Do you have two accounts? That was just posted under the name "Lewis Carroll" before being switched back to your name.

And, hey -- which one of us is without a sense of manners? I wish you my best. :) As someone who has seen the TribalWar.com forums grow larger and more successful every year, and who has been a positive, contributing member of several other large (and better-policed) forums in the past, such as the Through The Looking Glass community forums, all I can say -- and this was echoed recently in a post on these forums by a TribalWar administrator -- is that certain administrators on this forum take an enormous amount of offense at very inconsequential matters. It takes an ounce of humor to take these posts in the manner in which they are intended, but in each case you refuse to take them in good humor and insist on trying to start flame wars by responding angrily!

This case is open-and-shut. You were had, by Brasstax -- you took seriously a post where he said that Tribalwar.com was based on Dungeons and Dragons and real-life role-playing, with admins running through the forest shouting "lightning bolt lightning bolt -- sleep!"

It doesn't matter who you are, what your sense of humor is, or how strictly you interpret the rules -- two things will always be true about that scenario:

1) It's hilarious, and The People Must Be Told.
2) When you've been had in so spectacular a fashion, the onus is upon you to take it in good humor!

updated:

I am editing this post, because I wish to drive home the point that *I* am quite respectful of the rules, and do everything I can to keep the discussion from devolving. :P As such, I'm even respecting the rather rudely stated request that I not post further in this thread, and am instead editing a post to defend myself.

I am seeing accusations of "abuse", that I am posting "bilge" . . . re-read the post above. Read it again. Then, read it again, until you understand it.

You were had! It's fine. It happens to the best of us -- for instance, we've all probably had the experience of laughing at a joke that we didn't really get, just because everyone else was laughing. Hey, that kind of thing happens. Lord knows no one is holding it against you. :D

But when it is pointed out, and you fly off the handle . . . that turns an ordinary gaffe into something that you handled very poorly.

This is black and white.

It's not a matter of having a "special kind" of sense of humor, or a "warped" kind of a sense of humor. His humorous gaffe was not my invention, and it was a doozy! As Brasstax himself stated:


For reference, here is the original post, with some key points highlighted:


Given that post, somebody took seriously the statement that Tribalwar used to be called "MyOnlineBoard".

That qualifies as funny in any book of funny that there is. If you think it's not funny, I'd like you to explain why. Really -- I posted the quote from the admin who took it seriously in IRC, and the responses were nothing but laughter. Because it's funny!

But, more importantly for this thread: it's non-offensive. It's not a flame. In point of fact, it's NOT MY FAULT. I didn't even take any action here -- I pointed out that someone had been had, and that is all. :)

As I've stated several times before -- I wish you all my best, and I understand where you're coming from. We've all been there! But it's better to sheepishly laugh along with the group when you do something silly, instead of getting angry.

Thanks for ruining a really great thing. May your mothers be ever so proud of you all.

We worked our arses off trying to get support from the general public for this project.

And then you lot turned up and rampaged around the forums likening us to neo nazi's and baal worshippers.

Cheers

Excellent Job

I am the Voice Of Reason.

HEY!

Watch the sweeping generalizations, please. mr_luc has been heavily criticized on TribalWar for this behavior. Do not assume all Tribalwar members are the same because of bad experiences with individuals.