Deathscythe Hikara
02-16-2010, 02:15 AM
Brought to you by Gameguy1546
"Dear Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series Forums,
Hey, it's me. Yeah HeavyDDR. I actually don't go my HeavyDDR as much nowadays. I go by ProtagonistHeavy in most places. (Or just Heavy.) Band is doing swell, and I've decided that I'll become a music teacher when I grow up. I'm already in a teaching program and am teching (not teaching, teching) some middle schoolers. I still haven't written that novel, though. One of these days...! Also I recently started the Phoenix Wright series. I'm very disappointed with the throwing-arounds of "objections."
So enough about me, how are you?
I've seen some of the commotion boiling over. Using a proxy I was able to view the entire topic of such controversial conversations. My ideas are mixed and there's a lot of threads I feel like I should tie.
-- About Me (User) --
TESTIMONY. TESTIMONY. TESTIMONY.
I joined the Abridged Series Forums not long after its initial creation. My first, prophetic post was in the "I'm New" thread, which I assume is an ancient fossile internetologists are still searching for by now. (They just discovered Friendster!) My post went something along the lines of "I bet this forum is gonna get a little annoying, I bet some people are gonna be fanboys, but at the same time there's an intelligent crowd in everything, etc." I still live by that post.
I was very active. I posted in many subforums and became infamous for being blunt and stern. I did not beat around the bush; when I had something to say, I said it. If I had an opinion, you would know about it. At the same time, I played the devil's advocate a lot. I noticed a trend in all forums, bad forums mostly. Everyone agrees with each other. That isn't fun. That doesn't raise your awareness on a subject. As such, if I found an unbalanced opinion, I'd usually root for the underdogs for the sake of conversation. Had it not been for that, probably dozens of threads would have lasted no longer than a few posts of "I agree," "me too," "ha ha lol."
If you called that "rage" you are by far wrong. What I consider rage is probably much different than what you consider rage. Rage, by my terms, is when I lose self control and am completely unable to not say something about someone's actions. My most common rage target were people asking for new episodes. This was an EPIDEMIC back in the day. There would be days I would go to school, come back, and see literally three topics with near-similar titles asking for the same thing.
My awareness of this problem added with my agility in posting and superior common sense over many users lead to the admins debating over modship. I had asked a few times (usually jokingly) but paid no mind to it until one day I could see everyone's IP adress and was given an extra subforum. (Which, might I add, was a fossil in itself.) So let's go on to...
-- About Me (Sub-Mod) --
I'm very touchy on being called a "mod." I was SUB-mod. My limitations? I could not ban people and, on the invisible hierarchy, everyone overruled my decisions if they pleased. (Excluding users of course.) To be fair, I COULD ban people, but that's because Kroze is a butt and can't configure things. (Facepalm.) I think I banned one troll in my entire sub-modship.
I was a locker. Without banning abilities, all I ever did were lock topics. I'd lock a topic about once a day, usually on my own without first talking to the others about this. Not to say I wasn't doing anything wrong. Most of the topics I locked were spams/dupes. I was improving the forum, no doubt about that. Even ask Magick; at one point I clearly remember him admitting that I was one of the better-working mods on the forum. (He would just remind you that I have serious drawbacks.)
Thus, people complained.
My sense of humor is sarcastic and often rage-driven. However, to my memory, I locked a topic in jest once. If I was joking, I'd never use my powers. Some, still, viewed me as dangerous, as a troll with the Doomsday Machine. Thus coined the phrase "I haven't been this mad since they made HeavyDDR a sub-mod!" There was some debate, but because of my work output, it was laid to rest that I remain a sub-mod with heavy admin eyes over me.
-- How I Got Banned (Pt. 1) --
Months had passed. Being a sub-mod was nothing now. The days of me locking one thing after the other had passed. I created forum games, like Death Note, Apocalypse Metropolis, and so on. I made threads. I made BARs. It was here that I was learning that being a sub-mod was more of a chore than anything and I wonder now why anyone would even want to be a moderator of some sort. All you do is deal with retards who think they're so hilarious for quoting a series everyone around them has watched or for using a joke everyone has heard a thousand times.
It was the summer of 2008. Hurricane Ike was blowing like no tomorrow. One windy day, I looked out my window and said, "Hey, I'll do a practicaly joke on the IRC!" READ: IRC. Not BAR. Gosh. My joke was to pretend that Hurricane Ike swallowed my home, my dog, and that George W. Bush was coming up with some scheme to overlook the Ike storms in an attempt to... redeem himself in the black party or something. It was THAT stupid.
People believed me.
I was cracking up.
I threw up the curtain and revealed myself. A few chuckled, at best, but most were anrgy. Magick was one of them. I got banned, permenantly, right then and there for a Hurricane Ike joke.
