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Excuse me, but the Sonic Billboard is a place to advertise your forum, not to burst into somebody else's thread, compare their forum to yours, claim yours is better, and criticize them.

Heck even the own darn staff member Bliz curses uncensored and doesn't even get in trouble.
Please keep that in mind next time.

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No problem. :P Believe it or not, you can talk to staff about these things. We're not rage-filled beasts waiting to take your head off.

BlizShadow

Oct 2 2010, 05:22 PM

You've got it all wrong. The fact of the matter is, your post in the Billboard topic was reported by a non-staff member, I looked at the report because it's my job, I decided you didn't do anything that warranted an actual warning so much as a little pro-tip chat from me to you; I even specifically stated that any offense you may have committed with that post was pretty gray anyways.

More specifically, there was no actual offense, and to pin one on you would be reaching a bit, but I felt the tone in your post could've been handled better, so I talked to you in the hopes that it'd help you perhaps come on a bit better the next time you want to help someone out. That's all my PM was to you, and what's funny is that you essentially agreed with me anyways!

So, I'm not sure where you're coming from about me "warning" you. You've not been warned, not for this and not for anything else you've posted in the past. Your disciplinary record is as clean as mine, that I assure you.

Secondly, people around here don't get in trouble for merely expressing a negative opinion. They get in trouble if they express that negative opinion in ways that may be disrupting to fair and rational discourse; Hell, I had to physically warn an actual staff member for doing just that not too long ago.

A lot of the people who may have been so-called "targetted" by staff in the past usually stir up trouble in the process, either by flaming or trolling to some degree, whether it is or isn't intentional, thus we handle such problems to the best of our ability so that we can reestablish a less heated environment. Overall, I'll speak for all of staff and say that we don't "target" members on this forum; We honestly have better and more constructive things to do with our time.

But there is undoubtedly a hierarchy on Sonic Blast though, and it's dependent on the things you mentioned as well as a person's ability to make a point or mayhaps their artistic or roleplaying abilities; In short, those who contribute most to the forum in a positive manner are more popular and given more credibility than those that don't. However, this isn't unique to Sonic Blast, but every large and long-lasting community I've ever seen. Regardless, it has little to nothing to do with staff matters; As I said, I warned a staff member not too long ago, but I pretty much gave you a pass today. Mysterious, isn't it?

Nevertheless, I don't see how this is a point of contention anyways. You're not a troublemaker, so why would anyone on staff target you?

Third, I swing by your posts and respond to them because it's a forum, and that's generally the point-- You see something interesting and respond to it with your own thoughts. Because of the general level of conversation on Sonic Blast, it is much harder for me to respond to things that I agree with than with things I disagree with because such posts are usually self-explanatory and so it's difficult for me to add to the discussion; Really, unless I'm joking, to make a post that amounts to "I agree" is out of the question for me.

However, it is much easier to do so with posts I disagree with, and you and I are very, very, different Sonic fans. But that actually makes you an interesting person to talk to! =P Anyways, rest assured I don't target people on a personal level when I debate with them. For example, the very last time I responded to you in the Sonic 4 topic, I wasn't even responding to you but to the model debate in general, and I made a note at the very beginning of the post to make that apparent.

Regardless, I ironically know what it's like to feel overwhelmed or beaten down by such posters, thus I sincerely apologize for making you feel uncomfortable. I'm actually trying to be friendlier to people on here in normal discourse. Frankly, I was much, much more intolerable just a few months ago.

Also, cursing isn't against the rules, really, unless it's over-gratuitous or levelled at someone with the aim of flaming them. I and other posters who do curse don't really do that, so... curse away. Anyone's free to do it.

BlizShadow

Oct 2 2010, 05:59 PM

No problem. Believe it or not, you can talk to staff about these things. We're not rage-filled beasts waiting to take your head off.