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Pointing knives at people is usually considered rude.
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Fwib wrote:So invading personal space, rather than pointing from a distance sufficient that just waving in a general direction is not enough? I'm sure that nearly all of us have had people invade our space, even outside of conflicts. In particular I remember a guy I used to meet at work who just didn't seem to get the message that he got way too close, no amount of stepping back seemed to work.
Why would you need to invade personal space? Invading personal space is also considered rude. Proper etiquette acknowledges the three feet rule.

The truly polite thing to do is to bring someone over and introduce them. Without getting up in their face. Or you single them out somehow without pointing.
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Prak wrote:Pointing knives at people is usually considered rude.
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Meikle641 wrote:
Prak wrote:Pointing knives at people is usually considered rude.
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Why do we not ban trolls like silva? Why do we have to wait so long for assholes like Psychic Robot and shadzar to get booted, and only after they've been allowed to go too far? Why not just stamp 'em out immediately?

Personally, I have a theory. The Den tolerates trolls because it wants them. More than that, it needs them, because we need someone that everyone, from Kaelik to Frank to me to Darth to Matt Lauer can all unanimously hate and attack. Otherwise, we'd all turn on each other and the whole forum would descend into madness and fire.
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If everyone on the Den nodded their heads in unison, we'd be no better than Enworld or the RPG.net forums. Fuck that noise in the ear for a beer can I get a hallelujah?
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Showed that to one of my friends, she's totally into it...
Shrapnel wrote:Why do we not ban trolls like silva? Why do we have to wait so long for assholes like Psychic Robot and shadzar to get booted, and only after they've been allowed to go too far? Why not just stamp 'em out immediately?

Personally, I have a theory. The Den tolerates trolls because it wants them. More than that, it needs them, because we need someone that everyone, from Kaelik to Frank to me to Darth to Matt Lauer can all unanimously hate and attack. Otherwise, we'd all turn on each other and the whole forum would descend into madness and fire.
My theory is that nearly everyone here posts here because no other message board can stand us for whatever reason. As such, the worst thing that we're really going to do is say mean things about them. On the internet. My understanding was there has been people banned but you REALLY have to fuck up to get to that point.
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It's all you, stud.
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Shrapnel wrote:Why do we have to wait so long for assholes like Psychic Robot and shadzar to get booted, and only after they've been allowed to go too far?
Wait. Was Shad actually banned? I know he sometimes vanishes for a while and then comes back. I just assumed he was bored of this place for the time being.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:My understanding was there has been people banned but you REALLY have to fuck up to get to that point.
Yeah. My understanding is you can be a titanic dick so long as you don't start making death threats/death wish posts or post pictures of gore porn, or something.
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Shrapnel wrote:Why do we not ban trolls like silva? Why do we have to wait so long for assholes like Psychic Robot and shadzar to get booted, and only after they've been allowed to go too far? Why not just stamp 'em out immediately?

Personally, I have a theory. The Den tolerates trolls because it wants them. More than that, it needs them, because we need someone that everyone, from Kaelik to Frank to me to Darth to Matt Lauer can all unanimously hate and attack. Otherwise, we'd all turn on each other and the whole forum would descend into madness and fire.
Free Speech. I'm here and not at other RPG sites because I cut my internet teeth at the USENET, where nobody could be banned and discussion had to happen under a constant rain of trolling and spam. Just as the Den, USENET clients all had an ignore list kill file (the lore back then even had a sound effect for ignoring somebody: *PLONK*) so the Den right now works exactly as it should, for me.

I'm okay with outright banning outright bigots and the such because if I learned something from 4chan is that if you allow this kind of discourse, you'll end as a haven for people who want to discuss nothing but this - the logic being that there are like a billion places online to discuss anime and videogames, but very few to things like racism and lolicon.
RobbyPants wrote: Wait. Was Shad actually banned? I know he sometimes vanishes for a while and then comes back. I just assumed he was bored of this place for the time being.
Shad was banned for racism, after getting some warnings from fbmf.
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Because traffic on this board can get very, VERY slow. Trolls start threads and get people talking, and when a group of people this smart gets going, valuable insights happen.

If our trolls were pulling attention from ongoing, fruitful discussions among people of intellect and good faith, it would make sense to get right of them. But honestly, this board is dead. Trolls breathe some life into it.
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Orion wrote:But honestly, this board is dead. Trolls breathe some life into it.
I absolutely refuse to believe that the only way the board can be interesting is to allow gits like silva to run wild. There has to be a better way. There must.

