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the grand edict: rules of Off-Topic (read before posting)

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DaddyCoolVipper
Seeing no politics allowed in OT feels kind of bad, but these rules should be a welcome change to the subforum. Hopefully people don't get too stupid trying to bend them or whatever
-Makishima S-
I tried... not even a single word from Eph of what i could have done better :(

kms
Fhaye
This is gonna be good.
Tae
Good to see that we're finally reaching some sort of solution. At least more people are willing to listen to someone of authority than to a regular person.

I guess time will tell how it's received by both sides... maybe we'll see something good from this?

Maybe it'll just be abused at some point.
Edgar_Figaro
I think these rules seem like a fair compromise.
Mahogany
mrw eph exiles some of the best ot users but doesn't touch any of the worst ones
http://i.imgur.com/D2YiogV.png
Naimae
So is there no redemption once you've been exiled?

I didn't read, lol
Ashton
well, at least I'm not alone. B- I would say baka but it would make it worse lol
roshan117

Mahogany wrote:

mrw eph exiles some of the best ot users but doesn't touch any of the worst ones
http://i.imgur.com/D2YiogV.png
He prob did it because it would make other ppl happy to get rhe users rhey dont like exiled

That would be most logical
Tae

roshan117 wrote:

He prob did it because it would make other ppl happy to get rhe users rhey dont like exiled

That would be most logical
If you wanna talk about logic maybe the fact the three of you are exiled is because it's you three who post the most shit threads. Ever thought about that?

It has nothing to do with personal opinions.
Endaris

Ephemeral wrote:

  1. 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.
You can't regulate the free market like this.
Ashton

Tae wrote:

roshan117 wrote:

He prob did it because it would make other ppl happy to get rhe users rhey dont like exiled

That would be most logical
If you wanna talk about logic maybe the fact the three of you are exiled is because it's you three who post the most shit threads. Ever thought about that?

It has nothing to do with personal opinions.

There's a way to properly shitpost and improperly shitpost. You can't call any of the threads in OT not a 'shitpost'.


Unfortunately, us three shitposted improperly. Many, many, times.


:c_baka:
B1rd
Topics about religion, politics, abortion et cetera have always been an OT thing. GD is for shitty "post your x" threads and similar. The "post one thread a day" rule is also completely unnecessary, people posting more than one thread a day was never harmful in the first place.
Tae

Canadian Baka wrote:

There's a way to properly shitpost and improperly shitpost. You can't call any of the threads in OT not a 'shitpost'.
I didn't mention the word shitpost even once.
Ashton

Tae wrote:

Canadian Baka wrote:

There's a way to properly shitpost and improperly shitpost. You can't call any of the threads in OT not a 'shitpost'.
I didn't mention the word shitpost even once.
I thought you did but you said shit thread.

Same thing?
roshan117

Tae wrote:

roshan117 wrote:

He prob did it because it would make other ppl happy to get rhe users rhey dont like exiled

That would be most logical
If you wanna talk about logic maybe the fact the three of you are exiled is because it's you three who post the most shit threads. Ever thought about that?

It has nothing to do with personal opinions.
i never said i didnt make those threads

i was giving reasoning as to why he didnt exile the other people who have done the same stuff as me, cb, and luqanted
Yuudachi-kun
Roshan exiled finally
roshan117

Yuudachi-kun wrote:

Roshan exiled finally
Ikr daddy about time
Mahogany

B1rd wrote:

Topics about religion, politics, abortion et cetera have always been an OT thing. GD is for shitty "post your x" threads and similar. The "post one thread a day" rule is also completely unnecessary, people posting more than one thread a day was never harmful in the first place.
I'm agreeing with b1rd

it is the OT end times
kai99

Mahogany wrote:

B1rd wrote:

Topics about religion, politics, abortion et cetera have always been an OT thing. GD is for shitty "post your x" threads and similar. The "post one thread a day" rule is also completely unnecessary, people posting more than one thread a day was never harmful in the first place.
I'm agreeing with b1rd

it is the OT end times
even with these rules we'll save it
abraker
I imagine Eph will stop caring in a month. At least as far as keeping track of user statuses. It's cumbersome to do so.
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Ephemeral
all of the GMT that care about off-topic will maintain it, not just me

so maybe like 2-3 people
abraker

Ephemeral wrote:

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 am not sure if this is good or bad. Probably bad. What if your 2nd thread is actually good? Kill it? Thay is akin to unranking a ranked map.

Ephemeral wrote:

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.
But you are still allowed to post them in non forum games OT, right? The OT Bingo's home is on OT, not forum games. It's been like that for two seasons and I'd like it to remain that way. Forum games subforum is a very different place, one I don't think the OT Bingo fits into.

Ephemeral wrote:

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.
But I can still post in OT and have a serious discussion as a joke, right?
Ashton
I guess it depends how obvoius the joke is abraker. And how serious of the subject you're discussing as a joke.


Also, lower 24 hour posting to maybe 6 hours. 24 seem pretty harsh... I mean, for those unexiled...
DaddyCoolVipper
if you have a good thread idea after posting a not-so-good one, just wait until tomorrow. How is that so hard, abraker?

lowering it to 6 hours seems stupid as well. why do you feel the need to make so many threads? if you're spamming the forums, they're obviously not that well thought out or high quality, are they
Meah

Time to be creative!
abraker

DaddyCoolVipper wrote:

if you have a good thread idea after posting a not-so-good one, just wait until tomorrow. How is that so hard, abraker?
It wasn't a good argument against it. I know this rule isn't that bad, but something inside me feels uneasy about it.
Ashton

daddycoolvipper wrote:

lowering it to 6 hours seems stupid as well. why do you feel the need to make so many threads? if you're spamming the forums, they're obviously not that well thought out or high quality, are they
Because this is a social community, and in a social community it's not fun to only bring up new topics every 24 hours. Also, if you post a new thread every 6 hours it's not "spamming". That's literally 2 threads per-day. Well, if you don't sleep :)
Endaris
It is pretty fun for me when I don't have to worry about all the threads I read today showing up on page 4 tomorrow.
It is much easier to keep track off, good OPs don't get flooded away in the blink of an eye.
That being said I wouldn't mind if the same person creates more than 1 quality thread within 24h but that happens like twice per year so it's ok.
Last but not least your opinion is of no significance at all because you're exiled. You have proven to be unwilling to adhere to any kind of ruleset so why are you even trying to discuss it?
B1rd
Scrolling down is not a real inconvenience to anyone, and being "exiled" is a completely arbitrary thing and has no bearing on the value on one's opinions.

These "rules" should be repealed immediately.
Meah
Proposal

Rather than 1 thread per day, can you change it into 1 thread per 18 hours interval?
Users can only post a new thread after 18 hours from their last one.
Luqanted
fuck this shit im out
ColdTooth

Luqanted wrote:

fuck this shit im out
Cyclohexane

Ephemeral wrote:

all of the GMT that care about off-topic will maintain it, not just me

so maybe like 2-3 people

could always be more :roll:
DJ Enetro
Ye, especially in FG
Zekks
OT!Club thread deleted smae
DJ Enetro
Well you were exiled so, not too much of a surprise
DaddyCoolVipper
I think OT has gotten a lot better because of the rule change.

People would spam shitloads of threads every day, and most of them were not even worth clicking on at all. Now there's less threads, and the ones that do exist are a lot less shit. No lock sprees needed either.
B1rd
There are less shit threads because there are less threads. You don't have to go through the inconvenience of scrolling through some threads at the cost of everyone else not being able to post what they like.
DaddyCoolVipper
Once every 24 hours

You're so dramatic about this it's unbearable
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