DaddyCoolVipper wrote:

That idea makes no sense

B1rd wrote:

I really don't care what rights you would give away, some men just like to lick the boot of authority. What I'm more concerned about it the posting rights of myself and everyone else.

B1rd wrote:

Ephemeral wrote:

you've always been at the whim of my decisions as to what is silly and serious, nothing is new in that regard

I know, mods like you have always come into OT randomly and caused problems at arbitrary whims. Do you actually think you're helping anything, or are you just doing it for the fun of it?

Canadian Baka wrote:

In beatmapping you can have 4 maps uploaded at a time, if your a supporter you can have 5, and for each ranked map you aquire the number rises. (I think it stops like 8).

I guess he means he wants to have "slots" for how many threads we can upload.

Canadian Baka wrote:

In beatmapping you can have 4 maps uploaded at a time, if your a supporter you can have 5, and for each ranked map you aquire the number rises. (I think it stops like 8).

Endaris wrote:

Canadian Baka wrote:

In beatmapping you can have 4 maps uploaded at a time, if your a supporter you can have 5, and for each ranked map you aquire the number rises. (I think it stops like 8).

These numbers are wrong in its entirety.

Canadian Baka wrote:

Endaris wrote:

Canadian Baka wrote:

In beatmapping you can have 4 maps uploaded at a time, if your a supporter you can have 5, and for each ranked map you aquire the number rises. (I think it stops like 8).

These numbers are wrong in its entirety.

Well apparently it got changed a year ago, but these numbers were correct at one point in time.

Stefan wrote:

Yeah, this has been changed around a year ago, it works in both ways - having supporter gives you temporary some slots while you can increase it up to 10 (with ranked maps). Ranked maps permantely increases your available slots, up to 10.

Ephemeral wrote:

they're really simple. follow these and you'll have a good time (hopefully): No

1. you may only post ONE thread per 24 hours. we don't care enough about this to track it to the hour but basically if you post multiple threads in a day, they'll be classed as shit threads and promptly disposed of. I feel like this keeps OT dry and lack of memes I know that we have discord, but at least raise the limit to 3 threads per day to stop spam
2. you can comment freely in any thread without limit. comment away. contribute, make stupid memes, do whatever, just do it in threads as comments, not comments as threads. SeemsGood
3. games that involve forums (mafia, last person 2 post, mods vs admins, whatever) go to forum games. they count as your daily thread if you fuck up and post them in OT proper. Also seems good
4. if your thread involves an open-ended question and the discussion thereof (what's your favorite anime waifu etc), it belongs in surveys. see above. Seems good too
5. try to post entertaining and amusing content. OT is pretty much meant for silly discussions, so being a little silly is fine, but if your "silly" becomes indistinguishable from you actually being absolutely fucking stupid, you risk being exiled. This actually seems decent, but the only problem I have with this rule is the entertaining and amusing content part. Yes, it should still at least have interest, but not limiting it to "whatever Ephemeral finds interesting or funny, or else this will get locked."
6. serious discussion topics go to general discussions. topics about religion, politics, abortion, etc et al all go to GD for semi-serious discussion. alternatively, don't have these discussions at all. SeemsGood
7. birthday threads must have no less than 3 anime dancing gifs in the OP. you can get exiled for repeatedly ignoring this. it's important. don't ask why it's important, it just is. Stupid, birthday threads are birthday threads
8. if you repeatedly break the rules of the grand edict, you risk being exiled.

k

what does being exiled mean exactly?

exiled users will have their threads locked and wastelanded immediately as soon as a moderator notices. they're still free to talk in other people's threads, but even that privilege will be revoked if they continue being shit.

if an exiled user decides they want to be funny and spam the fuck out of the forum with threads that they know will get closed, they risk getting silenced pretty heavily. they can still make their one-a-day thread without risk, but even that will be closed as soon as a mod notices.

conversation in threads made by exiled users is a short-time thing, you can do it if you want, but it will never actually remain visible for more than a few hours at most.

after a while of being exiled and chatting relatively nicely in other people's threads, an exiled user might be returned to normal. maybe, but probably not. they got exiled in the first place for being a bastion of shit, so they're unlikely to change. Exiled users shouldn't have to be exiled FOREVER, they should have a 1-3 week sentence of being exiled, if they have good behavior (like you said) they won't be exiled anymore

current exiled users:

Luqanted (https://osu.ppy.sh/u/3645130)
roshan117 (https://osu.ppy.sh/u/8261665)
Canadian Baka (https://osu.ppy.sh/u/7880197)
[ - Zekks - ] (https://osu.ppy.sh/u/8106958)

users in danger of being exiled:

nobody, for now.

