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Post by Snorelacks on Dec 7, 2018 14:08:10 GMT
a certain salty WG sycophant
That wouldn't be a certain user with the word "Soviet" in his GT, now would it?
I think he reported me once for me telling him how silly it was for a WoT ambassador to advocate for fail platoons. I think the major culprit was actually BrogueOne who used to wear one of the darkest pair of Rose Colored Glasses on the forum. I'm pretty certain he reported me two and possibly three times. He's still a peach, but I find it funny he's becoming more and more disillusioned with WG.
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Post by JesterUSMC on Dec 7, 2018 14:27:22 GMT
Welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy it. It's a bit freewheeling at times with some lively debate. However, all of us respect differing opinions and treat people like people.
Except commies. Commies are not people.
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Post by JesterUSMC on Dec 7, 2018 14:34:19 GMT
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Snorelacks
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Post by Snorelacks on Dec 7, 2018 15:06:30 GMT
I'm not 100% certain, but I think he's Bengals1981 (and he trolled me one game on Overlord).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2018 15:18:01 GMT
Good thing you saved it because they just took that thread down.
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Post by test777777 on Dec 7, 2018 15:38:35 GMT
Good thing you saved it because they just took that thread down. Hmmm, i didn’t know that and they have a habit of stomping on threads I’ve been involved with and I’m not real happy about their moderating methodology with that. It’s lazy and reactive and subversive but given recent events, there may be a few more folk joining up here. Oh oops, how rude of me, I forgot to wave and say hi, so many familiar faces.
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Post by DerailedWingnut on Dec 7, 2018 15:49:39 GMT
Good thing you saved it because they just took that thread down. Hmmm, i didn’t know that and they have a habit of stomping on threads I’ve been involved with and I’m not real happy about their moderating methodology with that. It’s lazy and reactive and subversive but given recent events, there may be a few more folk joining up here. Oh oops, how rude of me, I forgot to wave and say hi, so many familiar faces. Welcome to the Bunker, where all of us "Bad Actors" are sent when we no longer give WGCB good press We don't bite. Most of the time anyway.
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Post by bigwahala on Dec 7, 2018 16:27:58 GMT
We should all change our signatures to what Derpy's said....see how long it takes for them to ban us all
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Post by test777777 on Dec 7, 2018 16:49:23 GMT
Hmmm, i didn’t know that and they have a habit of stomping on threads I’ve been involved with and I’m not real happy about their moderating methodology with that. It’s lazy and reactive and subversive but given recent events, there may be a few more folk joining up here. Oh oops, how rude of me, I forgot to wave and say hi, so many familiar faces. Welcome to the Bunker, where all of us "Bad Actors" are sent when we no longer give WGCB good press We don't bite. Most of the time anyway. Thanks. Not wanting to hijack the thread, I should announce that I’m a bit of a potato and hope that’s not an issue. Some of the folk here can bite and I do have a history of putting my juicy arse out there to be bitten. My Intent is to lurk and gain insight from the wealth of knowledge here rather than provide my opinions. I have a pretty thick skin and hopefully taste like excrement so if I say anything stupid, feel free to take a really big bite. I’m not the sort of person who holds grudges, prefer self moderation and I wouldn’t dream of reporting anyone. I find it remarkable the the sheer number of whinalots and cry babies who automatically do that because they don’t get their own way.
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Snorelacks
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Post by Snorelacks on Dec 7, 2018 17:18:02 GMT
Welcome to the Bunker, where all of us "Bad Actors" are sent when we no longer give WGCB good press We don't bite. Most of the time anyway. Thanks. Not wanting to hijack the thread, I should announce that I’m a bit of a potato and hope that’s not an issue. Some of the folk here can bite and I do have a history of putting my juicy arse out there to be bitten. My Intent is to lurk and gain insight from the wealth of knowledge here rather than provide my opinions. I have a pretty thick skin and hopefully taste like excrement so if I say anything stupid, feel free to take a really big bite. I’m not the sort of person who holds grudges, prefer self moderation and I wouldn’t dream of reporting anyone. I find it remarkable the the sheer number of whinalots and cry babies who automatically do that because they don’t get their own way. You're from Oz so there's the rash of crap you can give the POMEs that I'm looking forward to seeing. Just keep the Drop Bears to yourself...they're nasty creatures!! Welcome!
