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Nate Management
Number of posts : 649 Age : 39 Location : USA Console : Xbox 360 Favorite Game : Oblivion My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-02
| Subject: New Participation Policy Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:33 pm | |
| I am no longer going to allow users to sign up and not post. This is a forum. You sign up so you can participate and communicate with other members. Visiting daily, replying to topics, making new topics, helping new members navigate the site and coming up with suggestions on how to better the site - are things I want to see people doing.
Fortunately, for the most part, a majority of members here are doing this. However, registering and not posting, or not visiting at all for days or weeks straight is just not going to cut it. Therefore, I have come up with a new policy. It will not necessarily encourage members to post more; basically if you cannot meet these simple monthly "quotas", you don't need to be here.
I'm tired of having new people sign up to only do nothing their entire stay here.
This new policy is as follows, and I will revise and update it as I see fit.
New members: I know life gets busy sometimes. But you should have no problem obtaining 5 posts in your first 14 days here. If you have not posted anything by your 12th day as a member, I will send you a PM stating that your membership privlages are in jeopardy. On the 14th day, I will remove you from our system without further notice.
Current members: If you've posted at all lately, chances are, you have immunity against this policy. Any current member needs at least 15 posts per month to stay active here.
New members- 5 posts can be done in about 4 minutes; 14 days is an awful generous allowance. Introduce yourself, talk about your favorite games, other game systems, hang out in Chit Chat, surf the Xbox 360 News forum and give us your thoughts; there is a ton of things you can get started on, that list is obviously very brief. Any new member that has zero posts today still has the 14 days to start on the 5 posts. | |
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Veloce Forum Regular
Number of posts : 112 Age : 37 Favorite Game : cheese My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:03 pm | |
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Nate Management
Number of posts : 649 Age : 39 Location : USA Console : Xbox 360 Favorite Game : Oblivion My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-02
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:39 pm | |
| I haven't even had time to follow my new policy. But all members that have not complied with this rule will now get an email and a PM stating their termination from Xbox 360 Forum. I am also going to install image verification, which will be compulsory (required) for registration with our forum. Any questions, PM me, send me an email or if you're gifted enough to know my cell #, call me | |
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Veloce Forum Regular
Number of posts : 112 Age : 37 Favorite Game : cheese My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:25 pm | |
| can i just send porn to your blackberry instead ? | |
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Nate Management
Number of posts : 649 Age : 39 Location : USA Console : Xbox 360 Favorite Game : Oblivion My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-02
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:15 am | |
| LOL all right maybe don't call me | |
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Veloce Forum Regular
Number of posts : 112 Age : 37 Favorite Game : cheese My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:10 pm | |
| its optional , i can throw bestiality in there for your further enjoyment | |
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MaxPayne Moderator
Number of posts : 559 Age : 47 Location : Tucson, AZ Console : XBOX 360 Favorite Game : MAXPAYNE 1 & 2 My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:05 pm | |
| Hmmm good Idea Nate. I think it's cool when new people jump onboard but then they never say hi It hurts my feelings....inside...a little... No really geez post up and say hi!! | |
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Nate Management
Number of posts : 649 Age : 39 Location : USA Console : Xbox 360 Favorite Game : Oblivion My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-02
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:31 am | |
| Yeah I really am getting sick of people signing up and doing ... *nothing*... for months. lol Mason why do you have porn and beastiatlity on your PC?! | |
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th3_void Moderator
Number of posts : 421 Age : 32 Location : U.S. Console : Xbox, Xbox 360, PC, NES, Atari, Genesis Favorite Game : The first two F.E.A.R. games, and Bioshock My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-06
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:03 pm | |
| Well, I wrote a letter to a new member to welcome them (to be inviting and nice and everything), and he never wrote back... I feel rejected. Now I know how Max feels... | |
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MaxPayne Moderator
Number of posts : 559 Age : 47 Location : Tucson, AZ Console : XBOX 360 Favorite Game : MAXPAYNE 1 & 2 My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:05 pm | |
| No one loves me... it's true...it's true. Even my hand rejects me | |
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th3_void Moderator
