The problem is that I don't see those posts anymore, so I can't really correct my actions. I went through some of my posts looking for jackassery (I have no doubt that what you did was correct), but since they seemed to be deleted, I couldn't really correct anything.
Would you guys prefer if we had a locked but visible 'deleted posts' buffer where you can see stuff like
wow pretty good i think
Off-topic but going towards topics name
i have caught them all Smiley
Eww Eboy...
First u should tell us what the hell is this ?
I am not sure what you gain from looking at the inner workings of what essentially is a routine sweep of the Pixelation floor. Just know that the critique section of the boards is agressively moderated against one-liners. I know this because I'm the one doing the most deleting. Why?
Because besides helping the original poster, a critique thread should also be considered an archive to be used by people who will a long time from now browse the forums to learn. And such a thread should read as to the point as possible. The art, the critique, the edits, the outcome. I know a lot of you like the social aspect of shooting the shit while you also do critique, and I know shifting the way this is done will take some time for everybody to readjust, but:
keep the OT to the general board, and the critique to the critique board. Remember, the critique board is not just for you, it's for the people that will come after you. Keep it tidy.
If I get banned because of my attitude in certain posts, despite the others I make, then it will be the board's loss, not mine.
You are incorrect. The board is bigger than any single user. It was started by Tsugumo, and Tsugomo is not here, yet the board is. It was continued by Pep, Pep is not here, the board is. Sure, losing any active and helpful person from the boards is a loss, but the boards carry on. As long as there's lots of people that want to learn the art, and to help each other, a single brilliant contributor as much as we'll miss him, will
never be above the rules of the forum.
I really do wish I had the time and focus to manage constructive criticism as much as I used to on the old boards.
I really do wish the same for you and for anybody else that was once helping people and no longer is. The only reason I don't feel bad at my position of prominent authority in Pixelation (a position I sort of stumbled to) is because I personally still do what I came here to do how many years ago: critique, learn, help.
I'm probably just a bit dissapointed that I can't make up for my temperemental posts with my other, better posts
Of course you can. Just think of it as karma to burn. Doing a good critique never goes unnoticed by the moderators. Being helpful eventually burns out strikes. However, for the purposes of simpler management, the tree strike rule is a bit draconic. You can be a wonderful user a thousand times, but if you mess up three times in a comparatively short amount of time, you're outta here. No exceptions. You have two strikes. This means: shape up, help people, and in a few months you won't have them any more. This doesn't mean that once you don't have them you can start insulting people when you feel like it though, as my experience tells me that people with strikes eventually end up banned. If you are a repeat offender, the strikes will fall faster because nobody has the patience or will give you the benefit of the doubt. Sincerily, if you find yourself getting more than the odd strike, chances are you are not approaching this board correctly on a fundamental level and need to rework your approach from there and up. In your case, you think that because you're an old user and you've been helpful in occasions, this earns you a free 'oh that gil, so endearing' pass at being obnoxious. This simply is not the case. You are not a moderator, you don't need to protect the boards by insulting people away.
As you see, I have been actively trying to better myself the last months, only to get another strike, I'm kind of stuck here...
How are you stuck? Just simply
stop insulting other users, keep it to helpful critique and the strikes will burn off.
es, that's probably it. Again, the mods are probably correct, but since I can't reply to those posts without going off-topic and I can't report them, I must ignore them, which is hard, and forces me to lessen my activity on this board.
You're saying this as if flaming or trolling is the sort of activity this board considers a boon from you. It's not. That's exactly the sort of activity you should force yourself to lessen on this board. Learn to ignore. It's good. It's not up to you to keep the boards clean, it's up to the moderators, and it's a boring, thankless job but it gets done anyway.
Okay, but isn't it a bit silly to ban me (hypothetically), while I'm sure that 90% of the user base doesn't mind my harsher posts popping up now and then.
Snap out of it. It's largely disingenious to summon the support of an unverifiable and abstract majority of people and speak through them. This isn't an election by popular vote. It's a simple rule: don't be an ass.
So uh... Yeah. Doing bad things puts a spot on the record. But doing good things won't earn you a golden star, or remove those spots.
You are wrong, doing good things on this board does clean your record of strikes. from the rules:
The severity of an offense is usually worth one strike on your record. Three strikes and you're out for good. Strikes wear off like karma as you do right and time passes.
That you don't know this yet you were a moderator for a period of time astounds me.