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Death Ray
Jan 20, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 6 years!)

At this point I will give you a hint of the strategy I would like to share with you, because without asking for it, a bit of its success just came across my transom.

As I type this, I am doing my (tedious) ComicsGate homework, by listening to one of the streams that some gaters are conducting right now on YT. And wouldn't you know it: they just dropped my name, and referenced the trouble Vox Day has been creating for ComicsGate lately, and the role I played in fomenting it.

Getting THEM to feel threatened by YOU is where you want to be.

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Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Death Ray posted:

At this point I will give you a hint of the strategy I would like to share with you, because without asking for it, a bit of its success just came across my transom.

As I type this, I am doing my (tedious) ComicsGate homework, by listening to one of the streams that some gaters are conducting right now on YT. And wouldn't you know it: they just dropped my name, and referenced the trouble Vox Day has been creating for ComicsGate lately, and the role I played in fomenting it.

Getting THEM to feel threatened by YOU is where you want to be.

These people are already constantly in a state of feeling threatened by anyone who isn't them. This is dumb and you're dumb.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
gently caress off Nazi.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

Death Ray posted:

At this point I will give you a hint of the strategy I would like to share with you, because without asking for it, a bit of its success just came across my transom.

As I type this, I am doing my (tedious) ComicsGate homework, by listening to one of the streams that some gaters are conducting right now on YT. And wouldn't you know it: they just dropped my name, and referenced the trouble Vox Day has been creating for ComicsGate lately, and the role I played in fomenting it.

Getting THEM to feel threatened by YOU is where you want to be.



The only things I’m threatened by are your terrible posts. So I’m serving a cease and desist. So seriously. Stop posting.

Death Ray
Jan 20, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 6 years!)

Vince MechMahon posted:

These people are already constantly in a state of feeling threatened by anyone who isn't them. This is dumb and you're dumb.

You are right about their fear. But one thing I have noticed about CG is that they appear to be having more fun, while their opponents, frustrated as they are but not knowing how to organize effectively against them, are angrier. Flipping the script on that dynamic is entirely possible.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

420 Gank Mid
Dec 26, 2008

WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

Edge & Christian posted:

Take it with a grain of salt (or just call everyone involved nazi-kissing fascist enabling fuckwad shitneck pissgoblin fuckshit assghouls) but in a (since deleted) tweet:



If this is the case it's just Mark Paniccia who is a Hitler loving loving fuckshit quisling lickspittle dickwad. Unless de Campi is a misinformed loving moron who should go hang a loving fasces in her shithut because she is horny for Nazis like some sort of decorum fucker. Maybe everyone at Marvel needs to put a shitgun into their assmouth and pull the fucktrigger because they can't loving handle a little loving language against loving Nazis if you loving say one bad word about them they loving poo poo their rear end in a top hat loving baby loving pants gently caress AND IF YOU DON'T APPROVE OF THIS YOU ARE A NAZI.

lmao havin' a normal one today Edge & Christian?

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.
gently caress off Nazi

420 Gank Mid
Dec 26, 2008

WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

Holy poo poo someone melted down even further on the page I didnt read lmao

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

1 - If you post like Death Note with his nonsense you’re done in this thread.

2 - If your response to something in this thread doesn’t have something of substance in it you’re done. This includes ‘gently caress off’ or any variations of. If that’s all you have to add or think a post warrants then don’t post/ if you think the post is that bad that it warrants that reaction then report it and move on.

Edge & Christian
May 20, 2001

Earth-1145 is truly the best!
A world of singing, magic frogs,
high adventure, no shitposters

Death Ray posted:

Getting THEM to feel threatened by YOU is where you want to be.
I could have (I think I did upthread) told you that with about 100% less ARG puffery.

Being outwardly, vocally rude and negative towards Comicsgate type poo poo going back over a decade online (including a large thread about what trash Mike S. Miller is when he sent me a PR e-mail about his Kickstarter) was largely ignored by the targets of my ire. When I asked Lee Weeks why he follows a Glastonbury Festival worth of alt-right ghouls (Drudge, Krauthammer, Dana Loesch, Trey Gowdy, Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Michael Ramirez, D&C, Jonah Goldberg, etc.) that got the attention of EVS and others who launched a coordinated attack on me for "attacking a private man with a family" and "trying to ruin people's lives" up to and including informing my employers that I stalk and harass people online ultimately leading EVS to spend over an hour warning me through DMs that all of my favorite artists are MAGA and that a Red Wave will crush me and all that I love.

