While I believe this post was made in good faith, given that Johnny’s reply was to a post of yours saying that “perpetually aggrieved posters aren’t going to stop because you’ve asked them nicely to stop” it can come across as trolling so I’ve hidden it.
Except I remember for a fact that Trolly has called out jman, told goofy to calm down, and has at least tried to mediate. Meanwhile you’ve never ever (at least publicly) asked one of your hound dogs to back off any of the number of people they routinely harass or done anything to help tensions in this forum except escalate them tenfold.
Yuv, I wish you and I could get back to a better place. I was out of line when I accused you of gaslighing a week or so ago and I regret that. I apologize for being a dick to you. I like your posting and plus you taught me how to make shakshuka.
Consensus decision-making usually sucks.
That’s more a characteristic of humans under a malignant system that rewards this behaviour, whether capitalism or authoritarian forum mods.
Humans outside such systems have an interest in being cooperative and kind.
Dear everyone -
Go to one of these threads and look at cool things and cute animals. These are just examples; there are other great threads here. I promise you it’s a better use of your time than whatever this (and its sister threads) is lately.
With Covid going on I haven’t been traveling much and I’m feeling a bit nostalgic. The title says it all, I’m going to post a travel photo every day, and i’ve got A LOT of them! Anyone else is free to join in as well of course :) [yangshuo raft] This is from Yangshuo, China. It’s famous for it’s karst formations as seen in the background. After Black Friday I took a poker break and decided to teach English in China for a bit and for my program we did our two week teacher training (lol) in the…
This is a thread for sharing the joys in our lives that are our pets. I’ve seen photos of many pets pop up on a variety of different threads, but am surprised there’s not yet been a dedicated location for us to talk about our companions. For me, it’s Waylon: [image] [image] He’s a 4 year old beagle mix, and without a doubt he’s my best friend. We go for an hour hike every morning and it’s the best part of my day. I walk about 2 miles and his little hound nose has him zig-zagging easily twi…
In his defense he didn’t realize that this week had 3 Fridays.
Thank you goofy, very helpful and constructive post.
Thanks for shutting down the bickering thread.
The sabo bullshit thread should be next, as it’s doing the same thing. There’s no need to relitigate that again, and the reasons being put forth are based on nonsense standards that the vote hit anyways.
@anon84698652 the number of posts in the thread isn’t the problem.
micro is such a shit stirrer!
jalfrezi is the single most frequent poster ITT out of people who have not actually been moderators on this site
You either know why that is or you’re pretending not to - most of those posts were replies to Trolly (237), you (231), Jman (200), otatpo (114), etc.
well ofc they are replies. You are not talking to yourself jal.
Let he who has not posted in this thread be the first to call out people for posting in this thread.
The point you’re missing is
A: PoV
B: Disputes it or demands proof, often in bad faith
A: Replies to B
C: Turns up on time agreeing with B, adding another point
A: Replies to C
D: Same as C
A: Replies to D
E: Same as C
A: Replies to E
For each circuit of this A will likely have 4 times as many posts itt as each of B, C, D and E.
People not itt then see it at the top of the activity list, come in and say something like “I might have guessed it would be A who’d be shitting all over the forum again. Ban A!”.
People not itt then see it at the top of the activity list, come in and say something like “I might have guessed it would be A who’d be shitting all over the forum again. Ban A!”.
Especially when Goofy makes a point to highlight it. That used to be a specialty of his in the early days.
jal ain’t nobody saying your post count is a problem here. I’m impressed by you putting so much effort into a post despite, you know, not reading the posts you responded to.
What is your solution? Or at least ideal outcome if you don’t know how to get there.
fuck me how did i get in this list. gotta find the next dude on the list and call him some names so he’ll respond
I want an endless chain of replies. I want some posters to learn how to reply in a way that doesn’t get them banned so the chain remains unbroken.
I think it’s a mistake to characterize this forum’s disagreements as political
I would characterize this forum’s disagreements as meta-political.
fuck me how did i get in this list. gotta find the next dude on the list and call him some names so he’ll respond
You need to team up and attack him, then he’ll be creating many more posts than you. Several posters here can advise you and might even wade in if they’re bored.
People like jalfrezi and Victor like to paint Forum Warz like it’s moderates vs. the left because it makes them feel warm and fuzzy and justified and morally superior, but there’s little evidence behind it given that most (not all, but most) of the people involved in the bickering have ~identical political beliefs.
Wrong. You can see how deep the political divisions are from the difference in attitudes to authority here and bans. Your idea of a left winger is Bernie fucking Sanders lol, and despite his centrism he’s still too far left for some of your “side”.
But there’s also a lot of blood under the bridge here, no denying it. Mods turning up and saying they hope people will get over their grievances and get along together are a bit clueless when you consider how some of our friends were (and continue to be) treated and run off the site by your team of attack dogs.