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Eidorian said:
I wouldn't trust the Demi-God title as being indicative of the user's experience. I've run into quite a few newbie Demi-Gods.
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Yeah, I used to think they were the experienced, older, calmer members but I apparently even a total ******* can simply buy the title.

A better yardstick is someone with an icon who *hasn't* paid and just has the "member" title. It means they have been posting regularly for over a year and haven't left or had any major problems that would get them kicked out in all that time.

MacDawg said:
I tend to report about as many posts as I make :eek:

Sometimes I wonder if maybe I am a pest in that regard, but the posts I report are usually deleted or the thread is wastelanded, so maybe not.

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No offense but if as many posts offend you as posts you actually make yourself, you are seriously mixed up.

The icon is for reporting a post that is offensive and needs to be deleted. If you are reporting that many posts, you are doing a dis-service to serious discourse and missing the whole point of forums in general. The mods are overworked and generally delete anything they are asked to delete. What makes you think that censoring the board so heavily is *your* job? I've been here for about a year and a half, posting three or four times a day and I have yet to report a single post for being offensive or needing deletion.

How could there possibly be that many posts that you want deleted? :confused:
 
Virgil-TB2 said:
No offense but if as many posts offend you as posts you actually make yourself, you are seriously mixed up.

The icon is for reporting a post that is offensive and needs to be deleted. If you are reporting that many posts, you are doing a dis-service to serious discourse and missing the whole point of forums in general. The mods are overworked and generally delete anything they are asked to delete. What makes you think that censoring the board so heavily is *your* job? I've been hear for about a year and a half, posting three or four times a day and I have yet to report a single post for being offensive or needing deletion.

How could there possibly be that many posts that you want deleted? :confused:
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You're mistaken; the "Report Post" is for posts that are problematic in any way as related to Forum Rules. This includes dupes, wrong sub-forum, etc. I'm "offended" by a lot, but I may not report it because it doesn't violate one of the Forum rules. If those posts are getting deleted, then they pose a problem for the mods and they are enforcing said rules. An individual's decision to report is not an indication of or guaranty of deletion-worthiness. In point of fact, most posts I have reported haven't been deleted, because they were just relocated to the correct sub-forum, or my interpretation was wrong, and the reviewing mod took no action. If a member was felt to be over-reporting, that could bring out their own ultimate banishment for abusing the system as well.
 
This thread is getting off topic, and that is once reason why posts get deleted. If the discussion does not add anything to the conversation the posts will be deleted. It doesn't matter if they are offensive posts or not.
 
I don't think this has been discussed before, but what would you guys think of having a very small icon next to or below Contributor and Demi-God titles. Similar to the blue ribbons that occasionally pop up (iBlue for example), maybe something like a small chest etc. It would almost serve as its own FAQ if it were clickable to the contribution info page.

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Anyone with an avatar (500+ posts) should be given some consideration in the grand scheme of things.

This way, personal grievance, originating from an individual Mod, would not be so "final".
 
iJohnHenry said:
Anyone with an avatar (500+ posts) should be given some consideration in the grand scheme of things.

This way, personal grievance, originating from an individual Mod, would not be so "final".
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I'm curious why should anyone with a 'tar have special consideration? Just because you have 'tar doesn't mean you're not an ******.
 
MacNut said:
This thread is getting off topic, and that is once reason why posts get deleted. If the discussion does not add anything to the conversation the posts will be deleted. It doesn't matter if they are offensive posts or not.
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anybody else think this thread has run its course?

i kept thinking it would die a natural death, but now i think someone needs to kill it


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Grimace said:
I don't think this has been discussed before, but what would you guys think of having a very small icon next to or below Contributor and Demi-God titles. Similar to the blue ribbons that occasionally pop up (iBlue for example), maybe something like a small chest etc. It would almost serve as its own FAQ if it were clickable to the contribution info page.
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I think it might be a good idea if it were used instead of the current demi-god and contributor titles (thus reserving the demi-god title for moderators), otherwise adding an icon in addition to the titles would simply add another layer of confusion.
 
Teh Don Ditty said:
I'm curious why should anyone with a 'tar have special consideration? Just because you have 'tar doesn't mean you're not an ******.
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Fair question.

If they haven't shot themselves in the foot in 500+ posts, it is a reasonable assumption that they are compus-mentus.

The Internet is a viable place, and Mods would do well to respect that fact.
 
Teh Don Ditty said:
I'm curious why should anyone with a 'tar have special consideration? Just because you have 'tar doesn't mean you're not an ******.
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Status symbol does not necessarily make you right. A newbie could be just as right as a person with 20,000 posts. It doesn't mean anything.

MacDawg said:
anybody else think this thread has run its course?

i kept thinking it would die a natural death, but now i think someone needs to kill it.]
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It is just rehash of what was said the first 2 pages at this point.
 
EricNau said:
I think it might be a good idea if it were used instead of the current demi-god and contributor titles (thus reserving the demi-god title for moderators), otherwise adding an icon in addition to the titles would simply add another layer of confusion.
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I think Demi-God is a little over the top and would prefer a small ribbon, umm, blue, I think, yes blue would be nice :)
 
OzExige said:
I think Demi-God is a little over the top and would prefer a small ribbon, umm, blue, I think, yes blue would be nice :)
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Me too. I think I may put in a request to be a Contributor. Even I get confused sometimes with all the Demis running wild!

Or, we could just change Demi-God to Dollar-God :)
 
Grimace said:
Me too. I think I may put in a request to be a Contributor. Even I get confused sometimes with all the Demis running wild!

Or, we could just change Demi-God to Dollar-God :)
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Dollar-God, yes I like that too, the God of the almighty Dollar, very nice, very nice indeed.
 
OzExige said:
Dollar-God, yes I like that too, the God of the almighty Dollar, very nice, very nice indeed.
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Maybe Euro-God and Pound-God could follow. :) I know that continuing this path is annoying so I will stop the joke suggestions.

However, I still find it funny that people are so against changing a confusing arbitrary name. If you came to the site for the first time and the designation was something totally different, you wouldn't care as much.

"I wanna be a GOD of some sort! My forum happiness depends on it!" :rolleyes:
 
Good lord - the system in place is working fine. The hair-brained "noobs" just need to get over it. With a little reading (I know, it's asking way, way too much... really) they'll catch on. Sure they'll whine and complain, as they always do, but I see no future benefit from changing the way things currently are just to appease them.

The contributors know what is going on - the majority of the every-day users know what is going on - and the people who have more posts than what should be legally possible (yes, Mad Jew, this is a jab at you! :D) obviously have this incorporated into their collective memory / DNA. Why change something that will have an effect on ALL forum members for the itsy bitsy tiny group that is complaining?

Just my thought on the subject, since everyone else is chiming in.
 
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