Board Rule #13 [Archive] - FileSharing Talk

Barbarossa

11-07-2005, 03:00 PM

13. Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion or questioning and will not be tolerated. Complaints concerning moderators or their actions may be discussed with that moderator or brought to the attention of an administrator by means of a Private Message (PM) or create a thread in the Report Section.

I'm only being picky because I'm bored, but the above seems to imply that the decisions will not be tolerated. Which is clearly not how it's supposed to read.

Surely, it should be:-

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion or questioning and any such discussion or questioning will not be tolerated.

:geek:

manker

11-07-2005, 03:14 PM

Surely it was the decision of an admin or moderator to relate that point in such piss-poor English.

Therefore your post should not be tolerated.

Barbarossa

11-07-2005, 03:18 PM

I suspect I am about to be placed on Toleration.

RealitY

11-07-2005, 05:39 PM

I'm only being picky because I'm bored, but the above seems to imply that the decisions will not be tolerated. Which is clearly not how it's supposed to read.

Surely, it should be:-

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion or questioning and any such discussion or questioning will not be tolerated.
Changed...

Thanks.

lynx

11-07-2005, 10:03 PM

Shouldn't it be:

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion or questioning and no such discussion or questioning will be tolerated.
/manker

Barbarossa

11-08-2005, 09:47 AM

You'd need to ask a cunning linguist. I would say both are correct, but yours is possibly the more eloquent way of putting it. :unsure:

manker

11-08-2005, 10:16 AM

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion nor questioning. Contravention of this rule will not be tolerated.

Since we're being really picky - I got rid of some of the tautological ingemination and replaced it with pure tautology.

While neither is completely correct, I understand the need for reiteration and the latter is much more elegant.

Edit: Just noticed that it should be 'nor'.

Barbarossa

11-08-2005, 10:51 AM

Public discussion or questioning of any decisions made by the Administrators or Moderators WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

:happy:

Virtualbody1234

11-08-2005, 03:06 PM

Public discussion or questioning of any decisions made by the Administrators or Moderators WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

:happy:
Nice.

Gripper

11-08-2005, 06:28 PM

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion nor questioning. Anyone doing so will be terminated.

twisterX

11-08-2005, 07:21 PM

Why does anyone care. :lol:

manker

11-08-2005, 08:08 PM

Why does anyone care. :lol:True enough.

If the mods or admin make a crap decision - the members will always tell them anyhow.

Virtualbody1234

11-08-2005, 08:37 PM

Why does anyone care. :lol:True enough.

If the mods or admin make a crap decision - the members will always tell them anyhow.
They hear about it when make the right decision also.

JPaul

11-08-2005, 09:12 PM

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion nor questioning. Contravention of this rule will not be tolerated.

Since we're being really picky - I got rid of some of the tautological ingemination and replaced it with pure tautology.

While neither is completely correct, I understand the need for reiteration and the latter is much more elegant.

Edit: Just noticed that it should be 'nor'.

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion nor questioning. Contravention of this rule will not be tolerated.
What the feck does "....not up for public discussion ...." mean.

I'd go for;

"Public questioning of decisions made by either Administrators or Moderators is not allowed."

RealitY

11-08-2005, 10:36 PM

Public discussion or questioning of any decisions made by the Administrators or Moderators WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

:happy:
Nice.
Nice.

"Public questioning of decisions made by either Administrators or Moderators is not allowed."
I like that also.

Maybe a combination...
Public discussion or questioning of decisions made by Administrators or Moderators WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

tesco

11-08-2005, 11:41 PM

Maybe a combination...
Public discussion or questioning of decisions made by Administrators or Moderators WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
Nice 'combination'.

All you did was remove the word any.:rolleyes:

Virtualbody1234

11-08-2005, 11:53 PM

The "will not" could be replaced by "won't".

DorisInsinuate

11-09-2005, 12:49 AM

Or you could just change it to something like: "Fuck off, mod flamers."

RealitY

11-09-2005, 07:40 AM

Maybe a combination...
Public discussion or questioning of decisions made by Administrators or Moderators WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
Nice 'combination'.

All you did was remove the word any.:rolleyes:
Also removed the ffs so pay attention...

Rip The Jacker

11-09-2005, 10:11 AM

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion nor questioning. Anyone doing so will be terminated.
I like this one. :lol:

manker

11-09-2005, 02:29 PM

Since we're being really picky - I got rid of some of the tautological ingemination and replaced it with pure tautology.

While neither is completely correct, I understand the need for reiteration and the latter is much more elegant.

Edit: Just noticed that it should be 'nor'.

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion nor questioning. Contravention of this rule will not be tolerated.
What the feck does "....not up for public discussion ...." mean.

I'd go for;

"Public questioning of decisions made by either Administrators or Moderators is not allowed."Baby steps, baby steps.

JPaul

11-09-2005, 07:11 PM

I heard you the first time, arse arse.

Adster

11-10-2005, 03:05 AM

its the worst rule out of the lot because when a mod makes a discion to detle a post ect how the fuck do I know who did it to PM them to ask

tesco

11-10-2005, 11:40 AM

its the worst rule out of the lot because when a mod makes a discion to detle a post ect how the fuck do I know who did it to PM them to ask
Use the report section then.

Samurai

11-10-2005, 12:03 PM

I know another rule that's worse than that.

links to links to link to links... :shifty: :dry:

thewizeard

11-11-2005, 04:44 PM

I'm only being picky because I'm bored, but the above seems to imply that the decisions will not be tolerated. Which is clearly not how it's supposed to read.

Surely, it should be:-

Decisions of the Administrators or Moderators ARE NOT up for public discussion or questioning and any such discussion or questioning will not be tolerated.

:geek:

To be fair Barbarossa, I still think, in the spirit of this rule, you should temporarily be banned...

/me runs for it...