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theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

steinrokkan posted:

Either lowtax or some admin posted a mail snapshot in QCS.

someone find this, if gfsincere lost his job because of forums drama that would be amazing

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steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

theflyingorc posted:

someone find this, if gfsincere lost his job because of forums drama that would be amazing

no, he was fired some time ago, they just reassured lowtax that he wwas no longer a security concern because he had been let go due to earlier concerns.

A Spider Covets
May 4, 2009


Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Yeah especially when you just gotta scroll up to where I posted it!!!

Jinkies!!! :eyepop:

Thanks. Time to reread it :D

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Panfilo posted:

If companies can't even disclose the reason they fired someone to another employer, why would they be telling Lowtax this information?

Companies can absolutely tell each other about employees. At least in the US. There's some companies that won't just based on their own compliance or legal departments, but there's no law that says a former employer can't tell a potential employer about the work history of a former employee.

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Yeah, that's a...weird belief to hold. Why on earth wouldn't a company be able to talk about why they fired you?

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

food court bailiff posted:

Yeah, that's a...weird belief to hold. Why on earth wouldn't a company be able to talk about why they fired you?
They're worried about liability and covering their rear end. I worked for a company whose policy was to confirm dates of employment and that's it. You weren't even supposed to give positive references. Obviously I still did for people I liked and stuff, but yeah.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

food court bailiff posted:

Yeah, that's a...weird belief to hold. Why on earth wouldn't a company be able to talk about why they fired you?

Slander

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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It's only slander if it's untrue. Saying, "Jeff was terminated on Feb. 12th 2016 for attendance issues" is not slander if that is why he was terminated. Saying, "Jeff's a liar and stole everything from the register one night, but we couldn't prove it so we fired him for attendance" could be.

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER

food court bailiff posted:

Yeah, that's a...weird belief to hold. Why on earth wouldn't a company be able to talk about why they fired you?

Laws in the UK are such that companies generally only confirm employment.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Solice Kirsk posted:

It's only slander if it's untrue. Saying, "Jeff was terminated on Feb. 12th 2016 for attendance issues" is not slander if that is why he was terminated. Saying, "Jeff's a liar and stole everything from the register one night, but we couldn't prove it so we fired him for attendance" could be.

Yup.

Still won't dissuade some people from saying, "You didn't hear it from me, but..."

Which can influence a possible employer, and the potential employee will never know about it.

Scudworth
Jan 1, 2005

When life gives you lemons, you clone those lemons, and make super lemons.

Dinosaur Gum

Panfilo posted:

Did Lowtax actually do that though?

Yes, of course he did, someone spreading poo poo about CC security is obviously a major concern.

steinrokkan posted:

he was fired some time ago, they just reassured lowtax that he wwas no longer a security concern because he had been let go due to earlier concerns.

This. From the same thread:

Lowtax posted:

Okay, so now we're racist because we banned somebody who was lying and making poo poo up for the sole purpose to undermine the users' sense of security of this site? I don't even know what loving race he is, I just called Steadfast and talked to their management about him. Dude was breaking a NDA and spreading bullshit that has zero basis in reality, gee, I see how race is a very important factor in all of this.

Nostalgia4Infinity
Feb 27, 2007

10,000 YEARS WASN'T ENOUGH LURKING
gfsincere was/is an insane person who happens to also be a person of color

VanSandman
Feb 16, 2011
SWAP.AVI EXCHANGER
Also why are people being banned for calling out Tiny Brontosaurus? I thought it was known they were a re-reg by a banned user?

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

VanSandman posted:

Also why are people being banned for calling out Tiny Brontosaurus? I thought it was known they were a re-reg by a banned user?

they aren't, people just think they are and it's really funny

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

i cite the following as evidence


which is terrible for at least two reasons

Sorry, I'm just extremely tired of opening the reports forum and seeing ten new reports that have all been filed for reason: "anime."

LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 06:08 on Mar 7, 2017

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Sorry, I'm just extremely tired of opening the reports forum every day and seeing ten new reports that have all been filed for reason: "anime."

So just ban everyone for anime. We're all adults, we won't judge.

funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

We're all adults.

Whoa there, thats a mighty lofty claim.

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

funmanguy posted:

Whoa there, thats a mighty lofty claim.

Fine, legal adults, you goddamn barrister

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

Anil Dasharez0ne posted:

Those guys literally made another black poster do a brown bag test because they couldn't believe someone could disagree with them without being white.

Anyway, I have no idea how I earned a ban on sight from a forum I've never psted in, but: in it, voted 5.
Koalas March is a good example of what would happen if you gave a Buzzfeed editor power over an internet forum, and Lowtax giving her run of an entire subforum as compensation for being too petty as a D&D mod was a very bad idea.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Sorry, I'm just extremely tired of opening the reports forum and seeing ten new reports that have all been filed for reason: "anime."
Please post some of them in the "STOP REPORTING STUPID poo poo" pinned thread. We haven't had an update in a while.

SHY NUDIST GRRL
Feb 15, 2011

Communism will help more white people than anyone else. Any equal measures unfairly provide less to minority populations just because there's less of them. Democracy is truly the tyranny of the mob.

If you think its a bad idea just think of it as a quarantine forum like any of the others

get that OUT of my face
Feb 10, 2007

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

If you think its a bad idea just think of it as a quarantine forum like any of the others
I'd be all for bringing The Race Space into a "Retarded Forums for Assholes" thing like LF and YCS were. Put BYOB there while we're at it.

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010

get that OUT of my face posted:

Koalas March is a good example of what would happen if you gave a Buzzfeed editor power over an internet forum, and Lowtax giving her run of an entire subforum as compensation for being too petty as a D&D mod was a very bad idea.
man if I could find the right beyonce GIF to post you'd be so regretting saying that right now

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

get that OUT of my face posted:

I'd be all for bringing The Race Space into a "Retarded Forums for Assholes" thing like LF and YCS were. Put BYOB there while we're at it.
BYOB is good now.

Grandmother of Five
May 9, 2008


I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
No idea how BYOB got turned around since I don't follow it super closely, but whoever managed to turn it around honestly did great. BYOB absolutely had this really, insanely weird period where it came across as the most hostile and weirdly insular forum on SA, I think, but then it somehow became the opposite of that and a pretty fun and creative space.

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Grandmother of Five posted:

No idea how BYOB got turned around since I don't follow it super closely, but whoever managed to turn it around honestly did great. BYOB absolutely had this really, insanely weird period where it came across as the most hostile and weirdly insular forum on SA, I think, but then it somehow became the opposite of that and a pretty fun and creative space.
It was FluffieDuckie.

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

If you think its a bad idea just think of it as a quarantine forum like any of the others

yeah, also im p. sure that Koala March's race-oriented lf-esque slaughterhouse of a political discussion zone does more good for the forums - drama, content, and saga-wise - than the subforum thats pretty much a single 35000 post thread by some goons about how much they hate this one space videogame and dox and hate its designers and their families after spending hundreds of dollars on spaceships then deciding they wanted their money back.

I mean theyre both good quarantines but one of them is like an active disputed zone that the UN has quarantined because of atrocities and genocides and counter-genocides and shooting down pqassing airliners, while the other is a village the WHO has quarantined to contain diseased refugees that are vomiting and making GBS threads blood.

Syd Midnight
Sep 23, 2005

even caro-esque nutcases avoid the second one, the only new blood is the occasional fyad in a moon suit collecting specimens with a rifle and gieger counter

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
you know that place where you are forced to smile or the bad things will happen

that is what I remember byob being

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

So just ban everyone for anime. We're all adults, we won't judge.

What an odd belief, since anime is good.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

VendaGoat posted:

Yup.

Still won't dissuade some people from saying, "You didn't hear it from me, but..."

Which can influence a possible employer, and the potential employee will never know about it.

