[ARCHIVED THREAD] - BREAD THREADS (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 5/19/2005 6:09:19 PM EDT
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We had a MAJOR issue today with folks spamming the board with this garbage. At one time i counted 16 active bread threads on page one. this disrupts the board, wastes bandwidth and is a MAJOR COC violation. 2 members had had accounts locked and a 3rd may be coming because of this. PLEASE knock off the crap. We are asking nicely. 8.) Posting repeat topics with similar or slightly varying titles. While it may seem to be funny, the "spamming" of the community in this manner results in problems for users and management. (Multiple topics on important issues or discussions are acceptable, this only applies to topics which waste resources for no other reason except personal enjoyment or humor.) |
or the injury threads from about a year ago irc. Just something that catches on and everyone gets sucked into it. |
More like four years ago, unless there was another round. I think I may have been the one who triggered the creation of the "don't spam the boards" policy -- it was my thread on milling my thumb that got that round going. 
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That reminds me. I do most of my posting from work. I’m either very busy or very bored. A few months ago I left work one Saturday morning. Monday afternoon came, and being rained out I checked into a nearby Public Library to check up on Arfcom. There was this furor subsiding over some silly little word. Said silly word being “Tonk”. My reaction was, and still is,  “HUH?”Can somebody enlighten me on just what happened? It seems so silly. And stupid. How did it start? I mean, what in the world went on in those 36 hours? And I really would like to know what happened. |
As you are not a Team member I cannot actually show you what happened (it's in the Archive server). A now banned member used the word "Tonk" to refer to residents of a neighborhood he was planning to move into. He posted a thread titled--"Gotta give props to tonks, they really keep their bitches in line." The thread dealt with "not one, not two, but THREE very Mexican and very pregnant girls washing their man's truck. Those tonks are keepin' their bitches in line and keepin' it real."--or very close, as I'm doing this from memory. The word was clearly used in a derogatory fashion and specifically named people of Mexican descent as the target. He had done this several times prior and was given a two week timeout from the site. Upon his return, the AZ forum was spammed with threads insisting the word had nothing to do with RACE, but was just the sound a Mag light makes when striking the head of a criminal. Staff and Sr. Staff asked for the BS to stop and the response was to escalate. Ed Sr. finally posted a thread saying the next one to use the word would be banned. Several did and their accounts were locked. This site doesn't pick words at random to ban. There is always a story behind it.  The MARPAT deal was a similar thing to tonight. Eighteen of twenty-five threads on page one of GD (and there were several tacked threads among the remainder) were spinoffs of the word "MARPAT." This kind of expensive waste of bandwidth is HIGHLY insulting to the Avila's, as it wastes money. Posters were asked nicely to stop and the response was to post several more threads in quick succession. Ed Sr. did his thing again with a tacked thread saying the next one to use the word would be banned. Of course, several had to test him. Foolish move. Tonight it was eighteen threads involving the word "bread." Dunno why, I wasn't here. It all comes down to obeying the rules and not being disrespectful to our hosts. 
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Ok, so lemme get this right... I can't post about the *sound that shall not be named* while wearing the *camo pattern that shall not be named* nor use the *animation that shall not be used* while eating the *food product that shall not be named* prior to attending a religious service for the *religion that shall not be named*. Right??? 
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1. Did fox really get banned? IM THE NEW RESIDENT KID!!!  2. I still don't understand what the bread threads were about... Can someone explain? I was not here...  ETA: Is this what got fox banned?
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And while I missed the Marpat episodes, leaving the examples collected in a locked (It was a locked thread, wasn’t?) thread was a perfect way to illustrate why they had to be temporarily banned. Now correct me here, but Fox “The Resident Kid”, was banned/suspended? If so I’m reminded of the time almost everybody here told Fox to stop roaming the Internet and to start roaming around the great out of doors. Now maybe he will. |
Why do you care and how old are you? |
Yes, he and at least one other that I know of were locked. I had nothng to do with it, so I don't know what the future holds for either one of them. My hunch is they will be back, but again, it's just a hunch--certainly not a promise.
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I can't say. |
Don't forget, the *phrase that shall not be mentioned whether abbreviated or not* (SIIH_ _ _ _) 
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I care because fox was a cool member... He shot his mouth off and I want to know if it really got him banned... It isn't a big deal since you all let others know when you ban trolls, right? ETA: A big deal to let me know if he was banned... |
He's locked. How old are you again? |
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It looks like I missed another. *sound that shall not be named* Check. *camo pattern that shall not be named* Check. *animation that shall not be used* NO Check! *food product that shall not be named* Check *religion that shall not be named*. Check. Animation? What did I miss this time? |
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sigh I will answer for some of you... And even I have no idea what started the bread threads but in the course of an hour there were 15-20 bread threads... The_Beer_Slayer started locking all the duplicate BS threads and posted multiple warnings to knock it off. Well some thought that to be a challenge by starting new ones. I contacted him and told him to quote me that the shit ended now. He did and the children went wild, starting new ones and BTT the ones that had dropped down. I locked one account and made sure it was known to stop. Two more people thought that meant that meant push the envelope even further, two more found out we weren't kidding. GD Mods put up with enough shit without people directly throwing it in their face. |
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I don't know what is up with this bread stuff. Apparently I missed it. But this seems to be like a good place to post this. I remember when the rules were enforced in a much more strict fashion. Then suddenly the rules were relaxed. The alowing of BOTD in GD is an example. Shortly after this the overall quality of posts in GD took a nose dive. I recently joined another discussion board. I discovered that the people moderating had a very strict no nonsence approach. As a result the posts were high quality as everyone was forced to THINK before posting. Now being a mod is a thankless job.... THANK YOU MODS!!!!! You make the site what it is. On my other forum the mod was gone for 1 day ONE DAY. and the forum went to hell. AGAIN THANK YOU MODS!!!!! |