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I've seen some shitty behaviour in my time but the more this goes on the more fucking ridiculous it gets. :(

I thought the permissions had been altered on sm.org but if they are doing that, that's ridiculous and beyond an abuse of power.

Interesting. IIRC that would entail you actually receiving a full ban which only the admins can set up - unless things have drastically changed, none of the lower ranks actually have that power. But that signals an interesting change to the dynamics, because no-one was ever banned (other than post bans, which is a separate thing) in years except for being a spammer.[1]

1.	Specifically the last person I understood to have received a full ban was ccbtimewiz. Yeah, don't go there. Oh, and me, at one point as a last-ditch attempt to keep me instead of account deletion of my original account last summer. But that's it.

This is one of the things that usually trips my anger trigger. I have no problem offering support out of respect - when I get that respect in the first place; all the mods I published on sm.org got support until I gave them away. When people cross the line from asking for support to expecting it, especially in cases where it was made clear that it was given away 'as is', then I lose my temper about it - there are plenty of people who don't seem to understand what 'no support' means, and still ask or even demand it as though they think they're entitled to it.[1]The way I played arantormods.com was that out of a sense of community, I did actually charge for support. The way I looked at it, if I was helping one person instead of writing something for lots of people, I'd rather that that one person understood that they were getting priority and I felt that they should be prepared to put something of their own in too.You've only seen part of it. Imagine a board that is only accessible by the team and former team members - and the former team members don't have moderation powers, but the team does. Now imagine it's not a friendly board but at times akin to a warzone... Been there, done that.

1.	This happened at arantormods.com and has happened on Noisen even in reply to a thread entitled 'No support!'

Everyone likes to receive compliments about themselves now and again, especially when they're deserved.

Have to say The Lodger was not one of my favourite episodes from season 5. Not bad, just not that good either.

Dear God, please let's not have this debate again, since I swear nothing has changed in months since I last answered these questions for you.No it isn't. I swear I've told you this multiple times that it isn't 'a must'. It IS however implemented because it makes the URLs look nice, but search engines are more than capable of managing to get content with dynamic URLs. Hell, they can even manage JavaScript based URLs now if the URL is formatted correctly. It was important YEARS ago.There is a sidebar. It has some content. We aren't exactly planning on building a full portal in, mostly because as stated many many times, we're building primarily what we want to build, and hopefully that'll fit in with what other people want. You, however, I already know are more demanding than most having already answered this question specifically for you - and other questions like it - on Noisen.Don't make me find the post where I already answered this for you on Noisen. Survey says probably not, just like I said months ago. And please don't try and tell me it's a "requirement", plenty of sites run just fine without ads.


:edit: There are many more important things to be working on than crap like these things.