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• Send a shack message to Duke Nuked. : paulatreus
• talk to jokemon : Downforce
• Alas poor excessus, we knew him well. : abrasion
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  It will be ignored. I saw the nuke, your reply, and then the mods reply. We will all side with the mod on... : haiku
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    haiku sees EVERYTHING! actually, that sounds pretty terrible. Sorry you have to see so much crap, haik... : Robotic Puppy Eater
    • Only two days in the whole of July, and I only made it to one of them. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten. ... : haiku
    • I wish i was a mod again so i could read his post it sounds like this was a really unfair decision!!!!!! : boring gegtik
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    the nuke and the ban wasnt right and you know it. I was replying to a "I like Valve ideas" with a sarcast... : excessus
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      A nuke is always right unless 3 or more mods disagree. And we all select different things that we nuke ba... : haiku
      • this makes me glad i'm not a moderator. fuck dealing with this shit!!! : manero
      • STOP MAKING SENSE AND BEING RATIONAL actually for this post alone im going to buy you a beer : CoRDS
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        I have been shacking since 2000. All I posted was: "I liked the one that made us pay for their betatest p... : excessus
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          i can feel it coming. it's like the static in the air before an electrical storm. : dirge23
          • it's like the quickening in highlander : stoned wallaby crop circle
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            dirge can feel it, coming in the aiiiiiiir tonight, oh lord : pharom
            • <epic drum fill> : dirge23
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          paints another shack on the side of his monitor That's 3 in one year motherfuckers. : haiku
          • hahahahh you should get some shack stickers to use : CoRDS
          • Man your monitor must be really clunky. and old. : Jonathan
          • hahaha : manero
          • How does that fit on the side of a LED TV? : RyDogg1
          • We need a greasemonkey script that shows your kills next to your name. : Prozium
          • amusing : ]pm[chem
          • Bets on how many it will be by the end of the year? : magistersmax
          • you celebrated and posted something clever! no way you're a stubborn imbecile. : porp
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            You will never be happy until it is Phil : gmd
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              Who would perma Phil. That's just cold, Phil has nowhere else to go. Plus he never learned to read. : RyDogg1
              • Phil doesn't need us anymore between him trolling Twitter as brad pit and neogaf as cliffy b. : Hoax
            • I am haiku : Phil
        • What have you done. : Head Rush
        • lol. i dont know if this is a joke or not. : Mmmmmoo
        • THANKS.TXT'D ;OLLOLOLOLOLOL P34<3 : ateam311
        • ahh fuck, I can't believe you've done this. : Slowtreme
        • o gad : das_runt
        • I was about to side with you before you grabbed your teddy bear and went home : Ovate
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          that is quite tame even if the mods were valve bootlickers. there's got to be more to this than that. : fathertime
          • It was only a 30 minute ban. Bit of an overreaction on his part. : Merlin13x
          • i agree with the content of his statement, but it's a pretty lame post to self-immolate over : dirge23
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            it wasn't clever, it wasn't contributing meaningfully, and like haiku said probably not every mod would n... : pharom
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              I hope you're prepared to lose 99% of the shack, then. I wouldn't mind watching Phil talk to himself all... : Ovate
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                I won't lie, I'm really getting sick of LOL @ L4D2 posts : pharom
                • There are so many things to get sick of, for the same reasons people are sick of excessus. Can we ban... : Felraiser
                • If it's getting worn out, then fine, make it nukable. I'm just saying we shouldn't expect every post to ... : Ovate
                • I won't lie, I'm really agreeing with every single one of them, the whole thing is a joke, I still, still... : abrasion
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              I would say 50% of thread starter posts in comments on fp stories are trollish. It is obvious this one m... : fathertime
              • I appreciate a nice, clever troll like the next guy. Calling L4D a betatest when many of us have gotten c... : pharom
              • And we should probably be nuking 50% of the root posts in front page stories too, it's just that we tend ... : zakk
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              The whole point is discussion isn't it and that is a topic which people are discussing at the moment, alt... : abrasion
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                He might have meant it as a joke, but it could also be interpreted as threadshitting or trolling, dependi... : pupismyname
                • It's also noted on the mod board though and makes him look like a douche in advertantly - too many 'notes... : abrasion
        • Hahahahah, wow : Serpico74
        • CELLEBRATE GOOD TIMES COME ON nanananananananaaaa : laurgasms
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          why do you stand in front of someone with quad and the chaingun spinning?! BAD STRAT : Downforce
          • I love you for this post. : tomservo
