Highlander Open #2 Wrap-up, Forum Rule Changes & HL S10 Fundraiser Update
September 17, 2016
Highlander Open #2
The highlander Open #2 came to an end a couple of weeks ago and we hope that you all had a great time and that we will keep on seeing your faces around in the community. But lets get over to the winners!
Winner: 
Presents Including Erections
Runner-Up: 
nicer name :)
3rd Place: 
Swanny and the Autistic bunch 2.0
We’ll be working on the medal distribution but keep in mind that it can take quite a while.
Forum Rule Changes
We are updating the ETF2L forum rules to reflect a slight change in the moderation policy of the forums.The new rules can be found here in there entirety.
A summary of the changes is as follows
Rule Changes
F.5 – Do not go against a forum moderator’s warning or decision, for example by re-posting deleted content, re-creating locked threads, or ignoring a warning issued in the thread.
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F.5 – Do not contest a forum moderator’s warning or decision, for example by re-posting deleted content, re-creating locked threads, ignoring a warning issued in the thread, or relaying posts from banned users.
New Rules
F.10 – Deliberately trying to take threads off-topic will get your comment removed.
F.11 – Copy-pastes or big ASCII art on the forums will get removed if they do not add anything to the thread.
Highlander Season 10 Fundraiser
First up, a big thank you to everybody for being patient with us while we sort this stuff out. So here’s a big update to all the affected people.
T-shirts: We will have them shipped to the donators around the end of September/early October as the admin in charge will be busy until then. If you have changed address or want some additional details you can directly contact Aoshi.
Custom Titles: We’ll be gathering them up and distributing them as soon as we have everybody’s custom title.
Weapon Signing: Aoshi will be asking people about it but it might take a bit seeing that he’s prioritizing some other perks. If you already want to have this looked at you can feel free to message him however.
Raffle: We’ll be contacting all of the people that entered with either the details on their prize or to confirm that they sadly enough didn’t win anything.
Donator Titles: These should be rolling out very soon.
Staff Changes
It wasn’t for long that she could stay away so we have 
Morphine joining us once again.
In the meantime we are looking for a newswriter to handle 6v6 newsposts. Users that have already attempted applying can always re-apply. Please don’t be intimidated to apply, it’s a position that you can really only improve on with real experience. For some additional information you can look at the Join us! page. When writing an application
Send an email to [email protected], and make sure that the subject is proper like “Newswriter Application”, with the following information:
- Name
- ETF2L profile link
- Country of residence
- Age
- Previous experience (optional)
- Special skills or contacts that may help the league (optional)
- Available free time: how often would you be able to look into writing newsposts? What other commitments may affect your availability?
Coding Project
Now that we’re getting some progression we’re looking for a final member to add to the project. For more details look over here.
Posted by Lolacio in Cup, Highlander, League, Rule Updates
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Thanks for the rule update :) Maybe extrasolar should be unbanned as he never broke any rules. Again, you still have no rules against posting long paragraphs of text either. I’m also not relaying this from him, this is my opinion.
Either that or for consistency’s sake you should ban everyone that posted a scorpion ASCII art on Scorpions page, they did about the same thing as he did.
Or…you could explain why extrasolar got banned and no one else did. “The admin issuing the ban didn’t like him” isn’t a valid reason btw.
Can you stop rambling nonsense, thanks. I explained his ban to him, he should be happy that it wasnt any longer.
I saw the explanation, it was nonsense. Please can you answer my queries instead of simply dismissing them?
If you could give a clear answer this whole thing will be over.
Unless of course there is no legitimacy of the ban
I love how you make 3 comments every single time and at this point I want to ignore your request just to see how many additional comments you will make rambling on about this subject.
ok, here’s the reason you provided earlier
[22:54] Ah, could you provide me with some insight into my forum ban?
[22:55] That would be helpful.
