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TheFlyingGerbil
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
It would be interesting if you could put how many people were nominated and how many were banned on BanMonday.
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Crowbot
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
It never feels like anyone's reading my posts anyway.
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xerdo
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
I'm still having problems getting used to the new comments system... I get lost very easily, you see.
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expansionsss - the jaded gamer
08/24/09

@xerdo:

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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KirbyMorph
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
Ban everyone in the Starcraft 2 posts saying they will pirate the game because there's no LAN and spreading misinformation about non-existent draconian DRM methods. Don't like the game? Don't buy it. But do not go around bragging about how you will steal video games and encourage others to do it.
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Meohfumado
08/24/09

@KirbyMorph: Seriously, the "change the game or I'll pirate it," stance doesn't help grass roots movements to get LAN put back in. It only makes it more likely for the Devs to ignore their pleas.
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Paul_Is_Drunk
08/24/09

@KirbyMorph: I honestly feel that most of these people will pirate it anyway, but want to use that fact to try and leverage companies to do something for a product that they're not going to pay for anyway.

At any rate, I doubt Blizzard is worried.
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svenhoek
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
Why do you make it seem like we are going to war every-time? Hope to see you on the other side?

Quit scaring the children Bashcraft. Your a puppy and we all know it.
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Bakeroo
08/24/09

@Darkly Dreaming svenhoek: We are at war. We're at war with douchebaggery and idiocy... but mostly, we're at war with ourselves.
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
Exactly what kind of behavior is worthy of a banhammer assault on Ban Monday? I have a couple of posters who I don't think need to be dirtying our poster pool due to their piss-poor behavior, but I don't know if their actions are bad enough to warrant removal from this site. Anybody?
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Johnny
08/24/09

@mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: I'm in the same boat here. How bad behaviour is bad enough?
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Phydeaux
08/24/09

@Janxer: If you have doubt, then the answer is "I shouldn't".
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
08/24/09

@Phydeaux: I might have doubt if I had more information, you see.
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Feath3r
08/24/09

@mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: If you send in their name and they don't get banned, no harm no foul. If you do and they get banned... there ya go.
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
08/24/09

@Type 0 x IV: Yeah, scratch that. Poster's been disemvoweled recently. I'm calling it in.
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Phydeaux
08/24/09

@mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: Hey wait a minute... I disemvoweled myself in a post as a joke. You're not talking about me, are you?
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bakagaijin
08/24/09

@mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta: You can start by reading this: [kotaku.com]

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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jedbeetle
08/24/09

@Phydeaux: what if you, as part of your nature, doubt every action ?
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
08/24/09

@Phydeaux: No, but I don't think many people will be sad to see this one go.

@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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Phydeaux
08/24/09

@jedbeetle: then you "meh".
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ithyphallus, bonks morrigan
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
I nominate that the day of Monday be banned from the week. i want to shoot the whole day down.
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BritBloke916
08/24/09

@ithyphallus, lazy beareaucrat: (Tell me why) you don't like Mondays? ;)
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Whizkid103
08/24/09

@ithyphallus, lazy beareaucrat: Garfield, is that you?
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Caduceus81
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
The only thing I don't like about the commenting system is that starred commenters who reply to a starless commenter, don't promote the comment they're replying to. The result is that only the starred commenters reply is visible, which makes it really hard to follow a discussion.
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kearneybobs
08/24/09

@Caduceus81: the option to promote the comment has been taken away/broken for a week or two now. It used to do it automatically, and everyone could join in in the conversation.
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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Caduceus81
08/24/09

@kearneybobs: Ah ok! Thanks for clearing that up. I really hope they fix it soon.
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fauxbravo
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
This is a sort of different topic, but I figured "what the hell?".

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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Mancomb Seepgood
08/24/09

@fauxbravo: They obviously said something totally uncalled for. I've been in a few arguments where I was a little more rude than I probably should have been and I didn't lose it, so I guess you really have to do something that's almost banable to lose your star.

I wouldn't like to push it just to find out though.
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Phydeaux
08/24/09

@Mancomb Seepgood: No, you just can't insult a webcomic artist that an Editor likes and expect to keep your star.

