I want to hear more about the spies and secret deals.
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Originally posted by Kvothe27
I want to hear more about the spies and secret deals.
A few mods (and even an admin!) made deals with banned users for coaching spots on their teams. Campaigning for their unbanning, sharing posts from the mods and admins forums, etc.
Looking back...shit was bonkers. I remember several owners of top teams offering me coaching positions if I shared "inside knowledge" with them. A decade later, it seems like some kind of weird fever dream. Like just...what? Why?
I want to hear more about the spies and secret deals.
A few mods (and even an admin!) made deals with banned users for coaching spots on their teams. Campaigning for their unbanning, sharing posts from the mods and admins forums, etc.
Looking back...shit was bonkers. I remember several owners of top teams offering me coaching positions if I shared "inside knowledge" with them. A decade later, it seems like some kind of weird fever dream. Like just...what? Why?
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Originally posted by Corndog
A few mods (and even an admin!) made deals with banned users for coaching spots on their teams. Campaigning for their unbanning, sharing posts from the mods and admins forums, etc.
Looking back...shit was bonkers. I remember several owners of top teams offering me coaching positions if I shared "inside knowledge" with them. A decade later, it seems like some kind of weird fever dream. Like just...what? Why?
Oh wow. I'm glad I missed all that! O_o
A few mods (and even an admin!) made deals with banned users for coaching spots on their teams. Campaigning for their unbanning, sharing posts from the mods and admins forums, etc.
Looking back...shit was bonkers. I remember several owners of top teams offering me coaching positions if I shared "inside knowledge" with them. A decade later, it seems like some kind of weird fever dream. Like just...what? Why?
Oh wow. I'm glad I missed all that! O_o
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Originally posted by 4chanCitizen
Jesus Christ what in the hell did I just stumble upon
You fell down the rabbit hole. Get out...now!
Jesus Christ what in the hell did I just stumble upon
You fell down the rabbit hole. Get out...now!
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See I never got to do any of the fun stuff. All I got to do was cause controversy by naming my test team something dumb and a user taking it the wrong way. Was testing d play creator and using a bunch of ‘cheaty’ plays so I called the team filthy cheaters... and then tested a build one time to see how fast a HB could get out of the backfield. A user noticed that the build was similar to what he was currently doing and was on a team called the “filthy cheaters” after the past test games were released to the public. and well, it wasn’t neat. He took it as a jab at him despite it being done before he made the guy and my team names being the same since I had started testing... but I guess I should have put the player on the other side, the vanilla balanced playbook and players team I called “squeaky cleans”
I was trying to break the game when I was testing things, that was my goal, hence the names.
That was about as much drama as I got up to as a mod/tester while it lasted. The rest of the time was just a few years of simple mod work relating to passing on bugs and then making sure FFA didn’t burn to the ground.
I was trying to break the game when I was testing things, that was my goal, hence the names.
That was about as much drama as I got up to as a mod/tester while it lasted. The rest of the time was just a few years of simple mod work relating to passing on bugs and then making sure FFA didn’t burn to the ground.
Yeah, there was the great boogeyman that testers were finding all kinds of secret super duper builds and exploiting them to win the game.
It's really a bit amazing. Like, I know I was a different person 12 years ago, but it feels like the internet was a different person 12 years ago. Maybe it's national trump trauma, but I can't imagine people sitting around handwringing about all the bullshit they did back in 2009.
Remember the "hook thread" rule? Where you weren't allowed to make threads without clearly defining the content in the title?
It's really a bit amazing. Like, I know I was a different person 12 years ago, but it feels like the internet was a different person 12 years ago. Maybe it's national trump trauma, but I can't imagine people sitting around handwringing about all the bullshit they did back in 2009.
Remember the "hook thread" rule? Where you weren't allowed to make threads without clearly defining the content in the title?
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Originally posted by Corndog
Yeah, there was the great boogeyman that testers were finding all kinds of secret super duper builds and exploiting them to win the game.
