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| From: dreen | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:37:36 AM | Message Detail |
| Well, people can post all kinds of gibberish then argue that it's acronym of some kind after they got modded. Thing is, it's sometimes hard to tell who's real and who's not. Shrugs |
| From: zapdos153 | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:39:01 AM | Message Detail |
| *also marks* STOP MAKING NO SENSE CRONO, YOU'RE DISRUPTING MY TOPIC! And crono, are you talking about me with the KoS? I was never kosed. Close maybe, not kosed though. :D --- What do clouds wear? THUNDERPANTS. ROTF http://geocities.com/daabercrombieprep/pimp.html |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:39:36 AM | Message Detail |
| Well, the fact he has a past history could come into effect but not always. Remember, a past offender is not ALWAYS wrong... his past should only have an effect on the SEVERITY of the moderation, not whether or not it happens at all. There are literally thousands of accepted acronyms out there, 90% of which I doubt either of us know. And more are created daily, damn near hourly. There has never been a rule against it on this message board, and there's a reason for it. Of course, if his past history is that of posting random, pointless and meaningless words at odd places then complaining about the moderation... By all means, fry the man. But if his past is for flaming, modding him for Disruptive based on that is senseless... --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: FearofMonkeys | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:39:52 AM | Message Detail |
| thing is that the 4 letters ROTF were easily spotted in it, and ROTF is a well known acronym for Rolling On The Floor. Thus common sense would tell you that it was an acronym for laughing. --- http://s3.cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=7&topic=5604052 SING MY PETITON! |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:40:46 AM | Message Detail |
| the laughing one MAKES SENSE. Not really it doesn't. So why do so? To make sure it doesn't happen again. --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: Muherfurce | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:42:28 AM | Message Detail |
| Now, back on topic... EROPTF was determined by Google to mean nothing. You say it means "easily rolling on parta the floor". Now, Google checks damn near the entire Internet for anything that contains the acronym EROPTF. Now, Google searched over three billion web pages, and found nothing that would support the statement that EROPTF means "easily rolling on parta the floor". Ergo, you (or a friend) just now made it up. Now, making up acronyms isn't a bad thing. Granted, someone out there has the claim to fame of being the first person to use LOL. But way back when LOL meant nothing, had someone just posted LOL and given no explanation as to what LOL meant, that too would have been disruptive. (But, I must say that it might have been overturned, as "laughing out loud" is a reasonable acronym. When I read what EROPTF stood for, I was EROPTF cause of how lame an acronym it is.) Let's look at it this way. Suppose someone makes a thread, and I reply with "OADSNGODSAGNDSOTJRDSOTJDASOJFOEWTUODTURM", I'll obviously get modded, and I contest with "But OADSNGODSAGNDSOTJRDSOTJDASOJFOEWTUODTURM stands for [insert acronym that means the same thing as LOL]", would you honestly reverse it? --- Read my comics: http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?author=Muherfurce |
| From: zapdos153 | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:42:29 AM | Message Detail |
| Of course, if his past history is that of posting random, pointless and meaningless words at odd places then complaining about the moderation... Actually I'm usually modded for flaming or trolling and don't think I can ever recall being modded for posing random things at odd places. It was a situation fit for laughing and it was in a topic at a board I frequent often. --- What do clouds wear? THUNDERPANTS. ROTF http://geocities.com/daabercrombieprep/pimp.html |
| From: Son Raditz II | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:43:10 AM | Message Detail |
| Well, you could have at least given him a better response with a REASON as to why you modded it. Oh, and why bring up karma? I have more than you, but does that mean that I am automatically right? No, it doesn't... --- When you feel like you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:44:01 AM | Message Detail |
| Well, people can post all kinds of gibberish then argue that it's acronym of some kind after they got modded. Thing is, it's sometimes hard to tell who's real and who's not. Not that easy to do in fact... And it really depends on the situation. If you type Mxyptlk and you say it's an acronym for "My eX, Yo, Parties Tonight Like Krazy" it's rather obvious you're BSing... But THIS one? It's believable... Especially if the situation called for an "LOL"... --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: zapdos153 | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:44:36 AM | Message Detail |
| Let's look at it this way. Suppose someone makes a thread, and I reply with "OADSNGODSAGNDSOTJRDSOTJDASOJFOEWTUODTURM", I'll obviously get modded If the reply was ONLY 6 LETTERS LONG, the thread was humorous, and 4 of the letters are eaisly spotted as an acronym for laughing, I think it would be different than posting "SEGFSGFSGSGSGFSDHSEGAWTGFSE" --- What do clouds wear? THUNDERPANTS. ROTF http://geocities.com/daabercrombieprep/pimp.html |
| From: Muherfurce | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:45:33 AM | Message Detail |
