Lucian

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Doivid said
let's just end it here, this is a classy way to conclude things.

Agreed.

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Card said
No. I'm firmly of the mind that I'm not someone to listen to, and that Spam isn't something that one should have to listen to someone about, but here's something I think needs to be established. Spam's not a place that needs policing. Do you know when Spam was cool, popular, and funny? When no one tried to be cool, popular, and funny. I've come to know a lot about who those cool, popular, and funny people were in the past several months on a pretty close level, and, lo and behold, they don't act like they're cool, popular, or funny. You're having fun and chatting with people, not networking or brown nosing. You don't need to greet people, defend people, or push all the fake sex shit (see above) to have fun here. Just slack your shoulders. When everyone mellows out, suddenly a popular kid in Spam. Mods don't have to step in when everyone just has fun; no one gets in fights or starts flinging shit at anyone else when everyone just has fun. Anyone remember being Fonz cool? Be Fonz cool, guys. Everyone's a cool kid in Spam when everyone's a Fonz cool kid. Now we're cool.

That was way too much usage of the word cool, but yeah I get what you're saying.

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Doivid said
That was, in fact, the joke.you caught it!

Wait, seriously? And I was only guessing! Do I win something?

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Doivid said
I wish I'd saved a chris hansen gif.

Hahah, irony.

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Card said
Pot and kettle.

Good point. I guess I have no room to talk in this regard. Which is good, because I didn't intend for this argument to happen in the first place. Are we all still cool or whatever, or do I have to strip for you or something?

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Doivid said
I'm p. sure it's their job to enforce the rules, as a matter of fact.

Which are there, in part, to ensure quality and/or standards, no?

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idlehands said
It's not about being a kid-free place, far from it. It's about having some standards. One Nat is enough. Every wonder why Spam is so quiet these days?

Firstly, Nat isn't a kid, so that just goes to show how silly it is to assume that any minor will be a shitposting dork. Also, standards? How is it up to any of us to decide Spam's standards? That's the job of the Mods, not you.

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Doivid said
Well those were definitely not the only times, because I was a little taken aback by your attitude.

I can't tell if you're thinking of somebody else, or of something that happened years ago or something. Please explain.

Doivid said
And you did make this bigger than it was, since all I asked him was how old he was. I have trouble gauging ages here, I tend to think people are younger than they are. Not really sure that warranted a lecture.

It didn't take much to connect what was being said in the "Weirdest Picture" thread and you asking Teo for his age. Unless I read your response to Awson's suggestion to nazi-out all of the kids wrong. It seemed as if you were in favor of such an idea, judging by your response. Of course that was all relatively light-hearted. You were apparently already thinking along the lines of "spam should be kid-free" before asking Teo his age, and then Idle responded (predictably) pretty bitterly to the knowledge, which was the reason I addressed both of you.

All I was saying is that I felt it would be a lot more productive to handle new people a bit less abrasively. You're the one who stated that I was in no position to say anything about the subject, which was kind of ridiculous, considering your reasons for looking at me that way are pretty much unfounded.

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idlehands said
I'm not Nex so I won't grammar Nazi you, but don't lecture me. These kids need to learn, we're trying to help them not enable them.

Oh whoops. Also, how does it help anyone to oust them from the site? Saying shit like, "It's your bedtime." completely demeans said person's potential value. I don't know Teo, but all I'm saying is that being unnecessarily dickish isn't helping anyone. What if Card had been hassled about his age when he joined the guild? We'd be down one pretty awesome person just because they were younger than you.

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Doivid said
Joe isn't a very good example because he actually hasn't integrated. And idk dude, but I've seen you get disproportionately angry about shit people are doing and like straight up curse them out in a rant for being stupid. I probably should think of specific examples, but I assumed you'd remember what I was referring to.

I've only ever done something remotely close to what you're describing twice. The first time was directed at nat, and I didn't curse him out, I said something to the effect of, "Why does Nat get special treatment for his seniority when he shitposts more than anyone else?"

The second time was directed at AYMM, and, again, I didn't curse her out. I did call her stupid, yes. I also called her desperate and a few other things, but only after she tried to personally insult me. I initially approached the AYMM situation the same way I normally would, which was pretty much, "Hey, be careful, because spam will rip you a new one for doing what you're doing."

Teoinsanity said
Thank you lucian for supporting me

You don't need to thank me, it's no big deal.

Doivid said
Don't worry, this only escalated when Lucian stepped in. Don't take it to heart and you'll do fine.

This hasn't escalated yet, it's still a discussion, unless I'm missing something.

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Doivid said
And no, that comparison isn't apt. It's an aspect of internet subculture, it's not an entire genre of comedy. It's not funny, it's lazy and hackneyed. And most of the gifs are pressing the same exaggerated expressions, there's nothing new being said.

That sounds like a ton of subjective opinion. Then again, we're talking about comedy, which is pretty much as subjective as it gets, so maybe we should just agree to disagree on this one.