Elitist Assholes - Page 3

Stalkman · 10/04/07, 1:03 PM

Originally Posted by diospadre

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.

• Fogbug · 10/04/07, 1:15 PM

Originally Posted by Stalkman

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

• Snowy · 10/04/07, 1:30 PM

Originally Posted by Fogbug

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.

Ailetha · 10/04/07, 1:43 PM

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?

Greybone · 10/04/07, 1:47 PM

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.

• Vykromond · 10/04/07, 2:07 PM

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.

Ozzmar · 10/04/07, 2:12 PM

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.

• Vykromond · 10/04/07, 2:24 PM

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

Ozzmar · 10/04/07, 2:35 PM

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.

diospadre · 10/04/07, 2:54 PM

shutup greybone

TheSilverHand · 10/04/07, 4:52 PM

Originally Posted by Stangg

...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.