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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: DS on January 14, 2008, 08:58:35 pm
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EDIT: Applications are closed.
First of all, no, GW6 is not finished, I bet you all had that in mind when you saw the topic title but read further and you'll know what this is about!
We have decided to put up a temporary site until GW6 is finished. Currently our main site isn't interesting at all and we really want to have something to attract new members and also let our current members know about what's going on in the community. The site we'll be using works like a blog, it's going to have community related articles about different forum events, updates on GW's situation and just generally interesting forum topics (links included) and so on. Plus it's not only limited to what's happening in the community right now. For example, articles about GW's past events or history are good too. We welcome anything which people would be interested in. That's really the only criteria our temporary site is going to have for articles. It's not going to be something overly serious, it's there to show that we have a very interesting community. A way to increase activity. We have had plans for a community section once GW6 is eventually finished and our aim is to bring forums and main site together.
Which brings me to my next point, we are looking for a few temporary (possibly permanent) staffers who are interested in updating the main site with various interesting community related articles. There aren't going to be any kind of weekly updates and it's a spontaneous kind of thing. Still, that doesn't mean we want people who are going to post one or two articles and then leave it at that. We want staffers who are genuinely interested in keeping the site updated and care for this community. Members who aren't selected for staff can still contact us admins or the staffers if they want their articles posted on the main site or have ideas to share.
Things we require from the staffers:
- You need to know what's going on in the community and you need to have a good understanding of what people could find interesting or funny. This means that we need to know at least something about you so that we can trust you on this task. Of course you are allowed to like different things and we definitely want staffers with different personalities who can provide various kind of articles on many different subjects.
- Decent English is something we absolutely require. The more interesting articles you can write, the better.
- Willing to dedicate time for this. I don't know when GW6 is going to be finished and since it could take months, this site needs to be frequently updated. This doesn't mean you need to be posting news all the time and if you have a few busy days or even weeks and you can't do much work, that's fine, there are still other staffers helping you out. And you don't have to force yourself to make articles if nothing interesting is happening or you don't have any good ideas. Like I said, it's pretty spontaneous. We just don't want our staffers to stop posting articles after a week or two when the novelty wears off. That's all.
- You are absolutely not allowed to post offensive articles or ridicule any of our members. This is a bit difficult one to explain but we trust that you know what's offensive and what's not, and if there happens to be some unclear situation, you can always contact the admins. For example, stuff like Amanda Landale Saga (http://wiki.gamingw.net/view/Amanda_Landale_Saga) and I swallowed a small piece of aluminum foil (http://www.gamecake.net/forums/index.php?topic=64672.0) would be okay to post since they aren't really that offensive (especially Amanda Landale Saga in retrospect). But pranks like that could get out of hand though so you really need to be able to use judgement with possible borderline cases.
Send your applications to DragonSlayer via private message. You can also contact me on IRC (#gamingw) if you want to talk about a staff position or have questions or anything of the sort but send an application as well. I'll be accepting applications even after the site is up (unless we already have enough staffers, we'll most likely get 5-6) so there's no definite date when I won't accept them anymore. When applying try to tell a bit about yourself, what forums you frequent and what kind of articles interest you the most. If you just want to generally write about everything, that's fine too. It's OPEN FORMAT so don't worry too much about that.
IMPORTANT:
We really want to cover everything what is going on in the whole community so we want people who can cover different forums and subjects. So even if you don't visit General forum or you don't know what's happening with the "core community", that's not a problem. We could still use your help!
IMPORTANT2:
The staffers we choose will not have full moderator rights. You do not get access to staff forum and you won't get a pretty blue name. However, you will be moved to a special staff group and made moderator on a community news forum which will be created after the site is up. This group will receive all the premium features so if you aren't a premium yet, there's that too. Note that premiums and moderators are also allowed to send their applications and they can also be chosen, just like anyone else.
Lastly, thanks to Drule for helping out with everything, he's also the one making the temporary site.
And feel free to post comments/suggestions/whatever here.
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Could you post what you want applications to entail?
Vaginal BARREL 531 Gams Ave.
(281) 555-3935
Goals:
To become the very best game maker in the world. I want to help write articles for the main site because it will help people recognise my name mostly. That way I can become a world renowned gamemaker.
