Spanish Manlove posted:

Thinking back on it, there's this theatre level irony when Aatrek got all mad and gave a bunch of people My Little Pony avatars.

Dr. Cool Aids posted:

anyone got that saga about the monkey puppet the guy got told to finger blast

Dr. Cool Aids posted:

anyone got that saga about the monkey puppet the guy got told to finger blast

Tenkaris posted:

Hmm I found it quoted here but not the original

https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...d#post471332980

lol at what I searched for

quote:

I told it: “leave” But To me answered: “rrrrrrrrrrrr”.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

F-fingerblast this little turd.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Yeah it's not as good as I remember it, will add a warning.

Tenkaris posted:

Hmm I found it quoted here but not the original

https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...d#post471332980

lol at what I searched for

Ham Sandwiches posted:

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

this. i'm not filled with boiling hate when people don't create anything at all, it just bums me out that they're missing out on this fundamentally wonderful thing

It's actually Puritan poo poo, that says that your free time must be spent productively just like your work time. Don't have garbage hobbies. Stay in shape. Eat right. Do creative things. Be a maker. Contribute.

The list of demands on Other People's time grows ever larger, even though people are ever more poor and overworked and struggle to just deal with their day to day poo poo.

But the list of requirements for how to live correctly goes ever larger. You not only have to do everything right at work and in your personal life, your hobbies must be Correct as well. The way to express this is to endlessly poo poo talk the things people do like, and imply they are bad. Garbage hobbies for garbage people.

I find this stuff very odd. And the way it's presented very odd as well.

EorayMel posted:

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

Yeah, Planes of Oblivion dude was JustinRPG, who is famous for recording an album about how much he wants to gently caress the pokemon Reshiram.

Dongicus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFn6K5L1pZA

Famethrowa posted:

it's a very gbs fake story

Freudian posted:

Kind of ironic, given that he was the one calling the police on granos.

Lumbermouth posted:

Speaking of GBS fake stories, can anyone find the “gently caress that butt real good” story? It was a classic “thing happened and then I hosed A LADY” story but I think of that phrase a lot.

Bobbie Wickham posted:

By the way, abandoning an active thread in E/N is a probatable offense, OP. Come back and talk about the Marriage part of your open marriage.

Bobbie Wickham posted:

This is your last chance: discuss the Marriage part of your Open Marriage thread, or you're going to be probated. Do you understand?

Bobbie Wickham posted:

I told you, that's how E/N works. The posters here are a little too savvy to take a braggart at face value. They will throw your words back at you, take you to task to explain yourself, and give advice that is often harsh but also necessary.

This is what your marriage counselor should be doing, albeit in a kinder, nonjudgmental and professional way. I don't know if you're not being fully honest and not doing the work, or if they aren't especially good at their job, or what, but it's kind of sad that a bunch of goons criticizing you is more effective than your actually licensed therapist.

Bobbie Wickham posted:

As long as this thread is active, you WILL respond later. Check the E/N rules in the stickied thread if you're confused.

pentyne posted:

Found the E/N thread about open marriage YOSPOS guy, it's mostly him bragging about all the great sex he was getting, then 2/3rds of the way in it turns the corner into more a vent place about his upcoming divorce.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3782004&userid=52833

The posts that actually make it hilarious are all the Bobbie Wickham comments including the threats that OP must keep responding to the thread

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

So what's going on in this thread??

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3884274&pagenumber=62&perpage=40#post497756584

Why hasn't this guy been permabanned for abusing his kids? Why is Bobbie Wickham still a mod? Why are there other mods posting in that thread with nothing happening? Hello??

The poo poo that gets people banned around here is insane when compared to this loving drunk child beating yokel.

How is this post considered normal? Nobody responds to it at all, lmao. What the gently caress are you people doing

SlyFrog posted:

When I reported one of her posts in E/N, it was actually Wickham who responded to the report.

So getting this response to your report doesn't really engender much faith that reports matter in these circumstances.

Bobbie Wickham posted:

The issue, if you really want to get into it, is that the FabGoon discord had a problem with Shadow Cat Boy being a gross creep, and the discord group froze out all of the admins and mods so nobody was aware of the problem. And rather than talk to me or another moderator or an admin, a bunch of the discord members made a dramatic demand that I take action on the forums for SBC's off-forum behavior.