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Post by jarlvaryag on Dec 7, 2018 17:38:10 GMT
My official forum signature has been the SS motto for about 2 years haha.
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Post by defiantspurr on Dec 7, 2018 17:42:30 GMT
Is he Bengals? He trolls me a lot.
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Post by defiantspurr on Dec 7, 2018 17:43:45 GMT
But low level mostly humerous stuff
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Post by R35T NO MORE on Dec 7, 2018 17:50:27 GMT
We should all change our signatures to what Derpy's said....see how long it takes for them to ban us all They would likely cherry pick people to ban, depending on who added the sig.
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Snorelacks
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Post by Snorelacks on Dec 7, 2018 19:46:28 GMT
Is he Bengals? He trolls me a lot. I think Fishfood is Bengals1981
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Post by CatSnipah on Dec 7, 2018 20:43:25 GMT
We should all change our signatures to what Derpy's said....see how long it takes for them to ban us all They would likely cherry pick people to ban, depending on who added the sig. Based on my review of red font usage after Jester got the ax for using red font, I'd say that this statement is 100% true.
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Post by Corporal Derpy on Dec 7, 2018 23:58:35 GMT
Now the thread has departed us too and while I did manage to take a gander to I think somewhere close to 40 replies while it was on Page 2 it seems I missed at least two more pages but some of that may have just been back 'n forth with an apparent troll. I'll hold out hope there's a way to get a cached version of it but I'm unsure of how that stuff works and if it's like I gotta wait a day for it to take what was on the site yesterday and cache it since it's currently posts all from the 5th. Or if it's based on my viewing of the site and so even if I were to be able to somehow get it, it would only be up to Page 2 still.
There was one or two I saw bringing up why I did it the way I did. At least one understanding why but also bringing up that I was indeed in the wrong. I assume a few more were added aside from the apparent troll's statements. So we'll leave this here even in the case that most of them don't see it.
I knew what I was doing, the instant I got the PM telling me my signature had been removed for utterly stupid reasons I decided what I was gonna do even though I could see full well what the destination was at the end. By all means I could have done the 'right thing' and just accepted it, got on my knees and opened my mouth for 'em and I would still be able to post just fine, probably wouldn't have even got the Second Strike, my ability to view signatures removed and then skipping from Strike #2 to Strike #5. However, by doing so I would be changing my views strictly to listen to their 'orders'. And would cease to be 'me'. As I like to think I garnered a reputation of being rather blunt and not sugar coating, if I thought you were being stupid I'd tell you you were being stupid. As such suddenly changing it to welcome my new overlords would be pulling a complete 180 on how I had handled both the game and the forum since I started looking at the game more than just how much XP I needed to the next tank in a line.
They did that exact thing suddenly deciding that two quotes in my signature I used to show my view on those subjects that were fine for years were suddenly at fault and while I saw some thinking it was because someone reported me. I clearly can't say for certain but what I can say is that I'd had multiple interactions with many moderators either in threads or even in PM's. So that really paints a good picture if it's simply that they only noticed it after all that time precisely because someone reported it. And highly unlikely given that they clearly had the time to not just attempt to shut me up privately but also remove it six times in total.
A big thought is that they want a lot of the 'older members' gone and that is believable, as they are going full Dystopian now to attempt to justify their actions. Given that the older the forum user the more likely that they to offer criticism, to give a negative view of one thing or another. Someone more likely to bring up that a new Premium isn't worth buying based on the stats and whatnot that someone less informed might just buy and realise it wasn't worth it later. Or someone who'd look at someone's gameplay and no matter what praise it to high hell.