Volunteer work:
Making games
Making games for other
edit: you did it at the same time posted this. gg bb
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You are absolutely not allowed to post offensive articles or ridicule any of our members. This is a bit difficult one to explain but we trust that you know what's offensive and what's not, and if there happens to be some unclear situation, you can always contact the admins. For example, stuff like Amanda Landale Saga and I swallowed a small piece of aluminum foil would be okay to post since they aren't really that offensive (especially Amanda Landale Saga in retrospect). But pranks like that could get out of hand though so you really need to be able to use judgement with possible borderline cases.
how about political opinions, prefaced with DOES NOT REPRESENT GW.
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how about political opinions, prefaced with DOES NOT REPRESENT GW.
They are fine if it's made clear it doesn't represent the whole community's views and is just your own personal opinion. Plus this might increase discussion in political topics here on GW so yeah, something like this is also fine. Of course we can't allow just any kind of shit to be posted though.
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premise: nigger is inherited from rats.
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Speaking of SHIT, it should be obvious that we should keep cursing to a minimum (if any at all) in articles posted on the mainsite. Use tact!
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why be so tame? i guess i'm not arguing against being respectful, but why should it be obvious swearing should be kept to a minimum?
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yeah uh I don't see anyone getting in an argument in an article since articles are one person alone, who gives a fuck if they say fuck.
it can be funny if someone says fuck for example:
I Am Legend is how the grassfuckers in Hollywood make a big-budget zombie movie: badly, by completely forgetting what makes them cool and instead squirting out a shitty, self-important bore. God damn, fucking morons; tooth-humping dullbats; crap-slurping horsenuts. The lot of them. Except the ones who make good shit. Where they could use their deep pockets to make a masterpiece of pant-shitting scariness they instead choose to puff themselves up like syphilitic peacocks. Fucking retards don't even try to sell the movie as a zombie flick. Instead, they bill it as a Will-Smith-Acts-Serious movie.
Smith is a boring-ass one-dimensional goodie-goodie fuckwit. He spends his days broadcasting on AM radio for any other people who might still be alive. What a dumbass. The only people he'll find that way are nutjob conspiracy theorists and the sort of illiterate white trash who think Bill O'Reilly has a fucking clue. When he's not broadcasting, Smith tries to find a cure that will turn the zombies back into people. He's got a swank lab in the basement of his fancy zombie-proofed house. He also spends an inordinate amount of time talking to mannequins, because, see, that's supposed makes him more human, alone and vulnerable.
these are good no swearing limits ~shepperd
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I suppose the no swearing rule is to maintain an aura of professionalism.
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thats a really bad example of a PRO-SWEARING "article" because its pretty terrible
i wouldnt visit a site if that was the first thing i saw on it :(
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but the professionals are a bunch of self-important obnoxious pricks who are such slaves to money that they don't have the moral authority to judge anyone.
what i think is, yeah there should be a bit of quality control and of course articles which are just "haha fuckity fuck fuck" would be rejected on the basis that they suck, but not because the person used some strong language. sometimes swearing is good to get a point across and sometimes it can be pretty important in making something funny (whether or not that is a good thing is pretty much besides the point, the articles would just be to enjoy)
i wouldnt visit a site if that was the first thing i saw on it :(
as long as the articles are read over and someone sensible can make sure the person isn't just swearing because they don't have anything else to say, this kind of censorship is needlessly restrictive. if someone comes on and sees a shit, fuck, dick or two and are so affronted they start clicking the back button, then they are just pretty dumb and why should their stupidity be catered to? maybe i'm getting a bit dramatic, because it is just some entertainment for a gaming community but we should at least base the thing on some defensible principles.
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Some people are offended by swearing and no one is offended by NOT SWEARING therefore NOT SWEARING is better. And yeah, more professional. If I visited a website and saw FUCK SHIT FAGGOT FUCKS anywhere on the main page I'm pretty sure I'd leave. It makes the site seem 'dirty'.
edit: note I said KEPT TO A MINIMUM. I didn't say BAN SWEARING FROM THE SITE.
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Some people are offended by swearing and no one is offended by NOT SWEARING therefore NOT SWEARING is better. And yeah, more professional. If I visited a website and saw FUCK SHIT FAGGOT FUCKS anywhere on the main page I'm pretty sure I'd leave. It makes the site seem 'dirty'.
I don't remember there being a policy back when I worked on the staff about profanity being used in articles/reviews etc. I just know that for the most part, they didn't have them, and that often if they did have profanity in them, they would get rejected from being put on the website unless they really had something spectacular to say. (This was done through the user-submitted articles that were reviewed by members of the staff who then approved them and put them on the website). I would mostly argue for a standard policy against the general use, or overuse of profanity, just for the sake of professionalism.
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how about political opinions, prefaced with DOES NOT REPRESENT GW.
