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I was joking

[quote author="TechnoWolf" data-cid="11991" data-time="1411508675">

like 4th channle?

Surprise, surprise. Dina has been vocal as fuck about all of that shit a few weeks ago on twitter. I'm not surprised in the least that they's censor the fuck out of the forums. That place is nothing but an echo chamber fer hugz

To be honest I've always had pretty good luck when it comes to Retro collecting.

 

Most of my rarer games I got for $2-$5 a piece. Some of the other ones I wanted I got for way less than market value, or through trades. The only thing I paid close to market value for was a copy of Pocky & Rocky with a messed up label. I think I spent around $39-40 on it, it's now worth around 70-80. In it's condition I could sell it for $50 easily, but I never will.

 

Thing you gotta do is just be patient. Go to different flea markets, yardsales, swap meets, goodwill/thrift stores, every weekend. The earlier the better. I don't know how your situation is i europe but the area I live in, in the states, has been a gold mine for me. Either no one around he collects, or I've been very, very lucky.

Quote from: "BSO"Well I think you?ve got Spider beat.

You have no idea what I'm capable of...

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Quote from: epicnightsThe comment about the kickstarter comments really resounds with me. As of recent, I've started seeing more of the "hug box" environment that the comments are always called out on, especially from users like Morningstar, Holo, and Steven. It's embarrassing to see them outright attacking people who mention any of the distress going on.

I'm pretty sure that everyone on the mod team would like to see them move to the forums at this point. We can't "force" them though. We don't have the ability to mod comments, and we're not going to start warning everyone posting on the them for spamming, that's just not reasonable. All we can do is try to encourage people to use the comments less and the forums more.

Well i think some public encouragement from mardinafune would remedy the situation. However you know full well of my suggestions from my email

Quote from: DunnoBroIs it just me or did BSO avoid addressing any of the points made by Truemighty.



Backer forum mods seem to have a knack for that.

Is it just me or are people completely disregarding the points he did make and labeling it as him "avoiding"  them altogether?



People are acting like he's actively contributing to some conspiracy to quiet all of the "dissenters" rather than trying to get their voices heard.



Refunds don't concern him, he's not an employee of DDM.



He's not an employee of Comcept, he can't get Dina fired anymore than she can get Inafune fired.



He's also an unpaid forum mod that participates and mods in his free time. He even said he took the position to try and promote some change. I've seen the change (I'm looking at you emails about the posts that lead to people's bans). Had it not been for him, we probably wouldn't have gotten those.



He's also responded to basically all of the emails I've sent to the modgmail personally. And when I say emails, I mean fucking novels. I have half of an encyclopedia set in my sent folder to the mod-gmail.



He can't control the way Pon or Damo moderates, mostly because he's not them, unless he has a giant case of multiple personality disorder and blacks out when he decides to post as them with no recollection of doing so. I doubt that's the case.



What he can do is see the errors of the other members moderation habits and address them privately to try and change how they approach people publicly, which he said he's doing.. Why on earth would he put other mods on blast on the forums for being fuck ups or not defend the company of the forum he mods for?  I'm sure that wouldn't bode well for his "employment".



He can't change the past, nor take back the bans that have already happened, nor can he make every. single. goddamn. change. everyone. fucking. demands. immediately.



Yea it fucking sucks that DDM told us to fuck off with refunds, yea it sucks we were banned for stupid shit, yes it sucks that Dina surrounded herself more-or-less with "yes men", but the kicker to all of this is that it wasn't BSO's fault nor doing and just because he's associated with them doesn't make him apart of the problem. Jesus christ.



inb4 I'm called a BSO whiteknight. You guys are starting to get a bit ridiculous.



/end rant

He has a point there Epic.

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Quote from: BSOAs a final note, we don't share information about warnings publicly.

Except Dina did mention Char was banned in Hmmmletsbrainstorms Ask Some Stuff thread. Kinda sending mixed signals here. Just pointing that out.

The fact that a ban itself happened isn't exactly private, and by forum design is able to be looked up. It was also relevant to the question of why the thread was edited.

Seeing as how there is no strike-through on the name of user group under it that says "banned", the only way of telling for sure is to access their profile page and see if you get an "access denied" page. So I would say the fact bans themselves happen are fairly private unless you go looking.



Also, I don't recall a question being asked in the thread. Dina told him that char was banned and therefore can't answer questions in his AMA because she deleted it so she edited his OP. If there was a question before that I must have missed it but as the thread stands now it looks like she posted it of her own accord to make a point, rather than to clear up confused forum members. Sounds like public shaming to me but, whatever.

Quote from: BSOAs a final note, we don't share information about warnings publicly.

Except Dina did mention Char was banned in Hmmmletsbrainstorms Ask Some Stuff thread. Kinda sending mixed signals here. Just pointing that out.

Quote from: BSOIt was hard enough getting them to agree that sharing the information privately would be fine, as they are very protective of private information.

I would argue that this particular bit of information was not made aware to a particular moderator that you all currently have "on staff". She seems to have missed that memo. Either way, I've sent you all an email regarding it.

Quote from: "BSO"Tired. Always tired.

Take some rest dude. It can't be fun dealing with my long-winded emails. I appreciate the job you're doing. I have no hard feelings toward you at all so no worries on that end.

Passed around on what?

A lot of pointless e-drama. So, the usual.