@Segtendo, that's not a proper report. If the hack works, has a valid download link, and has a valid preview, it does not matter what the author says about it. It is a legitimate hack regardless of how it is described.

And I've seen a few reports of "You need in-game pics" but that is not true. According to the BrawlVault rules,

In-game pictures are not strictly necessary, but make sure your previews clearly show the majority of your changes

The hacks reported under this reason do show the changes, even though the hacks are not physically in the game.

I'm on it

What would you like to accomplish by decrypting the replay? As stated before, the replays are just recorded sequences of button mashing instead of actual video of the fight. I was just curious as to what you would do when the replay was decoded.

Do the Vyse and Vish pictures show up automatically now? Nothing like adding insult to injury haha. I like it.

That was a temporary ban. And a little problem that was private to the admin team, indeed (unless someone already talked about it ?).

I didn't really tell anyone but it wasn't a secret either. Idk if the affected person(s) talked about it, but it is fine with me either way. To tell or not to tell that is the question doesn't matter to me.

Nothing big though. He's still acknowledged as one of the best admins we've had.

Don't lie

I have a suggestion for rules for the help section:

Don't use non-specific titles or titles in all caps.
Instead, use titles such as "SFX question" or "Need help with PSA" or "Stumped on texturing snake" where a person with expertise in the area will recognize the title and be able to help immediately.

Also, how long should a user wait before bumping a topic like this? I would suggest at least two days, but that's just me. This could be another addition to the rules as well.


I just happened to see a topic in the help section and the poster was frustrated because nobody replied (within a few hours) to his thread: HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (not to pick on that guy specifically, but I know things like this have happened in the past too)

I do remember those. And since I remember those, I can assure you that the situation was under control UNTIL you had to expose everything wrong with the forums, which led to the situation afterwards. The day started out as just a reminder to (the person who started the poll) to keep forum matters in the admin section before going public with it. It could have been left at that, and we could have avoided what had to be the most torturous administrating I have ever done. Before that incident, I only knew you as the guy on the irc. You didn't stick out as a troll, flamer, or disruptive person before this point. And you know how strongly you came on in that original post. You KNOW. That is why you asked permission for the second thread which I unfortunately approved, thinking that you would stay true to your word and keep the thread from getting out of hand, where I had to lock it again. So yes, after that, you were known as the guy who led a (successful) attack on the moderation team. Call it a troll, flamer, what-have-you, but you were considered dangerous.

I don't see at any point where there was a "polite" tone to your words. Everything I encountered was condescending and attacking. The issue at hand originally was post count. I don't even know what to call what the situation has blown up into. And yeah, I know Oizen's response was more than childish, and he was punished for that after it happened. You threw the first blows in this fight (What's what), and we had nothing to do but defend our sorry hides. When the staff sees respect towards them, they will show it back. There's a way to address problems, and you just happened to do it the wrong way back then. And yeah, we avoid talking about it again because it will only stir up more of a mess like we had before. We'd prefer not to clean up a mess like that again.

And I say "we" in these posts, but I mean the team, excluding me. I can't do anything except stand up for the people who I know are working intensely behind the scenes to keep crap from hitting a large fan.

And this is why I never dove into the moderation of the off-topic boards. The first time I ever posted in the Family thread, I saw fighting and arguing and spamming, and that was just how it worked. It wasn't for me, so I left it at that. I did notice that a large amount of the warnings issued did come from that thread, but the thing to remember is that moderation is up to the admin/mod's discretion and the warning level accompanies the judgement. If I recall correctly, the warnings issued during the Kitty-Leaks incident were revoked. And as for the time that goes by, I did notice that sometimes a warning did go a little longer than 2 weeks, but that was a system bug, not an admin hate crime.

As for locking threads and deleting content, we are entitled to do what it takes to protect other users from malicious content. Usually, locking a thread is a last resort, but in extreme situations where nothing is getting accomplished and we need more time to think about answers and not rile the mob any more than it is already, then yes, a lock will happen (like your example of me up there).  I know of another time where users were deleting posts in the family thread to get on the 5000th page or something like that. The thread was locked to keep people from doing anything more stupid than what was going on. But I cannot stress enough that these situations are all in the discretion of the moderator or admin who sees it. We all have different styles and may get offended more easily than others, but we all have the same guidelines, which are the rules that you can read in the link in the header bar.

As for self-censoring, just don't do it. It's that easy. The forum, from what I understand, has an option to either let you see the foul word or censor it. I'm pretty sure the staff was working on a better system of censorship, but I don't have all the details about it.

For warning timing, I do have to agree with you, cx_asuka. I know it has been discussed to the mods in the past, but clearly this was just a slip up. The general rule of thumb is to give a warning, then let the user calm down first. Obviously, a person is going to be angry about a warning, so adding a warning on top of that does not make sense nor is it fair to do in such a short time period. I know that even I have slipped up like that, but I corrected the situation by lowering the moderation warning, and issuing an apology (which looking back, I've probably apologized for too much, but hey, nobody wants to tear me limb from limb... yet).