Why would you make an update about political opinion anyway?
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Why would you make an update about political opinion anyway?
It's not an update it's an article???
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Some people are offended by swearing and no one is offended by NOT SWEARING therefore NOT SWEARING is better. And yeah, more professional. If I visited a website and saw FUCK SHIT FAGGOT FUCKS anywhere on the main page I'm pretty sure I'd leave. It makes the site seem 'dirty'.
as opposed to them coming on the forum and seeing the same thing and then not leaving?
dirty humor is the best fucking humor and you are both full of shit if you seriously say "I'D LEAVE IF THERE WERE TOO MANY SWEARS..." because I have seen you both type much worse (jester draws child porn) and my example was an extreme to prove a point, that swears can be really funny and I don't think you should preemptively set any kind of guidelines unless it becomes necessary.
It's not an update it's an article???
esh doesn't read good.
ps amateur game site has no standard of professionalism let alone a temp site that won't be in place very long guys!!!
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It's not an update it's an article???
That still didn't answer my question.
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That still didn't answer my question.
because
this might increase discussion in political topics here on GW so yeah, something like this is also fine.
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Some people are offended by swearing and no one is offended by NOT SWEARING therefore NOT SWEARING is better. And yeah, more professional. If I visited a website and saw FUCK SHIT FAGGOT FUCKS anywhere on the main page I'm pretty sure I'd leave. It makes the site seem 'dirty'.
edit: note I said KEPT TO A MINIMUM. I didn't say BAN SWEARING FROM THE SITE.
but this place is 'dirty'. if the articles are to be read by a community largely consisting of scathing and vulgar young folk i don't see why the content shouldn't reflect that in the interest of some false notion that this place is entertaining masses of delicate sophisticates. this is not some sort of mainstream video game journalism website (and those are all pieces of shit anyway). i don't think this kind of bias should come out of a vague delusion.
and you did suggest swearing should be kept out of articles entirely:
keep cursing to a minimum (if any at all)
we may not all be adults here but i think we all like to at least pretend that we are when it comes to this kind of thing, so i don't see why we should be protecting ourselves from anything.
If I visited a website and saw FUCK SHIT FAGGOT FUCKS anywhere on the main page I'm pretty sure I'd leave.
i don't think an article containing FUCK SHIT FAGGOT FUCKS would be accepted. i know you were exagerrating, but your point doesn't really work if you gave a realistic example, which might be, "this is not just bad: this is fucking awful." or something like that. i already said since there would be a quality check this kind of thing would be kept out as a matter of course anyway, so it's moot.
the staffers shouldn't be going in to every article thinking "all right i better keep this clean", and the checker/s shouldn't go in thinking "if i see a single curse oh boy".
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swear limits: seven fucks allowed per staffer lifetime. exceeding fuck limit requires purchase of "fuck credits" which come in the form of premium memberships.
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Why would you make an update about political opinion anyway?
wouldn't be the first time someone thought to write about shit unrelated to gamemaking, playboy. there've been articles about random bullshit before, or at least the idea of them; not to mention mailbags which, while community-related, are still essentially the same thing in that they have nothing to do with the focal point of the site.
btw who gives a fuck about swearing. like, no one who's going to be writing an article is going to be swearing that profusely anyway, so is it really an issue? HEH PROFESSIONALISM is kind of a dumb/nonsensical point to make, considering a site like sa has people swearing in their articles pretty regularly and they're far more professional than gw will ever be, let alone the gw temp site.
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Well, I'm sure that we're allowed to use our own common sense discretion towards writing articles; while I'm sure a random 'shit' or 'fuck' in a good article would be overlooked, the idea here is not to let swear words carry or represent an article, only supplement it. I'm sure every article would be judged on an individual basis and not by some swear counter or the like. Like I said, I'm assuming article writers are left to common sense discretion towards usage of swear words in their work.
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wouldn't be the first time someone thought to write about shit unrelated to gamemaking, playboy. there've been articles about random bullshit before, or at least the idea of them; not to mention mailbags which, while community-related, are still essentially the same thing in that they have nothing to do with the focal point of the site.
well yeah, mailbags and co would make sense
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Well, I'm sure that we're allowed to use our own common sense discretion towards writing articles; while I'm sure a random 'shit' or 'fuck' in a good article would be overlooked, the idea here is not to let swear words carry or represent an article, only supplement it. I'm sure every article would be judged on an individual basis and not by some swear counter or the like. Like I said, I'm assuming article writers are left to common sense discretion towards usage of swear words in their work.
