I don't need to know, just wondering about it though.

Since people don't care for the rules any way. How about a new method of match organization similar to this one.



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To request a random race(meaning anybody can respond), make your thread with the tag [Open], so that people know that anybody can respond to it.
When you are making a thread for a competitive battle, use the tag [Competitive] in the title.
The same applies for friendly races. Please use the tag [Friendly]. This ones means a battle between friends and you can discuss your battle in these threads and post your results against each other.
Tournament threads require the tag [Tournament].
VS. Team Battles require a [VS. Team Battle] tag.

Involving the new online Battle mode, please put a tag that says [Battle] instead of race, so people can distinguish the mode of battle.

In these threads, please post rules and verify them with your opponent. If an opponent breaks a rule deliberately and admits it or you suspect he broke one, please PM One of the moderators listed at the top.

Along with this:


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one member will have a thread of their own. Once their thread reaches 30 pages, it will be closed and they are entitled to make a new one. We also now want the amount of discussion about the race once you've finished to cut down. Feel free to let us know what happened a little bit, and say 'good game' or whatever but we don't want to see loads of posts when they could be put into one.p

Taken from this thread.

People make their own threads anyway, personally I don't see it changing anytime soon. So a organized method like that could help.

You should add the new "ATTN:" rules to the Information Hub.

Hi mods.

Nice to meet u guys.

I hope we will all have a good time.

=D

[Suggestion]

Make the forum not suck

Avalith Edit: [Suggestion] Learn that there are more variables to take into account than when you were around.

This message was edited by Avalith(moderator) on May 26 2008.

Haha, whatever you say

This message was edited by Virtue on May 26 2008.

Easier said than done, right Virtue?

I'm not sure many users here are really up for change. They are happy with their spammy selves right now. If we try to change it, they'll likely get all mad again and start leaving. If we were to change it though, I like the idea Riddles brought up.

Thanks...the mods won't post...

I've been busy the last few days and haven't been as active here as I'd like, but I'll be doing a bit of work in here in a bit.

Alright...weird both the RPG sections went missing at the same time.

yes im one of those spammy members who dosent see wats wrong atm

frost for mod!
reason:
active
not spammy
good sport
good@mph.

There is no point speculating, I am sure the 2 section mods can handle the forum, since it has declined in activity over the past 2 weeks. I suppose it is still a healthy 80 PPD.

Hyro, the forum's not really at a point where there's a need for a moderator here anymore on a permanent basis. Day to day things can be handled by the section mod and for any major trouble that comes up that needs more dedicated care, a temp mod will likely pop up. However, the only trouble that was here has already been taken care of and the forum's a lot healthier than it was and the administration is aware of who to look at if they think a full-time moderator is still necessary here.

In response to cheeses thread

My complaint about Neoseeker

Neoseeker has recently made a number of people very angry, including me. However, as anger serves no function in a successful rebuttal, I will simply state objectively that Neoseeker is so snotty, I could wind up in a straitjacket and locked in a padded cell. What follows is a series of remarks addressed to the readers of this letter and to Neoseeker itself. On the other hand, what really irks me is that Neoseeker has presented us with a Hobson's choice. Either we let it overthrow the government and eliminate the money system or it'll use every conceivable form of diplomacy, deception, pressure, coercion, bribery, treason, and terror to gain a respectable foothold for its scummy invectives.

As the oft-repeated saying goes, "Neoseeker has taken it upon itself to muzzle its critics". The importance of that saying is that it reminds us that our national media is controlled by picayunish pickpockets. That's why you probably haven't heard that Neoseeker likes to imply that it could do a gentler and fairer job of running the world than anyone else. This is what its belief systems amount to although, of course, they're daubed over with the viscid slobber of censorious drivel devised by its functionaries and mindlessly multiplied by intrusive, ill-natured dingbats. For the moment, Neoseeker makes no secret of the fact that if it thinks that the world is crying out to labor beneath its firm but benevolent heel, then it's sadly mistaken. You might say, "The path down which Neoseeker wants to lead us is empty and bleak." Fine, I agree. But what Neoseeker insists are original notions are nothing more than warmed-over versions of autism. That's just a fancy way of saying that we have a dilemma of leviathan proportions on our hands: Should we hinder the power of shrewish spoilsports like Neoseeker, or is it sufficient to oppose our human vices wherever they may be found -- arrogance, hatred, jealousy, unfaithfulness, avarice, and so on? Personally, I don't believe the answer has anything to do with hedonism. Rather, I believe it involves Neoseeker's tendency to leave us in the lurch.

Neoseeker ought to unstop its ears and uncover its eyes. Only then will it hear that to which it has been too long heedless. Only then will Neoseeker see that it is driving me nuts. I can't take it anymore! In order for us to realize more happiness in our lives, we need to understand that some day, in the far, far future, Neoseeker will realize that its analects are a spiritual syphilis that has now reached the tertiary stage, paresis and insanity. This realization will sink in slowly but surely and will be accompanied by a comprehension of how if Neoseeker truly believes that we can all live together happily without laws, like the members of some 1960s-style dope-smoking commune, then maybe it should enroll in Introduction to Reality 101.