It still didn't change anything (my employers were unconcerned by the evidence, no one changed their minds). I guess I got one anonymous Comicsgater to stop following an explicit white supremacist Identity EVROPA style account they claimed to accidentally follow back. That was the big takeaway of those two days of my life.

420 Gank Mid posted:

lmao havin' a normal one today Edge & Christian?
Plz stop tone policing you :decorum: monster.

It's almost like it's harder to take people or their ideas seriously when they're roleplaying a Warren Ellis character.

Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Oct 13, 2018

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch
Fine i reported, now show me that theres a reason why i should give people who tell me that people who want to kill me deserve my respect and politeness more time than typing gently caress off

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

site posted:

Fine i reported, now show me that theres a reason why i should give people who tell me that people who want to kill me deserve my respect and politeness more time than typing gently caress off

Report, block, and move on. Those are the rules of this thread. Don’t like it? Don’t post. This thread is a thread of discussion. It was started with the rules of the OP clear to everyone but some seem to have forgotten that along the way. If some asshat tries to disrupt those rules report them, block them, move on. The thread isn’t going to turn into a clusterfuck like it just did again.

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch
Are you gonna probate him or not

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

site posted:

Are you gonna probate him or not

Uh maybe check again because I did a while ago.

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch
Hm i dont see it in lepers but good, i figured you weren't gonna

Kai Tave
Jul 2, 2012
Fallen Rib
This seems like as good a moment as any to go back to an earlier point of mine and say that comparing moderation of online communities to Big Brother is real fuckin stupid. All online communities require effective moderation or else they inevitably begin to turn to poo poo, it's not like this is something that's only just been discovered, it's played out time and time again. If a community doesn't take the bare minimum of effort to chuck out the truly awful people then what happens is a feedback loop where more and more awful people begin to congregate there and decent people decide they don't want to deal with it anymore and check out, opening it up for even more awful people to use it as a platform. It's not eagerly lining up to gag on the cock of totalitarian hypercapitalism to suggest that maybe it would be nice if Twitter was more proactive about doing things like banning white supremacists, harassment movements, and other associated sorts of people instead of deciding that it's vitally important that they get to have an unrestrained voice in the Marketplace of Ideas™. Obviously the people in charge don't care about that unless it begins to impact their bottom line so I certainly don't think that Jack Twitter is going to be talked around into being a champion for truth, justice, and not calling Gail Simone a oval office, but in the abstract the thing which seems to hurt chuds more than any amount of rhetorical jiu-jitsu is being cut off from funding, soapboxes, advertisers, demographic relevance, and so forth.

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Yeah, free speech absolutism online only ever leads to the platform being taken over by nazi gamers. It was irresponsible when AOL tried to hide behind it over the child pornography chatrooms in the late 90s and it's irresponsible now. The fact that silicon valley idiots who genuinely believe in the marketplace of ideas are in charge of the social media platforms everyone uses is a big reason why we've currently got a nazi problem.

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch
Unfortunately, forcing others to engage bad faith actors "reasonably" or else just let them spew their crap in silence under threat of punishment (a policy that overwhelmingly discriminates against the not-bad faith people) to maintain a nebulous sense of decorum is not effective moderation

(Not directly responding to your post, but on the subject of effective moderation)

site fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Oct 13, 2018

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


site posted:

Forcing others to engage bad faith actors "reasonably" or else just let them spew their crap in silence under threat of punishment (a policy that overwhelmingly discriminates against the not-bad faith people) to maintain a nebulous sense of decorum is not effective moderation imo

That's not what we're talking about either.

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch

Lurdiak posted:

That's not what we're talking about either.

My quickdraw edit was not quick enough

Lurdiak posted:

That's not what we're talking about either.

