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Dislocator wrote:

Hey, none of that. This is a serious discussion.

No, no,no. Don't you mean:

"This is serious business?"

No.

I meant a serious discussion. As far as I am aware, and I have not looked into the matter seriously, these message boards are not a business.

Hey, none of that. This is a serious discussion.

Dislocator wrote:

Sorry. I thought my post was clear.

It was, but you OBVIOUSLY lack a sarcasm gene, as well as any kind of sense of humor whatsoever. And if you really think talking to the WOTC board of directors would solve anything, you're also living in a fantasy land.

A fantasy land with no sense of humor seems like a very sucky place to be. I feel sorry for you, I really do.

Sarcasm is not, to my knowledge, genetically based. Nor is it present in this thread, which only seems to attract posters intent on driving away legitimate conversations about important issues like this.

I play D&D to escape to a fantasy land. This is reality, and these forced attempts at humor are endangering reality.

Again, if you're not going to post about this very serious issue, please do everyone who is interested in continuing this conversation a favor, and post on another thread.

This is good advice. The damage done by the little blue men and the immature posters that use them did more than destroy Paizo. It also prevented a grass-roots movement to email the Wizards of the Coast board of directors.

An email like this would have resulted in the pdfs being put back on the market. And, though I am not a future alternate-historian, this would have prevented the dogs mentioned in my prior post from killing millions.

Again. This is not funny. This is not a big joke. This is serious.

Dislocator wrote:

Your explanation comes as cold confort to me, posting as I am from 14 years and 3 months in the future. The constant use of "*****ing" (you'll forgive me for not posting the full word, but I think you will understand shortly the power it holds) caused the Paizo message boards to break somewhere in October 2011. I apologize for not having the exact date handy, but I am being hunted by dogs (cybernetically enhanced) and don't have access to my files.

I find no humor in the destruction this has wrought.

There is nothing funny about those blue devils.

What does Duke University have to do with this?

Sorry. I thought my post was clear. I was referring to small blue creatures that are ruining discourse here on Paizo and on the internet generally.

To clarify, it is the Samurfing (spelled wrong intentionally to avoid the avatar) that will destroy Paizo and ruin the ability of the internet to communicate clearly.

I speak with great personal knowledge about this topic.

This thread seems mean-spirited and juvenile to me. You have one poster constantly barging in to berate the others as "losers" and then everyone else talks about that poster in great detail.

It seems to me that if you really want to punish the poster involved (assuming this is what you want), you should just ignore his posts.

But, then again, I've never understood why anyone would post so many times on a thread that has nothing to do with D&D, Pathfinder, or any other gaming topic on a gaming website.

To me, is it a way to note that, more or less, that this arguments going on within the thread mean very little to the community at large. That if many people just don't care about this discussion, that they are possibly treating it with more seriousness and grandeur than it needs or deserves to be.

This is the preferred method for getting this point across for me, as it takes pretty much no time, and if very few people agree with my assessment, then nothing is going to happen.

If it were just insults being lobbed into the thread, then that would likely just make the thread more serious and spark more insult lobbing from everyone, causing the thread to fall apart and be locked even if a majority of people wanted to continue the discussion.

Also, even if the thread is being *****ed, it doesn't really stop the arguments if some people really want to keep them going. Those people can easily can keep going, and it is much easier to ignore a random *****, than it is to ignore a random insult. To myself at least.

Your explanation comes as cold confort to me, posting as I am from 14 years and 3 months in the future. The constant use of "*****ing" (you'll forgive me for not posting the full word, but I think you will understand shortly the power it holds) caused the Paizo message boards to break somewhere in October 2011. I apologize for not having the exact date handy, but I am being hunted by dogs (cybernetically enhanced) and don't have access to my files.

I find no humor in the destruction this has wrought.

There is nothing funny about those blue devils.