wtf is going on at Halomods >_<

[Supermodder911]

mb...
But the 360 is very complex and was contstucted by very smart people...

If we can't sign a simple conatiner file with hashes every 1000 bytes, We aren't ready for anything else.

[DemonicSandwich]

mb...
But the 360 is very complex and was contstucted by very smart people...

Very smart people who designed it poorly hardware wise. Not poorly in performance because we all know it can perform rather excellent.
Its hardware arranged where it has very little heat threshold and has a very easy chance of overheating durring the summer just idling in the dash.
The hardware issues skyrocket toward 2007 and in early July 2007, M$ extended the 1 year warranty to 3 years.

Great job designers, this hardware design flaw guaranteed M$ to loose over one billion dollars in repairs on xbox 360 consoles. I bet at least a dozen people got fired that day.
XBOX 360s from the day of its launch are still covered till late this year.

Oh, is anyone a bit bothered with that large grey brick of a power supply...that they decided to place OUTSIDE the system.
I bet they couldn't have made the 360 more of a pain in the ass to store and/or transport.
>.<

Its a great system and all, its just that they could've done such a better job on its hardware design.

[NotZachary82]

Oh, is anyone a bit bothered with that large grey brick of a power supply...that they decided to place OUTSIDE the system.

XD me. im staring at it right now; it looks like ****

[DemonicSandwich]

But ya, the halo modding websites will come back to life once we get our hands on the tools and methods.

[Supermodder911]

Well only few people have the "tools" required to even get the CPU key...

Even with our CPU Key you dont have much you can do...

[Kirk]

I'm bored and had nothing to do so I figured I'd mess around on a few sites I never go to..


So I have a question, figured it'd be better to ask it here than elsewhere, with all the anti-halomods talk going around...

Am I bad Admin? I mean, I'm not really an admin anymore (see Tural's post) but you know what I mean.

I mean I try to help you guys out, I argue with the other staff members and try to get them to reconsider these harsher punishments all the time but I often think nobody actually gives a shit. Nobody really said they respected me in the Respect thread that popped up that one time (in fact, most of the people you guys considered "bad" were in those lists) except like one person, nobody ever goes and tells me i'm doing a good or bad job, and then I see stuff like this and I wonder if all I'm trying to do is just a waste of time, or even worse, having a negative effect towards you.

So seriously, am I just wasting my time?

[DoorM4n]

Respect is one thing and being the admin deal tends to mingle with that, IMO.

Halomods has been full of stubborn individuals who really don't care about anybody but themselves for some time now. I knew the only way for me to officially leave Halomods was to get myself banned. I have yet to regret leaving. From what I remember, people didn't motivate or influence others and it was a terrible environment for everyone. I knew I had to get out because it was only putting unnecessary stress that is for the most ludicrous reasons. Did you notice how it went from an era of prosperity where the self-centered individuals came around once a week directly into an entire community trying to act authoritative harassing everyone for the most inappropriate things. I don't understand that at all... However, I would be a hypocrite if I do not state that I was once a self-centered individual to the capacity at which I am referring to. Ya dig? :p


The idea of good Admin bad admin is pretty dumb. I can only recall one Staff member that I struggled with and so everyone else was just part of the community to me. I usually consider officials to be directly part of the community; standing out in a crowd such as police but not as distinguishable. I didn't have any problems with your tolerance levels thus you were not a "bad" admin; just an individual with "higher powers". Did I answer your question yet? :p

Yes, you are wasting your time with Halomods, IMO. It is sucking freedoms and adding stresses to our lives. Halomods was once an amazing site but for a while now it has become drained of its supremacy and kicked in the trashcan.
All in all, you are not a bad admin.

[Aumaan Anubis]

I've yet to disrespect/find a reason to dislike an admin.

You're doing fine, Kirk.

[JK-47]

I'm bored and had nothing to do so I figured I'd mess around on a few sites I never go to..


So I have a question, figured it'd be better to ask it here than elsewhere, with all the anti-halomods talk going around...

Am I bad Admin? I mean, I'm not really an admin anymore (see Tural's post) but you know what I mean.