My quickdraw edit was not quick enough

E: although it did just occur to me that that is how twitter """"does"""" moderation in large part, so it is something that needs to be taken into account. They do need to actively punish those bad actors, but they also need to stop policing people who are being harassed when they respond to that harassment

site fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Oct 13, 2018

How Wonderful!
Jul 18, 2006


I only have excellent ideas
Here's an example of deathray's work from another thread, so you know, I'm ok not knowing his master plan and I'm prepared to go ahead and assume he didn't have my well-being or the well-being of any other queer poster near and dear to heart.

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

site posted:

Forcing others to engage bad faith actors "reasonably" or else just let them spew their crap in silence under threat of punishment (a policy that overwhelmingly discriminates against the not-bad faith people) to maintain a nebulous sense of decorum is not effective moderation imo

Nobody said to engage reasonably. I said not to engage someone who is purposely making GBS threads up the thread. This thread is not for you to engage in twitter like slap fights. If you have a problem with that then maybe don’t read the thread.

And maybe realize that not everyone is on the forum all day. I have a job, a family, and a life beyond this forum. If someone is making GBS threads up the thread report it and wait. Don’t engage. And if that’s too hard for you to do too bad.

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch

X-O posted:

Nobody said to engage reasonably. I said not to engage someone who is purposely making GBS threads up the thread. This thread is not for you to engage in twitter like slap fights. If you have a problem with that then maybe don’t read the thread.

And maybe realize that not everyone is on the forum all day. I have a job, a family, and a life beyond this forum. If someone is making GBS threads up the thread report it and wait. Don’t engage. And if that’s too hard for you to do too bad.

Its not my job to play nice with bad faith actors because you have no skin in the game and arent here all the time and are unwilling to share the duty with someone else who cares. If thats too hard for you too bad

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

site posted:

Its not my job to play nice with bad faith actors because you have no skin in the game and arent here all the time and are unwilling to share the duty with someone else who cares. If thats too hard for you too bad

You’re right your job isn’t to play nice. It’s to not play at all. Now stop the backseat modding and move on.

site
Apr 6, 2007

Trans pride, Worldwide
Bitch
Forcing people to take bullshit in silence is effectively the same as forcing us to play nice and that you dont grasp this is part of the problem

420 Gank Mid
Dec 26, 2008

WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

X-O posted:

You’re right your job isn’t to play nice. It’s to not play at all. Now stop the backseat modding and move on.
I get why you dont want the thread to derail into these kinds of arguments again and again but...

site posted:

Forcing people to take bullshit in silence is effectively the same as forcing us to play nice and that you dont grasp this is part of the problem

she's right

420 Gank Mid fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Oct 14, 2018

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

site posted:

Forcing people to take bullshit in silence is effectively the same as forcing us to play nice and that you dont grasp this is part of the problem

No it’s not. Report and block. That should be the end of it. There shouldn’t be 60 posts back and forth with some rear end in a top hat like Death Note. Do not engage with people that come into this thread solely to disrupt and cause havoc. You can do that all you want on Twitter or in PMs if you want. But those are the rules of this thread. Play by the rules or don’t play. Now stop dragging this on.

sticksy
May 26, 2004
Nap Ghost

site posted:

Its not my job to play nice with bad faith actors because you have no skin in the game and arent here all the time and are unwilling to share the duty with someone else who cares. If thats too hard for you too bad

Maybe take a break?

X-O
Apr 28, 2002

Long Live The King!

sticksy posted:

Maybe take a break?

This is a good example of a post that is not helpful and has no place in this thread.


But this thread itself is going to take a little break. So people cool your heads.

Death Ray, just an FYI you’ve been queued for a sixer right now. Consider that your one and only warning. Punishments are usually handed out incrementally but your next stop is just a straight up ban if you post again in this thread. So feel free to make one last grand statement if you wish when it’s open. Because I’ll be happy to push the button.

X-O fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Oct 13, 2018

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Oasx posted:

As much as I understand getting angry at the comicsgate people, I think Joe Quesada's approach has been the best. He has done more to show the stupidity of comicsgaters by being civil than any amount of shouting and ranting.

If you need someone to calmly explain to you why the Gators are racist you can gently caress off with them

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747
.

BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Oct 14, 2018

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Death Ray posted:

Yes. Besides that.

