I've been given an ultimatum three times in two days and I figured it was time to say something about it to you guys so I hopefully don't ever have to hear it that often again. This is roughly what's happened in each case. We've suspended someone for something or other. We do a little checking, find they haven't activated a game, so we suspend them for that too. Then we get a huge ticket bitching to us in Support about how we're abusing our power for punishing them because "other games i didn't activate from 2-3 months ago can't be like reported right now" (direct quote, I shit you not). Anyway, some of these tickets tend to go a certain way.

The users give Support an ultimatum: either we unsuspend them or they won't activate their wins.

Our response goes something along the lines of this: "Okay, then, bye. Fuck off already, I have other tickets to deal with."

We're obviously a bit more diplomatic than that in Support itself, but that's the general gist of it. If you give us an ultimatum like that, we don't want you. You obviously have absolutely no regard or respect for the site's rules or, more importantly, the gifter who gave something to you out of their own pocket. If you show that little respect for those two, I am more than willing to let a permanent suspension stay on your account solely for giving us that demand. You give us an ultimatum and we will choose the one that suits our site and our community the best. You did not fit in here and now you never will get the chance to prove that again.

Please don't be that guy.

Thank you.


Special note from wbarton about another form of ultimatum that we have gotten at least daily for a year, so common I forgot about it completely because it's just so vanilla to me now.

"You forgot to mention how we don't care about your giveaways, neither what you've given, nor whether you'll be making more in the future, whether you're threatening never to do it again or trying to bribe us saying you'll make more. I never understood people who think they deserve special treatment for using the site the way it was designed to be used."

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It makes me wonder how someone can believe in such a flawed sense of logic. I guess some people just take their own presence in such a high manner that they think everyone wants them.

12 years ago
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If I have to read that wall of text, I won't be giving away any more games here. You decide, SG

12 years ago
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Keep up the good work, Support. I am fully behind your decision.

12 years ago
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There's support team?

12 years ago
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There's a large enough number of bad apples to necessitate a support -TEAM-?

I guess they're doing their jobs, if we never see them.

12 years ago
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There's nine of us on the site (me, cg (the admin), wbarton, Rinarin, Crossbourne, bobofatt, Kaitlyn, Raiden, MoneyHypeMike) and three chat mods (MalekTaktak, Shobo, chronicdiscord).

12 years ago
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anyone knows whats up with mike? didnt hear anything from that guy since he became mod.. I hope cg didnt eat him alive xD just curious

12 years ago
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I think he's on vacation or something.

12 years ago
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I would be a lot more comfortable making public giveaways if these kind of people were absent of this site.

12 years ago
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As the community grows, bad apples too. It is inevitable.

But hey, that shouldn't be stopping you from doing what you want (private giveaways).

12 years ago
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I don't think it would be very efficient to sort all of the good from the bad, and then continue to send them all the giveaway link.

12 years ago
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Generally, anyone you see talking more than once on chat you can consider a good apple.

12 years ago
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does that mean anyone not talking on chat is a bad apple? ;)

12 years ago
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Yes. Screw you, n00b. Stop being a bad apple.

12 years ago
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But Bourne's ultimatum was pretty cool, not as good as first one but still better than 90% of similar shit.

12 years ago
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LOL
Btw I'm a cute adorable dragon :p

12 years ago
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Stop all that cute or I'll quit you!

12 years ago
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shaddap sol. no1 liekz u!

12 years ago
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were there any ultimatums like "Unban me or I'll never use this site again"? xD I bet there were some xD

12 years ago
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Yeah. I think I actually told one really irritating guy "You're not using it anyway, so I'm good either way."

12 years ago
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I think I am innocent

12 years ago
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And unfortunately you're preaching to the choir right now. Sounds like being on support is a nightmare.

12 years ago
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Actually I do want to see ultimatums tossed my way at LEAST once a month lol I like "or else." and "or I'll leave." and my personal favorite "Or I'll sue!". Sometimes I have an odd sense of humor. But sometimes such ppl are capable of golden material and I could use a laugh or two these days.

12 years ago
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lol what, "Or I'll sue"? Let me break the rules or I'll sue you!

12 years ago
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Exactly lol

12 years ago
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try and ban me, see if I ever come back! you've just lost a customer!!!one11

do you get the
oh no hes threatening to never come back after I told him not to :O
people too?

12 years ago
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I see them occasionally but I'm sure I'd see them often if I handed out much more suspensions than giving slaps on wrists for minor infractions.

12 years ago
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Well at least you get to have fun with it - in my job I have to deal with actual paying dickheads so have to tread very carefully when when telling them they are being a dickhead...

12 years ago
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Kaere Kimura is my favorite too!

