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Charles Bukowski posted:Anyway can we get that Ukraine war thread in gbs closed, it feels like a trap to get anti-war folks banned. Maybe just don't read it? I dropped USPOL in D&D completely after a decade because it was a burning trash fire of a thread, and my stress levels dropped like a rock. If a thread stresses you out, avoid it. 110% sincere advice.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Like I have seen all sorts of instances where psychos who absolutely everyone hates run around for years because someone assumes someone else will do something about it, or it's just the "way things are", and nobody actually brings it up. This is why it's important that any QCS replacement be open discussion instead of being restricted to user/mod or whatever. Thank you. Considering how the admins don't even talk to their moderators, I'm sure not a single one of those QCS threads will even get an admin reply.
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Ukraine thread's like going to a party that's mostly normal but there's some dude in the corner taking a poo poo and if you bring it up the host flips out and says "WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT DEFECATION DAN" before slashing your tires
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FirstnameLastname posted:like, look at how the astral thing went, once astral posted and interacted with people and stopped banning, people mellowed out quite a lot, really fast. ehhhh that's one perspective. another is that when it became clear that astral was calm enough to start undoing some of the damage, everyone tried to slowly walk him through some reasonable actions to try and fix his mess. over the course of a few pages, he slowly started unbanning people as long as people were posting nicely and softly at him like a toddler. he didn't apologize or explain himself, he just parroted the reasons that people were giving him to unban people until he got to synthy and stopped. he then tried to justify the synthy ban with utter nonsense and closed the thread when it was clear it wouldn't fly
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live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you
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Rust Martialis posted:Maybe just don't read it? I dropped USPOL in D&D completely after a decade because it was a burning trash fire of a thread, and my stress levels dropped like a rock. If a thread stresses you out, avoid it. 110% sincere advice. Is there a way to hide it from your feed? I don't read it, but I also don't like that it's there. Also I thought the Saga regulars drummed you out of these threads for being one of those bloodlust war posters?
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you Yeah, "just don't read it" isn't good advice. Like, what if there was revenge porn thread, or white supremacist chat thread, or whatever? That poo poo's not OK and I don't want it on the forums. That's not brigading or causing forums drama; it's basic minimum standards for morality.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you i wish the admins agreed but you're way more likely to get banned for complaining about it, see you in a month
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you There's a serious difference between posting actual news about the war and whatever the GBS thread has become. That thread actually didn't START that way. It used to be maps, reports from locals etc and was generally informative and then morphed into something else. Wanting news about wars/world events is normal. Treating it like a team sport is fuckin' weird.
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erosion posted:Clearly, my Posting Pals and I are outraged at this sudden lack of an appropriate space to discuss museums and zoos. I, for one, feel this requires immediate administrative attention. god bless you, rhino
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you Their viewpoint is that they want to be informed of what's going on but dude it's just a Twitter RSS feed with no discussion. I get that some people want (and should) be informed of the situation but then there's the subtext of the glee in death and destruction that's in any twitter-less post. I don't think the thread should be eradicated but it's a very dissonant thread that I don't really understand.
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you the dnd and cspam ukraine threads both serve whatever functions you'd want to have (talking troop movements/current events and shitposting about it.) its pretty clear the gbs thread just exists so a handful of people can cheerlead about poo poo without getting owned by other posters. its more of that isolation stuff that the administration supposedly wants to avoid, but lol at doing anything about it. Alaois has a new favorite as of 21:10 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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not only thisFeels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you but also this Frank Frank posted:There's a serious difference between posting actual news about the war and whatever the GBS thread has become. That thread actually didn't START that way. It used to be maps, reports from locals etc and was generally informative and then morphed into something else. Wanting news about wars/world events is normal. Treating it like a team sport is fuckin' weird.
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johnny park posted:god bless you, rhino Lmao that dude ran back to CSPAM to giddly glloat about how he was owning this thread and everyone ignored him
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Frank Frank posted:Lmao that dude ran back to CSPAM to giddly glloat about how he was owning this thread and everyone ignored him lmfao
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i may be a huge loser but have you considered im also a gigantic dumbass
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johnny park posted:god bless you, rhino lmao that probe reason
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johnny park posted:god bless you, rhino lol rhino owns. we're still going to poach him illegally and take his horn, though
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Feels Villeneuve posted:live posting about a war and acting like you're vicariously participating in it is one of the most disturbing online activities and I don't want it in the forum regardless of if it's a thread I routinely read. Thank you It's weird to me that the immediate response to people pointing out the hosed up posts wasn't "wow those posts are bad, we should get rid of them" it was unhinged assertions that people are russian agents being paid to ruin the thread. That type of mentality isn't healthy and leads to crap like the weirdo melting down in the Games chat thread about how if you live in Russia you deserve to be murdered lol.
