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"Richard Busby" <richbusby DeleteThis @hatespam.bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Myrmidon wrote:
>
>> And you only have to submit to a rectal-exam to join before viewing any
>> of the articles or threads...
>
> Yeah, and once you get approved all the threads are locked and it's just
> Gamesday info...
>
> And here I thought that maybe they actually wanted to engage in meaningful
> dialoge with their customers. What the hell was I thinking?

Yeah makes me wish I could un-singup.
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Hey,

On Jan 5, 10:00 am, Richard Busby <richbu....DeleteThis@hatespam.bellsouth.net>
wrote:
> I thought that maybe they actually wanted to engage in
> meaningful dialoge with their customers

The entertainment potential is still unlimited for a certain mindset.
The wealth of gaffes and faux pas on the UK site was prodigious.
I refer to posts by employees, not customers, here . . .

Developers that didn't know the rules, writers that couldn't write,
etc.
A small example:

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Obsenity on the Boards
AdiWood
9/2/2001 3:46

Attention has been drawn to an article posted by Azguz over the
weekend. I haven't read it myself as it was quite rightly deleted.
Apparently it contained gross profanity. Azguz is history. He has been
banned.

I'm more than disappointed, I thought we had an understanding, but
obviously I need to make things clear once again. I will not tolerate:

1. Swearing/expletives (this includes adding symbols inside
expletives, we all know what you intend!)

2. Taking the Lord's Name in vain (old fashioned, but you know exactly
what I mean).

3. Obsene material.

Remember that this board is all about gaming, games developing, rules
and staying on topic. Its not about money, calling fellow board users
and members of GW staff, Flaming, whining about Codexes, other
people's products and reposting something because either you didn't
get the attention you wanted the first time or it got deleted for the
afformentioned reasons.

I will delete threads, I will ban obusers of the boards.

Adrian Wood, Moderator

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Adi blends the hysterical, condescending, hypocritical and
puritanical.
A facility which came to characterise the Master GW Moderator.
Never mind Adrian's poor grammar and punctuation -
That gem about calling people 'staff' is priceless.


Pla - Okay, maybe it's just me - ya
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Hey,

On Jan 5, 1:31 pm, "Kevin Milner" <dontspa....DeleteThis@ihatespam.net> wrote:
> makes me wish I could un-singup

Yeah, "I created a disposable Gmail account for THIS?"
Here's an update for anyone thinking of registering -

The blog:

http://gwuscommunity.com/

The last blog post is from 12 Dec.
The Comment function is disabled.

The Forum area has only two locked topics -
1. Register and 2. Don't Be Naughty.
The New Topic function is disabled.

Here's the gist per the GWUS Community Development Team (ComDevTeam):

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October 24th, 2007

Today marks an intrepid [roflcopter -ed] step forward into the
technical world usually reserved for the Mechanicus. We're launching a
new portal to be able to communicate with you, our gaming community!
This will take the form of a blog (what you are reading now), a very
specialized set of forums, and eventually a wiki aimed at containing
all the combined wisdom of top existing clubs on how to start, build,
maintain and run a club.

In addition, we'll have a few other technical wonders up our sleeve
that we hope to unveil over the next coming months that will be
further aimed at keep you up-to-date with what's going on with the US
Community Development Team.

About us

The Community Development team is currently made up of Chris
Gohlinghorst, John Shaffer and Dave Taylor. Together they have over 30
years of experience working at GW and about 50 years of hobbying
experience.

The Community Development Team mission is to grow and support the
gaming community in a positive fashion through clubs support, major
event support and creating dialog between all the existing Games
Workshop gaming communities.

About The Site

Welcome to the Games Workshop US Community Development Team community
site. Through this collection of blogs, forums and other communication
tools we hope to form a positive relationship and help drive the GW
gaming community forward!

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Note that this site was launched about nine weeks ago.
At this rate, they'll have the community developed in no time.


Playa
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"Playa" <hurlgen40k DeleteThis @aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> That gem about calling people 'staff' is priceless.

i can't even figure out what that is supposed to mean/imply. what were you
SUPPOSED to call employees if you weren't aware of their exact job title?
"massuh" perhaps ...

i also enjoy how the boards weren't about "other people's products", yet
apparently they WERE all about preserving the sanctity of judaeochristian
faith. truly bizarre.
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In article <Y13gj.107656$S37.65829@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
malafex RemoveThis @blueyonder.co.uk says...
>
> "Playa" <hurlgen40k RemoveThis @aol.com> wrote in message
> news:3fa7b470-7d44-4f53-9b7b-84e21db2cc37@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > That gem about calling people 'staff' is priceless.
>
> i can't even figure out what that is supposed to mean/imply. what were you
> SUPPOSED to call employees if you weren't aware of their exact job title?
> "massuh" perhaps ...
>
I think Playa is pointing out that these so called 'staff' were
little or nothing more than GW fanboyz / employees that didn't know
their ass from a hole in the ground when it came to operating /
moderating a forum (or knowing GW's products for that matter).

I also find it 'unfortunate' that GW gamers often had to turn to
the GW forums for something remotely approaching a timely answer to
rules questions or fixes to obvious problems - while waiting ages for an
official PDF file to be updated and released... (Having typed it up on
the forums - how hard would it have been to forward the same text to an
office money and have them update a PDF file? They do have the
originals don't they?)

> i also enjoy how the boards weren't about "other people's products", yet
> apparently they WERE all about preserving the sanctity of judaeochristian
> faith. truly bizarre.

