I Miss Boem...

Who? No, im kidding.

I think he may get a big timeout like KMQ or even bigger depending how hard the TOS misconduct was. Even more likely for forums accounts that spam posts like no tomorrow like the old man teacher, walrus queen, sword tamer (RIP).

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gandhar0 wrote:

I think he may get a big timeout like KMQ or even bigger depending how hard the TOS misconduct was. Even more likely for forums accounts that spam posts like no tomorrow like the old man teacher, walrus queen, sword tamer (RIP).

KMQ was out for a year, this is longer. Also it's not based on seriousness at all, but escalation. They just probate you for longer and longer each time no matter what kind of 'crime' you've committed.

And btw, I don't think I've ever seen the 'walrus queen' with the red badge. They don't care about ppl spamming the forums, only what kind of stuff they say.

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Exile009 wrote:

Hence the thread must be kept alive, as a tribute and a reminder for the cause.

Thanks, you just reminded me of something important.

Edit: What, no?! The Goodbye Charan thread got locked? And it was a year and a half ago? I honestly thought it'd been like five or six months.

Here's another bump for Boem. He remains with us in spirit!

Anyone close to him that knows what really happened?

Normally people get back after one year in extreme cases like KMQ.

If even KMQ is back, idk where this is going anymore. He must have said something that really irked someone from support.

Not the same company as when we started.

-Signed Boem-

I enjoyed reading his posts and have often wondered what it was to get such forum titans (Boem's Forum Posts: 21979) on probation. Especially because I have often freely used this forum to out my frustration at GGG.

So far only one thread I made has been removed and I can understand why (I posted a Toucan).

Not that I'm going to test limits or such to find out. I much rather see positive energy go around. But I'll vent my frustrations now and then, I'm sure.


Tbh I thought he had quit. Never thought of probation longer than a year.

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kaepae wrote:

I enjoyed reading his posts and have often wondered what it was to get such forum titans (Boem's Forum Posts: 21979) on probation. Especially because I have often freely used this forum to out my frustration at GGG.

So far only one thread I made has been removed and I can understand why (I posted a Toucan).

Politics - which also apparently includes economics, as well as anything else they can possibly interpret as having a connection to politics - and Religion.

They brought that rule in a couple years ago, it wasn't part of the original rules this place operated under. Loads of the especially more articulate forum denizens have fallen victim to it. We couldn't even discuss Covid here last year because of it - even their own 'official' Covid thread (which they made after shutting down half a dozen other Covid threads) was shuttered cos of that rule!

And it's pretty arbitrary too, what counts as a violation of the supposed 'Code' of Conduct really just comes down to how the particular mod who sees your post feels that day. So anything that could be possibly interpreted as being against the so-called 'Code' is at risk of putting you under probation, and yes that includes even if you were being positive (I've seen religious celebration posts removed under it for example, despite that they weren't attacking anyone, and the aforementioned Covid posts were mostly politically neutral discussions of its impacts and how to deal with it).

Their official Covid thread hinted at what they really thought was acceptable - people sharing pet photos and commiserating each other with their personal experiences. And they shut it down when it too veered off of that. Boem, like him or loathe him, wasn't into that sort of conversation, and he wasn't alone.