-- How I Got Banned (Pt. 2) --
A year passed, I moved on. I still had the VG Cats Forum and Starmen.net to keep me entertained. I hardly shed a tear for the Abridged Series forums. I lost interest in the series as well; only once did I go back to see some new episodes, and even then I stopped because I got bored and most of the jokes were rehashes that lead me to having a distaste for the series in the first place. (Read: I actually like the Abridged Series. LittleUK is a funny guy with a genuine sense of humor, a cool personality, and amazing vocal skills. I just think he looks at himself more as an internet idol now than before, where he was genuinely "just some guy with a YouTube account.")
I decided to see if I was unbanned once, for kicks and giggles. Turns out I was. I was confused. I came back under the name BarkVon, the name of a character I'm writing for a comic, a spinoff of my book. (Grrrr!) I told people I was HeavyDDR right away. Hoo-rays were had and some "mehs" as well. I talked to the admins. They said this was my last chance. Cool.
I'm mostly in IRC. Note, this is all happening on ONE day. Just like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air song, some people started causing trouble in my neighborhood. They were arguing over me being unbanned and how Satan was behind me and the apocalypse was tomorrow or something. I DIDN'T want to argue. I was on THIN ICE. I ignored them, and said, "Let's talk about something else. Like Rapelay."
For those who don't know, around that time, a video game in Japan caused controversy for being a rape simulator. It got a lot of video games banned.
We had a SERIOUS CONVERSATION over Rapelay. It was a decent talk. Some people come back and start causing more trouble. I do the same thing again, and avoid the topic by mentioning, well, Rapelay again. RetCon then bans me for "trolling rape," which is a "sensitive subject."
A sensitive subject.
OK, let me get this straight, we can have an 18+ forum, several of the jokes on the Abridged Series were sexual, and most of the fanbase are teenagers who talk about much worse and HAVE right THERE ON THE IRC, but Rapelay, a controversial video game, is a sensitive subject? This is sheer biased hatreds towards me. Clearly, RetCon just didn't want me around, banned me off of IRC, and Face got me on the forum one way or another. (Or maybe it was still RetCon I don't know.)
In my opinion, that was hardly a second chance. Not only was I banned for a whole year because of an admittedly bad and offensive joke, but when given a second chance, I was banned because an IRC mod hates my guts and found the first chance to ban me?"
"Dear Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series Forums,
Hey, it's me. Yeah HeavyDDR. I actually don't go my HeavyDDR as much nowadays. I go by ProtagonistHeavy in most places. (Or just Heavy.) Band is doing swell, and I've decided that I'll become a music teacher when I grow up. I'm already in a teaching program and am teching (not teaching, teching) some middle schoolers. I still haven't written that novel, though. One of these days...! Also I recently started the Phoenix Wright series. I'm very disappointed with the throwing-arounds of "objections."
So enough about me, how are you?
I've seen some of the commotion boiling over. Using a proxy I was able to view the entire topic of such controversial conversations. My ideas are mixed and there's a lot of threads I feel like I should tie.
-- About Me (User) --
TESTIMONY. TESTIMONY. TESTIMONY.
I joined the Abridged Series Forums not long after its initial creation. My first, prophetic post was in the "I'm New" thread, which I assume is an ancient fossile internetologists are still searching for by now. (They just discovered Friendster!) My post went something along the lines of "I bet this forum is gonna get a little annoying, I bet some people are gonna be fanboys, but at the same time there's an intelligent crowd in everything, etc." I still live by that post.
I was very active. I posted in many subforums and became infamous for being blunt and stern. I did not beat around the bush; when I had something to say, I said it. If I had an opinion, you would know about it. At the same time, I played the devil's advocate a lot. I noticed a trend in all forums, bad forums mostly. Everyone agrees with each other. That isn't fun. That doesn't raise your awareness on a subject. As such, if I found an unbalanced opinion, I'd usually root for the underdogs for the sake of conversation. Had it not been for that, probably dozens of threads would have lasted no longer than a few posts of "I agree," "me too," "ha ha lol."
If you called that "rage" you are by far wrong. What I consider rage is probably much different than what you consider rage. Rage, by my terms, is when I lose self control and am completely unable to not say something about someone's actions. My most common rage target were people asking for new episodes. This was an EPIDEMIC back in the day. There would be days I would go to school, come back, and see literally three topics with near-similar titles asking for the same thing.
My awareness of this problem added with my agility in posting and superior common sense over many users lead to the admins debating over modship. I had asked a few times (usually jokingly) but paid no mind to it until one day I could see everyone's IP adress and was given an extra subforum. (Which, might I add, was a fossil in itself.) So let's go on to...
