Mola Yam posted:

can i have some money

Bastard Tetris posted:

I’ve made literal millions of dollars combating a global pandemic

Phigs posted:

The scrutiny makes it different. You could have that same meltdown in a random thread in these forums and chances are no mod would end up seeing it.

People in the thread need to understand they have to have more restraint.

Mola Yam posted:

you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

Phigs posted:

If you're posting in this thread you're basically posting under a don't lose your temper rule. Everything you do has to be measured and rational because anything too high strung is a sign you're about to go blow up a Costco with a pipe bomb in a Darth Vader suit.

I'm not really joking. This is not a thread to get pulled into dumb slapfights with trolls if you can't keep your temper under control or prevent yourself from saying anything stupid in an argument.

Mekchu posted:

the only person starting a slapfight was the person who saw a fallout new vegas screenshot and equated that to someone wishing death on their spouse. nobody was trolling the thread lmao

tristeham posted:

hmmm

bedpan posted:

already bring a gun to costco but that is because I open carry and not because of anything COVID related

Phigs posted:

The scrutiny makes it different. You could have that same meltdown in a random thread in these forums and chances are no mod would end up seeing it.

People in the thread need to understand they have to have more restraint.

Asproigerosis posted:

Nice my awful post made the thread title my work here is done *disappears from thread until the next variant*

cenotaph posted:

It's something worth being mad about! It makes me mad too!. I did not believe that was your intent and I am not offended but if we're looking to elevate the tone of this thread I thought it worth mentioning.

Of course,

Steve Yun posted:

oh yeahhhhh

come to think of it weren’t a lot of vflexes failing because of the pleating near the nose? these bulk vflexes might not have that problem

Homeless Friend posted:

Sorta, you can post like a psycho as long as you do a wink and nod appropriately. you have to use cspam irony protections. then it falls onto the personal judgement of the poster by the mod and not the post.

bobtheconqueror posted:

You know how folks complain about "normalization" forcing COVID news and people that are COVID conscious, from immunocompromised folks to just people who don't like being sick, into the margins of society? The notion that many people are ignorant of the realities of COVID because it's simply considered impolite to discuss them?

This is just a dead comedy forum, but the sort of forced decorum (in a supposed FYAD lite no less), especially when dealing with a mass death and disability event, is normalization in action. It's the very same idea of conflating calmness and politeness with just thought or actions, ultimately as a means to enforce the status quo, but in this case more likely just a weird visceral reaction brought on by propaganda that COVID isn't something to be taken seriously.

I don't have any objections to moderating the thread, but the whole notion that we can thread the needle to please dedicated poo poo stirrers who demand the thread be "normal" is absurd at face value. COVID taken seriously isn't normal, and folks whose whole posting persona is trying to police other threads aren't inclined to be satisfied anyways. The thread will be normalized until it is dead or removed, regardless of the actual content of the posts.

bobtheconqueror posted:

You know how folks complain about "normalization" forcing COVID news and people that are COVID conscious, from immunocompromised folks to just people who don't like being sick, into the margins of society? The notion that many people are ignorant of the realities of COVID because it's simply considered impolite to discuss them?

This is just a dead comedy forum, but the sort of forced decorum (in a supposed FYAD lite no less), especially when dealing with a mass death and disability event, is normalization in action. It's the very same idea of conflating calmness and politeness with just thought or actions, ultimately as a means to enforce the status quo, but in this case more likely just a weird visceral reaction brought on by propaganda that COVID isn't something to be taken seriously.

I don't have any objections to moderating the thread, but the whole notion that we can thread the needle to please dedicated poo poo stirrers who demand the thread be "normal" is absurd at face value. COVID taken seriously isn't normal, and folks whose whole posting persona is trying to police other threads aren't inclined to be satisfied anyways. The thread will be normalized until it is dead or removed, regardless of the actual content of the posts.

bobtheconqueror posted:

You know how folks complain about "normalization" forcing COVID news and people that are COVID conscious, from immunocompromised folks to just people who don't like being sick, into the margins of society? The notion that many people are ignorant of the realities of COVID because it's simply considered impolite to discuss them?

This is just a dead comedy forum, but the sort of forced decorum (in a supposed FYAD lite no less), especially when dealing with a mass death and disability event, is normalization in action. It's the very same idea of conflating calmness and politeness with just thought or actions, ultimately as a means to enforce the status quo, but in this case more likely just a weird visceral reaction brought on by propaganda that COVID isn't something to be taken seriously.

I don't have any objections to moderating the thread, but the whole notion that we can thread the needle to please dedicated poo poo stirrers who demand the thread be "normal" is absurd at face value. COVID taken seriously isn't normal, and folks whose whole posting persona is trying to police other threads aren't inclined to be satisfied anyways. The thread will be normalized until it is dead or removed, regardless of the actual content of the posts.

Asproigerosis posted:

Nice my awful post made the thread title my work here is done *disappears from thread until the next variant*

Platystemon posted:

bobtheconqueror posted:

You know how folks complain about "normalization" forcing COVID news and people that are COVID conscious, from immunocompromised folks to just people who don't like being sick, into the margins of society? The notion that many people are ignorant of the realities of COVID because it's simply considered impolite to discuss them?

This is just a dead comedy forum, but the sort of forced decorum (in a supposed FYAD lite no less), especially when dealing with a mass death and disability event, is normalization in action. It's the very same idea of conflating calmness and politeness with just thought or actions, ultimately as a means to enforce the status quo, but in this case more likely just a weird visceral reaction brought on by propaganda that COVID isn't something to be taken seriously.

I don't have any objections to moderating the thread, but the whole notion that we can thread the needle to please dedicated poo poo stirrers who demand the thread be "normal" is absurd at face value. COVID taken seriously isn't normal, and folks whose whole posting persona is trying to police other threads aren't inclined to be satisfied anyways. The thread will be normalized until it is dead or removed, regardless of the actual content of the posts.

Insanite posted:

it is too much to expect that ppl in the ostensibly* leftist subforum have even the slightest familiarity with cultural hegemony, actually.

*osteopathically

Homeless Friend posted:

i never noticed his sick mug

NeonPunk posted:

I see the problem here. Cspam is not a leftist forum, it's just filled with computer touchers cosplaying as leftists.

Regarde Aduck posted:

that's this thread you loving dipshit

Regarde Aduck posted:

that's this thread you loving dipshit

tenderjerk posted:

being lumped in with the 'computer toucher' label is hurtful and not true

Sunny Side Up posted:

on top of this, you don't resolve conflict or disagreement through lack of (unironic, direct, principled) struggle. "keeping the peace" always leads to either fizzle or explosion.