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Originally posted by Pale Horse:
but the reasons you cited were incredibly short-sighted and make no sense in conjunction with the ""guidelines"". it makes me uneasy about the fact that you are our moderator. i feel now that you will lock a thread if it doesn't meet your approval or fit into your guidelines. i'm honestly not trying to attack your personal or moral agendas...but there's gotta be something more to this than: ""because i said so"".
? how many other ways can I explain it? are you purposely being obtuse for [censored] and giggles? I didn't make up these guidelines, they are explicit in the forum rules and user agreement. by registering, you agreed to the rules. you may believe it was incredibly short-sighted to lock it.. but that's not your decision to make.
you are correct in one regard: I will lock a thread if it doesn't meet my approval or my guidelines. that's what moderators do. but they're based on what's set forth in those rules, not my "personal or moral agendas."
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Originally posted by Pale Horse:
Originally posted by louisw:
""this is not a ""free speech"" site, so to speak, though you may say whatever you wish as long as it doesn't violate forum guidelines.""
this is no longer about the ultimate topic. this has turned into something a little more i think. it seems to me that the idea of voting on this ""unlocking"" struck a nerve somewhere with you louis. did you think that because you recieved a couple pm's thanking you, that the rest of us would sit idly by? i don't really mind the fact that you denied unlocking the thread...that's fine...but the reasons you cited were incredibly short-sighted and make no sense in conjunction with the ""guidelines"". it makes me uneasy about the fact that you are our moderator. i feel now that you will lock a thread if it doesn't meet your approval or fit into your guidelines. i'm honestly not trying to attack your personal or moral agendas...but there's gotta be something more to this than: ""because i said so"".
As much as I was messing with you in earlier posts, Louis, I still have to wonder, and agree with Pale Horse...
Which rule (listed below) would the ultimate topic be abolished under...And if there is a rule in there that you should be locking it for, it certainly should have taken place LONG before 1000+ posts...
Originally posted by Contour.org Rules:
FORUM GUIDELINES AND USER AGREEMENT
RULES
1. This is not a porn or sex forum. Any topics that remotely relate will be deleted. Posting photos of barely clothed men and women is not permitted. There are those who could be fired from their job if a coworker/boss saw such photos onscreen. This can happen accidently and unintentionally if the reader is unsuspecting. All topics with such pictures will be deleted and the poster will be warned. Further abuses will be met harshly.
2. Street racing posts are not permitted. Street racing is illegal and stupid and contour.org does not condone it. All street racing topics posted will be deleted and the author warned. Repeated abuses will be met harshly.
3. Posts containing vulgar, profane, abusive, racist or hateful language or expressions, epithets or slurs, text, photographs or illustrations in poor taste, inflammatory attacks of a personal, racial or religious nature will be deleted and actions may be taken against the originator. Attempts to defeat the built-in censor will be met harshly.
4. This is not a singles bar. This is a car forum, keep your matchmaking elsewhere.
5. This is not a "free speech" site, so to speak, though you may say whatever you wish as long as it doesn't violate forum guidelines. The admins have final say on forum rules.
6. This is the internet -- don't be a wuss and get all bent out of shape if someone else doesn't agree with you. This is how flame wars start.
7. If you have a problem with someone on the forums, please do not air it publicly. Take it off line via email, PM.s (personal message) or IM.
8. Do not start or continue personal flaming. Posters initiating flaming will be met harshly, you have been warned.
9. "In B4 Da lock" posts are really lame and waste bandwidth. Do not consider making one. You won't like the consequences if you do.
10. Posting just to raise your post count (aka post whoring) will not be tolerated in any form. If an admin deems you are abusing your account in this manner, your post count will be zeroed and you will lose posting privileges for a period, and permanently if it is not the first time.
11. Putting pictures in your signature is not allowed. It causes too much clutter and can destroy the layout of the forums. Create a car profile in the registry and put a link to it in your signature.
12. For sale/wanted ads are not allowed in the forums. This is what the classifieds section is for. There is a link to the classifieds in the menu bar.
13. Posting pictures or videos of any tach/speedometer at highly illegal speeds is not allowed. That is way too dangerous and just encourages similar behavior. It does not matter if it was taken at a track or any other place where such speeds are "safe", there is no way to tell that it was not taken elsewhere. Similarly, posting about your high-speed escapades on public roads is forbidden.