Now, it's been talked to death in other subforums, but accusing another person of being a sexual predator is a Big Deal, especially if you can't offer proof that they are a pedophile or stalker or whatever. This is especially important when you're talking about off-forum behavior, doubly so if the relevant mod isn't involved in off-site groups like Discord. Granted, I botched up how I handled the issue, but I also wasn't given anything to work with. Had I been approached by a couple of discord users in some capacity before the dramatic reveal, such as PM or email, I would have been happy to look into it and make a decision. Had one of the other mods been notified because no one wanted to talk to me specifically, I would have been fine with that.

I don't know what happened with the discord group. I have no idea what SBC did, or what the group dynamics were, if there was a fight for King Queer Furry that he lost, or what. Not do I know why the discord made the decision across the boards that no one outside of the group was to be informed of their problems. The only person from the FabGoon discord group who approached me at all, called it disturbing and described it as a cult of personality around one person and his friends. So all I had to work with was an angry mob demanding I take on-forum action for off-forum problems, with no proof and no history of complaints about said off-forum problems.

Could I have handled it better? Yes, absolutely, but not by just doing whatever was demanded by the mob. At the very least, that would've been a long consultation with the admins and mods while the thread stayed locked down. It's not about discrimination or whatever, it's simply that off-forum means off-forum, and moderating some for off-forum behavior is a very tricky and unpleasant thing that sits on top of a very slippery slope. A lack of evidence, including a lack of people making complaints about the behavior, makes me hesitate that much more. And there has always been the option to complain anonymously through email, or to another mod/admin.

I'm aware of two E/N discord groups right now, but for all I know there are a dozen. I've chosen to stay out of all of them, as has the IK. You guys have the right and privilege and freedom to associate off-forum any old way you like, with the understanding that it's not an official part of the Something Awful platform and this not subject to the same rules, visibility, and moderation as Something Awful itself. If you want to tie one of them to the other for the purpose of moderating someone's off-forum offenses, then by all means do so, but you have to work with the mods to do so. A digital lynch mob is not the way to do it. In case you've forgotten, a lynch mob demanding punishment for someone without proof of the accusations, is a bad thing.

As for it being the FabGoons, that is an unfortunate coincidence. I don't discriminate against people of any sexuality or gender, and I'm not going to be continually accused of it. Had it been one of the other E/N groups, it would've been the same. I can't do anything about a group of people choosing to insulate themselves or maintain a code of silence with outsiders or however things with that discord got to that point. There was only one voice of dissent, and they were unwilling to talk about the group dynamics of the discord in front of any other members. All told, that's not a good look.

Now that both sides have had their say, we will return to the OP and the original intent of this thread.

Control Volume posted:

Some recent drama happened in the gay E/N thread over some guy being a creep offsite, and some people willingly threw themselves onto the probation sword to warn people about him advertising a different offsite [link]

The mod probated people for offsite drama and locked the thread, as you do, and then opened the thread and started melting down at people starting to talk about the new mod decision:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3836459&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=63#post482777118
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3836459&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=63#post482777248
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3836459&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=63#post482778900
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3836459&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=63#post482779751

These are all directly discussing a mod decision, and instead they were all probated for petty reasons. There is nothing in this that really suggests that this moderation actually fixes anything other than piss people off, or any acknowledgment that some of the poo poo going on offsite might actually be seriously heavy (to the point where people actively flout the rules because of it), just a blind repetition about how rules are rules. Considering Bobbie Wickham is also the mod who jumped into a completely unrelated thread to demand a poster return to his E/N thread to entertain the masses, I dont think shes fit to be a mod of that or any forum.

Bobbie Wickham posted:

I regret nothing.

Heath posted:

Those posts make my skin crawl

Zero One posted:

Yeah they did a lot of great comics.

TheSwizzler posted:

16-bit Butt-Head posted:

you WILL come back to e/n and tell us about your disintegrating marriage or there will be consequences this is your final warning

sharknado slashfic posted:

Why in God's name would anyone join an e/n discord

TheSwizzler posted: