People start 'reciting' forum guidelines to other people. It's like they always follow all the guidelines and are therefore the keeper of rules. I'm just curious to see who here really thinks that they have never broken fora guidelines. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
I haven't a clue what the forum guide lines even are. They're probably listed, but I've never paid attention
That is just what I was going to say. Besides, if I do break a rule I'm sure someone will tell me all about it so why waste my time learning them.
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atleast I can count on you to threaten me in my polls still. everybody else seems to actually vote in them these days
i posted a guideline once and only once.... to make a point that it wasnt just me asking something i mean seriously repeatily going off topic in threads and having four page long conversations with people- espiecially in a thread of someone that you dont get along with is really just rude. there are plenty of other ways to have long conversations on here. anyways get over it.
I'm sorry, I'm going to have to ask you to stay on topic and answer the question. This is not about things that have happened in other threads. This is about whether or not you have ever broken guidelines. Staying on topic would be appreciated.
I have broken the guidelines... sometimes on purpose, because it sux that particular ones exist, and sometimes I broke the *unwritten rule of the forums*, and there's been once or twice that I broke a guideline that I didn't know existed.
No that doesn't really happen to me. I get trolls that spew at me and make complaint spam but other than that it's pretty cool lol. I broke a forum guideline before without meaning to do it. I wrote thesame post in two rooms so that I could get a better response. (That's a no np lol.) I actually wrote that the post was in another room and the mod for that room wrote me a nice letter and told me that I couldn't do that. (She was nice about it though.) Since then I don't do it anymore.
I thought you didn't go into his threads? (Just making a point) anyhow I'm sure I break the rules but not enough to get into trouble.. .yet
^yeah i know but this was an exception because i was pretty sure it was about me reciting a guideline to him earlier that day. and even when someone is on ignore you can coast over the first post in a thread and read it so i just felt like saying that. oh well. i TYPICALLY dont go in his threads.
I go off topic, but really only in RT, which is an off-topic kind of place....being random and all....