-- About Me (Sub-Mod) --
I'm very touchy on being called a "mod." I was SUB-mod. My limitations? I could not ban people and, on the invisible hierarchy, everyone overruled my decisions if they pleased. (Excluding users of course.) To be fair, I COULD ban people, but that's because Kroze is a butt and can't configure things. (Facepalm.) I think I banned one troll in my entire sub-modship.
I was a locker. Without banning abilities, all I ever did were lock topics. I'd lock a topic about once a day, usually on my own without first talking to the others about this. Not to say I wasn't doing anything wrong. Most of the topics I locked were spams/dupes. I was improving the forum, no doubt about that. Even ask Magick; at one point I clearly remember him admitting that I was one of the better-working mods on the forum. (He would just remind you that I have serious drawbacks.)
Thus, people complained.
My sense of humor is sarcastic and often rage-driven. However, to my memory, I locked a topic in jest once. If I was joking, I'd never use my powers. Some, still, viewed me as dangerous, as a troll with the Doomsday Machine. Thus coined the phrase "I haven't been this mad since they made HeavyDDR a sub-mod!" There was some debate, but because of my work output, it was laid to rest that I remain a sub-mod with heavy admin eyes over me.
-- How I Got Banned (Pt. 1) --
Months had passed. Being a sub-mod was nothing now. The days of me locking one thing after the other had passed. I created forum games, like Death Note, Apocalypse Metropolis, and so on. I made threads. I made BARs. It was here that I was learning that being a sub-mod was more of a chore than anything and I wonder now why anyone would even want to be a moderator of some sort. All you do is deal with retards who think they're so hilarious for quoting a series everyone around them has watched or for using a joke everyone has heard a thousand times.
It was the summer of 2008. Hurricane Ike was blowing like no tomorrow. One windy day, I looked out my window and said, "Hey, I'll do a practicaly joke on the IRC!" READ: IRC. Not BAR. Gosh. My joke was to pretend that Hurricane Ike swallowed my home, my dog, and that George W. Bush was coming up with some scheme to overlook the Ike storms in an attempt to... redeem himself in the black party or something. It was THAT stupid.
People believed me.
I was cracking up.
I threw up the curtain and revealed myself. A few chuckled, at best, but most were anrgy. Magick was one of them. I got banned, permenantly, right then and there for a Hurricane Ike joke.
-- How I Got Banned (Pt. 2) --
A year passed, I moved on. I still had the VG Cats Forum and Starmen.net to keep me entertained. I hardly shed a tear for the Abridged Series forums. I lost interest in the series as well; only once did I go back to see some new episodes, and even then I stopped because I got bored and most of the jokes were rehashes that lead me to having a distaste for the series in the first place. (Read: I actually like the Abridged Series. LittleUK is a funny guy with a genuine sense of humor, a cool personality, and amazing vocal skills. I just think he looks at himself more as an internet idol now than before, where he was genuinely "just some guy with a YouTube account.")
I decided to see if I was unbanned once, for kicks and giggles. Turns out I was. I was confused. I came back under the name BarkVon, the name of a character I'm writing for a comic, a spinoff of my book. (Grrrr!) I told people I was HeavyDDR right away. Hoo-rays were had and some "mehs" as well. I talked to the admins. They said this was my last chance. Cool.
I'm mostly in IRC. Note, this is all happening on ONE day. Just like the Fresh Prince of Bel Air song, some people started causing trouble in my neighborhood. They were arguing over me being unbanned and how Satan was behind me and the apocalypse was tomorrow or something. I DIDN'T want to argue. I was on THIN ICE. I ignored them, and said, "Let's talk about something else. Like Rapelay."
For those who don't know, around that time, a video game in Japan caused controversy for being a rape simulator. It got a lot of video games banned.
We had a SERIOUS CONVERSATION over Rapelay. It was a decent talk. Some people come back and start causing more trouble. I do the same thing again, and avoid the topic by mentioning, well, Rapelay again. RetCon then bans me for "trolling rape," which is a "sensitive subject."
A sensitive subject.
OK, let me get this straight, we can have an 18+ forum, several of the jokes on the Abridged Series were sexual, and most of the fanbase are teenagers who talk about much worse and HAVE right THERE ON THE IRC, but Rapelay, a controversial video game, is a sensitive subject? This is sheer biased hatreds towards me. Clearly, RetCon just didn't want me around, banned me off of IRC, and Face got me on the forum one way or another. (Or maybe it was still RetCon I don't know.)
In my opinion, that was hardly a second chance. Not only was I banned for a whole year because of an admittedly bad and offensive joke, but when given a second chance, I was banned because an IRC mod hates my guts and found the first chance to ban me?"