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treiz01 posted:So classic! All I remember is I was SO EXCITED when the body hair evolving item came out that I bought two. My dude was super raunchy, people would complain about my signatures because I used to draw my avatar really burly with a beer belly in a speedo but yet my art still sold for like a million per? Also I had NO idea there were that many Juggalos on Gaia, I would be all over a Gaia thread if you started one, kawaiiest, there have got to be some amazing stories $_$
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the kawaiiest posted:But nevermind all that because I've got a small but beautiful MR. FURRY UPDATE I missed this on my first read, there are certain people should have to take a test before owning a pet. I hope Mr. Furry is never put in charge of an actual human child. 
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the kawaiiest posted:Haha, former mod? Got any stories? Everyone I know currently works there so they can't really share much though they do link me a to a lot of drama. Man I don't even remember, I honestly did most of the boring work like moving/deleting inappropriate threads and posts, dealing with signatures that had like 50 billion .gifs, and wouldn't touch most of the crazy, although I had front row seats to a lot of the poo poo that went down. One user was convinced that this mod had it out for her and her grandchild on the site and was the head of some internet conspiracy against her. I should say that we all knew GD was (and probably still is) a cesspool, it just refuses to drain. People have been saying that the mods should clean it up for years, except when a whole team of them spent several months cracking down on the report queue for that forum (which was like over 50,000) and brought it down to zero, it was back up to 50,000 again within a week. Oh, but I've had people threaten to call the police on me and saying the owner of the internet should shut down my account.
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Splash Attack posted:I should say that we all knew GD was (and probably still is) a cesspool, it just refuses to drain. People have been saying that the mods should clean it up for years, except when a whole team of them spent several months cracking down on the report queue for that forum (which was like over 50,000) and brought it down to zero, it was back up to 50,000 again within a week. Here's the last rendition of my avatar. Not as bad as I thought it would be. 
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broken pixel posted:Here's the last rendition of my avatar. Not as bad as I thought it would be. What is going on in this, why is there so much stuff.
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Mar 27, 2012 03:44
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I joined Gaia late 2003 and apparently my last log-in was 2009. If I sold all my items for real money I think I could net a couple thousand. I mostly stayed away from all the crazy, I think... Though to be fair the few subforums I were on had crazy drama, so maybe not.
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Hedera Helix posted:What is going on in this, why is there so much stuff. Gaia has never heard of the term "less is more" - the more poo poo you can cram onto your avatar, the better, and especially if they're rare items or some poo poo you can show off.
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broken pixel posted:Oh jesus, how I remember GD. I didn't know about that incident, but hell, it makes sense. The idiocy was infectious there. It took many good people into a deep, dark hole of ~* horrible posting habits *~ and future 4chan trolls. Really, the entire forum was full of the type of people that couldn't shut up to save their lives. I'd guess they were all 13. Like me. In fact I just went there to see if I could find any horrible poo poo and all I found was a girl's sig, which is a photo of her with the caption "DONT U WANNA RAPE MEH????"
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Oh god. I noticed I missed a few pages when reading through the thread before, so I went back and read them. Back on page 83, read this post then check out the permaban reason on their rap sheet.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Oh god. I noticed I missed a few pages when reading through the thread before, so I went back and read them. Back on page 83, read this post then check out the permaban reason on their rap sheet. Judging by his posting in the thread in which he was banned, he might be better off on TVTropes. On the Gaia thing, there was an article in GBS about the demise of internet forums that said Gaia was the largest in the world. I'm picturing the place as a sort of virtual black hole of creepiness, though it seems participants in this thread were/are posters there..
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Not to derail too hard, but yeah, cwDeici was definitely TVTropes material. Even before his  -out about Strike Witches in the Dangan Ronpa LP, he posted this amazing comment about variable stats by gender because BIOTRUTHS! in a Dungeons & Dragons LP. I don't have plat and am not inclined to dig farther anyway, but the dude just was not right.