| mutherfurce... google does not list any entries for that name, your username is disruptive and against the ToS. If you can point out any posts that just say "Muherfurce", I'll gladly mark it. --- Read my comics: http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?author=Muherfurce |
| From: zapdos153 | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:47:07 AM | Message Detail |
| Muherfurce --- What do clouds wear? THUNDERPANTS. ROTF http://geocities.com/daabercrombieprep/pimp.html |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:48:45 AM | Message Detail |
| You can't find RITALMAO anywhere outside of the acronym database either... --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: FearofMonkeys | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:49:11 AM | Message Detail |
| EROPTF was determined by Google to mean nothing. You say it means "easily rolling on parta the floor". Now, Google checks damn near the entire Internet for anything that contains the acronym EROPTF. Now, Google searched over three billion web pages, and found nothing that would support the statement that EROPTF means "easily rolling on parta the floor". Ergo, you (or a friend) just now made it up. your google logics contain many flaws, First of all if i were to create a site with EROPTF right now and google would list it, then it would be ok in your eyes. Second: google is not a dictionary. Third: google does come out with results with even stranger letter combinations, that would be existing words in your mind? Fourth: your letterrow indeed makes no sense, but as i said before the 6 letter acronym contained ROTF which is a well known acronym Fifth: your google logics make no sense at all --- http://s3.cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=7&topic=5604052 SING MY PETITON! |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:50:55 AM | Message Detail |
| Sixth, I could add an explanation for it on the Acronym directory, the urban dictionary, and a handful other sites like it and you'd get hits... --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: FearofMonkeys | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:53:08 AM | Message Detail |
| ow, and please tell me what "OADSNGODSAGNDSOTJRDSOTJDASOJFOEWTUODTURM" stands for, if you can think up something reasonable which has to do something with the topic context then i will gladly agree with you. --- http://s3.cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=7&topic=5604052 SING MY PETITON! |
| From: Muherfurce | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:54:32 AM | Message Detail |
| "If the reply was ONLY 6 LETTERS LONG, the thread was humorous, and 4 of the letters are eaisly spotted as an acronym for laughing, I think it would be different than posting "SEGFSGFSGSGSGFSDHSEGAWTGFSE"" A: Acronym size doesn't matter. There are some bloody long, but generally accepted acronyms out there. B: Whether or not the thread is humorous is also irrelevant. I checked the TOS to see if it applies to humorous topics as well. Apparantly, it does. C: Easily spotted? Heck no, you'd have to be actively searching for 4 of the letters being R, O, T, and F to notice it. And even if it was easy, it's still also irrelevant. By your logic, I could post "fort" or "tfor" or "orft" and claim that the mod should have easily spotted that it was an allusion to ROTF. --- Read my comics: http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?author=Muherfurce |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 3:56:45 AM | Message Detail |
| Whether or not the thread is humorous is also irrelevant. I checked the TOS to see if it applies to humorous topics as well. Apparantly, it does. Actually, it's CRUCIAL to the case. If the thread had no humor at all, then his claim would be unfounded and obviously false. If the thread was pretty humorous, then his claim has a pretty good base... --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: Muherfurce | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:01:24 AM | Message Detail |
| First of all if i were to create a site with EROPTF right now and google would list it, then it would be ok in your eyes. Second: google is not a dictionary. Third: google does come out with results with even stranger letter combinations, that would be existing words in your mind? Sixth, I could add an explanation for it on the Acronym directory, the urban dictionary, and a handful other sites like it and you'd get hits... All valid points. Of course having one hit on Google doesn't make an acronym accepted worldwide. However the fact that EROPTF didn't even get one hit on Google says something about how obscure it is. Fourth: your letterrow indeed makes no sense, but as i said before the 6 letter acronym contained ROTF which is a well known acronym So would "ADGDSAGASFIHGDSGHDASHGSIGHNDFSGKASEIKUJOTAEUAGDKNGDKNVIRHGOIFDJROPTF" be okay with you? I mean, it contains ROTF and all. --- Read my comics: http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?author=Muherfurce |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:01:38 AM | Message Detail |
| Here's a fun acronym for you "BBROYGBVGW"... You figure it out... --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:03:00 AM | Message Detail |
| Muherfurce, you like looking up definitions. Search for "common sense". It's crucial to the human way of life... Without it, we would be unable to move... --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: FearofMonkeys | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:03:56 AM | Message Detail |
