Why Was I Banned?

BadKen wrote:

I think I've seen this recently on GWJ, but it bears repeating. As with many things, Yahtzee said it best:

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Nah, that's ridiculous.

Lightning should be shooting from the eyes of the PC gamers.

Ughhh, variations of those images have been posted all over the BF3 forums.

Hang on. This goes back a couple of pages but I've got to ask, how did asshats permeate WebTV?

Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Hang on. This goes back a couple of pages but I've got to ask, how did asshats permeate WebTV?

It was Usenet. WebTV set loose a ridiculous amount of people that had no idea how to act in a public forum onto Usenet in the mid 90's. It was kind of like plague. They eventually started playing Call of Duty.

I may have this wrong, so please forgive me if I do. I haven't actually played any consoles online, but I wonder if some of the issues come from the inability for players to monitor their own servers. I know with most of the online PC games I play the servers are owned and operated by third party sources.

I have a list of servers I know I can avoid asshattery, and these are the servers I look at when a Goodjer game isn't available. Is this an option with consoles?

Psych wrote:

I may have this wrong, so please forgive me if I do. I haven't actually played any consoles online, but I wonder if some of the issues come from the inability for players to monitor their own servers. I know with most of the online PC games I play the servers are owned and operated by third party sources.

I have a list of servers I know I can avoid asshattery, and these are the servers I look at when a Goodjer game isn't available. Is this an option with consoles?

Nope. %99 of console games connect peer to peer or you don't see where the server itself is hosted.

Oftentimes the person hosting has no idea that they're hosting.

This is *so* tagged for future amusement

All the same, should we send letters of compliment to those hard working mods? Or would they immediately assume that any mail with the subject line "We appreciation your work" is just a ploy to make them see asci text pr0n?

Jayhawker wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Hang on. This goes back a couple of pages but I've got to ask, how did asshats permeate WebTV?

It was Usenet. WebTV set loose a ridiculous amount of people that had no idea how to act in a public forum onto Usenet in the mid 90's. It was kind of like plague. They eventually started playing Call of Duty.

The same thing happened to a certain extent with AOL; it opened the floodgates of the internet for many, and Usenet was flooded with new people with no knowledge of netiquette. Of course, the AOL people were freaking princes compared to WebTV folks . . .

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Hang on. This goes back a couple of pages but I've got to ask, how did asshats permeate WebTV?

It was Usenet. WebTV set loose a ridiculous amount of people that had no idea how to act in a public forum onto Usenet in the mid 90's. It was kind of like plague. They eventually started playing Call of Duty.

The same thing happened to a certain extent with AOL; it opened the floodgates of the internet for many, and Usenet was flooded with new people with no knowledge of netiquette. Of course, the AOL people were freaking princes compared to WebTV folks . . .

While trying to find an article that explained this, I found an interesting post where apparently Google Groups was now the culprit of opening Usenet up to the clueless.

I do miss those Usenet days. The group of guys I play in a keeper fantasy baseball league is comprised of friends from alt.sports.baseball.stl-cardinals. We are in our ninth season,but I have not checked that group in ages.

Jayhawker wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Hang on. This goes back a couple of pages but I've got to ask, how did asshats permeate WebTV?

It was Usenet. WebTV set loose a ridiculous amount of people that had no idea how to act in a public forum onto Usenet in the mid 90's. It was kind of like plague. They eventually started playing Call of Duty.

The same thing happened to a certain extent with AOL; it opened the floodgates of the internet for many, and Usenet was flooded with new people with no knowledge of netiquette. Of course, the AOL people were freaking princes compared to WebTV folks . . .

While trying to find an article that explained this, I found an interesting post where apparently Google Groups was now the culprit of opening Usenet up to the clueless.

I do miss those Usenet days. The group of guys I play in a keeper fantasy baseball league is comprised of friends from alt.sports.baseball.stl-cardinals. We are in our ninth season,but I have not checked that group in ages.

Usenet was my internet home for many, many years. I used to be a huge Rush fan, and posted daily to alt.music.rush for probably ~15 years or so before finally giving up on Usenet a few years ago; it'd gotten just too sparse to be worthwhile. Hey, to be vaguely on-topic for a gaming site, I was on rec.video.games.classic.marketplace while I was studying for my comps for my M.A. in 1994 and saw some guy advertising a Colecovision and a bunch of games. I wound up buying it, which launched me into several years of classic gaming collecting. Ah, the days before Ebay, when you could find stuff at thrift stores left and right.

I wound up flying off to Nashville for the opening night of Rush's R30 tour back in 2004 to meet up with some of the guys from the Rush newsgroup who I'd never met before, but still considered to be good friends. Now we post pointless crap back and forth on Facebook.

