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Huesoo: The bolding has too primary functions:

1. Making important words easy to find (especially in longer posts) so people can respond easily to individual points or locate information/arguments they want to get into detail after reading the whole more easily.
2. Marking user names. Personally, I believe that talking about people behind their back is not really a good thing. Therefore, I try to mark user names using bold face so that they can easily see that I am talking about them and thus correct any incorrect statements I may have made.

Well, the emoticon is meant to express emotion, I guess (^_^;;
This one expresses somewhat being embarrassed or feeling odd about something. I mean, in the previous post, I didn't notice someone was trying to ruffle me up until the site owner contacted me about that - usually such things work the other way around. I guess you could call me dense there.

ChairmanPoo: Since I missed half of the action, I can't say for sure, but it seems that they were people who got enraged by my style of posting.

Deathworks

EDIT: (I posted this without including these before because people were posting too fast and I wanted to get this posted today)

Grakelin: I think of the options you offer, OCD comes closest to my reasoning.

Nenjin: :) :) :) :) :)

Actually, if I wanted to say "Fuck you!", I would probably not place the "Hi!" in front of the post in order to indicate an additional level of disrespect (as the "Hi!" is a token of respect in my eyes).

So, the best you can hope for would be:

Drop dead!

Deathworks

:) :) :)

But I highly doubt that someone will push me to make such rather crude and inappropriate statements.

KaelGotDwarves: Actually, you are touching upon a pet peeve of mine: I am not a furry and I would rather not be associated with them as a) they tend to have rather different interests, b) they are a group that has a bad reputation (I can not judge whether that is deserved or not).

Hi!

The reason we all poke fun at Armok is because of posts like that.

Personally, I consider poking fun at someone good only if the target of that action can laugh with you. Once they stop laughing, I think you should pull back.

Deathworks

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I was wondering, would it be possible/advisable to IMPROVE the resolution settings?
Instead of having just one [x/y] setting I was thinking of having a resolution [x/y] setting and a grid [x/y] setting instead of having one setting doing both. This way, those people who have issues with the automatic sizing could explicitly tell the game what they want.

Deathworks

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Well, I was referring to bullying in the context of Armok as it seems that in random threads where he not even participated, people will start talking about him, and usually in a negative fashion. And I wonder how he made it a valid option to modify his avatar without his consent and use it to mock him?

I am not talking about everyone loving each other, and I am not opposed to controversial debate, and while I recommend that people do not resort to insults, I can understand that tempers may go up within a discussion. I am talking about unwarranted dragging up and harassing, of which Armok does indeed seem to be the target here on the forums.

Deathworks

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Toadwater actually sounds like fun to me, but I don't have the time to do online gaming...
Isn't there a single player version of it :) :) :)

Deathworks

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Someone needs to make Armok's avatar with an evil mustache.

I recommend that you stop right there. We have had this before, and it didn't end pretty.

Rather than the issue of trolls, we might wish to wonder about the issue of bullying, which seems to be much more present here on the forums than any serious trolling (partly because the few trolls that invade get shown to the door relatively quickly).

Deathworks

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Grakelin: I have to disagree with you on that. First of all, defending the site rules without regard to personal feelings is a complete must for invoking trust. Is not having favorites who can do anything while others get punished for disagreeing with those favorites a typical symptom of maddened admins? At least that is what I would expect of such admins, given that I never really encountered any admin who was a problem. Besides, if you always stick by the rules as an admin, your decisions are always justifiable and you can expect people to respect your integrity.

However, Muz is also correct that people may try to violate the spirit of the rules while staying formally within their boundary. Fortunately, most terms of service agreements include clauses that can actually handle even somewhat murkier cases (which of course does pose a special challenge for admins).

As for the benefits of internet trolls, I highly doubt that. If it is really a troll, then he acts to anger/infuriate people. And this runs contrary to the interest many people have to relax and chill online after a hard day's work. We already have a lot of strive and idiocy in real life, so it is not unreasonable to expect that people look for some relaxation on the internet - and not everyone considers getting insulted or confronted with inappropriate conduct a relaxing experience.

Deathworks

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No need to worry (although I advice you to go for version 31.08 instead as it has some important bug fixes).
Ever since DF went 3D, there had been cases where the world generation process did not think implications of its designs to the end, resulting in cities falling into the sea when the adventurer visited them, or spontaneous cave-ins at embark.

With default worlds in 31.xx having several nifty underground features, there is a chance that parts of that feature also have such design flaws, resulting in this.

However, talking about this, I realize that you may have to worry about it if it continues: This would mean that there is a place where water and magma mix, IIRC, which would result in a long spam of such messages and quite some lag (via announcements.txt, you can at least get rid of the box).

But other than that, it shouldn't be anything to be afraid of.

Deathworks