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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6660 on: September 12, 2017, 01:51:03 pm »
Guess the mods don't want us voicing our dissatisfaction about the change anymore. Will doing so here in the ranting thread be met with warnings/mutes?
haha, yeah, really.

again, they probably didn't close it to try and aggrevate everyone, but stuff like that would make me even less inclined to pay


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6661 on: September 12, 2017, 02:07:41 pm »
Guess the mods don't want us voicing our dissatisfaction about the change anymore. Will doing so here in the ranting thread be met with warnings/mutes?

Would you like to be more specific as to who you are referring to?
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6662 on: September 12, 2017, 02:14:10 pm »
Ok while a mod is here. Please, instead of policing and muting, can you head on over to the thread "I want to pay-but how". Seriously before you lose a whole lot more of us.
« Last Edit: September 12, 2017, 02:15:42 pm by What?What? »
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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6663 on: September 12, 2017, 02:16:45 pm »
I literally cannot access my own content anymore because of the new paywall issue. I uploaded content more than a year ago (the Where's Wally game) and, because I changed schools, I no longer have it on my computer (I thought I did though). Now, I have to pay to access my own content! I don't have money on my Paypal account so I literally can't pay right now (not that I should pay to access my own things o.O).


Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6664 on: September 12, 2017, 02:17:45 pm »
Did maximmm get banned? He made a lot of quality stuff... :sad:


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6665 on: September 12, 2017, 02:26:46 pm »
Did maximmm get banned? He made a lot of quality stuff... :sad:

Is there a way to search waygook.org users by username?

Did a google search and found an old thread.  He doesn't appear to be banned?  Profile looks normal. 


Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6666 on: September 12, 2017, 02:27:57 pm »
Did maximmm get banned? He made a lot of quality stuff... :sad:

Maximmm is over at the Spam site now.  He said he can no longer access waygook because his ip addresses have been banned.


Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6667 on: September 12, 2017, 02:34:17 pm »
Did maximmm get banned? He made a lot of quality stuff... :sad:

Is there a way to search waygook.org users by username?

Did a google search and found an old thread.  He doesn't appear to be banned?  Profile looks normal.

I'm not sure what a banned profile looks like. According to "Jejujohn77-not-weigookin74" weigookin74 was blocked (banned?) and his profile looks the same as maximmm's...


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6668 on: September 12, 2017, 02:42:42 pm »
Did maximmm get banned? He made a lot of quality stuff... :sad:

Is there a way to search waygook.org users by username?

Did a google search and found an old thread.  He doesn't appear to be banned?  Profile looks normal.

I'm not sure what a banned profile looks like. According to "Jejujohn77-not-weigookin74" weigookin74 was blocked (banned?) and his profile looks the same as maximmm's...


Hmm.  I guess I thought it would resemble a deleted account where the name would be bolded but unable to be clicked on?  Perhaps the IP addresses have been banned like HabsFanInKorea said. 


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6669 on: September 12, 2017, 02:46:55 pm »
All these pseudonyms are hard to keep track of.
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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6670 on: September 12, 2017, 03:03:13 pm »
Guess the mods don't want us voicing our dissatisfaction about the change anymore. Will doing so here in the ranting thread be met with warnings/mutes?

Would you like to be more specific as to who you are referring to?


Pretty sure he's talking about Davey closing the complaining thread. Is a bit frustrating when earlier in the day he said we were waiting on Arsalan but that the conversation could continue.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6671 on: September 12, 2017, 03:05:10 pm »
Guess the mods don't want us voicing our dissatisfaction about the change anymore. Will doing so here in the ranting thread be met with warnings/mutes?

Would you like to be more specific as to who you are referring to?

Sure, I'll be as specific as I can be: Whichever mods have locked every thread about the paywall.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6672 on: September 12, 2017, 09:54:57 pm »
I've always thought the over modding is done by that mod.
Ko fills half his luggage with instant noodles for his international business travels, a lesson he learned after assuming on his first trip that three packages would suffice for six days. “Man, was I wrong. Since then, I always make sure I pack enough.”
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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6673 on: September 13, 2017, 07:33:46 am »
maximmm was banned, fyi. Banned accounts look the same as active ones. The user just can't log in.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6674 on: September 13, 2017, 09:35:00 am »
Ok while a mod is here. Please, instead of policing and muting, can you head on over to the thread "I want to pay-but how". Seriously before you lose a whole lot more of us.

