Alabama Thread! (10/26/2016 update)

[Winnar]

you guys could just take it up with the mods instead of stewing in your rage.

BROOKLYN RAAAAAGE!

...nyeeeh?

 

[theONEjanitor]

you guys could just take it up with the mods instead of stewing in your rage.

yes we've all seen how effective that is

 

[ZOM~B]

yes we've all seen how effective that is

Over in our waba thread we got it moved back by promising to make a social thread too, the same could be done here? This one could be Alabama Tournament Discussion or something, and you could have a social thread as well?

 

[munkus beaver]

Someone listen to this man he mods/modded(?) penny arcade forums IIRC

Present tense.

I've seen huge threads and communities based around huge threads. The problem is not exactly a fixable one since A: It requires moderators being involved at the start to guide the community and B: enough moderating staff to provide adequate coverage.

I mean the only way a moderator is going to ever visit this thread is if a post is reported.

 

[Majist]

BROOKLYN RAAAAAGE!

...nyeeeh?

that made my day. i watched it like 5 times. makes me want to watch the abridged series all over again

NYEH.

 

[The Alpha Gundam]

firstly, we discuss tournaments and smash in general in this thread just as much as we discuss anything else. i hghly doubt the mod who moved the thread looked over the nine million pages to see what we discuss the most

also, Tennesse's thread which has "player finder" in the name is in the social room too. and if the thread is being moved because it has the wrong "name", well that's even more ridiculous

the entire concept of a "social" forum is a ******** useless waste of admin power to begin with
it makes the forums more constipated and adds more steps for me to navigate through it for no other reason than the mods wanting to prove their jobs aren't useless.
sorry if i'm overreacting but
this happens on every forum, its really really annoying.

I regular post on a forum that has basically no rules except no spam, nothing illegal and no porn, and it works out FINE. it has separate forums, and it does have an overall purpose, but sometimes people post random stuff, and no one cares because the mods aren't wackos

Frames claims he's going to ban the next person that makes a thread about Soulja Boy. That's the dumb mod stuff thats annoying

I double, triple, and quad post in this thread at least once a day, and it hurts/bothers nobody. The literal only reason to make it against the rules for you to post two separate posts twice in a row that aren't flooding the thread is just to give the mods somethign to do.

before this whole social room nonsense, we in the atlantic south made random threads and it hurt/bothered nobody. Sometimes people like got carried away, but usually that was just in protest of the mods being douches

and then they open up a social forum, THAT'S STILL MODERATED WITH STRICT RULES LMFAO

etc

Who gives a **** if someone makes a "who's blacker, Dogy or Alpha" thread in the atlantic south forum. Seriously. Who gives a ****? Besides mods who want to abuse their powers. Who gives a ****. I really want to know.

Times up. The answer we were looking for is NOBODY.

and any thread period ever made on any forum is a "social thread".

So if I go to Tournament Results and look at a thread, and they start talking about the awesome time they had at Arby's after the tournament

wahoh i guess its time for the thread to be moved to the social forum huh

 

[Will_]

Let's make our own forum... with hookers... and blackjack.

In fact...forget the forum!

Spoiler

lol bender

ygo abridged is too good. I also recommend Team Four Star's DBZ the Abridged Series if you haven't seen it yet.

 

[ihavespaceblondes]

....the "with hookers.... and blackjack" line is from Futurama.
And DBZ abridged is amazing.

 

[Will_]

Bender said it, right?

and lol yes. "Vegeta look...a pokemon"

 

[ihavespaceblondes]

Chad did that to me yesterday. I got my hair cut so he can't recognize me now.
"I'm not a pokemon, I'm Spaceballs! Spaceballs!"
"Ya hear that Vegeta? It's a Spaceballs. I'm gonna catch it!"

 

[Will_]

lol nice, you got your hair cut? I wanna see.

I mean -- pics or it didn't happen.

 

[ihavespaceblondes]

I'll take/post a picture when I get home.

 

[NES n00b]

I'll take/post a picture when I get home.

Sounds hot. I will be waiting.

 

[shaSLAM]

t1j kind of exploded.
it's really not that big of a deal.

yes it is.
he shares my hate for stupid mods who like banning us from our favorite ****ing site... just because i post things a little unorthadox...

 

[SleepyK]

it really wouldn't be that hard to rename this thread player finder and make a thread in the social boards.
it's stupid but whatever.
just because you have a little mayo on your burger that you didn't ask for doesn't mean you can't just wipe it off.

 

[The Alpha Gundam]

it really wouldn't be that hard to rename this thread player finder and make a thread in the social boards.
it's stupid but whatever.
just because you have a little mayo on your burger that you didn't ask for doesn't mean you can't just wipe it off.

