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Actually, I see nothing wrong with his posts. I read them to assist the OP in his/her inquiries and nothing more. If anything, they seem on point. If you are trying to ban this person from posting, I say you are going overboard . . . particularly given the amount of other posters who like to use this messageboard as their personal gaming blog sight.
By the way, "Spoiler" is there to hide information from others that may bear an impact on the outcome of some adventure, some movie, or the like. It's to alert the reader that the hidden information might giveaway something that the reader would rather not want to read. His responses didn't really merit a "Spoiler," unless I'm reading his responses wrong.
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I agree with Saurstalk - YYellowdingo's posts in that thread do have direct bearing on the question, and while they are a little heavy on the facts, or long... but it is directly relevant to the questions, and does not spoil anything, therefore he correctly didn't need to use the spoiler button. it was also on topic so he didn't need to use the ooc commend.
More importantly, there is no rule saying you must use the spoiler button, it is an optional tool.
But it really makes the threads tedious and drives me away from the Paizo forums and thus the Paizo website and thus the Paizo Store and Paizo products.
Nothing says that every user must read every thread.
Ban Tarren NOW!
Down with Tarren!
Throw that bald man in with the Tibetans, boys!
And you with the thick glasses, don't worry, turning in your mother and father is a service to the Republic. All hail PAIZO!
Ban roll-on, FOR ALL OF YOU!
::Tosses deodorant to the masses from his imperial balcony.::
Am I not a generous master?
<Gets out his crayons and makes a ban wishlist>
Ban roll-on, FOR ALL OF YOU!
::Tosses deodorant to the masses from his imperial balcony.::
Am I not a generous master?
How can we use deodorant when the flying dire lemmings have eaten our torsos?
Yes! And where were you when the Kobold kept tricking us into reading his explosive runes scrolls?
And you throw us travel-size personal hygiene products, even while Kid Rime, the chosen Pokemon of the gated community, wields his nightstick? Do you think that we have a naivety that matches our malodorousness?
You will not escape being menaced so easily! We have passed volatility and are nearing truculence!
Director of Game Development
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I'll ship everyone on here a mouse with a scroll wheel, or instruct users to click on the little bar on the side of their browser before I sit pretty with a season of Survivor: Paizo Messageboards.
This thread actually makes me think of new rules for my MessageBoard Card game, so thanks!
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Just take a look at this thread.
Maybe we can just put Yellowdingo on probation until he can learn to use the Spoiler button?
Or how about just an option to Ignore certain posters? Please ... anything.
Heck, make me a Moderator and I'll even edit the Spoiler Tag into the post.
But it really makes the threads tedious and drives me away from the Paizo forums and thus the Paizo website and thus the Paizo Store and Paizo products.
FWIW,
Rez
That's just YellowDingo - you get used to him. Any thread like that, and up he will pop. Frankly, there are a number of people who I would much rather ban than him, as he seems to be a generally ok, and polite, guy.
What a thoroughly lazy complaint. Like scrolling down a bit is gonna make your finger fall off. Sheesh! I bet you'd have someone else use the toilet for you, too, if it weren't for the fact that you get to sit down to do it.
This thread actually makes me think of new rules for my MessageBoard Card game, so thanks!
Messageboard card game? Details, please.
Kruelaid wrote:
<Gets out his crayons and makes a ban wishlist>Ooh! ooh! Can I be on the list?
Can I have a crayon?
stuff like this makes lunchtime priceless....
I barely got through the first post before saying to myself, "This is made for Yellowdingo. And then I saw another poster cast Summon Yellowdingo. So it was just inevitable.
It does get annoying if he threadjacks a discussion centered around something like barfights and turns it into a discussion of economics and the bar glass industry.
But that's just who he is. He loves his stuff.
Yellowdingo is...weird.
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Yellowdingo's posts are like Christmas presents ... each one is a prescious little gift chok full of strangley entertaining goodness. His kookiness is what makes his posts interesting.
But no matter how hard he tries, I still don't think estate management rules should be in the core. Sorry, 'Dingo.
There are other, more deserving people that would go a ban list long before Yellowdingo. He's polite and considerate; more that can be said for some posters.
-Skeld
Ban roll-on, FOR ALL OF YOU!
::Tosses deodorant to the masses from his imperial balcony.::
Am I not a generous master?
How can we use deodorant when the flying dire lemmings have eaten our torsos?
Yes! And where were you when the Kobold kept tricking us into reading his explosive runes scrolls?
And you throw us travel-size personal hygiene products, even while Kid Rime, the chosen Pokemon of the gated community, wields his nightstick? Do you think that we have a naivety that matches our malodorousness?
You will not escape being menaced so easily! We have passed volatility and are nearing truculence!
Let them eat orc pie.
::Giggles aristocratically and saunters back into his luxurious castle::
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Y'know, guys. The OP also suggested an Ignore function, which God help me, I know I'd be happy to use on one or two posters, and I'm sure one or two posters might be happy to use on me.
But don't even get me started on the functionality of these messageboards, we could be here all day.
Adding new functionality to the messageboards may be a secondary priority to improving the overall performance of them. I've started to check out Logue's messageboards more frequently because I can post there without having to type it in notepad first. Growing your own messageboards from scratch is tough. I've done it and I doubt I'd ever do it again.
I think what the d20/OGL industry needs is a more unifed model of information interchange. That's a fancy way of saying that we need either one dominant forum that unifies some of these satellites (Paizo, Kobold Quarterly, Sinister) or a more freeform way for information (user profiles, posts) to flow between them. The biggest obstacle to that kind of thing wouldn't be technical, it would be getting people on-board with the idea.
The more resources they use on the boards, the less they use on products. This, to me, is a Bad Trade.
While I agree that yellowdingo is a tedious poster who pulls random math and irrelevent facts out of his ass, I think that banning him is a bit extreme.
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Should I fear the fate of Phalaris?
RezP.S. Don't warm up that bull just yet :-)
MMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, though; is that the source of my gorg(on)eous avatar?
It's from a Gorgonburgers advertisement.
"The harder the hide, the sweet the meat!" or so went their jingle.
That chain went out of business ages ago when the food starting killing customers and taking their stuff.
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Why do they even call it a Gorgon in D&D, anyway?
Everyone knows the Gorgons were the three sisters with the snakey hair, of which Medusa was the most famous.
I suspect the metal-skinned bull, with the poison breath is a Babylonian or Assyrian legend, but I can't seem to get this confirmed, or what name the creature originally went by.
I do recall that it made an appearance in a TV miniseries of 'Jason and the Argonauts', the one with Dennis Hopper (?) as the villainous king.
Anyone shed any light on this?
It's more fun than debating banning poor yellowdingo, after all.
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From Wikipedia:
The Khalkotauroi (tauroi khalkeoi, "bronze bulls") are mythical creatures that appear in the Greek myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece. They are two immense bulls with bronze hooves and bronze mouths through which they breath fire. In the Argonautica, Jason is promised the prized fleece by King Aeetes if he can first yoke the Khalkotauroi and use them to plough a field. The field was then to be sown with dragon's teeth.
So I guess rather than use the name khalkotauroi they just used gorgon because it wasn't being used and was easier for folks to remember.
Medusa became the new name of her gorgonkind, probably due to name recognition.
If D&D medusae had been called gorgons and gorgons had been called khalkotaurs, I would been just as happy.
Thanks for the link, Rez.