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Corruption in the Moderators? (Ridley Conspiracy)

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DeathKnight517

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Perma Ban me, Hate me, Hell even completely rip me to shreds. I do not care.

I've noticed something, R.I.D.L.E.Y. was recently obliterated by a mod Genocide of the organization. While I do not understand why I have a few rather shocking thesis's. They'll be listed below I
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Theory I: While some of the mods that destroyed R.I.D.L.E.Y. Claim to be Ridley supporters themselves, this is highly doubtful. if it was true, they would look closer into all of this however this is where I think favoritism and corruption leaks in.

Some of the Ridley members are over-dramatic (Some even complete *******s) But would the mods take time to ban each account? no, they took the lazy road...BAN ALL RIDLEY THREADS, Here is how it seems since Ridley supoorters are some of the oldest, they hold less innocence in the Mod's eyes, Why? I do not know. Possibly because "Hey there new, there trying to get the hang of it" Insert benefit of a doubt, while some of the R.I.D.L.E.Y. members did deserve banment (hell maybe even me...) almost all the other members were forced to put out the flames for a handful of members faults, however in the Mod's eyes yet again R.I.D.L.E.Y. members turn into the bad guys, why? "Been around longer, and should no better" so they basically answer each post on a whim. instead of taking the time to sort out the good and the bad they decide "LARGE SCALE RIDLEY BAN!" Banning all RIDLEY topics. However if you inspect past the normal flammers you'd know that A: most are defending themselves, OR try to quell the massive flammers caused by the few. basically turning the remaining members into flame fodder. So the bad members made the good members, look bad. but did the Mods bother to investigate this...wait for it...wait for it...NO! they decided that in generic mod standard, label all Ridley members flammers in there mind. did this click into Ridley banment? you bet your arse.

Theory II: This is more of a continuation of 1, but however. Considering that the handful of Ridley members that give RIDLEY bad names cause flame wars, and turn the remaining RIDLEY members into flame fodder, HOWEVER I noticed that the ones who get flammed tend to be rather immature about this. I've seen, hell even heard this all before. Whiney other-supporters report everyone saying "SO-AND-SO FLAMES US ALL THE TIME!" Resulting in not an investigation, just immediate destruction of that thing in this case R.I.D.L.E.Y. so I ask you...are the Moderators, the ones who are supposed to treat all with equilaty and fairness doing there job right...HELL NO.

What they are doing, IS SLOWLY being corrupted from the INSIDE by there own Laziness and or inability-to-give-a-**** or read afew pages to figure out things, they are probably more likely to jump on what little they have to act that way they don't have to type.

Oh yeah Mods...ban me, but don't you dare tell me I'm not right in some small way. while these are theories, I have strong reason to believe something in theres right about you.

Soon to be banned most likely

~DK517

Oh and bye to all, and to the Admins, read that back up there ^^^^ yeah thats work, might want to start doing it.
 

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I agree 100% with the "the mods took the lazy way out", and i've sayd it since the first Ridley thread got closed.

You have my support Deathknigh, if you ban him, ban me too, withouth the Ridley threads i find this forum boring aniway.
 
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This has happened to several topics, and it's easy to understand why if you look beyond the topic iteslf.

Topic's such as R.I.D.L.E.Y are topics that no longer serve their purpose so they are temporarily (In some cases) closed to further prevent spam. It's not the mods, it's the postrs that decide to make a topic irrelivant to it's initial purpose.
 

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No Eternal, the mods never did the job of "moderationg" instead they waited until the threads where spam fests and then closed them, although many of the members did deserve the ban it's completly stupid to make a Ridley thread ban.

Even though Spammers, Trolls and Flamers where always reported, hell i even Pmed Kokichi on numerous ocasions about flamers and trolls, they still took the easy way out.
 

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My fellow RIDLEY members got what they wished for. They wanted to go out with a bang, and bang they did.

It's foolish to be lamenting the unfairness of it all now.
 

Shuma

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Well I and many others didn't participate in that stupidity. Also, whant proof that the moderators are not doing their job?

 

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While I am disappointed in fellow regulators of the Ridley thread, I disapprove of the moderators' methods of targetting a thread/type of thread in general instead of specific members.
 

DeathKnight517

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I agree 100% with the "the mods took the lazy way out", and i've sayd it since the first Ridley thread got closed.

You have my support Deathknigh, if you ban him, ban me too, withouth the Ridley threads i find this forum boring aniway.
Thanks for the support mate, listen if you want to help me. I'll attempt to reform R.I.D.L.E.Y. offsite. Here's the link where it'll be reformed...sorry not alot of choices...

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It's like having the power of ending world war II by just pushing a button and killing Hittle, but instead of doing that they nuke Germany.
 