I've sort of done this, sort of didn't. I moved departments at work, and an acquaintance who thinks he's my friend but holy poo poo is very much not applied to fill in my old position. My then-boss asked me if they should hire them, and I didn't say anything bad, I told him I couldn't say anything. I sort of felt bad for it, but at the same time, the dude is extremely obnoxious and likely wouldn't be a good fit for the team.

"Hey, would you recommend <obnoxious, jort-wearing loudmouth>?"
"I wouldn't go that far."

At this point, I could say that I've never said a bad word about him to my boss :yayclod:

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

I've sort of done this, sort of didn't. I moved departments at work, and an acquaintance who thinks he's my friend but holy poo poo is very much not applied to fill in my old position. My then-boss asked me if they should hire them, and I didn't say anything bad, I told him I couldn't say anything. I sort of felt bad for it, but at the same time, the dude is extremely obnoxious and likely wouldn't be a good fit for the team.

"Hey, would you recommend <obnoxious, jort-wearing loudmouth>?"
"I wouldn't go that far."

At this point, I could say that I've never said a bad word about him to my boss :yayclod:

Hell's bells, how obnoxious does one have to be in order to be considered overly obnoxious by the pornography industry

Solice Kirsk
Jun 1, 2004

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Pastry of the Year posted:

Hell's bells, how obnoxious does one have to be in order to be considered overly obnoxious by the pornography industry



There's the answer.

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

EDIT: ^^^ I knew someone would understand. ^^^

Pastry of the Year posted:

Hell's bells, how obnoxious does one have to be in order to be considered overly obnoxious by the pornography industry

It's an office job through and through, regardless of content, so everything that goes along with that still applies. You're not a good fit for the chill tagging and gatekeeping dept if you're extremely loud, very open with your misogynistic views ("My wife makes more money than me!" :argh:), barely able to construct proper sentences in your native language without any glaring errors, and if you ever joke around with someone, you hold on to that single joke for loving YEARS. Let's not forget the fact that he's been demoted even within his own department for various reasons, aaaaaaaand he smells terrible.

Dude is a proto-goon, I'm telling you.

Sorry for the derail.

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Sorry for the derail.

Don't be; I was fishing for a story and it did not disappoint.

Snow Cone Capone
Jul 31, 2003


Syd Midnight posted:

a single 35000 post thread by some goons about how much they hate this one space videogame and dox and hate its designers and their families after spending hundreds of dollars on spaceships then deciding they wanted their money back.

Tbh now that you've actually said the word doxx I'm pretty amazed D_Smart isn't already in here smugly proclaiming how he's toeing the line but not actually doxxing anybody

It's seriously like one of those Candyman/Bloody Mary things

Robot Randy
Dec 31, 2011

by Lowtax

Kelp Me! posted:

Tbh now that you've actually said the word doxx I'm pretty amazed D_Smart isn't already in here smugly proclaiming how he's toeing the line but not actually doxxing anybody

It's seriously like one of those Candyman/Bloody Mary things

i think he got banned for doxxing someone around the time the schmorky shitfest went down

Theotus
Nov 8, 2014

Kelp Me! posted:

Tbh now that you've actually said the word doxx I'm pretty amazed D_Smart isn't already in here smugly proclaiming how he's toeing the line but not actually doxxing anybody

It's seriously like one of those Candyman/Bloody Mary things

Derek Smart DEREK SMART DEREK SMART

purple death ray
Jul 28, 2007

me omw 2 steal ur girl

Robot Randy posted:

schmorky schmitfest

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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Sorry, I'm just extremely tired of opening the reports forum and seeing ten new reports that have all been filed for reason: "anime."

Lol at any bitch-made poster that reports anything that's not obviously bannable

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funmanguy
Apr 20, 2006

What time is it?

FactsAreUseless posted:

It was FluffieDuckie.

I never paid attention too byob until relatively recently, so I have no idea what to compare it to. That said, byob is really good.

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