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the kawaiiest posted:GD is still around and it's significantly worse now. It's SO bad, in fact, that it's the only forum you can't see on the forums page unless you're logged in, because Gaia doesn't want to risk any parents seeing it. People have been begging Gaia to get rid of it, but they're afraid that if they delete it, the forum will "spill" and the GDers will invade other forums and post their horrible poo poo there. They can always try what GameFAQs did with LUE. For those of you unfamiliar with that particular drama, LUE (Life, the Universe, and Everything) was a GameFAQs board. Their forums are almost all bad, but LUE was the worst. It was a 'general' forum, but you needed to have a certain amount of posts and your account had to be a certain age to post there. The idea was that this would promote better discussion, and it had a more 'relaxed' moderation system. This worked about as well as you'd expect. So the mods desperately wanted to kill LUE, but they didn't want the posters going to other forums. They tried a variety of techniques. First, they removed all links to LUE from the board navigation pages, so you could only access it by typing the URL. That didn't work. Then, they decided to close LUE to new users altogether. Anyone who registered after certain date couldn't join LUE. That worked okay, but LUE was still a cesspool. Finally, they decided to only allow people who 'signed up' for LUE within a two-week window access it. If you didn't sign up in those two weeks, you could never access LUE. That finally 'killed' the board, although it is still active and even ten years later people are still posting there, although most of them moved to an offsite board.
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Konstantin posted:They can always try what GameFAQs did with LUE. For those of you unfamiliar with that particular drama, LUE (Life, the Universe, and Everything) was a GameFAQs board. Their forums are almost all bad, but LUE was the worst. It was a 'general' forum, but you needed to have a certain amount of posts and your account had to be a certain age to post there. The idea was that this would promote better discussion, and it had a more 'relaxed' moderation system. This worked about as well as you'd expect. One of my friends gave a guy a warning once and received a PM from him that contained her full name and home address along with the words "you can't hide, bitch. Stop banning my accounts or I'll rape you and your sister [sister's full name]". Her sister is 7.
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the kawaiiest posted:One of my friends gave a guy a warning once and received a PM from him that contained her full name and home address along with the words "you can't hide, bitch. Stop banning my accounts or I'll rape you and your sister [sister's full name]". Oh GD, the memories you hold. I once saw a thread that did a similar thing, posted the full name, address, and phone number of this poor gay boy (probably 15) and told people to mail (what) and text him super hateful poo poo. I don't know whether anyone ever did, but it was still a super dick move. I logged on to update my avatar not that long ago so after selling expensive stuff to get lots of inexpensive stuff, mine sadly doesn't have all the old old old items from when I started in 2004. 
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I  I should post some of the really poo poo avatar art I received. I also really wish I hadn't deleted all of the screenshot I had of crazy people who would PM me because I was a mod.
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Solefald posted:I Not to continue the derail more than I already have, but your horns + scarf could probably bin you some real life moneys.
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Mar 27, 2012 14:30
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Make the thread. There's clearly material there.
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Mar 27, 2012 14:32
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I'd prefer not to post the thread myself but I will post a poo poo ton of hilarious/horrifying poo poo if someone does.
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Mar 27, 2012 14:46
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the kawaiiest posted:I'd prefer not to post the thread myself but I will post a poo poo ton of hilarious/horrifying poo poo if someone does. Fair enough, but TBH I don't think anyone here has as much raw material or liberty to post such a thread as you do, I only had the one story and it was 3 lines long. 
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the kawaiiest posted:The GD regs start trolling and spamming all the other forums whenever someone so much as hints at removing or locking the GD. If Gaia did something like that, they really would just take over the other forums, and because Gaia doesn't do IP bans, they'd just keep signing up when they got banned, as they do now. There's this one GD troll who has 280 accounts that we know of. They brag about how many times they've been banned, too. They wouldn't leave Gaia if the GD was locked, they'd just move (and ruin) someplace else. Messing with them just pisses them off and causes more trouble than it's worth, so they let the forum just sit there. None of the mods want to deal with it because they keep getting death threats when they give people warnings. Reminds me of the LF shutdown  Then again, when they closed that forum they also banned the worst offenders, namely those who had actively called for the assassination of the president of the United States
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Konstantin posted:They can always try what GameFAQs did with LUE. For those of you unfamiliar with that particular drama, LUE (Life, the Universe, and Everything) was a GameFAQs board. Their forums are almost all bad, but LUE was the worst. It was a 'general' forum, but you needed to have a certain amount of posts and your account had to be a certain age to post there. The idea was that this would promote better discussion, and it had a more 'relaxed' moderation system. This worked about as well as you'd expect. poo poo, I remember those days as a 13 year old idiot on GameFAQs. And since most of it happened before 4chan actually existed, you can probably guess where a large number of LUE's users ended up settling after the board died out. They were basically identical communities with identical content, except that LUE wasn't allowed to post porn and had to censor cursing.
