Oh, well. It’s been a fun ~15 years.

[Shane]

Irrigating deserts by moving great amounts of water, geothermal heat emitted above ground, direct heating from every a/c condenser and vehicle radiator, heat from data centers.   

But people want to charge people carbon credits before enough datapoints have been studied.

[Shane]

Shane, where are ya keeping yourself lately? My FUSS-O-METER hasn't had a good workout in ages. 

Monday Night Madness and Tank Nite Thursdays, both at 8pm est. I know you go to bed at like, 3:30 in the afternoon, but if you can make them, they're an hour of fun.  Aside from that, re-visiting some older game series: Close Combat (the 4 updated remakes are fun) and Total War.

I'll eventually get back into the MA so people can feel they somehow own me by mashing their .rpt button when I laugh at their lack of abilities. 

[AKIron]

direct heating from every a/c condenser   

Just a point of order here. A perfectly efficient a/c would generate no net heat. It moves the heat inside to outside. Of course there is no perfectly efficient a/c.

[LCADolby]

Just remember kids, you had 10 years to save the planet in 1970 

[Oldman731]

Just remember kids, you had 10 years to save the planet in 1970

And we did that!  Gone with the ozone hole!  No more freon or aerosol sprays.

- oldman

[LilMak]

The problem is bias. Mods have their favorites and sometimes that is the subject matter. I was muted eons ago (999 minutes) for coming in the wrong side of a political debate. Then watched for hours as the “debate” continued on 200 form the same one or two players. Recently got a warning for saying something that actually was game related like “yaks are bullet proof” (those weren’t the words or even the subject but a similar observation). Didn’t enjoy the warning for their stupidity. Then I did get (rightfully so) muted for calling the mod what they were. Soft. No sweat though. Was a bout log off and instead took advantage of the fact HT doesn’t boot tower sitters.

There absolutely are some mods who are WAY too soft to have a mute button. Unfortunately, they don’t appear to be policed at all.

[hazmatt]

The problem is bias. Mods have their favorites

Unfortunately, they don’t appear to be policed at all.

I agree on both points.

You get on the a mods wrong side and you could get muted for talking about the weather because it's not "game related"

One of my buddies who has Hightechs number called him to inquire about one that happened to me and told me Hightech said he couldn't find the incident he was talking about. It was over a holiday weekend so it shouldn't have taken much searching. Based on that I don't think they're policed at all.

[Animl-AW]

Just take note

I have personally first hand witnessed a few here complaining about mods here, setting a mod up, then INTENSIONALLY tempt mods on 200 to take any action on them. Then actually come here to complain about it.

I call bs on most claims.

Also note, if you have been muted several times the next one comes faster as they built a record of constant rule violations.

Again, there are also a automation to jeep rift down.

[JimmyD3]

 the ".report" function only needs 5 reports within a certain time frame,to trigger a mute. Once that happens, the next mute is easier.
The report count is set in the Arena Tables, as is the time frame (7days) you can look it up.

[Animl-AW]

Reports are by players who get fed up with violations and consuming the text buffer with it. It’s not always a mod.

No one is placed into a player’s torture cage to be forced to read drivel nonstop with no recourse. Especially with repeat offenders.

The mods nor mod system is any worse than any other game. It’s only higher because of higher numbers in a MMP arena. More players, mire incidents.

If one hasn’t learned the 1st to 3rd time, they are the problem, not mods

Edit: Also note the “Warning” in your profile here. Once you hit a certain % (like 60%) you get a green “Watched” label on your profile, at 80% you get muted.

Worst party, some require a babysitter in the first place.

[AKIron]

This board/game ran 6 or 7 years without restricting topics. Some just can't argue civilly. Insults and threats by the immature took a lot away from here.

[Animl-AW]

This board/game ran 6 or 7 years without restricting topics. Some just can't argue civilly. Insults and threats by the immature took a lot away from here.

Projection

You trolls caused your own heat.

[-gg-]

In my view, those 6-7 years before the heavy moderation were the best. The forums were probably 100 times more active - and the "trolls" were there all along - but it was alive. It was funny, fun and vibrant.

The only thing that changed was the moderations and the report bs. That killed the forum and now what we have left are a really high percentage of Karens who thrive on being butthurt and reporting people to the HOA.

I have somewhat of a "proof" that moderation killed the place, because I opened Flamewarriors.net in 2008 specifically for people here  to be able to discuss things without the moderation. Over 1000 people joined within two months. After not too long we were on the way to 2 million posts and the forum became much more active than this forum - and it lasted until I pulled the plug about 4 years ago.

I do not like moderation and I hate moderators because they're mostly the worst kind of person.

I let people call me names and say whatever they wanted to me for years and years and years and never banned anyone for anything, other than one guy who was stalking TXmom and calling the base she was at and doing crazy things.

I'd much rather have the forum back than whatever this is.

People reporting people and threads getting shut down just because one guy gets reported for something somewhere down the thread.

People will say - but this is a business! So what? It was a business before the moderation and was actually doing much better.

[AKIron]

It was more people back then and I suppose a greater possibility of some being offended and quitting. Today no one is going to quit because of what anyone here has to say.

[Spikes]

The game's peak numbers were at the end of '07 into '08 and have been declining ever since. I highly doubt forum moderation was the driving factor in population decline. Correlation does not imply causation.