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Paddle2See wrote:

Please present your arguments in a calm and reasoned fashion.  All this screaming is giving me a headache and not improving your case.   I would hate to have to close the topic for flaming.  Thanks!

Excuse me? IN A CALM AND REASONED FASHION? HAVE YOU READ MY POST? DO YOU ASSUME THAT I AM SHOUTING BECAUSE OF USING CAPITALS? PLEASE DO NOT ASSUME THIS. WHY WOULD YOU ASSUME THIS. IN FACT, I HAVE HAD TO EXPLAIN THIS QUITE A NUMBER OF TIMES THAT JUST BECAUSE I USE A FEW CAPS DOES NOT MEAN I AM IN ANY WAY ANGRY OR EVEN SHOUTING. WHATEVER DO YOU MEAN THAT THIS SHOUTING IS GIVING YOU A HEADACHE. I AM JUST TRYING TO EMPHASIZE MY LETTERS, TO MAKE THEM ABLE TO BE SEEN BETTER. If it is actually giving you a headache, I will gladly stop and am sorry. But you're automatically thinking that I am in a rage and trying to offend everyone, when I am not. I am not trying to cause a flame war, I am not even flaming. I am just trying to give fairness for my team.

In the top part of this post, I said this before (just to show that I am telling the truth about explaining not being angry): http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=465187#p465187

But as of right now, I truly am in a cold sweat, and feeling sick to my stomach. It is not from some kind of pressure, I am just sick of this. I am sick of the olympics, and I am sick of the Scratch Website frankly. I just wanted to have some fun at the olympics but I joined the wrong team. A team that the organizer of the olympics has some grudge against and does not like. I actually believed that it was my own fault, as in my title of New Scratcher that was the cause of his targetting but I can see that it is not now. One member of my team gets themselves banned (what did they get banned for anyways? I never found out, though I guess I don't really need to know or should be given the information after all, but I heard that it might have been something minor) and all of a sudden, I can't participate anymore. That makes me feel horrible.

terminator68 wrote:

@illusionist - I think you should just ignore that long speech  . I believe that you know what you are doing   

Wow thanks buddy. I spent a lot of time writing that, putting my thoughts into words, choosing them carefully and I think it is quite well expressed, and you're telling him not to read it? What is your problem? I am shocked at this. Why are you doing this to me? Have I done something to you? Something for you to hate me this much? I am overreacting a little here I guess, but it is not ill placed. Who would do something like what this person just did? Why?

16Skittles wrote:

who said it includes past? it's only penalized if it happens in the time of competition! If you, say, are playing football at your school, and you get an offsides penalty, you wouldn't get a penalty if you head to the NFL and are in the game. but, seeing as the imprk case happened after the competition started, it still counts.

That means the member of our team who was banned could just as well get removed without our team having to suffer penalties, but we are still getting disqualified. But did we get a chance to do this? No, I don't think we did.

Notice how there are two penalties on the board? 50 point reduction and total disqualification? What are the reasons for this? I think it's something like 'The people I hate disqualification, the people I like -50 reduction'. It may not be true, but that's what it feels like. That and the impersonation rule are practically the same thing, so we should get rid of one of them. In that case, both Team Moldova and Team America should be fully disqualified or just Iamrpk and The-Stranger disqualified or a point reduction for both teams.

That's right, someone needs to close the whole Olympics, especially if a judge is going to act that way. Jimmy, I know you mean well, but can you cut down on the capslock a bit? I know you aren't shouting, but it's making our case worse

terminator68 wrote:

It would be sad for the judges not the view the outstanding work you guys make, but I'm afraid if this is taken too far, the whole Olympics might be a mess  ...

Is Technoman around these days? I wanted to ask him how he passed it onto illusionist.

terminator68 wrote:

Blade-Edge wrote:

terminator68 wrote:

It would be sad for the judges not the view the outstanding work you guys make, but I'm afraid if this is taken too far, the whole Olympics might be a mess  ...

Is Technoman around these days? I wanted to ask him how he passed it onto illusionist.

Please don't talk trash about my buddy! illusionist can't be held responsible for everything! These contests can be hard to handle, so give him a break...please

Why so serious?
I wasn't saying anything bad about him. I was just curious about something

terminator68 wrote:

Blade-Edge wrote:

terminator68 wrote:

Please don't talk trash about my buddy! illusionist can't be held responsible for everything! These contests can be hard to handle, so give him a break...please

Why so serious?
I wasn't saying anything bad about him. I was just curious about something

Sorry  . My bad, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings and such. Never mind my previous post...

That didn't hurt my feelings either, don't worry.

Blade-Edge wrote:

terminator68 wrote:

Blade-Edge wrote:

Why so serious?
I wasn't saying anything bad about him. I was just curious about something

Sorry  . My bad, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings and such. Never mind my previous post...

That didn't hurt my feelings either, don't worry.

Gotcha  ! Thanks!

Guys! When I said "We should start a flame war", it was a typo. I meant "We shouldn't start a flame war"!

@Jimmy - It was a typo, and sorry that you got disqualified...

Last edited by terminator68 (2010-07-24 14:17:58)

You know you should really type up your posts completely beforehand and not edit in add-ons afterwards. The add-ons might get missed. That was still an awfully irresponsible typo. What would you have done if you were facing less mature Scratchers? It took quite a while to edit.


I propose that we restart the Olympics. That way, the newly added rules can actually be fair. The judges can still keep their positions and the teams can still be the same. We gather all the members before June 26th. That's adaquate time to get everything reorganized. The judging could be better planned as well. Maybe make projects into 5 different categories? It was suggested in this thread earlier. Also it can wait until the scratch team finishes discussing the matter of the Moldovian Aurochs and Team America. What do you say Illusionist? Or are you going to play unfair to the end? Personally I don't think the Scratch Team's time should be wasted by a user planned event such as the Olympics. It's a lucky thing they aren't going to just cancel the whole thing altogether, so maybe you should reconsider now Illusionist.

Exactly. JJ, please calm down. 

Blade-Edge wrote:

fg123 wrote:

Exactly. JJ, please calm down. 

If I didn't know any better, I would say that's a troll post, but you're just naive.
He has mentioned several times that he is calm, and his capitalization is emphasis, not shouting

But if you realize, some people might take it as shouting. He can use italics to emphasize...

Blade-Edge wrote:

terminator68 wrote:

Blade-Edge wrote:

If I didn't know any better, I would say that's a troll post, but you're just naive.
He has mentioned several times that he is calm, and his capitalization is emphasis, not shouting

But if you realize, some people might take it as shouting. He can use italics to emphasize...

But if you realize, he's a new scratcher, which means he may not know the right bbcode

Gee, sorry!

Hey jimmy, you can go here to learn more about BBcode. The code for italics is:

[i]INSERT TEXT HERE[/i]

Last edited by terminator68 (2010-07-24 14:41:38)

terminator68 wrote:

@Jimmy - good luck getting illusionist to put more work into this and restart  . Also some of us will be in school during the olympics if we restart. We will have homework and projects to work on!

I don't think you understand dates or the concept of time. I only propsed the Olympics to be delayed by 2 days. That'll hardly affect anyone's school scheedule. When is the Judging for the Olympics anyways? Surely it's not right at the edge of Summer 2 days before the start of school.

It's basically a way for teams to get organized better. I never said they had to change. It is quite a simple process doing the delay. It's because the team registration were sloppy and disorganized.

Italics Emphasizing and Capital Emphasizing are different. Don't they teach you this at internet school? Actually ignore that joke, it's common sense figuring out which is which.