The change in tone in moderation on rerolled is largely to blame for the lack of lulz. Moderation began pandering to an aging demographic that just wanted "adult discussion" . Walling of screenshots, blanket bans on anything relating to RL info, and just in general shitty moderation led a stagnant community.
I dunno, I just edited out a few doxx posts from time to time myself on RR (Sutekh outing Keg's FB I think in one of the Lori drama threads comes to mind?), but I do feel we got out of hand at one point with doxxing folks (myself included), especially around the time FOH died. Though I don't really care if you're dumb and post something stupid (like Goliath posting a drivers license or the multiple dumb things Tad10 posted that were like red flags). Hiding SS: I could see the argument for trying to keep it from getting spidered and fucking up potential ad revenue so the forum could pay for itself, but if that isn't a concern here then I'd be all for a change. I may dislike what went down with FOH but I gotta admit that the deal we had under Req/Tyen was one in a million with stuff like the file hosting and (relatively) hands-off moderation.
Speaking of doxxing, I'm going through pic folders and I just found a screenshot of Lumie's RL FB. I can't even remember where that came from. That reminds me, I need to SS all of my PMs and some other random stuff just in case MMORPG says 'fuck it' and nukes RR from orbit anytime soon. I also need to install one of my old hard-drives from the FOH era now that I have an adapter, but the last time I tried I wasn't sure what I was doing wrong in the BIOS boot bullshit/hard drive controller. I think that there is a lot of quality pics there that I cant get to.
A lot of Draegan's dictates did create a lot of bullshit, but it also put the Mods in a bad place. Soy didn't have an issue with ignoring Draegan as much as possible, as did some others, but then we always had Mods who wanted to enforce the RULES with zero wiggle room ("but...but...Draegan said..."). I quit Moderating a couple times I think just because I'd see members complaining, I'd agree with their complaints but then get annoyed when they would go Full Duppin with it, but then I'd be frustrated even more with Mods repeatedly doing dumb shit and getting people riled up. I know I'm not popular with a lot of members and Mods, but this first pic is one example of me getting riled up after seeing you (Mario) threatened by a Mod (can't remember who) in the 'Shaw for something you said, then seeing a Mod wanting to give out a 14-day to Iannis for "Dindu". I may post the rest of the exchange later, but I dunno. Not sure I want to out Mods or entire Mod discussions. I just hope people realize that the Mods weren't
COMPLETELY retarded...maybe some of us were just partial retards. Anyways, enough fucking rambling.
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