they're really simple. follow these and you'll have a good time (hopefully):

1. you may only post ONE thread per 24 hours. we don't care enough about this to track it to the hour but basically if you post multiple threads in a day, they'll be classed as shit threads and promptly disposed of.
2. you can comment freely in any thread without limit. comment away. contribute, make stupid memes, do whatever, just do it in threads as comments, not comments as threads and not as spam across multiple threads.
3. overflowing zalgo will be deleted on sight. Text not constrained to the boundaries of their post is considered spam.
4. games that involve forums (mafia, last person 2 post, mods vs s, whatever) go to forum games. they count as your daily thread if you fuck up and post them in OT proper.
5. if your thread involves an open-ended question and the discussion thereof (what's your favorite anime waifu etc), it belongs in surveys. see above.
6. try to post entertaining and amusing content. OT is pretty much meant for silly discussions, so being a little silly is fine, but if your "silly" becomes indistinguishable from you actually being absolutely fucking stupid, you risk being exiled.
7. serious discussion topics go to general discussions. topics about religion, politics, abortion, etc et al all go to GD for semi-serious discussion. alternatively, don't have these discussions at all.
8. birthday threads must have no less than 3 anime dancing gifs in the OP. you can get exiled for repeatedly ignoring this. it's important. don't ask why it's important, it just is.
9. if you repeatedly break the rules of the grand edict, you risk being exiled.

what does being exiled mean exactly?

exiled s will have their threads locked and wastelanded immediately as soon as a notices. they're still free to talk in other people's threads, but even that privilege will be revoked if they continue being shit.

if an exiled decides they want to be funny and spam the fuck out of the forum with threads that they know will get closed, they risk getting silenced pretty heavily. they can still make their one-a-day thread without risk, but even that will be closed as soon as a mod notices.

conversation in threads made by exiled s is a short-time thing, you can do it if you want, but it will never actually remain visible for more than a few hours at most.

after a while of being exiled and chatting relatively nicely in other people's threads, an exiled might be returned to normal. maybe, but probably not. they got exiled in the first place for being a bastion of shit, so they're unlikely to change.

current exiled s:
Scyla

Thank

Seeing no politics allowed in OT feels kind of bad, but these rules should be a welcome change to the subforum. Hopefully people don't get too stupid trying to bend them or whatever

I tried... not even a single word from Eph of what i could have done better

kms

This is gonna be good.

Good to see that we're finally reaching some sort of solution. At least more people are willing to listen to someone of authority than to a regular person.

I guess time will tell how it's received by both sides... maybe we'll see something good from this?

Maybe it'll just be abused at some point.

I think these rules seem like a fair compromise.

mrw eph exiles some of the best ot s but doesn't touch any of the worst ones
http://i.imgur.com/D2YiogV.png

So is there no redemption once you've been exiled?

I didn't read, lol

well, at least I'm not alone. B- I would say baka but it would make it worse lol

Mahogany wrote: 2w5y3x

mrw eph exiles some of the best ot s but doesn't touch any of the worst ones
http://i.imgur.com/D2YiogV.png

He prob did it because it would make other ppl happy to get rhe s rhey dont like exiled

That would be most logical

roshan117 wrote: 483d5j

He prob did it because it would make other ppl happy to get rhe s rhey dont like exiled

That would be most logical

If you wanna talk about logic maybe the fact the three of you are exiled is because it's you three who post the most shit threads. Ever thought about that?

It has nothing to do with personal opinions.

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

1. serious discussion topics go to general discussions. topics about religion, politics, abortion, etc et al all go to GD for semi-serious discussion. alternatively, don't have these discussions at all.

You can't regulate the free market like this.

Tae wrote: 3za38

roshan117 wrote: 483d5j

He prob did it because it would make other ppl happy to get rhe s rhey dont like exiled

That would be most logical

If you wanna talk about logic maybe the fact the three of you are exiled is because it's you three who post the most shit threads. Ever thought about that?

