Reporting > Banning? A theoretical comparison of an admin and user

[Crispy_]

my ability to report was removed so i can't report stuff that is actually breaking the rules gj badspot

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[Steve5451²]

my ability to report was removed so i can't report stuff that is actually breaking the rules gj badspot

That's what happens when you waste his time by reporting people that make you buttmad. :v

[Crispy_]

That's what happens when you waste his time by reporting people that make you buttmad. :v

but that was years ago cant he give it back by now :(

[sir dooble]

Oh yeah, just download SMF and see all that one public example section.

What GhostStar means is:
Total Categories:   8
Yet we can only see 6: Blockland Forums, Files, Blockland Modification Forums, Blockland Archive, Off-Topic, and Age of Time Forums.
Total Boards:   31
Yet we can only see 24 of them. 1 of them known to be the fail bin, probably under the files category.

2 years ago Wedge also shared what some of the hidden boards were.
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=197338.msg5377622#msg5377622

Wedge can see a number of boards we can't, and has seen older ones that used to be hidden.
But he's blocked from seeing a couple of boards.

Most of the hidden boards seem to just be boards that were previously public to the entire forums.
Even the Fail Bin used to be open to players. It was only hidden sometime around 2009, I think.
And the v8 Add-On boards were hidden after the update to the Add-On system in v9. But apparantly these are deleted, merged and renamed now.

The hidden forum might not even look the same as it did 2 years ago, if Badspot has removed some of the boards.

[Ticonderoga]

My reporting function was taken away for no reason even though I have never reported someone iirc

[Blockzillahead]

dont tell me what to do REPORTED

[Bomb Kirby]

Most of the hidden boards seem to just be boards that were previously public to the entire forums.
Even the Fail Bin used to be open to players. It was only hidden sometime around 2009, I think.

I'm looking through the Internet Archive right now. I'm on an August 2008 snapshot and I don't see the fail bin. Are you sure it was as late as 2009?

[sir dooble]

I'm looking through the Internet Archive right now. I'm on an August 2008 snapshot and I don't see the fail bin. Are you sure it was as late as 2009?

Well, I definitely recall being able to access it when I joined in September '08. I can't remember when it definitely disappeared, but it couldn't have been any later than 2010, so I assumed it was sometime in '09, or at least late '08.

I'm pretty sure I was able to use it when I joined. And I only lurked on the forums breifly beforehand, mainly to look at what sort of Add-Ons had been made, and how to do things in the Demo.
And I'm pretty sure I never used Add-Ons before I purchased the game (don't know if you even could, or can), and I know I downloaded a broken Fire-engine from there before and played with it, so that must have been September '08, when I purchased the game, or later.

Any other veterans able to back my claim up on this? I hope I'm not going crazy.
Either I'm completely imagining all this, or it just doesn't show up on the Internet Archive, or I may have had authorisation to it when I shouldn't have?

That wouldn't be the first time that a new user had rights he shouldn't have. Around the same time, '08/'09, Badspot accidentally gave a new member full Administrator abilities, and he went and banned a few users.

[Georges]

Around the same time, '08/'09, Badspot accidentally gave a new member full Administrator abilities, and he went and banned a few users.

lol

[Doomonkey]

Well, I definitely recall being able to access it when I joined in September '08. I can't remember when it definitely disappeared, but it couldn't have been any later than 2010, so I assumed it was sometime in '09, or at least late '08.

I'm pretty sure I was able to use it when I joined. And I only lurked on the forums breifly beforehand, mainly to look at what sort of Add-Ons had been made, and how to do things in the Demo.
And I'm pretty sure I never used Add-Ons before I purchased the game (don't know if you even could, or can), and I know I downloaded a broken Fire-engine from there before and played with it, so that must have been September '08, when I purchased the game, or later.

Any other veterans able to back my claim up on this? I hope I'm not going crazy.

You used to be able to use add-ons with the demo. You used to be able to access the fail bin. I'm pretty sure the former is true; the latter definitely is.

When someone made a mod that had a thing broken about it, it would get failed. You could just hop into the fail-bin, download it, fix it, and post the fixed thing back into the add-ons section. Although, I think download links were removed at some point.

[Blake1]

To back up those v8 archives:

EDIT: Don't forget Mapping Help was also hidden/removed after the update of v21.

[Skig]

I've been reported a couple times but not for anything too bad. I have reported people if they are obviously doing something really bad but if it doesn't affect me I just ignore it

[Georges]

Do you get alerted if you've been reported?

[Decepticon]

I've been reported a couple times but not for anything too bad. I have reported people if they are obviously doing something really bad but if it doesn't affect me I just ignore it

-oh god no that's a big size->XD!!!-oh god no-

-i thought big letters were cool back then-SOVIET?-

^ there were two more posts like these and about the same size and surprisingly not a single drama or ban

if you wanna see how big they were just click the quote

[Skig]

Do you get alerted if you've been reported?

I wasn't and people said they reported me for flaming