Cuttlefush posted:

no but fishmech should be unleashed

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

John Lewis Christmas advert acoustic cover of Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney

UCS Hellmaker posted:

fishmech catalaged goon homegrown including at least one persons that was underage, just the former is hosed up, the latter (even if it might not have been intentional and just him being a very creepy archiver) was worth a permaban just as much as the former

Then he was the most tedious motherfucker on the forums worse then any of the DND brains people complain are terrible

Autisanal Cheese posted:

it’s true, would anyone like to confess to some weird crimes for no reason

Mr Teatime posted:

‘I was there,’he would say afterwards, until afterwards became a time quite devoid of laughter. ‘I was there, the day Jeffrey slew Spr.’

Happy Thread posted:

I'm just gonna list some more things I've observed that are definitely unacceptable bullying tactics.

• Calling posters unfunny in a discussion where no one is trying to be funny -- because there's some grievance being discussed. Using that as justification for why the discussion is not legitimate as an SA thread (i.e. not funny enough for SA). Now the "funny" posters need to intervene and attend to the rest of the discussion. The supposed "pro-comedy" stance of FYAD is just this thinly disguised common bullying trick.
  
  
• After invading a space, injecting constant whataboutism to shut down further serious conversation.
  
  
• Online griefing. Scanning the entire forum for bullying opportunities and openly discussing it (see FYAD's "gbs superstar" megathread). Frequent low-key calling for the shutdown of entire massive discussion spaces (TGRS / CSPAM / all of SA) and safe havens for marginalized people / political types in order to score a win. Abuse of the mechanics of a forum in general (registering alt accounts, sockpuppet arguments, spamming, other griefing 101 type poo poo that FYAD pioneered decades ago).
  
  
• Shutting down any conversation where the vulnerable are discussing IRL bullying or standing up for themselves by labeling it "politics". Claiming to want a "politics free" space. This is straight out of the alt right playbook (youtube link) for taking over a social media space. Once a space has become "depoliticized", running off the vulnerable members, and steering everyone else toward punching down where they once punched up. Banning "politics" in GBS. Convincing Lowtax to segregate most chat about oppression into a special subforum unabashedly called "triggers" (TGRS).
  
  
• Astroturfing. When FYAD regulars see FYAD or forums conflict being discussed, they attempt to blend in and pass their opinions off as coming from a neutral / disinterested party, instead of from themselves. Leaving hit and run opinion posts without any disclosure of vested interest. This trick worked better back when hardly anyone knew which usernames were associated with FYAD. Follow-up invasions where FYAD regulars rapidly agree with the opinion and create the illusion of thread consensus. In QCS it was frequently followed by dogpiling anyone who accuses them of astroturfing, smearing them as paranoid and unfunny to redirect the accusation, still with no disclosure that they are the very FYAD regulars being discussed.
  
  
• Discouraging everyone from monitoring the situation by claiming that their subforum only contains obscure humor that you wouldn't "get". When anyone finally overcomes that and opens FYAD, it turns out it's not incomprehensible because of the humor -- it's incomprehensible because it's full of juvenile bullying, complex drama, and threads about scanning the forum for bullying opportunities. Sociopathic behavior *is* incomprehensible to normal people.
  
  
• Whenever there's trouble, bypassing the whole community and going straight to dad. As we saw the other day, stacking their own members into Lowtax's paid YouTube chat stream and facebook feed, now that he mainly spends his time there, and admits he feels "unsafe" posting on his own forum where he faces criticism. In this case it's more than just FYAD contributing since social media at large is crawling with alt-right. But the goal is shared.
  
  
• Attacking the representative-based moderation system itself. FYAD regulars immediately dogpile mods whenever one is scandalized. At times they have coordinated and timed this behavior in the "GBS superstar" thread, which is FULL of egregious mod sass over the years. Immediately announcing a consensus that the mod should resign / be fired, independent of what the rest of the forum thinks. FAU and others got discouraged and stepped down during this treatment during threads that were overrun by FYAD regulars.
  
  
• Encouraging the overall number of mods on the site to be reduced, and using whataboutism to delay new people from being modded.
  
  
• Escalating drama wherever it happens.
  