It has nothing to do with personal opinions.

There's a way to properly shitpost and improperly shitpost. You can't call any of the threads in OT not a 'shitpost'.


Unfortunately, us three shitposted improperly. Many, many, times.


:c_baka:

Topics about religion, politics, abortion et cetera have always been an OT thing. GD is for shitty "post your x" threads and similar. The "post one thread a day" rule is also completely unnecessary, people posting more than one thread a day was never harmful in the first place.

Canadian Baka wrote: 38c3

There's a way to properly shitpost and improperly shitpost. You can't call any of the threads in OT not a 'shitpost'.

I didn't mention the word shitpost even once.

Tae wrote: 3za38

Canadian Baka wrote: 38c3

There's a way to properly shitpost and improperly shitpost. You can't call any of the threads in OT not a 'shitpost'.

I didn't mention the word shitpost even once.

I thought you did but you said shit thread.

Same thing?

Tae wrote: 3za38

roshan117 wrote: 483d5j

He prob did it because it would make other ppl happy to get rhe s rhey dont like exiled

That would be most logical

If you wanna talk about logic maybe the fact the three of you are exiled is because it's you three who post the most shit threads. Ever thought about that?

It has nothing to do with personal opinions.

i never said i didnt make those threads

i was giving reasoning as to why he didnt exile the other people who have done the same stuff as me, cb, and luqanted

Roshan exiled finally

Yuudachi-kun wrote: 235g3h

Roshan exiled finally

Ikr daddy about time

B1rd wrote: 144h19

Topics about religion, politics, abortion et cetera have always been an OT thing. GD is for shitty "post your x" threads and similar. The "post one thread a day" rule is also completely unnecessary, people posting more than one thread a day was never harmful in the first place.

I'm agreeing with b1rd

it is the OT end times

Mahogany wrote: 2w5y3x

B1rd wrote: 144h19

Topics about religion, politics, abortion et cetera have always been an OT thing. GD is for shitty "post your x" threads and similar. The "post one thread a day" rule is also completely unnecessary, people posting more than one thread a day was never harmful in the first place.

I'm agreeing with b1rd

it is the OT end times

even with these rules we'll save it

I imagine Eph will stop caring in a month. At least as far as keeping track of statuses. It's cumbersome to do so.

all of the GMT that care about off-topic will maintain it, not just me

so maybe like 2-3 people

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

you may only post ONE thread per 24 hours. we don't care enough about this to track it to the hour but basically if you post multiple threads in a day, they'll be classed as shit threads and promptly disposed of.

I am not sure if this is good or bad. Probably bad. What if your 2nd thread is actually good? Kill it? Thay is akin to unranking a ranked map.

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

games that involve forums (mafia, last person 2 post, mods vs s, whatever) go to forum games. they count as your daily thread if you fuck up and post them in OT proper.

But you are still allowed to post them in non forum games OT, right? The OT Bingo's home is on OT, not forum games. It's been like that for two seasons and I'd like it to remain that way. Forum games subforum is a very different place, one I don't think the OT Bingo fits into.

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

serious discussion topics go to general discussions. topics about religion, politics, abortion, etc et al all go to GD for semi-serious discussion. alternatively, don't have these discussions at all.

But I can still post in OT and have a serious discussion as a joke, right?

I guess it depends how obvoius the joke is abraker. And how serious of the subject you're discussing as a joke.


Also, lower 24 hour posting to maybe 6 hours. 24 seem pretty harsh... I mean, for those unexiled...

if you have a good thread idea after posting a not-so-good one, just wait until tomorrow. How is that so hard, abraker?

lowering it to 6 hours seems stupid as well. why do you feel the need to make so many threads? if you're spamming the forums, they're obviously not that well thought out or high quality, are they

Time to be creative!

DaddyCoolVipper wrote: p3m4x

if you have a good thread idea after posting a not-so-good one, just wait until tomorrow. How is that so hard, abraker?

It wasn't a good argument against it. I know this rule isn't that bad, but something inside me feels uneasy about it.

daddycoolvipper wrote: 54366z

lowering it to 6 hours seems stupid as well. why do you feel the need to make so many threads? if you're spamming the forums, they're obviously not that well thought out or high quality, are they

Because this is a social community, and in a social community it's not fun to only bring up new topics every 24 hours. Also, if you post a new thread every 6 hours it's not "spamming". That's literally 2 threads per-day. Well, if you don't sleep

It is pretty fun for me when I don't have to worry about all the threads I read today showing up on page 4 tomorrow.
It is much easier to keep track off, good OPs don't get flooded away in the blink of an eye.
That being said I wouldn't mind if the same person creates more than 1 quality thread within 24h but that happens like twice per year so it's ok.
Last but not least your opinion is of no significance at all because you're exiled. You have proven to be unwilling to adhere to any kind of ruleset so why are you even trying to discuss it?

Scrolling down is not a real inconvenience to anyone, and being "exiled" is a completely arbitrary thing and has no bearing on the value on one's opinions.

These "rules" should be repealed immediately.

Proposal

Rather than 1 thread per day, can you change it into 1 thread per 18 hours interval?
s can only post a new thread after 18 hours from their last one.

fuck this shit im out

Luqanted wrote: 2e3a2v

fuck this shit im out

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

all of the GMT that care about off-topic will maintain it, not just me

so maybe like 2-3 people

could always be more

Ye, especially in FG

OT!Club thread deleted smae

Well you were exiled so, not too much of a surprise

I think OT has gotten a lot better because of the rule change.

People would spam shitloads of threads every day, and most of them were not even worth clicking on at all. Now there's less threads, and the ones that do exist are a lot less shit. No lock sprees needed either.

There are less shit threads because there are less threads. You don't have to go through the inconvenience of scrolling through some threads at the cost of everyone else not being able to post what they like.

Once every 24 hours

You're so dramatic about this it's unbearable

And that's not the only rule. It includes anything deemed to be "too silly" or "too serious".

you've always been at the whim of my decisions as to what is silly and serious, nothing is new in that regard

Exactly, that's basically why so many threads got locked in the first place. The 1 thread/day limit is pretty much the only real change, imo

DaddyCoolVipper wrote: p3m4x

Exactly, that's basically why so many threads got locked in the first place. The 1 thread/day limit is pretty much the only real change, imo

How can you still suck up to the mods when half of the things you talk about would be banned if the rules were enforced to their full extent. Threads were randomly locked in the past, but it was definitely far from systematic.

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

you've always been at the whim of my decisions as to what is silly and serious, nothing is new in that regard

I know, mods like you have always come into OT randomly and caused problems at arbitrary whims. Do you actually think you're helping anything, or are you just doing it for the fun of it?

Probably because I know the rules aren't enforced to their full extent.

How absurd. You want rules to stop people whom you don't like from posting, even if the rules will stop you from posting, but you just assume that they won't affect you for some reason.

B1rd wrote: 144h19

You want rules to stop people whom you don't like from posting,

Can you provide solid evidence of this?

I'm completely fine with people only posting one thread per day regardless of who they are. I'm also fine with absolutely no politically-based threads being created anymore.

All of my political discussion is kept to ITT, where moderation is obviously going to occur more loosely, regardless of who you are.

What was the point of those assertions there, B1rd?

I really don't care what rights you would give away, some men just like to lick the boot of authority. What I'm more concerned about it the posting rights of myself and everyone else.

Don't you think you're being a bit dramatic over a forum having basic rules lol

Well B1rd you have unlimited thread posting but 1-a-day thread creating.

Maybe you want to make exceptions and modify for people who legit post quality? That's just my thoughts

No exceptions. It would be unfair to the rest of the s.

If people are too autistic and fail to simply use common sense as the rules, specific rules to counter their retarded behaviors need to be set.