Number of posts : 421 Age : 32 Location : U.S. Console : Xbox, Xbox 360, PC, NES, Atari, Genesis Favorite Game : The first two F.E.A.R. games, and Bioshock My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-06
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:15 pm | |
| It is quite sad... I really don't get why people join and don't post... I may just be weird, but most people go through the trouble of signing up for something to participate in it... maybe they like filling out forms... they ran out of myspace surveys lol. | |
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MaxPayne Moderator
Number of posts : 559 Age : 47 Location : Tucson, AZ Console : XBOX 360 Favorite Game : MAXPAYNE 1 & 2 My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:17 pm | |
| I agree why waste time filling that all out and not even say one word. | |
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Nate Management
Number of posts : 649 Age : 39 Location : USA Console : Xbox 360 Favorite Game : Oblivion My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-02
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:17 am | |
| I also agree... Its funny, because I just got a nice piece of hate mail today from this new member, whom I just deleted, what, 2 weeks ago (for, go figure, not participating)? I simply state that I didn't want to see him join and not post anything (again). I understand people cannot be here 24/7. But nobody is so busy that you can't post a few messages a week! If you've got enough time to visit the site regularly, then I'm pretty sure you are able to post. First I'll show you what I sent him. "I removed you from my forum because you didn't post a single message. If that happens again, I'm banning you for life. This is a forum. Join, post, meet people, have fun. You don't join, and do absolutely nothing. This is a warning."Fair enough? This is what I get in return!! "Well Nate, I apologise for not posting. However, Please get a clue. Just because someone doesn't post, doesn't mean they aren't participating. Some of us actually have lives outside of XBOX and actually work for a living and do more on the weekends than just sit in front of an inanimate box and move our thumbs. Yes I do play several XBOX games and have had an XBOX console since they came out. Do you have to save up for a new game or can you actually go and purchase several games from the cash in your wallet. I'm sure you have nothing better to do than check who posts and who doesnt. Get a hobby, get a girl friend, get a clue and GET A LIFE!!!!!"LOL!! So apparently you DO participate, only about once a month and even then you probably talk to your monitor because you can't type. He says he owns several Xbox games and has had an Xbox since they first came out. But yet he just contradicts himself! "do more on the weekends than just sit in front of an inanimate box and move our thumbs". Lol the stupidity.. My reply. First:
Insult me all you want. Hearing "get a life" from somebody on the internet means absolutely nothing to me. I work 40+ hours a week. I have a fiance. I have my own home, car and bills. I do not live in my mother's basement and smoke pot and play video games all day and have everything handed to me like you think. I've been through plenty of s**t and I have a life. DO NOT tell me to "get a life".
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On top of my LIFE, I'm trying to run a forum. This means I'm doing all the little things that makes a forum work. Every forum has rules, and without somebody to carry out rules, they'd be pointless and the forum would go to hell. I deleted you because I figured you weren't a human and if you were, you'd forgotten about the forum. Deleting inactive users is a common practice for forum owners.
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Like I said: I'm trying to run a forum. How was I to know that you don't always have the time to post?? If you really cared, you would have introduced yourself to the community and said that exact thing in your post. Then I wouldve known I enjoy people coming to my forum so I won't delete you. But if you give me a reason to, I will. If you ever have time to post, introduce yourself to our community of gamers in Chit-Chat.Feel free to comment. | |
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th3_void Moderator
Number of posts : 421 Age : 32 Location : U.S. Console : Xbox, Xbox 360, PC, NES, Atari, Genesis Favorite Game : The first two F.E.A.R. games, and Bioshock My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-06
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:17 am | |
| LOL that guy is great. I love when people tell others over the internet to get a life. If he actually took the time to write that long thing because he got deleted, then he really needs a life. Also, if he "participates" by simply reading our posts, then why would he need to sign up? Can't you read posts without signing up? I believe that's called spectating, not participating. | |
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MaxPayne Moderator
Number of posts : 559 Age : 47 Location : Tucson, AZ Console : XBOX 360 Favorite Game : MAXPAYNE 1 & 2 My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:04 am | |
| "Some of us actually have lives outside of XBOX"
That's crazy talk!!!! | |
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Nate Management
Number of posts : 649 Age : 39 Location : USA Console : Xbox 360 Favorite Game : Oblivion My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-02
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:54 pm | |
| Hehe...stupid, eh?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this guy was smoking rock.
