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  1. I've been enjoying http://thebiggestproblemintheuniverse.com/ lately - The Biggest Problem in the Universe with Maddox and Dick Masterson I listened through the entire thing recently. It started some time last May
  2. Uh Can I change my votes? I left out Survival 21, my favorite
  3. Like the name change and the logo it is about image and attracting people. It looks bad to have many duplicates of the same thing especially when they are dead. This isnt inviting and will not pique the interest of someone who stumbles in The point is exactly the title, to streamline the community It isnt a way into nerd. No one will ever start there. It could get in the way of future involvement. We do have new users coming into pve ans the subreddit. Anyone who does internet marketing knows you have limited clicks and attention spans though. If a user comes to mcpublic and is in a mood to chat they might click those and see boards that havent been updated regurlarly in years. We are lucky if those users make a second click Edit: isuck at touchscreen typing
  4. So this place is pretty active but not enough for 3 or 4 subreddits and Forums. I think we should kill r/mcpublicofftopic and r/mcpubliccirclejerk or at least delist them. I don't think it looks great to have a bunch of dead boards. We should encourage that kind of stuff on the nerd.nu forums I also think we should point the wiki to wiki.nerd.nu or a nerd.nu/wiki
  5. I guestimated a little. Fun fact: We arbitrarily started numbering creative at 8 at the launch of 9. There are an unknown amount of revisions before then. The problem is that it was so unstable and the game was changing so fast no one thought to keep track.
  6. Stormcloaks because there is only one true high king of Skyrim, Sir Ulfric Stormcloak.
  7. Hey I was flying around C and I saw a bunch of cool things but I have no idea who build anything and no one puts signs! Also I think we should have a more liberal /warp policy. I like to just warp around and see shit and as far as I know there is not much of a limit to warps. Personal warps are unweildy and I'm willing to bet if you parse the logs almost completely unused.
  8. Also, in general no one reads replies to conversations where someone quotes blocks and comment on each. This is not how people discuss things and it is widely considered to be a dick move. Refer to the salient points and add what you have to say. This applies not just here, everywhere. Try sending your wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend something like that.
  9. Actually there is no completely agreed upon way of romanizing Arabic into English nor do they have really care about standardized spelling in Arabic in the way we do in English. So what I added a c, the sound doesn't actually exist in English. Source: I'm Iranian
  10. First of all Eehee, I have no interest in talking to you privately so you can trap me in some bullshit. Never message me directly again. I read those conversations completely differently than you. You missed the part where I said "no exceptions" you posted some trolling low content bullshit to the forums minutes after you have been unbanned. Scherererer is not in the wrong there and you have had a consistent pattern of trolling. Why is this so hard for you to understand. Then again you probably also have no idea what Allahu Ackbar means. You weren't banned for no reason, you were banned for being a systemic problem. Even though you think you are contributing you are still being a problem and you are dragging people into it that should all just drop it. This thread has incited people for no reason Second this is not going smoothly, this is going sadly. You are making work for people. You think I have extreme bias? I assure you I do not. As I said come online play blocks and chill out all problems go away but if you want to keep at this so be it. If you liked MasterCommaThe's answer then close the thread. Which by the way is advice you really should have learned by now. He wrote run of the mill treat people like an adult stuff. We don't need 9 pages of this to get to that. You are demanding answers from people who don't owe you any. I don't dislike you or anyone in particular and I can and will forgive anyone who chills out and is nice. This is not nice. You are dicing words and demanding answers. You are talking in circles for pages and pages. Several people have even tried to come in and make sense of this. We can't. No one can because it reads like the rantings of a lunatic. If you have problems with specific people bring it up with them in a civil matter, or just FUCKING DROP IT AND PLAY BLOCKS. Also you hilited the wrong part of my post so allow me to repeat it for you: Why should we keep around people who feel like it is their god given right to be an asshole to some people, which is exactly what people are demanding. fuck that! This is actually ridiculous. I can't believe I had to actually type that out. There is no toxic "debacle" thats /thread The guys said they will be more understanding. You guys have to stop being dicks. Problem solved.
  11. This means less than nothing to me. You have a pattern of problem behavior and were banned for that. You should still be. Scherererer owes you, as I said, less than nothing then and now. Your responses to him in these links are crazy person talk. http://prntscr.com/6qxjeb http://prntscr.com/6qxj8c You are not contributing in good faith. You are causing problems. Grow up. I've been calling you toxic for weeks because you are obsessing and persevering over this for weeks in a way that is unacceptable.
  12. I want to issue a challenge to all the slighted people who are terrified of playing here because of staff oppression or being sidelined. Come online and play and be nice. Don't troll. Don't be an asshole, no exceptions. Move some blocks around, chat on mumble about in-game topics or actual human topics that don't devolve into the profane. I am willing to bet $500 that the person will not be banned. I will bet that they would even probably be well liked and welcomed. The people who keep complaining, from an objective viewpoint of some dude in New York who plays video games and reads nonsense online is that the people who get banned fucked up. Why should we be nice to people who can't do somehting as simple as I have described. Why should we keep around people who feel like it is their god given right to be an asshole to some people, which is exactly what people are demanding. fuck that! This is actually ridiculous. I can't believe I had to actually type that out. There is no toxic "debacle" thats /thread The guys said they will be more understanding. You guys have to stop being dicks. Problem solved.