        • hahaha (although I agree it was not ban worthy unless there is more to this) : mwasher
        • See you tomorrow. : omnova
        • You're blowing it way out of proportion, we all get nuked at some point in time. : jingletard
        • what in the fuck dude, I had just stepped away to prepare a nice hot bowl of popcorn for this thread and ... : vynn
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          you'll be back : pancake humper
          • No he won't. Thanks.txt FTL : sm00v3d
        • you got banned for that ? lame. Come on guys : kainen1
        • Permabanned for thanks.txt : TastyWheat
        • no please, come back. we need you. : thekidd
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          moderation is a very difficult job, and very subjective. shacknews has an excellent mod team. they are... : dahanese
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            ^^^^^Sleeps with a mod. Goddamn mod apolegists... : Hoax
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              i ran the 2K community long before mike became a mod. it changes your perspective. : dahanese
              • Still going to blame mike. What's he gonna do, nuke me? you know I was kidding above right? : Hoax
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            God this is so heavy handed. Yes, they're unpaid volunteers, and they get a lot of leeway for it. But... : Ovate
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              God i am so over whining about moderation - it's never going to be completely 100% utopian fair. who giv... : FrayLo
              • And the post happened two days ago. He's bitching about a nuke and 30-minute ban due to a throw-away pos... : Arcanum
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                I don't want to think that I can be banned for a half hour for saying something innocuous. Oh noes I mus... : Ovate
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                  who gives a shit, it's a fucking half hour!!!!!! : FrayLo
                  • Who cares how long it is. If it's heavy handed and capricious of course I'm going to be annoyed. Now,... : Ovate
                  • allow me to clarify - getting a nuke and/or ban isn't the end of the world. i know lot of people like to : FrayLo
              • As long as you don't act like a complete douche you aren't going to get a perma. I think most people have... : Ctrl-Phreak
            • It's not a childish comment. It's a threadshit. You can't go into a post about Valve (or PS3, or 360) a... : redfive
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          I don't think you mods quite understand. This guy has been shacking since 2000 motherfuckers. : NastyJack
          • I just checked his profile an he is 37 years old. : Hoax
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          anyone know what game he was talking about : Chandler55
          • L4D? : vynn
        • Fucking lol. Man let it go. Btw I have called haiku worse and I'm still posting so stfu accept the nuke. ... : Hoax
        • Here's your sign. : Arcanum
        • ooh waaah waaah waaaah : moshman
        • Why so serious? : unsound
      • Hahahahaha teary vagina : El Tigre
      • Honestly, the first two paragraphs of this post should (with the tiniest of tweaking) become the defacto ... : Jonathan
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      I think the key is to not go batshit insane with rage over a 30 minute nuke. It was a trollish post, it g... : pupismyname
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        Some people take that shit personally. You know this. : RyDogg1
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          i can understand that, but i have a hard time imagining waiting the 30 minutes and then coming back in st... : dirge23
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            The nuke in question was TWO DAYS AGO. : pupismyname
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              hahaha what the fuck :D : mwasher
              • (still a stupid ban) : mwasher
            • ahhahahahahahahahaha what : pancake humper
            • Hahaha : magistersmax
            • i guess some people just don't have a lot going on in their lives : dirge23
            • hmmmm. well: LOL : Downforce
            • Hahahah HOLEE SHIT!!! This just made this whole thread fucking EPIC! : Solstice
            • hahah yesss : das_runt
            • Holy lol. : Hoax
        • I would say this is it. : abrasion
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          it's worth noting that the nuke was two days ago : mikecyb
          • Oh god. That's just pathetic. : RyDogg1
          • Lolololol : TastyWheat
      • I see my post was too late. Excessus just lived up to his name. :( : pupismyname
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    haha. your complaint has been noted and summarily disregarded. : dirge23
    • Don't forget the public humiliation. : yoonix
  • Translation: ignore it or Haiku will rape you through the intertubes, I heard he can do that from a very ... : locater16
• was it one of the terrible mods? : CoRDS
• Oh, I have an idea but you probably wouldn't like it. : rosewood
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  was it brickmatt? it was brickmatt, wasn't? it was probably brickmatt. : lightly inclined
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    It was moz :( : abrasion
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      abrasion you are such a kangacocksucker : ateam311
      • I don't even think you know what I'm joking about, why bother replying? : abrasion
• I suggest you attend the next Gamefly shareholders' meeting and broach the subject there. : dirge23
• STFU AND GTFO! ffs : m0rfus
• I don't get the whole complain to a mod thing, does that ever work out for anyone on any site? : boomdeath
• I once received a nuke-and-ban for posting something about poop. Just enjoy the lol's and get over i... : mlev