Pryor on Fire posted:

Avoid discord, their privacy policy explicitly states "we own everything you post or say and reserve the right to sell it to anyone, anywhere, forever, and you forfeit all privacy and rights to anything". They are also super aggressive about data collection, they are always cross referencing your account with social media and web history to build up a detailed advertising profile (which they are selling), they're basically facebook but slightly more evil.

Discord is the next big tech scandal waiting to happen.

Raptor1033 posted:

It's a shame the April fool's coup wasn't real

Funky See Funky Do posted:

https://i.imgur.com/cs4uUsI.mp4

bradzilla posted:

lol if this is what finally kills these dumb gay forums, i'm done. i'm not going to any dumb fragmented offsites or discords.

I literally have no idea what I'd do on the internet without the forums

CountryMatters posted:

It's absolutely possible if the mods lock down all the threads except this one and one to discuss where to move to. The only reason splits go so badly is because people will stick around so long as the old place still lets them post and is the path of least resistance. Mods could prevent that right now, while also ensuring that this site tanks and costs Lowtax as much as possible.

Otherwise it'll stick around limping but still intact, giving Lowtax more free money, even if it's a lot less of it

CountryMatters posted:

It's absolutely possible if the mods lock down all the threads except this one and one to discuss where to move to. The only reason splits go so badly is because people will stick around so long as the old place still lets them post and is the path of least resistance. Mods could prevent that right now, while also ensuring that this site tanks and costs Lowtax as much as possible.

Otherwise it'll stick around limping but still intact, giving Lowtax more free money, even if it's a lot less of it

Pryor on Fire posted:

Avoid discord, their privacy policy explicitly states "we own everything you post or say and reserve the right to sell it to anyone, anywhere, forever, and you forfeit all privacy and rights to anything". They are also super aggressive about data collection, they are always cross referencing your account with social media and web history to build up a detailed advertising profile (which they are selling), they're basically facebook but slightly more evil.

Discord is the next big tech scandal waiting to happen.

Lurdiak posted:

I would be ok with that and it wouldn't be very difficult to run a site this small and inactive with so few features using basic templates for a relatively paltry sum. The problem is that whoever sets up the first successor will definitely be a scammer who runs away with the es, poisoning the well for the next attempt.

Sheen Sheen posted:

king reol was right

Yinlock posted:

there are no more posting enemies in these, the final posts

Anemone Thief posted:

bans inc

Saint Isaias Boner posted:

AFewBricksShy posted:

If no one buys avs or anything and stop giving to the patreon, is there that much more money still coming in?

Also, this thread is 100 pages long. Has there been any confirmation or response about this stuff?

Blockhouse posted:

I've been running with the theory that this place is going to follow the exact same trajectory of NeoGAF when evillore turned out to be a rapist piece of poo poo

All the reasonable people will leave or be banned, including any mods who talked back, and the only posters left on the forum will be people who are super into whatever poo poo the admin did, so big fans of domestic abuse or idiots who don't care as long as they can post their funny photoshops and bad jokes

Then Lowtax is going to lean way the gently caress in and just go full alt right to keep the money flowing in

LifeSunDeath posted:

Same, I don't have social media...I only see twitter links from here...I would be pretty lost...but maybe then I could go outside again.

Pryor on Fire posted:

So long SA I'm glad you're dead

dex_sda posted:

not much, what's an mp4 with you?

Obeah posted:

Donate! To RAINN!

https://donate.rainn.org/donate
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3929249

Anemone Thief posted:

bans inc

Live Free posted:

hey sib! also, agreeing with this post

punishedkissinger posted:

We need to form a revolutionary politburo and actually plan this out properly, probably in discord or something

tithin posted:

I read up to page 50 abd realised that the thread was moving as quickly as reading it so I skipped to the end

was there any new info in those 50 odd pages?

WhaleFarmerJohn posted:

Page 101 sniper

Blockhouse posted:

I've been running with the theory that this place is going to follow the exact same trajectory of NeoGAF when evillore turned out to be a rapist piece of poo poo

All the reasonable people will leave or be banned, including any mods who talked back, and the only posters left on the forum will be people who are super into whatever poo poo the admin did, so big fans of domestic abuse or idiots who don't care as long as they can post their funny photoshops and bad jokes

Then Lowtax is going to lean way the gently caress in and just go full alt right to keep the money flowing in

bratwurst massage posted:

so... is Big Peeler returning anytime soon?

CountryMatters posted:

Mods could make this tricky for him by locking everything, closing forums, and banning everyone on the way out. Lowtax is a lazy piece of poo poo who hasn't personally done anything for the site in decades, so him trying to reopen it and fix things would be comically inept, and he'll probably just give up after an hour to go take more pills