  
• Grooming tons of individual forums figures with promises of inner-circle acceptance if they join in on the fun, where "fun" is really a stand in for abuse. Groomed individuals, who are not bullies themselves, tend to develop a bit of stockholm syndrome. Even mod/admins cowed to the fear of disapproval, labels of being "unfunny", or the crowd turning against oneself -- thus FYAD ended up with special status and immunity from the rules that you see enforced elsewhere.
  
  
• The aforementioned "I'm not touching you" trick to instigate others to punch back and get punished while they enjoy relative immunity.

Sorry for yet another effortpost about FYAD and abuse. I think this is the place for it, moreso than anywhere else on SA that I normally yell in.

Spanish Manlove posted:

They archived everything they possibly could and the homegrown was just caught in the net then used against them.

Spanish Manlove posted:

Is spr fishmech?

CyberPingu posted:

I'd have been fine with just a ban if she was buying AVs and not blaming anyone else. But trying to dump someone else in the poo poo (regardless of what you think of them as a poster) is loving scummy.

There's also no way she would have copped to it if she hadn't been caught.

Endorph posted:

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

I would love to hear the tale of how the code became the way it is, because that is one of the unsolvable mysteries of our age, and any elaboration on the matter could only serve to deepen the mystery.

Not sure "why would someone ghost lowtax" is much of a puzzle, though.

The Kins posted:

Fishmech was an entirely different type of damage.

Cuttlefush posted:

i thought fishmech just hosted the place people uploaded poo poo. did they like, look at everything and give it lil names and tags and stuff

Spanish Manlove posted:

I just remember an admin telling me about a time they looked into a slapfight in dnd and discovered it was two fishmech accounts arguing at each other

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Spanish Manlove posted:

I just remember an admin telling me about a time they looked into a slapfight in dnd and discovered it was two fishmech accounts arguing at each other

Arivia posted:

Yes, people found an actual organized backup of goonporn.

Spanish Manlove posted:

I just remember an admin telling me about a time they looked into a slapfight in dnd and discovered it was two fishmech accounts arguing at each other

Nuns with Guns posted:

In light of this gross anonymous av purchase mismanagement, it's important to remember proper forum Op Sec

strong bird posted:

Reinstate Some Plague Rats as PYF IK
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4025207
Resolution: SPR was re-instated as PYF IK

Autisanal Cheese posted:

some plague rats posted:

lol drat

yeah. I was in the grip of an absolute loving episode brought on by some personal poo poo this morning and was essentially just acting out, and I should have blanked it or bought a new one instead of continuing to bluff it when I started to come down. Same with the 41%, that was a real low point. Sorry all, I can be a real loving dickhead in exciting new ways when the mood takes me. I will now hear about this forever, go

Spanish Manlove posted:

I just remember an admin telling me about a time they looked into a slapfight in dnd and discovered it was two fishmech accounts arguing at each other

NoiseAnnoys posted:

whichever side of the sa divide you might be on, you have to admit this is one of the all-time great obliterations.

Kazinsal posted:

by all offsite accounts fishmech is doing much better now that they/she are no longer compulsively posting on SA so we should probably leave that as it is

Marcade posted:

Yeah, Lowtax even ghosted himself.

Tetramin posted:

Yeah, but that doesn’t change anything lol.

Marxalot posted:

I have no idea who any of these people are but the jeffpost followed by the lame assed "sorry guys I was having mental health" response was an absolutely top notch combo that any casual internet posting fan can appreciate

Marxalot posted:

I have no idea who any of these people are but the jeffpost followed by the lame assed "sorry guys I was having mental health" response was an absolutely top notch combo that any casual internet posting fan can appreciate

GABA ghoul posted:

Was fishmech aware of what was going on? Sometimes it's hard to keep track of all the alts

ArfJason posted:

[doing high pitched voice out the corner of my mouth] FAAAGGOT [looks back and forth] WHO SAID THAT???

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

yeah and then also trying to own their forums enemies still in an "apology" post on the way out. a saga for the ages

Spanish Manlove posted:

It was like

Alt1: furthermore it's imperitve that the GDP of foreign sovereignty aspects un security council nano machines

Alt2: you're a stupid rear end in a top hat loreum Ipsum quotum a avadra kadavara

Alt1: to be or not to be, tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Alt2: Figaro Figaro Figaro

Spanish Manlove posted:

I just remember an admin telling me about a time they looked into a slapfight in dnd and discovered it was two fishmech accounts arguing at each other