I think you are all forgetting this is a tempsite. this is essentially used TO weed out staffers for GW6 (or at least, should be) and clearly they would consider a site primarily visited by young people shouldn't be written like your average Steel Paladine post but setting the limit to begin with seems so contradictory to the idea of a relaxed, almost bloggy atmosphere.
well yeah, mailbags and co would make sense
esh why do you think mailbags and co (co is totes maybe???) are more in line with what people want to see than politics? the presidential primaries thread has more posts than the gw6 thread!
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well yeah, mailbags and co would make sense
and not politics? fkdlsjfldasmfk man please i know [hope] you are not this dumb. you are on a gaming website and a large portion of your posts concern FILMMAKING and you're seriously going to come into a topic and ask "hey ummmm why would you be posting random non-gaming-related articles on the mainsite exactly????" like there is not clearly a market for miscellaneous articles that do not in some way concern rm2k at gw.
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and not politics? fkdlsjfldasmfk man please i know [hope] you are not this dumb. you are on a gaming website and a large portion of your posts concern FILMMAKING and you're seriously going to come into a topic and ask "hey ummmm why would you be posting random non-gaming-related articles on the mainsite exactly????" like there is not clearly a market for miscellaneous articles that do not in some way concern rm2k at gw.
rofl what the fuck
all i was asking was why you'd make an article/update about your POLITICAL OPINION
that's clearly not saying NO GUYS NO POLITICS
man
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because...I like to think I can write well on politics occasionally? it's something I enjoy?
do...do you know who I am?
ESH THAT MAKES LESS SENSE.
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oh sorry esh
i figured i didn't need to spoon feed the concept of political journalism to you my mistake!!!!
seriously this is even worse than what i initially thought you were saying. w...why would you feel the need to write about... POLITICS??? :confused::
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yeah so steel and i are pretty gay it turns out
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I wouldn't read an article about some policy change or election since you know barely anyone here is actually a reporter and everything would be a repost from some other news site. An opinion piece is like any other opinion piece on GamingWorld, game making ones as well.
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because...I like to think I can write well on politics occasionally? it's something I enjoy?
do...do you know who I am?
ESH THAT MAKES LESS SENSE.
sorry steel clearly I wasn't FOCUSING on you when I wrote that
my bad
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anyone can write on politics man, I was just saying, are you unaware that is one of my major interests?
I don't understand anything you are saying!!!
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Okay, let's stop this guys. Like I said, we really want to introduce every aspect of our community and that's why political articles are also fine. I dunno if Esh misunderstood the idea or why he'd start debating the whole thing but yeah, it's fine.
Also, I think some swearing is fine (can make articles a lot more interesting to read actually) but going overboard is not fine. Good thing is that you can't really flame anyone when you post articles on the main site. But yeah, I don't mind if people swear a bit but basically it's not something I want to see if you are writing a more serious article. I think people who'd swear in their articles know exactly what I am talking about.
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Yeah I'd love to do this but I both DO NOT HAVE A RELIABLE INTERNET CONNECTION and AM NOT HILARIOUS AT ALL so I'm probably not the best candidate.
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ughhhh part of me wants to say OKAY LEMME GIVE IT A SHOT because I like writing dumb shit a lot but on the other hand I don't feel like it at all GOD.
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edit: i was countering stuff here but i dont need to seeing as ds already said stuff ho ho
also steel call me on this the next time i post my art on gw's main page
edit2: also im in favour of having policits articles and shit because a) itll make steel shut up here, b) i dont have to read them and c) if they get linked to forum topics i can just stay out of those set topics and never run into it by accident!
edit3: and on the swearing thing, someone with manually select what appears on the front page, ya? if you get articles full of shit you can just not put them on the main page, so, yeah, if that's the case i dont even care if we get articles full of shit, theyll just be filed away where they arent shoved in peoples faces.
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edit3: and on the swearing thing, someone with manually select what appears on the front page, ya? if you get articles full of shit you can just not put them on the main page, so, yeah, if that's the case i dont even care if we get articles full of shit, theyll just be filed away where they arent shoved in peoples faces.
No. You post a topic in a site article forum (haven't decided on a final name or anything) and it will be linked on the site. Of course we will delete or edit articles if needed.
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oh ok then. well as long as it's moderated somehow i guess whatever people submit is fine.
