Who What Now posted:

So how many of your alts did she get?

Space Crabs posted:

sorry guys but someone banning 5,000 people largely for things like statements she didn't agree with or jokes she didn't think were funny was in fact bad

unpopularforumopinions.txt apparently

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

Strange memories on this nervous night on SA. Nine years later? Twelve? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. The internet in the early 2000s was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of image macros or GIFs or photoshop threads can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the internet. Whatever it meant...

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I logged off of Portal of Evil half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed my broadband modem at the newest Photoshop Phriday or Comedy Goldmine at 20 megabits per second wearing my fiestacat t-shirt, booming through the Weekend Web, not quite sure which link to follow when I got to the other end (always hesitating when I came to a FARK link, too twisted to find the back button)... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were posting photos with 48-point impact text over top: No doubt at all about that...

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not on OldManMurray, then over at Seanbaby's. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning, and that Keep It Real would be unbanned.

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of FARK and ebaum. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our photoshops and habbo invasions and bigpeeler stories would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…

So now, less than fifteen years later, you can go into PYF and check the Greatest Forum Sagas thread, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

Strange memories on this nervous night on SA. Nine years later? Twelve? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. The internet in the early 2000s was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of image macros or GIFs or photoshop threads can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the internet. Whatever it meant...

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I logged off of Portal of Evil half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed my broadband modem at the newest Photoshop Phriday or Comedy Goldmine at 20 megabits per second wearing my fiestacat t-shirt, booming through the Weekend Web, not quite sure which link to follow when I got to the other end (always hesitating when I came to a FARK link, too twisted to find the back button)... but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were posting photos with 48-point impact text over top: No doubt at all about that...

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not on OldManMurray, then over at Seanbaby's. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning, and that Keep It Real would be unbanned.

And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of FARK and ebaum. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our photoshops and habbo invasions and bigpeeler stories would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave.…

So now, less than fifteen years later, you can go into PYF and check the Greatest Forum Sagas thread, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Space Crabs posted:

ozma is completely justified, of all the admins I don't get why complaining about her would be controversial.

Nuns with Guns posted:

I thought that was from a porno with a girl that looked like ozma?

Hogge Wild posted:

get that OUT of my face posted:

Was the fad diet thread the low carb one? Because while I didn't know about the lard bucket scheme, I've had this screenshot saved from there for a while.



Also the FYAD thread about the deadly zipline is required reading.

Koyaanisgoatse posted:

they were pictures of a very normal-looking woman in baggy unflattering pajamas, it was probably the most nonsexual photo of a girl I've ever seen on the internet

oldpainless posted:

It's one of the sagas of SA and within the scope of the thread but I'm sorry you're so uncomfortable my friend.

ziggurat posted:

insane people rising to power is like the one fundamental law of online social spaces

UCS Hellmaker posted:

eggplant wizard ... was a mod of pyf and her moderation was very heavy handed at times.

Space Crabs posted:

sorry guys but someone banning 5,000 people largely for things like statements she didn't agree with or jokes she didn't think were funny was in fact bad

unpopularforumopinions.txt apparently

UCS Hellmaker posted:

The incest one was eggplant wizard who was an Amazon erotica writer. She made money doing it but goons need to make it a huge issue. She also was a mod of pyf and her moderation was very heavy handed at times.

Still not as bad as notjustforbreakfest

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

Haha

Wait, did he rename himself Elsa? Trying to "own" it? I hope not.

Chuck Buried Treasure posted:

What did NotJustForBreakfast do? I remember thinking that he sucked really bad but it's been almost a decade and I was just a lurker yet to register then so I can't remember why I thought that.

putrid aidsman posted:

Wasn't he the guy who liked to sniff girls hair on public transit? Or was that a different mod

Tardcore posted:

I think that was senior woodchuck

oldpainless posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with mods on this site

oldpainless posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with mods on this site

oldpainless posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with mods on this site

oldpainless posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with mods on this site

RagnarokAngel posted:

As someone above said mods usually gain their fame by being on this site a lot and having big personalities. Usually that's a recipe for crazy people.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

How'd I get to be one, then? I've always been obnoxiously bland, or so I'm told.

titties posted:

EPW loving sucked because she closed the PYF boobs thread, the butts thread, and the the PYF human body parts thread but she mysteriously did not close and continued to post in the PYF dong thread.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

How'd I get to be one, then? I've always been obnoxiously bland, or so I'm told.

RFC2324 posted:

Has it occurred to anyone that the closing of this kind of thread coincides with the decline of SA that everyone is trying to reverse?

oldpainless posted:

What the gently caress is wrong with mods on this site

Who What Now posted:

And you were demodded once they realized that. Although I'm sure youve sworn under penalty of death to claim you stepped down.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

Yeah, sure, it took them a year and a half to "discover" that I'm a bland poster barely anyone in D&D liked.

Also, I didn't "step down", I got demodded, and have always said so.

Nissin Cup Nudist posted:

I think Ozma had a parachute account called step aside who posted as a fake TERF?

Maybe not a parachute account, but Ozma and step aside were related in some way

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

Haha

Wait, did he rename himself Elsa? Trying to "own" it? I hope not.