  13. The irony of you calling me petulant in this thread is astounding. Look man, I'm an adult who has been playing on these servers and contributing both with my blocks, thoughts and wallet for 5 years. I don't require anyone listen to what I have to say but I know that in the end of the day I have social capital because I play along, I help new players, I'm nice in chat and contribute when asked. You are hostile, arrogant, petulant (look up the definition) and frankly after reading through this toxic. You have problems here because you are not nice to people, you even copped to that how you are not nice and within minutes of people signing in you are doing dick things. I am literally just going by what you have wrote in this thread. I am contributing to this. I am bringing reality to this. This thread is pathetic Eehee, I don't even know you and I have had no opinion of you until just now and that opinion is is I am not going to be listening to you in the future or addressing you again. You don't deserve to be listened to as far as I am concerned. Respect is earned, not given. You and the people you are going to bat for have already spent your social capital and are now bankrupt. You want to come online and play some blocks and be nice and chill out then I'll do that man but I'm not going to tolerate people being a dick. Also what really bugs me are these kinds of threads. Look at what UNP wrote in here, look at how Nullsquare who doesn't even participate was dragged in. Kittypuppets ridiculous and likely made up survey, I think it makes us all look bad for no reason and I think it paints an unfair picture of our community based on extreme bias. One that I think we are unique in the fact we don't immediately suppress. I think we probably should. I am getting nasty because this is an exercise in futility. Dicing scher's words is a waste of his time and frankly I don't think he should be wasting it on you. Demanding answers from people who owe you less than nothing. Who the fuck do you think you are? Not everyone on this server is a shitty person, just a few. However really the kernel of all of this is that some players lack maturity to an extreme level. This is why I said you need to go outside, that is where you grow up. You are going to remember this in the future and be embarrassed. I know I regret a lot of my actions being a teenager on the internet in the 90s. It was less intense then too. I will stay wishing the people who can't play nice would just go away. Edit: I also want to stress something else actually. This took me 30 minutes to write. If you were a client of mine during work hours you would now owe me hundreds of dollars of billable time. I am not boasting and I am not kidding. The point I am trying to make is my time is valuable. I did not write this lightly, I will also not read any response from you with out equal time and value put into it. I would expect we can pick this up sometime in a few months. Please think really hard about yourself and your actions and why people sidelined you the way that they did. This could be a moment of personal growth.
  14. That was no joke. I wrote the problem players document in 2011 or earlier and coined the term toxic in relation to type X. The term means exactly what it says, the presence of specific individual was having far reaching and negative effects on the player base as a whole. This is a page out of a typical HR manual. The actual reference is this http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/how-to-protect-yourhow-to-protect-your-open-source-project-from-poisonous-people and I learned of it because Amaranthus was joking that he was once kicked out of an open source project for being toxic. Frankly, I think the term has actual merit and that there is such a thing as a toxic community member. I understand how people feel dismissed once this label is applied to them but I also pretty sure that this is not being tossed around undeserved.
  15. Is it that hard to believe out of the hundreds of people who have played here over the past 5+ years, 40 or so are douchebags? Seems about right to me. I'm sorry but the crux of this issue seems to be a certain segment of players have trouble dealing with any sort of authority and rubbed some people the wrong way and are now upset that they have trouble dealing with authority and want to be catered to. Guys it is time to drop this. If you are having serious social problems I suggest going outside and making some new friends. It isn't the nerd.nu staff that is your problem.
  16. So Eehee wants to be rude, abrasive and a dick to people but also be treated with respect and listened to. No. This is not how the world operates anywhere and shouldn't operate like that here. This is beyond pathetic if that this is what the crux of the issue is. Edit: This goes for anyone too. You can't sometimes be a troll. Welcome to real life. If you are a troll, you are rude, you are hostile, you are a dick to people you don't like well buddy your credibility goes away. No one anywhere has the right to be a problem sometimes, be rude or difficult then turn around and be treated the same as people who are nice, make friends and play along. If you guys are suggesting we should start listening to the problem players with chips on their shoulders then that is an actual stupid thing to say and insist.
  17. Thank you for that helpful comment Ridiculous. What would we do here without your valued input man? I am at the point where I am short with the overarching hostility and petulance and I'm just being real. You are adding contentless bullshit. Also I won't be replying to this. I'll chime in again on the general meeting we're going to have.
