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DJ Almix
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I don't not like the mods, there just doing there job people, but what do you think would happen if this forum had zero rules and mods for a month?


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Anarchy and a total disaster, the end. Moving on people.

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The community would crash, people would stop being nice to each other, spam threads would be ever-present and the world would explode.

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It would possibly turn into /b/, but there is a chance that most of the people here would still behave properly...

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terrorists would take hold of the forums and turn us on eachother
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Quote: "What would no mods be like for a month?"


Awesome.

Maybe it would be, so long as everything went back to normal afterwards. Otherwise, urm... BAD.
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I think there are a LOT of things that never even make it to the forums because the mods don't approve them. After all, there IS a reason for post-approval--I'm sure a lot of things get posted that we never even see.

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Posted: 25th Oct 2009 01:42 Edited at: 25th Oct 2009 01:42
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Nobody would ever get off post approval or have their posts approved


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Quote: "After all, there IS a reason for post-approval--I'm sure a lot of things get posted that we never even see."

Yes, like 98,23% of my posts. I'm on constant post-approval. Having no mods here would certainly explode the world like yodaman said. If only for my posts blocking up the internet (thus the earth). It may not explode, but are you willing to take that chance?

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Have a little more faith in the TGC community, surely everybody would be on their best behaviour...

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Quote: "What would no mods be like for a mounth?"


Like this: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=138062&b=21, http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=137490&b=21



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Posted: 25th Oct 2009 01:25 Edited at: 25th Oct 2009 01:26
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I know what it would be like, people would run riot on the streets, screaming "Where's the mods, when you need them!" whilst their house is being burnt down to the ground by some ruffian. Then all electricity will go out, and then some random monster will attack and then for some reason make a film about it, and it will be called "Modmen" only because of the motto is going to be "Who is modding the Modmen". Then Earth will implode and be sucked into the sun causing the sun to grow massive and swallow all the other planets and randomly causing a blackhole and it will swallow up all of the universe, and then life would start all over again, then rinse and repeat.



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No Mods? No Rules?
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I would put my game that got taken off the boards instantly and use it to destroy the forum. Srsly, that game is evil. I dont even know what Mod got rid of it, because I got no warning and no notice of its removal.

Other than that, I think that nothing would happen immediately. Then, slowly, as the older members drift away, the horde of new comers of x-mas would send this place into a spiraling whirl of doom.

Short and simple, the TGC forums would be an open field of torment and despair.

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How do you do it?

You've made it sound like the end of the world
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You've made it sound like the end of the world "

Well, the end of the world has been found out already, we already discovered that the world is a sphere. You and your crazy shenanigans.



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Porn... What? It's clearly obvious that someone is going to spam it if this ever happened... ^_^

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I like the mods. Keeps this place (mostly) civil, and not only that, they're generally all-round good blokes. Also they can sometimes be rather good with the making of the humour.

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I'd get more work done....that's for sure.

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Quote: "Like this: http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=138062&b=21,"


Ah, yeah. I remember that. Good times...
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I guess there would be a bright side to this. There would be no mods with the mentality of 12 year olds who get a kick out of permabanning people "just because they can" (personal experience... apparently a new mod didn't like me for whatever reason and decided I had to go even though I didn't break any rules).

Still, the amount of anarchy and chaos that would poison this forum would eventually kill it. All the civil people would leave and form their own forum and let this one flounder if there was no way to save it. I'd hate for this forum to go down in flames, though.

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I kinda like bigots. They make me feel happy and supercilious.

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luke810
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O MY GOD!!! How did that thread go on for 5 pages without being locked... I think I'm in denial.

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We have Mods?

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Double negatives are like dividing by zero. It makes things blow up.

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Quote: "Double negatives are like dividing by zero. It makes things blow up."

LOL! That was awesome (wipes tear from eye).

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I'd steal all the Q's from everyone's posts, and the W's!
Then I'd set fire to Geek Culture...
Then I'd have a nap
And finally I'd spill coffee all over the forum and you'd never be able to get the stains out, mwahahahaha

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Oh no! uick! Geek Culture is on fire and coffee stained! hy oh hy didn't e buy a fire extinguisher! Also Oxiclean.

