My question would be, why were certain 'foes' of said leadership banned, while others that were not of any significance (namely me) as well as those that are friends with the same, that were also guilty of the same type of actions not banned? IMHO, that warrants some looking into by JP.

you just listed them man! go after JP, the admins, or the mods- ban. 'go after' might need defined, but its not a hard concept. make the distinction between smack related to 'in game' and smack as pertains to the operation of eis, and the forum.

the dupe account thing? anyone with half a brain knows this isnt something you can efficiently hide. you invariably blow it yourself without having your IP exposed(klepto posting as/answering for comet as one example). that has nothing to do with smack tho- that is a general forum rule which i assumed was already in place.

i personally think that all of the allegations of cheating are just ignorant. everyone wants 'proof'. everyone wants chat logs(these arent hard to whip up on the fly btw), screenshots, and everyone calls out everyone else without even this type of 'proof'. but, i dont see how you can make a rule about it... except for making the game itself and the staff as such off limits...

edited to add- if smack does get a mod, they should have to operate in a very specific fashion, only enforcing the one rule- jp, mods, admins, offlimits as to how eis and the forum are run, everything else goes. otherwise said mod would just delete everything that they personally didnt like. id expect you to run thru quite a few mods tho... most would prolly allow their personal feelings to color their modding...

Unless you adapted something like Robert's Rules of Order http://www.robertsrules.com/

I know that's overkill for a forum, but if the admin created some simple guidlines, making them as Black & White as possible - no room for "interpretation" then we're good.

We all have personal feelings, we all have bad days but KIS and it's done, end of argument.

The fun part about this game - it stirs passions
The bad part about this game - it stirs passions

Simple, attack a trader... No problem. Attack a person, ban. Simple. And I mean delete their account, final. A few people with test it and get banned and deleted. The rest will focus on smack talking traders.

The duplicate account issue is easy as well. If Cerne wants to be helix, delete Cerne. All is good. If Big D wants to be reaper, delete Big D, all is good.

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i dont see that as being simple tho. for example- 'booger, you are a bad tw player. you suck.' you suck is a personal attack? or is it a reference to you sucking at tw? huge whopping amounts of grey there.

any smack talk is a personal attack by definition. it doesnt matter if i say 'helix' or 'bob'.

DITTO! I couldn't agree more.

There is a huge difference between telling someone that they suck at tw, or that your a moron ect, and calling someone a fag or a retard, Come on people you know where the line is, if you don't your parents failed.

wouldnt that fall under a personal attack? see what i mean about grey?



there isnt tho. unless you want smack to consist of nothing other than player 1:'man you suck at TW' player 2:'no i dont you do'.

So booger do you think its ok to call someone the N word? to me that is the same thing as calling someone a faggot or posting a pic of a little retarded girl. The admin here is doing the right thing by asking us to give our opinions, that is mine.

your post here is full of offensive words. should you be banned for it? hells bells man, this is in open discussion!

you cannot control smack.

if you do. it's not smack.
everyone is going to have a different interpretation of Any rule.
black and white ? it doesn't have to be 'gray'... cause there are plenty shades of black & white.

whether you call Big D a big dummy
or you call reaper a big dummy
or you call Dearl a big dummy.

it's all the same person. is it a personal attack? who knows. i can make up a big long nasty sentence and say its all about his tw game.

everyone will not, ever, be satisfied.

this. this squared if possible.

There are lines between Game Smack, Forum Smack and outright personal attacks. The forums at uzaclan.net are a good example of what forums should be like, especially if you want some of the younger players to get interested in the game so that they can become older players.

There are strict rules and guidelines regarding posting, since we have members from all over the world, ranging in age from an 8 yr old who is deadly with a bolt action carbine, through people who are retired.

Game smack is fun. Forum smack should usually be handled by PM with the Moderator you have a problem with. Leave the outright personal attacks back in elementary school. Even the 8-12yr old members of the uZa Clan know that much.

I agree that the last round of smack in the Smack forums probably crossed some lines.

I just don't see how you put a set of rules on it.

If it can be done.. good.
If not.. I guess we won't have a smack forum
or
we will and it will be a weak smack forum.. maybe call the forum Wanna-B Smack