Can we get this settled now? I'd like to know who still holds a major grudge against Phizzy right now. I think bygones should be bygones, and I believe the vast majority of us are mature enough to tolerate him, so long as he is contributing to the community instead of destroying it. Frankly, in my perspective no amount of trolling or rude behavior justifies banning someone from the community if they are helping our "kliking youngsters" and actually submitting games and other such projects. But I also understand and appreciate that many people here hold a different perspective, and get their knickers in a twist from Phizzy's offensive, yet innocuous antics. And I'm not going to try to rationalize or defend his crude behavior, but I think we as a community (if I haven't made it clear enough already) should be more on the side of holding hands and singing Kumbaya albeit in an unsexualized manner, then ostracizing each other for our personal differences and opinions. I understand certain individuals have crossed the line and *really* deserved getting banned; people who spam the forums, post nasty pictures of their poo, or *cough* try to *cough* steal passwords. That has all happened to TDC. And we need to ban the people attacking the community. But I never saw Phizzy spamming the forums or doing anything outrageously malicious. Instead, I saw a guy the other day remark how ironic it was that the programming trick he was using was something he learned from Phizzy.
So please, if you still hold some serious miffs with our lovable fatty, bombs away. Let's be mature for once.
I don't know Phizzy personally, so I can't say much about him and I don't have any grudges against him either. What I do know is that he trolled a LOT, even after getting several warnings. And for that, I think him being banned was justified.
Originally Posted by Pixelthief Frankly, in my perspective no amount of trolling or rude behavior justifies banning someone from the community if they are helping our "kliking youngsters" and actually submitting games and other such projects.
I see it backwards. His trolling can't be justified by being active.
The Phizzler. Well, i don't think I've been here long enough to say I've seen a lot of his trolling etc but what I do know is that There was a point when I asked a LOT of questions in the Code it forum and he answered almost every post and provided me with good advice and even an engine or two. Really helped me out.
Originally Posted by ~The Leaping Gazelle~ ... Back on topic...
The Phizzler. Well, i don't think I've been here long enough to say I've seen a lot of his trolling etc but what I do know is that There was a point when I asked a LOT of questions in the Code it forum and he answered almost every post and provided me with good advice and even an engine or two. Really helped me out.
Though at the time, that was to reinforce people's new-founded excuse for him not being banned in the community. To be honest though, I don't see why everyone loves him - like you for example - Pixeltheif. It's really quite sad how you seem to kiss his feet and worship the fool. You have a life don't you? People can survive without Phizzy you know..
The community was and has been a much friendlier place without him.. he used to insult random people a lot, like in the downloads areas etc. and say useless comments / troll, simply everywhere. It's a shame that he can't seem to prevent himself from doing this though - he tends to be all nice again for a couple weeks, then there comes a day when he snaps back to his old self and it begins all over again... and the admins KEEP giving him chances!
Given all of the chances he's had, it doesn't matter how many tutorials etc. he has submitted. You can't cancel one thing out with another like that, it just doesn't work like that in life... "Yeah I'm a serial killer, but I won the lottery and gave the money to cancer research, so hey!" ... You're still going to jail dude! You get me? :\
I think the main reason why he was so helpful Slink, is because when he's here he's like me - he's online pretty much all of the time
I was never in favour of banning him anyway, he never really did anything to harm anyone, just stupid, immature posts here and there. If you can't stand the trolling, get out of the internet.
Edit: On a related note, despite liji's past discrepancies (which were far worse than Phizzy's), he was let in and seems to be doing just fine now. The reasoning behind this is that liji did and still does good things for the community. 'Nuff said.
I can't really see why it's ironic that someone used a programming trick made by phizzy. Thats what phizzy does, he is a coder.
He has helped me no end with my lil' pirate engine and editor.
The thing I wonder though is if he ever got unbanned again would all the admins expect any 'rule breaking' and jump on anything they see?
I think it would be better to accept the way phizzy is and try to deal with any instances of 'rule breaking' in a way that does not involve banning him again.
But that seems to be what he does. Helps out before/just after being officially let back in and then after a few weeks or months he'll start being a offensive again. Wonder if that pattern can finally change?
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