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Psycho Landlord posted:lmao that probe reason ATTN Mods: be like Rhino
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Frank Frank posted:Lmao that dude ran back to CSPAM to giddly glloat about how he was owning this thread and everyone ignored him loving called it lmao
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My hard copy of Metroid Prime remastered gets here tomorrow and I'm stoked. I'm gonna steal the kids' switch and hide in my office all weekend.
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Spanish Manlove posted:Their viewpoint is that they want to be informed of what's going on but dude it's just a Twitter RSS feed with no discussion. I get that some people want (and should) be informed of the situation but then there's the subtext of the glee in death and destruction that's in any twitter-less post. I don't think the thread should be eradicated but it's a very dissonant thread that I don't really understand. it's hard for me to articulate yeah. There's obviously going to be a moral aspect to how people respond to a country invading another country and i don't think the thread has to like, remain totally neutral, but there's this weird sense of triviality and entertainment about the whole thing that's really disturbing.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:It's weird to me that the immediate response to people pointing out the hosed up posts wasn't "wow those posts are bad, we should get rid of them" it was unhinged assertions that people are russian agents being paid to ruin the thread. That type of mentality isn't healthy and leads to crap like the weirdo melting down in the Games chat thread about how if you live in Russia you deserve to be murdered lol. if only he'd posted that in gbs
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Ibram Gaunt posted:It's weird to me that the immediate response to people pointing out the hosed up posts wasn't "wow those posts are bad, we should get rid of them" it was unhinged assertions that people are russian agents being paid to ruin the thread. That type of mentality isn't healthy and leads to crap like the weirdo melting down in the Games chat thread about how if you live in Russia you deserve to be murdered lol. it took me a while to realize this was the same weirdo who impersonated some random content creator for a year and has made an entire career out of being a channel awesome billboard in every single thread on the site truly bizarre
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Frank Frank posted:There's a serious difference between posting actual news about the war and whatever the GBS thread has become. That thread actually didn't START that way. It used to be maps, reports from locals etc and was generally informative and then morphed into something else. Wanting news about wars/world events is normal. Treating it like a team sport is fuckin' weird. Even at the start it was people posting dumb poo poo like snake island and ghost kiev. It has always been a bad thread for actual news
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Ibram Gaunt posted:It's weird to me that the immediate response to people pointing out the hosed up posts wasn't "wow those posts are bad, we should get rid of them" it was unhinged assertions that people are russian agents being paid to ruin the thread. That type of mentality isn't healthy and leads to crap like the weirdo melting down in the Games chat thread about how if you live in Russia you deserve to be murdered lol. yeah that in particular made me think that those users really really wanted to pretend they were a part of the war and that their posting was another front, lmaon
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Frank Frank posted:There's a serious difference between posting actual news about the war and whatever the GBS thread has become. That thread actually didn't START that way. It used to be maps, reports from locals etc and was generally informative and then morphed into something else. Wanting news about wars/world events is normal. Treating it like a team sport is fuckin' weird. And yeah this is where I'm at - the GBS Ukraine thread *was* doing okay for a while, and already got cleaned up once when it slipped. But I guess Kit took that call to clean it up personally so instead of continuing to be vigilant about that there's just two useless IKs now and anyone pointing out that people are getting weird again is met with declarations of forums war. It's deeply stupid and an entirely unforced error. But also if you give a poo poo about Ukraine war news (and it is entirely valid to not be plugged into that despite what the people in that thread may think) you shouldn't be coming to Something Awful for it, period. We are not a peer reviewed aggregator, to put it mildly.
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Frank Frank posted:My hard copy of Metroid Prime remastered gets here tomorrow and I'm stoked. I'm gonna steal the kids' switch and hide in my office all weekend. Don't forget to lick the cartridge
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Ibram Gaunt posted:It's weird to me that the immediate response to people pointing out the hosed up posts wasn't "wow those posts are bad, we should get rid of them" it was unhinged assertions that people are russian agents being paid to ruin the thread. That type of mentality isn't healthy and leads to crap like the weirdo melting down in the Games chat thread about how if you live in Russia you deserve to be murdered lol.
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Ibram Gaunt posted:It's weird to me that the immediate response to people pointing out the hosed up posts wasn't "wow those posts are bad, we should get rid of them" it was unhinged assertions that people are russian agents being paid to ruin the thread. That type of mentality isn't healthy and leads to crap like the weirdo melting down in the Games chat thread about how if you live in Russia you deserve to be murdered lol. Also this yeah, that thread is completely unhinged now. Like it's already dumb to call people a "QCS crew" whenever someone points out your thread has gross child porn in it or whatever, that's a non-specific example because it's happened, you know, a lot It's beyond the pale to accuse people of being enemy combatants here, on SA, ever
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