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Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
I swore I'd never register on an off-site because those always end up being run by a clique and devolving into insane drama but man, I think we are done here basically.

poo poo sucks.

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Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

WampaLord posted:

Anyone who wants an invite, just go to https://breadnroses.net/ and register, I will approve, let me know the username you select if it is different.

Also be patient if it takes a little bit, there is a queue I am getting through as quickly as I can.

Same username here. We'll see what happens.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
It's going to be loving weird to see a bunch of post-mortems about SA in a few weeks/months on Vice.

If any journalist reads this post: gently caress you, and your entire media class writing about stupid internet drama instead of poo poo that actually matters. Maybe when your trust fund tanks and you have to do real rear end work for a living you might realize that there are more important things in life than writing dumbass clickbait poo poo.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Sharkie posted:

lowtax, your poisoned masculinity is making women's shelters crowded

jesus christ

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

paranoid randroid posted:

cant wait for the forums mandate to pivot to saying the cool slurs and owning the libs in hopes of attracting gab posters who dont mind a little domestic abuse and will definitely donate to lowtax's patreon steadily instead of calling him a cuck to his face and getting the site shut down inside of four months for actionable terrorist plotting

that would be the most appropriate outcome I guess. the forums don't die but they twist into a nightmare version of themselves.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
lol what the hell the forums are still here, didn't expect to wake up and find that

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Connoisseur posted:

Thanks for the answers. Seems like a clear abuse situation and sad all around.

It is. The fact that she even mentions/is forced to mention goons and the online community in those posts at all is heartbreaking.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Some Guy TT posted:

i get the distinct impression that lowtaxes plan might be to just hope well all forget that any of this happened

only problem is the mods are on strike and noones going to want the job as long as hes still in charge so theres nothing stopping any rear end in a top hat from just randomly spamming goatse everywhere and making the forums unreadable

note i am not advising against assholes spamming goatse everywhere and making the forums unreadable

there's one person doing that and some coward mod probated them.

godspeed person spamming goatse, you noble hero

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Duckula posted:

Just registered on BnR, same username as here. RIP my 01 reg date I guess.

We're all born anew.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
someone in QCS suggested unbanning everyone who was permabanned and it's a really funny idea if probably unfeasible

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Sharkie posted:

Not keeping track of who buys bigoted/phobic/etc. avs was one of the fundamental flaws of this site that would have prevented so, so much unnecessary bullshit. But like other people have said there's no reason to think that anyone from bnr did that. It's just someone poo poo-stirring.

yeah, or in CanPol we had at least two people get doxxed by someone buying them avatars containing their personal information

how the gently caress people let that system continue is beyond me

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Giga Gaia posted:

ive suggested reopening every archived forum and unbanning everyone then letting chaos reign because who gives a poo poo but theyre busy giving ban/30s for goatse and 'ill make the website'ing in some private vent chat or whatever lol

anyone still doing serious moderation for the goat man is loving lol but i don't blame some of the mods who from the sounds of it have web development experience from trying to salvage this dumb place

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

twoday posted:

everything under heaven is in utter chaos

the situation is excellent

what a time to become a mod huh

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

twoday posted:

I think everything’s gonna work out just fine, one way or another

is there enough BCG vaccine for the entire user base, is the question

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
Some good came out of this at least.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

cool dance moves posted:

I had to look there up because I know fuckall about Meyers-Briggs tests and lmao that poo poo is just astrology but worse

it's MBA astrology, it's extremely scientific. for some reason every person who cites is always an INTJ. always.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

I'm glad I'm not crazy and that its a recognized phenomenon

just my experience but it's been uncanny

mysterious frankie posted:

I got INFP. What now, motherfucker?

uh huh. typical barbaric INFP aggression.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Don't worry, Reene and Jeffrey are more or less confirmed to be building a new one and given the management habits of Reene and the coding quality demonstrated by Jeffrey, your SA experience will continue with no improvements whatsoever

to be fair I don't think anyone expected things to improve, just not decline so suddenly. I'm not a computer toucher but i thought jeffrey had actually added some functionality

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

As someone who has been reading the forums for 16 years and posting for almost 14, every single thing that was good or enjoyable or funny that came out of this place was in spite of the mods, not because of them.

I have never seen such a collection of hosed up power-tripping weirdos in any other organization. No matter what changed with rules, or subforums, or amount of posters, or the general increase in the median age on the forums, the mods have always been loving horrible and constantly stifling anything that is dynamic or interesting. Even the "cool" mods give off a creepy "youth pastor" vibe.