Hmm... What if we changed the board's color scheme? "Cubicle gray" isn't very exciting. How 'bout instead we do hot pink and bright neon green with gold highlights?
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Shrapnel wrote:
Orion wrote:But honestly, this board is dead. Trolls breathe some life into it.
I absolutely refuse to believe that the only way the board can be interesting is to allow gits like silva to run wild. There has to be a better way. There must.

Hmm... What if we changed the board's color scheme? "Cubicle gray" isn't very exciting. How 'bout instead we do hot pink and bright neon green with gold highlights?
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C'mon, who doesn't like eye-searing colors?

Doesn't Frank wear like really bright orange all the time?
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Alas, I'm old enough to remember when 'troll' actually meant something - as in posting something inflammatory but completely non-contributory merely to get a rise.

Nowadays you crazy kids use it to refer to anyone who persists in posting content you don't like.
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Occluded Sun wrote:Alas, I'm old enough to remember when 'troll' actually meant something - as in posting something inflammatory but completely non-contributory merely to get a rise.

Nowadays you crazy kids use it to refer to anyone who persists in posting content you don't like.
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Here's the thing. When someone posts something unbelievably dumb and mockable you can get banned for rightfully telling them what a stupid little bitch they are. But calling someone a troll or claiming their post is so dumb they must be trolling is allowed on almost every board I've been on. I know because that's how I would have to resort to calling them dumb. IE "I can only assume from your post you are trolling." Translation: What you wrote is so fucking dumb I refuse to believe you actually think that. But if I actually said the translation they can report me to mods.

It was inevitable the word would have to morph to cover every inflammatory idiot on the internet.
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Which is why hugboxintheplayground made it an offense to call someone a troll, or even to say that they failed to read your post, or even that they failed to correctly read your post.

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Here's a random questions that's come to mind. I don't know if this is because TV isn't a good gauge of reality or my experiences have been so far from the norm that I don't know any different.

Anyway, to all of the Den folks in long-term relationships (or have been in them in the past), does the fabled "Make-up sex" actually exist? I wonder because every time I've been in a fight with someone I was with I either got dumped immediately afterwards or I'd be cut off for the next couple weeks to a month.
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Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Here's a random questions that's come to mind. I don't know if this is because TV isn't a good gauge of reality or my experiences have been so far from the norm that I don't know any different.

Anyway, to all of the Den folks in long-term relationships (or have been in them in the past), does the fabled "Make-up sex" actually exist? I wonder because every time I've been in a fight with someone I was with I either got dumped immediately afterwards or I'd be cut off for the next couple weeks to a month.
Depends on the relationship, and why both people are in it. Back in college I had a girlfriend and we literally actually broke up 14 times, and on at least 8 of those times we got back together because sexed. I've never had even a single other relationship in which make up sex was a thing, presumably because my other relationships were based on something besides intense unthinking devotion to sexual desire no matter how bad an idea it was.
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Only speaking for myself... No. It doesn't exist. I can't even imagine it working. If I'm having a fight with Ess, it's because I have something to say. Trying to sex in that atmosphere just makes me feel ignored and like what I'm saying isn't important. And, of course, if we jumped in the sack to end the fight, the problem wouldn't actually be resolved... Which could be extremely problematic.
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Count Arioch the 28th wrote:Anyway, to all of the Den folks in long-term relationships (or have been in them in the past), does the fabled "Make-up sex" actually exist?
Yes it exists.

Is it anything like how TV/Movies/Cheap Romance Novels portray it? No.

It's more of, "we have a disagreement, but still have a physical attraction to each other, and the argument seems less important after some nookie and a night's sleep"
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Yes it is real but if youre going to get it that'll depend on the severity/importance of the fight, your partner and you.

Generally in my experience if I screw up make up sex isn't happening. But if she screwed up then I can make it happen. Or if the fight was dumb and we know it was dumb.

Breaking up because of one fight or getting cut off for weeks/months! is generally really unhealthy. How could a relationship ever last if you cant weather a fight once in awhile?
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Shady314 wrote:Yes it is real but if youre going to get it that'll depend on the severity/importance of the fight, your partner and you.

Generally in my experience if I screw up make up sex isn't happening. But if she screwed up then I can make it happen. Or if the fight was dumb and we know it was dumb.

Breaking up because of one fight or getting cut off for weeks/months! is generally really unhealthy. How could a relationship ever last if you cant weather a fight once in awhile?
To be fair, at least one person has been dysfunctional in all of the relationships Count has described having. Whether that is him or the person he is describing might require more information, but at least one of them for sure.
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