[22:56] It’s more about you spamming the same comment on multiple places or just generally posting really long and unrelevant posts without almost ever adding anything to a comment section.
based admin team won’t even give reasons for bans xD
based admin team won’t even give reasons for bans xD
based admin team won’t even give reasons for bans xD
If it’s any consolation I think you’re all petty children
I mean hey, if you can’t beat ’em
based admin team won’t even give reasons for bans xD
If you Extrasolar’s friends would want a more extended reasoning to his 2 WEEK forum ban, it is cause of him constantly shitposting in the recruitment section to other peoples posts in a very short span of time out of which a very slim amount of his comments left were any helpful to the topic itself, which is the players recruitment post.
You could expect that his ban was because he wrote paragraphs of text was the reasoning for his ban, but why we saw them as bannable offence was the context of them. Or shall I say lack of context, as they were the same kind of shitpost and clutter as the scorpions on Scorpion’s rec post. That at least had a joke but it cluttered the posts in a similar way as Extrasolar did in a meaning to derail the thought behind making the post itself.
But hey, nice to see that people actually care still about the forum/comment bans that we give, seems like we have good reason to give more of them in the future again.
scrambled have you been diagnosed?
haha me too thanks
based admin team gave reasons for bans xD
Well now you have introduced a rule to stop people from doing this derailing, which is good, well done. Extrasolar never broke any rules and he was banned, please lift the ban :)
based admin team gave reasons for bans xD
Oh how I enjoy seeing kids get mad when their friends are punished for acting like little brats.
I actually feel terrible for you scrambled if you really care this much over one of your “friends” getting forum banned for what, 10 days?
I met Scrambled at LAN I can assure you he is 100% trolling. You don’t need to justify yourselves to him, plz admins nobody else cares if some retard got himself banned.
Pretty much what Clark said.
Thanks for the rule update, it was much needed. Hopefully this way recruitment posts can actually be used for recruitment again, as opposed to a battleground for random unrelated player X shit talking random unrelated player Y on some poor fellow’s recruitment post which got taken over.
Oh wow, I didn’t expect this to happen. But well done! Love the fact that it’s going to be peaceful on this site again. Well, as long as no one is seeing Bloodis explanation and this: http://puu.sh/rfa1p/4208134adb.png as a challenge. Thanks for caring about the forums and recruitment posts UGC.
wtf? Last thing after recruitment posts was meant to be: ETF2L > UGC
Right so i copy and paste a statement and put it as on a post and it gets removed but copy and pasting stuff IN THE SAME THREAD doesn’t get removed? If you’re gonna enforce these rules at least be consistent.
The year is 2016 and people still get baited by heavy mains.
I just deleted your comment since I would rather not have any more shitposting in the comments especially by posting quotes from other people unrelated to the topic itself, I hope you can understand that.
forum ban all heavy mains ty
#speakoutforsolar
forum ban all heavy mains ty
Scrambled banned for “passing on messages of people who were banned” lmao :^)
Didn’t think it was possible to get so buttblasted over a 2 week etf2l forum ban kek
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/738/025/db0.jpg
Just use common sense, guys. If it is quite clear that you are disrupting the thread/recruitment post, simply don’t do it. Having comprehensible rules is always nice, but it should be obvious without them as well.
Smh
A message to nobody specific (Scrambled):
There is no such thing as baiting an admin.
Sarcasm is not an excuse for shittalking or annoying people.
Admins do this stuff in their spare time voluntarily and frankly cba trying to illuminate every angle from which the author might have written his/her post.
Thus, in 99% of all cases, we judge the written word.
We do realize there are certain individuals in this community that like trying to start pointless discussions. But what are we supposed to do? If we don’t answer, we are bad admins. So we act according to the unlikely case this is a serious issue.
TL;DR admins don’t get baited, also what Selek said (he is a wise man).
This reminds me of my time in kindergarten. Also, some people just want to watch the world burn. That’s atleast what it feels like…
Go away from ETF2L for few months and come back to see that scrambled is still a troll, it feels like nothing has changed =) .
How did you guys let Spelly’s team win??? smh open demoman
When does the next season start ?