Lets everybody calm down and enjoy a Jelly Baby, hmm? :DL

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I would. I'd even pimp slap em just for fun. Then after I finished pulling the two pounds of buckshot out of my ass, I'd offer him a beer as well.

@OP Freedom of speech is one thing, acting a fool is quite another. If anything Neal and the mods here are more lenient than you'll find anywhere else. Seriously, if you can't last in this forum, you need to just log off the Internet and take a good hard look at yourself.

I look at myself in the mirror every morning. Good thing the toilet is nearby. :DL

Just to go with the childishness on display in the entire thread.

There is candy in the back of the van.

Sure you wouldn't like a banana? I like bananas, good source of potassium.

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Leeks are good too!

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How many times have we asked people not to post "I pirated SH5 to see if it would run on my computer, but if I like it I was going to buy it" ??

Too many. The rules are very clear, we don't want people posting casual remarks about how they are are pirating games. We don't want people informing the forum that they use cracks on their LEGAL games because there is no way to know if they are honest people trying to work around a PITA DRM, or they are lying and running a bootleg version of the game. To be fair, no one cares what you do on your PC in your parent's garage, but....

You cannot discuss it here.

It's on the signup agreement, it's on the new user welcome email, it's in the FAQ & Rules, and it's stickied in the Sticky: Note: Read before posting - you could be interested to know we have a few rules here thread here.

And if you think I am going to hand-hold every WOW-refugee and exchange 10 PMs about it... think again. I do not have time for that. And I don't get paid to spend my evenings doing it. So, after many warnings, if you cannot manage to keep yourself inside the rules, you could get nuked from orbit--username deleted, posts deleted, banned for life, just like it says in the rules that have been in place since 1999.

Sorry. You can come back as a new alias, but the rules stay the same. I would rather have a small forum of intelligent, thoughtful people than a massive forum of nutballs and drama queens fizzing at the mouth any day.

And there you have it. Common sense should dictate right from the start that certain things just should not be discussed on these kinds of forums, otherwise face the music and be brave about it. Discuss cracks and piracy on the undergrounds, not the more respectable outfits like Subsim.

I'm kind of amused at how some things never change. Grumpy people - with a point perhaps - who just don't get it, that's certainly one of those things.

I've been involved with quite a number of websites and have participated in administering some. Subsim's administration, if you ask me, is one of the most effective I have seen, largely because it's the right mix of common sense and community values on the one hand, and Neal's active 'my clubhouse' attitude on the other. In the end it works. It's a clubhouse built on respect, not written-in-stone rules, and if you want to challenge norms you have to respect the established way of doing things here. In the end, it's a submarine sim community, not a platform to make statements on politics of software. Let's keep that in perspective.

Otherwise "dying" is a gross exaggaration for a site that has just experienced problems due to demand for its community services just going through the roof. Anything but, sir.

Dare I say anything,:oops: gee I walk that thin line too often, Neal has had to pull me up a few times with PM's, I have been in the Brig once before but yes I must control my frustrations better, I think Neal will agree with that,:yep: maybe you should come up with a new law Neal that if in the brig you can get out earlier by making a fair donation, maybe even keelhauled with a large donation, call them fines, then put them on probation, seems fair! the way things go here sometimes you could make a packet! :03:

What's with all these proposals to get Neal to accept "special features" for users lately? Geez, just play fair and donate regularly - I don't think Subsim is desperate for money as long as people do so, and I don't think Neal is out to make a buck off it, either. I don't think any special priviliges like that are fair - let's keep the playing field level and not treat some transgressions more leniently than others - and avoid the brig in the first place :O:

Can some of us nutballs and drama queens still stay? Pleeeze?:88):D

Haha, no, I better stay away from attaching monetary measures to punitive actions. I can see it now, a new motorcycle catches my eye and I put half the forum in the brig :arrgh!: