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  1. Posted · Edited by Rumple

    13 minutes ago, PTCntte said:

    Instead of opening childish thread, open a ticket. report the moderator or just try to contact another moderator and tell them you/them falsely punished.

    I am pretty childish person, your request is almost unreasonable! The topic is serving all the purposes you mentioned, just publicly. I don't think I should solicit any public forum assistance outside the public forum. Then I would just be doing what I don't think anyone should be doing. 🤷‍♀️

    PTCntte, I see that you're typing and I will respond when I return (it's my bed time) , if I am permitted to return and the topic is still available.

  2. Posted

    1 minute ago, Xnetexe said:

    Have you tried contacting another moderator besides the one who issued the punishment, and explain that you've been wrongly punished?

     

    Other forums similar to this (i.e. War Thunder's) have cases of people being punished by one mod due to them being either too strict or misinterpreting a post (or is legitimately abusing power but cannot be fired because he's the cousin of the game's CEO), and then having the punishment lifted by another mod who is of a different opinion.

    This is my attempt to surface the issue. While a private message may have been more appropriate, I don't like the idea of privately messaging a moderator anything. If I need game support I'll contact game support. Otherwise a forum issue should be resolved publicly & by all. Something akin to a juror of my peers almost, almost...

    I've made my case and I'd like to see where it goes. I feel like if the rules weren't so broad or applied fairly or if the content permitted in the Social District was just more clear, instead of "anything related to APB" then we wouldn't have such confusion.

    I appreciate your perspective though. You make a good point about action differing from mod to mod. That's why maybe clearer rules would also be helpful? I couldn't be sure and I alone don't speak for the community so that's why I believe it's a public thing worth discussing. What's a good way to minimize variance to avoid it looking like abuse, especially if a mod didn't really intend to be abusive. I am pushing the issue a little more forceful than I should be, but that's because I want to get thoughtful responses from the community and build a consensus. We're in this together.

  5. Posted · Edited by Rumple

    4 minutes ago, LuzExtinguido said:

    Ive been warned for saying the no-word r****ded (yes with *) 😜

    Whoa. I can't support your extremist life style! 🙊

    I hope no one holds that against you and unevenly applies the rules to you! 🤷‍♀️

    Oh wait... Am I now guilty by association? Am I being complicit in a crime? Someone who isn't a moderator please tell me how to behave so I don't get banned!

  6. Posted · Edited by Rumple

    2 minutes ago, LuzExtinguido said:

    Backseat modding.

    Sitback modding lmao, ima sleep now xD

    Yes, precisely. But be careful Luz, by a backseat mods rules we can both get in trouble right now. It depends on how an individual decides to interpret the unclear forum rules & who they complain to.

    Are our last few exchanges non-contributory? Perhaps this falls under spamming or bumping? We best tread lightly.

  9. Posted · Edited by Rumple
    Tried to make minor formatting improvements, prob didn't help.

    To any moderator: Please afford me the patience & clemency that is afforded to vastly more severe & uncivil topics, as I actually do intend to facilitate an important discussion. Although, I realize some points I may make can be construed as somewhat inflammatory, please bare with me as for some comments I, as a human being (beep boop), will be naturally expressing frustration. I'll add clear delimiters to the whole post so if I must, I will happily edit out problem spaces if asked, to maintain the discussion. However, I respect LO's level of communication & transparency and I believe you can understand my perspective as to why the whole picture is worth presenting forthwith.

    (Start of somewhat inflammatory but necessary part)
    Top of the evening to y'all, it's Rumple your completely irrelevant drivel spewing post nice lady.


    You might remember me from worthless drivel-based discussions that prompted such comments as:


    Anyway, I think we deserve some reasonable clarification on what belongs in the Social District if were going to punished for it. I mean I would at least appreciate it since my usual drivel resulted in a warning.

    That's right guys, Rumple is a little salty rn.
    (End somewhat inflammatory, but necessary part)

    (Begin meaningful discussion part)
    I think it's unreasonable to punish unevenly and unclearly.

