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Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Are there others boards that talk about us? Besides SS, that's just sad reject poo poo.

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Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Jack Trades posted:

Have you tried using Google?

They had no message boards!

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Is there some logical of how the posts read? Like I'm dumb I guess and can't follow any thread of thought/discussion there.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:

This is probably true

Post ur tumblr

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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a retard posted:

i have no idea but i meant in the sense of "pictures of people in swimsuits are not porn unless you have the mindset of a 1920s preacher"

for the record i'm indifferent to reddit and r/jailbait was creepy and i'm glad its gone but a lot of goons use it as an excuse to feel superior about the fact they paid actual irl money to post on a message board

whoa hold on

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Beefeater posted:

Or they could just not quote every post they like and respond with "lol". Isn't doing so a prime example of whitenoise posting? It adds nothing to the thread.

This doesn't happen. I've never see you post tho

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Vargs posted:

I like GBS, although I don't think having it be the "default" forum does us any favors in terms of attracting new users. It has a fairly different atmosphere from most of the other subforums, but folks are gonna check here first and get scared off.

Even changing that won't bring in enough regs though. There just isn't anything drawing in new blood. It used to be the front page, but that has long since fallen out of popularity. The advent of LPs brought people in for awhile, but that isn't an SA-exclusive thing anymore and that traffic has gone towards twitch and youtube. I dunno what the next step is, but I do not think that a few moderation changes in GBS will have much of an impact.

The clear path forward. Tyvm

I think the rules are fine. Burn some of the really low content posters, but leave it a free open space. It'll catch on tax. I'm frankly surprised you came back and cared a bit. SA must have some possibility of upswing, and if it's perpetually in the red it'd be shut down by now. There are 5:1 bad:good threads but some I open and chuckle and never visit again. Others I post badly in over and over because I find them and the people entertaining.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Applewhite posted:

Well *I* like GBS.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Sid Vicious posted:

lol how old are you you still might be able to get one

Ouchie

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Reditt is laughing at us infight right now :smith:

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Kaedric posted:

The heyday of this forum was goons posting actual sick burns against each other and it was glorious. What we have now is but a pale shadow, where someone posting 'lol you care about a topic' is about as heady as it gets.

There are still some good burns and their funny, just some people think we need a safe discussion space and cry a lot.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Fat Shat Sings posted:

Nah.

This isn't jokes changing with the times, this is hyper defensive moral outrage for the sake of moral outrage and it had an obvious end and everyone should be glad it's gone.

How do you know so much about the history of interacting with goons as a 16? :shrug:

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Hell Yeah posted:

lol at anyone thinking lowtax is reading your heart-felt encouragement or smelling your freshly minted opinions. it seems more like he just posted in this thread to vent. i feel bad for lowtax. he clearly cares about the site but is helpless to stop it from slowly sinking into the ocean.

I feel bad too, but he's not helpless to stop the site from sinking. He has people that he probably talks to, goons and otherwise, that have advice. He should consider them, discard the bs, and act on his own opinions. That's like management 101.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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That Mormon guy got religion in my Reddit thread.

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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The Wizard of Poz posted:

haha.

I ignored the rest of your post because I agree you should be able to make fun of basically anything as long as the motivation isn't hateful, and yet I still found myself confused by the amount of time you spent writing all that out and I just got embarrassed for you and stopped reading.

Why can't we hate?

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Lowtax posted:

I don't know who the gently caress you are and I never spent a second of my time changing anything on your account.

Do you know me?

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Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Laurenz posted:

There are smaller subreddits that are actually really good but the big subreddits (like all the default ones) are terrible.

Aren't they saying the same about SA?

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