Open Site Blathering (formerly Advice from iridium ITT)

[Captain Murphy]

90s Smashing Pumpkins were better than Nirvana.

Someone had to say it.

lol no way

Cobain created main stream grunge and it died along with him, that shows a lot

Lyrically Nirvana was better

[Manders]

Lyrically?

You can't be serious.

Hmmmm. Let's make a thread in Music!!

[( G_R )]

Some poor soul got infracted by Teita and chose the lapdog as his appeal admin. Good luck with that buddy.

[( G_R )]

The whole "don't gang up on helpdesks" thing is because hazing people with appeals is less fun when the people you are bullying join forces and start throwing the punches back.

[Manders]

Hey, guys, remember when you ganged up on my helpdesk?

I don't recall anyone coming in there telling everyone but CK to shut the fuck up.

[Manders]

Ah, how far we've come from the good 'ol days when the Gutter hated my fucking guts and called me Delores Umbridge, among other things!

[Manders]

(And, yes, as an HP fan, that comment in kpaca's sig jabbed me the most )

[( G_R )]

Remember when people ganged up on MY helpdesk? No? That's right it never happened.

[( G_R )]

I wanted to gang up on Madding's helpdesk for his gmod iron fist, but never got the chance.

[( G_R )]

Remember when Brandon and the Col. where WTC mods and people could discuss things in peace? Fun times.

[Shalako]

Hey, guys, remember when you ganged up on my helpdesk?

I don't recall anyone coming in there telling everyone but CK to shut the fuck up.

You had a Helpdesk?

[Shalako]

I remember when you were the Mafia Sec and deleted the about the oldest Mafia Thread though lol

[Shalako]

Replacement Thread IIRC?

[Shalako]

Ah, how far we've come from the good 'ol days when the Gutter hated my fucking guts and called me Delores Umbridge, among other things!

[Yannaria]

meandershex

[Brandon (Viricide)]

Remember when Brandon and the Col. where WTC mods and people could discuss things in peace? Fun times.

I think you mean "Remember when Brandon oversaw the single biggest real-world disaster in MTGS history and nearly single-handedly caused a mass casualty incident?" At least that's what Misclick told me I did.

[Shalako]

When you told that Russian guy who was considering shooting up Russia to do it?

[Shalako]

Yeah I agree that was fucked up of you.

[Kaitscralt]

I like more than metal.

[Kaitscralt]

Remember when I tried to post but you guys were raging so hard that literally every time I hit submit there were more posts I had to submit past over and over

[Kaitscralt]

Like 10 times in a row with me taking no pauses between trying

[Col. Khaddafi]

Remember when people ganged up on MY helpdesk? No? That's right it never happened.

All I ever had was Logic and the X ganging up on my helpdesk, but I don't ever remember posting OMG JUST STOP POSTING, YOU'RE MAKING ME LOOK BAD.

[Col. Khaddafi]

tbf Viricide was a better WCT mod than me, but then again I measure my success rate by the fact that noone remembers I ever was a WCT mod, but I'm betting that everyone will remember Senori and specially Teita having been WCT mods after they will have stepped down/gotten the boot.

[Col. Khaddafi]

That WCT drama summarized

- some guy from Siberia complained about his teen angst
- some USMC guy (not Fahey) told him to man up army style
- Kijin overreacted a little bit by getting worried this was a Columbine in the making (could have been, but the odds were small enough that it didn't matter)
- rianalnn took the occasion for cleaning house and booted Kijin while at the same time making a huge clusterfuck everywhere on the site like he always did when he was on his admin abuse of powers rampage.

[Col. Khaddafi]

I remember I was in some meeting at the European Space Agency in Netherlands so I didn't check the site for 1-2 days and when I came back I was like, "what happened?"

[Col. Khaddafi]

Basically that thing was completely blown out of proportion by admin rianalnn.

A harbinger of things to come

[Col. Khaddafi]

I then made a detailed drama summary in the gutter where I basically told Kijin, kpaca, and rianalnn to shut the fuck up.

Kijin and kpaca are still good friends to this day. rianalnn never spoke to me again. I think he slapped me with some cock breach shortly afterwards and then I resigned from staff.

little did we knew it wouldn't end there...

[Yannaria]

you also didn't create that stupid vs subforum then ninja edit the rules to get cock king in trouble

LOOKING AT YOU MANDERS

but that time has past

[Yannaria]

ah I remember that thread.

spider man memes are the best

[Col. Khaddafi]

I used spiderman memes for everyone, lemme catch the image pix for each one of them:

Kijin:



Kpaca:



rianalnn

[Brandon (Viricide)]

I remember I was in some meeting at the European Space Agency in Netherlands so I didn't check the site for 1-2 days and when I came back I was like, "what happened?"

OH I SEE NOW, YOU'RE CLOCK KING

[Yannaria]

I lol'd at the Kijin one so much

[Col. Khaddafi]

I remember I was in some meeting at the European Space Agency in Netherlands so I didn't check the site for 1-2 days and when I came back I was like, "what happened?"

OH I SEE NOW, YOU'RE CLOCK KING

[Yannaria]

need more Christoph waltz gifs.

[Captain Murphy]

Need more tits gifs

[Col. Khaddafi]

Originally posted by voltan on MTGS

Ah, ok.
Well, that happens because the silence is interpreted as the user accepting the card. If someone doesn't appeal a decision, it should be because he/she thinks there are grounds for that decision to have been made. We do not accept appeals from third parties for that reason. It's the user in question that has to come out and make his case.
Personally, there's no way I'm reversing a decision if the user doesn't speak up. You may even present a plausible case, but I interpret the person's silence as him saying I was right in my accessment. I have heard of people that don't appeal decision because they think "it will amount to nothing" but I've always discouraged that. No one should assume that their appeals will always be successful, but they also shouldn't assume they are getting denied everytime. It's all about the case at hand and the
validity of the appeal.

Or maybe people have tried appealing in the past, yet have been roughed up so much that they won't even bother appealing anymore, given the staff bias they have to deal with on a daily basis

I know I never bothered to appeal my ban and Sene's slandering over "Malicious actions against websites" for the simple reason of how discretionary my ban was and how ridiculous the staff claims were. There simply isn't any basis to discuss crap like this.

[Col. Khaddafi]

Originally posted by votan on MTGS

This is something that actually has me worried currently. I see some people trying to have genuine conversations and others trying to push buttons. This is something we have to change in CI asap. We want feedback there, and sometimes it's hard. I'm telling you, at times, I think of myself as a regular user and I have to confess, some people can make the environment so hostile that I can see people being affraid to post there... which is TERRIBLE

[Col. Khaddafi]

More abuse and harassment of the staff by the userbase!

TERRIBLE

[Yannaria]

it's just terrible scumbag.

they're criticizing us and it's just terrible.

[Col. Khaddafi]

TERRIBLE