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[kokuenDG]

As in WildBow, as in the author of the CANON, not of THIS story.

This is my reply to getting a WARNING for "insulting the author of the story".
Unless it ALSO meant the CANON, loool.
To which I can only say: MEH.
*SHRUG*

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yes, that's what i gave you a staff warning for.
I gave you a staff warning that is only meant to advise you from refraining from going too far and actually doing something that could be considered as rule breaking. Which you just decided to do with your complaints about the moderation action. So let me be perfectly clear here.

You can express your opinions about the author or the work of fiction as long as it's civil, it's mindful, and it's not hateful. Your previous post was getting to the point where it was not mindful and inappropriate to the thread, especially since it was going off topic and focusing more on the source material in a way that would make the discussion more appropriate in the Worm Discussion Thread instead of here, and the unnecessary insults towards the author could be taken as uncivil if done repeatedly. There's no need for that. And that is why I gave you the warning that does not restrict your ability to participate in the thread, or hit you with any infraction points. And I only asked that you remain mindful of your posts and try to keep the debate civil in the thread.

Your next action became a Rule 5 violation when you decided to complain about a staff warning in the thread. So!

Take 25 and a few days out of the thread. And I'd advise you to take the olive branch given in the future and avoid incidents like this.

As for everyone else, if you wish to continue a discussion in the same line of topic as the previous one about Cauldron, or any other intensive main canon Worm-related topics I'd advise that you go to the main Worm Discussion Thread and endeavor to remain at least somewhat civil with each other.

 

[Magery]

in this thread: we independently recreate functional grammar
As an English teacher currently in my staff room and skiving off sending parent-teacher emails to instead browse an Internet forum, how dare all of you make me deal with grammar arguments while I'm slacking off.

As a moderator of Sufficient Velocity reading a thread where a couple of people are yelling at each other over something not really that important, how dare all of you make me risk my like-post ratio asking them to chill.

Specifically: @Sorrow and @Ocean Sailor, dial it down a notch, thank you. Everyone else, listen to @mp3.1415player.

 

[Magery]

it only counts when you say it in the coloured boxes
Last time I was here, we were derailing about grammar nitpicks. This time we're derailing about space combat. If this thread was writing fanfiction about Sufficient Velocity, I'd be congratulating you on your pitch-perfect characterisation.

Anyway. I'm not really here to talk about the derailing. It's going to stop now, but it's not a huge deal. No—I'm here to talk about this.

Okay, this has officially become a derail. Cease and desist before I call a Mod

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I warned you, this post has been reported for derailment

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Let me be blunt: the Staff are not weapons.

It is a requirement of Rule 3: Be Civil that our posters respect the site itself. What that means is that it is a requirement that they do not point to the features of the forum, things like the ignore list and like reports and like Moderation, and say "I am going to use this against you". We, and the tools we give you, are not to be held in arms against others engaging in behaviours you do not approve of—we are not to be pressed to their metaphorical throat to encourage them into compliance. We do not wear jackboots; we wear anime1​ avatars. We are not remorseless, poorly-regulated implements of state power; we are idiots who spend our spare time asking people to stop yelling at each other about videogames.

But that's not the point. The point is this: if compliance needs to be encouraged, then someone with a pretty pink name like me will come into the thread and make a post in one of the shiny coloured boxes and it will be as the Disney live-action remaster of the mountain was to Moses. And that will be that. No need for any extra palaver.

(That doesn't mean you can't ask people to knock off derails, or settle down arguments, or stop being horrible to minorities, or stop being weird about teenagers, and so on. It certainly and absolutely does not mean that you shouldn't use reports and the ignore button and so on to deal with people who are breaking the rules or annoying you or whatever.

It just means you don't need to talk about doing those things. You just need to... do them, and Inanna will know her own.)

1​ There are dozens of us! Dozens!