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No Eternal, the mods never did the job of "moderationg" instead they waited until the threads where spam fests and then closed them, although many of the members did deserve the ban it's completly stupid to make a Ridley thread ban.

Even though Spammers, Trolls and Flamers where always reported, hell i even Pmed Kokichi on numerous ocasions about flamers and trolls, they still took the easy way out.
Hm. I actually may have to agree after seeing the forums in such disarray.
 

DeathKnight517

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Shuma if your not gonna use the Cbox theres a link to the Neo R.I.D.L.E.Y. thread...

Were coming back. it'll take time but we'll come back..
 

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I think it is just more of a crackdown on spam more than anything else, the Ridley supporters just happened to be the ones to rebel against this crackdown on spam
 

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It's like having the power of ending world war II by just pushing a button and killing Hittle, but instead of doing that they nuke Germany.

It's more like putting a fence around your garden because certain people keep stealing your apples.
 

DeathKnight517

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Hm. I actually may have to agree after seeing the forums in such disarray.
This is another point I forgot to bring up, the Moderators wait until some idiot (Possibly a Mod friend, or some wacked shizzo like that...) to come in, start off-topicness and spamness before stepping in. Thanks for the thesis Shuma.
 

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"It's more like putting a fence around your garden because certain people keep stealing your apples."

Just that in this case you know who's stealing your apples.
 

DeathKnight517

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I think it is just more of a crackdown on spam more than anything else, the Ridley supporters just happened to be the ones to rebel against this crackdown on spam

Exactly R.I.D.L.E.Y.'s sick of it, and were not gonna take it anymore!
We'll come back offsite until things cooldown, but I'm rebelling against the Mods until we get compitent, decent, hard working mods not these lazy Spam Leech excuse for mods..
 

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I believe, the point is, not everyone is a member of said club, of whose members seem to cause the most trouble (not all of them of course).

In fact how many people are in that club, 20 or so? Out of how many Ridley fans on the boards?

The situation does need a review. I'm inclined to think, that a moderator started and controlled thread could be an answer.

A drop of ink in a glass of water, discolours, the entire volume of liquid, no?

I do think though, that one of way of solving this, is to stop the club foolishness across the boards. In my opinion, they are accidents waiting to happen. What purpose does it serve? Anyone can be a "true" fan. Although I guess I could possibly understand the fun apsect of it.
I consider myself a bigger Ridley fan, than half of them, and I barely post at all (thrown in for safety :laugh:).

Your splitting one whole smash community, into even more factions. We already have casual and tournament goers, going at each others throats (only a minority in my opinion, yet a split none-the-less).

I do not want to come off as caring though, I prefer to be equanimous in the background of things =)

Dave
 

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Yeah the mods may be being too strict on spam at the moment in character threads
They seems to have a problem with the big threads turning into off topic community chat rooms at times, which i dont see the big problem with

Anyway im sure if were all good, we will see a new ridley thread up in no time
 

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"Your splitting one whole smash community, into even more factions. We already have casual and tournament goers, going at each others throats (only a minority in my opinion, yet a split none-the-less)."

While this is true, most of the "wars" between the clubs are made by individuals, not the whole "club". Again, Moderators should ban and/or warn this individuals before a flame war starts, not gas the whole thread.

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"Yeah the mods may be being too strict on spam at the moment in character threads"

No, that's not the problem, quite the contrary, the problem is that they're not strict enough, they should ban and warn individuals, not everyone.
 

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"Your splitting one whole smash community, into even more factions. We already have casual and tournament goers, going at each others throats (only a minority in my opinion, yet a split none-the-less)."

While this is true, most of the "wars" between the clubs are made by individuals, not the whole "club". Again, Moderators should ban and/or warn this individuals before a flame war starts, not gas the whole thread.

Edit:

"Yeah the mods may be being too strict on spam at the moment in character threads"

No, that's not the problem, quite the contrary, the problem is that they're not strict enough, they should ban and warn individuals, not everyone.
Exactly, instead as said by me and Shuma most if not all mods on this board are spam leeches who won't step in until a topic moves off topic. Thats corruption, plus I have other reasons to think that some of my theories are true in a more minor aspect...

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To the guy who said that mods were too strict on spam, my friend thats all they do ban spammy threads. other then that they might as well be furnishings, they have no purpose. we need better mods, ones that are willing to WORK to be FAIR to y'know ENFORCE JUSTICE THE WAY IT SHOULD?!
 

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Looks like we have a celebrity here, Dylan "i've been banned to many times" Tnga.
 

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"Your splitting one whole smash community, into even more factions. We already have casual and tournament goers, going at each others throats (only a minority in my opinion, yet a split none-the-less)."

