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Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

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Oct 30, 2009

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Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Ladies and goons, we've hit 502 bans.

Or to put it another way, half the users

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...




:hmmyes:

MechanicalTomPetty
Oct 30, 2011

Runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
loving R.I.P C-Spam.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
I'm not sure SA will survive now that all those people are going to move to the cool socialist offsite. If it's still up.

Fs in chat, guys!
https://i.imgur.com/5Fn5jnf.mp4

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

Paladinus posted:

https://i.imgur.com/5Fn5jnf.mp4

:lmao:

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

There are no more candidate toxx threads allowed. Turns out the mods didn't sign up just to ban a billion people, well they probably did but the work part of it happened and they decided cspam genocide is too hard on the clicking fingers.

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012
I don't have the patience for a deep dive but from a quick glance at the Bernie cspam thread it seems like more then a few dedicated Bernie supporters have nope'd out the of the election and are saying they won't vote or they'll vote Trump anyways.

Great job on challenging democracy guys, you really made a difference.

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race

new stupid newbie av in the c-spam stylesheet

Korean Boomhauer posted:



holy loving loly

Booourns
Jan 20, 2004
Please send a report when you see me complain about other posters and threads outside of QCS

~thanks!

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

She was perma'd once and it was informally lifted by ZDR and co, years ago, and it being reissued a few times over the years is only because not everyone got the memo that it was informally lifted

Sorry to bring this up but uh does ZDR get to override permabans given out by lowtax?
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3867485&pagenumber=67&perpage=40#post488183287
Note that this was after their previous permaban had been forgiven

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
ZDR doesn't get to do anything nowadays.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013


That's a pineapple pizza, obviously.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



pentyne posted:

I don't have the patience for a deep dive but from a quick glance at the Bernie cspam thread it seems like more then a few dedicated Bernie supporters have nope'd out the of the election and are saying they won't vote or they'll vote Trump anyways.

Great job on challenging democracy guys, you really made a difference.
more like c-stan

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

pentyne posted:

I don't have the patience for a deep dive but from a quick glance at the Bernie cspam thread it seems like more then a few dedicated Bernie supporters have nope'd out the of the election and are saying they won't vote or they'll vote Trump anyways.

Great job on challenging democracy guys, you really made a difference.

Trump is to the left of Biden on medicaid / medicare for all (even if temporarily) which is kind of a big deal at the moment for some reason or another.

Kay Kessler
May 9, 2013

As of this post, I count $2.3k in unban fees alone.

Tweezer Reprise
Aug 6, 2013

It hasn't got six strings, but it's a lot of fun.
they should have these 'election' things regularly, they're clearly good for business

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011
Someone who’s not seeing red should write up the Something Awful Trad Games versus Zak S the shitlord saga now that it’s reached a new forums step with Ettin stepping down as Trad Games mod due to a defamation judgment.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Arivia posted:

Someone who’s not seeing red should write up the Something Awful Trad Games versus Zak S the shitlord saga now that it’s reached a new forums step with Ettin stepping down as Trad Games mod due to a defamation judgment.

Wait what?

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

I can't imagine putting politics between me and my membership to the SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM comedy forums.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


Inceltown posted:

Wait what?


Ettin posted:

:frogsiren:

Hey folks! It's been a good five years, but it is time for me to return to my home planet. I am stepping down as Trad Games moderator and focusing on my game dev work.

As of now, Reene is the new Traditional Games mod. Please see her for all your goon probating and thread renaming needs. I'll still be a regular goon from here on out, but it was an honour rolling with you. :rolldice:

Unless it's come up in a different thread that it's because of the Zak S case?

Kay Kessler
May 9, 2013

Inceltown posted:

Wait what?

Recently, mod of Trad Games, Ettin, announced he was stepping down. It was revealed later that he was sued for defamation (his country of Australia is notorious for being lovely about defamation lawsuits) by noted rapist, abuser, and harasser Zak Smith, and was forced to give an apology for calling him a rapist, abuser and harasser, as well as pay him an undisclosed sum. poo poo sucks.

Arivia
Mar 17, 2011

Inceltown posted:

Wait what?

A shithead successfully harassed several forum members off the Internet because he didn’t like them being trans women who play RPGs. Then that shithead became a consultant for the biggest brands in the industry despite significant criticism stemming from the former. Then the shithead’s Ex girlfriend outed him as a rapist and an abuser. Now that shithead is winning defamation lawsuits against his critics in countries whose legal system he can exploit with his trust fund. He just won one against former trad games mod Ettin. I say former because Ettin stepped down as mod literally yesterday before he had to post a public apology everywhere he could as part of the judgment against him.

Thread with all the details: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3919633&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

I Said No
May 21, 2007

jesus dude ur gonna kill someone with that av
Said rear end in a top hat also poo poo his pants at a chik-fil-a

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Holy balls that sucks.

Stay safe Ettin, you were one of the good ones.

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"
Just quoting this because lmao

Captain Hygiene posted:


Maybe he won't even need to ask this time :unsmith:

Nuns with Guns
Jul 23, 2010

It's fine.
Don't worry about it.

