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I disagree.


Mal fit in quite nicely, and she is new.

OOT is accepting of new posters, OOT is not accepting of every ****** that can't control bladder movements.


See the difference there?

My issue with this section: Will it be enforced?

While Rime uses Maluenda as an example of how the OOT embraces those who are new to the oot, I've seen many posters who have wandered over from the WoW or FFXI forums looking to post something non-game related karma bombed and shunned because they're either new, a player of either of the previously mentioned games, they have a low post count, or because they have yet to achieve scholar status. If I felt like it, I'd go find an example or two, but I think everyone knows what I'm talking about.

My actual question though, is: If someone comes over to the oot from the FFXI forum, for example, and posts a news story with a comment about it and gets harrassed by the little "clique" that seems to control post content in the oot, will there be any admin intervention? If they add to an active thread with somethign relevant and yet are attacked and forced out of the oot or even off of the forums for having a spelling error, or for saying something that disagrees with what most others are saying, will there be admin intervention?


Another question I have is about veteran posters and the oot. If a veteran poster has literally almost any post they make, regardless of content, tone or relevance to the topic, karma bombed and is subsequently harrassed by a specific group of people simply for existing, is there any form of admin intervention? I'm not just asking for myself, but for a few others who have been pushed away from the forums(Melody would be a good example. Yes she snapped and took everything a little too personally, but she was pushed there by the completely inappropriate, unacceptable and uncalled for comments by other posters regarding her children). I'm just curious and figured that this would be my chance to ask about this.



Edited, Apr 30th 2008 7:47am by Driftwood

Mal was not new. She was a sage when she came in, and already had about 5000 posts. You're skirting the point, and I really don't know why.

I think quite a few OOT posters are over-elitist and exclusionary of posters who are seen to be stupid, dumb, ignorant. I dislike how poor spellers are treated. Why can't people just politely correct them? Why do they have to hurl insults?

Edited, Apr 30th 2008 9:53am by Aripyanfar

Reguarding sections 12 & 13. I primarly use a few of the gameing fourms and have noticed over the years many low post count posters with sage and guru status. I assume you guys do not proactivly look over things like this that could be a issue, but you may want to cover the correct manner to address them with admins. Are they legit? Ratebots helping?

sigh its too early ment to add this to the thread linked above not here. Could a admin please move the post there?

I agree completely Ari, good to know someone else noticed.

No, he's talking about people who are sage or guru and have 100, 200 posts. Most of those people don't keep that status in the OOT with such few posts, because you know, post count warrants the quality of a poster.

You should include this link whenever you reference MPAA ratings.

Does this mean we can swear all we want just as long as we let whatever you've deemed a curse word, remain filtered?

I wonder how many people have come here looking for game information, considered subscribing, posted in the OOT, and decided not to?

It seems to me by your response and others that people are really just looking for free reign to be an *** about anything and everything, which is clearly not the intention of the admins if the policy is any indication. Being in an OOT forum does not mean the rules go away - they specifically allowed for leniency in the Asylum if that's your taste.

Edited, Apr 30th 2008 1:35pm by BrownDuck

3 lines is plenty.

That's a fair point, but unless you're suggesting that the subscribers gained are only possible by way of the subscribers lost, I really don't see a relationship, and I don't see why the risk of subscribers lost has to exist.

I'll admit that I don't really care about subscribers, and I simply hate seeing newbs picked on just to bolster the ego of a few veteran posters - I'm merely presenting my point in a way that might make sense to those running the site.

Aww, shucks, someone doesn't like me defending newbs.

Edited, Apr 30th 2008 1:48pm by BrownDuck