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HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010


Goons,

While I appreciate that we will soon have an elected official for C-SPAM, I worry about the rest of the forums as a whole, and whether their interests are at least being met. I am proposing that we have a civil thread in the near future to discuss the status of our internet home, plans for the future, wrongs to be righted, etc.

To that end this thread will be part of the planning of said future thread, and we will treat the forum as a "town hall/meeting" discussion with admin/mods to provide support or grievances as needed. What is needed is:

  • Scheduled date/time for the thread
  • Agreement from the mods/administrators to be available to address commentary
  • Set an agenda for the meeting and not stray from it

So, noble Goons, let us help bring back democracy to the threads and discuss what should be on the agenda.

Something Awful Town Hall Meeting
Sample Agenda

I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Public Commentary
III. Lowtax/Administrators remarks
IV. Sample issue 1 - Ed Balls
VI. Sample issue 2 - Bash the Fash
VII. ???

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Noun Verber
Oct 12, 2006

Cool party, guys.
I won't trust a mod that doesn't make gross porn of some sort, as is our long-standing tradition.

TheDon01
Mar 8, 2009


Noun Verber posted:

I won't trust a mod that doesn't make gross porn of some sort, as is our long-standing tradition.

A sufficiently bizzare fetish at the very least.

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Agenda point: the AI subforum has been doing a lot of smokey burnouts lately as they try and choose a new mod, and my cockatrice is half crazy because of it

Second: it's time to tear down that crack den, it's been an eyesore for far too long. And don't give me "but where will the drug posters go" malarkey, they'll just hole up in a disused part of Amazon.com and take their Soviet legal life-wrecker drugs and ARM REDUCTION and whatever those people get up to

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

I've had it up to HERE with those noisy sports posters! All hours of the day, all hours of the night, sports Sports SPORTS!!! If they're going to talk about sports, they need to go somewhere ELSE. I work 30 hours every week and I don't need to be kept up with statistics and whatever the hell a "DRAFT" is!

I just want to post in peace about video games and be left alone! GET THEM OUT OF HERE!

GOOD TIMES ON METH
Mar 17, 2006

Fun Shoe
I'm the old lonely man that never says anything and just stares at women the whole time

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

I'm the old lonely man that never says anything and just stares at women the whole time

ugh thank god I'm tired of being that guy. enjoy!

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Can we send the cops over to games? The smell coming from there is overpowering and the constant muttering of 'my waifu' are getting creepy

Zeris
Apr 15, 2003

Quality posting direct from my brain to your face holes.
We at GIP really appreciate your gratitude and thanks and patriotism, but wish you had picked a better commander in chief to lead us.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

Zeris posted:

We at GIP really appreciate your gratitude and thanks and patriotism, but wish you had picked a better commander in chief to lead us.

you get what you deserve. and you deserve the guy that is going to launch a war with china and iran simultaneously.

Yinlock
Oct 22, 2008

I'm concerned that our elected official has plans to dismantle for Forums Ethics Committee

even more alarming that that committee is technically himself

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Zeris posted:

We at GIP really appreciate your gratitude and thanks and patriotism, but wish you had picked a better commander in chief to lead us.

I'm terribly MAD at our veterans too!!! Those good-for-nothing stolen valor servicemen demeaning our healthcare system! PTSD is not a disease! It is not worth anyone's time! When they stop suckling the teat of VFW, I'll be goddamned pleased!

Business Gorillas
Mar 11, 2009

:harambe:



*nervously leans way close to mic*
gently caress ADTRW

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
I think we should launch an investigatory committee into the behaviour of BYOB. I believe it is important that we discover what motivates these posters, whether they are sincere, whether they pose a threat to us, or whether we need to wage a campaign of extermination against them.

I have no evidence of any wrongdoing on BYOBs part, I have seen no indication from them of hostility - but in a way, wouldn't the fact that they hide it so well make it all the more sinister? The fact that there isn't a single sign of hostility is almost evidence, in and of itself, of their nefarious intent.

Also, I think everyone that posts in D&D from this point forward should receive a sort of gang tag, so that they can be readily identified by their association.

*mutters nervously to himself for the remainder of the discussion about how we can't trust anyone and we need to protect our borders*

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
can we goatse nazis

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice
Free crazy cloud :yayclod:

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Gentlemen, gentlemen!

I've been followin this meeting, and I'm dismayed that our first community meeting is about attacking other members of our community. Have you forgotten why you post here? The legions of ill-informed shitheads that we all have universal contempt for? The complete inability of most of the net-posting's humanity to post pseudo-anonymously and not be the raging Id they evidently want to be in real life? The non-rules of reddit, which cultivates the worst sort of idiocy? I think we've forgotten, friends, that a ADTRW poster is an affable, self aware saint compared to the median poster on another anime forum. We need to remember that as much as we despise one another, we would stick together like a crack military unit in the slough of despond that is the wider internet.