  18. I don't think having the same fight over and over again is helping anything. The hostility in this community is incredibly off putting. It is the reason I quit volunteering my time. It is the reason I'm getting tired of playing again. As I said it permeates so much of the surrounding culture here that it has itself become a bigger problem then the issues raised are. Frankly there are two types of users. One is an adult who participates, is nice, makes friends and hopefully donates if they are fortunate enough to be able too. I am one of these. The other are children who are hostile, entitled, mean, negative and petulant. We could do with less of them. They are the most frequent commentators on the forums yet shockingly not even close to the most frequent players. And no I don't need a thesaurus. I read books. Whoever wrote that in the uservoice thing is a sad human being.
  19. Do you really need yet another forum for the same 5 malcontents to stir the pot and sow hostility through our community and have it permeate all discussion? Are the forums not enough for this purpose? "Anonymous" isn't really anonymous. We all know who you guys are. Get real.
  20. You guys make it seem like the rules are being arbitrarily enforced and there is no reasoning. Let me clue you in to something... You guys, "the toxic," are assholes in chat and on these forums are not liked. You don't have the divine right to join a community and be a dickhead and troll and not be well liked and expect to stick around. End of discussion. I'm not on the staff, I'm not clued into any secret knowledge. This is just how the world works. Not everything is a court of law. Be nice, play blocks, make friends = no problems Troll, be a dick, rage, make enemies = eventually banned. If you are shitty to people on chat and on these forums go away, we don't need you. If this server is so sick that you don't want to grace us with your presence anymore, please leave. It will probably only improve this place. To the mod in that blurred out thing, step down, you are taking this too seriously. Relax and play blocks. I did that.
  21. Actually not finally. People who legislate against sexual orientation or perpetuate any sort homosexual oppression are necessarily homophobic. If they weren't afraid of homosexual people or how they love other people they would have no problem with them or be understanding when someone asks them not to use homosexual stigmatic language. There is no explanation for the fact that people really care about homosexuals it is irrational. People who perpetuate usage of these terms despite the fact of being asked not to are participating, perhaps unintentionally, in systemic marginalization of the desires of a community. This is why language is so important to the politically correct movement and this is exactly what George Weinberg was writing about in the 1960s. If it is not fear what is it? It is our only guess to that irrationality. I don't know if I agree with your premise about language. HR departments use the word in the way this server does. Large groups of people DO get to dictate language. From the links you posted: The American Heritage Dictionary (1992 edition) defines homophobia as "aversion to gay or homosexual people or their lifestyle or culture" and "behavior or an act based on this aversion." Other definitions identify homophobia as anirrational fear of homosexuality. From the first line George Weinberg’s introduction of the term homophobia in the late 1960s challenged traditional thinking about homosexuality and helped focus society’s attention on the problem of antigay prejudice and stigma. [emphasis mine] Look calling something "gay" in place of "bad" is literally stigmatic. This is homophobic by Weinberg's definition. A definition that has been evolving since the 1960s where people actually began to consider that homosexuality was not a disease. If you think politically correct society "chose a bad definition" I don't think I could possibly disagree with you any more but it is also not a fight worth having. Change the wording back to "no dicks." UNP, mods and admins have the do authority to make that judgement call and should. That was the only rule until we drafted these.
  22. Mumber - I actually wrote the rule we are discussing. It is supposed to read no homophobic language. It had been shortened for brevity and Minecraft signs. I understand what you are saying about that it isn't a fear of gays but this is the common accepted colloquial usage of the term even if it isn't razor sharp precise. Someone who uses a racial epithet isn't necessarily a racist but they are using racist language. Further this server started in partnership with r/gaymers at a time when reddit was far more politically correct and less openly horrible. A few of our original members back in Infdev/alpha felt very strongly about the usage of these terms and it was an easy rule to make people we liked happy and quickly filter people out who couldn't or wouldn't read the rules. It served as a lingual whitelist of a sort. At the time where we were the only large server in existence this was helpful in maintaining community standards while not requiring people post in a forum for membership or as allnaturalx would put it "prejoin bullshit." I'm unopinionated about the moral implications of the policy however I do not think it should be changed. If anything we should be far stricter in how we moderate behavior in general here. This is the entire reason I started the thread about ditching the reddit affiliation. Since this time reddit became a place or r/coontown and r/4chan as regular front page material. It is disgusting. But it is also evidence that the pool of people we are drawing from "redditors" are now culturally incompatable with the initial ideals of this server and what we wanted in the community. It seems that this is not disagreed upon when you read the replies in that thread. Finally, UNP I wasn't calling you a douchebag I was saying we bend over backwards for douchebags in general. This is a true statement and is a change that needs to happen far more than retooling minor wording on homophobic language in the rule book.
  23. Dude chill with profanity if you want to have an actual conversation. We don't need assholes sticking around. If you seriously lack empathy for other people and can't consider how other people feel because of your actions then you, by definition, can't participate in a community I stick by that, if you can't be understanding of where other people are coming from you probably should leave. I do think this should be mod enforced. If you have a constant chip on your shoulders and you can't be nice then maybe you should get banned. I'm tired of all of us bending over backwards to accommodate douchebags. Enough is enough.
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