First, explain to me, in your own words, what "defeating" ComicsGate would mean? I'm not talking about waving a magic wand. I mean this: If there were an actual way to "defeat" them what could the result possibly look like?

Cutting their loving heads off with a guillotine and mounting them in the entrance to every shop in America

Death Ray posted:

Once again, "deplatform deplatfrom deplatform." Take away speech instead of fighting it with superior speech and strategy. The left has forgoten how to play ball with these creeps. They have learned to love Big Brother.

Yeah actually we should take away their speech instead of treating it like it's worthy of real responses

BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Oct 14, 2018

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

X-O posted:

No it’s not. Report and block. That should be the end of it. There shouldn’t be 60 posts back and forth with some rear end in a top hat like Death Note. Do not engage with people that come into this thread solely to disrupt and cause havoc. You can do that all you want on Twitter or in PMs if you want. But those are the rules of this thread. Play by the rules or don’t play. Now stop dragging this on.

gently caress off. You're doing exactly what site says. Telling people not to respond is absolute bullshit, and it's bullshit in a direction that only affects people who are the victims of shitheads. Because the shitheads are going to keep doing their thing, and someone is going to respond to them, and you will have accomplished nothing. Stop being a dense moron who thinks you have to crack down on people being mad at assholes. fuckin hell

X-O posted:

This is a good example of a post that is not helpful and has no place in this thread.


But this thread itself is going to take a little break. So people cool your heads.

Death Ray, just an FYI you’ve been queued for a sixer right now. Consider that your one and only warning. Punishments are usually handed out incrementally but your next stop is just a straight up ban if you post again in this thread. So feel free to make one last grand statement if you wish when it’s open. Because I’ll be happy to push the button.

Hell yeah you showed anybody else who might decide to be an rear end in a top hat that they'll just get a slap on the rest when you eventually get to probating them, and everyone who engaged with them will be in bigger trouble. Good job officer.

Edit never mind that people did respond I good faith and it only degenerated into "gently caress off" when he was a smugger and smugger rear end in a top hat about everything it's definitely people just posting gently caress off that's the problem

BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Oct 14, 2018

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Gator shitheads can gently caress off

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747
Make me IK of bss, I'll personally mod this thread and keep an eye out for shitheads so you don't have to! You won't even have to worry about policing queer people who don't swallow their anger anymore!

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Lurdiak
Feb 26, 2006

I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do.


Yes, put the rabid badger in charge of the wrecking ball.

420 Gank Mid
Dec 26, 2008

WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!

Lurdiak posted:

Yes, put the rabid badger in charge of the wrecking ball.

Not wanting to hush marginalized people telling off nazis is rabies, got it

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

Lurdiak posted:

Yes, put the rabid badger in charge of the wrecking ball.

Remember when you cried about me sniping at you constantly a couple months ago

Even though I had you on ignore

And still do

420 Gank Mid posted:

Not wanting to hush marginalized people telling off nazis is rabies, got it

Lurdiak has an incredible amount of salt in his rear end about me because I don't passively tolerate his pass agg martyrdom horseshit like most people, this usually manifests as whining about how mean I am deapite me not talking to or about him for months, and then pointing at me calling him a pissbaby over this as proof

BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Oct 14, 2018

Kai Tave
Jul 2, 2012
Fallen Rib

Archyduke posted:

Here's an example of deathray's work from another thread, so you know, I'm ok not knowing his master plan and I'm prepared to go ahead and assume he didn't have my well-being or the well-being of any other queer poster near and dear to heart.

Was waiting for this thread to reopen so I could say wow and holy poo poo, also lol etc. Someone wrote and drew that and then thought to themselves "yep, this is something I want to share with the world."

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Nuns with Guns
Jul 23, 2010

It's fine.
Don't worry about it.
Death Ray isn't a nazi, but he is a smug, slimy prick and it's fine telling him to gently caress off when he brings nothing to the table but smarmy condescension and a promise to totally nuke the alt-right when he's finished creating his spirit bomb. I don't mind him coming back to this thread if he can manage to post without disappearing up his own rear end and chiding minority posters for being unwilling to engage with real nazis, but that's pretty unrealistic at this point.

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