Plus, if we're purging anyone, surely it should be the socialist/communist posters. Don't you remember when we trapped all those white guys who were X-ray technicians and manufacturing engineers who kept screaming "FULL COMMUNISM NOW" into the ramshackle barn that was LF, and then burned the barn down? I do :allears:

HiHo ChiRho
Oct 23, 2010

I would like to remind the good people of C-SPAM that this is to set the agenda of the actual SA Town Meeting, and the only good idea I have heard yet is to goatse nazis. While admirable, we need more ideas!

Also, where should we hold this forum on the, uh, forums? Gibbis?

tadashi
Feb 20, 2006

I'm interesting in finding out if we have the collective skills to organize a ~goonproject~ to actually contribute something to society or are we just going to post circlejerk slogans and Trump Tweets util death by radiation poisoning occurs?

Should we be trying to doxx notorious MRA/pro-fash/pro-Nazi red hats from other sites? [I think the unwritten rule is that this is a no-no on Something Awful following the fallout from the Palin email incident]
Should we invade Stormfront?
Should we create a website to prop up non-lovely candidates?

Can we do these things without Lowtax perma-banning the lot of us or deleting C-Spam?

tadashi has issued a correction as of 20:50 on Jan 26, 2017

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

Nebakenezzer posted:

Gentlemen, gentlemen!

I've been followin this meeting, and I'm dismayed that our first community meeting is about attacking other members of our community. Have you forgotten why you post here? The legions of ill-informed shitheads that we all have universal contempt for? The complete inability of most of the net-posting's humanity to post pseudo-anonymously and not be the raging Id they evidently want to be in real life? The non-rules of reddit, which cultivates the worst sort of idiocy? I think we've forgotten, friends, that a ADTRW poster is an affable, self aware saint compared to the median poster on another anime forum. We need to remember that as much as we despise one another, we would stick together like a crack military unit in the slough of despond that is the wider internet.

Plus, if we're purging anyone, surely it should be the socialist/communist posters. Don't you remember when we trapped all those white guys who were X-ray technicians and manufacturing engineers who kept screaming "FULL COMMUNISM NOW" into the ramshackle barn that was LF, and then burned the barn down? I do :allears:

as acting attorney general of cspam I say lol just lol

i like u pls stick around :)

ass cobra
May 28, 2004

by Azathoth
Can we impeach president Donald J Trump for being bad?

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

tadashi posted:

Should we be trying to doxx notorious MRA/pro-fash/pro-Nazi red hats from other sites? [I think the unwritten rule is that this is a no-no on Something Awful following the fallout from the Palin email incident]
Should we invade Stormfront?
Should we create a website to prop up non-lovely candidates?

Can we do these things without Lowtax perma-banning the lot of us or deleting C-Spam?

The first proposal is against the rules, given that Stanford Prison experiment that was Helldump. Unless they out themselves, it's strictly forbidden.

The second proposal has already been accomplished in D&D's Freep thread and it's completely unreadable.

The third proposal, on the other hand, sounds pretty good! A fifty state (and commonwealths and territories) website would be pretty dang helpful for folks to figure out who to vote for in their local elections!

On that note, I'd like to reiterate one of the planks our president, crazy cloud proposed, and that we uh, go do good works outside and not post or drink for a change. It's an alarming point of the agenda, for sure, but one of the greater ones.

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

Mariana Horchata posted:

as acting attorney general of cspam I say lol just lol

i like u pls stick around :)

:glomp:

I'm just looking for a forum for my wilder ideas, now that the paranormal subforum was silenced by the Illuminati (there was a fiendish conspiracy afoot to make it appear like 5 people were posting in it)

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice




Nebakenezzer posted:

:glomp:

I'm just looking for a forum for my wilder ideas, now that the paranormal subforum was silenced by the Illuminati (there was a fiendish conspiracy afoot to make it appear like 5 people were posting in it)

then u shall like it here and be welcome - enjoy ur posting!

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

College Slice

Weeping Wound posted:

On that note, I'd like to reiterate one of the planks our president, crazy cloud proposed, and that we uh, go do good works outside and not post or drink for a change. It's an alarming point of the agenda, for sure, but one of the greater ones.

i already had a meeting w/r/t the creation of a viral meme that involves showing donald trump ur bare rear end but it got tabled pending legal review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjX1IaU1A0w

Chokes McGee
Aug 7, 2008

This is Urotsuki.
PISS.

And poo poo.

Mr. Belding
May 19, 2006
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I attend the meeting and do a very good job in that aspect of the scenario.

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mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
i would like a bowl of horchata

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