Jayhawker wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Hang on. This goes back a couple of pages but I've got to ask, how did asshats permeate WebTV?

It was Usenet. WebTV set loose a ridiculous amount of people that had no idea how to act in a public forum onto Usenet in the mid 90's. It was kind of like plague. They eventually started playing Call of Duty.

I remember that dark time. I've been on the Internet since 1993 and I discovered the Usenet early. I totally remember that. Oh man. Started searching "Google Groups" out of nostalgia.

Psych wrote:

I may have this wrong, so please forgive me if I do. I haven't actually played any consoles online, but I wonder if some of the issues come from the inability for players to monitor their own servers. I know with most of the online PC games I play the servers are owned and operated by third party sources.

I have a list of servers I know I can avoid asshattery, and these are the servers I look at when a Goodjer game isn't available. Is this an option with consoles?

I truly wish this was a possibility. Finding a good "home" beats trying to round up your friends on XBL or PSN any day of the week.

DSGamer wrote:

In the end I still believe, regardless of what others say, that there are certain games and consoles that attract worse behavior.

I guarantee you that DNF's online play will be a terrible place.

wordsmythe wrote:

I guarantee you that DNF's online play will be a terrible place.

I think wordsmythe's comment has just brought me to understand my own dislike of DNF. Games that promote the player behavior that drove me away from online gaming are what upset me. Games that foster teamwork and reward being part of a community are what I want when I go online. My opinion of Bulletstorm was improved when I realized the importance of the team playing online. I am hotly anticipating Brink. Duke, by contrast, well . . . Does anyone expect to get through a single round of 'capture the babe' without hearing scads of rape references from pubbies? They have been given the setup. All they need is the punchline.

Hell is other people.

DSGamer wrote:

Unless they're playing Gears of War in which case you know you're hosti g wen you're doing well and everyone keeps saying you have host advantage.

HEY AY-REE-BODY! THIS GUY'S HOST AND HIS SHOTGUN IS HAX!

MilkmanDanimal wrote:
Jayhawker wrote:
Parallax Abstraction wrote:

Hang on. This goes back a couple of pages but I've got to ask, how did asshats permeate WebTV?

It was Usenet. WebTV set loose a ridiculous amount of people that had no idea how to act in a public forum onto Usenet in the mid 90's. It was kind of like plague. They eventually started playing Call of Duty.

The same thing happened to a certain extent with AOL; it opened the floodgates of the internet for many, and Usenet was flooded with new people with no knowledge of netiquette. Of course, the AOL people were freaking princes compared to WebTV folks . . .

Oh yeah. We're talking about the September That Never Ended. Pass me my slippers, I'm home.

oilypenguin wrote:
Psych wrote:

I may have this wrong, so please forgive me if I do. I haven't actually played any consoles online, but I wonder if some of the issues come from the inability for players to monitor their own servers. I know with most of the online PC games I play the servers are owned and operated by third party sources.

I have a list of servers I know I can avoid asshattery, and these are the servers I look at when a Goodjer game isn't available. Is this an option with consoles?

Nope. %99 of console games connect peer to peer or you don't see where the server itself is hosted.

Oftentimes the person hosting has no idea that they're hosting.

Unless they're playing Gears of War in which case you know you're hosting when you're doing well and everyone keeps saying you have host advantage.

Crap, I completely forgot to post this. I got my first Fat, Ugly, or Slutty message a month or two ago playing Bioshock 2 MP.

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I can't help it if you don't understand how projectiles work. Then again, with a gaming history consisting of Army of Two, every Carl on Duty, every Halo, every Madden, and very little else, I wouldn't expect much of a grasp of physics.

I still hit this site regularly for humor value. I think I may have a new favorite:

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MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I still hit this site regularly for humor value. I think I may have a new favorite:

IMAGE(http://whywasibanned.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/smurf.png)

Awesome.

They know people are reading now so they are having fun with it.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Carl on Duty

Is this a thing or just a typo? Either way it's awesome.

padriec wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Carl on Duty

Is this a thing or just a typo? Either way it's awesome.

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It's out for the PS3 now? I thought it was a 360 exclusive.

Tanglebones wrote:
padriec wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Carl on Duty

Is this a thing or just a typo? Either way it's awesome.

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Well that wasn't what I had in mind.

tanstaafl wrote:

It's out for the PS3 now? I thought it was a 360 exclusive.

Carl is multi-platform

This is precisely why I don't play games online unless I already know you.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

I still hit this site regularly for humor value. I think I may have a new favorite:

IMAGE(http://whywasibanned.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/smurf.png)

No hotlinking allowed from whywasibanned. I'm seeing a broken image.

Here's the direct link - http://whywasibanned.com/wp-content/...