One a day... reminds me of those medicinal pills lmao

now, OT is an experiment, the edicts and what s do are the liquids and instructions to mix

Zain Sugieres wrote: 4eyy

If people are too autistic and fail to simply use common sense as the rules, specific rules to counter their retarded behaviors need to be set.

This is why I made this.

@Ephemeral: Requesting to have thread posting slots similar to beatmapping. More good threads = less waiting time. What do you say?

abraker wrote: 6w3t1z

@Ephemeral: Requesting to have thread posting slots similar to beatmapping. More good threads = less waiting time. What do you say?

wtf are you talking about

Abraker, you gotta counter Hyerim

Hyerim wrote: 1f2th

It would be unfair to the rest of the s.

I do not stating that?

DaddyCoolVipper wrote: p3m4x

abraker wrote: 6w3t1z

@Ephemeral: Requesting to have thread posting slots similar to beatmapping. More good threads = less waiting time. What do you say?

wtf are you talking about

In beatmapping you can have 4 maps ed at a time, if your a er you can have 5, and for each ranked map you aquire the number rises. (I think it stops like 8).

I guess he means he wants to have "slots" for how many threads we can .

That idea makes no sense

Why do you guys feel the constant need to make a thread holy shit. One a day seems reasonable enough

DaddyCoolVipper wrote: p3m4x

That idea makes no sense

shhh
If I speak its dialect then the bird might understand me. At least we won't be stuck with the 24h timer permanently then.

B1rd wrote: 144h19

I really don't care what rights you would give away, some men just like to lick the boot of authority. What I'm more concerned about it the posting rights of myself and everyone else.

Loooool xd

Why do you care so much? The new rules were put in place as an attempt to clean up OT and make it better for the majority of s

B1rd wrote: 144h19

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

you've always been at the whim of my decisions as to what is silly and serious, nothing is new in that regard

I know, mods like you have always come into OT randomly and caused problems at arbitrary whims. Do you actually think you're helping anything, or are you just doing it for the fun of it?

the latter

this is not a place to be taken seriously and never has, that's pretty much its charm

i'm not tracking slots or whatever, even exiled is a little much as far as effort goes to keep this place open. it's either that or we legitimately close it and just leave FG/surveys open instead, so you can either deal with this or maybe make your own forums to shitpost on or something? like, that is something you can do if you want. nobody is forcing you to post here.

he would have loved the era where i would just lock the first page of threads because i was bored

Canadian Baka wrote: 38c3

In beatmapping you can have 4 maps ed at a time, if your a er you can have 5, and for each ranked map you aquire the number rises. (I think it stops like 8).

I guess he means he wants to have "slots" for how many threads we can .

Strange i can 8 beatmap a time even without any rank map

Yeah, this has been changed around a year ago, it works in both ways - having er gives you temporary some slots while you can increase it up to 10 (with ranked maps). Ranked maps permantely increases your available slots, up to 10.

thanks mr. Ephemeral

Edit: 69 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I'm fine with this.

On second thoughts if it's making b1rd this mad I wholeheartedly this new regime

i like this new rules of Off-Topic, but the problem here is that Off-Topic is dying or more like getting peaceful. and what's more is that it's making many people leave Off-Topic as well. (including me, but it's not because of the new rules or osu! related kekekkeke) i recommend Eph not changing this rules and making this shit permanent.

well since i'm about to leave osu! (i'm active at discord), i'll just leave my last message in this holy thread..


peace out.

Canadian Baka wrote: 38c3

In beatmapping you can have 4 maps ed at a time, if your a er you can have 5, and for each ranked map you aquire the number rises. (I think it stops like 8).

These numbers are wrong in its entirety.

Endaris wrote: 2c1i17

Canadian Baka wrote: 38c3

In beatmapping you can have 4 maps ed at a time, if your a er you can have 5, and for each ranked map you aquire the number rises. (I think it stops like 8).

These numbers are wrong in its entirety.

Well apparently it got changed a year ago, but these numbers were correct at one point in time.

