- Feb 1, 2005
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Right. Here goes.........
I've been otherwise engaged over the past few days and you've taken advantage so here's where we're at.
By rights a large number of you should be, around about now, checking news now for your transfer fix. But I'm a softie at heart so you're lucky this one time, plus I just don't have the time to do it.
There won't be warnings in thread, the trigger will just be pulled and PM's asking why will not be answered (they NEVER are) because I don't have time to get involved in the inevitable tit-for-tat exchange of messages x100 so I'll give you the reason now. You broke the rules.
So unless your post is directly related to any ITK we get today I'll get Errol to feed you to the pigs. If anyone wants to moan about not signing anyone/Levy, feel free, it'll be your last post in here.
It royally pisses me off when I have to have these crackdowns because I don't like being a nazi but FFS, you don't make it easy. Bunch of mingewranglers.
==== Rob's Rant ===
Thought I'd chip in here so you can see it's not just A&C being a ****!
The rules in here are strict. Like COYSesque strict. We know that. People try to argue with us that the rules are unfair and too strict. We know that. It's for a reason and it's grown like that with 15 years of experience. We have thousands upon thousands of people here every day and if we relax the rules just a little bit, it descends into chaos. If we give someone a warning for a minor rule break, 50 people will see that it's ok to break that rule and follow suit, before we know it the thread is locked and is all being deleted.
I'd go as far as saying the rules probably are unfair at an individual level. Yeah, you personally might well get screwed over by them. At a community level, they're necessary to maintain any semblance of order.
If you get banned, you can still log out and read all the info/posts, you just can't contribute any more. Given that it was you breaking the rules in the first place, your contributions are likely not wanted anyway so I think that's a good compromise. We don't hide all the info behind a wall like other forums but we also have to enforce that contributions follow the rules so it doesn't descend into chaos.
The number of PMs we get that start "I can't access the transfer forum. I'd be shocked if I'm banned as I've never broken the rules...". Yeah, well *shock*. A&C ignores them by default now. I tell people to message A&C, who then ignores them. Now people have started pestering the other mods. At best any PM like that is going to get ignored, at worst it'll double the (already indefinite and possibly permanent*) length of any ban.
Read the rules, understand the rules, don't be shocked if you still end up on wrong side of them and most of all, STOP FUCKING SENDING US PMS ABOUT IT!
*That's right, you'll be double-permanent banned
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