    (Rumple argues against himself like a madlad)
    Technically speaking the best argument to be made against myself would be I made a "non-contributory post". However, the "non-contributory post" language is a pretty big grey area, we all understand why it has to be, and can I easily pick out 10 topics trending in Social District at the time of writing that we could have a debate on whether or not are "non-contributory posts".

    (Rumple calls into question the behavior of his critic)
    More importantly, is the correct behavior to reach out to mods directly in an unrelated thread and link another unrelated thread? That's more cut-and-dry of a "non-contributory post", actually since this person not only posted this subject but then went into my topic, did not post but proceeded to down-vote the first 8 posts, one could argue this constitutes harassment, which is strictly against the "Forums Rules". And I would say is a bigger offense. Also they perpetrated harassament against multiple people. 

    (Rumple attempts to rally his fellow mind numbing drivel posters)
    @BXNNXD @NotZombieBiscuit @Similarities @Puffdragon how do you feel about the harassment leveraged against you? Clearly they fear for their lives as  our senseless drivel is being targeted by pseudo-mods.

    (Rumple becomes justice incarnate - treat us equally or don't treat us at all)
    Was this person also given a warning?     At the very least the "Forum Rules' are being applied unevenly. Surely, LO doesn't want users to crawl the forums policing content as some pseudo-mod? And if you do, you need to define the appropriate content more clearly, as "Discuss all things APB Reloaded related here!" is apparently too broad.

    My topic in question is a topical topic (haha that's fun to say), directly referring to another trending Social District topic both of which relevant to APB. Both my derivative topic and the source that inspired it were posted and discussed upon in the same forum section. Both topics were not treated equally, the source topic remains in the Social District forum and that OP wasn't harassed by a pseudo-mod and given a nondescript warning.

    (Rumple gonna learn you some maths)
    Are you familiar with the Transitive Property of Equality? If  "Topic A" belongs in "Forum B" and "Topic C" subject matter is equal to "Topic A" then "Topic C" is permitted in "Forum B". My topic was "Topic B".

    (Rumple gonna learn you some copyright law)
    Are you familiar with L.H.O.O.Q, more commonly known as The Mona Lisa With A Moustache? This a famous derivative work that is copyright protected, a.k.a granted the same permissions & protections as the original source material by the same governing body. That's an evenly applied rule.

    (Rumple is probably the first person to reference the three-fifths compromise of 1787 in any APB forum, ever. Albeit, it's a weak reference. I just wanted to reference it I guess.)
    I've just demonstrated using math and legal precedence that I've been treated unequally. LO surely, I don't have 3/5th's the privilege and rights as any other forum user, pseudo-mod or not? Surely...

    (Rumple makes a slightly inflammatory comment, but it drives a point home.)
    By the way, the warning messaging being completely uninformative is a problem, but that's a separate discussion... or is that more drivel? Could a pseudo-mod tell me? I don't want a 72 hour ban 🤷‍♀️

    (Rumple ascends and achieves absolution with some PG-13 inflammatory remarks & sick references bro)
    Oh and by the way, how dare anyone calls out people like @BXNNXD and us post whores. Guess who kept this forum & game alive when your May 2018 6 post pseudo-mod motherclucker patootie didn't give a hoot. I participate in this community because I love APB and us sick twisted people who are "post whores" in some unimaginable and evidently ungodly way achieve some sense of pride and accomplishment from even the smallest of contributions we make to the forum. And yes, what we do is make a contribution to this forum & this community. God forbid we permit individuals within the APB community to have fun and be social in the Social District forum, you lint licker.

    So...

    How do you feel about the clarity, or lack thereof, in the forum rules and pseudo-mod issue APB? Clearly, pocket mods can be just as much as a problem as pocket GM's. But enough about my viewpoint, I wanna facilitate discussion and hear the community.

    OH WAIT!
    2bu9hp.jpg


    How's my drivel? Report me to my union rep.