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edit: i was countering stuff here but i dont need to seeing as ds already said stuff ho ho
also steel call me on this the next time i post my art on gw's main page
edit2: also im in favour of having policits articles and shit because a) itll make steel shut up here, b) i dont have to read them and c) if they get linked to forum topics i can just stay out of those set topics and never run into it by accident!
edit3: and on the swearing thing, someone with manually select what appears on the front page, ya? if you get articles full of shit you can just not put them on the main page, so, yeah, if that's the case i dont even care if we get articles full of shit, theyll just be filed away where they arent shoved in peoples faces.
jester you have the unenviable talent of shoving the least amount of thought into the most amount of words I have ever seen.
considering how most of your posts are oneliners...
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or maybe i just think differently from u...
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theres a difference between casual swearing and those fucking dumbshit morons made a shittastic fuckfest of a movie
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If you need to swear to get your thoughts across eloquently I'm afraid you don't have a large enough vocabulary. :fogetrite:
We're not forcing professionalism here, we just don't want swearing to ensure the site is as safe for work as possible. We're not going to strictly enforce this and remove all swearing, but when its done in an excessive way just to bring attention to oneself or for shock value that's something we wouldn't approve of onto the site.
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If you need to swear to get your thoughts across eloquently I'm afraid you don't have a large enough vocabulary. :fogetrite:
ruba-du' date=' ruba-tu, ruba-tu. I was thinking about the curse words and the swear words, the cuss words and the words that you can't say, that you're not supposed to say all the time, ['cause'] words or people into words want to hear your words. Some guys like to record your words and sell them back to you if they can, (laughter) listen in on the telephone, write down what words you say. A guy who used to be in Washington knew that his phone was tapped, used to answer, Fuck Hoover, yes, go ahead. (laughter) Okay, I was thinking one night about the words you couldn't say on the public, ah, airwaves, um, the ones you definitely wouldn't say, ever, [']cause I heard a lady say bitch one night on television, and it was cool like she was talking about, you know, ah, well, the bitch is the first one to notice that in the litter Johnie right (murmur) Right. And, uh, bastard you can say, and hell and damn so I have to figure out which ones you couldn't and ever and it came down to seven but the list is open to amendment, and in fact, has been changed, uh, by now, ha, a lot of people pointed things out to me, and I noticed some myself. The original seven words were, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Those are the ones that will curve your spine, grow hair on your hands and (laughter) maybe, even bring us, God help us, peace without honor (laughter) um, and a bourbon. (laughter) And now the first thing that we noticed was that word fuck was really repeated in there because the word motherfucker is a compound word and it's another form of the word fuck. (laughter) You want to be a purist it doesn't really -- it can't be on the list of basic words. Also, cocksucker is a compound word and neither half of that is really dirty. The word -- the half sucker that's merely suggestive (laughter) and the word cock is a half-way dirty word, 50% dirty -- dirty half the time, depending on what you mean by it. (laughter) Uh, remember when you first heard it, like in 6th grade, you used to giggle. And the cock crowed three times, heh (laughter) the cock -- three times. It's in the Bible, cock in the Bible. (laughter) And the first time you heard about a cock-fight, remember -- What? Huh? naw. It ain't that, are you stupid? man. (laughter, clapping) It's chickens, you know, (laughter) Then you have the four letter words from the old Anglo-Saxon fame. Uh, shit and fuck. The word shit, uh, is an interesting kind of word in that the middle class has never really accepted it and approved it. They use it like, crazy but it's not really okay. It's still a rude, dirty, old kind of gushy word. (laughter) They don't like that, but they say it, like, they say it like, a lady now in a middle-class home, you'll hear most of the time she says it as an expletive, you know, it's out of her mouth before she knows. She says, Oh shit oh shit, (laughter) oh shit. If she drops something, Oh, the shit hurt the broccoli. Shit. Thank you. (footsteps fading away) (papers ruffling)
Read it! (from audience)
Shit! (laughter) I won the Grammy, man, for the comedy album. Isn't that groovy? (clapping, whistling) (murmur) That's true. Thank you. Thank you man. Yeah. (murmur) (continuous clapping) Thank you man. Thank you. Thank you very much, man. Thank, no, (end of continuous clapping) for that and for the Grammy, man, [']cause (laughter) that's based on people liking it man, yeh, that's ah, that's okay man. (laughter) Let's let that go, man. I got my Grammy. I can let my hair hang down now, shit. (laughter) Ha! So! Now the word shit is okay for the man. At work you can say it like crazy. Mostly figuratively, Get that shit out of here, will ya? I don't want to see that shit anymore. I can't cut that shit, buddy. I've had that shit up to here. I think you're full of shit myself. (laughter) He don't know shit from Shinola. (laughter) you know that? (laughter) Always wondered how the Shinola people feel about