The official "NY is locked" thread.

JaKa · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 12:18 pm Post subject:

www.graffe.com

A site I frequent quite often, IP permabans serious offenders. We haven't had serious jihading or spamming in a long time. Maybe this should be looked into here.

Spike · Administrator Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Denver

I'll point this out now:

Any evidence that Phrekwenci is a bad mod that is recent does not exist in the Recycle Bin (our name for the forum that we move, NOT DELETE, certain threads).

First off, the threads that are in there that are locked were not locked by Phrekwenci. I see one from Remy and one from Jim the Fly.

Second, the fact that some of these threads are in the Recycle Bin shows that whoever moved them there is doing their job. We don't want your entire first page to be a bunch of crap locked threads (of course, if those threads weren't made they wouldn't have to be locked) and so we move some of them. We don't want to delete them because we want to have evidence that we can use to show that someone did break the rules.

The point is, we aren't "hiding" evidence from you just so we can make a point. And by the way, just because we ask for evidence that Phrekwenci is a bad mod doesn't mean we want evidence from the past week. You can give us any evidence you can find. If he locked a thread from two months ago that shouldn't have been locked, feel free to post it.

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Phrekwenci · Administrator Joined: 27 Feb 2002 Location: New York, NY

JinzeroX · Basic Member Joined: 22 Sep 2003

Also they're some members that have been here and posting here for 2 years and were well behaived and such. Until with this Phrek issue, we made the sacrfice to do what is needed. Flame, spam, whatever you call it. We just didn't agree how he was taking advantage of the rules his own way. Doing his Job or not, it's still him running the show on that forum. When he was just a regular member, there were no problems. It seems people build up their ego because they're a mod and have more options and etc. Whatever.
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I'm the one who moved them.

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barcodeplane · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:19 pm Post subject:

Okay guys, I have a solution to the problem. Let's all STFU about the NY drama. Really guys I mean, come on. There is no need to continue this whining and moaning. REALLY, how old are we all? Most of us on the NY forum are between 15-20. Let's be mature about the situation.

I totally 100% agree with the mods on this issue

Phrek, and NYSG are not just "locking threads for the hell of it". They are doing their job. If you don't like it? well, go to http://www.onistyles.com it's a forum for NY and NJ. The mods aren't as strict there, and you can basically do whatever you want. But...not on DDRFREAK there are rules and regulations to follow. Why should they change their rules for 5 or 6 whiny 15 or 16 year olds. Someone explain this to me. Are they going to lose their 10,000 users because of 5 or 6 people? No. What if they did change the rules and the people who enjoyed the safe secure boards got irrate. They could lose more then 5 or 6 people. You know what? If a thread what created about a person, let's say for instance, Jenembal. And we all postwhored and made fun of you? What would you do? whine? Complain? Yeah, that's right. And then the thread would be locked. Why do you think just because someone creates a thread about a mod it's going to be any different? Or if someone creates a thread about stupid pointless stuff that clutters up the actual content. Yeah...

Just stop the bitching. I know you're all better then this.

If you don't stop complaining, the NY forum will never be unlocked.

SO....SUCK IT UP AND FOLLOW the rules...http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/faq.php
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Fireboma · Trick Member Joined: 06 Feb 2002 Location: New York

TeN · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: sayre.

From reading all this, I noticed one thing that's still missing:

There are no evidence that was presented to show that Phrekwenci is a bad mod.

Maybe some examples, but it was not backed with an evidence which made the statement to be false, just to quote Remy:

sorjai · Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject:

hmmm, about this whole "everyone should STFU" issue, I really see no point in saying "everyone should shut up" because it just makes more people say such things (I've seen it a couple times already in this thread alone), and some mods even consider that as flamebait. If everyone calms down, follows the rules and not gripe or complain, then there won't be any need to tell anyone to "shut up".
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Like you know the people who didn't do anything and just post because they like to share information or type about places to meet up and such.

I can't wait till tomorrow and I hope no one screws it up this time...

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JaKa · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 3:35 am Post subject:

Wow look it's Wednesday and the forums are still locked.

FuzZyBeaR · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 3:45 am Post subject:

The NY forum was locked.

Having to lock the forum shows that the moderators have failed their job. They have lost control of the content they watch over. This is my opinion but I don't feel I'm alone on this.

Here's some site feedback for ya. I feel the moderators take this forum to serious. I feel the rules are to strict and they feel OT conversation between members is considered "spam" or "useless threads". You would think after awhile we'd get tired of posting how "I saw Joe beat D2R at Chunky's OMG LIEK WHOA!!!11" People like to have fun and post things off-topic. Why have region specific posting if the people in those regions can't talk to eachother on a relaxed level. How are people supposed to meet eachother and build friendships if every mod of this forum feels it's spam. Joke threads are meant to be fun. You would think the mods would foster the idea of fun. Instead it appears this forum is for the sole purpose of DDR and nothing more.

I frequent message boards where the initial purpose of the message board is rarely talked about. The reason for this is that the posters know eachother so well that they talk about anything in their lives and real friendships are made. This can never happen here under the guidlines that are set up. People shouldn't be afriad to post something here just because it might be locked or they might receive points for it. Mods like Phrek and Remy put that fear into posters. That is why people made a big deal when Remy came into the NY forums in a locking frenzy a couple months back. That is why this whole Phrek thing has happened. People were trying to have fun. Phrek enforced this forum's strict rules. A couple members retaliated by bashing Phrek in creative ways. The mods gave up and locked the board.

Why do I say the mods gave up? Well they could have banned the trouble makers. They could have deleted the trouble threads. Instead they locked the forums. This shows that they are only trying to wait out the trouble makers. It looks as if they think the trouble makers will stop posting here altogether if they lock the forum for a week or two. How often can you do this? How often can you push away your regular posters for having too much fun?

I rarely posted in the NY forums. When I first came here I mostly browsed the Home forums (after buying PS2 Max) but that came to a halt after watching Remy. Heaven forbid a nonsticky post go beyond three responses before locking it. You woulnd't want any conversation to take place in a thread just because the initial question was answered. Now it appears the NY forum is also a lost cause. We'll see.
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