I mean I try to help you guys out, I argue with the other staff members and try to get them to reconsider these harsher punishments all the time but I often think nobody actually gives a shit. Nobody really said they respected me in the Respect thread that popped up that one time (in fact, most of the people you guys considered "bad" were in those lists) except like one person, nobody ever goes and tells me i'm doing a good or bad job, and then I see stuff like this and I wonder if all I'm trying to do is just a waste of time, or even worse, having a negative effect towards you.

So seriously, am I just wasting my time?

To be honest, you're the best active staff member at Halomods (in my opinion). I don't want to sound like I'm kissing ass, but I'm just telling the truth.

[JacksonCougar]

I've never had a problem with you kirk, so yea your doing fine. Its just... Halomods has the wrong mission statement; to me its seems like this: "We're here to mode this game! Its not really legal but we shall do it anyways. Oh and talking about things that are illegal is not allowed! Fear me!"

But other then that little hypocrisy I don't mind halomods too much. To be honest kirk there is nothing you could do short of replacing all staff members with new ones that could perhaps start the community on a change of attitude. And that action is highly volatile.

[neodos]

Same i never had a problem with you Kirk

[Tural]

I've never had a problem with you kirk, so yea your doing fine. Its just... Halomods has the wrong mission statement; to me its seems like this: "We're here to mode this game! Its not really legal but we shall do it anyways. Oh and talking about things that are illegal is not allowed! Fear me!"

But other then that little hypocrisy I don't mind halomods too much. To be honest kirk there is nothing you could do short of replacing all staff members with new ones that could perhaps start the community on a change of attitude. And that action is highly volatile.

The reason for allowing some things and not others is simple, if we permitted everyone to post anything illegal, the site would be on very unstable ground and could easily be shut down with a single CaD letter.

There aren't enough active, respected, known, and rule-enforcing members to replace the staff.

[JacksonCougar]

I never said they had to be those things; which is why I said that option would be a volatile one ;p

[Tural]

You really can't appoint unknown, do-nothing staff members on such a large site. They need those qualities.

On top of that, staff isn't the make-or-break point for the community's attitude. Say you removed me and Veegie from the staff. That wouldn't change anything. We'd still post exactly the same, we'd still have the same personality. The non-staff community is more ruthless than the staff is. The only thing you would gain out of changing staff is that you'd have less rules being enforced. You'd have bad staff, but good people. I'm a good staff member, it is not my position you dislike, it is my personality. I enforce the rules well, and go about the staff duties well. That is not your issue, and a lot of people get confused in how they talk about it. Your problem is not with the staff, it is with the personalities, which would not change, regardless of position.

The whole issue, as I see it, is size. Halomods is huge. There are hundreds of new members every month, some of them idiots, some of them will become good, upstanding members later on, some will ask a question, get an answer, and never come back because they don't care. In small communities, take this site or Yayap for example, you have very little need for any rules at all. The people who visit them are already established when they get there, and can converse freely without the interruption of the lessers and whatnot. A small community will always be superior in attitude to a large one, because there is less need for discipline from staff, as the members there already know how to behave and get along. On a site like Halomods, most of the rule-breakers are new members, members nobody knows. Occasionally you get the higher-up member being a douche for whatever reason, but for the most part, they go about their business without issue. If you take the best, the known members, and place them elsewhere, such as this site, they will always be more productive and more friendly than when they have to deal with the annoyances of the ten thousand other members in their way. It's so much easier to manage. On the flip side, take a site where the worst go. The people who get banned from Halomods on their first day because they show up and post a 3ds keygen while simultaneously telling you to fellate their genitals end up at places like Seven Sins. Seven Sins has a terrible community. It's full of idiots, cheaters, and douchebags. Are they good people there? Absolutely. I'm not stating they are bad, I am stating that that's the kind of place you end up with when you take the worst members. If any site takes the top members and maintains a small size, it will always be able to look down on the larger site as a whole, because it truly is better relatively. It's mostly common sense. Good + Good = Great. Good + Terrible = Meh.

The point is, HM is being looked down upon because it is larger, and the people there are not simply those who have proven themselves to be good, the majority is people who couldn't care less and will do whatever they want because they like to be dicks.

I think I could have summed that all up in one or two sentences, but I started on a stream of consciousness and got lost somewhere.

[JacksonCougar]

You really can't appoint unknown, do-nothing staff members on such a large site. They need those qualities.