that (laughter) Hi, I'm the new man from Shinola. (laughter) Hi, how are ya? Nice to see ya. (laughter) How are ya? (laughter) Boy, I don't know whether to shit or wind my watch. (laughter) Guess, I'll shit on my watch. (laughter) Oh, the shit is going to hit de fan. (laughter) Built like a brick shit-house. (laughter) Up, he's up shit's creek. (laughter) He's had it. (laughter) He hit me, I'm sorry. (laughter) Hot shit, holy shit, tough shit, eat shit, (laughter) shit-eating grin. Uh, whoever thought of that was ill. (murmur laughter) He had a shit-eating grin! He had a what? (laughter) Shit on a stick. (laughter) Shit in a handbag. I always like that. He ain't worth shit in a handbag. (laughter) Shitty. He acted real shitty. (laughter) You know what I mean? (laughter) I got the money back, but a real shitty attitude. Heh, he had a shit-fit. (laughter) Wow! Shit-fit. Whew! Glad I wasn't there. (murmur, laughter) All the animals -- Bull shit, horse shit, cow shit, rat shit, bat shit. (laughter) First time I heard bat shit, I really came apart. A guy in Oklahoma, Boggs, said it, man. Aw! Bat shit. (laughter) Vera reminded me of that last night, ah (murmur). Snake shit, slicker than owl shit. (laughter) Get your shit together. Shit or get off the pot. (laughter) I got a shit-load full of them. (laughter) I got a shit-pot full, all right. Shit-head, shit-heel, shit in your heart, shit for brains, (laughter) shit-face, heh (laughter) I always try to think how that could have originated; the first guy that said that. Somebody got drunk and fell in some shit, you know. (laughter) Hey, I'm shit-face. (laughter) Shitface, today. (laughter) Anyway, enough of that shit. (laughter) The big one, the word fuck that's the one that hangs them up the most. [']Cause in a lot of cases that's the very act that hangs them up the most. So, it's natural that the word would, uh, have the same effect. It's a great word, fuck, nice word, easy word, cute word, kind of. Easy word to say. One syllable, short u. (laughter) Fuck. (Murmur) You know, it's easy. Starts with a nice soft sound fuh ends with a kuh. Right? (laughter) A little something for everyone. Fuck (laughter) Good word. Kind of a proud word, too. Who are you? I am FUCK. (laughter) FUCK OF THE MOUNTAIN. (laughter) Tune in again next week to FUCK OF THE MOUNTAIN. (laughter) It's an interesting word too, [']cause it's got a double kind of a life -- personality -- dual, you know, whatever the right phrase is. It leads a double life, the word fuck. First of all, it means, sometimes, most of the time, fuck. What does it mean? It means to make love. Right? We're going to make love, yeh, we're going to fuck, yeh, we're going to fuck, yeh, we're going to make love. (laughter) we're really going to fuck, yeah, we're going to make love. Right? And it also means the beginning of life, it's the act that begins life, so there's the word hanging around with words like love, and life, and yet on the other hand, it's also a word that we really use to hurt each other with, man. It's a heavy. It's one that you have toward the end of the argument. (laughter) Right? (laughter) You finally can't make out. Oh, fuck you man. I said, fuck you. (laughter, murmur) Stupid fuck. (laughter) Fuck you and everybody that looks like you. (laughter) man. It would be nice to change the movies that we already have and substitute the word fuck for the word kill, wherever we could, and some of those movie cliches would change a little bit. Madfuckers still on the loose. Stop me before I fuck again. Fuck the ump, fuck the ump, fuck the ump, fuck the ump, fuck the ump. Easy on the clutch Bill, you'll fuck that engine again. (laughter) The other shit one was, I don't give a shit. Like it's worth something, you know? (laughter) I don't give a shit. Hey, well, I don't take no shit, (laughter) you know what I mean? You know why I don't take no shit? (laughter) [']Cause I don't give a shit. (laughter) If I give a shit, I would have to pack shit. (laughter) But I don't pack no shit cause I don't give a shit. (laughter) You wouldn't shit me, would you? (laughter) That's a joke when you're a kid with a worm looking out the bird's ass. You wouldn't shit me, would you? (laughter) It's an eight-year-old joke but a good one. (laughter) The additions to the list. I found three more words that had to be put on the list of words you could never say on television, and they were fart, turd and twat, those three. (laughter) Fart, we talked about, it's harmless It's like tits, it's a cutie word, no problem. Turd, you can't say but who wants to, you know? (laughter) The subject never comes up on the panel so I'm not worried about that one. Now the word twat is an interesting word. Twat! Yeh, right in the twat. (laughter) Twat is an interesting word because it's the only one I know of, the only slang word applying to the, a part of the sexual anatomy that doesn't have another meaning to it. Like, ah, snatch, box and pussy all have other meanings, man. Even in a Walt Disney movie, you can say, We're going to snatch that pussy and put him in a box and bring him on the airplane. (murmur, laughter) Everybody loves it. The twat stands alone, man, as it should. And two-way words. Ah, ass is okay providing you're riding into town on a religious feast day. (laughter) You can't say, up your ass. (laughter) You can say, stuff it! (murmur) There are certain things you can say its weird but you can just come so close. Before I cut, I, uh, want to, ah, thank you for listening to my words, man, fellow, uh space travelers. Thank you man for tonight and thank you also. (clapping whistling)
Sir Winton Turnbull' date=' a member of the cavalleria rusticana, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member". I interjected "I remember". He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.