| your ignorance bothers me... There are some bloody long, but generally accepted acronyms out there. Define generally accepted, i don't think internet slangs are generally accepted except by the people who make use of the internet themselves. Acronyms like like LOL, LMAO, BRB, BBL, PIMP etc. sure aren't in the dictionary, yet according to you they are "generally accepted". More and more acronyms are created each day, there are some against the ToS which i didn't even know they existed. So who is to say that LOL is generally accepted but NLAA isn't? --- http://s3.cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=7&topic=5604052 SING MY PETITON! |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:06:19 AM | Message Detail |
| ToS is an acronym in itself... As is FAQ... --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: Muherfurce | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:16:11 AM | Message Detail |
| Define generally accepted Accepted by the general population of people who would have some need to use the phrase. Example: LOL is "generally accepted" by the Internet population, because near all Internet users know what it means. Now sure, Bubba Joe who can't afford to have non-roadkill meals won't know what it means, but he doesn't have the need to know it. If he finds Foxworthy hee-larious, he doesn't say "LOL", he laughs. He has no need for LOL. Internet users do though, because you can't laugh on the Internet (at least not until speakerchat hits the masses :). LOL, et. al., is the only means of laughing on the Internet. Since a big majority of Internet users know what LOL is, it's generally accepted by the Internet population. Clear as mud? --- Read my comics: http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?author=Muherfurce |
| From: The Deadpool | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:20:25 AM | Message Detail |
| So NYSPHSAA isn't generally accepted? --- "+++ Divide By Cucumber Error. Please Reinstall Universe And Reboot +++" Hex |
| From: abczy | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:25:57 AM | Message Detail |
| BuMp! I really think that the mod was unfair. should keep this up for the rest to see. |
| From: dreen | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:29:32 AM | Message Detail |
| You're bumping a topic that's already on the top of the list. ¬_¬ |
| From: AfraidofMonkeys | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:31:28 AM | Message Detail |
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| From: Muherfurce | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:37:28 AM | Message Detail |
| "So NYSPHSAA isn't generally accepted?" You'd have to take that up with high school athletes in New York State. It might be generally accepted among them. I'd have no way of knowing if it is or not, though. --- Read my comics: http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?author=Muherfurce |
| From: Muherfurce | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:39:39 AM | Message Detail |
| "Muherfurce, you like looking up definitions. Search for "common sense". It's crucial to the human way of life... Without it, we would be unable to move..." "bump! i want everyone to witness the ignorance of muherfurce" Wow, you guys sure are original. Throwing insults at someone for taking the opposing view in an argument is soooooooooooo clever. --- Read my comics: http://www.stripcreator.com/view.php?author=Muherfurce |
| From: AfraidofMonkeys | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:48:58 AM | Message Detail |
| well, there's not much else to do if reasonable arguing doesn't get through to you. LOL is accepted because a lot of people know what it means and EROPTF is not because no one knows what it means. Creating new original abbrevations is a crime now? The guy who came up with LOL should be hanged? Using an abbrevation unknown to many people is against the ToS? show me where.. --- http://www.geocities.com/shockthemonkeys//iono.html |
| From: DogofMonkeys | Posted: 12/30/2002 4:53:58 AM | Message Detail |
| and if you are having a hard time spotting ROTF in EROPTF then that is ignorant. But i bet you saw it right away and just hold up lies so you don't have to admit your mistakes. --- http://s3.cgi.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.asp?board=7&topic=5604052 SING MY PETITON! |
| From: T3hDark0n3 | Posted: 12/30/2002 11:23:52 AM | Message Detail |
| Disruptive Posting Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to: * Message posts or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally * Large blank or content-free posts * "Bumping" multiple older topics (posting in them well after the last post) * Posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" topics * Intentionally hard-to-read topic titles (i.e. ALL CAPS, AlTeRnAtE cApS, no spaces, no or excessive punctuation, 1337 speak, et cetera) * Posting multiple hard-to-read or nonsensical messages in a single or multiple topics * Posting large ASCII art (except in social topics specifically calling for it) * Post counting (i.e. "First", "100th Post") When I first saw that, it seemed very nonsensical, I didn't know what it meant or heard of it 'till today... --- <CapnCloud> i have a screenshot coming... it's coming... hrrrrrghhhh |
| From: T3hDark0n3 | Posted: 12/30/2002 11:27:06 AM | Message Detail |
| ROTF, never heard of it, extremely similar to the more widely used (IMHO) ROFL (Rolling Of the[the isn't used for some reason...]Floor Laughing) Also accompanied and or merged with LMAO (merged ROFLMAO [Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off]) --- <CapnCloud> i have a screenshot coming... it's coming... hrrrrrghhhh |
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