On top of that, staff isn't the make-or-break point for the community's attitude. Say you removed me and Veegie from the staff. That wouldn't change anything. We'd still post exactly the same, we'd still have the same personality. The non-staff community is more ruthless than the staff is. The only thing you would gain out of changing staff is that you'd have less rules being enforced. You'd have bad staff, but good people. I'm a good staff member, it is not my position you dislike, it is my personality. I enforce the rules well, and go about the staff duties well. That is not your issue, and a lot of people get confused in how they talk about it. Your problem is not with the staff, it is with the personalities, which would not change, regardless of position.

The whole issue, as I see it, is size. Halomods is huge. There are hundreds of new members every month, some of them idiots, some of them will become good, upstanding members later on, some will ask a question, get an answer, and never come back because they don't care. In small communities, take this site or Yayap for example, you have very little need for any rules at all. The people who visit them are already established when they get there, and can converse freely without the interruption of the lessers and whatnot. A small community will always be superior in attitude to a large one, because there is less need for discipline from staff, as the members there already know how to behave and get along. On a site like Halomods, most of the rule-breakers are new members, members nobody knows. Occasionally you get the higher-up member being a douche for whatever reason, but for the most part, they go about their business without issue. If you take the best, the known members, and place them elsewhere, such as this site, they will always be more productive and more friendly than when they have to deal with the annoyances of the ten thousand other members in their way. It's so much easier to manage. On the flip side, take a site where the worst go. The people who get banned from Halomods on their first day because they show up and post a 3ds keygen while simultaneously telling you to fellate their genitals end up at places like Seven Sins. Seven Sins has a terrible community. It's full of idiots, cheaters, and douchebags. Are they good people there? Absolutely. I'm not stating they are bad, I am stating that that's the kind of place you end up with when you take the worst members. If any site takes the top members and maintains a small size, it will always be able to look down on the larger site as a whole, because it truly is better relatively. It's mostly common sense. Good + Good = Great. Good + Terrible = Meh.

The point is, HM is being looked down upon because it is larger, and the people there are not simply those who have proven themselves to be good, the majority is people who couldn't care less and will do whatever they want because they like to be dicks.

I think I could have summed that all up in one or two sentences, but I started on a stream of consciousness and got lost somewhere.

The sign of a good writer ;p

Your right in most ways of course: but your wrong/or my view is jaded/ because everyone at halomods rewally gets on my case whenever I put a toe out of line. That post where I berated that user for his terrible, and purposeful mis-use of grammar and spelling--everyone jumped down my throat because of my allusion to remnant...

Same with that graphics post, for DEEHunters avatar; Got jumped on because I uploaded it to halomods...

[Tural]

The first was because you fought back, saying you weren't advertising, when you were. Directly telling someone "Come to Remnant" is an advertisement. You are directly referring them to your site in your post.

The latter you could have easily fixed, you chose not to, and even admitted that you responded poorly initially.

[JacksonCougar]

I posted the latter thread at 3:00am and fell asleep.

[neodos]

So if we take some shit and new members from HM there'd be a balance on each website that's what we can conclude of your theory Tural...

No, i am just kidding :p

[Tural]

I posted the latter thread at 3:00am and fell asleep.

You replied about 30 minutes after Ombre posted, and then there was a 20 minute period after that before it was locked. You had plenty of time to click a few buttons and upload it somewhere else. Instead of doing that, you replied to the thread and chose to leave it as it was.

[JacksonCougar]

Theres no way I replied 30 minutes later, and if so that night happened in a different way then I remember XD

[Tural]

Your second post was 22 minutes after Ombre posted, 54 minutes after you made the thread. You then again replied 6 minutes later.
The thread was locked 20 minutes after your second reply. You had a time period of exactly 60 minutes in which you were posting, but chose not to simply upload the image elsewhere.

[JacksonCougar]

That just does not seem right...
But I'll take your word for it.

[Tural]

We can't fake post times. Go look for yourself.

[JacksonCougar]

Oh no I believe you Tural it just seems odd I would stay awake for an hour after posting that. I was sure I went to sleep within 20mins, but I guess I lost track of time ;p

[Aumaan Anubis]

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Man, you and INSANEdrive can just not get along, can you?

Why would you threaten to delete his posts? I can understand if it's out of anger or frustration that you would claim to do that, but I can't seem to find a purpose that it would serve.