Their reaction to any situation has always been gas ban. Stifle. Shove things underneath the rug. There's never been any openness or honesty from any mod without practically forcing them into it. Their reflexes are always to cover things up, cover for each other, no matter what another mod might have done. Their automatic defense is just telling posters to shut up. The mods level of secrecy and cliqueishness and "us vs them" mentality over the years has been toxic and very detrimental to this place. Just the existence of the mod forum is loving stupid.

Lowtax and the mods are entirely to blame for why these forums were dying even before the last few days. Even at its height, the climate here was always tilted towards getting people to post less, not more. The mods were always capricious and arbitrary, and that leads to disengagement. That's not loving rocket science. This place is one big giant missed opportunity.

I never had any real problem with the mods I interacted with but I also never ran afoul of any of them so :shrug:

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Tesseraction posted:

I think you have fatally misunderstood the joke

it's why don is one of the best poster this place has ever produced.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
I think at least some of the mods and admins are gonna have to go if the forums transfer does happen because a good chunk of the userbase is pretty unhappy with them.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

forkboy84 posted:

This seems about as likely as Lowtax handing over the forum reigns to anyone else.

Well regardless of how likely it is, if they want this thing to succeed it needs to happen.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
i thought FAU was a good admin, even if he hosed up

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
twitter is worse than SA in every way

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
supposedly poo poo is going down and there's supposed to be an announcement shortly. we'll see I guess. at the very least it might be entertaining.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Dustcat posted:

what, like, lending the money to jeffrey to buy the site? jeffrey announced he's personally gonna own all the assets lol

I mean jase1 is a self-described gambler

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Squizzle posted:

I TOLD YOU THREE MONTHS AGO THAT THERE WAS A COUP

who coup'd whom

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Giga Gaia posted:

really? im primed for more personally

gonna keep posting no matter what happens, so long as lowtax is gone. maybe this will work out, maybe it wont, I don't really see the point in speculating for now.

Just post.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Jewel Repetition posted:

I'm a socialist, and lol at the idea that FYAD was "nazi-land"


Homeless Friend posted:

*in trump voice* the mind is weak, so weak. but the flesh is willing, isn't that right folks?

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

QUEER FRASIER posted:

So “full of” nazis I’ll say no, I don’t think that’s an accurate descriptor. The “ironic” racism undoubtedly produced a breeding grounds for some, especially later, users to just become full on unironic racists. But the fyad survivors who still post here seem more interested in posting sandwiches and old memes than enacting any sort of fascist agenda and several of them have posted about going to protests lol so I sort of feel like the fyad/cspam shadow war that really only exists in a few dozen posters’ minds is more counterproductive than anything

agreed 100%. and people who were FYAD posters have said they don't want FYAD to come back so i don't see why people are already trying to drum up the spectre of the pink forum coming back other than to keep a phantom forum grudge going that no one should care about

Dreylad fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Jun 26, 2020

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
we all know YOSPOS is ascendant

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Homeless Friend posted:

it’s time to unban Larry

Yeah seriously, Free Larry Parish his ban was the stupidest bullshit

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

I hope Jeffrey unbans getfiscal

he's been unbanned for ages

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
Free Larry Parish

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
malt vinegar imo

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Frog Act posted:

honestly why would lowtax immediately pivot to go on a horrible odious right-wing racist podcast that tweets racism and calls people cucks, does he just want to cement the permanent alienation and hatred of everyone here or does he honestly think that's a good opportunity to clear the air

That pivot is pretty common when the wider world discovers that whatever progressive politics you've been playing to is a complete fabrication to hide that you're a horrible monster.

People have been wringing a lot of money out of the anti-SJW/right-wing crowd for a while, and nothing drives clicks and listens like another pity party about how the system is unjust towards the target demographic.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
Ardennes has spoken up as well.

I'd wait and see what happens if this deal goes through before we have a Mod Reckoning.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
also please stop talking about internet moderation and comparing it to violent policing

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

Homeless Friend posted:

its not too baffling, people get mad aggro at them. just look at brutalist, due to one person being unable to say no they had to go round and round as people acted like being a mod meant they were inducted into a cabal lmao.

we need to apply marxist theory to internet modship but let's uh forget the humanist parts of it

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Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
I will say it's not a bad thing to demand accountability, and it sounds like a couple of the mods/admins should step down, but it's just been like two days since this poo poo went down and people need to sleep and eat and go to work on top of dealing with a domestic abuser

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