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why is IHMN banned?


I have missed why some of the recent bannings have happened

(I put this in the off topic cause I would never make this a thread for fear of being banned my self))

so why?

because he is a jerk :mad:

actually, he was banned for flaming insane, who was also banned for being immature, I think.

wow, its kind of like a reality tv show.

can I get a link?

no!

sorry, I don't know how to do that exactly, and plus its not very nice.

Hmmmm....I never saw any reason to be angered by IHMN but then, I'm just a pitiful newbie....

I am going to be banned for this *hides*

albannar rp+unfair treatment to noobs+hate calvinball=IHMN

he always got away with murder before

I was definitely upset by the destruction of calvinball, but I won't go as far as to blame it on one person. It was just not meant to be I guess.

you know calvin ball was the reason I started posting here. those were great days. Ah, to reminisce

What was calvin ball, anyway?

the shit!

(spammiest post I have ever made)

It was, rather looseley, an RP. I didn't wish it's destruction like many RPers seemed to, but it grew not to my liking, and after a certain point I tended to avoid it. It was basically an "RP" where God-Modding and totally insane randomness was encouraged instead of avoided, and since both of those tend to be the bane of any serious RP, it and the people that were part of it were generally shunned as RPers (Even though some pretty good RPers posted in it). After a while, the number of complaints from one group of RPers (Which included IHMN, but had a fair number of others in it as well) was enough that RaiRai and Shiney intervened to see what the hell was going on in the Roleplay forum. They judged that Calvinball was indeed Spam, and had it shut down, which lead to much crying and wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the Calvinballers (And almost lead to a number of them being banned when they went too far and got Shiney mad as hell at them for pestering RaiRai). It also lead to the Roleplay Forum being modded FAR more then it ever was before, which lead up to the current chunk of bannings.

Overall, a rather dark and turbulent time for the RP board.

thanks for posting that FZ, the memories are too painful for me. I must admit that I was one of those misguided calvinballers, but if you'd like to see some of my "serious" rp work, check out any of the various Arcadia posts in the rp forum.

I didn't mean to pry... but that was very informative, thanks!

Meh, it's alright. Except for the the fact that the mods now keep a closer eye on the Roleplay forum, for the most part (With most RPers...) it's water under the bridge with no real consequences.

It got damn far before the mods closed down on it. That was during the era of aloofness when the only forums that were being patroled were Discussion and General, and then essentially only by Mashi. Since she tends to avoid the Rollplaying forum, people got away with murder there. Then IHMN and BMHadoken called in Rai, and well thus ended an era. It hasn't changed that much, just no more calvinball. I didn't mind. To me it was simply a way of getting some of my inherant silliness out of my system, as I this shall soon become for me.

MONKEYS!

at the risk of eternal damnation, I'm going to do somethinf diabolical.

just watch, you'll see...

Insane - banned for screwing up the thread because he posted with no grammar, punctuation, roleplaying or etiquette.

IHMN - banned for being a critical jackass.

Kildare - banned for mocking Insane, then practically daring the mods to ban him.

While we're waiting for the diabolicalness, hopefully it doesn't occur during this post typing, I would like to inquire about the Calvinball.

So was it just IHMN and BMHadoken*, or was it just them and people they corralled up? And who else took part in this thing that I missed, for better or worse?

*Who is BMH? I know IHMN, but I haven't seen him. Was he, I'm assuming, a mindless BM fanboi who overused the BM smiley icon?

Zoa, don't do anything stupid. Especially not until the RP is over.

BMH wasn't a hopeless BM fanboy, at least not by this point in history. He just started off with a name that haunted him the rest of his long career here. He wasn't as bad as IHMN, but he did take part in the coup de calvinball. I don't' know what happened to him... just dissapeared as sometimes happens.

the history isn't complete, remember the arena threads and the beat up krclo (can't spell)?

I tryed to save those but they had no story to go on

BMHadoken was, ironically, NOT a BM fanboy. He chose it at first because he was apparently (It was before I knew him), but then he came down the path of light and stopped. He stuck with the name because that's just what everyone knew him as, so it would be weird if his name changed. He used to post regularly, but he seems to have left the forum for greener pastures with little warning.

And neither of those threads were Calvinball, so they weren't included in the History.

Also, I don't like the path this thread is going down...

Ahh, that would explain why I don't know of him.

And whats wrong with this thread?

It's sort of turning into a, "Hey, let's dredge back up all the old mud that was thrown around in the Calvinball Wars! Who said what and why, and then we go crucify them for things they did months ago!" Personally, I was quite happy leaving it all in the past, but I'm also a stickler to getting all the facts to people that want to know, so I'm still doggedly giving, "Just the facts, ma'am."

It's okay.

Just quit bashing IHMN and the others who were banned.

THey have no recourse to defend themselves right now, furthermore it's not necessarilly that we wanted to ban them per se, but that there are rules which must be enforced. No exceptions.

IHMN offered a real apology to RaiRai earlier today. He's not on our shit list anymore. But he will remain banned for the rest of the week.

Rest of the week like the next fifteen minutes or so (East Coast USA here) or rest of the week as in over on the 18th, next Sunday...cuz that would be a pretty short ban if it was the former.

Take a guess. :P

I've noticed that Zoam has made a new calvinball thread.

As the official Undisputed Champion of Calvinball (Having 6 wins out of 11 chapters), I find I must ask the question:

Is that okay? I mean I know why Calvinball was closed down in the first place and I have made my peace with that, a part of me still misses Calvinball, but I don't wanna get bashed for posting in a thread that will be closed down for violating the rules, even if it is in the "Off Topic" section.

And by the way HoP: No offense or anything, but your attempts were the main reason that the last two threads failed. The previous chapters were blinding successes because everyone else who came up with a new thread had a good, or at least a moderately tolerable idea to kick them off. The last two were truely pointless godmodding. One must only look to "Calvinball: Hail to the Mods" to see that I am right.

Again, this is not an attack or anything, just an old observation.

Seeing as it survived a few days I figured it was all good. Ofcourse maybe the mods just over looked it and now that you pointed it out it will be closed. However, it does have a purpose. It's actually on topic and fits into the semi spam theme of this thread. It is roleplaing kind of but keeping it here keeps the real serious RPers happy as well as the Calvinballers. So if everyone is happy why not?

Further thought suggests that a dedicated stickied Calvinball thread in this forum might be a good ideal. It will keep the Calvinball threads from over growing the forum and provide an outlet for the crazy impluses of some of us forumites. We already do Calvinball esque things just not as overtly so why not set up a place to catch them?

Allow me to correct myself:

Undisputed Calvinball Champion, winning 9 out of 17 calvinball Chapters.

And I'd still like an answer from the mods, just so I know safely.

Have fun, but if it goes from silly fun to outright spam expect it to be closed down with absolutely no more calvinball at this forum.

It will be noted whether or not it is just random people spamming it to get it closed down. I won't be stupid and ignore that.

In that case, Allow me to quote your profile.

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Thank you Shiney, you've made a normal day SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE!