"If it makes anyone feel better, we haven't banned a single person this year so far that wasn't a new troll or spam account. That is, it takes a lot for real users to get fully banned from Giant Bomb. It's a rare occurrence."
I received a warning via private message from MB recently in which he wrote that I have a habit of posting "nonsense and/or spam threads." It's not just MB. Hamz and RHCPfan24 noticed as well. MB didn't specify which ones, but here are the top 5 threads that I either created or bumped, which I assume he is warning me about.
1. World's Largest Breasts: 38KKK — Locked MB locked this topic with the reply: "Inappropriate spam. Let's clean it up a little please." I disagree. I think it was funny, provoked a little discussion, and was not overtly sexual.
2. Ban me. permanently — Locked This is definitely a spam thread, but I didn't create it. I bumped it because MB edited the words of the original poster. I thought that was amazing! I didn't know that could be done and I thought others should know too ... and fear. RHCPfan24 locked it.
3. What is the Worst Thread? — Locked MB locked this quickly and wrote: "This is probably a good example of threads that don't help things. How about starting a topic seeking out the best thread instead of
the worst?" I thought this had good discussion potential. It was locked before it could really get good. I did later start What is the Best Thread?, but it didn't really go anywhere.
This was a really funny collection of YouTube videos featuring an old, white, convicted pedophile with crazy hair by the username Edarem. He makes funny faces and gestures while listening to Pretty Woman and to the theme songs from 30 Rock and Scrubs. He also demonstrates how toilet scrubbers make the best back scratchers. I didn't create this thread, but I bumped it because it was so funny.
5. PS: Don’t PM Me in the Future (Blog Post) — Deleted I actually agree with Hamz's decision to delete this thread. It started when I posted a blog as a thread on the Off-Topic forums titled: Does Anyone Else Think Eye Exams Are Erotic? Around the same time I sent a PM to a female user saying "I like Animal Crossing: City Folk too. Do you still play it?" Well, she read the aforementioned thread and posted "You creepy pervert... PS: Please don't PM me in the future." This got people curious as to what happened, so I posted another blog "PS: Don't PM Me in the Future" as an Off-Topic thread to explain. Since she's one of the few women on Giant Bomb, that probably gave her a lot of unwanted attention.
Anyway, I really like Giant Bomb. I hope to stay permanently, but if I do get banned, I'll miss you guys.
RHCPfan24 asked "How did you find this old thread in the first place? It was in General Discussion and hasn't been posted in for over a year. I am locking this down."
I found it when I started a thread called "What is the Best Thread?" and samcotts kindly posted four of them:
I was tempted to bump this non-locked thread from 1½ years ago with the post "The 'U-Toob' Spam Stops Now!", but that would definitely be a troll activity. So instead I will passively-aggressively post this blog.
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I went to an eye exam today. I used to have a male optometrist, so I never thought of this. But now I have a good-looking, female, Korean optometrist in her 30s. When I sit in the chair she sits in front of me and has to roll her chair close to me to adust the lens apparatus (that thing they put in front of your face with all the lenses in it). Anyway, she sits with her legs apart to be close enough and her thighs touch my knees. (Well, not really. The inner parts of her knees touch the outer parts of my knees.)
She's not coming on to me. Her facial expression looks like it's a routine she's done a thousand times. I just never knew an eye exam could be kind of erotic. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
When Super Mario Kart first came out, it was one of two games my friend J.R. and I would play all night until dawn! (The other was Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball.) We liked playing the verses mode where you pop balloons and one of our favorite tracks was Ghost Valley because it was difficult to avoid falling off the track, but there was a shortcut that allowed you to catch up if you had a feather.
Then came Mario Kart 64. That game was even more fun because the graphics were better and you could use a control stick instead of a directional pad. My friend José and I had a competition for months to see who could get the best time on Mario Circuit. He finally relented when I finished with a time of 57'26".
I waited a couple years after the GameCube was released to buy the system and Mario Kart Double Dash. I guess my expectations were too high because I was disappointed. The graphics were better, but not as great as I expected. The biggest problem, however, were the controls. You couldn’t hop by pressing the R button anymore, and the turns were so wide. All the maps and controls seemed to be smoothed out to allow for novices to do well in the game too.
Then came Mario Kart Wii, the most promising game yet in the series because you could play against people all over the world online! However, its controls and maps were like Double Dash’s. I thought the worldwide competition would make it even more addicting than Mario Kart 64, but in the end I quit playing the game after about a month. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have a friend or neighbor close by who played the game, or maybe I was overloaded: too many people and times to compete with. So many people were better than me. Yet, sadly, now that everyone plays Mario Kart Wii, when I go back and play the Mario Karts that I once loved I can’t enjoy them anymore.
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