More like the crisis of people not reading the CoC before posting...

What do you mean by passing of Bradders? We talking ban or death?

Yeah I remember the ban/lock, missed yesterdays thread though.

And welcome back Chase- i request more HK builds and less work drama threads. Maybe some BBQ sliders.

Sure who wants a semi auto rifle if it's stupid looking?

We we haven't had one of these threads in almost 12-hours ....



I've been here 20-years, in the General Discussion for about 17-18 of those as moderator for a while and staff forever since.

What's not changed are the rules hear (much).

Users who think it's acceptable to violate rules 15 and 20 times have been around since the 1990's. They were just one or two years on the site when they got booted for failing to follow the community standards. Now it's THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT because it's now guys who have been here many many years and established themselves and made friends. They didn't think enough about the community nor their friends here to actually follow the rules. There might have been a 1-2% advance in the forum's rules (waiting for you to point out the egregious and heinous suppression of your ability to post here) in the last 20-years all due in reaction for something, shall we say, not good here?

In the close the 6000 or so reports I've handled the majority of them I've done NOTHING. The person reporting doesn't understand the conduct code nor the reasons behind the rules. Of the remaining minority of reports a majority of those get an edit and a poke i.e. [personal attack removed - Paul] which leaves that minority of a minority who get warnings.

A comment like "Fuck you Nic***83 and hope your mother fucking good-for-nothing, inbred family dies of painful cancer" is not going to get a simple edit and have a nice day. That's going to draw my attention and a well needed time-out.

So beyond giving knocks upside the head, being issued warnings, and timeouts we're out of tools. So if you've been knocked upside the head and continue to run your mouth you're going to find yourself awarded some warnings (which are a warning) and possibly some timeouts. Once you get a few of those and prove to us you don't care about our communities rules then you're in the >1% of people that earn a lock and that makes you a special kind of knucklehead. After the 4th or 50th time it's clear we're having difficulty communicating or you don't fucking care. We have run out of discipline at that point and either have to put up with the person's nonsense or not.

Normally we choose not to.

It seems what the majority of the 20-30 threads on this subject are asking for really is for the gentlemen's club to become more like a drunken locker room.

Go over there ---> and throw poop at each other, call each other names, insult family members, disrespect each other, get someone beat up or even shot ... and let the lawyers clean up your mess.

But count me out.

And I'm fine with that.

I haven't been told to die yet today (it's only 3:30 locally).

Tic tac toe anyone?

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See I would, but I got my M4 Carbine stuck in a fishing net.

I still get a kick that they gave stickman his own sub forum after he left here all bent out of shape