Maybe you were on 'the wrong interwebz!'. Personally I want to be
banned for being an 'obuser'. I'm wondering if that's anything like
being a GW forum L-user?

Myr


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- Eric Noland

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raise a Warhammer army

- Roy Cox

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"Myrmidon" <imnot.RemoveThis@home.com> wrote in message
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> In article <Y13gj.107656$S37.65829@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
> malafex.RemoveThis@blueyonder.co.uk says...
>>
>
> Maybe you were on 'the wrong interwebz!'. Personally I want to be
> banned for being an 'obuser'. I'm wondering if that's anything like
> being a GW forum L-user?
>
> Myr
>

Personally I would aspite to being banned for being a blasphemer and taking
the Lord's name in vain. Especially as I'm unsure exactly which Lord's name
I'd have to take in vain to accomplish the task - Jesu bar Joseph of the
Christian 'fluff' tradition or the immortal soul-sucker ensconced upon his
golden throne on Terra of the Games Workshop 'fluff' tradition.

<smirk>

Maybe it would just be easier to be profane.

Jervis is an arrogant ******-******.
Gavin is an untalented ********.
The new Chaos codex is totally ****-**.
Games Workshop deserves to go ********.

--
MJB

Mr. Tin's Miniature Painting Workshop:
http://web.newsguy.com/Mrtinsworkshop/
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"Playa" <hurlgen40k DeleteThis @aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> 2. Taking the Lord's Name in vain (old fashioned, but you know exactly
> what I mean).
>
also thou shalt not post on the sabath.

I think its ironic that a company that essentially makes covetable graven
images for a living would have any commandment up there. No murdering other
posters either.
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"Myrmidon" <imnot.TakeThisOut@home.com> wrote in message
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> In article <Y13gj.107656$S37.65829@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
> malafex.TakeThisOut@blueyonder.co.uk says...
>>
>> "Playa" <hurlgen40k.TakeThisOut@aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:3fa7b470-7d44-4f53-9b7b-84e21db2cc37@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
>> >
>> > That gem about calling people 'staff' is priceless.
>>
>> i can't even figure out what that is supposed to mean/imply. what were
>> you
>> SUPPOSED to call employees if you weren't aware of their exact job title?
>> "massuh" perhaps ...
>>
> I think Playa is pointing out that these so called 'staff' were
> little or nothing more than GW fanboyz / employees that didn't know
> their ass from a hole in the ground when it came to operating /
> moderating a forum (or knowing GW's products for that matter).

yeah, i meant i couldn't understand what the moderator was upset about. I
wasn't aware that "staff" was an offensive term in its own right.
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:40:35 -0800 (PST), Playa <hurlgen40k DeleteThis @aol.com>
wrote:

>3. Obsene material.

No obscene material? Wouldn't that prevent discussion of Games
Workshop games in the first place? Or would it just apply to material
written by Thorpe, Cavatore, and Johnson? I'm guessing people weren't
allowed to post images of McVey's or Morley's work either?

--
Erik

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On Jan 4, 4:17 pm, Richard Busby <richbu....RemoveThis@hatespam.bellsouth.net>
wrote:
> OK, here's your chance to harass the US Games Workshop staff.
>
> www.gwuscommunity.com/forum

meh... another useless fanboy flamefest
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Hey,

On Jan 6, 3:30 pm, "MJB" <mrt... DeleteThis @OLDsguy.com> wrote:
> Personally I would aspite to being banned for being a blasphemer

Actually, skirting the edge of the banT button *was* part of the
appeal. ;- )
On any given day, you were guaranteed subjects like:

The BEST army?
Shotguns shud b Str 4!!11!!11
Help!!!!! Wot army shud i by next?
Wut r primarch stats i need 2 no now!
How i glue lead stuf it come apart all time
Cud squat armys have wraithlords? Mabey short ones?
Wut if teh Emporer was a fake/ girl/ live/ shriner/ pyronecrobestiBAZ!
iphile?

The sheer volume of tardspiel fairly cried out for two-fisted
justice!

And sincere concern . . .

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.


Playa

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On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 01:45:15 -0800 (PST), JohnPaulPontiff DeleteThis @gmail.com
wrote:

>
>Hey,
>
>On Jan 6, 3:30 pm, "MJB" <mrt... DeleteThis @OLDsguy.com> wrote:
>> Personally I would aspite to being banned for being a blasphemer
>
>Actually, skirting the edge of the banT button *was* part of the
>appeal. ;- )
>On any given day, you were guaranteed subjects like:
>
>The BEST army?
>Shotguns shud b Str 4!!11!!11
>Help!!!!! Wot army shud i by next?
>Wut r primarch stats i need 2 no now!
>How i glue lead stuf it come apart all time
>Cud squat armys have wraithlords? Mabey short ones?
>Wut if teh Emporer was a fake/ girl/ live/ shriner/ pyronecrobestiBAZ!
>iphile?
>
>The sheer volume of tardspiel fairly cried out for two-fisted
>justice!
>
>And sincere concern . . .
>
>Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Or my favorite, which spawned a new word that we use fondly around
here:

SPACE MARINES NEED A 3+ INVUNRABLE SAVE!!!1!!


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<JohnPaulPontiff.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> On any given day, you were guaranteed subjects like:
.....
> Cud squat armys have wraithlords? Mabey short ones?
.....
I wasn't there often, but I was under the impression the 'S' word was enough
to get any thread deleted immediately, and probably the poster thrown off.

Most of your others looked plausible though.

Cheers, Martyn
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