Is it valid or is it funny?

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Those that I refer to in http://forums.barrysworld.com/showthread.php?threadid=66577

This is everyone’s discussion forum?

Is it? Im not sure. I can understand that as Barrysworld has grown its membership considerably space has probably become an issue & calls for greater moderation have arisen.

The Barrysworld membership must surely contain a large range of people from all different backgrounds and standards of education all with different outlooks on life & senses of humour (senses of humour? Does that sound right?) This makes for disagreements in discussion and what is a valid discussion or even what is funny.

Somebody posts something that they think is funny in their opinion. Not everybody will think it is funny. What happens now? Well people will either post rofl or fo u twat it seems. That is fair enough people are entitled to an opinion. But apparently some people in the forum think that they have the ultimate decision on what is funny & if a post does not fit their sense of humour or opinion then it is a pointless thread & therefore spam.

Maybe someone who has not had the benefit of as much education as someone else does not put their point across as clearly as someone would like. Or maybe its above not beneath them. The meaning of the post is not clear to them so flame the spammer posts appear.

This sort of stuff would be evident in my post from the other day where I made reference to naming your characters to be offensive to GOA or Mythic as they never play the game thus it would never be offensive to anyone in game. I was having a dig about that the fact Mythic have no idea about class balance & Mythic change names for no reason. This was my opinion I tried to be funny (failed) so does that that really make it a pointless thread (spam)?

I issued a challenge to Jupitus today to be funny himself. This was a bit of fun from me & I thought we could have a little friendly verbal sparring. Maybe this is Spam especially for the general discussion board (in hindsight I think it belonged in off topic). I see two reasons why people read these boards, to have a laugh & to get information. If this bored is just purely for information then remove the off topic forum & learn to respect other peoples opinions folks. If it is also meant to be a bit of fun then for christ sake people realise that not everybody has the same sense of humour & some people are just not funny to everyone else (me) but like to have a try.

Apologies i said i wouldnt start another thread as the flames are starting to touch me neck now. This is the last one I promise.

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who gives a fuck what is in the post, aslong as it is off topic and is posted in the off topic forum then where is the problem? the people who do it to raise post count are the sad bastards who wish they were playing daoc at that moment but instead all they could level up is their forum title.
 
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Cadire

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Let's try this again... 'unhelpful' posts deleted.
 
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old.LandShark

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Those left are helpful? :D

Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort. Threads that degenerate into +1 crap rarely start off as anything worthwhile anyway, and genuine discussions can usually be resolved without anyone flaming stupidly.
However I say that but I don't know what kind of bandwidth/CPU time drain the Excal RvR forum (for example) or worse, the Excal Off-Topic forum, represent on Barrysworld's systems :p
 
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The Fonz

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Cadire, you forgot to delete the first post.
 
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Cadire

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Those left are helpful?

Contrary to popular opinion, I don't delete posts just because I disagree with them! I really don't care what people write about, as long as it doesn't involve personal attacks on anyone else (tbh, I don't really care about the +1 posts either... but BW has a policy toward them now).

There's nothing wrong with a robust debate, even a heated one... as long as the issue is debated, and not the speakers.
 
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Teh Krypt

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Cadire

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Listen...

The Fonz was not banned. He had a hissy-fit because a moderator had the temerity to issue him a warning, and decided to leave the forums.

I've had a discussion with one poster here, who thinks that as the Fonz has always acted like that... it's ok... i.e. the rules don't apply to him. The same poster now has the hump because he has pushed me into PMing him to cease his nonsense... apparently the rules don't apply to him either.

Bottom line is, I don't care if you've been with BW for 10 years, are a star member of the OT crowd, or are having carnal activities with all of the mods... the rules apply to you just as much as to a member who's been with BW for one day.
 
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Teh Krypt

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The guy is me btw.

And no, not everyone is treated the same, everyone here can admit they have done just what fonz does every day, or what fonz did.
 
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Closing my post so it cant continue to be used to flame by BW oldtimers who think they know better than the mods.
 
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