Dies to Removal

Everything in my life is significantly less shitty after cutting a bunch of shit out of it and I realized that you guys were part of the things that weren't shitty. Heyyy man, glad you're back :thumbsup...

turns out I found another cool folder in my lapto...

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Sorry, I seem to have expended my post in case of fun emergency folder, its all I have lef...

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Deleting the gutter was also part of the performance improvement program, the site now runs much more smoothly thanks to thi...

that's one of my favorite Curse quote...

Don't invoke his name in vain you Kafi...

Checkbox is a Children of a Lesser go...

god with g minu...

Spam is one of the many forms of Internet Terroris...

Let me tell you something about spammers: Spammers clog internet bandwidth, email inboxes, forums and blog comments. Over 90% of the world's email traffic is spam. Spammers have made email almost useless. Without filtering, spammers make forums and blogs basically useless. Spammers cause actual monetary losses to people. For example when I was working at the university here, the admins told me that during the history of the school they had had to upgrade the school's email server several times solely because of spam. At times the server gets tens of spam emails per second , which effectively constitutes pretty much a DDoS attack (even though it's not a deliberate attack aimed precisely at that server in question). Since email is crucial for the university, they have no other option than to upgrade the server to handle all that incoming junk (or else genuine email may be lost). This costs money. Money that could well be used for something more constructive. Spamming is illegal in many countries. In other words, not only are spammers scum, they are in fact criminal scum. I loathe spammers. Whenever you  call me a spammer, you could just as well be calling me a thief or a rapist. I find it obnoxious and offensive. When you happen to be on a bad mood and pick out one comment of mine out of hundreds similar comments and label it "spam" and give me an infraction for "spamming", you are bunching me with the criminal scum, the bottom-feeders of the internet. I don't care what your forum rules define "spam" as meaning, making an innocent off-topic remark on a MtG card, or correcting someones mistake, is not spam. If you don't know what "spam" means, then go and find out, and fix your definition. Please stop insulting people. Reserve the term for actual spam (which does happen in this website), for the actual criminal scum. Stop calling me a criminal scum for basically any "infraction". And since I'm on that subject, I'm really getting tired of the pretty arbitrary rules for calling people spammers here. For example, I see people making incorrect statements in the rulings sub-forum all the time, and other people correcting those incorrect statements all the time. It makes sense: People make mistakes, and other people correct those mistakes so as to not spread false information. But if a moderator arbitrarily thinks that some correction was "too narrow", he can decide to give an infraction for "spamming". What "too narrow" and "too nitpicky" really means, where the line really is, is anybody's guess. The reasons given for infractions are also sometimes really bizarre. For example, I once corrected an incorrect statement made by someone, and gave a card as a counter-example. A mod decided to call me a spammer for that, and gave me this reasoning: "If you have to pull out a card nobody asked about in order to disagree with someone's answer, chances are you're nitpicking." Apparently if you show a counter-example with an actual card, "chances are you're nitpicking". The logic of this reasoning escapes me. (Even if you argue that the comment was "nitpicking", what does using a card have anything to do with that?) Or how about this: I once was browsing the forums and I thought I was in the "general" subforum and posted this comment to a thread: "I love the flavor. The fire burns you, and unless you put it out with some water, it will burn you again." (I don't remember what the card in question was.) It turns out that I didn't notice that the thread was actually on the rulings forum. Oops. This was an honest mistake. Well, it was a rather innocent and innocuous remark, so no harm done, right? Wrong! I got once again labeled as a spammer for the horrible, horrible crime of posting such a hideously offensive remark in the rulings forum. When I asked the moderator what harm did my comment make that deserved the infraction, I get this gem of a response: "Everybody who read your post was hurt by it. They read your post, expecting an on-topic contribution, only to find that their time and mental energy was wasted by an off-topic post." If I didn't know better, I would have thought that the mod was just busting my chops, making fun of me. No sane person would write that seriously. But apparently we are in bizarro-land here. OP from MTGS C...

you also know a lot about finding people in New York That was actually jonny, who pinpointed rianalnn's location with incredible accuracy (at a cosmic scale)...

Trust me on that one, I know a lot about Terrorism and the Interne...

Yeah the problem with 9/11 was that the planes had just taken off so they were loaded with fuel. It wasn't the impact per se that led to the collapse, but the resulting fire who ended up compromising the structure. Also wow, this was posted in 200...

I've been a member on this site for almost a decade now. I've learned a lot and, hopefully, taught others along the way. I opted to be a mod after the previous mods moved on and because I loved Vintage. I implemented many changes to this part of the forum that you see today, and hope you still enjoy. I was stripped of my moderation privileges after being accused of being inactive. I explained that I have just been busy in the last few months with various things in my life, but still am on the site almost daily. That response feel on deaf ears, because I have yet to hear anything back. If it was my choice I would have continued to be a mod on this site. Because of the way the staff has handled this, I have decided to step away from the site all together. And wanted to take this time to say thank you to all the people that have helped me and to those people who I have built friendships with along the way....

