When I opened this thread I thought it was going to be about the five different who is.... threads and the .... is an ..... threads.

Seriously, those are a thousand times more annoying than blankflag. With blankflag I can mute him and be done with it. With those pointless garbage threads since they were all started by different people there is no easy way to get rid of them.

Its like worse spamming. Thankfully most of those threads have died, but it seems every so often someone latches onto a 'meme' and there are a mountain of threads created based on it. I wish the mods gave out warnings to people who did that.

Hummmmm, we need someone to be "a sincere, passionate, intelligent, argumentative and yet totally wrong person?"
Alright, I guess I can give this a try.

I sincerely believe that the forum needs to be moderated by mods much more stringently than ever before. I completely agree with damian here. There are too many 'meme' threads and not enough meaningful ones at the top. So, from here on out, mods and admins will silence people who create meme threads or actually any thread that seems to irk us.

On the other hand, I have become very passionate about the news threads that blankflag creates. I don't think he should have been silenced by that JIMO douche nozzle. I am going to have to unsilence blankflag and get rid of JIMO somehow.

Being an intelligent person, I think we need to let the market dictates everything. Given a completely free market, people's competition and goodwill will create many more jobs, enforce fair and safe regulations on their own accord, and ensure that their kids and their kids' kids will have a planet to live on. The free market is an intelligent design that once created by us will improve upon itself as well as human's baser instinct.

I don't want to get argumentative and all, but anyone who disagrees with me has to be a moron. By fiat, I am right. If you don't think I'm right, then you are wrong and hence a moron.

Last but not least, in fact most likely a popular decision here, cheating accusations should be made public and every accusation and decision by the mods has to be discussed thoroughly by the forum. Otherwise, how would we besmirch people's reputation while we act like five-year-olds who didn't get what they want?


Is this what we were looking for?

I could have sworn 'die' was the singular...

I'm pretty sure hereward is right. One die, two dice.

zultar I think you've finally got it, I know it's taken some time but better late than never, now get on with it before you get some slaps !!

I agree with zultar. The forum needs much more stringent modding. Together, he and I will replace MOD/Admin JIMO who does really bad job with forum modding and is just bad MOD/Admin. We will unsilence blankflag and let him bring to forum the truth about what is going on in world.

Very well said zultar. Can we also agree that what would promote great strategy and meaningful diplomacy debate is making a forum thread for each anonymous gunboat game, in which non-players can discuss the game AS it pans out?

Huh. According to Webster's die is the singular, and for the plural, either dice or dies is accepted.

As per my new persona/policy has taken over, hecks, if you EVER refer to the plural of die as dies again, you will be silenced for 1 month.

And yeah, I should have mentioned that discussion of on-going games, anon or not, is REQUIRED. Otherwise, how would we learn more about diplomacy??? And if the discussion influences the game, that just means that the players are just incompetent and should not have played in the first place.

Webster dies ... I didn't even know he was ill, is he new? I mean was he knew?

Exactly. 2 dies, 2 seperate rolls. 2 dice, well, that's a whole other story.

To clarify my position. I don't think that the moderators should take a more active role in forum moderation. But if they are going to, the endless meme threads are one of the most deplorable things about this fora.

I utterly concur with Damian on both points.

"a very raucous forum" is how we were recently described over at Vdip.

"To clarify my position. I don't think that the politicians should take a more active role in race moderation. But if they are going to, the endless [] are one of the most deplorable things about this country."

http://vdiplomacy.com/forum.php?threadID=42555

Fuck. Back to that stupid argument that two die rolled seperately is different from being rolled together? Combination mathematics and odds in toto are the same whether rolled seperate or together. I'm outa this thread.

P.S. Sorry for reversing the plural and singular versions.

But what about two dies? Or two dice? You really need to clarify.

Muting stupidity that is this thread now.

Draugnar knows it's 1 die, 2 dice, SYnapse had it the other way around for a while I believe. Too bad no one gets the joke Draugnar :P

1 die, 2 dice, 3 dies, 4 or more dices.

I just walked to the shop and nearly got run over by a truck! What a dies with death...

Hurrah for pedantry!

If you want to -1 SYnapse just like me, you can always +1 me. Just so he knows.

Also MODS - someone was banned in my no-press game and the stupid envelope stays there all the time with the ban message. Is there a way to fix this?

Ooh... You just broke rule number 7 you know :P

Synapse - that patch is in the works. We can't do anything about it now, though.

Can we get two forums going? One with Diplomacy game oriented stuff and one for random pointless drivel? Would probably be easier to moderate

Yeah, I'd love to mute the dull "Diplomacy game oriented stuff" and concentrate on the drivel forum.

That's what the Mute option is for .... so you can blank out all the boring Diplomacy stuff !!