Kimberly

For the most part, they already have, but people are still frenzied by it. The pot-shots started coming back out around page 4.

I'm sure if you PM Obt on Efficionados he'll help a fellow board member.

The phrase "Give them an inch and they'll take a mile" seems perfect in this case.

Dream on maple boy, it's still 1-1!

Kids are going to fight. Kids are going to pick on eachother. And everyone will eventually snap under those conditions. I don't condemn him for finally reaching his breaking point, and I feel sympathy with him having been bullied myself a lot as a kid. But I will never sing the praises of kids who retaliate against bullies, because it's still not right and teaches the wrong things to kids who can't grasp the difference. (I'm going to be a terrible parent probably.)

You know what time it is? Playoff time. And you know what my boyfriend loves? Hockey. So he's growing a playoff beard...but he can't grow one to save his life. I mean, worse than Sidney Crosby's prepubescent beard. It looks more like a blonde chin-cactus. I hate crappy beards.

They really liked Oxyclean and Mighty Putty. Nah they did it in memory of a friend.

I think there is a strong possibility; so yes at some point. Then I would recommend looking into obtaining a gravite staff, gravite rapier, gravite bow, and tome of frost. These will maximize your offensive bonuses in f2p CWA, which will be risk free for you, and are very desired for serious clans that do such activities. Gravite bow is good for rangers over the longbow sight because it hits more, at a faster pace. Staff and tome grant you the best magic offensive bonus you can get and are ideal for blasters. Gravite Rapier is great for snipers who are sent off the main pile to smack idiot binders/blasters who can't switch proper. Even clans that are known for their skill in pvp, like say Divine Forces, still do CWA. So even if you plan on joining a top 10 clan, these are still good investments.

Are you or do you ever plan on joining a f2p warring clan that does CWA fights?

Both 'sides' have admitted to making mistakes. If you choose to ignore that, that's your issue, but let's not go spreading around any more poor information. My poor nerves can't take much more of this.

Aren't staff not permitted to discuss user offenses?

I think three different administrators have said otherwise, and two of them in this very thread if I remember correctly.

They do give the quests that they're from. It would've been nice though if the quest they're from was actually a link to that KB's entry, so people could easily read the synopsis.

Now THAT would be a boss worth fighting. I'd be very interested in something like that. That's a good suggestion. :D

He'll most likely be in the next poll. All the beasties in this one seem to be level 40ish and under. Elvarg is lvl 83.

So you mean that these four choices would instead be a new boss hunting room? Badass.

You've given me a terrible prospect...If RFD2 is the 200th quest I will be so sad. So very, very sad.

Good lord, what happened? Everyone went to sleep and ideas of reconciliation and civility went right out the window in the meantime.

Hardly fair, there are so many great bosses that I'd vote to see again, I can't choose just one!

Occlusion is going to be in 1.5 now, I've heard. That's phenomenal. And until then, OptiMine and OptiFog help out massively.

I did not say it was the fault of any one person, just that he persisted when it should've been left be after the refusal and at that point, don't you think? By then the tone of the thread was set. And multiple other people jumped in and made a tolerable situation far worse than it ever should've been. EDIT: Sorry for the last minute edit.

After having a precise question (which is some sort of miracle in itself in h&A...) presented by the topic creator and being declined once for that particular suggestion, you can see what sort of affect pursuing that same suggestion had on derailing the thread though. It doesn't make anyone a bad person, by no means should they be vilified for it, but it's not exactly helping the process of gaining advice and the trend the thread had taken showed no sign of stopping.

It's equally inflammatory though to persist on badgering your opinion when the TC has clearly stated what he wants though isn't it? For what reaction will it get but anything negative? A mod intervening seems like a good idea at a point like that, even if how it was handled was poorly, because the person beating on was going against the TC's express wishes beyond simply suggesting a better alternative. It seems like a REALLY poor example for the change wanted to be seen in H&A, and it wasn't the fault of any single person in that topic.

Wouldn't that be off-topic posting, not trolling? The user is not asking how to gain the money to get yews, but where to cut them, so the post is irrelevant. Yet if the user asked where can I cut yews to raise my firemaking level, then that would be a perfectly acceptable piece of advice, I would think, because it explains how better to gain capital so you can attack your main goal (raising firemaking). Unless the user says he only wants to wc to get yews... It all makes my head spin, it's all so grey. It must be a veritable headache for staff and users alike. Oh, that took a while to find out what you meant. I agree with that, if they are insulting or attacking, that should definitely be reported and removed. It's neither contributing to the discussion nor fair to the person it's turned upon. I'm sorry it took me a while to see that we agreed about the same thing :P

I can understand in that case why someone would respond to a poster like that and explain why that's a poor decision. I don't see why it should be reportable though. People learn from mistakes, and if someone like you explain why something's wrong, they learn. But if something like that becomes reportable, punishable, removable...people won't learn the why. Maybe your examples were meant to be more grey-area than that, but if I take you at your word...then what you're suggesting is removing the learning from the entire process. It's irresponsible, and I honestly don't think it would produce the environment you'd be hoping for. Better you should put the user on ignore than pursue such a road, because it wouldn't change anything for the better, but make the community cliques and urge to conformity higher than ever before.