Kay Kessler posted:

Recently, mod of Trad Games, Ettin, announced he was stepping down. It was revealed later that he was sued for defamation (his country of Australia is notorious for being lovely about defamation lawsuits) by noted rapist, abuser, and harasser Zak Smith, and was forced to give an apology for calling him a rapist, abuser and harasser, as well as pay him an undisclosed sum. poo poo sucks.

Zak has a particular hatred for Ettin because of Ettin being pretty open about Zak being a piece of poo poo for years, and he's been petty in really bizarre ways, like giving names to his art pieces (he's a semi-successful artist) that match up to the names of tabletop RPGs Ettin wrote in order to gently caress with the google results of Ettin's games.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

God drat, Ettin. You're a drat hero. gently caress that piece of poo poo and gently caress the network of rapists and abusers that make up the world's legal systems.

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


Paladinus posted:

I'm not sure SA will survive now that all those people are going to move to the cool socialist offsite. If it's still up.

Fs in chat, guys!
https://i.imgur.com/5Fn5jnf.mp4

yay, i'm part of a saga

Bogus Adventure
Jan 11, 2017

More like "Bulges Adventure"

Mr. Fix It posted:

yay, i'm part of a saga



And you might be part of the final candidate toxx saga:

Announcement in C-SPAM I can't quote because the thread is closed posted:

toxx policy

candidate toxxes suck and are dumb. they get rid of good posters, and offer nothing of value. doing the hundreds of bans for them feels bad, and makes the community basically lose a whole day of other mod activity. that latter part might not sound terrible (no mods no masters), but not being able to check reports or do gang-tags or check the ol pm inbox means that people miss out on fun (like gang-tags) and people in need of assistance have to wait longer.

here is the new cspam toxx policy:

no candidate toxx threads
instead, you can have candidate clubhouses that require a certain gang-tag to post in them. posting in these threads w/o the appropriate tag will merit a probation. im open to other punishments ideas for these threads, like giving the trespasser a shame-av
candidate support gang-tags are no longer free. you gotta pay the and add them to yr title field yrself, or to give one to someone else
other kinds of toxx will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. toxxes that have a funny outcome when failed, instead of just getting banned, are going to be preferred

this is a brand new policy, so we might tweak things if anything really fuckin dumb happens related to it

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words
So the Bernie people now not only have to pay $10 to rereg, they have to pay more to get the right tag to post in a Bernie thread? SA just lost a ton of people, I'm not sure it's a good idea to put up more barriers for them to rejoin

Grandmother of Five
May 9, 2008


I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

Pick posted:

Seems credible to me. It was a stupid mistake, but I think jumping to the assumption that she's a for real pedophile doesn't really make sense in this context.

Agreed & good job + thanks @ the un-perma on Avs

Anyway, RIP to the one million politics posters. I don't know much about US politics, due to being extremely foreign, and that candidate may be very sympathetic for all I know, but I hope zero of them re-reg, so that the PYF meme thread will have less memes about US politics and more of those memes with the screaming lady and the cat.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Anne Whateley posted:

So the Bernie people now not only have to pay $10 to rereg, they have to pay more to get the right tag to post in a Bernie thread? SA just lost a ton of people, I'm not sure it's a good idea to put up more barriers for them to rejoin
well the first one they already signed up for when they toxxed, and the second one is an option for them to use instead of toxxing again in the future. neither of them are mandatory unless you have brain worms.

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Anne Whateley posted:

So the Bernie people now not only have to pay $10 to rereg, they have to pay more to get the right tag to post in a Bernie thread? SA just lost a ton of people, I'm not sure it's a good idea to put up more barriers for them to rejoin

They have to pay an extra five bucks to circlejerk in a thread that's only for other people who paid five bucks to circlejerk in.

CaptainSarcastic
Jul 6, 2013



Ghostlight posted:

well the first one they already signed up for when they toxxed, and the second one is an option for them to use instead of toxxing again in the future. neither of them are mandatory unless you have brain worms.

I would simply like to remind you that we are talking about C-SPAM here, so...

weed cat
Dec 23, 2010

weed cat is back, and he loves to suck dick



:sueme:
you can just pay for a gang tag? i thought they were only handed out from on high

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011



Once they're added once you can technically buy them by just img-linking them in your title. For the most part it's considered taboo to just slap on random gang tags though unless you're part of that "club".

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost
skim-ble-shanks the rail-way cat!

Mr. Fix It
Oct 26, 2000

💀ayyy💀


weed cat posted:

you can just pay for a gang tag? i thought they were only handed out from on high

just need to use [img] tags in the text field. Caveat: images need to already be on the SA servers.

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dee eight
Dec 18, 2002

The Spirit
of Maynard

:catdrugs:

Kazinsal posted:

Once they're added once you can technically buy them by just img-linking them in your title. For the most part it's considered taboo to just slap on random gang tags though unless you're part of that "club".

I had gang tags thrust upon me twice. Both times I asked the mods to remove them please. It was like waking up and finding a tattoo that I never asked for.

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