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Addendum to http://forums.backpack.tf/index.php?/topic/33474-reminder-about-april-fools-suggestions/

 

In the past we would get the occasional April Fool's suggestion. But given that people have decided to abuse the system and post huge numbers of troll suggestions, we will no longer be allowing such suggestions any day of the year.

 

Per Brad, "if we have 10000 fake suggestions in the db, whenever you load a page trying to filter suggestions, it takes more cpu cycles to filter them out."

 

This spam makes the website run slower. So please stop. Further troll suggestions will result in bans.

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Yet mods encouraged it -

 

http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf166ba8d88e4578b4587

http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf44fba8d883e238b479e

http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf702ba8d883c6c8b45b8

 

This is pure cancer and not "trolling" - It's a new low of cancer of not knowing that TF2 economy is on a spin right now and should be managed better. You guys are just going full retard, all of you.

 

Consider waking the fuck up or it'll just end up like dota2.bp.tf.

 

 

edit: mostly to the admin/mod team, since you're the main problem.

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is there is a ban for people who has made trolls but have them all closed before the bans?

 

No, of course not.

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Well thanks for clearing that up, cleverpun said it was alright but i guess not. I dont understand why this wasn't closed and the user not temp banned http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf166ba8d88e4578b4587 and my suggestion got closed in minutes.... and i was temp banned

Because the mods still encourage spam & other bullshit to try avoid the issues they currently have.

 

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It's still going on and people think it's "funny" or something..

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Because the mods still encourage spam & other bullshit to try avoid the issues they currently have.

 

f65314babd.png

 

It's still going on and people think it's "funny" or something..

hmm,seems we need to ban people like that too now

make a new PSA i guess?

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hmm,seems we need to ban people like that too now

make a new PSA i guess?

Every admin/mod should take a break today. Everyone must be drunk/high or something.

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Every admin/mod should take a break today. Everyone must be drunk/high or something.

 

Marcus, take it easy. Sometimes it's important to recognize that what is not funny to you may be funny to someone else. It would be nice if everyone could just be a little bit happy when they see someone else happy. Were those troll suggestions incredibly annoying for me? Yes. They added more work for me. But I was okay with them because it made some people happy. Just because you don't celebrate April Fool's doesn't mean other people don't.

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Yet mods encouraged it -

 

http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf166ba8d88e4578b4587

http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf44fba8d883e238b479e

http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf702ba8d883c6c8b45b8

 

This is pure cancer and not "trolling" - It's a new low of cancer of not knowing that TF2 economy is on a spin right now and should be managed better. You guys are just going full retard, all of you.

 

Consider waking the fuck up or it'll just end up like dota2.bp.tf.

 

 

edit: mostly to the admin/mod team, since you're the main problem.

Why am I not surprised that they are all from puddingkip.

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It did get out of hand really quickly, but banning people for making jokes, on a day when making jokes is quite common, not too sure about that.

Either way, hopefully it has stopped now.

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It did get out of hand really quickly, but banning people for making jokes, on a day when making jokes is quite common, not too sure about that.

 

Either way, hopefully it has stopped now.

I think it has stopped but I agree with you. and also banning without proper warning? I was temp banned 43 minutes ago. it is 8:59 here where i live so, 8:59 - 00:43 = 8:16 .... This psa was not even created for another 4 minutes.... So, i could not have known it was now against the rules. (i was using cleverpun's post about April fools suggestions before he put in the edit.. http://imgur.com/x9KHlpc )

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d0 has been in full rage mode all day.

 

that said 2/3 of bp.tf members should permaban their sense of humor

"jokes" are almost always HERP DERP GONNA WRITE SOMETHING IN STRIKETHROUGH THAT ISN'T TRUE

 

or 

DERP HERP TOTALLY GONNA PUT JKLOL IN SPOILERS AFTER SAYING SOMETHING THAT ISNT TRUE

 

"looooooooooooooooooooooool psych!"

 

It's like Dane Cook and Sarah Silverman had a retarded baby.... only that is actually kinda funny

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Since half this thread is about me I guess I'll respond.

 

Just because I'm mod does that mean I can no longer make jokes, regardless of whether you find them funny or not? I closed all suggestions and listings within minutes of them being created, as per the 15 minute joke rule that was in place. 

 

I think it has stopped but I agree with you. and also banning without proper warning? I was temp banned 43 minutes ago. it is 8:59 here where i live so, 8:59 - 00:43 = 8:16 .... This psa was not even created for another 4 minutes.... So, i could not have known it was now against the rules. (i was using cleverpun's post about April fools suggestions before he put in the edit.. http://imgur.com/x9KHlpc )

It was because of a miscommunication between some mods and Brad. Brad thought they weren't okay where as the public idea was that they were. Brad then convinced us that they indeed weren't okay but all people that Brad banned when it was stated to be okay have/should be unbanned. Miscommunications happen

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It's like Dane Cook and Sarah Silverman had a retarded baby.... only that is actually kinda funny

 

It stopped being funny after about 4 suggestions of weed and wayne references

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Marcus, take it easy. Sometimes it's important to recognize that what is not funny to you may be funny to someone else. It would be nice if everyone could just be a little bit happy when they see someone else happy. Were those troll suggestions incredibly annoying for me? Yes. They added more work for me. But I was okay with them because it made some people happy. Just because you don't celebrate April Fool's doesn't mean other people don't.

I got 7 warning points for saying 1 thing outside bp.tf forums.

 

Meanwhile mods can spam suggestions & users can call me "fucking retard" & "full of shit" in status post as an direct harassment through the forums.

 

Wake the fuck up, you guys aren't 12 anymore.

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Yet mods encouraged it -

 

http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf166ba8d88e4578b4587

http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf44fba8d883e238b479e

http://backpack.tf/vote/id/551bf702ba8d883c6c8b45b8

 

This is pure cancer and not "trolling" - It's a new low of cancer of not knowing that TF2 economy is on a spin right now and should be managed better. You guys are just going full retard, all of you.

 

Consider waking the fuck up or it'll just end up like dota2.bp.tf.

 

 

edit: mostly to the admin/mod team, since you're the main problem.

You need to chill. Like, no joke. I know you aaid you got those 7 warning points, but have civility to not attack like this.

 

I respect you too much to see you just casually insulting others on this kind of forum post, especially mods.

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Because the mods still encourage spam & other bullshit to try avoid the issues they currently have.

 

f65314babd.png

 

It's still going on and people think it's "funny" or something..

 

It's a waste of time and pointless that people seem to think making April Fool's jokes are funny in the first place. Those were funny when I was like 8 years old, you'd think people would grow up a bit. Seeing the 100th troll suggestion isn't funny, it just makes people look stupid. 

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This is partly my fault. I assumed that the quantity of April fool suggestions would remain constant, but our userbase has grown so much since last year. I underestimated how many people would make silly suggestions, and didn't think of the ramifications it might have on the database or site usability.

 

Sorry folks; the mod team should have discussed it more thoroughly instead of just assuming outdated policies would still work.

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To be completely honest, I never found troll suggestions funny in any capacity, especially when they were made with the intention to be stupid. If the user was just being an idiot, I suppose it's funny, but when they're simply spamming for no reason, I can't say I ever found something like that funny.

 

I'm surprised you ever had a policy to permit troll suggestions on special days like April first.

 

 

 

 

Also calm down before you get another seven warning points, d0. Or you can join me in the mile high club :D

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