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A lot of puppies have died because of this thread. I don’t know how similar or relevant this is but I once had a neighbour who abducted his girlfriend. He would tie her to the radiator so she wouldn’t leave. He went to jail. The weird thing is they lived with a trans person who just thought it was ok. One night a guest of theirs stabbed her partner in the neck. Smoking crack cocaine all day and night is bad, m’kay. I intervened a few times and they respected me as the old dude with sneakers and a hip hop background. But when they were too high I’m glad the police intervened a few times. I see myself as a bit of a Christian Anarchist in the Tolstoy sense, not the bat shit crazy American version. In fact scratch that, I don’t belong to any group especially religious. But the Kingdom of God is inside you by Tolstoy really resonated with my thinking. Anyway all that to say anarchism is a wonderful utopia to me. Unfortunately we need cops. Maybe with a different approach. |
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-isn't that our neighbor standing there? -yeah, the one with the hip hop background. |
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"This web page is not very good" - Russian author |
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*A sweating Wolfslice jogs up and grabs the mic* "heeey folks, what a night! Over here we got dariusgriffen, let's give 'er a round of applause! Looks like she built a strawman out of Tony's argument, told him to kill himself, and then claims SHE feels unsafe!" *audience laughs* "Sounds like the French Revoltuion. I think *Tony* should feel unsafe. The French already took over half his country!" *band does a upwards bass note, cheers everywhere* "can you believe they speak French in Canada? 'uhhh wee weee. uhhh weee wee'" *black couple in the front are laughing so hard they cant breathe.* "Meanwhile, Tony is all 'uhhhhh, who's the boss?'! I don't think he's been in such hot water since physical therapy from his 1993 ski accident!" *buh dum hiss, another explosion of laughter* "Ladies and gents we have BELB with us tonight, trying to keep things in order. Thank you Belb! Or should we call you Mr Rodgers?" *members of the audience shake their head but laugh anyway. Skirting the line of tatsefulness here, everyone genuinely loves Belb.* "And boys and girls, EPIC MEGA TRAX is in the HOOUUUSSE! Where do you think he's been nesting on the internet lately? TOTALDORK.COM? *standing ovation* "Anyway thanks folks you've been great, stay frosty and we'll see ya next year!" *Wolfslice fist pumps as he runs off stage* |
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Finally! Someone understands how I have been GASLIT and CRYBULLIED! History will absolve me. |
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didn't know you could write down your own applause like that, pretty smart |
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you did say "fucking hell. that's a lil bit bullshit tbh" after the dude posted that he was charged for not letting his girlfriend leave his flat though. which it's not bullshit man c'mon |
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and you know the rest of the story. i don't get why juju felt unsafe or cried about it though |
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because not only was the chat turning into a bit of a men's rights activist meeting but i was forcibly silenced for whining about it lol shh the men are talking i mean it's typical but i naively expected better from fleeters even in his fallen state |
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yeah it was an asshole move that he silenced you for 24h also |
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even in his fallen state loooooool jujo I went to a Catholic high school in a French province and I see you |
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-... -... -the one that's into japanese sneakers? -yeah the one who has an addiction to the star wars smartphone gacha game |
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-LOOOL! -LOL!! he was so excited the other day that he pulled a Jar Jar Binks! -yeah LOL!! |
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I have a few pairs of ASICS. Comedy gold. I do like sneakers and other stuff I loved as a child and young teen though. I had this style ever since I was a child. Don’t you pay in gacha games? It’s amazing how you seem intent on portraying me as a caricature to mock. |
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I really don’t know why I bother coming here anymore. |
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i liked your story, that house sounded like hell |
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you can pay but you don't have to i'm just joking bro! lol |
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this thread is amazing |
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Mermaid if you so much as lay a finger on Rusty again, a hard rain is gonna fall. a VERY firm line in the sand is drawn, you have been warned, think of me as his personal bodyguard lurking in the shadows, with one of those fake hands, the real hand under my coat, firmly gripped on the trigger of justice |
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plus if he wants to lounge around in baby Yoda slippers thats his prerogative, at least he isn't a miserable git like the rest of us |
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:O |
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Looks like she built a strawman out of Tony's argument, told him to kill himself, and then claims SHE feels unsafe!" ...while Tony has lost the plot entirely, dismissing an ultimately reasonable line of the debate with the phrase "gifted child" -- who is the child here, hmm? being an absentee landlord is the most brilliant administrative forum decision on the history of the internet. phobs has no stake in this thread. he's nowhere near it. he's not involved. it is NOT. HIS. PROBLEM. so he's not stressed out about it. if he even sees this thread, he will laugh. instead of getting worked up, and feeling the need to inject himself personally into a tangle of catty sniping the debate spilled over from discord and onto zilty, quite simply, because there is no admin here to ban anyone for speaking their mind. like tony did as much as i would like to paint this as a personal failing of tony, his personal failing was -- like i said -- deciding to be an admin in the first place. no one can succeed in that. you'll wind up in the middle of a stupid argument where someone hates you either way, and finally you simply ban someone for calling you an asshole. can you imagine banning someone simply for calling someone else an asshole? i can't, because i don't admin discord. but tony can. what a fucking asshole |
