OMGVBFLOL posted:

Hey everybody. There’s been some rumblings lately from the higher ups that a few things need to change around here. In the spirit of community, let’s all do our best to come up with some good, wholesome new rules.

No joking around in this thread!!! This is for serious discussion of what the best new rules in General Bull poo poo

OMGVBFLOL posted:

Rule: anyone who used a slur in their post gets a JINX. not gonna list the slurs and bad words here because i’m not going to jinx myself, but you know what they are. anyway, when you’re jinxed, for 1 week any words you post will get filtered and replaced with a paragraph from Moby Dick. to break your jinx early you have to mail a polite handwritten apology to the Something Awful LLC headquarters in [Missouri or Kansas or wherever the hell it is again, edit this before posting].

OMGVBFLOL posted:

Rule: Lots of forums have Idiot Kings (or “IKs” for those in the know), well GBS is going to have Village Idiots. The village idiot(s) is(are) randomly selected from the pool of posters who have had a thread goldmined within the last year. The selected Village Idiot(s) are, for the duration of the month, subject to the inverse of every gbs rule except the prohibition on NWS poo poo.

Examples of normal rules everyone is subject to: “Worthless Posts: We do not care if you are drunk or high; please do not inform us of either.”
“Low Content Posts: Please do not make posts containing no content (ie, "first post," "hello, I'm new here," etc.).“
"Forum Fuckery: Don't gently caress up the forums or any user on the forums. If you post a malicious link (any URL with spyware or code designed to annoy people) you will be banned."

Examples of their corresponding inverses that the Village Idiot(s) must follow: “Worthless Posts: We do care if you are drunk or high; please inform us of either.”
“Low Content Posts: Please make posts containing no content (ie, "first post," "hello, I'm new here," etc.).“
"Forum Fuckery: gently caress up the forums or any user on the forums. If you do not post a malicious link (any URL with spyware or code designed to annoy people) you will be banned."

chaosbreather posted:

I'm sick of everyone using jargon in here, people should have to define all the words they used in their posts.

all - each member of a set
define - communicate the meaning of
everyone - collectively, all people
here - this place, the Something Awful Forums
I'm - a contraction of 'I am', meaning the speaker, chaosbreather, is describing their state in the present tense
in - contained by
jargon - argot
of - a word that relates the preceding clause to the proceeding
people - humans posting to the Something Awful Forums
posts - messages shared on the Something Awful Forums
should have to - feel obligated to
sick - tired, or bored of, to the point of some form of psychological pain
the - singular definite article
their - indicates the following to be the posessions or creations of the human subjects in question
they - the collective group of people being referred to
use/using/used - exploit/exploiting/exploited, include/including/included or manipulate/manipulating/manipulated
words - a grouping of letters separated by non letters that when read communicate meanings

Third World Reggin posted:

Give each user in impzone a 10 hp bar that goes -1 for each post and at 0 they get banned

good posts get hp or something

and I dunno a fairy

FactsAreUseless posted:

Ideas being floated around the admin forum right now:

- Ban all discussion of the show Breaking Bad so that nobody spoils the ending, which is that Jesse comes back from the future and is revealed to be Walter White.
- All slurries are banned: this includes slush, slurpies, and ANY discussion of the Orange Julius franchise.
- Everyone gets a free DVD of Nukie with their Platinum membership.
- All probated and banned users will have access to Goons With Spoons.
- All the posters you want to be freed will be freed, but for each life we return to you we will take five more. That is the bargain, and that is the cost.

dad gay. so what posted:

I own nukie on vhs

8 track betamax posted:

I think a cool thing would be to un ban ever banned and Permabaned user for a couple weeks just to,see what happens.

I was gonna suggest that back when I was a mod but I got too busy with being the most ineffective mod in sa history

8 track betamax posted:

Good grief I didn't know not being a mod anymore meant it was open season of hurting my feelings

Sid Vicious posted:

i always liked the beta max kid

8 track betamax posted:

I think a cool thing would be to un ban ever banned and Permabaned user for a couple weeks just to,see what happens.

I was gonna suggest that back when I was a mod but I got too busy with being the most ineffective mod in sa history

Acne Rain posted:

Sid Vicious posted:

I did a drawing like that once

JiveHonky posted:

New rule: cram it.

JiveHonky posted:

New rule: cram it.

OMGVBFLOL posted:

Rule: any image currently on the mods’ poo poo List can only be posted in the form of a picture of a unique handwritten/hand-drawn image (no tablet bullshit!! a real drawing! on paper). You cannot re-use images; for every posting you must draw a new stock-photo-of-salad / happycat / ACES! etc.

Example:

Kuato posted:

Whoa! Can cut your hand on rules this edgy.

OctoberBlues posted:

JiveHonky posted:

I don't even know what to do when u post this I get all flustered and I drop my reading glasses

OctoberBlues posted:

You spread joy to the world spudsy, be happy.

Putty posted:

death to the spud

OctoberBlues posted:

Please don't wish death on JiveHonky