14. Although you may think your personal life is interesting, please don't post the intimate details. This isn't a forum for outlining the saga of your life.
15. Registering more than one account is not allowed and is grounds for being banned from the site.
16. If a particular subject/link is not appropriate for viewing at work, DO NOT post it.
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How about these:
Originally posted by Contour.org Rules:
FORUM GUIDELINES AND USER AGREEMENT
7. Posting just to raise your post count (aka post whoring) will not be tolerated in any form. If an admin deems you are abusing your account in this manner, your post count will be zeroed and you will lose posting privileges for a period, and permanently if it is not the first time.
11. Although you may think your personal life is interesting, please don't post the intimate details. This isn't a forum for outlining the saga of your life.
Registering more than one account is not allowed and is grounds for being banned from the site.
I've already acknowledged that yes, I should have locked it way before 1000+ posts. In fact I should have locked it when the nude pics were posted, on account of this one:
Originally posted by contour.org rules:
1. This is not a porn or sex forum. Any topics that remotely relate will be deleted. Posting photos of barely clothed men and women is not permitted. There are those who could be fired from their job if a coworker/boss saw such photos onscreen. This can happen accidently and unintentionally if the reader is unsuspecting. All topics with such pictures will be deleted and the poster will be warned. Further abuses will be met harshly.
what I'm getting out of this: "it should have been locked earlier." ok, it's locked now. "I was lax and inconsistent about moderating" ok, I'll be follow the rules to a T.
so what's all the whining still about?
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Originally posted by louisw:
i've already acknowledged that yes, i should have locked it way before 1000+ posts. in fact i should have locked it when the nude pics were posted, on account of this one:
Originally posted by contour.org rules:
1. this is not a porn or sex forum. any topics that remotely relate will be deleted. posting photos of barely clothed men and women is not permitted. there are those who could be fired from their job if a coworker/boss saw such photos onscreen. this can happen accidently and unintentionally if the reader is unsuspecting. all topics with such pictures will be deleted and the poster will be warned. further abuses will be met harshly.
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what happened to ""maxim rules""?? i thought you ok'd that with some other moderators. and further more the posters were made to post those pics in links to avoid such a violation of the forum guidelines...and none of them ended up being too riskee...ray's pics were obviously art oriented and any one elses pics were turned into linky's...even moobs or boobs were deleted...
i'm still not in agreement with you on this louis, and i guess i know where you stand on the auhority aspect of being a moderator...
i'll keep all of my posts in ci or 3l from now on unless you have anything to add to this discussion or i feel like posting that i'm taking a nap in sc...
oh, yeah, one more thought...why would it be a problem now to unlock this thread seeing as you are going to be much more of a force in enforcing guidelines? everyone knows that riskee pics are to be put into a link, so why not just unlock and let the good times roll louis??
lord forbid scceg get to know one another...i dont know about any one else, but i like to know who im speaking with and taking advice from...even if there is some useless banter and laughter in between.
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Originally posted by louisw:
How about these:
Originally posted by Contour.org Rules:
FORUM GUIDELINES AND USER AGREEMENT
7. Posting just to raise your post count (aka post whoring) will not be tolerated in any form. If an admin deems you are abusing your account in this manner, your post count will be zeroed and you will lose posting privileges for a period, and permanently if it is not the first time.
11. Although you may think your personal life is interesting, please don't post the intimate details. This isn't a forum for outlining the saga of your life.
Registering more than one account is not allowed and is grounds for being banned from the site.
Well, for one, after the first post, it doesn't do jack for our post counts!! And two, who posted about their personal life? I suppose if I say, HEY I WENT TO FRIDAY'S FOR LUNCH, and everybody is like, OOOOOOOHH, FRIDAY'S IS SO GOOD! Is that our intimate personal life? Or, maybe, the conversations that we had in there discussing art and other such things were intimate personal life discussions? COME ON!
There are a lot of us in the SCCEG that actually DO know each other and would like to be able to use this place as a simple place on the internet to hang out. Nothing against that in the rules!!!
