Actually I only do that with my tagline. Have to admit though, it could have been worse, right? lol
IIRC Nev was recently promoted to where she is the CM for all things Diablo. Now that will not only be for these forums, but also for Immortal and D4 (when it sees the light of day).
Thatâs rich coming from you, considering youâre both a troll & a clickbaiter.
Youâve pined for my attention more than twice since your ban expired, as well as bumping my own threads. Youâre failtrolling and picking a fight at the same time.
But thatâs ok, everyone knows your type nowadays. Youâre not fooling anyone.
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If anyoneâs searching for attention itâs you with your incessant use of tiresome animated GIFs. Please take your own adviceâŚ
yeah sheâs had a title change to community manager officially now, but no matter the title do you honestly think she will post any more, been two weeks since the last blue post now. least we forget the complete joke of a thread she posted after blizzcon some ten months ago.
i was just pointing out they claim to have community staff but yet they seem unable to do even the most basic of community things like post a couple of times a day on the forums to a few basic questions.
Guess theyâre afraid that players start a flame war on them no matter what they say and blame them for everything that is wrong with D3 RoS or start asking endless questions on when some QoA features will be added to the game, when we get D4 announcement and 100 more questions theyâre not eager to answer leaving us with the famous soon⢠response insteadâŚ
you landed first on my list, just sayingâŚ
-now why did you take so much effort to bash me?
-and why is your activity hidden, so noone can see your true nature?
Taglines seems to be against the forum rules and fall in the âspam & trollâ category. I tell you this, because I just read the rules again to see whether sharing Adblock filters is not against these.
Eh, not really. Not unless they are excessive and obnoxious. Like, if I ended every post with cookies and coffee I would not get in trouble.
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True, but people might sneak in like ninjas and try to steal the cookies. Not that I would, you understand. Itâs just a general warning about the dangers of cookie stealing ninjas.
Oh, and by the way, when I selected your post and chose to quote it, it changed the emojis from a cookie and a coffee to being two coffees. It seems that even the forums themselves want to steal your cookies, MissC!
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I have read the line here:
âExcessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, or pure gibberishâ.
If the link includes the up-do-date version of the forum rules this means you donât have to spam us in each post with cookies and a coffee, because this may start look as trolling us (when we are hungry for example).
Donât get me wrong (itâs good a downvote button donât exist anymore btw), I am not against forum taglines if the forum allows to setup such, thatâs what Iâve read at the link.
I gotta say my favorites are the crunchy chocolate chip with macadamia nuts! Prefer hot chocolate with these but a good coffee is great too! Ha!
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You are trying to over think this. The mods determine what is âexcessiveâ. Most of the time they donât go after folks for tag lines. As long as each post is actually a genuine post with valid commentary, and not an excuse to spam said tag line. Oh, and of course the tag line canât violate the forum rules or be otherwise divisive.
Edit - think about it in a business sense. Everyone is required to have a signature that at least includes their name. Often title and contact information too. Some even add a quote or tag line. This is attached to every single communication they send. Nobody sees it as spam. So, we have precedence for this in the real world and people are used to it. Now, if I started sending people emails with JUST my signature they would get annoyed really really fast.
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Whuut?
I have to agree with this. And I have been using said tag for years⌠So⌠Now its an issue because I linked a youtube music video from Pixels since it carries my tagâs namesake? Hell I just thought it was cool. lol But I donât stick it on every post if that makes any difference⌠
I dunno. Taglines pretty much seem against the forum rules from that quote since they fall in the âphraseâ category, which is excessively repeated. Your coffee tagline would fall in the gibberish one. And if the forum was mine caffeine would also fall in the performance enhancing drugs category and a reference to it wouldâve been considered against the rules.
Also, your definition of tagline is vague. What if some forumer who regularly copy/pastes his posts in different threads decides to make one of these his tagline? Do I have to scroll through this wall of text every time?
Email marketing aka spam by todayâs standards was the most profitable one in the past. Taglines in emails are a lite version of spam. Some containing contact information may be useful, but most are not (most are even not taglines of the user that is writing the message, rather of the email service he is using).
But what is the definition of spam actually?
[noun] 1. Irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc. 2. Unwanted or intrusive advertising on the Internet.
[verb] Send the same message indiscriminately to (a large number of Internet users).
As we see by the above definition taglines are pretty much pure spam when they are not directly related to the forum content in question.
What I mean is that no one would care about a rap video put as a tagline from a user at a gaming forum. This is absolutely irrelevant to any kind of discussion it is in.
If the user is in love with his tagline, why not change his battle tag to it? If the user wants to discuss rap videos with others, why not make a thread for this?
Put as a tagline, this is pretty much irrelevant information, which in some cases may be advertising.
If you think people should get into trouble for referencing tea / coffee on the forums because theyâve got caffeine in them, Iâm very glad youâre not in charge. Heck, I presume Iâd also get into trouble for regularly saying this in the in-game General ChatâŚ
Good morning! Iâve got a nice hot mug of tea and Iâm offering level 1-70 boosts (softcore, seasonal) whilst I drink it. Anyone need help levelling?
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You might want to go take a look at some of the blue posts, especially the tech support forum posts. They often have âsignaturesâ at the end of their posts. Now, while they do serve a purpose in most cases, theyâre still signatures/taglines. Blizzard isnât going to go after someone for using them. Even I used them for quite some time and even rotated amongst three or four that I had (the Blizzard forum eXtender browser addon created for the old old (like several years old) forum actually randomized my signature between the ones I had created).
The only issue I can see with DTMAceâs tagline is that itâs a link to a youtube video and nothing more (no description, etc). That would be the one technicality that violates the CoC, but more than that, can catch unsuspecting users off guard and if theyâre on a low data cap connection like many are in the US, it can eat through the data cap quickly. But most taglines that arenât just literally a link and nothing else wonât even get a sideways look from Blizzardâs moderation team. Thankfully anyone can hover over the taglineâs link and see what the URL is if theyâre savvy enough to do so.
FWIW, as long as the taglineâs link is just a link and not actually embedding the result of that link into the post, itâs usually not an issue. Had DTMAce used an embedding method as the tagline, heâd have been warned to remove it already.
Enjoy these then and donât say I didnât warned you one day.
Then they have to update their forum rules, because right now taglines are against these as I referenced the exact rule these violate in my previous posts. And even more taglines COMPLETELY unrelated to gaming, RPGs, Blizzard games or Diablo.
Do you see an issue with the following, itâs not even a link:
AEWFFDSGYJYTOIGFHBDSFFEWAHDFHYTUTRERWEFSDVBNVBNSDFSDF
Should I start putting this at the end of my posts, just because I find it cool and the mod team is not following their own rules?
Come on Skelos, you know better than that. As long as there is nothing wrong with a tagline, it isnât going to be policed. Weâve given you the pertinent information so at this point all youâre really doing is being a concern troll. Donât be one of those. 
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I am telling you again this is a vague statement and could get exploited.
What if my tagline is 2 lines? Is it ok? What if it is 3 lines? What if I cite a lyrics of a song? Can I do this with a whole verse? Where is the point after which âthere is something wrongâ?
Also, Iâll give you one example why forums have to contain tagline option with possible turn on/off for both posters and readers in order this to be convenient for the users.
Imagine we all start putting taglines in our posts. You know what happens when you have to ignore these in EVERY post you go through - itâs not enjoyable reading anymore.
My point is simple - taglines are okay if the forum software allows these to be setup on/off. If not only taglines containing important useful information for all are ok. If a CM puts D4 release date as his tagline I would have noting against it. I would scroll through CMâs posts and enjoy it (you know, because it is not spam).