The serious thread

Sarky

Here's the original, for the sake of completeness. If you want to whine about moderation, make a suggestion or request, or ask a serious question of the moderators, post here. No pics, no jokes, no silly whatsoever.

Like its predecessor, this is the ONLY thread in TCN where the moderators will respond seriously to anything. If anyone else posts something here that is NOT serious, they will be removed with extreme and unfair prejudice. If any of the above is not clear, do not post in this thread.

Note: This does not mean the moderators will consider your whinging to have any value, however serious it may be. Consider your posts carefully. Grammatical nightmares will most likely be completely ignored. Reasonable and well-informed posts will not be ignored.

Scorpion Sting

I would love to have my posts in tCN added to my post count. :pac:

Sarky

That will not happen. Post count has never been a feature of TCN, and it never will be.

Hank_Jones

Are you pushing for thanks for TCN at all Sarky?

Or are you against the whole concept?

Sarky

I am against it.

TCN is not a regular forum. There's a reason it was created as part of the Sys category instead of, say, Rec. It's alt.stupid for Boards.ie (look that up if you don't know what it was/is). TCN is part of boards as an entity, as opposed to a discussion forum offered by Boards.ie the service. It's a subtle but very important distinction.

I've spent the last 6 months working to get the Nest back to where it belongs. A silly place by and for Boardsies rather than just another Humourous/Social forum.It should not require thanks, the same way it does not require post count. All it requires is bizarre silliness.

Matt Holck

a few stickies are ggood
but I am not very good at paying attention to them
because they update so rarely

Fago!

The "Count to ten" and "Count to a million" threads should be unstickyed...

Too many stickys...

Sarky

I'm considering this.

Unstickying the count to a million would probably get people whining. And I like the count to ten. I'd like to keep it there as long as people are counting to a million, to taunt them.

Something will happen the number of stickies in the near future.

joes girls

Why do you think just cause you don't like a thread, that you can do whatever to it, like it or not, the count to a million thread brings new posters to the nest ......face it Sarky it's part of the nest, for that reason the old one has to stay stickyed..

Solitaire

Gah, JG, its not like he's trying to close the current Count! And as a man who personally congratulates himself on cutting down the number of stickies in his own juristiction to "just" eight (well, nine, but one of them's a temp job ) I can emphathise with Sarky on this one!

joes girls

As if Sol, he wants to leave a thread there just cause he thinks it will taunt people, well don't know about the others, but it does nothing to me!!!
The old Count thread earned it's place here, and should stay stickyed.

Sarky

joes girls wrote: »

Why do you think just cause you don't like a thread, that you can do whatever to it, like it or not, the count to a million thread brings new posters to the nest ......face it Sarky it's part of the nest, for that reason the old one has to stay stickyed..

It brings in people to the count to a million thread. Nothing more. It's one of the reasons TCN has such a piss-poor image across Boards.ie. Nothing but chat (there's a thread for that, you numpties) and spam. Not even amusing spam. Really really f*cking boring +1 spam, the kind of which is despised by everyone on Boards. The only reason I haven't shut the whole thing down is because the amount of whiny bleating from the people who post nowhere else would probably crash the whole damned site.

If it's a part of TCN, it's a part best ignored. Or smothered in the night with a pillow.

I'll not entertain any more questions about that idiotic thread for another month. Do not try my patience with it until then.

Cicero

Sarky wrote: »

It brings in people to the count to a million thread. Nothing more. It's one of the reasons TCN has such a piss-poor image across Boards.ie. Nothing but chat (there's a thread for that, you numpties) and spam. Not even amusing spam. Really really f*cking boring +1 spam, the kind of which is despised by everyone on Boards. The only reason I haven't shut the whole thing down is because the amount of whiny bleating from the people who post nowhere else would probably crash the whole damned site.

If it's a part of TCN, it's a part best ignored. Or smothered in the night with a pillow.

I'll not entertain any more questions about that idiotic thread for another month. Do not try my patience with it until then.

I would like to know your views on how tCN will look in 1 months time. i.e.:

Typically, what type of threads will exist/not exist?

What are your issues with the current threads? .."Really really f*cking boring +1 spam,"

ta.

Sarky

I have no idea what this place will look like in a month. Most TCN posters are unpredictable. So are their threads, at least in recent months. As it should be.