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continuing on, "if it has ever been discussed on even a crap board like this, it constitutes prior art and is thus un-patent-able" ~ by being an admit you implicitly set yourself up as a figure of authority. not only does this make you a target -- even merely on a subconscious level -- for all sorts of people in and of itself, but people will naturally be inclined to take their disputes to you and expect you to make both parties happy. then this is impossible and someone calls the admin an asshole, and the admin says "fuck off i'm in charge here" and, like an asshole, bans the party he has just ruled against, for calling him an asshole, for ruling against them. what a fucking asshole this only works if you can solve the spam problem. it's been solved here by registrations being cut off -- no new accounts, the spambots are already shut down, no spam. just popcorn i've been thinking this board is very special in that regard. this is a genuine time capsule that i can walk into, and feel what the internet was back in the 00's. and that is also due to letting a bit of reality in, then sealing it up forever. and how can you possibly duplicate this? and that's why i feel this place is unique out of almost any other board i've been on. i've proposed methods to open registrations again, like: everyone gets one (1) token, you need five (5) tokens to make a new account, and from there you walk away and let everyone fight and negotiate until a handful of new accounts get made. you do a new round of this every few years but now, i'm thinking -- perhaps you could duplicate this. you leave registrations open for a while, you suffer being an admin, then, once it's started a conversational/social siphon of sorts, you seal it up like the cask of amontillado and walk away |
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Although the way it ended was also the last time I got so drunk and was wrong. I had to deal exactly with what you mention when I was dealing with the discord. Being asked every other day to ban someone. Being called a coward because I tried to have the place as free as poss. It was meant to be a convenient xlt but people wanted it modded. I can understand banning troublemakers. Some of the requests I had were too much for me. Ah, mermaidman you have been warned! Lol |
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sorry epiku i think an opiniated admin is millions of times better than any of the Fr33 Sp33ch advocates controlling the mainstream web these days |
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maybe you'd be happy on (shudder) urbit |
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Whenever you will to power you become a slave |
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I like my bum |
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Any and every time you disagree with dariusgriffen, she personally attacks you, strawmans your argument, pretends to know the source of your argument (some lowest common denominator internet garbage is where you got any idea), and then she calls you a piece of fucking shit. Fuck that. Fuck her. It's not once or twice. It's every time. This is what dariusgriffen does. And it gets tiring. I wouldn't want to be a mod anywhere, but if I was, I'd ban that shit too. I've disagreed with Tony on practically *everything.* We'll come to consensus on the nature of a problem, but there is a 0% synch on the proper solution. Instead of being a dick though, he engages in actual conversation WITHOUT a strawman, makes a few jokes, he links a bunch of communist literature and everyone leaves with some mutual respect. I'm not sucking his penis here, I'm just stating my experience with the man. He's a good conversationalist. |
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i'm not sure what it is. am i smarter? sometimes, but that can't explain it. do i fail to explain myself? often, but -- after this many attempts, i'm afraid it's not that either. i'm getting increasingly concerned it may actually be because i'm more wise, in which case we're all fucked i did not go all free speech whatever. instead i'm talking about "time capsule" and "cask of amontillado" and "absentee landlord" and etc. this was an accident. the board had enough of a population that it wasn't going to go away. phobiazero tried to monetize it with dubturbo.... i think? was that a joke? i am still not sure [i suspect it was something like: a complete cold-call from dubturbo to phobs, and, yes, can we sponsor this fine electronic music board? and phobs manages to avoid choking on his weetabix for long enough to not telegraph what a stupid idea this is, accepts some sort of check, allows it to blow up, giggles? that fits] then it's just maintenance. the internet starts to fill up with shit and there are now... not just dupe accounts, but dupe accounts from russian spyware bots, not even mermaidman dupes? so close registration. the board will die gracefully. right? wrong 30 years of history. people still pop up from nowhere, ten years no post, then here they are, hello! some of them are even idm-famous. there's a small hardcore group to give them something to come back to [what discord hasn't killed, anyways]. so it's this weird bubble where 2008 keeps microwaving itself back into reality. this is the internet in 2008. doesn't it feel much nicer? freedom of speech, fuck no. this is more about anarchy, and how to control it. since discord has an admin, someone can ban someone to end an argument, and so the argument eventually shows up on xlt, where no one can ever be banned, and we have to deal with our problems like real men. and/or women, fox-cats, sentient space stations, etc |
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Epic my last post was actually a direct reply to you. I thought I clicked the reply button but I guess it didn't take (ANYONE ELSE HAVING SLIGHT PROBLEMS POSTING? takes a few tries? could be my vpn) What you're saying about the closed nature of XLT is interesting and imo pretty true, but it has nothing to do with anything here? I dunno what else to say. My one point just about TD's moderation, which you specifically called out. Yeah, he called you a gifted child. It was funny. The other day he basically called me a fetid, fish stick eating creature who lacks any werewithal. It was in jest. Can't you see what he said to you was in jest? You can play with him and retort, he'll take it just fine. What Dariusgriffen does, when anyone disagrees with her worldview, is literally to call you a fucking nazi piece of shit. NOT in jest. There's a big difference. Marlowe does this as well. Whether it's right to moderate that behavior is in the eye of the observer, but my personal opinion is that it wasn't some kind of abuse of power. The shit gets tiring. |
