how about read me faq thing for new people 'This forum is like your local hot spot. It can get a bit rowdy and they can be hazing so don't expect to jump right in and be accepted. Remember, respect gets respect'??
One more step in the pussification of surfing. Nothing againe-st you Austin. But this sh!t used to be for outliers. I got so made fun of being a kid from CT who surfed, sh!t, skating back then caught us flak too. Now these little f a g g o t jocks and regular folk want to be down, because it's cool. And now it's trickling down to here. That's the sh!t that pisses me off. COCK!
You guys do understand nothing is changing right? You get that? This is just enforcement of the rules that have been in place. Feel free to let your freak flag fly, no one is stopping you, I'm just making the rules that govern the community more visible. It's not my goal to crack down or change SI in any way. It's a great community and the only that that will change that is if you guys so decide to change it.
How about this stock reply to people complaining about mistreatment' We are very sorry that you are not being treated the way you feel you should be. Real life can be difficult and part of that is learning to deal with people who may not cave to your sense of entitlement. We urge you to stick around and hopefully learn some life lessons'?
I can see that there is a need to balance the desires of the current regular visitors with the hurt feelings of those that are posting as a newbie. Ultimately this is entertainment. I only keep coming back because of the caustic hilarity that is usually here. You say nothing is changing and yet there seems to be a sense that things will be different. Just my two cents.
And WHO exactly are the mods? As Yank pointed out, a little transparency will go a long way in getting some respect for YOUR rules. You want to keep hiding behind your Simod4 or SImod5 fake monikers. THAT is the BS that I have no respect for. Be a REAL man and come clean and I will respect you all the more for it. Now that you mods care about my respect but Austin you will care about my CLICKS on your site. I may choose to take my clicks to another site and go out of my way to convince others to do the same. Then you can be left with all your NEW people and can change the name to Swell Info Internet Safe Space
So nothing is changing but you had to make a tread about it? What a crock of sh!t. Tell the new folks to eat all our fuks if they don't like the welcome. Watch all those pretty little ads ad the money you get from them dry up when the forum traffic stops cause this place is as boring as hell.
Austin would have hated the weeks approaching the HOTY awards. BWHAHAHAHA I really don't know how people didn't get kicked off of here for life! Aaaahhh, good times!
think of it though back when hoty and sht was round here after the msw invasion half the threads got locked and kept getting locked.
Only thing is most aren't new at all, so they get called out for it and then get mad because their little plan to fool everybody didn't work out and then complain about it. Then they log back in under their regular screen name and voice support for the "new person" to further their attempts at deceiving everybody and to push their PC agenda. Sad really. Austin, you do realize it's very easy to create a dupe account without you being able to verify it right? Even if we report it, you will believe they are new because people are slicker than you, no offense.
Hey, guys, frankly, I think you are all over reacting to the rules. As Austin points out, nothing there has changed, just a refresher course. We need to keep in mind that this place being "free" to us is due to advertisers. Having a site that gets too crude discourages advertising to keep it "free". Now, you all will recall, it was me that started the fracas with golden bull, not intentionally, but maybe I should have been more careful in my choice of words. So, I am no angel, but in the future I will certainly try to keep it cool. However, I can't stop calling you guys morons....that would be wayyyyy too much to ask. And this thread proves all you guys are morons!! See? I just can't stop.......