Sorry but I will try my best to help.

Guess the mods don't want us voicing our dissatisfaction about the change anymore. Will doing so here in the ranting thread be met with warnings/mutes?

Would you like to be more specific as to who you are referring to?


Pretty sure he's talking about Davey closing the complaining thread. Is a bit frustrating when earlier in the day he said we were waiting on Arsalan but that the conversation could continue.

Oh I guess the thread got too repetitive in a negative way. There seemed to be less discourse and more flaming at that point if I were to guess his reasons.

Guess the mods don't want us voicing our dissatisfaction about the change anymore. Will doing so here in the ranting thread be met with warnings/mutes?

Would you like to be more specific as to who you are referring to?

Sure, I'll be as specific as I can be: Whichever mods have locked every thread about the paywall.

Well you mentioned users getting warned/muted for expressing their dissatisfaction. So I was thinking more along the lines of that. You may not see the post they were warned for, because if it was really insulting or profane, it was most likely removed. It's okay to be angry or upset and express that, but flaming is still unacceptable.
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6675 on: September 13, 2017, 10:01:22 am »
Why does my school insist on playing the listening test in the teacher's room?


  • Mister Tim
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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6676 on: September 13, 2017, 10:55:45 am »
Well you mentioned users getting warned/muted for expressing their dissatisfaction. So I was thinking more along the lines of that. You may not see the post they were warned for, because if it was really insulting or profane, it was most likely removed. It's okay to be angry or upset and express that, but flaming is still unacceptable.

I wasn't really talking about anyone specific having already been warned or muted, I was more wondering whether that was something that could happen.

There have been at least two threads about the subject that were locked, one of which wasn't nearly as long as the more recent one. One thread being locked ostensibly "for flaming" can perhaps be excused, but two threads about the same topic being locked seemed to suggest that the topic was off-limits.

I'm generally of the mind that it's better to remove/warn inflammatory posts than to lock threads entirely, so conversation can be allowed to continue. When a topic is locked down not once but twice, it starts to look like inflammatory posts weren't the problem.
« Last Edit: September 13, 2017, 10:57:31 am by Mister Tim »


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6677 on: September 13, 2017, 12:27:06 pm »
In May, I was told that teaching the 2nd and 3rd year middle school kids how to read large numbers was too easy for them.

Guess who can't read the large numbers that are part of the lesson we're doing now.


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Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6678 on: September 13, 2017, 01:22:16 pm »
In May, I was told that teaching the 2nd and 3rd year middle school kids how to read large numbers was too easy for them.

Guess who can't read the large numbers that are part of the lesson we're doing now.
I would say that a good twelve-twentieths of my grade three middle school students still mix up "12" and "20", as well as "n-teen" and "n-ty".

I occasionally do warm up activities in middle school that include counting by multiples of 10 etc that stump my kids.*

* My favourite is the clapping game: students take turns counting, but need to clap instead if certain conditions are met. For example, clap for any number with a circle in it (ie 0,4,6,8,9), is a prime, is a multiple of 7, has either less than or more than 2 vowels, is symmetrical, etc. Can get really confusing when you start layering conditions! Inventive punishments always make things more fun!

   Oh, and a rant: it's my birthday soon, and I've only received a half dozen gifts from the kids. They better step up their generosity tomorrow, else it'll be nothing but worksheets and textbooks next week!  >:(


Re: RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0
« Reply #6679 on: September 13, 2017, 02:57:27 pm »
My principal is a pretty chill guy. I don't interact with him much, but he always makes it a point to greet me whenever we cross paths. He bows, says "hello" or "good morning" in English (even when I try to greet him in Korean), and he doesn't do anything to make my life harder, so it's all good.

The only thing is that whenever people from outside of the school drops in to visit, he makes it a point to almost completely ignore me, even when I greet him. I understand that there are appearances to maintain... but why is being a rude asshole to a foreigner a part of that process? All I know is, my other principals never felt the need to do this. They may have chosen to nod their heads instead of slightly bowing to me in those same instances, but they still politely acknowledged my presence.

I just wonder if he ever feels bad about doing it, if he realizes just how bad it looks to those outside of the gaejeossi circle.