Endorph posted:

its not funny that the rock is ripping off bad bits but its funny that cody isnt allowed to have a comeback

Grendels Dad posted:

It's not funny because I have the sinking feeling that EMF is right and this is their idea of Cody getting his Moment. Just have the heels relentlessly making GBS threads all over him for many years, winning awful feuds and now cutting hours upon hours of terrible TV drama promos on him but it's OK, he gets the lovely belt.


The last five or so years undone by a picture of a smiling Cody on the WM-branded turnbuckle, raising however many titles with the words "Worth it!" written over them.

Eat My Fuc posted:

you’re right that this thread will never be anything but sniping people and “i don’t watch” posts but the wwe mecca is just poo poo posting. i’ll leave this one and go there and talk to myself i don’t care. better than unfunny jokes and actually mad posting in here.

Gumball Gumption posted:

Ideally I wouldn't be breathing the same air as anyone who has ever popped for a WWE nut shot but I understand the world doesn't bend around me

Cavauro posted:

i'm pretty sure there's a wrestling thread in gbs that's probably full of poz vibes if it's still there

Endorph posted:

Pylons posted:

MJeff posted:

If anything, this thread is far, far, far too gentle with the "what a show, I love Fartsie McShubba, Michael Hickenbottom is cookin'!" posters, who all know exactly what they're doing, as evidenced by the multiple times they've all been probed for poo poo-stirring.

CarlCX posted:

There is one truth in this post, and it's the degree to which there should have been more probations to make clear what was and wasn't acceptable in this subforum.

Erin and I have been talking for weeks about the dogpiling, shitposting bullying in the WWE threads getting out of hand, but we've been reluctant to hit it because we like this community, we hate heavy-handed moderation, and working through problems communally is ideal. We're now in agreement that was a mistake, because they grew until we arrived at a point where this thread is loving unreadable and people are posting about how it is actually imperative to bully people who watch the WWE out of the forum as a communal good.

And this is just as much our fault, because we should have been probing people for being shitheads to people a long time ago, and we didn't. I apologize for our failure to do our jobs properly. Erin is on vacation away from buttons, and I have been modding all of this poo poo between running my fiancee in and out of hospitals, this post is already too long, and I am very, very tired, so rather than getting into the weeds, I'm just gonna be blunt.

The WWE loving sucks. It's a gross company. It deserves anger and scorn. Posting about the realities of the WWE being a bad company run by bad people is fine.

Yelling at people who watch the WWE is not. Bullying people off the forum because they like the WWE is not. Turning the WWE threads into unreadable messes of shitposting is not. If you have arrived at a point where you are unironically posting about the moral rectitude of running WWE watchers off of an internet forum and taking glee in their demise, I urge you to rethink your life.

This is a forum for people to watch and discuss wrestling and combat sports. People are allowed to watch and discuss wrestling and combat sports. The 'everyone is allowed to post about watching the WWE, no one's stopping them, they just have to deal with the consequences' argument was always specious at best and it has been proven pretty thoroughly wrong in practice.

If you don't want to see people talk about the WWE on this forum: Go to any loving other thread in the forum.

No more posting about posters. No more drowning the WWE thread in shitposts. No more being a loving dickhead to people because they like a company that sucks. Nothing positive is going to come out of any of this continuing. If this thread becomes the same four people talking to each other about the WWE they watched this week, at this point, that's actually preferable to the poo poo you fuckers have been posting every day, which has gotten so beyond the pale bad that mods and admins from other forums altogether have been wondering what the gently caress.

I have to be up at 6 AM to go back to the hospital. I am eating a sandwich and going to bed. I'll see you all in the feedback thread tomorrow afternoon regarding my being a bad mod.

Lid posted:

Posting outside the don't watch thread because lol at watching this it's funny to make fun and terrible but I'm glad the mods and admins have decided seriously gently caress off because the toxicness was asinine.

Pylons posted:

Can I still post lovely NXT clips

Pylons posted:

Can I still post lovely NXT clips

The337th posted:

Maybe I misinterpreted and he's actively bullying in that picture

rotinaj posted:

That one looks white to me, but I will accept that.

The UFWU maybe coulda picked a less nazi-looking eagle.

Most Power Alex posted:

PneumonicBook posted:

I skipped the last page and a half but it takes roughly two minutes to lol at a raw summary and post in the thread that the product is bad. No one is spending 14 hours doing this and thinking that people are is pretty telling lol.

delightful posted:

There already exists a rape company thread, so the few people who post here who watch WWE aren't wrong in wanting a space to talk about the things they are watching.

I don't think we need any more threads, it's already pretty clear to me: WWE thread and rape company thread. But the people who want to tell you who how much better than you they are don't want to talk in that thread, they want to post in this thread to tell you how awful you are for watching. Threadban yea ok and the other loving toxic losers and make them post in the thread designated for that specific chat.

Pre-emptive "how dare you call ME toxic? You're defending the rape company!!!!!" no im not. You're just loving awful. I hope every single loving person responsible for crimes is brought to justice, but until that happens, keep your poo poo to the thread its supposed to me in

PneumonicBook posted:

Lol Jesus christ

It's possible many people think the product is loving awful too yknow? So they'd post here, about the bad wrestling.

delightful posted:

Then by all means post about bad product. "Bad product" is actually discussing WWE.

Edit: "Virtue signaling" is a term that gets thrown around way too much but is super applicable to the regulars in this thread who just want to remind people how awful people are for consuming product, regardless of whether it is good product or bad product. Can we discuss good or bad product without saying every single 800ish employees of WWE are rapists?

delightful posted:

Then by all means post about bad product. "Bad product" is actually discussing WWE.

Edit: "Virtue signaling" is a term that gets thrown around way too much but is super applicable to the regulars in this thread who just want to remind people how awful people are for consuming product, regardless of whether it is good product or bad product. Can we discuss good or bad product without saying every single 800ish employees of WWE are rapists?

Long-Time Lurker posted:

I think for most non-Fedpilled wrestling fans, despite knowing WWE had already committed some seriously heinous poo poo, Vince's recent crimes were just so inconceivably terrible that we can't brain how people can still consume the product without really giving that much of a poo poo about any of it other than the disclaimer that they, too, hope the criminals will be brought to justice.

delightful posted:

Me too! I'd love to see Vince guillotined on live TV and forever disgraced. I see there is a WWE Mecca thread now, which I've bookmarked but I guess I fail to see why there are 3 threads for WWE.

Rape company thread: ok makes sense
WWE Mecca: People who watch this garbage
This thread: ?????

delightful posted:

There already exists a rape company thread, so the few people who post here who watch WWE aren't wrong in wanting a space to talk about the things they are watching.

I don't think we need any more threads, it's already pretty clear to me: WWE thread and rape company thread. But the people who want to tell you who how much better than you they are don't want to talk in that thread, they want to post in this thread to tell you how awful you are for watching. Threadban yea ok and the other loving toxic losers and make them post in the thread designated for that specific chat.

Pre-emptive "how dare you call ME toxic? You're defending the rape company!!!!!" no im not. You're just loving awful. I hope every single loving person responsible for crimes is brought to justice, but until that happens, keep your poo poo to the thread its supposed to me in

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delightful posted:

Rape company thread: ok makes sense
WWE Mecca: People who watch this garbage
This thread: ?????