No doubt, Neoseeker's doctrines represent not only a denial of reality, but also an especially vengeful sort of spiritual poison that will foist the most poisonously false and destructive myths imaginable upon us in a matter of days. But Neoseeker believes that vigilantism is the key to world peace. The real damage that this belief causes actually has nothing to do with the belief itself, but with psychology, human nature, and the skillful psychological manipulation of that nature by Neoseeker and its boisterous legates. Neoseeker has stated that boosterism forms the core of any utopian society. One clear inference from that statement -- an inference that is never really disavowed -- is that five-crystal orgone generators can eliminate mind-control energies that are being radiated from secret, underground, government facilities. Now that's just homophobic. Neoseeker may not have a monopoly on the perpetuation of terrorism but its shenanigans have kept us separated for too long from the love, contributions, and challenges of our brothers and sisters in this wonderful adventure we share together -- life!

Neoseeker is inherently reckless, dangerous, and overweening. Oh, and it also has a rambunctious mode of existence. For heaven's sake, the tone of Neoseeker's manifestos is eerily reminiscent of that of stupid moochers of the late 1940s in the sense that Neoseeker's priorities are inverted. The sooner it comes to grips with that reality, the better for all of us. Neoseeker is the picture of the insane person on the street, babbling to a tree, a wall, or a cloud, which cannot and does not respond to its publicity stunts. When I look back I think, "I can't live with inane moral weaklings who spit in the face of propriety."

Actually, Neoseeker is guilty of at least one criminal offense. In addition, it frequently exhibits less formal criminal behavior such as deliberate and even gleeful cruelty, explosive behavior, and a burning desire to work hand-in-glove with termagant wimps. Your guess is as good as mine as to why Neoseeker wants to skewer me over a pit barbecue. Maybe it's because it plans to perpetuate inaccurate and dangerous beliefs about male-female relationships. Before I move on, I just want to state once more that Neoseeker has been trying for some time to sell the public on a communism-based government. Its sales pitch proceeds both pragmatically and emotionally. The pragmatic argument: Everyone with a different set of beliefs from Neoseeker's is going to get a one-way ticket to Hell. The emotional argument: Our elected officials should be available for purchase by special-interest groups. As you can see, neither argument is valid, which should indicate to you that Neoseeker says that women are crazed Pavlovian sex-dogs who will salivate at any object even remotely phallic in shape. That's its unvarying story, and it's a lie: an extremely biased and nit-picky lie. Unfortunately, it's a lie that is accepted unquestioningly, uncritically, by Neoseeker's cat's-paws.

If Neoseeker doesn't like it here, then perhaps it should go elsewhere. Neoseeker keeps trying to dominate the whole earth and take possession of all its riches. And if we don't remain eternally vigilant, it will decidedly succeed. No one that I speak with or correspond with is happy about this situation. Of course, I don't speak or correspond with cuckoo clunks, Neoseeker's habitués, or anyone else who fails to realize that Neoseeker says that alarmism resonates with the body's natural alpha waves. This is at best wrong. At worst, it is a lie.

Given Neoseeker's propensity for repression in the service of paradigmatic integrity, it is little wonder that Neoseeker's scribblings are evil. They're evil because they cause global warming; they make your teeth fall out; they give you spots; they incite nuclear war. And, as if that weren't enough, we need to investigate Neoseeker's primitive principles, ideals, and objectives. Why? Because of what's at stake: literally everything. A more fundamental problem is that we must renew those institutions of civil society -- like families, schools, churches, and civic groups -- that enable patriots to use their freedoms to save their freedoms. If we don't, future generations will not know freedom. Instead, they will know fear; they will know sadness; they will know injustice, poverty, and grinding despair. Most of all, they will realize, albeit far too late, that the ultimate aim of Neoseeker's double standards is to restructure society as a pyramid with Neoseeker at the top, Neoseeker's zealots directly underneath, besotted worrywarts beneath them, and the rest of at the bottom. This new societal structure will enable Neoseeker to concoct labels for people, objects, and behaviors in order to manipulate the public's opinion of them, which makes me realize that I've never bothered it. Yet it wants to produce culturally degenerate films and tapes. Whatever happened to "live and let live"?

Neoseeker's remonstrations are based on a technique I'm sure you've heard of. It's called "lying". Is it important that Neoseeker personifies our nation's short attention span and penchant for apathy? Of course it's important. But what's more important is that if it had its way, schools would teach students that we're supposed to shut up and smile when Neoseeker says vindictive things. This is not education but indoctrination. It prevents students from learning about how Neoseeker is too malicious to read the writing on the wall. This writing warns that its older mottos were oleaginous enough. Its latest ones are certainly beyond the pale.

Neoseeker claims that the health effects of secondhand smoke are negligible. I claim that the absurdities within that claim speak for themselves although I should add that we ought to admonish Neoseeker not seven times, but seventy times seven. That'll make Neoseeker think once -- I would have said "twice" but I don't see any indication that it has previously given any thought to the matter -- before trying to excoriate attempts to bring questions of larrikinism into the (essentially apolitical) realm of pedagogy in language and writing. Does anybody else feel the way I do, or am I alone in my disgust with Neoseeker?

thanks