R.I.P. Valdan Thread 2008-2009Follow

It will be missed.

I guess we need a new thread to report suspicious and untrustworthy people now?

lolGalan inc?

It was a good run.

It probably did need a rest considering we were discussing players other than Valdan in the lolValdan thread. But it was fun.

Cookie?

Good thing nobody did.

C'mon Chewzer....you saw the same pics we ALL saw. Go look at them again and then tell me with a straight face we were wrong to draw those conclusions.....

No one called him a "***" or a "flamer", now THOSE would have been "Grade School insults".

Now that is trying to turn it into the old thread.

So defending myself against being called "damned immature" is not allowed on the alla forums. I see...

This thread is a memorial to the lolValdan thread. Make the new incarnation elsewhere, you harlots. >:O

Only if you really want to test positive for opium...

Valdan is a known con; he's cheated people out of items on several occasions and it's been verified by bunches of people. Unfortunately GMs will not act on him because he steals items from the treasure pool before they end up in anyone else's inventory, and GM policy is that they cannot consider an item "stolen" from anyone unless it was actually in that person's inventory at some point.

The "public" should be informed of people like him, because GMs will not take action, and he's only able to keep getting away with things like that because of playerbase ignorance.

That other thread shifted focus to another sort of people, those who I'm guessing have unlikeable personalities or are just douchebags in general or done a few douchebaggy things. Not really the same class of people as outright thieves so it's more of a gray area and open to interpretation/debate. I think that thread deserved to have been locked or lockwarned because of the path it took, but I also think that people have a right to know about the truly unscrupulous folks. Not the ones that just talk sh*t and annoy you, but the ones that actually *do* really sh*tty things like steal/con.

People can go back and forth about Holman/Miracles/whatever, but I don't think *anyone* here but Josm will ever defend Valdan. And even Josm has pretty much said "well yeah, what he did was wrong, but it's still your fault for not safeguarding your items!" so he's generally considered a troll anyways.

(Just to point out, once that thread reached the point where it got all argumentative and flamey, I don't think anyone was even talking about Valdan anymore. Everyone in that thread knows he's a douche. Thread only got bad because other people entered the picture and it got off-topic.)

Edited, Sep 11th 2009 7:29am by Fynlar

Is that why the thread got locked? All I see is "Requested for lock", which doesn't really tell me why the request was made.

Someone needs a cookie.

Also, server forums are generally regarded as social forums, in that players on a specific server can converse about things that might not be FFXI related as long as it's relatively clean and nobody gets offended. (If that's not the case, it's Asylum time)

I thought the thread was relatively tame, at least compared to many others I've seen, but I can see why not all others would agree with me.

Since always? >_>

How often do you see social/lulz topics getting locked/moved on a server forum as long as they remain civil? I can't think of any, except for a few longstanding social threads that were locked simply because they got too large (like, hundreds of pages long over the course of 2-3 years).

As far as server forums go, most of them typically aren't even moderated. Mods only tend to show up on server forums if someone reports a thread for being offensive or RMT spam or what have you.

It's not like server forums get all that much activity anyways.