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the kawaiiest posted:The GD regs start trolling and spamming all the other forums whenever someone so much as hints at removing or locking the GD. If Gaia did something like that, they really would just take over the other forums, and because Gaia doesn't do IP bans, they'd just keep signing up when they got banned, as they do now. Why don't they? It seems like something that they should have implemented by now... the kawaiiest posted:One of my friends gave a guy a warning once and received a PM from him that contained her full name and home address along with the words "you can't hide, bitch. Stop banning my accounts or I'll rape you and your sister [sister's full name]". Oh. That's why.
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Hey, I've got a new story! So sorry it's taken so long, it's the end of the semester for me so I'm absolutely swamped with projects and papers! Anyways, here we go! Drop the Bass In previous stories, I've listed some of the different “talents” Alan fancied himself to have (i.e. Magical wizardry, kung-fu, demon sonar, psychic seduction, kissing). Today I tell you about Alan's musical pursuits and the proceeding insanity. Unfortunately, there was a guitar in the Pagan Club. It wasn't unfortunate most of the time, just when Alan was around to use it. During some of our phone conversations he told me that he liked to sing and play guitar and would maybe like to sing to me someday. I thought this was very sweet at the time so I told him “Yeah, that would be nice, sometime”. Fast-forward to the next time I was with him in the club-space. I started hearing this noise, like a nasally hum coming from somewhere. I thought it was a problem in the walls or something (the club was situated right over a very unstable septic pipe that sometimes made noise and released horrible smells). Nope, it was Alan. He was humming, “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” right into my ear. I'm not a musical genius or anything, but I know when something's off-key. This was very off-key. I thought tone deafness was just a myth but here it was right in front of me. He also had no idea what the words were because in between humming he would insert clever little lyrics like “love of mine, someday you'll be mine” and go right back to humming the rest. Apparently he thought this was romantic. I thought it was creepy and stalkerish. I made an excuse to leave. To the rest of the club, Alan would describe how successful an artist he was while finding excuses to not have to perform. According to him, his father had a recording studio in his basement and he used it regularly (Actually, this was a huge lie, his father sold coat hangers). When I told him I played bass guitar and that we should play together sometime, he changed the subject quickly. One night, as per usual, I was at home talking to Alan on the phone. He was walking home from the bus stop and I was at home playing bass guitar. Whatever inanities we were talking about continued until he started freaking out suddenly.  :   : WAIT. STOP.........: What? What's wrong? : DROP THE BASS: What?: DROP THE BASS RIGHT NOW. RIGHT. NOW.: Why?: Just do it! Now now now!I didn't do it...I just told him that I did  : Okay, okay! It's on the floor. Will you tell me what's going on?: It's just that (he takes a deep, dramatically misunderstood breath here) I just had a vision.: A vision of what?: Your bass. One of the strings snapped and it hit you right in the eye.: But--: I was just protecting you! Sorry if you think that's silly  : Okay, well...thanks?: You're welcome, anyways I'm home, I'll call you later.: Yes.Here's the thing...bass strings do not snap unless you cut them. Guitar strings snap because they're wound too tight or they're strummed too hard etc. Generally, bass strings are under such low tension that the only way to snap them (because they're thick rear end cables) is to cut them yourself, then they flop (not snap up into your face) like a sad fish. This is when I started really feeling just how stupid this relationship was. I took Alan less and less seriously every time he hit me with one of these moments. It's strange that this is the thing that caused me to feel this way and not any of his other antics. I guess it was because this was one thing I could honestly say he was wrong about. All the things about demons and past-lives I could assume he knew about because he was the President of the Pagan Club. This was just something that I couldn't possibly delude myself to let go of. Here's an accompanying comic to the story. Sorry it's a bit erratic. I've never made a comic before I'm trying out new techniques and styles (not very well). Bear with me, I'll probably just stick to the old stuff. Enjoy! Note: My paper was too big for the scanner so I had to cut the comic in half.   Next time: Energy Balls Dances with Psy-Vamps Attempting to Rape Lacey Edit: Stupid mistake fixed. 