Anyway, see we can have a decent idle chat without resorting to namecalling? We are just giving ourselves friendly ribbings and enjoying our virtual interactions. I told you you had it in you to improve your posting, well done :thumbsup...

Duxx, I'm internet_archivist on MTGS, go snitch on me I don't have to. Actually you do. Once they used the excuse that we were harboring known criminal kcw on the gutter and that we had failed to report it to the authorities as an excuse to shut down the Gutter. If memory doesn't fail me, the COC demands that staff members have the duty to inform other staff members whenever they witness internet crimes being committed...

[quote="[url=http://diestoremoval.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=258892#p258892:1skv3t20]donasdux » Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:25 pm[/url:1skv3t20]":1skv3t20][quote="[url=http://diestoremoval.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=258867#p258867:1skv3t20]Col. Khaddafi » Mon Sep 29, 2014 3:54 pm[/url:1skv3t20]":1skv3t20]Well, that wasn't exactly what I was going for when I said you could post something other than "your mom" posts, but I guess this works too. Anyway, what is the morale of the story you are hinting at? (this is just idle chat btw, nothing more, in case you think this is a trap or something)[/quote:1skv3t20] No morale or motive. I was just browsing the retired desks and came across a few I found interesting.[/quote:1skv3t20] Oh, Okay Then. :...

Duxx, I'm internet_archivist on MTGS, go snitch on m...

Dux, why do I have this nagging feeling that you are actually fed up with MTGS/The Game/whatever and you are wanting to distance yourself from that site through the classic "Suicide by Mod" technique...

So leak something that will get you off that site They actually do people a big favor when they ban them from that cesspool of moral corruptio...

Well, that wasn't exactly what I was going for when I said you could post something other than "your mom" posts, but I guess this works too. Anyway, what is the morale of the story you are hinting at? (this is just idle chat btw, nothing more, in case you think this is a trap or something...

Can you quote posts from my helpdesk too? You might not know it, but I used to be a mod on MTGS ^_...

That post is not accessible to regular users since helpdesks get shipped off-limits when staff resigns/gets lynched...

whoah, you're quoting off-limits posts here? Isn't that forbidden by your COC thingy? :...

They fit the site wel...

Actually you have the best avatars on the sit...

Fuck you too Stardust, everyone knows you're a poseur like me, we both are Sandwich Artists at Subwa...

Speaking of which: I was wondering, since Zem hangs around here once in a while, how relevant would be to have some FoS guy make a written interview of him on the forums? Like we could set a thread for the interview, with Q&A, and then collate it and make a frontpage article. Possibly something about the upcoming standard. Opinions, FoS people & others? It should totally be you interviewing him :teach...

Jesus Man, I was just japing. DTR is the land of the feuds after al...

Yeah, its really a shame because you are barely breaking even in Mafia, sometimes it gets difficult to get a replacement. I haven't joined a game in ages because I found out last time I played that I just cannot keep up with an ongoing game due to lack of available time (since there is always a thing or two to fix on the site anyway). :-...

I guess we should consider being more aggressive about producing more content, specially in other areas that are behind our standard, EDH, and cube sections...

So basically this confirms what pretty much everyone is saying about MTGS. I initially though we were being biased about the site (since most of us are here because we were lynched from the site at the request of Curse), but it seems we are not too far from the actual facts. Another comforting thing is hearing about DTR from some random unknown. We might just have much more lurkers than we think...

Anyway, story time! I was in a magic store this afternoon and I was asking the guy who runs the store if he had some mailing list for the local events because I figured the DTR account could subscribe to them and we could populate the frontpage calendar with this info. So there were some other guys there and we started talking about DTR, the guy told me he knew the site fairly well as a lurker and that we had some good semi-pro posters around, and mentioned James Fazzolari for his analysis on standard and Alex on his cubetutor posts and drafts, so I told him lol, there is an ongoing feud between these two. Once again he lamented that Checkbox (who apparently is a well-known Cube reference) doesn't post anymore in his favorite subforum. Then he lamented that we don't talk enough about Modern, which according to his friends is the only section of MTGS who isn't complete shit these days. Then the discussion went on about how morally corrupt MTGS had turned, he said that he and most of the people he knows had stopped logging on at MTGS because of the awful forum software, which among other things made the site unbearable to browse on mobiles...

Well at least he's not 14...

I just might have to create a gimmick to interact with the MTGS mods who venture out here. It seems the very presence of a post of mine apparently threatens to taint and corrupt their soul...