Official GBS feedback thread v 2.1 (now with more self-ownage!)

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

feedback: goldmine the other thread

Yeah, is gonna be important part of forum archeology and the climax shouldn't be buried.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2023 17:27

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 06:39

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Dell_Zincht posted:

i'm more or less threadbanned from the UK chat thread

What did you say about Gregg's ffs

# ¿ Mar 28, 2023 11:34

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Even if they are just chat threads, why is it bad there are more than one of them? And why do you think the posters in let's say the UK thread have anything to talk about with the denizens of the RLM thread?

# ¿ Mar 28, 2023 19:52

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Was Jastiger the poster who kept making horny threads about Lena Dunham

# ¿ Mar 29, 2023 15:54

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

just googled lena dunham. whew

Same lol

# ¿ Mar 29, 2023 16:00

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

mocking someone's appearance is cruel when its something they can't change. if they dress like a circus clown like lewis hamilton or w/e, fair game

# ¿ Mar 29, 2023 17:48

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Why should we have these so called rules when we already have the Holy Bible

# ¿ Apr 6, 2023 20:28

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Has VvG ever done anything but bitch and moan

# ¿ Apr 7, 2023 11:47

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Yes it's very important for the future of the forums which country makes the more authentic disgusting pig drink

# ¿ Apr 7, 2023 17:24

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Imo if sad brings up something specific to a particular subforum, the mods / admins should also bring the discussion to that forum's feedback thread to gauge if it actually is an issue before making a decision. That seems very common sense.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2023 20:04

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Drone_Fragger posted:

Going back to GBS feedback for a second: Can the GBS mods clarify how much and how far the new "No sucking or being cringe" and "no self promotion" site rules be applied in GBS? I occasionally post from a position of expertise for bolting and heavy industry for powergen and oil and gas (which is my career) in the OHSA and Schadenfreude threads, and its not really clear from SAD how far you need to go before its bannable.

Similarly on the new "no sucking" rule, what specifically qualifies as sucking or cringe in GBS that would get a punishment? Again the SAD team seemed fairly unsure on this too so Im assuming its left to the subforum discretion.

lol, that "rule" only applies to Brown Moses, the forums enemy du jour.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2023 13:33

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Slugworth posted:

Can we word ban cringe? I find it cringe as hell that a bunch of 40 year olds are calling everything cringe now. I'll be perfectly honest, the whole situation is cheugy af.

Hell, expand it:
Cringe
Based
AIDS
Fail

We could go on, senior citizens trying to act hip and with it is just sad.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2023 13:34

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

A poster's name is their avatar. Avatar change is like a cycle of reincarnation.

And trying to figure out if two avatars are just the same poster after an av change is like Buddhist monks wandering the countryside with the personal effects of some dead Lama, trying to divine who inherited his soul.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2023 15:21

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Bad Purchase posted:

perhaps the serious forums could be merged into gbs to eliminate the perceived us vs them mentally, which by the way isn�t real, but nevertheless cannot be ignored?

At the very least, GBS as the top forum, the display window of SA, should be allowed to arbitrate on the lesser subforums' moderation, to bring them closer to the standard of excellence that is expected here.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2023 21:39

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Let's roll the Imp Zone into GBS, it's clear that it's currently too isolated and stagnating so the posters are getting bored and looking for a home elsewhere, and GBS can be that home.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2023 22:33

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Schweinhund posted:

Krust > Crash

Hell yeah

# ¿ May 4, 2023 19:11

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

What moves a man to go to a public forum and start publishing a 10,000 word manifesto about the minute logistics of his awful fetish

# ¿ May 5, 2023 11:40

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

I mean that's the reason why even seemingly benign porn threads can't be allowed, because inevitably somebody will take it as an excuse to start probing what they can get away with and if there's no pushback, before you know it they are dumping the whole 50 gigs of their fetish collection.

# ¿ May 5, 2023 11:44

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Last time they drove an admin to leave the site, you can see how a probe is a disappointment.

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# ¿ May 6, 2023 06:14

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

You say that but without the constant reminders you now believe that war is good

# ¿ May 6, 2023 07:49

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Does the Musk thread even require stringent moderation?

# ¿ May 14, 2023 13:05

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Karma Comedian posted:

I'm probably in the minority here in that I think that most posters are being sincere in their desires to make the forums a Better Place to Post, so this is a good question imo.

Possibly, but for a lot of them their suggestions are "make this sub functionally identical to another already existing sub", which is very stupid, and also their general hostility and obnoxiousness casts shadow over their internet. Ultimately, why should the working of a sub be dictated by the people least likely to use it and most irrationally offended by its existence.

Fwiw i think Aardvark's attitude of live and let live is correct, there's no need to persecute harmless weirdos, which seems to be the current angle of the abolish GBS movement, it's part of the local Kolorit

steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 08:02 on May 22, 2023

# ¿ May 22, 2023 07:58

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Wendigee posted:

Yeah Smugworth did ask for it over and over again and the consensus was no.

I support cocoa on the clout though I would be an interesting decent into madness and I'm curious if buttons would drive them insane.