It's really a bit amazing. Like, I know I was a different person 12 years ago, but it feels like the internet was a different person 12 years ago. Maybe it's national trump trauma, but I can't imagine people sitting around handwringing about all the bullshit they did back in 2009.
Remember the "hook thread" rule? Where you weren't allowed to make threads without clearly defining the content in the title?
Thing is Hook Thread rule was a weird one, because at the time a lot of forums actually had similar rules in them. And since things moved kinda quickly here it made sense when it got suggested... but I don't think we ever really had so fast a moving forums as to need one in reality.
Yeah, there was the great boogeyman that testers were finding all kinds of secret super duper builds and exploiting them to win the game.
It's really a bit amazing. Like, I know I was a different person 12 years ago, but it feels like the internet was a different person 12 years ago. Maybe it's national trump trauma, but I can't imagine people sitting around handwringing about all the bullshit they did back in 2009.
Remember the "hook thread" rule? Where you weren't allowed to make threads without clearly defining the content in the title?
Thing is Hook Thread rule was a weird one, because at the time a lot of forums actually had similar rules in them. And since things moved kinda quickly here it made sense when it got suggested... but I don't think we ever really had so fast a moving forums as to need one in reality.
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Originally posted by Corndog
Yeah, there was the great boogeyman that testers were finding all kinds of secret super duper builds and exploiting them to win the game.
Well there was "bug back" which was an actual exploit
Not to mention back when I lived in Hawaii I find your GLB1 training exploit by accident - still no thank you like a decade later lol
Yeah, there was the great boogeyman that testers were finding all kinds of secret super duper builds and exploiting them to win the game.
Well there was "bug back" which was an actual exploit
Not to mention back when I lived in Hawaii I find your GLB1 training exploit by accident - still no thank you like a decade later lol
Edited by william78 on Jul 4, 2021 20:40:24
Originally posted by Raid
Thing is Hook Thread rule was a weird one, because at the time a lot of forums actually had similar rules in them.
Sure, but that's also part of my whole "the internet was a different person" point.
It was a weird era when internet communication was simultaneously brand new to a lot of people and a decade old to another group of people. Twitter and Facebook were still in their infancy at that point. Grandparents posting conspiracy memes wasn't much of a thing.
Yeah, forums had been around for a long long time, but it was at like, the tail end of transitioning from forums to social media. It was before social media really desensitized everyone to the firehose of sewage that is the internet. It was before we had a president that spent hours every day for four years rage tweeting about any random thing he didn't like, such as windmills.
Like, just looking at a decade ago through the filter of today is incredible.
Thing is Hook Thread rule was a weird one, because at the time a lot of forums actually had similar rules in them.
Sure, but that's also part of my whole "the internet was a different person" point.
It was a weird era when internet communication was simultaneously brand new to a lot of people and a decade old to another group of people. Twitter and Facebook were still in their infancy at that point. Grandparents posting conspiracy memes wasn't much of a thing.
Yeah, forums had been around for a long long time, but it was at like, the tail end of transitioning from forums to social media. It was before social media really desensitized everyone to the firehose of sewage that is the internet. It was before we had a president that spent hours every day for four years rage tweeting about any random thing he didn't like, such as windmills.
Like, just looking at a decade ago through the filter of today is incredible.
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The same people who told us not to believe everything we read on the internet are now believing everything they read on the internet.
Originally posted by Raid
The same people who told us not to believe everything we read on the internet are now believing everything they read on the internet.
And the same people that were pearl clutching over browser game forum mods "abusing their power" are now attending rallies for a demagogue chanting to imprison and kill his political opponents and naysayers.
Shits weird, man.
The same people who told us not to believe everything we read on the internet are now believing everything they read on the internet.
And the same people that were pearl clutching over browser game forum mods "abusing their power" are now attending rallies for a demagogue chanting to imprison and kill his political opponents and naysayers.
Shits weird, man.
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