I know I didn't quite touch everything you addressed, but I hope this can help you and the staff a little bit.

inb4 staff, rather than try hopelessly to defend yourselves with rehashed and overall bad excuses that we've seen before, or try to disregard it because "He's from VIP chat" or some other detrimental statement, it'd probably be a good idea to take these examples into consideration when rewriting the rules.

Do you HAVE to trash the mods every chance you get? A simple, "I agree with that guy" or "he brings up some good points" could suffice. You don't give the moderation team the respect or credit they deserve. They bust their asses to make sure that the forum stays a likable place and all you do is try to show how evil they are, and what monsters they are, and how things should be run differently. What ever happened to "give respect, get respect"? If you don't like the way things are run, nobody is forcing you to stay. I've seen too much of what they do to let you keep getting cheap shots at them all the time. We all make mistakes. It happens. A lot of mistakes were made in a short time period, admittedly, but it happens. Now, I would prefer if you pay a little more respect to the moderation team, because that can be interpreted as flaming, trolling, AND disruptive behavior. We aren't idiots here. We know how to run things with technicalities if we have a user who runs on them too...
(This rant was directed at LordNOah. cx_asuka, I liked your approach better. At least it was polite)

Fake value. I only see 1 topic / 1 post, and that is Vyse's rules (unless nobody has used it yet, then I cannot tell).


Edit: Whoops, nobody posted there.. I'll let you know what I see when someone does post there.

I think they have something similar at All is Brawl. But it's an excellent idea. Good thinking!

I'm sorry about that. Please excuse me. I just looked in my PM's and I did find that I said yes. My mistake.

But the offensive content stuff is obvious. It is directly insulting or in bad taste, and anyone can see that. If it was given a vote, the outcome would be the same.

[force]

Since that was mostly directed at Miacis, I'll cover what I can.

The warning system is a forum plugin; not something that picano coded in his free time. We just can't do what it wasn't intended to do, which is moderate an admin.

We aren't allowed to force people into making us money. (Example is putting a download that can only be reached by submitting a survey) They can, however, donate out of free will.

And I see you keep quoting me from that Private Message between us. I said that out of ignorance because I didn't have a better explanation for you. At that point in time, I was not an admin the year before, so I did not know how things were handled. I thought that was a good enough reasoning at the time, but now I see that "private" doesn't mean anything, and I have to think about what my messages will look like 3 months in advance when used against the moderation team. Joy. Sorry, it looks like I gave you permission to post that. My mistake.

And stop trying to make it look like Oizen is a baby for taking down the hack and stopping discussion of Kitty Leaks. In both cases, the content was offensive, which is against the rules, so he had every right to stop it.

Nice! Good job! This will come in handy for later

Would you be able to make it so that the addresses on the left are in hex, and also would it be possible to enter a starting address so a person can show where in the file he is talking about? This is a pretty cool program.

From what I gather, the only reason the stage was made was to troll Oizen. (The stage background itself said that stuff) So what else could it say? "______ is a bad moderator" ?

That's just not acceptable

[Oizen is a bad mod]

I didnt believe I was flaming I thought I was just making a stage that got unrightfully taken down. Show me exactly how I was flaming and if so, warn me then bro.

Flaming: Directly or indirectly insulting other members

The last and most recent thing I'd like to mention is this: http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php?Number=20181
That link will take you to a blank Brawlvault submission that has been deleted. It wasn't deleted because It was a blank submission, It was deleted because the hack creator was in a chat with some hackers and as a joke, they all decided he should upload a really [censored]ty poorly done hack called "Oizen is a bad mod". It was a legitimate 2D stage that said "Oizen is a bad moderator" scribbled in the background. The description said "Download if you agree" and It had 35 downloads before It was removed for no good reason.

Directly stating someone is a bad moderator (and asking for support on top of it) falls under this category. (btw "bad moderator" is an insult for future reference)
The mods had every right to remove that hack.

Sure, in the Wiki, I have some instructions http://code.google.com/p/stickmanhacks/wiki/OffsetMakerInstructions but I think those are not as great as they could be.

The first thing the program asks is what the last Wave# is, so in the brsar, you have the main folder, then wave or sound. Just like every other part of sfx hacking, we're only going to use the Wave folder. So in there, scroll to the bottom of that and find the last wave and enter its number in the program.

After that is the Wave0 fix offset. This is the only manual work that you have to do for offset searching. Just like in the manual guide, you have to add the Data1Offset for the character folder with the Data1Offset for the 0x## folder, then go to that address and search for "WAVE". More detailed information on that process can be found in my guide (which can now be viewed online right here (Surge6).

Once you get that Fix Offset, enter it into the program and it does the rest of the address searching for you.

And if that still doesn't help, I can make picture/video guides to do it, because I haven't written a good tutorial in a while