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I hereby propose this additional clause to be included the TOS:
Wordpress.com is committed to maintaining sanity of the helpers in the support forum community. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that the Content does not contain any Club Penguin or any other content deemed related to a lack of basic orthography and good manners.
I'm so there. SO THERE.
Some of them are fine, like orvab, but some of them are just shrill, hysterical, untrustworthy nutters. It's a shame they're the ones who seem to post to the forums the most.
I suppose it's futile to even think about the ToS requirement that bloggers be at least 13. And didn't it used to be 18?
And yes, I know, how could it possibly be enforced? (Although when someone posts, as a CP blogger recently did, that he or she is only 12...)
Those CPers lie, though. That one in the forum today was fifteen like I am! I think legally in the US they have to be 13, but it's impossible to enforce. The problem isn't really the age, it's that this game encourages cheats, workarounds, and an entire mindset of subverting authority. I know WP.com isn't Homeland Security, but they're about as receptive to the idea of being subverted.
They do generate an enormous amount of traffic for WP, though. I was looking at some which said things like 'to get on my blogroll you have to have at least 500,000 hits'. And lots of them get that many in just a couple of months.
But I love the suggestion - especially the part about 'any other content deemed related to a lack of basic orthography and good manners.' That should cut out a really obnoxious and irritating subset of bloggers.
@raincoaster - they do lie, but generally they do it very badly!
Like that one that's been banned who was back on the forums today. I noticed he'd commented in another thread and told everyone who he was. *headdesk*
Yep. He's the one who said, "My dad is a crminal lawer or something" and threatened to sue.
I think, you know, this suggestion is post-worthy. A meme in the making?
Start a petition rain :)
Sign me up!
I'll sign. sigh.
I'll sign! But in all seriousness, if not ban, then at least reduce their exposure (ive mentioned b4 but every 15th or so random wordpress blog is about this CP crap :s...
They are the reason I've pretty much dropped out of trying to help on the help forums. It's just too much drama.
Ok, I'm a Club penguin fan and yes... I agree that some are nasty but I now have lots of Club Penguin fans which are my blogging friends. And, why do you think that CLub Penguin encourages ppl to cheat?! Na! I'm gonna tell ppl to invade this petention. xD
Well then. Have your friends invade thread and try to prove me wrong on the spelling and manners part.
What troubles me most about those kids is their poor language. They have been speaking English as their mother tongue all their life while I only had it for five years in school.
deltafoxtrot, kids learn to write with T9, in german, in italian and, as it seems, also in english. But, I must admit, the "petention" almost made me cry (for laughing)! Do some more support work on the forum and you'll see that those kids are not even the main problem.
You're talking about people emitting a technology distortion field?
even though i have a blog about cp too, ill sign ;)
since im sick of chewy crying to the mods all the time ¬¬
@ deltafoxrot,
I only had english for 5 years at school too haha.
Another idea: Apart from the Report as Spam and Report as Mature buttons there should be one labeled Report as Kindergarten.
@Snowdobby
I have no hard time believing that.
Ooooh, I support that one too. Make this into a blog post and add social bookmarking buttons. We'll get it on the front page of Digg in NO TIME!
lol haha
You CANT DO THAT!!!!! You get a lot of traffic from those cp blogs. Like you said,there are HUNDREDS of cp blogs. Plus, my site has almost 1,000,000. Watex's has more than 5 million. If you ban Club Penguin from wordpress, a lot of people will be dissapointed and you will lose traffic. I dunno why the cp bloggers chose wordpress to make their blogs, but I hope they made the right desicion. Please dont ban the cp blogs. Only those who provide hacking programs such as cptrainer, money makers, etc.
Tho I live in the United States
and Im in 7th grade and attend Private School!
Im probably more experianced in the English Language, than some adults.
Look at Watex for example, he used good grammer!
@ snowdobby
lets move to blogger if they do that, i dont care anyways, the only thing i know is that i wasted my time :P
ps. I'm 11,5. I started English Lessons from 5. So yeah, about 6,5 years
chewy if you know more english than adults then grammar isnt spelled as grammer :p
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