DaddyCoolVipper wrote:

Also, don't fuck with the rules when it comes to birthday threads. The dancing anime gifs are vital.

DaddyCoolVipper wrote:

You barely replied to his post there. Terrible modding skills! Also, don't fuck with the rules when it comes to birthday threads. The dancing anime gifs are vital.

abraker wrote:

DaddyCoolVipper wrote:

You barely replied to his post there. Terrible modding skills! Also, don't fuck with the rules when it comes to birthday threads. The dancing anime gifs are vital.

By the way, when did those become a thing?

Blitzfrog wrote:

No one had to say things were made of energy before that was a true.

abraker wrote:

Blitzfrog wrote:

No one had to say things were made of energy before that was a true.

Get you and your lousy kinematics out of here

abraker wrote:

DaddyCoolVipper wrote:

You barely replied to his post there. Terrible modding skills! Also, don't fuck with the rules when it comes to birthday threads. The dancing anime gifs are vital.

By the way, when did those become a thing?

Foxtrot wrote:

jeez, you guys make it sound more grand than what it is.

Blitzfrog wrote:

Did you just say dancing anime gifs are not grand.
Are you brain dead?

Blitzfrog wrote:

Dancing anime gifs are the real trash. How do you even celebrate ones birthday without 3 cute anime girls dancing for you?

Foxtrot wrote:

Blitzfrog wrote:

Dancing anime gifs are the real trash. How do you even celebrate ones birthday without 3 cute anime girls dancing for you?

by drinking

a lot

Blitzfrog wrote:

Get you and your lousy derailing antics out of here

kai99 wrote:

why 2

Ephemeral wrote:

questioning exile strikes gets you exile strikes

[ - Zekks - ] wrote:

kai99 wrote:

why 2

Because it's Ephemeral who decides what's funny or not

Ephemeral wrote:

questioning exile strikes gets you exile strikes

(hint: are the strikes in the OP or not)

abraker wrote:

Ephemeral wrote:

questioning exile strikes gets you exile strikes

(hint: are the strikes in the OP or not)

But can I question the questioning of exile strikes getting you exile strikes and not get an exile strike?

Ephemeral wrote:

questioning exile strikes gets you exile strikes

(hint: are the strikes in the OP or not)

Ephemeral wrote:

they're really simple. follow these and you'll have a good time (hopefully):

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT A SATIRE NOR IS IT BASHING EPHEMERAL IN ANY WAY. IF ANYTHING, THIS IS CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.

1. you may only post ONE thread per 24 hours. we don't care enough about this to track it to the hour but basically if you post multiple threads in a day, they'll be classed as shit threads and promptly disposed of.
   Wasn't too happy about this but tbh it literally changed my life imo, as it enabled me to spend more time on Duolingo and IXL, and to wake up to real life. TBH it gave me more chances to SHUT THE ACTUAL FUCK UP and FUCKING LISTEN TO OTHERS FOR AT LEAST 15 MIN. gonna have to thank him for making this rule and actually pissing me off so I can actually learn some fucking thing... for some reason it seems that I'm forced into W-L situations: one where I'm sad and everyone else is happy, and the other where I'm happy and everyone else isn't. :kms:
   
2. you can comment freely in any thread without limit. comment away. contribute, make stupid memes, do whatever, just do it in threads as comments, not comments as threads.
   this can give way to derails though, like the ones Blitzfrog and Meah do on a common basis For no-common sense people out there, a topic is said to be "derailed" if it goes off topic. This can happen due to uninteresting topics, or hated people. Case in point: take my "how to prevent locks and exiles" and "Let's get serious for once" threads. The first one contains a 4-entry locklist on Ephemeral on off-topic, meant to improve. Reminds me of that guy who told me to leave the hotel when I was checked in and walking around at 11:50P PST, not a cool guy. Yet.
   Anyway, for my other thread, Meah derailed it with bookmark revealing, Granted it was at first a Taiga satire but tbh no one really told me to stop, because of the false assumption of common sense - IM NOT SAYING THAT IT'S BAD, IM SAYING THAT NOT EVERYONE HAS OT AND IF SO, YOU GOTTA TRACH THEM WHAT THAT COMMON SENSE IT TO THE LAST DETAIL. But the comment freely in any thread was a given tbh, just not spamming. (Tfw you realize you need to get a higher level of common sense)
   