I only have issues with threads that are not sufficiently silly. There'll probably be less of those, but who can really say? And no, before anyone asks I will not define "silly".

Fago!

Sarky, what do you think of the nest as it is now (Bar this serious thread)? and why do you oppose the chat thread of which we love?

Sarky

I'm mostly happy with the place. Since the major whining died off, the creativity and random nature of the place has improved a lot.

As for chat threads, I've never liked them. They add little but banal small talk. Go on, see how many pages of the Straitjacket Lounge you can read before the repetition gets to you. It currently has value in that it reduces people posting chatty spam on every thread. Also if it died people would whine about entitlements or some such rubbish.

Cicero

Sarky wrote: »

I have no idea what this place will look like in a month. Most TCN posters are unpredictable. So are their threads, at least in recent months. As it should be.

I only have issues with threads that are not sufficiently silly. There'll probably be less of those, but who can really say? And no, before anyone asks I will not define "silly".

What do you think of the picture/story led threads of recent times- hedghog, bridges, etc....I know these ideas can go stale v. quickly but I know a lot of us got a kick out of them on the night..especially with fast-paced responses...since we have the embedded picture facility in tCN, I think we should use it to our advantage..

HyperSkypeWiper

Don't ye think the rules for entry into the soccer forum are just ridiculous and too harsh

Fago!

HyperSkypeWiper wrote: »

Don't ye think the rules for entry into the soccer forum are just ridiculous and too harsh

That has nothing to do with this forum.

Sarky

HyperSkypeWiper wrote: »

Don't ye think the rules for entry into the soccer forum are just ridiculous and too harsh

No. When soccer posters stop acting like belligerent self-righteous jerks with a sense of entitlement so massive light can't escape the surface, maybe the rules will change.

of course, this will never actually happen.

Next person to post something that doesn't involve TCN gets permanently banned.

Lord ButterSlip

Anything i say is slightly odd anyway so this is normal compared to the likes of some of the other stuff i post. Most of the Kilkenny City posters wouldnt recognise me here.

I do have one serious thing to say though: This moaning of random shít in threads Im on bugs the crap out of me especially the threads I start. I do not care for the gripes you have with others, if you have a gripe with me I also dont care but dont ruin my thread or others threads just for the sake of being a pain. Dont cross me on this.

Lord ButterSlip

*Happy Again*

Fago!

Butters, who's been complaining? and about what?

Fago!

Sarky, do you think the nest would be better suited to another category, rather then in the arse end of boards.ie that is the "Sys" category? I think we'll get more uswers if we were in the "Rec" category!

sNarah

I actually quite like it under Sys

Sarky

Lord Butterslip: Thanks for your contribution. The whining used to annoy me too. If you have an issue with anyone's posting, please feel free to use the post report function under their names in the offending item, and one of the moderators will have a closer look. TCN is not a place where complaining loudly enough gets you what you want. A reasonable and polite PM will do far more than throwing a hissy fit across the forum.


sNarah: So do I. And like I said, it's in Sys for a very good reason.


Fago!: TCN is not a social forum like After Hours. It harks back to a time when each forum wasn't such an isolated xenophobic island suspicious of strangers or newbies. Right now I can't think of a better way to explain it than I did in post #5 (which is slightly paraphrased from something community manager Dav said, actually):

TCN is not a regular forum. There's a reason it was created as part of the Sys category instead of, say, Rec. It's alt.stupid for Boards.ie (look that up if you don't know what it was/is). TCN is part of boards as an entity, as opposed to a discussion forum offered by Boards.ie the service. It's a subtle but very important distinction.

Fago!

Sarky wrote: »

Fago!: TCN is not a social forum like After Hours. It harks back to a time when each forum wasn't such an isolated xenophobic island suspicious of strangers or newbies. Right now I can't think of a better way to explain it than I did in post #5 (which is slightly paraphrased from something community manager Dav said, actually):

That's fine. Just checkin'

Lord ButterSlip

Sarky wrote: »

Lord Butterslip: Thanks for your contribution. The whining used to annoy me too. If you have an issue with anyone's posting, please feel free to use the post report function under their names in the offending item, and one of the moderators will have a closer look. TCN is not a place where complaining loudly enough gets you what you want. A reasonable and polite PM will do far more than throwing a hissy fit across the forum.