Canadian Baka wrote: 38c3

Endaris wrote: 2c1i17

Canadian Baka wrote: 38c3

In beatmapping you can have 4 maps ed at a time, if your a er you can have 5, and for each ranked map you aquire the number rises. (I think it stops like 8).

These numbers are wrong in its entirety.

Well apparently it got changed a year ago, but these numbers were correct at one point in time.

no

Uhh?? They weren't?? I'm pretty positive it was like that. I know for sure non ers with no ranked maps can only 4, I thought if you were er you could do 5 and each ranked map you get it adds a number. Apparently they updated it as stefan said

Stefan wrote: 714o

Yeah, this has been changed around a year ago, it works in both ways - having er gives you temporary some slots while you can increase it up to 10 (with ranked maps). Ranked maps permantely increases your available slots, up to 10.

@Endaris Canadian baka is actually right

his will be slightly biased because I'm exiled (:) But instead of writing a whole paragraph, I'll just do it modding style! Yay!

Ephemeral wrote: 6y2w72

they're really simple. follow these and you'll have a good time (hopefully): No

1. you may only post ONE thread per 24 hours. we don't care enough about this to track it to the hour but basically if you post multiple threads in a day, they'll be classed as shit threads and promptly disposed of. I feel like this keeps OT dry and lack of memes I know that we have discord, but at least raise the limit to 3 threads per day to stop spam
2. you can comment freely in any thread without limit. comment away. contribute, make stupid memes, do whatever, just do it in threads as comments, not comments as threads. SeemsGood
3. games that involve forums (mafia, last person 2 post, mods vs s, whatever) go to forum games. they count as your daily thread if you fuck up and post them in OT proper. Also seems good
4. if your thread involves an open-ended question and the discussion thereof (what's your favorite anime waifu etc), it belongs in surveys. see above. Seems good too
5. try to post entertaining and amusing content. OT is pretty much meant for silly discussions, so being a little silly is fine, but if your "silly" becomes indistinguishable from you actually being absolutely fucking stupid, you risk being exiled. This actually seems decent, but the only problem I have with this rule is the entertaining and amusing content part. Yes, it should still at least have interest, but not limiting it to "whatever Ephemeral finds interesting or funny, or else this will get locked."
6. serious discussion topics go to general discussions. topics about religion, politics, abortion, etc et al all go to GD for semi-serious discussion. alternatively, don't have these discussions at all. SeemsGood
7. birthday threads must have no less than 3 anime dancing gifs in the OP. you can get exiled for repeatedly ignoring this. it's important. don't ask why it's important, it just is. Stupid, birthday threads are birthday threads
8. if you repeatedly break the rules of the grand edict, you risk being exiled.

k

what does being exiled mean exactly?

exiled s will have their threads locked and wastelanded immediately as soon as a notices. they're still free to talk in other people's threads, but even that privilege will be revoked if they continue being shit.

if an exiled decides they want to be funny and spam the fuck out of the forum with threads that they know will get closed, they risk getting silenced pretty heavily. they can still make their one-a-day thread without risk, but even that will be closed as soon as a mod notices.

conversation in threads made by exiled s is a short-time thing, you can do it if you want, but it will never actually remain visible for more than a few hours at most.

after a while of being exiled and chatting relatively nicely in other people's threads, an exiled might be returned to normal. maybe, but probably not. they got exiled in the first place for being a bastion of shit, so they're unlikely to change. Exiled s shouldn't have to be exiled FOREVER, they should have a 1-3 week sentence of being exiled, if they have good behavior (like you said) they won't be exiled anymore

current exiled s:

Luqanted (https://osu-ppy-sh.cinevost.com/u/3645130)
roshan117 (https://osu-ppy-sh.cinevost.com/u/8261665)
Canadian Baka (https://osu-ppy-sh.cinevost.com/u/7880197)
[ - Zekks - ] (https://osu-ppy-sh.cinevost.com/u/8106958)

s in danger of being exiled:

nobody, for now.