1. trip

Really?

2. mapleleaf.

3. Katsarephat

4.Trim101

wooooo, considering he intends to not play the game but use the forum to harass a player that does (Sicarius)...then yes, really

5. col.goose10

6. figlesquidge

TheGhostmaker: "6. figlesquidge"
Was that a freudian slip? Have you just admitted to being a multiaccounter ? :-p

Wow. I'm starting to think maybe Trim101 is Diplomat. What a dumb thread this is, and the maturity level of the thread smacks of Diplomat.

uhhhh.....it's not trim101's thread.

Choose your battles more wisely, my friend.

Damn... it went so far... I joined in very staggered times, argued with myself, became a mod in one of my accounts, working on it in another. I played some games against myself fairly, did enough work creating different persona's with different interests on the development forum, and the was just about to work the accounts together after my exams in the summer too. All that work ruined in one go. I best be honest, and just ban my second account with my first.

(figle, please don't ban me for impersonating a mod, or for laughs either, or because I am attacking you in our game)

Haha, you know full well that I would have banned you for laughs ages ago if I thought I could get away with it :D
In fairness when I first read it I thought he was just trying to sign me up to the list without signing himself up which is a good strategy.
----Now, on topic:
1. Oppose
2. Oppose
3. Agree
4. Oppose
Just because he's going stop playing doesn't mean he should leave the site. I'm going to stop playing after these games (busy summer workload, including my dev commitment here), but I would hope I don't have to leave the forum because of it. He should act sensibly like the majority yes, but not be thrown out.

Ironically, by typing point 3, you violated it.

But really, I thought we had finished making pointless petitions. I'll talk to whoever I want, whether that includes diplomat or not.

figs, his intent is to harass (according to his profile). If he has time to do that, then any excuse he gives for not playing is as bogus as his PhD.

honestly just did it for shits and giggles
back to playing dip for me...

I was going to slowly sign up all the mods so that if he does get banned they have to, in order to keep faith (among diplomacy players, why do you think it took so long to get some trusted mods in the first place?) they'd have to get somebody else to announce it.

Good Idea, I'm in

DJ, its a little difficult for me to take criticism about maturity from someone who's name translates to "yearning for dingleberries"
And being mature all the time would be excrusiatingly boring
;-)

A petition is when the signers ask for some authority to make or change a procedure or ruling. People adding their names and agreeing to do something would make this a pledge, not a petition. And a silly pledge, at that.

This is worse than anything I've said, you hypocrites.

Is it?

no

I think this is all kind of amusing to watch.

oi dont accuse me of starting dumb threads im insulted :p

I beg to differ, P.Ginsberg

I find it ironic that ...uh... the person above me in the thread's last game is intitled "Diplomacy Beginners"

That's the truth.

So now according to the petition because dip commented you cannot respond, refute, only retreat.

There are no retreats available. We'll have to disband this thread.

@abgemacht: Actually, there's an open adjacent province, but we just bounced the thread there.

I'd pledge to this, but I know I could never keep it as he just irks me too much sometimes with his inane posts.

Quick question for mods:
Is targetting one individual for ridicule/personal attacks against the rules? Cause I'm kinda tired of this whole diplomat vs others bickering... It's noise that is clogging up the forum...

The forum has always been pretty well left to control itself, with interference only in major cases - extreme spamming is the only case I can recall, although obviously hate-speech etc would probably also lead to action being taken.