honestly surprised if the novella indeed turned out to have such leanings.
  10. aluminiumtrioxid
    I... I thought they were both girls?
  11. aluminiumtrioxid
    *wipes away a tear* This has got to be the single most tortured metaphor I've ever seen on this forum. Now, now, no need to get emotional for a coffe break-metaphor. Besides, poetry and art has taught us more about the human condition than any thesis from a university. [citation needed] Genius, beauty, suffering, strength of will are machinations of the human mind, of which cannot be quantified or measured, neither can they be reproduced through the gathering empirical data. But they can be expressed through words, pictures and sounds, all of which who resonate to the human soul. Never underestimate the power of memes. Now you just sound like a Metal Gear Solid villain Does your bloodstream, by any chance, happen to contain any NANOMACHINES?
  12. aluminiumtrioxid
    No, just your opinions on the matter. Your complete failure to understand what I was even talking about says otherwise, but whatever.
  13. aluminiumtrioxid
    That you like your invisible edit privileges but actually moderating forum discussions sounds like too much of a hassle for you to be bothered with?
  14. aluminiumtrioxid
    *wipes away a tear* This has got to be the single most tortured metaphor I've ever seen on this forum. Now, now, no need to get emotional for a coffe break-metaphor. Besides, poetry and art has taught us more about the human condition than any thesis from a university. [citation needed]
  15. aluminiumtrioxid
    Let me see if Ive got this straight: 1) You are a self confessed "part of the problem" and should be thrown out. 2) You are not adult enough to control this action yourself. 3) Therefore the normal operation of this forum should change to however you see fit. 4) smh. You haven't. Try again?
  16. aluminiumtrioxid
    I'm not sure that's the highest purpose of an internet forum and the most worthy pursuit one can engage in on one. %membername%, what is best in forum posting? To flame your enemies, see them driven before you and watch the lamentations of their alts. Chorus: The lamentation of their aaaaaalts!
  17. aluminiumtrioxid
    *wipes away a tear* This has got to be the single most tortured metaphor I've ever seen on this forum. You... do realize this is not any less of a conspiracy theorist nonsense than 90% of what Vals is spouting, right?
  18. aluminiumtrioxid
    I'd wager when "freedom" means "free to lose your job at any time, become homeless, and die of an easily curable illness because you didn't have health insurance", dem chains start to look pretty appealing, if they're attached to free stuff.
  19. aluminiumtrioxid
    I'm not sure that's the highest purpose of an internet forum and the most worthy pursuit one can engage in on one.
  20. aluminiumtrioxid
    I'm not sure "well, it's a terrible place to have a reasonable discussion but hey, it used to be much worse!" is a great counterargument to what I was saying
  21. aluminiumtrioxid
    How would you have phrased it, then?
  22. aluminiumtrioxid
    Are you seriously implying that setting up forum rules that facilitate constructive discussion is a waste of time because people who dislike having debates devolve into pointless screaming matches that accomplish nothing aside from wasting everyone's time can always just not participate? Is that what you'd call the last few pages aluminiumtrioxid? Shoot, this little bit of snark was nothing. You should have been here 10 years ago. We play nice here now compared to then. Political threads turned into verbal bloodsport as often as not. I mostly meant certain topics in the Pillars subforum pre-release, which tended to be dominated by a few extremely loud and even more obnoxious morons who seemed to warp every single discussion about their favorite subjects into pointless flamewars because there was always someone new around taking the bait. Not being able to have a reasonable discussion about politics in a vidya game forum is something I can live with. Not being able to have a meaningful discussion about an upcoming game on the forum of the very studio making said game, on the other hand, seems to run counter to the entire purpose of having the forums in the first place.
  23. aluminiumtrioxid
    Are you seriously implying that setting up forum rules that facilitate constructive discussion is a waste of time because people who dislike having debates devolve into pointless screaming matches that accomplish nothing aside from wasting everyone's time can always just not participate?
  24. aluminiumtrioxid
    Well that was unexpected. I guess you learn something new every day.
  25. aluminiumtrioxid
    Aww. Sore loser detected. Whatever you say, poster boy of illiteracy
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