3. games that involve forums (mafia, last person 2 post, mods vs admins, whatever) go to forum games. they count as your daily thread if you fuck up and post them in OT proper.fair enough imo, but as johnmedina999 pointed out in his MSPA:OTE thread, some games can't actually go in FG. Some of these can actually be spam bins for those lackeys (sorry for insulting) without common sense
   
4. if your thread involves an open-ended question and the discussion thereof (what's your favorite anime waifu etc), it belongs in surveys. see above.It makes sense why you would say this but you're talking about polls imo, which is good. But abraker' sagacious question threads are VERY EVALUATIVE, sparking a lot of discussion, so can you really put that in surveys?
   
5. try to post entertaining and amusing content. OT is pretty much meant for silly discussions, so being a little silly is fine, but if your "silly" becomes indistinguishable from you actually being absolutely fucking stupid, you risk being exiled.I think this kinda sets the boundary line but it's kinda hazy. You have the right ideas but you need to define what is being stupid. Imo I'd say that it's spamming new topics or posts, - like my Satires sadly - not really a survey but tbh I could've just made one thread but Flan locked the first one. Getting messages is hard, so bear with me.
   
6. serious discussion topics go to general discussions. topics about religion, politics, abortion, etc et al all go to GD for semi-serious discussion. alternatively, don't have these discussions at all.again, trying to set the line here. But as abraker writes,
   

   abraker wrote:

   idk how the fuck to be creative - 85% of the OT population in a nutshell

   But this probably ties back to being creative. Creativity isn't given to anyone - it's developed like any other trait any human has.
   
7. birthday threads must have no less than 3 anime dancing gifs in the OP. you can get exiled for repeatedly ignoring this. it's important. don't ask why it's important, it just is.I mean, I don't honestly mind doing this but I still have no idea why - deal with it, I have a right of free speech - :thonkang:
   Maybe it's to improve spirit? But GIFs, are they - along with the rest of the rules, really that vital to maintaining decent quality? Quality can be achieved with only text and BBcode minus YT and pics and URLs...
   
8. if you repeatedly break the rules of the grand edict, you risk being exiled.

what does being exiled mean exactly?

exiled users will have their threads locked and wastelanded immediately as soon as a moderator notices. they're still free to talk in other people's threads, but even that privilege will be revoked if they continue being shit.meaning restrictions. Got it. At least I tried to wake up by stopping Satires at the least. (TFW you try to let go :kms:) I mean, you don't have to lock, just WL it, unless WL without locks means that people can still access with the URL

if an exiled user decides they want to be funny and spam the fuck out of the forum with threads that they know will get closed, they risk getting silenced pretty heavily. they can still make their one-a-day thread without risk, but even that will be closed as soon as a mod notices.imo it takes patience. You don't force attention to make others like you or your posts, or get on OT!news. But you gotta try and give them a feeling of what quality is - you can't force common sense values. You just can't. But one-a-day threads by exiled users are already closed by default. So

conversation in threads made by exiled users is a short-time thing, you can do it if you want, but it will never actually remain visible for more than a few hours at most. fair enough BC conversation can be made in what, other subforums, or text and voice chat servers like discord.

after a while of being exiled and chatting relatively nicely in other people's threads, an exiled user might be returned to normal. maybe, but probably not. they got exiled in the first place for being a bastion of shit, so they're unlikely to change.I appreciate you're giving second chances but you can't say "unlikely to change" - they don't even know how to shitpost properly, because they have not been TAUGHT how to.

current exiled users:

Luqanted (https://osu.ppy.sh/u/3645130)
roshan117 (https://osu.ppy.sh/u/8261665)
Canadian Baka (https://osu.ppy.sh/u/7880197)
[ - Zekks - ] (https://osu.ppy.sh/u/8106958)
10/10
users in danger of being exiled:

Blitzfrog - one strike please add Yuudachi-Kim's 2 strikes and tell us where Blitz received his.

Few points I wanna say before this post ends:

Allmynamestaken wrote:

If you're asking on how to shitpost then I think you shouldn't be shitposting at all.

Railey2 wrote:

everyone who can't even think this far on their own must have a REALLY simple mind and should therefore not be allowed to post threads as they would be equally simple and uninteresting (aka what we call trash).

Happens... sometimes simple is quality on its own tho. You gotta give people chances, to at least try once a week or so, if not once a day.

Foxtrot wrote:

Please read before you post.

