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Denver, 2:47 AM
Mon Nov 30
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Theres all this -------------------------->
dead space to the right, i think replies should be tabbed over a few spaces to right, that way you know more easily when you're reading another reply or a reply's reply or if its a whole new comment.
Very confusing at times.
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At any rate, I doubt Blizzard is worried.
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Quit scaring the children Bashcraft. Your a puppy and we all know it.
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Sometimes it's quite easy to know who needs a swift kick. There was that guy who would write "penis" in every comment. Yeah, he's not here anymore. Or those that wrote racial or homophobic slurs--they're gone.
Basically if they are name-calling, disrespectful, or disrupting the post and or community, then they can be banned. You can even be banned for "firsts" or "not news" or any of those other one word answers.
Just read the above link if you have any doubts. :)
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@bakagaijin: I usually link "first!"-posters to the Guide, except for the one time where I screencapped a poster who typed "first", yet failed to actually be first, and posted the screencap in a separate thread so everybody could laugh without having to promote the comment in question, so I'm well acquainted with the guide. It's just that the community is fairly tolerant of certain individuals such that they make offensive comments, and they're still around weeks later (occasionally with a star), so I thought that nothing short of live cannibalism was a bannable offense. I would also kinda feel bad for being responsible for someone else's posting privileges being taken away, but then I remembered that posting on Kotaku is exactly that--a privilege.
In short, if people can get banned for posting "slow news day" or "first", then it probably goes that poor behavior, name calling, and Godwin's Law quantifying will do the same as well.
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No matter what the star commenter does, the unapproved commenter cannot have his comment promoted. Unless a mod promotes it. So dont blame the star commenter. It isn't really their fault. I hope something is done about it soon
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I noticed a few people around who used to be star commenters are no longer. I didn't see anything in the commenting rules about LOSING a star, so I was just kind of wondering if they had said something to lose their star, or maybe they weren't posting frequently enough? I figured once you had a star, unless you said something totally off the wall or uncalled for, you pretty much had it for good.
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I wouldn't like to push it just to find out though.
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Yeah, I went there.
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I lost my star because I said that stars are ridiculous.
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(I have my own personal misgivings about aspects of the new system-- I think it's become too oligarchic and has had a chilling effect on discourse. But that's just my own aside.)
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She shot at kids playing outside a school across the street from her house in San Diego.
8 kids and a cop were hurt and 2 adults died. She was up for parole this year.
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I think her parole was once again denied fwiw.
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She claims she was drinking whiskey,popping pills,watching tv and smoking pot with pcp and started hallucinating(seeing army guys in commando suits coming after her).
It's probably a good thing if she's never paroled.
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Gather 'round, young ones, an' I'll spin ye a yarn of one TitillatedOcelot, and his fateful encounter with the Bludgeon of Ban.
Meh, I'll skip the "Ye Olde" yarn. Moral of the story: steer clear of random incest jokes.
Happy Monday!
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That's because you have to get your account verified first. That will happen as long as you don't make stupid comments like "F1RST!" or "Not news!". Just give it time.
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