I saw a bunch of them in my time who'd regard themselves as pros and whatnot when they barely if even won more games than they lost and I ain't referring to absolute nut jobs like King there. And safe to say that such high opinions of themselves happened because people refused to actually offer criticism instead of mindless praise, with a lot of the less informed ones doing it precisely for that mindless praise cause it makes them feel good. That's the type of forum users WGCB want now, because it makes 'em happy and thus still playing the game and putting dosh into it, more likely to eat up the next Grind Ops rather than mention how it's just a redone version of a previous Grind Ops. The Yes Men who wont say no and praise everything because they haven't been around long enough to know what was actually good compared to the bad we have now.
There was someone recently I saw in threads who had brought up I guess his dad's birthday and how he enjoyed WoT or along those lines, I only saw the thread after where he thanked them for gifting two Premiums that would cost others what like £35 each if not more. With a later thread adding a third to that. I'm sure they're happy, and I ain't faulting them for being happy, good on them but the reason it was done wasn't to be nice, festive or any of that malarkey but for the good PR it would generate. Someone significantly new to the forums suddenly gets free stuff just for asking, what a shocker it is that they'd be immediately praising them for doing so and likely mentioning this to their friends which would in turn potentially generate more newcomers.
With all that said and done, I don't regret what I did on the Forums, nor my way of leaving them. The fact it got a thread about it and all that already means their plan to silence me or my views in secrecy failed completely. If people choose to bring it up more, post more threads or statements about this sort of thing, that will be their decision to do so. I'm just happy I could pull back the curtain a tad. WGCB in their ever losing game have tossed another piece of the board. I'm no chess player so I don't know how much they're worth but I'm saying I was at least a Rook cause it sounds the coolest. It's completely for naught and they know that but they don't want anyone telling them or others that it is.
Each story has an end to it. This is mine. Oh and to the guy who sent me 'Spartans never die' on Xbox. Sorry fam I'm a Helljumper through and through.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 1:30:13 GMT
I visited the cached site of the forum just now and it's only showing December 5 and some early posts on December 6 and doesn't include that thread. I'm not sure if anything from later on for December 6 or 7 will show up in the next day or two or not. I also checked internet archive and there wasn't any captures there. I still have the replies to that thread because I have instant notifications. I could either let you use my sign on to view them or take a screenshot of each one--though there is quite a few.
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Post by Pit Friend on Dec 8, 2018 16:22:37 GMT
Well shit. Much respects for never compromising Derpy, even in the face of Armageddon.
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Post by Corporal Derpy on Dec 9, 2018 11:33:37 GMT
Now I'm hoping to effectively have this be the last big and all post on this whole subject and in relation to the thread, given that I've been able to get to see the majority of the posts on it, I am sure there are some that were missed but oh well, I have been delivered a rather fine cake no point complaining it doesn't have a cherry on top for good measure. I wont say who managed to get posts from it before they were lost forever because I wouldn't be too surprised if some may take it harshly that I can see what they said, or perhaps it may even paint a target on their back for WG to aim for, maybe just give them the bullet to fire at said target.
Honestly as I was reading through them, I wondered how many of them were written by the individuals knowing that I might be able to and/or willing to view them. Not to state that in a negative way hence why I've not used the word 'risk' or anything like that. Rather in a positive way, because this allowed me to see people write stuff that perhaps they would have been against writing if they thought that I would see it. Because I did have a reputation on the Forums, to pretend that is not the case would be to lie that I am blind, and I feel this reputation may have 'controlled' others more than it did me. Which I think some took that from how I handled the PM and Signature situation, that I did what I did because 'I had to uphold my reputation'. But no that was not the case, while I kept images of all that transgressed and made no attempt to keep it private, I didn't respond purely so that people could then share it and paint me as a Martyr. I'm rather against that actually, I don't like it when people put me on an altar and then expect me to stay up there and say exactly what they want and all that malarkey. I'll humour the joke of it but when some take it seriously it gets problematic. And this would be where 'my reputation' affected me the most, with some taking it so far in game that they may focus me if I'm on the opposing side, or get upset if I was on the friendly team and I didn't perform some miracle and win the game.