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I've already acknowledged that yes, I should have locked it way before 1000+ posts. In fact I should have locked it when the nude pics were posted, on account of this one:
Originally posted by contour.org rules:
1. This is not a porn or sex forum. Any topics that remotely relate will be deleted. Posting photos of barely clothed men and women is not permitted. There are those who could be fired from their job if a coworker/boss saw such photos onscreen. This can happen accidently and unintentionally if the reader is unsuspecting. All topics with such pictures will be deleted and the poster will be warned. Further abuses will be met harshly.
what I'm getting out of this: "it should have been locked earlier." ok, it's locked now. "I was lax and inconsistent about moderating" ok, I'll be follow the rules to a T.
so what's all the whining still about?
Okay, you got it there, but that's NOT the reason you locked the topic and NOT the reason you kept it locked...At least according to your POLL regarding the unlock...(which, convienently, seems to have disappeared).
And all the "whining," as you call it, seems to be stemming from what Pale Horse summed up VERY NICELY! (copied below)
Originally posted by Pale Horse:
this is no longer about the ultimate topic. this has turned into something a little more i think. it seems to me that the idea of voting on this ""unlocking"" struck a nerve somewhere with you louis. did you think that because you recieved a couple pm's thanking you, that the rest of us would sit idly by? i don't really mind the fact that you denied unlocking the thread...that's fine...but the reasons you cited were incredibly short-sighted and make no sense in conjunction with the ""guidelines"". it makes me uneasy about the fact that you are our moderator. i feel now that you will lock a thread if it doesn't meet your approval or fit into your guidelines. i'm honestly not trying to attack your personal or moral agendas...but there's gotta be something more to this than: ""because i said so"".
Yes, I baited you a little, and then apologized for the baiting, but it still doesn't change the fact that there are some questions as to the moderating in this forum...
And no, this isn't a PERSONAL thing, otherwise, I know how the PM'ing system works...As you can see, there are several people who feel the way I do!!
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Did anybody else notice Pale Horse lacking something here?  Originally posted by Pale Horse:
"good lord...this is rediculous. that's all i have to say now.
this forum is for the discussion of topics relevant specifically to scceg.
so, basically, we should change the title of ""moderator"" to ""dictator"", since i am now to be told what is relevant discussion in our regional forum.
as long as no one gets out of hand and starts making derrogotory comments about other members, and there is no dicussion of street racing or other illegal activities; then what is the problem??? not trying to go over your head louis, just offering up some other aspects."
Originally posted by Pale Horse:
this is no longer about the ultimate topic. this has turned into something a little more i think. it seems to me that the idea of voting on this ""unlocking"" struck a nerve somewhere with you louis. did you think that because you recieved a couple pm's thanking you, that the rest of us would sit idly by? i don't really mind the fact that you denied unlocking the thread...that's fine...but the reasons you cited were incredibly short-sighted and make no sense in conjunction with the ""guidelines"". it makes me uneasy about the fact that you are our moderator. i feel now that you will lock a thread if it doesn't meet your approval or fit into your guidelines. i'm honestly not trying to attack your personal or moral agendas...but there's gotta be something more to this than: ""because i said so"".
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Originally posted by Woodencross:
Did anybody else notice Pale Horse lacking something here?
I noticed it right away! It can't be the REAL Pale Horse! It must be an imposter!!!
As for the "rules"... If you make it Contour related or local events only, then it will be even more dead than it is already! In looking at the fist page of SC posts, there is still posts from the middle of August! Other than the UT, not a lot of random crap gets posted. I personally hate going to CI because there IS so much random crap and I just don't have time for it all.
As for the UT, I think it should stay locked simply because it had lost it's soul and had ceased to be funny anymore.
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Pale Horse, Woodencross, Static... CALM DOWN! You guys are pushing this way too far. Louis is a reasonable man and he and Eric are both great moderators. He is right; he does not make the rules Lance and Christy do. This site was made by them and is run the way they want. If you do not know Lance and Christy let me just say that they lean to the conservative side and prefer to keep things on topic and very family friendly. We have all pushed the limits for fun and it was tolerated and enjoyed by all. We still can, if you drop this and stop flying off the handle.
Louis has shown he has a sense of humor, if you look at Pale Horses recent posts you will see this Edited by louisw (09/19/05 03:04 AM) Well done. That was quite funny.
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Originally posted by Mushu the Jokerlope:
Stop being Ass Clowns and start being the idiots I know and enjoy.
Well said.
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