Sorry I have just changed it a bit, I was tired when i wrote that.

Sarky

This is not a chat thread. You have one of those. Two, if one includes the counting thread.

Read the original post before posting in this thread again, everyone.

Fago!

Sarky just curious.......

why is smoke.me.a.kipper a mod of this forum? He doesn't do anything? He never posts. This forum is grand with you as mod, do we really need another? Also, Tar. Although I do have an undying love for Tar, she/he/it never posts here. Why are they mods?

Sarky

Oh, they work more out of the spotlight, as it were. It's not always me when a reported post gets dealt with. Not by a long shot.

Fago!

Ok fair enough!

joes girls

What happened to the old count thread, you know the one that was stickyed!!!

Solitaire

It and a load of old stickies were finally de-stickied after Sticky Tuesday ended.

joes girls

What the shag was sticky tuesday???

Fago!

Sarky sticked about 50 oooold threads on a Tuesday.

Sarky

Do at least TRY to pay attention or work things out for yourself.

Sarky

Pruning thread to remove the utter crap.

Everyone read the first post again. You are all clearly having trouble understanding it. My patience has run out, and the aforementioned extreme and unfair prejudice will be applied to everyone who has posted on this thread if it continues.

James T Kirk

Okay

Cicero

If someone has posted in the 'Post Here to get banned extreme stupidity filter" thread in the past




can you get some immunity in that thread without getting banned again?....just not much happening in that thread lately....might be more exciting if there were 1 day/ 1week bans as opposed to 3 week/ 1 month bans.....

Sarky

No, I think I'll stick with leaving immunity to those who have made a major contribution to "silleh" at the moderators' discretion. And the ban length will only ever increase.

Fago!

Not a tcn question, or even an important one, but Sarky, you are a mod. Why's your name not in bold font like the rest?

BBDBB

Sarky wrote: »

No, I think I'll stick with leaving immunity to those who have made a major contribution to "silleh" at the moderators' discretion. And the ban length will only ever increase.

surely banning more folk for less time would be better for all concerned?

you could ban the same person several times an hour, the Mod equivalent of the

Sarky

Fago! wrote: »

Not a tcn question, or even an important one, but Sarky, you are a mod. Why's your name not in bold font like the rest?

Probably something to do with the days way back when I was a Hmod. <shrug>

BBDBB wrote: »

surely banning more folk for less time would be better for all concerned?

you could ban the same person several times an hour, the Mod equivalent of the <image>

That would trivialise the concept of banning, and cause me a hell of a lot more work to boot. I'm not looking to ban as many people as possible, no moderator worth their salt would be that eager to empty their forum.

What I am looking to do is teach a lesson: that thread is for people who are too stupid to realise that posting there has a consequence, and anyone who ignores the OP or all the bans that have so far been meted out, and posts there without immunity will be treated as someone who's just done something extremely stupid.

Call it mean, or bad modding, or whatever you like. But I'm not going to mollycoddle users like the rest of Boards. They can use common sense or they can send me a shocked PM demanding why I banned them from a thread that clearly states what happens when you post there.

James T Kirk

Would just like to say that I have been guilty of quite a lot of chat in non-chat threads here. This shall henceforth be rectified. Apart from the purpose-built chat thread (and a line or two in the count one) my gob will be shut.

kerash

<crazy frog youtube video>

Sarky

I believe the original post, with its very explicit warnings, was made quite clear.

I would probably have left kerash alone if he/she had avoided this thread in his/her whiny spamfest.

There is no possible way anyone could feel hard done by after doing something like this. I'm sure I'll be eating those words later, alas.

Kerash, you're banned for two months. You knew damn well what posting non-serious rubbish in this thread would lead to.

joes girls

Well thinks it wont bother her that much to be honest!!!
Good to see ya Kerash, even if it was short lived:)

Sarky

You're right. I'll upgrade the ban to 6 months. Good work, joes girls. That's just about enough for me to forgive you joining in. Don't try my patience again.

joes girls

your takin away my freedom, again!!!

Sarky

None of what you've been posting here has any merit, and thus I'm getting rid of it. Kindly stop, or I'll ban you for a year.