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Alright - good story - great artwork - but I've got one burning question:Lt. Marmalade posted:
Is this seriously a viable job? I'm imagining a shady used-coat-hanger lot with some guy with thick glasses and a bad suit trying to convince you this baby has at least 3 years of shirt holding left in it.
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Marmalade, your art is loving glorious. The stories are hilarious, but the art just makes it perfect every time.
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Giant Isopod posted:Is this seriously a viable job? I'm imagining a shady used-coat-hanger lot with some guy with thick glasses and a bad suit trying to convince you this baby has at least 3 years of shirt holding left in it. I've thought about it, too. It seems so...wonderfully shady. Then again, where else could Alan have come from?
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Lt. Marmalade posted:Here's the thing...bass strings do not snap unless you cut them. Guitar strings snap because they're wound too tight or they're strummed too hard etc. Generally, bass strings are under such low tension that the only way to snap them (because they're thick rear end cables) is to cut them yourself, then they flop (not snap up into your face) like a sad fish. Not that it makes him any less ridiculous, your stories any less funny or your art any less wonderful. I'm loving your posts. quote:Nope, it was Alan. He was humming, “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” right into my ear. Sidenote- was it an acoustic? You said you were walking along playing it so I wondered. Acoustic basses are awesome. SurreptitiousMuffin fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Mar 28, 2012 |
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Sidenote- was it an acoustic? You said you were walking along playing it so I wondered. Acoustic basses are awesome. Oh no I should have clarified. I was at home talking to him over the phone and playing bass. It's just a regular ordinary precision, nothing fancy
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Konstantin posted:They can always try what GameFAQs did with LUE. For those of you unfamiliar with that particular drama, LUE (Life, the Universe, and Everything) was a GameFAQs board. Their forums are almost all bad, but LUE was the worst. It was a 'general' forum, but you needed to have a certain amount of posts and your account had to be a certain age to post there. The idea was that this would promote better discussion, and it had a more 'relaxed' moderation system. This worked about as well as you'd expect. LUEser represent! Funnily, as most of us are in our twenties or thirties, it's by far the most mature board on GameFAQs now. Like, there's no endemic problem of homophobia, transphobia, or racism you get on most forums (although there is still quite a bit of sexism). There are even several parents on there now.
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Marmalade, If you don't mind me asking, was your cegep Octagonally shaped in the center? I'm getting really paranoid now, especially since I just got accepted into nursing at my old CEGEP and will have to re-enter the heart of (crazy) darkness.
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TinTower posted:LUEser represent! Funnily, as most of us are in our twenties or thirties, it's by far the most mature board on GameFAQs now. Like, there's no endemic problem of homophobia, transphobia, or racism you get on most forums (although there is still quite a bit of sexism). There are even several parents on there now.
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stablercake posted:Not to continue the derail more than I already have, but your horns + scarf could probably bin you some real life moneys. Really? How much? I have an old account I don't use with stuff still in it.
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I'm liking the stories and comics. Looks like likecnsnnts and I have the same notion. Lt. Marmalade posted: Hooray for all the craziness in this thread!
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Nine of Eight posted:Marmalade, If you don't mind me asking, was your cegep Octagonally shaped in the center? I'm getting really paranoid now, especially since I just got accepted into nursing at my old CEGEP and will have to re-enter the heart of (crazy) darkness. Don't worry about it. I don't mind And nope, I had to check online to make sure and my cegep was pretty darn rectangular. I think I know which one you're talking about and I can assure you, you're safe from at least my acquainted crazies. Are there crazies at your school too? Do tell.
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The Sezza posted:Really? How much? I have an old account I don't use with stuff still in it. If you find out about this, I'd like to know too.
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