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i call tony danza an asshole. because a) asshole b) his watmm avatar is ted nugent and ted nugent is an asshole c) he banned darius for calling him an asshole too many times and this is obviously where absolutely all of us need to poke him. asshole asshole if i gave discord the time of day i might think twice about saying this... but i don't; so i don't. asshole |
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any admin will eventually bottom out and ban someone. i've been through this arc with the yugo forums myself. i was fully convinced i would never ever ban anyone -- like that -- and then i've done it, and people are mad at me, and i'm mad at myself, and DAMMIT. you know what? this is not something a human is capable of but you can't just have open season on the open internet. you'll never get a community off the ground in all that chaos. then it also cannot grow past a certain scale or we all can't know each other. [sort of like how the best companies to work for don't have an HR dept, because once you are large enough to require a department to manage humans, it means you need an adult in the room, because an HR dept is a corporate mom, and lots of kids screaming over a single pan of brownies and QUIET or no one gets any brownies and then resolve the dispute. a person is smart, people are stupid. none of us are as dumb as all of us. as you scale a corporation up, employees get progressively more childish, and eventually a mom (HR) and dad (c-level) are required.... and...] mostly, this place is big enough to self-sustain, small enough that no one can hide, and because no one is in charge, arguments go way beyond everyone's comfort zone and things actually get solved as opposed to reverting to reflexive mammal hierarchy shit and as soon as there is an authority figure people stop fighting it out and say HERE THINK FOR US and then if you're really clever you can make them both happy, sometimes, but not always, and fuuuu internets. |
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Got to say to be fair to Fleet he seems very hands off on moderation, this is the only instance i can remember tbh and even then its not really an instance of moderation he just got his knickers in a twist and regretted it later |
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i was lying when i said i actually knew the definition of karl marx. i've just been guessing from the context¹ all along. is there something about how people react to power in there? that would be ironic ¹ years of everyone refusing to stop talking about karl marx, distilled summaries fed to me like baby food in high school because i actually remember that shit thanks, also these two guys who were always arguing about keynesian this and adam smith that during high school; been cribbing off of them for decades |
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is literally to call you a fucking nazi piece of shit. the genetic part of me that i inherited from mum notes this down. now -- if we are ever in a heated argument and you are already [raising your voice, increasingly aggro physical posture, starting to make nicholas cage crazy face] -- i can just be all you fucking nazi piece of shit simply because i know this is a sore spot. and it doesn't even have to make sense in the context. if you're already dfjgkdf! you will escalate to DFJHGKI@!y4 and you crazy bitch! you're so crazy i have to tie you to the radiator again in my family, people were convinced to tie themselves to the radiator. something to do with ainsworth attachment theory perhaps ANYONE ELSE HAVING SLIGHT PROBLEMS POSTING i more have problems with the opposite of that thing |
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Got to say to be fair to Fleet he seems very hands off on moderation, this is the only instance i can remember tbh and even then its not really an instance of moderation he just got his knickers in a twist and regretted it later ...i ran a forum where i started with an explicit policy of THIS WILL NEVER FUCKING HAPPEN and i even put it in the rules. and then i broke the rules. and i know exactly how he feels being there. my only real point of mockery is I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD FUCKING HAPPEN and he kind of worried i might be right but at this point, gosh, we've been arguing for so long maybe his mom would never let him forget when she was right. i've learned how to drop things like this myself [asshole] |
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that's enough 2008 for me, i think. it's 2024 now, with the water rabbit ceding to the titanium weasel. light the pizza grease candles |
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no i called him an asshole first you CUNT! |
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also bro you're one of the first people who'd ban someone if you were a mod what are you talking about |
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i think it's a little strange to feel entitled to polite debate when you say things that you know are inflammatory. i'm sorry but i don't believe people should feel comfortable with saying whatever slightly racist thing goes through their mind, especially when they clearly know what they're doing. to each their own! i would also like to dissociate myself from the moderation debate going on here because 1) i really don't care 2) this is not about admin power and various other kinds of response could have made me leave 3) i don't think fleet has been doing a bad job at all. i was just genuinely creeped out and it was my decision but now you've all turned this into forum drama so I have to feel embarrassed on top of it ;_; (posting to not keep the post count at 88) |
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also why do you keep saying he banned her he didn't ban her |
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no offense i really love you guys but you all suck lol |
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juju we already established that you should get charged for not letting someone out of your flat and it's especially creepy if you're a man and they are a woman what more do you want? fleet to come and say he accepts it? and what matters if he doesn't accept it? it's the law |
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and you can be an anarchist all you want but that is the reason why ppl are not doing those kinds of stuff QUADRUPLED because they are afraid of the consequences |
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i'm not asking for anything! |
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then come back to the server |
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if russell joins the server first then juju has to toss his salad and vice versa. whoever joins the server first gets their salad tossed |
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And scrambled eggs? |
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sounds like some kinky shit |
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