Ashleee. Pick it up at post 206.

careful, I got banned for talking shit to a Mod.
actually I already had the ban, but she doubled it when I told her to blow it out her ass.

An interesting note to that, I got the original ban for giving shit to Tauto.
I guess that kind of kills his bias argument. :P

I'm not talking shit to a mod. I'm refering to this:

I think we should stop flogging a dead horse.

AMEN!!!!

Asking seriously: Is that an australian thing? Because here one gets mocked for their parentage/lineage all the time and it's no big deal. :\

(Example: Yo mama jokes/etc)

The voice of reason ITT.

+1(it'd be more if I could...it's that spot on)

To be fair some of those people you diislike or had issues with have been banned as well so where is the bias you speak of? Seems fair to me, as you are trolling the ones back who start with you which is likely against forum rules as well.

Also why lower yourself to their level and make such comments to them and not just ignore them and report the very bad ones like you have been doing? Then at least you'd be seen in a better light by staff/others and likely get better outcomes.

The thing is there are "hills" way way more important and worthy to 'fight" on than going after internet trolls. I know, I have had to choose not to do so every single day here and elsewhere. Sometimes I give in and I usually regret it later as it accomplishes nothing or next to nothing to "fight back" and just pisses off those who don't want to read all the drama between me/others.

Eh, what did I do? o.0

Silly answer aside, I get what you mean and I myself will try my best to limit myself to the thread topic after this.

BTW I would appreciate it if this thread could remain open as it is a subject I am interested in(not the derailing but the initial topic/etc). Any efforts to keep it such for those who legit want to discuss it would be appreciated. Tia

sees assurances of improved conduct
dies of laughter

If some are genuine(and one who is an optimist should tend to assume such) then what's so funny about that? :|

I would of thought respecting one's family and parents was world wide so I guess it is an Aussie thing and that is very sad to think that in your country,it's normal to put shit on them.
Some have yes, but compared to me a small portion of my ban time and not BS excuses. So, in fact the bias is there and until you have been affected by it please stop telling me it doesn't exist in here.

P.S. In case you don't realise it, down voting a good thread or post is also being bias to said user and look at you for instance so there is more proof of the bias that you don't see in here:)

1. No you misunderstood my meaning.....in the US/etc parents are respected(mostly) but people still diss people's parents/etc in JEST all the time(not seriously) for fun and also sadly sometimes seriously(for bad reasons). The main thing is we don't see it as an invite to get mad/fight when people insult our family usually(some do but they are the cruder members of society).....we usually have bigger/different "fish" to fry when it comes to what things to fight for over here.

(Also SOME teens disrespect their parents growing up as a sort of maturation/reaching adulthood thing as an act of rebellion in some cases)

2. I think you misunderstood me and I did so with you a bit. I was talking about STAFF BIAS....NOT user on user bias.

I have also been affected by both, actually , but years back. I got banned for breaking rules years back(for a few months or so) and also the ones who caused me to do things that led me to being banned were never touched much(some were but not all)...so I have experienced both here. Moderation seems to have changed, though, and they DO ban/warn some who do the most "harm" to others so there's that at least.

3. As I said I thought you were talking about staff bias against users instead of user on user bias. Yes the latter exists(mostly due to an influx of users from new promotions/sales/etc from less mature userbases), but not so much the former.

I know threads can be recreated and no thread is guaranteed to last forever, but a good topic is nice to have around and it saves people time of having to make it again(also some would likely not be happy it was recreated and do whatever they could to get it locked again).

Also I doubt(but I could be wrong) that staff would close very big game/etc threads that people like due to people going offtopic/etc. Those would likely get trimmed rather than closed as people have grown attached to them.

Hello there, how's the forum these days? Did it get better? All the bad people gone now?

Define "bad".