Maybe its just me, but if ya can't participate, ya don't belong on a forum!!!
It doesn't matter how busy you are or aren't or whatever you do on your weekends. It doesn't matter that this is an "XBOX forum" and we're supposably losers with no life who play games all day...I know for a fact Max, Void have lives and you can say whatever you want about me.. But if you use your time to bash the forum owner when you COULD be posting, I'm not the one that needs to get the life. | |
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MaxPayne Moderator
Number of posts : 559 Age : 47 Location : Tucson, AZ Console : XBOX 360 Favorite Game : MAXPAYNE 1 & 2 My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:52 pm | |
| Good point Nate! If he had time to respond why not just throw a post up say what's up. I know not everybody can log on from work like myself But it is a forum, if your too busy why join? I think it's a good policy. There are a couple people on here that don't post everyday but they still manage to stop by and post here and there. Which reminds me...I need to tell my brother to stop by...lol He's kind of whipped by some chick right now so you know how that goes...lol | |
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Nate Management
Number of posts : 649 Age : 39 Location : USA Console : Xbox 360 Favorite Game : Oblivion My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-02
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:18 pm | |
| Lmao!! Haha that's great
You have a point too Mr Payne .. If you're too busy, don't sign up. I'm going to find a way to get image verification on here someday. So we know for a fact everybody's a human, not a spam bot. | |
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Bob Forum Regular
Number of posts : 200 Age : 34 Location : Brighton Console : Xbox 360 Favorite Game : Final Fantasy 7 My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-07
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:10 pm | |
| damn he found me out!
but on a serious note your totally correct guys | |
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th3_void Moderator
Number of posts : 421 Age : 32 Location : U.S. Console : Xbox, Xbox 360, PC, NES, Atari, Genesis Favorite Game : The first two F.E.A.R. games, and Bioshock My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-06
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:53 pm | |
| Just out of curiosity (not that it really matters, I guess), which member was this? | |
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Nate Management
Number of posts : 649 Age : 39 Location : USA Console : Xbox 360 Favorite Game : Oblivion My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-02
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:50 am | |
| The "ki0ar" (whatever the hell that means) member that joined back up just a few days ago. The member name is on the bottom of the main page under the newest member. Warning: this gets a bit hairy I'm tempted to delete and ban the prick because he's got no right to assume anything about my financial status and talk down on me because apparently he's GOT money to blow on video games!! Get this you blowhard: even if I DID have more money to buy video games, that isn't what I'd spend it on! I've got a life, a girlfriend of about 2 years and a ton of crap to think about everyday. I bet all this fartbag does is sit on his fat ass and play video games because he "can afford it to go out and buy games when I want". Lol!! People like this idiot piss me off. I know I shouldn't let this bug me & it doesn't, really...But I am notthe type to take an insult like a pansy and forget about it a day later. < /rant > | |
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th3_void Moderator
Number of posts : 421 Age : 32 Location : U.S. Console : Xbox, Xbox 360, PC, NES, Atari, Genesis Favorite Game : The first two F.E.A.R. games, and Bioshock My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-06
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:52 pm | |
| What's really stupid is that he hasn't done anything on here sinse he made a new profile, except for 2 private messages. whoop-de-friggin-do. | |
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MaxPayne Moderator
Number of posts : 559 Age : 47 Location : Tucson, AZ Console : XBOX 360 Favorite Game : MAXPAYNE 1 & 2 My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:12 pm | |
| Boy gone a few days and we have this...lol | |
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th3_void Moderator
Number of posts : 421 Age : 32 Location : U.S. Console : Xbox, Xbox 360, PC, NES, Atari, Genesis Favorite Game : The first two F.E.A.R. games, and Bioshock My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-06
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:05 pm | |
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MaxPayne Moderator
Number of posts : 559 Age : 47 Location : Tucson, AZ Console : XBOX 360 Favorite Game : MAXPAYNE 1 & 2 My GamerTag : 0 Registration date : 2008-01-03
| Subject: Re: New Participation Policy Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:15 pm | |
| I saw that guy on today in the chat....I was gonna say hi but when I came back he was gone. | |
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