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I am nobody's man but my own, and maybe Cucumbas, but only on the second Tuesdays on the Month.

Which means today I am reluctantly Cucumba's man... I'll get the poppers :(.
 
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LMAO Smith. I agree on the need for relaxed rules at the moment. It appears that were going to start using the infraction system which means this:

* Minor warnings will expire in roughly 10 days.
* Major warnings will have a longer expiry, and in extreme cases it will give more infraction points.
* 5 infraction points bans you for a short period, compared to three unrelated warnings in the past.
* 10 points is probably going to be a 2 week.
* 15 points will be the month and or yearly ban category.

We're fleshing out the details, but it essentially means you can get in trouble more often and not get banned for it (minor stuff, mind you). Major problems will still get you the insta-hammer. Like purposely trying to crash the forum.

Thoughts on this people? We're forming this particular policy right now, so your input would be invaluable.
 
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I still maintain that the "Respect Rule" is something taken out of an Orwellian novel.
 
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No, I'm pretty sure I wasn't around when that was made.

And Prozac: Cup.
 
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I would like to Say sorry to damaera For the way i acted on the chat box early this evening i rash rude and out of line Sorry dam maybe we can make a new start.
It's fine. Like I said, any kind of hostility or disappointment is completely understandable.

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As for the infraction system, it's different.. yet nice. While common sense can be used to assume the following, it's always nice to know the specifics; what would warrant a minor warning and a major warning? Will you be able to us tell this, or will we know once the AUP is updated?
 
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You'll have what constitutes minor and majore shortly, that still needs to debated. That said, most infraction fall in the 1 point category. Posting porn is in the 5 point group, and things of that level.

@Avenger

Respect rule will be changed to:

No trolling
No flaming

You know, Be excellent to eachother, bill and ted style. I'd hate to have to use a Christian meem when most of you plain old don't believe in religion.

Which catches what we wanted removed in the respect rule anyway.

As a final point, not being a deuche to one another is pretty much the cornerstone of civilization. Respect rule outlines that because **** internet toughguys. You internet people (this includes me) respect no one. That doesn't have a place in social settings, pretty much period. So were going to change respect back to flaming, and hope people understand what it means. Being an ******* will get you warned, no matter how witty you were.

@ Hawk, you will be. Unless you had infractions very recently, which amounts to very few of you.
 
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It's rule #1 guys, "Don't be a dick."
 
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I feel like someones gonna jokingly be a dick and get warned for it and sudden ~user uprising~
 
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I feel like someones gonna jokingly be a dick and get warned for it and sudden ~user uprising~
Administration Protip: Any action, editing a post, banning a person, warning a person, telling a person to calm down, ~user uprising~.

Sometimes its just two people. Sometimes its four or so. Sometimes its the whole forum. People want the right to be a bag of dicks whenever they want, that right has never existed.
 
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With a last name Dickens, I'd say being a bag of dicks is a thing of tradition with my family.
 
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Out of curiosity, is there complete transparency over how many infraction points you have? With expiration on a timed basis and different points incurred for different level infractions, it might be hard to track (though if you're the kind of person who needs to keep track of that stuff you're a baddie).

On another note, glad to see everything sorted while I was away for a week :)
 
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Respect rule outlines that because **** internet toughguys. You internet people (this includes me) respect no one. That doesn't have a place in social settings, pretty much period. So were going to change respect back to flaming, and hope people understand what it means. Being an ******* will get you warned, no matter how witty you were.
**** yeah, we needed this more about 3 years ago but glad to see it highlighted. Now if only only the rest of the internet could behave.

For all those who thought it was tl;dr the summary is: Chakra-X gets to run ****
 
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Three years ago your signature image would've been removed. You don't know how lucky you have it. I had to work around a 200kb limit with my Doom 3 gifs and such. Pain in the ass.

Ah nostalgia...





 
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To be fair Smith, I've seen team members have much more suggestive signatures than that.
 

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