- deal isn’t completed, so [they] don’t ‘own’ anyone, but the word of mouth on the internet already shifts perceptions of value, which is all that really matters
- “Secret Rules” are posted on the forums, but people generally don’t read them, and act all surprised when mods act on things. Feel free to be ‘in on the secret’ at any time.
**Welcome! Please Read Before Posting.** - #2 by DylanBates-1612
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A mod edited your post; you should be all the amazed at such activity on the forums. Get a screenshot and pretend that you now how a ‘secret’ admirer in comparison to all the other posts/topics that aren’t modded out of existence.
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Marvel someone actually read through that post and didn’t have a conniption over from the conflicted compulsion to modify the readability of that post.
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The topic wasn’t deleted, so your ‘want’ is still there for anyone else to read. The point of the forums is for ‘discussions’ and many of those can be had just fine without particular violations of forum/internet courtesies.
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For my own tl;dr I’ll lump up the ‘secret rules’ into 3 types:
- Enforceable rules for doing something bad (flaming, spreading viruses, etc)
- Suggestions so topic/posts avoid the anti-bot protocols the forums use. While it doesn’t look like it these days, these boards have been/can be attacked by a variety of methods, and some of the protections they’ve made on the forums can ‘false flag’ a topic for deletion for resembling a bot post or spam.
- Internet courtesies or requests from the staff. If a mod/blue responds to a topic that says “Hey [blue]” that that makes it look like they only respond to those topics, and more people then flood the boards with that stuff, so it both encourages the wrong type of conduct, and kinda ties their hands if they act on those things. Which makes the forum-experience more annoying and disconnected for those involved.