12 years ago
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Give me all your money or I'll cry.

12 years ago
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Rule number one about dealing with people on the internet: Everybody is shit heads.

12 years ago
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Until proven otherwise right?

12 years ago
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Some people never learn.

12 years ago
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Can you guys make a sticky topic where you can post the funniest support tickets from you receive so we can have a laugh too? :)

12 years ago
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That would seem inappropriate. Support tickets are private for a reason, so a mod couldn't just go publishing the ones they find "funny," even if they did redact the names.

12 years ago
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We've done it before for the truly stupid ones as mini-PSAs of what you should never, ever do. Lokonopa had some beautiful ones back in his days. I miss him.

12 years ago
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Hmm. It still strikes me as inappropriate. Publishing support tickets, even if they are italicizedly stupid, would make me somewhat more hesitant to submit a support ticket, should the need ever arise, which it never has and hopefully never will.

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If you ever get to the point of submitting something we'd bother showing the rest of the community, you're long, long past saving and you're probably already a month into a permanent ban. It takes a very, very special kind of stupid to warrant that attention. You've got nothing to fear.

12 years ago
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I wonder what would happen if CG gave an ultimatum and threatened to no longer make giveaways...

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Pretty new here. Done a couple of GA (even redid one because I felt bad about having to cancel it just before it started), entered tons, not won, not complained. I made a new friend here, even better than my imaginary one (but don't tell Fred because he gets jealous). Easily worth more than a free game. Keep up the good work or 'insert subtle yet hilarious Monty Python quote style threat'. :)

12 years ago
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Why would you do anything that would make Fred jealous. #1 rule, Imaginary friends over all other friends.

12 years ago
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"We shall say 'Ni!' again to you if you do not appease us."

12 years ago
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You could've just wiped your nose at us.

12 years ago
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But... but Fred said he was MY friend D':

12 years ago
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I'm so hard right now

12 years ago
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wut

12 years ago
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He's matty, he gets off justice and grape popsicles.

12 years ago
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grape popsicles? O_O

12 years ago
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They are the best.

12 years ago
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Purple is best flavor.

12 years ago
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This is pretty true.

12 years ago
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Grape cold on the cob, for our British users

12 years ago
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:P

12 years ago
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I see you get very enthusiastic about cold on the cob. I see a purple tongue in your future.

12 years ago
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uhm... would you believe me if I said wrong window?

12 years ago
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If it were, that'd just make things even more awkward. Were you doing cyber with someone? O_O

12 years ago
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I was writing fanfic?

12 years ago
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Fine, you win this round, you goddamn immigrant!

12 years ago
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haha this one's new to me, the kinda ticket you deal with. no wonder it takes time for a ticket to get answered.
i just hope this shit stops after this post, or maybe not, ofc there are so many users registering everyday, unless u make this one a sticky maybe hehe

12 years ago
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RESPECT!

12 years ago
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MAH AUTHORITAH!

12 years ago
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I'd personally love to see a showcase of some of these ultimatums, for a good laugh.

12 years ago
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I'm thinking of starting up a regularly updated anonyified Hall of Stupidity. Every day, there's something that just makes my jaw drop.

12 years ago
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I look forward to having a good laugh at them.

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+1

12 years ago
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You do it or ill be sad!!! Thats my ultimatum!

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that'd be so hilarious i guess! :)

12 years ago
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Yes, please do! lol

12 years ago
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Just tell them there's no statute of limitations on not activating your crap. This is the internet, not the U.S. government!

12 years ago
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As a former administrator of a community and gaming league full of retards and schoolboys (no offense, just a word to describe this common behavior pattern) I truly understand you and I can say that you are doing it right. Such people deserve a permanent suspension or at least +2~3 months of a ban.

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I would agree that their methods in dealing with this are correct, but I believe making a whiny thread like this will just sow more discontent. Thejadefalcon's reputation is further tarnished in my eyes by the suggestion lower down about making a "Hall of Stupidity".

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Okey-dokey, no more threads telling people how to avoid permanent bans, then. Shall we delete the FAQ too? That has been considered whiny by people as well. If people don't want a Hall of Stupidity, then people should stop being so mindbogglingly stupid.

12 years ago
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I demand a sandwich. I'll leave if I don't get a sandwich.
No ham, I'm trying to keep my weight.

12 years ago
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There's no sandwiches here mate. Leave if you want.

12 years ago
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Yeah, so I've noticed. And if they show up, the CV required for sandwich giveaways is ridiculously high.

12 years ago
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it actually costs 400,000 $ to take bite from samvich 1 time! I doubt you can afford that sir.

12 years ago
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If only this site had TF2 item giveaways...

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Closed 12 years ago by thejadefalcon.