I'd probably last one post there. No, wait, maybe two.
The first one would include some kind of cutesy thing, like a smiley, or anything else that might be normal to a human, which would prompt a 'Your post contains too many human features' warning from a mod.
The second one would be a direct response to that warning and would get me banned.
Edit: This guy gets it right.
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You want to know why there is no meaningful discussion around here anymore? Because people like Deathwing make a post about doing some testing, which by the by is the point of these forums, "Welcome to the Elitist Jerks forums, a WoW discussion forum targeted towards topics regarding high-end raiding and analysis of game mechanics." and gets banned with the infraction of "do not beg for hand holding".
Last time I checked, and I've been a member here a spot longer than most of the Moderators that troll these forums nowadays, Deathwing was main of the main contributors in forwarding warrior DPS thinking and modeling for a long time. Furthermore if you had actually read any of the thread before the ban it was hardly hand holding. Now at least when I read the forum, I'm missing a key post. While I understand your problem with it and can quite easily find issues with all posts in every forum including my own, it nevertheless was integral to the flow of the thread.
This place is, was and should be a meritocracy, and yet the unfortunate definition is "ability and talent" not ability and no talent or vice versa. How, in all honesty, is a Moderator supposed to judge the worthiness of a post on a mechanic or a fight when their sum total raiding experience is less than or comparable my alt. Or hasn't seen even normal Nefarian, let alone heroic Maloriak to judge my post of "warrior AOE sucks, its a total detriment to my raiding and slotting on heavy AOE fights" which clearly would get an infraction despite being 100% accurate, and likely the most pressing issue facing high end warrior raiding currently. So I never made the post, and the forum and discussion was less helpful because of it.
To be clear, I'm not friends with Deathwing, and this isn't some crusade on his behalf, I'm just sad to see this place I lurked for years become a shell of its former self. Thor Kaubel may come and ban me for life, but my sentiments remain the same.
Mod didn't like that.
It's amazing people still post on EJ, considering the size of the stick the mods have up their asses these days, but I guess the info is useful.
Edited, Jan 16th 2011 2:19am by Mazra 