Yeah, I went there.
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Hey_Blinkon
08/24/09

@Mancomb Seepgood: There have been a lot of unstarrings that aren't that bad. I've seen (and been, haha) many victims.
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Vecha: One more Month
08/24/09

@Mancomb Seepgood:

I lost my star because I said that stars are ridiculous.
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Bakeroo
08/24/09

@fauxbravo: Once the new system went into play, the Powers That Be became much more stingy with stars; I think this might even have extended to people whose star appeal was more a thing of wit and popular appeal as opposed to erudition and lenghthy posts.

(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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stikkbomber
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
i think there should be a song written for kotaku ban mondays, preferably in the tune of "i don't like mondays" by the boomtown rats.
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Stormgazer
08/24/09

@stikkbomber: Sad song inspired by a troubled 16 year-old Brenda Ann Spencer, who decided "I don't like Mondays".
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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kearneybobs promoted this comment Edited by Stormgazer at 08/24/09 6:49 AM Stormgazer was starred Stormgazer was unstarred

stikkbomber
08/24/09

@Stormgazer: Describing her as "troubled" is a bit much for me. Some of her alleged responses shortly after the incident wer "I had no reason for it, it was just a lot of fun" and "It was like shooting ducks in a pond...". Sounds more like she did it for kicks and grins (her own of course) than out of some sense of "trouble".

I think her parole was once again denied fwiw.
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Stormgazer
08/24/09

@stikkbomber: Her father had given the .22 cal to her for Christmas with 400+ rounds of ammo. She described that her life after her parents were divorced, was that of total neglect and that she felt like a Latchkey kid.
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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kearneybobs promoted this comment Edited by Stormgazer at 08/24/09 7:26 AM Stormgazer was starred Stormgazer was unstarred

TitillatedOcelot
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
Aye, 'tis true. The Ban Hammer knows days other than the Day of the Moon. Some claim its hunger grows even more ravenous!

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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dudehuge
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
dayum, its my 3rd post and its like i cant see my posts :/
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(Human) Gyaruson
08/24/09

@dudehuge:
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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Stormgazer
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
I see Thor is still having fun with his sweet golden hammer he got by preordering Red Faction: Guerilla from Gamestop. Power to the player.
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Hardcore
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
It really doesn't matter to me who reads my comments. If I won't be starred, I won't. However, Banhammer Monday is one of my favorite Kotaku Days.
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Hardcore
08/24/09

@Hardcore: Oh, and the starred commenters are promoting their own comments now? Yay?
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Ursus-Veritas
08/24/09

@Hardcore: I think that's some wierd mistake that if a star commentor replies to an unapproved (pink) comment, their response is greyed out, and then promoted by the system. It's not something we're doing out of vanity, it's just a fault.
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TitillatedOcelot
08/24/09

@Hardcore: Yeah, starred commentors don't need to approve their own comments, but all comments associated with the one a starred commeter responds to (including their response) get approved. I wondered about that myself.
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Phydeaux
08/24/09

@Hardcore: Used to be that star commenters would be auto-promoted. Some accounts were not implemented correctly, however, and to fix that they'd self-promote. It's how it's always been.
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ninjajazza
08/24/09

In reply to Heeeeeeeello Monday. Ban Monday.
i was going to read the section on starred commenting, but i figured after months of commenting, if i don't have a star, i never will. but we grey textians will unite, and conquer the ruling class!!
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Neko_Tech
08/24/09

@ninjajazza: Your day will come if you don't ruffle anybody's feather. Also if you criticize on a opinion it would be best to describe why in a civilize manor instead of mob mentality of reasoning.

It took me forever to get my star and it happened one day on a comment that I thought I wouldn't get a star on. I couldn't put my expression into words quite right when I wrote it and it probably didn't help that I was dead tired.
It happened during the week after the new (now current) commenting and promotion system, where the editors are the only ones that has the power to give you the golden star.
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daytown
08/24/09

@ninjajazza: "grey textians" sounds like the enemies from level 4 of Ghostbusters.

;)
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