[Malleus Dei]

Originally Posted by canadiancreed

Well that is why the report feature is there for such instances, to allow mods to know of such infractions that you feel are against board rules and to have measures taken if they deem it nessessary.

The mods don't do anything to speak of about such infractions any more. Not long ago someone directed a clearly forbidden obscenity at me in a post. This was a blatant violation of the board rules, and even though it was reported to the moderators, nothing was ever done about it. Other reported violations of the posted rules are not enforced, either. So, since the moderators have decided to let this board return to a free-fire zone, I'm doing my very best to avoid flamewars by keeping the OT crowd and anyone else who starts to get antagonistic on ignore. It's really not that many people - less than half a percent of active posters - and interestingly enough there aren't any people who make any significant contribution to the game on the list.

As to the hacker/geek question, see the Jargon File:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/frames.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File

The major identifying trademark of the geek is neophilia, the love and driving urge for the new. Every real geek on this board will have pre-ordered OOTP2006; in fact, they couldn't help but pre-order. The biggest ones will be readily identifiable in the coming months, as they will be the ones clamoring loudest for the release of the game.