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Old 10/04/07, 1:03 PM   #31
Stalkman
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Originally Posted by diospadre View Post
If the same rules applied to the private forums as the public forums every person in EJ would be banned.
That's a terse summary of what I was getting at.

Noooooooooooo springs... he hehe

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Old 10/04/07, 1:15 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by Stalkman View Post
That's a terse summary of what I was getting at.
What we need is a demonstration. I think Howdy Folks has spent enough time languishing in XML Xchange, it ought to be moved someplace more.. public

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Old 10/04/07, 1:30 PM   #33
• Snowy
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Originally Posted by Fogbug View Post
What we need is a demonstration. I think Howdy Folks has spent enough time languishing in XML Xchange, it ought to be moved someplace more.. public
Artuse thread IMO.

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Old 10/04/07, 1:43 PM   #34
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Oh, how this thread made me giggle. Was that the intention? Was this a "Set an example for the rest of his accounts" type of thing, hehe?


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Old 10/04/07, 1:47 PM   #35
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Oh man, how did I miss this thread?

It's hard to add anything that haven't been said already, but suffice to say you deserved all the infractions you got, and instead of crying about them, you would have benefited by learning from your mistakes instead of doing this.
The only reason we moderate these forums is because they would be unreadable otherwise, and since the forums are pretty enjoyable now, I like to think we're doing a decent job.

I've reversed infractions before when people have fixed their mistakes, but when someone just keeps adding noise, it's best for everyone that we go our separate ways.

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Old 10/04/07, 2:07 PM   #36
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The Internet is a title, and is capitalized.
At this point, it's a wash. Some (eg Wired News) use internet, some use Internet. I prefer lowercase myself.

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Old 10/04/07, 2:12 PM   #37
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Well it's acceptable both ways in certain contexts. When referring to the one, the only Internet, it's considered a title and should be capitalized. The "internet" that I saw on that site you linked was talking about a "broadband internet connection", which is acceptable to leave lower case.

I don't think there are any other words in English that get this kind of inconsistent treatment, but anyway...

Back to the troll.

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Old 10/04/07, 2:24 PM   #38
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eg:

Originally Posted by Wired
"Did you ever see her downloading songs on the internet?" Troder asked him.
See also:

Internet capitalization conventions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Old 10/04/07, 2:35 PM   #39
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Apparently people have been arguing about this since I left college...

I'll humbly withdraw jab #2 directed at the aforementioned troll simply based on this:

In formal usage, the word Internet is traditionally treated as a proper noun and written with a capital first letter.
...lower-case "internet" is more prevalent than Internet on blogs, personal web pages, and chat rooms.

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Old 10/04/07, 2:54 PM   #40
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shutup greybone

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Old 10/04/07, 4:52 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by Stangg View Post
...I love how these boards are run and normally spend the start of my day trolling through the ban hammer posts.
I do it in reverse order. Go straight to my subscribed threads, read what's new, then head off to browse the first page of each forum. After I have the "business" out of the way, I open up each infraction that isn't solely Grammar, and take the time to read each one and silently laugh. It's a great stress reliever.

Once all of that is finished, I go to my own guild's forums, and repeat.

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Old 10/04/07, 5:28 PM   #42
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All the fun happens when I'm not around ;_;

<Blackpatch> Double-Neg: is this where we believe with sure faith but zero proof in the existence of a boethius who administrates the forums
#EJ IRC, Come by and we will talk about religion!

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Old 10/04/07, 9:02 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by Double-Neg View Post
All the fun happens when I'm not around ;_;

But apparently you are a rich man in Uganda, you should go chase fun there.

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Old 10/04/07, 10:45 PM   #44
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lol

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Old 10/05/07, 4:43 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by Mr. Troll View Post
get off the high horses you ride
I don't own a horse. But if I did, I certainly wouldn't get it high.

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