While this is true, most of the "wars" between the clubs are made by individuals, not the whole "club". Again, Moderators should ban and/or warn this individuals before a flame war starts, not gas the whole thread.
Yeah, I understand that, but the problem is, it only takes one to start a war, as you said. One that is part of a group, arguably gives the impression of that entire group.

So one or two "flamers", generally makes the entire group look like they hold that view. Not necessarily of course. More sagacious individuals will realise, that is not the case.

I would have to agree with you, that more moderation is required. Not on all threads; some of them are fine. But especially on threads that have such large fanbases as Ridley.

I think that banning on this scale, in a forum this large, is a dangerous thing to do, that will result in only more harm.

Dave
 

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I believe, the point is, not everyone is a member of said club, of whose members seem to cause the most trouble (not all of them of course).

In fact how many people are in that club, 20 or so? Out of how many Ridley fans on the boards?

The situation does need a review. I'm inclined to think, that a moderator started and controlled thread could be an answer.

A drop of ink in a glass of water, discolours, the entire volume of liquid, no?

I do think though, that one of way of solving this, is to stop the club foolishness across the boards. In my opinion, they are accidents waiting to happen. What purpose does it serve? Anyone can be a "true" fan. Although I guess I could possibly understand the fun apsect of it.
I consider myself a bigger Ridley fan, than half of them, and I barely post at all (thrown in for safety :laugh:).

Your splitting one whole smash community, into even more factions. We already have casual and tournament goers, going at each others throats (only a minority in my opinion, yet a split none-the-less).
You rock so hard. So very, very hard.

This whole thing wouldn't have escalated if the RIDLEY members weren't so... "patriotic". Honestly, they are forming some sort of Jesus-complex. DeathKnight, just look at yourself. "I AM STANDING UP FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN AND I WILL BE SMITTEN BY THE EVIL MODS FOR IT, OH WOE IS ME".

Stop thinking of yourselves as ****ing martyrs!

THIS IS A VIDEO GAME FORUM! About VIDEO GAMES.
 

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You rock so hard. So very, very hard.

This whole thing wouldn't have escalated if the RIDLEY members weren't so... "patriotic". Honestly, they are forming some sort of Jesus-complex. DeathKnight, just look at yourself. "I AM STANDING UP FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN AND I WILL BE SMITTEN BY THE EVIL MODS FOR IT, OH WOE IS ME".

Stop thinking of yourselves as ****ing martyrs!

THIS IS A VIDEO GAME FORUM! About VIDEO GAMES.
Best post yet, so true
 

DeathKnight517

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You rock so hard. So very, very hard.

This whole thing wouldn't have escalated if the RIDLEY members weren't so... "patriotic". Honestly, they are forming some sort of Jesus-complex. DeathKnight, just look at yourself. "I AM STANDING UP FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN AND I WILL BE SMITTEN BY THE EVIL MODS FOR IT, OH WOE IS ME".

Stop thinking of yourselves as ****ing martyrs!

THIS IS A VIDEO GAME FORUM! About VIDEO GAMES.
A: Not to be mean, but ultra large letters make you look like a douche.

B: Close your mouth, open your eyes and ears. get what were talking about, this is not only a RIDLEY thing, it may affect the whole Smash board. I'm probably moving alil off topic, but the Mods have had this comin for along time.
 

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@Fawriel:

Remember the Flaming and Trolling you got when Gardevoir was deconfirmed? We get that every single ****ing day in the Ridley thread, and it could be solved with more strict moderation, this is not only a Ridley concern thingie.
 

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zomg, we must rebel against the Moderator government, they are taking away our civil rites! It's not that big of a deal people...if some people decided to be stupid on a video game forum, action gets taken. Too bad.
 

DeathKnight517

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zomg, we must rebel against the Moderator government, they are taking away our civil rites! It's not that big of a deal people...if some people decided to be stupid on a video game forum, action gets taken. Too bad.
If actions taken, it should be proper. Not a Organization/Member Genocide. -_-

Did you evem READ what were saying?!
 

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We are not robots here to babysit the imaturity of forum goers. We had hoped that after numerous warnings and a complete topic remake that people would have wisened up and stop their behaviour. They haven't. The fact that the behaviour was limited to any topic relating to Ridley, it was clear that the problem was them gathering under the banner that is Ridley, which is a shame, as I was loking forward to him being in Brawl in some aspect. But the fact that after so many warnings, not to mention the sudden spamming by ridley "members" showed that the problem was based around that.

If anyone has any issues with this, we again direct you to forum desputes, or the PM system.

As warned in the now dead Ridley topic, any topics about Ridley will be closed and the maker given a 2 week ban. The only way we, at this point in time, will repeal this is if he becomes a full fledged character, and like Kokichi said, it will be then given the strictest ruling of any room previously.

Again, if anyone has any issues with this, please use forum desputes, or the PM system.
 
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