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Stop asking for the rules page to have the rules? Why?
Alerts are only there for a week.
and instead of they're there for seven days, they're actually only there until the 7th day of the week. Notifications are deleted on sundays
Sorry, I'm just trying to be constructive, I thought it was a reasonable request. Makes things easier on you if you gradually add rules that are already being enforced, instead of having to wait for the full ruleset to be drafted before adding anything
not gonna lie, i've literally never heard of that phrase before in my entire life, and had to google it because it sounded like pure nonsense and i thought he made a typo or something
one of my friends i talk to often is british too, and i've never heard him say it either
This is an English forum.
If you can't be trusted to behave properly then this isn't the place for you.
"Stop" is English though?
But honestly, I have a pretty wide vocabulary (not that I can rememebr the words 90% of the time when I want to use them, ffs...) and I've legitimately never come across that phrase in my life. I honestly thought it was an autocorrect-based typo until I googled it.
this is the dumbest thing to hyperfocus on, what the heck are you people doing
wasting time
Forum Discussion V. Pedantic Nonsense
In my defense I'm not really bothered by it. I was just pointing out that it seems to be a pretty uncommon phrase so it's reasonable people would get confused by it.
Stop
One of the rules on the rule page was treat others how you would want to be treated. I think it's pretty clear from that don't be a shitter, because I imagine you wouldn't want people to flame you.
You'd have to be a bit of a fool to sit there after getting validly banned to complain that specific wording wasn't on the rules page. This wasn't even open for interpretation, don't be a dick to people
That phrase is an english phrase, but it is obscure enough that native speakers don't recognize it.
If I were to type all my posts in "legalese", I still would be speaking english. But people would have a hard time understanding me.
I actually have no problem being in a place where people flame when discussions get heated. I think that's a perfectly valid interpretation of "treat others how you wish to be treated", it's how most human interaction goes. That's the problem with having vague "just common sense"/"standard etiquette"/"treat others how you wish to be treated" type stuff instead of an actual ruleset
Fuck my life.
I took curiosity in your Username, went to change username section and wrote ASCI (assumed it will say it's taken).
Thought it will prompt me if I am sure I want to change my username... it didn't.
Now I am stuck with this shit name.
If you have enough coins left, try changing it to ASIC again.
You're mistaken if you think I'm saying my ban wasn't valid, it totally falls under the umbrella you guys propose, I'm saying a hundred different interpretations could fall under it, too. I'm not contesting the ban, but a lot of people will, when you have a ruleset this vague, it's what you're setting yourselves up for. Garry's rules were ehh but at least they were direct and easy to understand. Sorry for trying to be constructive, I guess?
you can check for usernames by using the mention system... tedious and hacky!
Just take of those unicode characters that looks like a normal letter but isn't, and put it into the name field. So like "AS?C" (where '?' is replaced with an imitation of "I").
One thing I said early on, while garry was all in on making Facepunch a bit snappier - more threads, more often, in more places and all that - is that it was always a bit of a 'big deal' to make a thread on FP, as opposed to a place like Reddit where a thread basically feels like just another post, IMO. "Bans as warnings" and rules that felt arbitrary at times are one of the things that made people, especially new users, hesitant to post more freely.
And a lot of people actually liked that, I know I've seen a good chunk of FP say they thought the rules gave the site some higher posting standards, I don't know if it was the popular opinion, but it seemed like it. Then we did away with those rules, created a whole bunch of confusion, and now it seems we're mostly reverting back to what we had.
Great, now we can do away with the old problems, instead of creating new ones. More moderators is a must if we're going to retain rules where mod discretion is necessary, because it's easier to apply when the mod in question participates in the discussion and understands it, glad to hear Hezzy's working on that. The next obvious step is to clear up the rules as much as possible, I know I've stressed this point a lot, and I'll keep going because as of right now there's not enough progress IMO. I say it's best to listen to the community when it overwhelmingly disagrees with the vagueness of the new rules, instead of calling people fools and telling them to shut up when it's brought to your attention, but what do I know
So a user with a lot of posts and threads deleted his account which in turns straight up killed all the threads he made and created a lot of ghost pages. This shit's ridiculous.
Who you gonna call?
garry
Yep and if the last read post is on the last non ghost page, it takes you to page 1 instead. Clicking the ghost page also brings you to page 1.
I have no idea why posts of deleted users aren't just replaced with something like "[deleted]". Kind of ridiculous that this still hasn't been fixed.
there was little foresight involved when the ability to nuke yourself was introduced huh
This is probably the best idea because internally, reshuffling the entire database one post behind can be very computationally expensive. Enough to make page loads lag.
I know garry works as a gane dev first and foremost but its lame to drop off a project and start on another when one of said projects have an active userbase
leaving things unfinished seems to be a facepunch thing
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