"i just noticed that this forum is full of non-diplomacy related threads. why dont you all go to some political discussion forum instead?"

What makes you assume we don't go to other forums ..... you know what happens when you assume things.

@blank, I became a member of the site a while ago, and played some games. Unfortunately, it took too much of my time to play high quality, but I liked many people I played against and many people on the forum, so I hung around to debate. It allows me to hear opinions on issues I care about from the entire planet.

ok nigee please post your other forums here so i can continue on my march to victory.

yeah..... right, I know they'd love me for introducing you :-)
Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour

whoever runs the site probably would. i add a huge amount of content and increase the discussion massively. i am truly a hero.

i also massively increase the userbase due to propaganda spammers flooding the registration page to make tons of new accounts to counter what i am saying.

blankflag - why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself, you seem fascinating

I am tempted to make another thread titled:
'why are there so many threads about the fact that there are so many threads that have nothing to do with diplomacy?'

But I won't.

Also, +1 Nigee. Damn I miss the +1 button.

We gained the Unpause but lost the backslap counter, I think we're proabably ahead on points there

What the fuck is the point of this thread? blankstare, you post all kinds of threads that are nothing to do with anything of any sense, all the time. Shut up.

then again if i gain some status and traction on the site it could be targetted for hacking. so that could be a minus.

oh you want to hear more about me? i am essentially perfect in every way. people love me so much that i have to regularly offend and annoy them as much as possible just to keep my number of acquaintances in check. i was rejected by my ultra rich bretheren and forced to live a life in the inferior social stratum. after being treated like garbage here, i started to change my opinions about how the world works.

"if i gain some status"

Your current status is: Nuisance.

Become a gold donator to the site and then your status will be upgraded. That's how it works around here.

@blank - not a man of detail I see, you have the perfect opportunity to educate us about 'all things you', how can you resist?

"oh you want to hear more about me? i am essentially perfect in every way. people love me so much that i have to regularly offend and annoy them as much as possible just to keep my number of acquaintances in check. i was rejected by my ultra rich bretheren and forced to live a life in the inferior social stratum. after being treated like garbage here, i started to change my opinions about how the world works."

TROLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLLLOLOLOLOLOLLLLOLOLLLLLLLLLL

If Bolshoi and atom had a love child, the result would be blankflag

i was a love child. but of beatrice rothschild and the butler jacques linferieur at the prestigious ferrier estate. after failing to meet the expectations of my fathers hired teaching staff he declared me a genetic anomaly and sent me to new york to run for elected office. i suspect he secretly funded my opposition just to spite me that asshole and then he pretended to sympathize and told me the cia would always take me. so with my experience trying to be a politicians and the people i met i got a job there coming up with different stories to tell each politician or media editor to get that person on board with the agenda. then i would meet with each one individually and tell him "ok this is the real truth we have to hide from the public" and they were stupid enough to buy it. but the "real truth" had a thousand different variations each one targetted to a specific politicians beliefs. in the end i was a part of the successful campaign to convince the left that war=peace. it may seem like an easy thing now, but when i started the job in the bush administration it was unthinkable.

Blankmind, I'm going to direct you to a different drug dealer because the one you have now is feeding you stuff that you don't want in your system. Marijuana is fine; LSD and mushrooms are not good. You and your family need to gauge whether or not you need help. That can't be done online. Please do what's best for you and know that LSD and mushrooms aren't best.

"If Bolshoi and atom had a love child, the result would be blankflag"

I'd say it's more bolshoi and Conservative Man, and since Conservative Man lost his virginity to a prostitute, it's more likely.

blankflag (userID=51201), consider this an overly generous warning to keep your daily "news" contained to your thread titled "blanknews" which I have bumped to the first page for you.

-WebDip Admin

but later on i fell in love with someone from the inferior social stratum. and started becoming really socially involved with the proletariat. my father had already hired a bunch of operatives to pose as normal individuals but really with the goal of getting me on board with the agenda by giving me a distorted view of reality, but i met this girl totally by accident and she was not one of them. when my peers started deriding me about it i became even more upset and polarized against them. until eventually i was rejected by my former friends. my father seeing that i was lost withdrew his support and the cia promptly fired me. i spent a couple years living in queens supporting myself by working as a janitor but then the recession hit, so i took what of my trust fund that i could get (before that bastard could exercise his right to withdraw certain funds) and started a trip around the world for forum-trolling purposes.

well then go ahead and ban me you bastard. you know you all want to.

Are you a socialist, anarchist, or something in between...?

Then again, there are plenty of smart anarchists and socialists, so I shouldn't insult them.

well what do you mean by anarchist or socialist? i just no longer trust the most powerful institutions in the world. so i am a fan of getting away from power structures. i think communities can maybe rule themselves in a better way than a centrally planned and controlled society. i am really anti-totalitarianism, anti-fascism, anti-ussr-style-communism... but i think if i claimed to be something then you would think that i have some ideal society in mind that i am striving for perfection. no, i am just working to get rid of controlling all-powerful entities as much as practical. but in this day in age i have given up on really reversing it and i am just trying to keep their powers from growing as fast as they otherwise would.

here is a picture of me when i first made that major life change http://gentlemint.com/tack/143098/

I'll speak up for blank flag. He's not such a bad sort.

Thread #3 of a moderator putting down a community member.

@ Iceray:

1. Why are you jumping into a whole load of threads, making the comment you just made - who made you the moderator of the moderators?
2. More seriously, as *volunteers* who are also members of this community, why should our moderators not be open about their opinions? Why should they not have the right to publicly disagree with another member of the community?

There's a difference between disagreement and putting someone down. As a moderator of a community, you're looked to to uphold the values and rules of the community. If a government official walked on stage and said that Jean-Marc Ayrault is a retard, there would be serious backlash. It's the same thing, only on a smaller scale. As a member of the community, when the moderators are breaking the rules, we call them out on it. It's the only way shit gets done.

@Iceray, I was not putting someone down, I'm informing them they were breaking site rules.

That said, moderators are members of the community. Unless we specifically sign a post as "-WebDip Mod" or something similar we are posting as a regular member who doesn't have the option of muting people we don't want to listen too. If you do feel any or all moderators behavior is inappropriate you are welcome to send an email to the site owner Kestas who will review your concerns.

"As a member of the community, when the moderators are breaking the rules, we call them out on"

If you believe a mod to be breaking the rules, you should contact an Admin.

It wasn't you in this thread, it was you in a different thread. Regardless of if you sign it as a mod or not, the fact remains that you are a leader of the community. What you did in this thread is entirely acceptable and well within your bounds.

"when the moderators are breaking the rules, we call them out on it"

Putting someone down is not against the rules.

I stand corrected, it wasn't you in a different thread. It was Zultar.

Good to know Jamiet, I'll just wander through the forums and put everyone down. I wouldn't be breaking any rules doing it, so why not? What's to stop me?

Oh, but wait. It's right there under responsibilities.
http://webdiplomacy.net/rules.php
"Use common sense and respect other players."
Insulting people is not respectful.

It warms the heart that players who have been on this site for several years can still find new things to fall out about. I saw Lando doing the same yesterday and feared it might be a one off, but it seems not :).

Sirs, I salute you.

What happened with Lando?

Nothing out of the ordinary. A mere disagreement with a little bit of heat... Completely unremarkable if not for the fact that they've both been about for very nearly forever and it still had the feel of the sort of argument you get when people first realise they don't like each other. Quite sweet, really.