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![]() Ethermancer - Admin Join Date: Sep 2005
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In WoW alone there's questions on racial superiority (Garrosh), what lengths we should go to avoid our own demise (Sylvanas), and what happens when the ruling class ignores the plight of those underneath them (Defias). Starcraft asks the question "Is blood thicker than water" with Mengsk and his son. More importantly, is our race (species) something we should support unequivocally or can we work with others (SC2 Heart of the Swarm)? Even Diablo doesn't escape controversy (Can something that's not rooted in the Angelic Choir be good for the world? Does one have to follow their heritage to be good or evil? Does it designate who we are?). If there's no avoiding it, then the only thing we can do is moderate how it's discussed (e.g. stopping abusive behavior and abhorrent opinions [e.g. someone promoting Supremacist or violent views]). |
![]() Elune Join Date: Nov 2009
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![]() SPK is not taking this well.
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Now imagine a music, dear readers, heavy with cellos at a rapid staccato. Cellos held between thighs in a dark room. The little room of Harry's chest as he walks with his teammates to the opening gate of his first Test of Cribbage. They are a rag-tag group of champions, this bunch, and with Harry, the near-perfect new god, they know they will dominate the day. Harry is a world laced with rivers of wizardly blood. He is ready. |
![]() Ethermancer - Admin Join Date: Sep 2005
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![]() SPK needs to let PJ make her own decisions.
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![]() Site Staff - Moderator Join Date: Aug 2011
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Unfortunately, and I've griped to the rest of the Staff about this, I'm worse than useless when it comes to trying to address the technical needs of a forum. I try to be a passable people person, but I don't know the first thing about operating a server, running a website's back-end, and I haven't done a lick of programming in over a decade. I can try to talk about drama, but the technical issues are way beyond my ken. |
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![]() We already lost many ppl, I don't want to see another funny poster gone due to drama.
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![]() Elune Join Date: Oct 2009
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![]() Hopefully PJ stays gone. Maybe you can go with them.
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![]() Given the harassment she's been subjected to over the years I wouldn't be surprised if she decided not to return.
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"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs." Charles James Napier
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![]() Elune Join Date: Jul 2013
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![]() Eight little SoL pals travelling to the Halls,
One said she'd stay there and then there were seven. Alright, let's complete the song as posters desert the forum. Should take less than a few months. |
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![]() I don't wanna be rude, but i'm watching people who hate me leave like
https://i.imgur.com/66DSWN1.gif Unlike Cersei, i'll be a good boy. I'm tired of being naughty. Last edited by GenyaArikado; 09-26-2017 at 09:25 PM.. |
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Chances are Canthus, Gurzog and you will be the last three posters on this forum. |
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![]() Man, why is Genya still here? I mean, really.
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![]() You two running to post, how surprising. Anyway that's why i used the Cersei gif. I survived to the last season despite the odds
![]() I think it's mostly because i can control myself and my super asshole/shitposting self is a persona which i stopped using :3 Last edited by GenyaArikado; 09-26-2017 at 10:00 PM.. |
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![]() Elune Join Date: Nov 2009
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![]() I like how Genya is afforded the privilege of being a unrepentantly toxic poster with no ramifications whatsoever besides the sole reason that he/she comes from a complete shithouse of country.
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Now imagine a music, dear readers, heavy with cellos at a rapid staccato. Cellos held between thighs in a dark room. The little room of Harry's chest as he walks with his teammates to the opening gate of his first Test of Cribbage. They are a rag-tag group of champions, this bunch, and with Harry, the near-perfect new god, they know they will dominate the day. Harry is a world laced with rivers of wizardly blood. He is ready. |
![]() Echo of the Past Join Date: May 2012
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![]() Quality of post is in the eye of the beholder, and I don't think anyone's been banned purely for that.
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![]() Ethermancer - Admin Join Date: Sep 2005
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![]() FYI, we've suspended Genya on several occasions for flaming excessively. However, unlike Hammer and Galdus, he hasn't compounded said flaming with outright racial slurs/racism or general and consistent harassment (or at least not that I've been made aware of).
That said, Genya, your modus operandi in this past week has been remarkably aggressive against posters you disagree with. I recommend you take your own advice and step away before warnings come out. |
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![]() In more positive news, the site seems to be running faster for me. Anyone else seeing an improvement?
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Now imagine a music, dear readers, heavy with cellos at a rapid staccato. Cellos held between thighs in a dark room. The little room of Harry's chest as he walks with his teammates to the opening gate of his first Test of Cribbage. They are a rag-tag group of champions, this bunch, and with Harry, the near-perfect new god, they know they will dominate the day. Harry is a world laced with rivers of wizardly blood. He is ready. |
![]() Elune Join Date: Oct 2009
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![]() The site would go faster if old ass posts were deleted from 10 years ago. I get it's nice to look back at but over 1 million posts is slowing the database down considerably and SoL isn't running on the type of servers Blizzard has.
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![]() Ethermancer - Admin Join Date: Sep 2005
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![]() That's actually something we've talked about a bit. Splitting the DB and archiving old posts (accessible, but not part of the standard load/search set) is definitely on the list. The nitty gritty of that, however, is not my forte so I'll leave that to the experts.
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![]() Elune Join Date: Nov 2012
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![]() I mean, do we really need a 400 page spam thread? We can make a new one, and I question the sanity of anyone that searches 10+ years for posts (Shaman).
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![]() Ethermancer - Admin Join Date: Sep 2005
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![]() You say that, but you never know when a truly vital post needs to be resurrected for new users...like Lordaeron's Lamps and Female Ogres.
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Close all threads with more than 100 pages and create new ones. Delete all threads inactive for more than 90 days. That will ease the load on the DB. |
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![]() Simple, we form a commitee to archive key lamp-posts and such for posterity and burn the rest
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![]() Master Worldbuilder Join Date: Sep 2012
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![]() Don't be a damn fool, where would we find the committee to organize the committee?
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![]() Elune Join Date: Mar 2010
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![]() We can put together a small group of core posters to discuss the idea.
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