General Planeswalker Density

[Jason Waddell]

I've been pretty (read: extremely) lax about moderating things on this site, but you guys can let me know if you feel that needs to change.

 

[Jonas]

Ban everyone.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Eh, I signed up after lurking for a good while, despite being called a shitface for proposing a stupid idea is a likely outcome , I think you're good

 

[Goldenpineapple]

I'm running 19/450. Enough walkers are niche/inefficient enough that I don't really mind having a bunch of them.
List:
Gideon Jura
Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
Liliana of the Veil
Venser, the Sojourner
Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
Kiora, the Crashing Wave
Ajani Vengeant
Karn Liberated

Do these folks really not stifle too many games for you? In my experience they've been extremely powerful, and nigh-unstoppable after the untap.

Something as simple as an unsummon keeping a walker safe until the untap is often the actual clincher, though.

As a side-note my LGS put up a joke-sign offering to buy AVR foil tibalts for $5, now they have neat pile of about thirty.

 

[anotak]

mom, dad, stop fighting

I've been pretty (read: extremely) lax about moderating things on this site, but you guys can let me know if you feel that needs to change.

personally, i'm much happier in an environment where people can speak their mind. if they start bringing that into every thread though and taking potshots constantly I feel like that would make me unhappy past a certain point.

on the other hand, if the two of them get their built up dislike out there, it's probably a good thing. for now.

I know the MTGS folk criticized us for precisely the lax moderation, and I really feel like a big problem with that site is the opposite.

 

[Dom Harvey]

Garruk Primal Hunter and this thread suck

 

[Chris Taylor]

Garruk Primal Hunter and this thread suck

Shots Fired.

why tho?

 

[CML]

i actually still kinda think this site is a tiny step in the right direction of changing the repulsive tenor of magic discussion. (and the neat cube ideas obv)

well then quit being a humorless moralistic white knight cuz this kind of auto-da-fe is exactly what makes other sites useless.

it's not that i lack empathy -- i understand what you're saying -- it's just that i don't always care

not to turn this into a meta-discussion of internet etiquette (since i also feel like that, rather than any magic discussion, is the sole topic of conversation and import on places like MTS, a trait it shares with most Internet arguments) but i am opposed to moderation for basically any reason. the idea that everyone must get along is unrealistic and trying to 'force it' never works. surely the idea behind this place and other healthy communities is that people can have much to offer each other, even in the absence of agreement or personal affinity. we ought to be bigger than interceding on behalf of a third party ('ladies' etc.), and the idea behind moderation involves the mod doing just that -- for the 'aggrieved' party, sure, but also for 'lurkers' who are ostensibly repulsed from joining and posting due to 'vile shit.' the results of these kinds of actions are again very predictable and not creative.

RiptideLab must be big enough for both vibes and CMLs. there is little excuse for not enjoying disagreement

he knows your dumb

 

[Jonas]

As long as people don't start calling each other cumguzzling backstabbing thundercunts and don't add anything else to the discussion, I think the level of moderation that we have here at the moment is adequate.

 

[CML]

yes, i agree

enjoying dissent is an important skill especially in a game where subjectivity is built into the very design

 

[ahadabans]

I like the lax nature of this site. It's cool actually. I'm a fan.

I would certainly agree that disagreement is healthy. With the caveat that this is only true as long as it remains constructive and doesn't descend into a condescending pissing match. That's the quickest way to kill creativity and (IMO anyway) why MTGS feels so much more oppressive than this site does.

 

[VibeBox]

if they start bringing that into every thread though and taking potshots constantly

i wouldn't worry that. i'll be busy again soon and back to barely being around as usual.
besides,i made a spectacle of him and now it's over. not really worth my continued involvement, i've done what i can. he thinks the problem is women and people having morals, i think it's him and the gross hateful attitudes he represents. that's all out in the open now and it's not like it's any shocking revelation anyway.
if i choose to acknowledge him at all after this it's more likely to be in images than words

 

[VibeBox]

 

[CML]

i wouldn't worry that. i'll be busy again soon and back to barely being around as usual.
besides,i made a spectacle of him and now it's over. not really worth my continued involvement, i've done what i can. he thinks the problem is women and people having morals, i think it's him and the gross hateful attitudes he represents. that's all out in the open now and it's not like it's any shocking revelation anyway.
if i choose to acknowledge him at all after this it's more likely to be in images than words

a masterful satire, i would copy-and-paste this into my next fiction thing but audiences might find it a little too obvious