http://www.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=28;mid=1201717525158227628;num=128;page=1
Just for those that don't want to read the entire thread, I'll paraphrase via quotes.
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
The Asylum was perhaps a little too sucessful in perpetuating their own legend of hostility towards new blood over the last few years.
The origional purpose of the OOT was to create an off topic conversation area for the more fragile posters. It was to be work safe, non hostile, and more heavily moderated.
In the last few months there has been a shift in posting styles and content. Attempting to enforce filters met with limited success, but for the most part there are too many people breaking them for us to spend alot of time on it. (Incedentally one of the main reasons for the filters and the rules along those lines is that the more pbscene words on a page, the quicker web page filtering software at schools and work block the site)
Flameing posters has become a popular pastime in the OOT. the very thing it was created to be a haven against. I've hesitated moving threads from here into the Asylum because I was afraid the reaction would be less than steller, but maybe it is time to re-evaluate that.
There are several of you who have outgrown OOT.
I think it's Kao social experiment #182 time.
The origional purpose of the OOT was to create an off topic conversation area for the more fragile posters. It was to be work safe, non hostile, and more heavily moderated.
In the last few months there has been a shift in posting styles and content. Attempting to enforce filters met with limited success, but for the most part there are too many people breaking them for us to spend alot of time on it. (Incedentally one of the main reasons for the filters and the rules along those lines is that the more pbscene words on a page, the quicker web page filtering software at schools and work block the site)
Flameing posters has become a popular pastime in the OOT. the very thing it was created to be a haven against. I've hesitated moving threads from here into the Asylum because I was afraid the reaction would be less than steller, but maybe it is time to re-evaluate that.
There are several of you who have outgrown OOT.
I think it's Kao social experiment #182 time.
Nobby wrote:
I've decided to get pre-emptively butthurt about any future insults and am drafting a complaint to an admin seeking damages for mental anguish, just in case.
On that basis, I believe it's safer to avoid any reference to any posters, as we don't want to cause a ripple in the OOT/Time continuum.
No more insults, attacks or FTFYs from me. No sir. If BT can quit drinking, I can quit being offensive.
I shall say nothing but inordinately nice comments about people for the time being.
If it turns out like Nepthys's "I'm Nice" campaign in =4, such is life.
I love you all and I want to be like you.
Kisses and manly backslaps all round.
On that basis, I believe it's safer to avoid any reference to any posters, as we don't want to cause a ripple in the OOT/Time continuum.
No more insults, attacks or FTFYs from me. No sir. If BT can quit drinking, I can quit being offensive.
I shall say nothing but inordinately nice comments about people for the time being.
If it turns out like Nepthys's "I'm Nice" campaign in =4, such is life.
I love you all and I want to be like you.
Kisses and manly backslaps all round.
Prom Queen NixNot wrote:
The OoT = Asylum lite.
It does, face it. If something goes on in the OoT, and there is a complaint about it, it will be dealt with. If that same thing happened in the Asylum, and someone complained about it, they would have been told to GTFO. It's the way it has always been, but only recently has there been a large number of people here, interacting with each other, so there are bound to be more conflicts.
In light of this, I would like to point out that the Asylum might as well be a graveyard. How about there be a mass exodus of OoTers to =4? Someone round up the Unicorn flag, and send =60 in as a first wave. We can pave over the old bones and build an amusement park. You know you want to.
Do it.
DOOO EEEEEET!
It does, face it. If something goes on in the OoT, and there is a complaint about it, it will be dealt with. If that same thing happened in the Asylum, and someone complained about it, they would have been told to GTFO. It's the way it has always been, but only recently has there been a large number of people here, interacting with each other, so there are bound to be more conflicts.
In light of this, I would like to point out that the Asylum might as well be a graveyard. How about there be a mass exodus of OoTers to =4? Someone round up the Unicorn flag, and send =60 in as a first wave. We can pave over the old bones and build an amusement park. You know you want to.
Do it.
DOOO EEEEEET!
Prom Queen NixNot wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
Prom Queen NixNot wrote:
In light of this, I would like to point out that the Asylum might as well be a graveyard. How about there be a mass exodus of OoTers to =4? Someone round up the Unicorn flag, and send =60 in as a first wave. We can pave over the old bones and build an amusement park. You know you want to.
But isn't that exactly why the Asylum and the OoT split? So that the people who really didn't want any intervention at all had a place to go and be as horrible and disrespectful as they wanted to be?
Jophiel wrote:
Prom Queen NixNot wrote:
But isn't that exactly why the Asylum and the OoT split? So that the people who really didn't want any intervention at all had a place to go and be as horrible and disrespectful as they wanted to be?
You'll note that Forum=4 came before Forum=22. Anyway, we seem to be of similar mind. Tell people going "too far" to take it to the appropriate forum rather than plainly telling them that speaking further will get them muted/banned/etc.
Do you feel some OOTers have outgrown the OOT, that the admins are overreacting, or that they should just stay the @#%^ out of your forum?
EDIT: Feel free to insert an obligatory "GFY".
Edited, Jan 31st 2008 5:06am by Rimesume