swears are exceedingly funny in many many contexts and if you're going to say some bullshit about how people who swear are uneducated or inarticulate you are completely insane.
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oh, ok then
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Well, we talked about the swearing issue among us admins and Impeal brought up that Bart has mentioned many times in the past that he doesn't want swearing on the main site and he wants it to be as work safe as possible. Now, I'd argue that it's a bit different with this temporary site of ours because 1) we aren't aiming for it to be any kind of professional site and 2) it's essentially a blog.
So we talked with Bart as well and he basically said that if you want to make a serious article you should be able to do it without saying fuck. This I agree with, serious articles definitely shouldn't have this kind of swearing. I don't personally have a problem with "fuck" or "shit" and I doubt it's going to be a problem if it's used in a few articles (if they actually contribute to the article). But if we see people using these words when there's absolutely no need to or it's getting out of hand, we'll definitely step in. I seriously don't think we need a strict rule for this and I really doubt it's even going to be a problem when the site is up and we'll have a few guidelines for the staffers.
Our policy is that light swearing is allowed and of course depending on the context. I think I'm a pretty nice guy but I still use swear words in my posts and I honestly don't think anyone has ever had a problem with that. I can completely understand konix's point but I don't think this is about forcefully trying to look professional or grown up. I hope everyone can at least respect this decision and it's not really asking for much and you still have pretty much free hands what to write about.
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Regarding the first post, I doubt I will be a good person for this job seeing that I can only cater to one group of people here. However, I'll be looking toward to whoever GW can produce as writers.
Could you give more details on this, though? Such as how often people would have to make articles.
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Could you give more details on this, though? Such as how often people would have to make articles.
Uh, it's really impossible to say because it largely depends on what's happening on the forums. If nothing interesting is happening, we can't expect a similar steady flow of articles as when there's more interesting stuff to write about. Of course there is other stuff to write about too, so I suppose you could expect around 1-2 articles a week per person if possible? I don't want to call it a minimum because we don't require everyone to write 1-2 articles every week since someone else might be putting out more articles and some certain forums can be quiet while others aren't. Some articles will take more effort than others and it's not really that much work to post about some interesting topics or events. That's why I said this is a spontaneous kind of thing, there are no exact requirements and we don't force you to write articles. We don't want you to feel pressured to write articles. We don't want you to write articles just because you haven't done in a while if you have nothing interesting to write about. This isn't just a job, it has to be something you actually want to devote yourself to. This is why I stressed that you care for the community and that you are truly interested in doing this. It really shows if a person is enjoying writing articles of if he's just doing it because he has to.
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So we talked with Bart as well and he basically said that if you want to make a serious article you should be able to do it without saying fuck. This I agree with, serious articles definitely shouldn't have this kind of swearing. I don't personally have a problem with "fuck" or "shit" and I doubt it's going to be a problem if it's used in a few articles (if they actually contribute to the article). But if we see people using these words when there's absolutely no need to or it's getting out of hand, we'll definitely step in. I seriously don't think we need a strict rule for this and I really doubt it's even going to be a problem when the site is up and we'll have a few guidelines for the staffers.
well yeah I think it's almost impossible to write a serious argument with swearing. it's good for community shit like forums but I can't imagine reading an article in the Wall Street Journal that says "FUCKING MEXICANS ARE CROSSING THE GAYASS BORDER" or anything. my argument was entirely for funny shit which is almost always better with swearing.