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Yodaman Jer
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@OBese:

O rly? ell, I ould steal all of the A's from everyone's posts!

Sure to be uite more devastating than just removing the 's and 's.

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Quote: "I'd get more work done....that's for sure"


Talking of which, what's going on with your forums?

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Quote: " There would be no mods with the mentality of 12 year olds who get a kick out of permabanning people "just because they can" (personal experience... apparently a new mod didn't like me for whatever reason and decided I had to go even though I didn't break any rules"


If you have a problem with a mod feel free to report it. Crying here is pathetic, honestly.


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My incident with that mod happened a very long time ago. Since I wasn't going to put up with that kind of thing I never came back to that forum. Anyways...

I'm sure all the mods on this forum hold professional jobs and have a great sense of responsibility which is why these forums are very civil. Having you all disappear would kill these forums pretty quickly.

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Quote: " If you have a problem with a mod feel free to report it. Crying here is pathetic, honestly."


I thought he was talking about this forum too! Was trying to figure out who you were for a moment there.

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Quote: "Double negatives are like dividing by zero. It makes things blow up."

You would think so, in japanese you can use double or triple negatives and that would be perfectly normal and not explode anything except the minds of outsiders.

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Or in Spanish. They don't have "anything", so like: I no do nothing (literal translation for No hago nada) would be alright.

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Quote: "I'm sure all the mods on this forum hold professional jobs and have a great sense of responsibility..."


I wash kittens and lick leaves...

Is that responsible enough?





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Quote: "Since I wasn't going to put up with that kind of thing I never came back to that forum."


Oops I guess I jumped the gun, usually these kinds of threads attract complainers of this forum's mods


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Well first of all spelling errors in thread titles would never be fixed. *hint hint*

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I just passed it off as one of those British spellings where the letter u is added unnecessaurily.

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Hahahaha

To be fair it's not necessarily the British adding letters unneccesarily, it could quite feasibly be Americans dropping them out in a lot of the cases. Obviously for some of the more recent words, differences in spelling can come from anywhere, but we've actually had colours for example for a lot longer than America as we know it today.

I do quite like the thought of someone in the colonies sitting there looking at a letter and thinking "My, these sentences have far too many letters in. Makes it so tiresome to read. Right let's get rid of that one, and that one, maybe that one too..."

{note - some portions of post may not be entirely historically accurate}

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Armour - Armor
Colour - Color

God, American spellings look retarded.
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Quote: "God, American spellings look sexy/fat."


Fixed.

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Americans can't spell very well and thus are inferior to the Brits. We made you, so we can destroy you.

I'm guessing this is pretty much what it'd be like with no mods around, pointless posts in random threads and a break from the headaches the mods get from this.

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Ah, but we are now bigger geographically and per capita! Plus have lots of bombs and jingoes. I've always wanted to call someone a jingo, just because no one knows that it means bellicose chauvinist.

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Americans are also bigger physically

Brits could destroy the social and political structure of the US with tactically delivered bombs to all major fast food chains...
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Americans can't even shoot in the right direction, let alone beat the British You're forgetting the secret stash of elite soldiers the monarchy has been training ever since you guys got your independence, waiting for the day to strike.

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Quote: "To be fair it's not necessarily the British adding letters unneccesarily, it could quite feasibly be Americans dropping them out in a lot of the cases."


That's what it almost always is. I usually prefer the American spellings, but the our->or change is not my favorite. "Color/armor/labor" just doesn't make as much sense as "colour/armour/labour".

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Aaah, but those Americans have awesome things like Butterfingers. Which probably explains why a large majority of them are "bigger physically".

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Apparently lightning can strike twice (hacker....with a failed attempt at a redirect, that still screwed things up...as you can see).

I'll be getting in touch with you soon, as to the direction we're going.

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They're too lazy to put a u where there should be one. Do you pronounce it Col Orr too?

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@Keith: That's harsh man. Twice?

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