Hm, there appears to be quite the buzz around this Smug Worth cat

# ¿ May 22, 2023 16:39

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Geemer posted:

You'll get voluntold to be a mod that way.

Ask somebody else to ask for you to be asked to become a mod, duh

# ¿ May 23, 2023 11:19

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Dr. Cool Aids posted:

GBS needs larger mods. start eating

Just because mods need to buy two plane tickets to travel, doesn't mean we have twice as many mods

# ¿ May 27, 2023 09:45

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

harveys zoo zoos posted:

oh yes i'm still here. i don't know if i will be posting any new threads anytime soon but i do have more stories about prison life that i've been asked to talk about elsewhere. but i will go about my business posting in other parts of sa.

so i see that a mod stepped in here to stop the fighting but that never happened in my thread. it got closed before i had a chance to even look at it. both isaboo and i messaged the mod who closed it but they were not helpful in telling me anything.

and since a couple of people continued to bring up my name here after captainsarcastic said to stop, i'll say my 2 cents then be done.

it was my idea for isaboo to post the 'reveal'. i feel bad that he got attacked for it when it was my mistake. i probably shouldn't have asked him to do it. but i was nervous like i was when we first posted the thread. we intended for that post to mean 'only harvey is posting from now on' but as he said i felt i needed to take a break. the dose of the internet i got was too much too soon too fast. if i had wanted to continue instead of stopping there i think everything would have made a lot more sense because of what i had planned to share.

i don't know if any of you actually read his post but in it he says we thought about having him write a fictional story like his other gbs stories. that was my idea but he said he'd rather not because the story is so personal to me. so instead we decided to collaborate and share this account for a while. he'd post some things i either couldn't or didn't want to answer. we embellished and changed some details for obvious reasons, just like he does with his other stuff. but everything that i said happened, happened in some way. the hard facts about conditions inside are all true.

that's all it was. i asked a good friend to help me navigatge a completely new world. it wasn't done to be sneaky, or for him to 'chase clout' which is a ridiculous idea. it backfired when i wanted to come clean. that's on me.

so i guess i'll ask someone else so i will know. why didn't a mod actually moderate that thread when it got out of control
it was a popular thread that a lot of people posted in so it's weird to see nothing happen there, yet this thread got told to cut it out.

all i wanted to do was apologize to the thread for misleading them but i didn't get that chance. so i guess this is that apology.

anyway i won't say anything else about it. y'all can respond however you want and mods can do whatever they like with me but i'm done talking about that thread.

Pathetic

# ¿ Jun 6, 2023 16:39

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Rename it to the nostalgia critic thread instead, it's about time that guy got some recognition, Imo

# ¿ Jun 19, 2023 18:51

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Imo posting the identical routine " :gas:

aids gay" crap in every supposedly unfunny thread isn't "quite funny", it's more tedious than what it's ostensibly making fun of.

# ¿ Jul 9, 2023 12:22

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

FilthyImp posted:

I don't see why we carve out an exception for posting like you're 15.

Because if you took it away, some posters would lose their entire "personality"

Saint Isaias Boner posted:

40-somethings using the South Park words is extremely sad

# ¿ Jul 9, 2023 15:52

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Nooner posted:

Remember the south park where Cartman shoved hamburger in his pants because rear end-BURGERS lol

As a wise and dignified 60 year old, I think this is still the peak of humor

# ¿ Jul 9, 2023 20:24

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Yeah, there's no need to couch it in righteous fury, it's just super annoying when people try to talk like 12 year olds from 2000.

# ¿ Jul 10, 2023 06:22

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

No Dignity posted:

This is a bizarre interpretation of 'it would be nice if this forum wasn't such a shithole'

You can help by not posting.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2023 16:37

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Afaik the original sub thread was goldmined as soon as the saga concluded, and the current one was made specifically for unfunny shitposting, preempting your concern

But sure, crush it if you want to, it's not going to be a loss.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2023 18:42

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Wendigee posted:

I'm still gobsmacked when I see the Doobie thread pop up on page one occasionally . I just don't click on it though.

Wendigee click the thread, this is a laywer

# ¿ Jul 12, 2023 06:55

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

syntaxfunction posted:

Because free speech, I paid ten bux, this is fascism, etc. I think that pretty much sums it up.

Elon, please buy GBS to protect are liberty from Sl/mugworth abuse

# ¿ Jul 12, 2023 11:41

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

oh smugworth the ik even y'all have to admit is terrible at this has gone from sectarian probes to editing posts? better excuse it 6 ways from sunday lmao

this was a big, recent issue, conveniently he has no clue tho, maybe that means he shouldn't have been made ik?

Lmao

There don't need to be any excuses because nothing happened

# ¿ Jul 12, 2023 13:31

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Indeed it was based

# ¿ Jul 12, 2023 15:16

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Things are going pretty well in GBS if this boring poo poo is STILL the drama du jour

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# ¿ Jul 13, 2023 18:21

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# ¿ May 15, 2024 06:39

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Rust Martialis posted:

A miserable pile of spreadsheets

Akshyually spreadsheets are banned

# ¿ Jul 15, 2023 09:22

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