This helps to prevent misunderstandings, along with spelling corrections. (Grammar too lol)
I'm willing to see all of your takes on this. Now that I think of this, I can sort all of OT out into Freestylers and Beautifiers.

kai99 wrote:

same

kai99 wrote:

kai99 wrote:

same

Blitzfrog wrote:

kai99 wrote:

same

Did you just quote yourself you degenerate.

DJ Enetro wrote:

I quote myself every now and then

Blitzfrog wrote:

I'm always a degenerate

abraker wrote:

Blitzfrog wrote:

I'm always a degenerate

I taught him that

kai99 wrote:

request to unexile roshan tbh he hasn't even posted that much and with the one thread a day rule it wont mess forum up

Ephemeral wrote:

if you get five people to mirror the request i'll think about it

on the condition that if roshan gets an exile strike at any point thereafter, all five people who mirrored also get one

johnmedina999 wrote:

I support rosh

kai99 wrote:

request to unexile roshan tbh he hasn't even posted that much and with the one thread a day rule it wont mess forum up

Blitzfrog wrote:

kai99 wrote:

request to unexile roshan tbh he hasn't even posted that much and with the one thread a day rule it wont mess forum up

I'm going down bois

johnmedina999 wrote:

I support rosh

kai99 wrote:

u can go
kthxbye

Blitzfrog wrote:

kai99 wrote:

u can go
kthxbye

Rude.




Roshan don't fail me, one strike from you I'm exiled

Ephemeral wrote:

ok roshan's unexiled, hope u guise know what you're doing

Meah wrote:

who are those 6?

1. roshan117
2. johnmedina999
3. kai99
4. DJ Enetro
5. Blitzfrog
6. Lacrimae

DJ Enetro wrote:

:thonkang:
:unamused:
:Janna: :toki2:
Imo Blitz is more likely to be exiled than I am
Also Tae there's like a million different levels of common sense, I'm like at a lower one than you and taiga ffs *smh*

Tae wrote:

DJ Enetro wrote:

:thonkang:
:unamused:
:Janna: :toki2:
Imo Blitz is more likely to be exiled than I am
Also Tae there's like a million different levels of common sense, I'm like at a lower one than you and taiga ffs *smh*

nice use of emotes for no reason
yeah we all know blitz is gonna get fucking exiled, should've happened since the start
common sense is something you should have unless you're an utter dipshit, so... wanna tell us smth?

roshan117 wrote:

geeeez calm down

Tae wrote:

nice use of emotes for no reason
yeah we all know blitz is gonna get fucking exiled, should've happened since the start
common sense is something you should have unless you're an utter dipshit, so... wanna tell us smth?

coming up with response... done.

Tae wrote:

roshan117 wrote:

geeeez calm down

how about ur lil Discord squad calms the fuck down on the stupidity then

DJ Enetro wrote:

:thonkang:

coming up with response... done.

Ye I misspelled that kanna emote rip
But why do you see me posting emotes for "no reason"? Probably because it's irrelevant
I believe that you have to decide what to believe, tbh I agree with you up to a certain point.
If there was a fire in a pit 500 meters deep none of us would jump in unless we were suicidal.
Also, you won't find me spamming topics to the first page either because I don't want THAT much attention.
But respecting mods is where the similarities stop. Hidden yandere-ity towards lmao

roshan117 wrote:

who is my "discord squad"

Serraionga wrote:

Not this shit again.
Tae, none of the people you listed (besides Blitz and roshan (who seems to have redeemed himself)) have done anything wrong until now. They would've gotten exile strikes otherwise.

I know you don't like what they post and all that, but seriously. Step off.

kai99 wrote:

well 5 people are believing in roshan already aint they
fucking it up would be his choice
but considering memes tbh i really dont care
except blitz lol rip

Tae wrote:

kai99 wrote:

well 5 people are believing in roshan already aint they
fucking it up would be his choice
but considering memes tbh i really dont care
except blitz lol rip

Now... I wonder what relevance those 5 people have
Hm........... 🤔

You're acting like roshan can fucking help posting absolute shit when we all know thats not how he works.

Tae wrote:

I don't like what they post, no, because it's all so half-assed, but that's not the point here. All six of them face an exile strike should roshan fuck this up, which, let's be honest, we all know he's gonna do.

That's what my point is, so don't fucking tell me to step off lmao.

Blitzfrog wrote:

A reminder to Ephemeral that I love him

Let him rule over my ass
<3