]You don't have a wife or any daughters so you're good.

How do you know?

Regardless he was still an asshole to those around him.

Actually, I think that a Sep7agon let's play could be fun.

Kinda like our podcasts with gameplay as a backdrop and less circlejerking.

Sort of like dissecting what we enjoy the game and stuff.

That could be cool, no?

Go have a party.
Be a normie.
Shit son

Being a normie is for chumps

besides i don't like any of the people here, as per usual

i invited them as a courtesy

Yeah they're a trophy for extracting them so i have that too

excited for that prospect

Yeah

especially since they're supposed to be badasses

also, I hope Kojima is a playable character

fuck Konami otherwise

It's literally an AC game with a car in a desert.

Basically, it looks shit.

Remids me of AC4

Hey Das/Verb, do you guys mind if you talk completely in spoilers tags?

Particularly, Das, I don't want to infer what you mean based on context and what I know.

Quote from: Sadladin on August 30, 2015, 12:31:39 PM

Quote from: Big Boss on August 30, 2015, 12:30:53 PM

New Vegas should be able to hold me over until Tuesday.

What about MGS4?

I gave up during act 2

Lol why?

I don't think so then again, I'm not much of a MGS fan as well.

I don't want to reveal my thought process out of fear that I might get something else spoiled for me. I just...

I've been putting things together in my head and it makes a lot of sense. A lot.

Well lets say that feature comes in and gets implemented across the board for any post that breaks or bends the rules, so many posts will be spoilered pointlessly, on top of idiots abusing it, that's it's really just a waste of staff time to deal with.

Hence, the punishments for those who abuse the system as a deterrent not to.

As it stands you can only report once a minute. This could be increased as well.

Or like Verb said, multiple reports to one post spoiler it.

He said that? Must've misunderstood him, then.

But yeah, that's certainly a good idea.

Im no MGS fan but it was definitely a great thread. Even though I don't plan on getting the game I could definitely feel the excitement. It'd be cool to get more threads like that for other big releases.

Thanks man. I thought it was a fun idea, and everyone just went with it.

It was pretty much ruined after Gatsby but there's still going to be lots of discussion, post-release. I too would like to see this idea for a thread expanded on to other things, like movies and like you said, other games.

I think it works a lot better than having individual threads that might not get the attention they need.

I really think we shouldnt have mods/monitors that many people favor

The reason we favour him is because he'd be the best at it, not because we like him.

By that logic, you'd only want people who would be shit at the moderator position to be mods.

YouTube

DYKG Finally did a MGS video.
(I wouldn't click on it Saladin.)

Thanks for the heads-up, holmes.

Anyways, I'll add my thoughts on what should be done, however unrealistic.

1. FAR greater ban times/less warning/harsher punishments off the bat.
It's so difficult to break the rules in your everyday posts that if you do break them, you deserve to be punished. Furthermore, a greater punishment will work as a greater deterrence than "Oh, you don't get to come online for a few days. Sorry." That's barely a nuisance.

2. Posting spoilers for ANY media, given they're in a 3 week/month (video games for the former, movies and other things for the latter) bubble around its release date (3 weeks/months before and after) should result in HARSH punishments, minimum 2 weeks ban on first offence. This is obviously exclusive to posting spoilers with malicious intent, and would not apply to, say LC or Sandtrap's posts which were obviously unintentional. Also, threads that explicitly state "SPOILER ZONE", obviously, these rules don't apply (unless the thing that someone is spoiling is not relevant.) For example, if my thread was an MGSV spoiler thread, and Gats had posted, say, Star Wars Episode 7 spoilers with the intent of pissing us off, he needs a punishment.

3. The report function puts a unique SPOILER TAG around the post until a mod sees it, at which point they can either remove the comment or remove the spoiler tag around it. There's no way for this to be abused, and I expect it to be implemented. For example, as soon as Aria saw what Gats had posted, she could have reported it and that would have spoiler-tagged it for me and many others. Crisis averted. This needs to be implemented. Period.

4. Forum specific moderators/monitor hybrid. Specifically for gaming, I don't think the other forums need it, though Flood could eventually considering it'll probably attract all other kinds of media. These hybrids would ideally be able to do the following:
-ban users from that specific forum
-edit/remove specific posts
-move/lock/hide threads
All of which are only temporary until a superior takes a look. At which point, they can deal with the problems accordingly.  Specifically for Gats, if I was a hybrid in that scenario, I would have been able to:
-ban him from gaming
-remove his posts completely
Both of which wouldn't be permanent, and would only last until a moderator disapproves of them. Obviously I don't think someone should be banned from Gaming and not the other forums indefinitely, but it's to mitigate their potential to create an even bigger mess for that hybrid.
Truthfully, if you implemented my other suggestions, this one seems pretty redundant.

And finally, 5. The application for thread-specific extra permissions. I'll create an example.
My MGSV thread has existed for 20+ days, and I intend to update it for weeks to come in support of the game and our minor MGS subcommunity that we have on Sep7agon. We don't have enough MGS fans to have constant threads, and I like the idea of having one, giant thread instead of multiple because it unifies us. I digress, that's not the point. The point is, that I plan on taking care of that thread and constantly update it.
If I wanted absolute control, so that I could clean up the constant attack of derailment (Challenger, at least twice, came into my thread despite not being an MGS fan and wanting to piss us off) and spoilers, I could apply for extra permissions in that thread. I would get to edit/remove posts and lock/hide the thread. I wouldn't have this power ANYWHERE ELSE, ONLY in that thread.
If I abused it, it would simply be revoked, and all the changes I made could be reversed. And if you didn't think I was trustworthy at the get-go, you could deny me the ability at all.
I really don't see how this could meaningfully be abused at all, because the effects of its abuse could completely reversed.




That's all I got.

Thunder.

That's an actual spoiler, right?