Slanderer posted:

That's correct. There were a few different compilations of both stories made, and I think I have all of them. DM me later if you want links, since my office blocks Dropbox.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Looks like Lowtax's plea for fyad to stay in fyad, because the mods are spread thin due to the holidays, was taken as a "mods are asleep, spread out and shitpost" signal

pog boyfriend posted:

modding QCS is immensely difficult because trying to stamp down on brigading is extremely hard to do unevenly. trying to strike a balance between giving everyone a voice and preventing a group of posters from drowning out the conversation was something i struggled with myself, and therefore i can not say there is an easy answer to the problem

Sestze posted:

are those tossed upon the funeral pyre forgotten, did the utter destruction and removal of nazi symbolism in Germany lead to that country making the same mistakes again?

simply ignoring the issues after a soft reboot simply solves no issues, the core issues remain unless the culture changes. If FYAD exists simply as a place to be an internet sociopath, why are we keeping that particular appendix?

Ruffini posted:

Imp Zone literally did nothing. Please calm down.

bloom posted:

Can't we all just talk about how cool Hannibal was for a few pages?

ASenileAnimal posted:

bloom posted:

Can't we all just talk about how cool Hannibal was for a few pages?

SunAndSpring posted:

littleorv posted:

I never did watch the last season but the last episode of the third(?) season where Hannibal and Laurence Fishburne fight each other was amazing. That's my take on Hannibal.

SunAndSpring posted:

scary ghost dog posted:

I’m agreeing with you. Restarting the subforum with “new rules” solves nothing; all traces of it need to be erased. The only way anyone should be able to learn about FYAD is by reading a carefully curated SApedia article about its bigotry.

ASenileAnimal posted:

Sestze posted:

ah but you see, pog boyfriend, you come to this strange conclusion that all posters are equal in value, and that all posters provide the same amount of content.

a bigot's voice is not worth the same amount as a victim's voice.

SunAndSpring posted:

Sestze posted:

Carefully curating it would actually be necessary as the cultural battleground that is FYAD has already sparked numerous wiki edits to the SomethingAwful wiki page accusing Koala's March of being an antifa commander aiming to take over the entire website to push it towards an SJW agenda.

I know most of what you're saying is meant to be taken as hyperbolic, but in all honesty, yes, FYAD shouldn't be here, the reasons why it isn't here anymore should be summarized in the SAclopedia, and we shouldn't make the same mistake again.

you can keep trying to drown people out by shitposting about neopets and hannibal for several pages, but it won't work.

this forum pioneered the very tactics you use for trolling.

professor metis posted:

i had my parents write a letter to neopets when I was eleven so I could get permission to post on their forums

it's been a long slide downhill since then for me

Sestze posted:

you can keep trying to drown people out by shitposting about neopets and hannibal for several pages, but it won't work.

Sestze posted:

Carefully curating it would actually be necessary as the cultural battleground that is FYAD has already sparked numerous wiki edits to the SomethingAwful wiki page accusing Koala's March of being an antifa commander aiming to take over the entire website to push it towards an SJW agenda.

I know most of what you're saying is meant to be taken as hyperbolic, but in all honesty, yes, FYAD shouldn't be here, the reasons why it isn't here anymore should be summarized in the SAclopedia, and we shouldn't make the same mistake again.

Ariong posted:

Are you talking about sestze’s post? They aren’t saying Imp Zone is bad. They’re saying Imp Zone is a revival of YCS, which loving sucked. Same concept (Games FYAD-lite) but without the bad poo poo.

pog boyfriend posted:

no, that is not the intent of my post at all. i never even implied that at any point. all opinions are not equal in value. to give a classic example of what i was referring to, every time a thread about cspam would originate(with many users asking for more mods), the thread would devolve into people either discussing cspam as a forum, or discussing the politics of posters. this caused the thread to be filled with debates until it was locked.

similarly, when critique of gbs 2.0s misogynistic threads came out, many users from gbs came to defend it, creating the tired meme “dont like dont read”, an idea that criticism of a forum is irrelevant because its content is subjective and the site has no values. if the rule was to be stringently enforced that users from one specific subforum could not mob a thread for issues they care about, then... well, i am sure you get where i am going with this.

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Solice Kirsk posted:

FYAD isn't going anywhere. It never was. Asking to speak to the manager when corporate just told you your coupon is expired isn't going to change anything.

Burt Sexual posted:

This probably isn’t the thread to restart this.

Burt Sexual posted:

This probably isn’t the thread to restart this.

Sestze posted:

remember when you probated me for stating that nothing would change, and that the same things would happen due to FYAD's underlying culture not changing

I wish to point out that I was right.

Burt Sexual posted:

This probably isn’t the thread to restart this.

Queen Combat posted:

gently caress offffffffffffff

Sestze posted:

thank you, I am making the point that there exists a lot of bigotry inside of the FYAD-lites, every time one was created for a subforum there was a teething period where the first iterations of it were hotbeds of some seriously nasty poo poo, and then were viciously pruned and restarted to remove that bigotry.

so when we look at the situation with FYAD, why is that different, why are they immune from the same process, other than being seen as special?

Timely intervention on the part of a moderator from that subforum explaining what they see would go a long way - a lot of moderation has been done in the dark up to this point.

Ruffini posted:

Can you please not be so toxic?

Kay Kessler posted:

Maybe you or someone could start a temporary "airing of grievances" thread until qcs opens up again? If it gets too heated, just limit it to just posts, no replies. I think this is a very important conversation to have, but I just don't think PYF (or fyad or tgrs for that matter) are the places for it. GBS seems to be housing all the other qcs threads, maybe make one there?

Sestze posted:

Ruffini, you've been callously dismissing all of the things I've said for pages regarding the issues present with FYAD.

that being said holy poo poo, FYAD is really having a mass closure of threads

Ruffini posted:

Can you please not be so toxic?

Ruffini posted:

Every thread has been closed at this point except the goodbye thread.

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