LOL tell that to Luis

 

[theONEjanitor]

you're missing the point
its a minor issue that the alabama thread is in the social room
the big issue is the general douchebagginess/uselessness of the moderation staff

 

[-Chad-]

I think we see the point.

Our point is, it's ******** to care THAT much about it.

Give me some hard examples of where mods are completely out of line and not modding people for stuff they deserve?

 

[_Keno_]

Give me some hard examples of where mods are completely out of line.

Moving this thread to the social room.

Spoiler

Not really, but maybe it is for some people lol

Our point is, it's ******** to care THAT much about it.

Then why did they move our thread if it's so minor? Some of the people here may be mad just because they don't like the change, and simply moving the thread back would fix it.

 

[munkus beaver]

I think we see the point.

Our point is, it's ******** to care THAT much about it.

Give me some hard examples of where mods are completely out of line and not modding people for stuff they deserve?

Sometimes you use the carrot, sometimes you use the stick.

I'm hardly arguing that they use the stick too often, I'm mainly saying that they never use the carrot.

And the stick should be much more readily applied in a place like this.

 

[munkus beaver]

And heck, since you're asking for examples:
http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=7272327&postcount=11659

And the post that follow it.

Basically sent my crapping out connection into a freeze and practically gave me a seizure. You can't tell me that nonsense is not ********.

EDIT: And if I understand the purpose of this forum correctly, how about some actual moderation in the regional forum to keep it on-topic and not have ******** joke/troll threads all the time?

Kinda pointless when I see this thread in this forum and then I go to the regional forum and see thread detritus. Sometimes I poke my head out of this hole in the forum to see if it's worth venturing out. Hasn't been the case yet.

EDIT2: And HEY, the fact that the moderating staff felt that this thread should be moved from the parent forum to here should be evidence per se that this thread was buggering off course and lacked moderation. I mean talk about missing the forest for the trees.

 

[skaterbaj]

hey theres a big lan thing(panhandle gamers) that is being hosted in Mobile over the summer ya'll should see if ya'll could get brawl/melee over there!

 

[coach]

i didn't mean to kill anyone, sorry if my post was misinterpreted. im also sorry you hate me munkus.

proper moderation would be remove my spam, and stop me from posting for 48 hours- 7days. not misinterpreting the only thread that binds our community together for tounaments.

p.s. if you're going to move our thread, move all of these and ruin it for everyone also. oh yeah and set in stone what qualifies a topic as "social".
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=53259
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=218831
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=89409
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=220452
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=221193
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=211827
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=70386

oh yeah who reported me? it's that guys fault for not being tolerant for half a second. (ITT: Coach is a dickwad)

 

[shaSLAM]

ATTENTION ALABAMA

how many of you would come if i hosted a tournament in wetumpka AL.
it is right by montgomery. like 5 minutes away.

please let me know if you are intersted. i will help with directions and get a google maps up and i have 3 tvs i can get there. i would need you guys to bring tvs too.

i have a place in my neighborhood i can rent out to have it in

date im looking at is may 30

 

[munkus beaver]

Coach, I'd say that an infraction coupled with a post from a moderator indicating that they had done something about it and didn't want it to continue would go a long way.

Also consistency in the moderating decisions (like what makes a thread 'social') and actual awareness of moderators would help. You know cops don't drive around so that their engines stay warm, it's to stay visible.

The first time I saw a moderator post in this thread it was to say, quite literally, 'hey guys cut it out lol'

My God did that post just trickle with the airs of being serious.

EDIT: And looking back, those two posts are still there. Seriously though, I can't ever tell if someone has been reprimanded for jack around here.

 

[Xeedoc]

Ya, i'm new to this site and I already know that half of the tourney threads are "social" threads, if you going to move us move the rest of smashboards.

The whole site is social if you ask me.

SOCIALIST PARTY!!
ZIEG HAIL

 

[coach]

Coach, I'd say that an infraction coupled with a post from a moderator indicating that they had done something about it and didn't want it to continue would go a long way.

Also consistency in the moderating decisions (like what makes a thread 'social') and actual awareness of moderators would help. You know cops don't drive around so that their engines stay warm, it's to stay visible.

The first time I saw a moderator post in this thread it was to say, quite literally, 'hey guys cut it out lol'

My God did that post just trickle with the airs of being serious.

EDIT: And looking back, those two posts are still there. Seriously though, I can't ever tell if someone has been reprimanded for jack around here.

do you still hate me? i love you <3 (p.s. im being serious)

 

[Majist]

it's okay, eventually all of the tourney threads will be moved here. Then nothing will have changed at all

 

[ihavespaceblondes]

haha your internets are slow
download moar ram noob

 

[shaSLAM]

ok so i got ignored...

anyways moogle, im dropping GW
my mains are gonna be Wario, DDD, Jigglypuff, Mario.
in that order.
i <3 jigglypuff.

you guys are gonna hate my DDD.
but i will only use him for marth and DDD matchups i suppose. mabey yoshi.