So for both positive views, and the negative. In a case like this where some wrote straight from the heart this time, it's great. I got to see the dark side of the moon, the other side of an always locked door. List continues. Now not to put down those who wrote it full well knowing that what they see might make its way to me. It was after all complete guess work, I couldn't say who is writing for what, it is what makes it fun to read through.
Some seemed to take it as all 'pride'. An attitude problem perhaps. While I would not say I can't possibly have an attitude problem, this was not the case in this incident. My great 'sin' of apparent pride is that I did not like either the situation or how it was handled and chose to stick to my views in it regardless of how it was going to end. Folding wasn't an option after the way they went about it.
Test, I'll call you out on this bit fam. Don't worry you wont be the only one and I'm not doing this to shame at all, "Why Derpy insisted on sticking it in peoples faces after being asked to take it down..." See, I was never asked to take it down, they just took it down for a non-justifiable reason. Negative Sentiment continues to not be a rule, so it never should have been used in this case. Were Rai to have instead asked if I were willing to either modify it or take it down because somebody after two years or more decided they didn't like it, I would have been more open to it rather than the knee-jerk reaction they garnered instead.
And this is where I have large fault with it. Hell I'll say it, I do not like Rai and no doubt that has now sicced the White Knight Brigade on me. But in the years that I have been on the Forums I have witnessed multiple instances similar to this where she decides on something such as this and then when the person asks why she toddles off and just sends in the contracted mods to just keep doing whatever it is, as was done here. She sent me a message out the blue telling me my signature was removed for a non-issue, and the instant I questioned why in the snarky way I did she adds two Volier accounts and Jinlord to the PM, with one taking down my signature again and the other giving me a Strike, from then on there was absolutely zero communication because they aren't there to communicate, they are there to moderate.
The role of Communication with the Community falls down to Rai, it is in her title, it is why she is there so by all means I'd love to know why she is so averse to the very thing that is her job. I get that she doesn't have all the time in the world but there was no time limit either, I am willing to wait for a genuine response to as to why what transgressed did, not for contractors to be brought in who are only paid to copy paste from a general list of responses. Because let's be serious here neither of them, or perhaps we should view it as three since I'd take a guess the two Volier's are different people and not just two accounts with the exact same everything are there to question why it is being done, or answer my question to why it is being done, they are throwaway for a reason. Anyone seen the great Fallout 76 bag fiasco where someone from the support gave a blunt answer about the nylon bag, and Bethesda promptly sacked the guy to try to look better about it only to then repeat the exact same statement but just add on 'We understand and respect...' at the start to continue trying to look better. They're like that guy, they aren't supposed to question they just act on a report immediately.
I'll leave it here since the shoutbox keeps chugging along, someone has suggested that I get in touch with Rai about it all and I'll again keep them anonymous just for the sake of it. I'm entirely down for it however the question is, is she. And for it to happen I would like to be treated as someone in the Community, as a person. Not just for her to show up and sod off the instant she has to respond. Because I'm happy to do the same, I do already strained as it may be, in the years I've been on here I have found it harder and harder to view her highly because I keep seeing it that the Community Manager almost seems afraid to interact with the Community if it isn't beneficial or if it isn't positive towards WG. This is not something limited to her, but unlike others who are at fault with it generally their job isn't to work with the Community.
That's the closest thing to a 'goal' I have in the discussion were it to actually bear fruit. I mean hell there's the possibility out there that somehow it leads to me getting my account back but I don't really give a toss about that. I'm fine with it but I'm not doing it specifically for that, I have no intent of sitting there begging for my account back for the same reason I didn't just choose not to put my signature back. For the 'prideful' individual I may be, I can make mistakes but I do not see my choice in this as one such mistake.
I'll actually separate it into two posts because I think I have actually hit the word limit on here before when I was attempting a LASO Guide for Halo 2. We've dealt with the big key parts that are mostly the wide casting net bits now let's get stuck in there.
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