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hey i'll write some stuff for the main page as long as you don't give me deadlines and let me swear however much i deem appropriate*
*i believe my degree in english qualifies me to decide what is quality profanity usage and what is sub-standard profanity usage
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Would you take write-ins/freelance from people not confident/dedicated enough to apply as staffers? Maybe have a system where users can submit potential articles that staffers review and approve?
This kind of outsourcing usually works great for generating content, or are there plans to impliment something similar already?
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I think this is supposed to be really light work anyways and that there won't really be article submissions because that is for the mainsite!
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Would you take write-ins/freelance from people not confident/dedicated enough to apply as staffers? Maybe have a system where users can submit potential articles that staffers review and approve?
This kind of outsourcing usually works great for generating content, or are there plans to impliment something similar already?
Like I said in the first post, members who aren't staffers will have a way to submit their articles for the main site. So if you want to write an article every now and then, then it's probably better to not apply for this.
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Like I said in the first post, members who aren't staffers will have a way to submit their articles for the main site. So if you want to write an article every now and then, then it's probably better to not apply for this.
ok then nevermind i do not wish to be a staffer
but i'll keep an eye out for whatever the method of non-staff article submission is. i like writing stuff
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ok then nevermind i do not wish to be a staffer
but i'll keep an eye out for whatever the method of non-staff article submission is. i like writing stuff
I guess I will apply then and post all Hundley articles.
b-bbbaaaaaaaallllss.
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Any word on how this is panning out yet?
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We'll most likely put it up during the weekend after we have decided the staffers from the applicants and finished planning a few final ideas.
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aight heres the gameplan
1) site was delayed a bit because rami is going to code it afterall and he's been busy with gw's new server. drule is still helping with the layout tho.
2) we'll notify the staffers we chose on tuesday or wednesday.
3) site will be up asap, definitely next week
thanks for all the applications, we got a lot of them and it's great to see people showing interest in being a staffer!
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Hello there? *echoes*
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Hello?
He pretty much answered your question, no?
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Sorry, meant to post the list yesterday but I was sleeping for most of the day. :(
The staffers are:
Esh
crumply
Ciel
Steel
Cheesy Doritos
DarkNecrid
Sarevok
Wash Cycle
k0le
Site will be up as soon as rami has time to work on it.
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Oh, I see I was wrong.
Congrats crumply -- I see you hovering above the topic.
Also, lol steel.
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Congrats other guys who got chosen. :fogetsmile:
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Thanks to everyone who sent an application by the way. We got a lot of them and it was nice to see everyone showing so much interest. Remember, it's still possible to submit articles but more about that when the site is up. I doubt it will be up before next week though.
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m....my life is over...............
edit: this is my last post on gw for a long time )if ever) thanks ds its all youre fault
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Aww, man. I want a green name. :<
EDIT: How'd you like them apples!!
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I'm liking the sexy green colored pips.
Congrats all!
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oh no not STEEL
now the site will be full of CURSE WORDS
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I want to be community staff, but I am not going to do anything worthwhile to become one. Should I give up the dream?
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From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken:
The crownless again shall be king.
oh no not STEEL
now the site will be full of CURSE WORDS
The change in the wizard's voice was astounding.
Suddenly it became menacing, powerful, harsh as stone.
A shadow seemed to pass over the high sun,
and the porch for a moment grew dark.
All trembled, and the Elves stopped their ears.
"Never before has any voice dared to utter the words of that tongue
in Imladris, Gandalf the Grey," said Elrond, as the shadow passed and the company breathed once more.
"And let us hope that none will ever speak it here again," answered Gandalf.
quick note: can rami put up a link to the forums on the main site right now?
edit: can we get a forum or subforum or something?
before anyone says anything no it shouldn't be mixed with the mod forum at all.
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BTW OTHER GREEN DUDES the subforum is where announcement archives used to be, its a subforum of general so be sure to check it out...
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where's my pink :(
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Ah brill. I'll see what I can poo out.
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where's my pink :(
Sorry but pink is reserved only for GW's REAL MENS now...
Like... Kaworu...
and...
Velfarre...
ok I'll shut up now :(
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why didn't you pick any mods dragonslayer..........that's pretty biased..............
unless we already have access to this, then rad.
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why didn't you pick any mods dragonslayer..........that's pretty biased..............
unless we already have access to this, then rad.
he picked Esh
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he picked Esh
esh isn't a real mod
edit: actually yeah he's really not, he's on break.
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Bad. Ass.
I guess notifications of the site will be in the subforum, then?
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That green looks so vibrant and nice...
But I'm too fucking lazy to actually DO something to get it so...
Good luck new staffers!