 

[Xeedoc]

Need some Peach practice with someone other than a ZSS.
Hit me up on wifi, I should be on at night as I'm not supposed to be on period.
and Sunday, I'll be on sunday too.

btw Clue is a beasty game.

 

[munkus beaver]

Coach you are a man who has annoyed me greatly at times and amused me greatly at times. I don't hate you, never have.

 

[NES n00b]

haha your internets are slow
download moar ram noob

I see no picture.

 

[coach]

Coach you are a man who has annoyed me greatly at times and amused me greatly at times. I don't hate you, never have.

i think the feeling is mutual

 

[Winnar]

it's okay, eventually all of the tourney threads will be moved here. Then nothing will have changed at all

Except that it will become THAT much harder for newcomers to find this thread, and the other threads.

I dunno, it's not a problem for me specifically (as I get to this page from my list of subscribed threads), but I can see why a lot of people are getting upset.

la la la

Hm...guys I'm leaving soon

Tomorrow

Miss me D:

 

[GeorgeTHPS]

ok so i got ignored...

anyways moogle, im dropping GW
my mains are gonna be Wario, DDD, Jigglypuff, Mario.
in that order.
i <3 jigglypuff.

you guys are gonna hate my DDD.
but i will only use him for marth and DDD matchups i suppose. mabey yoshi.

I was going to post something about some of us already committing to Last Smash 3 on May 30, but then I didn't.

No one's Dedede can be that bad.

 

[theONEjanitor]

I think we see the point.

Our point is, it's ******** to care THAT much about it.

Give me some hard examples of where mods are completely out of line and not modding people for stuff they deserve?

the entire concept of a social forum in general, which is vague and stupid
random moving/closing of threads with no consistency as to what's allowed/not allowed
frames threatening to (seriously) ban anyone who makes a thread about soulja boy, IN THE SOCIAL ROOM
*****ing about double posts, which literally have no negative effect on smashboards whatsoever
me (as well as every single person who posted in this particular thread...even those who made serious comments) getting an infraction for "replying to spam" because a mod just wanted to be an ******* (according to his own words)
the fact that typing "In b4 close" is even infraction worthy...totally feeding the trolls with that post aren't i
the fact that moderators themselves are exempt from the rules (I dont know if its still up, but there was a moderator spam orgy that was stickied for like six months where several mods just randomly posted garbage in a closed thread.)

I'm going to just go around report anyone anytime everyone posts something even slightly off topic, and according to the precedents set by smashboards moderation staff, the thread should then be immediately moved to a social forum.

*MEETS GUY AT A TOURNEY*
oh yeah AL plays all the time, we have a thread on smashboards where we discuss our plans for upcoming tournaments
just go to
smashboards.com
smash tournaments
regional zones
atlantic south
gentlemen's club

and wade through all the bad jokes/random youtube thread/post your picture/who's **** is the longest/which disney girl is the hottest/i lost my virginity today guyz/etc. threads and you'll probably find us in there somewhere
what is not understood is that this is the internets when I leave smash boards I can give a **** less about a red name pushing forum buttons
but when I am here I would prefer not to be annoyed just because some teenager across the country is having a bad day/doesn't realize that he's taking his job too seriously (ironic, considering i'm being accused of taking this too seriously)

also this

i didn't mean to kill anyone, sorry if my post was misinterpreted. im also sorry you hate me munkus.

proper moderation would be remove my spam, and stop me from posting for 48 hours- 7days. not misinterpreting the only thread that binds our community together for tounaments.

p.s. if you're going to move our thread, move all of these and ruin it for everyone also. oh yeah and set in stone what qualifies a topic as "social".
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=53259
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=218831
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=89409
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=220452
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=221193
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=211827
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=70386

anyway, back to smash (LOL WHO M I KIDDIN AL WE DO IN DIS FRED IS POST WATCHMEN GIFS)

dedede's one of my hard matchups, like in order for snake to beat dedede he sort of has to be aggressive while also not getting grabbed, like you can sort of camp dedede but then it takes way too long to kill him.

also my sheik is smexy

also are we definitely going to last smash, because if so, they want us to Preregister

i finally send my 360 and got it back. i'm back in bizness.

also after nearly a year of drivign without one I have a license plate on my car now yay...my car looks weird with a tag on it lol

oh **** I'm being "social" let me stop

 

[shaSLAM]

I was going to post something about some of us already committing to Last Smash 3 on May 30, but then I didn't.

No one's Dedede can be that bad.

where is last smash?

 

[Xeedoc]

where is last smash?

Baton Rouge, LA

GOGOGOGOGO

 

[shaSLAM]

hey george..
if you guys go to that i wanna go :D