    TL;DR - Apply the forum rules evenly or don't apply them at all. To enable applying the rules easily, perhaps the forum rules should be more clearly stated instead of allowed to be so broadly interpreted. A forum user shouldn't incite a forum moderator to punish another forum user while willfully not applying the same rule against the broader community. This is harassment & abuse of power. If it isn't meant to be an abuse, make the rules more clear and apply it to all instead of a few. And especially don't allow staff to be used to target forum users. Jokes & salt aside I make a reasonable argument that I was target & treated unfairly and I can continue to do so with a topic by topic or post by post example. We can't have pocket moderators or pocket game masters.

  13. Posted

    11 hours ago, BartMcRoy said:

    APB is the "free-est" game when it comes to expressing yourself with a virtual physique.

     

    As well as artistically and musically.

     

    No game can touch it still.

    In the age of AAA games monetizing on poorly done recolored cosmetics, APB is legend. I hope that freedom maintains being the "free-est".

    8 hours ago, DiBBz said:

    age or world of tanks back in the day. unique in certain aspects that not many games offered in the same type of way

    not many MMO's back in the day offered a great in depth class customisation system nor open world housing system like archage does.

    Poor Archeage. I've loved APB so and it has had a better fate than NA Archeage. Even fresh-start isn't going to save that game, they really burned it to the ground. Thank god APB has not had that same fate.

  14. Posted

    Just now, TheAceNinja said:

    I was more referring to the people who think BE is the same as FF and think they won't get caught as long as they don't "Rage hack" but still continue to toggle on their cheats. 

    Oh. I don't consider those people. That was probably the source of the confusion.

  17. Posted

    1 minute ago, TheAceNinja said:

    Depending on how many of the people who aren't smart enough to realize what BE is and come to the forums, I'm guessing "Pretty high." :^)

    Yeah, over the years people have messed with the game files so much... I wouldn't be surprised if a ton of people come crying, I just hope I am not one of em.

  21. Posted

    1 minute ago, Wheresmyaccount said:

    Holy shit... Yea, it's going to be a hot minute. 

    I don't really have a choice. I've put way too much $$ into this game to just start anew. 

    If anything, it's likely you'll get your case resolved by the time the new anti-cheat is patched. So you'll be prepared for hopefully a better state of the game.

  23. Posted · Edited by Rumple

    1 hour ago, Lixil said:

    Guys, I don't want to be forced to remove posts. I understand you don't like threads like these, but please let's have OP have the discussion about this topic. 

    I am all for discussion, but OP didn't prompt any discussion, it's just bashing of LO and people saying he's impatient. There's general lack of civility to the post, while other similar posts are genuine. This is probably one that should be locked from the get after a response from staff.

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  25. Posted

    On 6/3/2018 at 3:43 PM, BuckyTheBronco said:

    From the way it sounds from Matt and the rest of the Little Orbit team, they are most likely in the testing phases. They're most likely making sure everything works and runs smoothly before they release it. For you all who don't understand how coding works, this could take a couple days or could take weeks depending on their test runs. Coding is extremely tedious and one single line could cause everything to break. To make it even better, sometimes your tests don't catch this line of code so you could be in for a long, very tedious process. All we can do is be patient and just appreciate that Little Orbit is doing this right, rather than rushing it. 

    As someone who does it daily, let’s change that adjective to arduous. I’ve already created a jira ticket to track our progress and will create a change management ticket when my PR is reviewed & merged. This shouldn’t require any changes to tests, but I’ll join QA’s stand-up tomorrow to make them aware ahead of time. I know this change isn’t technically within scope of the release, but as long it doesn’t block moving to staging I don’t see why we can’t have this change in prod on Friday.

     

    Tuesday? It’s a small release, we can release on a Friday. Besides i’m not on call. What? Is that part of this release? I thought that was 1.5? No, I am sure it’s backwards compatible. That’d be stupid if it wasn’t.

     

    Anyway, I’ll make a ticket to write documentation, but it’s pretty much self-documenting.

     

    Do you wanna play some ping pong after I finish this seltzer? I need a break.

     

    tl;dr writing code is the easiest & best part

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