Posted September 14, 2009
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Wishbone
Red herring
Registered: Oct 2008
From Denmark
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Navagon
Easily Persuaded
Registered: Dec 2008
From United Kingdom
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BladderOfDoom
New User
Registered: Oct 2008
From United Kingdom
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Navagon
Easily Persuaded
Registered: Dec 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted September 14, 2009
On certain other sites I used to frequent trolls and spammers were so common they were forgotten about in no time. It's a testament to this site's quaint little village community that such minor disruptions can cause such ripples here.
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BladderOfDoom
New User
Registered: Oct 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted September 14, 2009
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Not entirely sure why but what you just said reminded me at once of Royston Vasey and Sandford from Hot Fuzz...
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Prator
Reasonable-ish
Registered: Oct 2008
From United States
Posted September 14, 2009
There's a big flaw in this setup...
All one has to do to "win" is name a person who is unlikely to post in this threat within 8 hours. By naming Ezri, ovoon has basically guaranteed his own victory.
It wouldn't have to be an unknown or banned person, either. It'd just have to be someone who is generally only on the forums at a certain time of day, which is probably true for most of the people here. For instance, Gradgh tends to post between the hours of 9:00 PM and 1:00 AM ET, so in theory I could name him after he logs out and the game would pretty much be mine.
Also, I'm slightly irritated that no one named me. Maybe I should be more active...
All one has to do to "win" is name a person who is unlikely to post in this threat within 8 hours. By naming Ezri, ovoon has basically guaranteed his own victory.
It wouldn't have to be an unknown or banned person, either. It'd just have to be someone who is generally only on the forums at a certain time of day, which is probably true for most of the people here. For instance, Gradgh tends to post between the hours of 9:00 PM and 1:00 AM ET, so in theory I could name him after he logs out and the game would pretty much be mine.
Also, I'm slightly irritated that no one named me. Maybe I should be more active...
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Navagon
Easily Persuaded
Registered: Dec 2008
From United Kingdom
Posted September 14, 2009
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I had just mentioned Hot Fuzz in the movie thread. So it was on my mind when I wrote that. The League of Gentlemen as a forum... a local forum for local people.
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Only ovoon wasn't named so he doesn't stand a chance of winning at the moment. But otherwise, you're quite correct.
Post edited September 14, 2009 by Navagon
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Maighstir
THIS KNIGHT MISLIKES THESE HEIGHTS
Registered: Nov 2008
From Sweden
Posted September 14, 2009
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Trolls are relatively uncommon here, so they are remembered because they're something out of the ordinary. Like in a small village, where a stranger visits quickly and leaves but don't really do much else than perhaps buy a loaf of bread, yet the talks go around the village for weeks or months about him.
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ceemdee
Registered: Nov 2008
From United States
Posted September 14, 2009
Well technically if each individual couldn't name the same person twice (the rules don't actually say this) then eventually everyone would run out of people to name but it would just take a really really really long time...
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captfitz
resident bro
Registered: Mar 2009
From United States
Posted September 14, 2009
yeah yeah yeah, these things would all be problems on forums where the members were all typical internet forum members, but this is gog
people here will do this for the fun of it, not to grab a game for themselves
and if that's not the case, we will simply call the offender out for it and mock him forever. problem solved.
people here will do this for the fun of it, not to grab a game for themselves
and if that's not the case, we will simply call the offender out for it and mock him forever. problem solved.
Post edited September 14, 2009 by captfitz
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ovoon
El Psy Congroo
Registered: Sep 2008
From United States
Posted September 14, 2009
ok then if someone names me i promise I wont pick anyone ... unfair
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DarthKaal
"3D sucks!"
Registered: Jan 2009
From France
Posted September 14, 2009
You've get the rules wrong: "whoever you choose has to be an active participant in the GOG General forums, preferably with a rep of over 10."
"preferably" may be not a strict condition, but... Ezri's rep is actually -12...
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Aliasalpha
Once Proud
Registered: Dec 2008
From Australia
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Navagon
Easily Persuaded
Registered: Dec 2008
From United Kingdom
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Maighstir
THIS KNIGHT MISLIKES THESE HEIGHTS
Registered: Nov 2008
From Sweden
Posted September 14, 2009
Post edited September 14, 2009 by Miaghstir