Sorry to bother you cause I know you’re busy, but is it possible to move all posts from this thread made after this morning to a new thread and make the rest private again? I know the cats already out of the bag, but still seems like it could be worth doing.
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A 30+ person group chat where dirt is being dished on other members of the forum and trolling strategies openly discussed is not remotely the same as a PM imo.
A lot of the rancor around here the last few months makes a ton more sense now.
So far if I have this right Sabo has started a thread trying to convince us all not to vote and started this abomination. Arguing with him was always an exercise in sophistry. If he’s not pure bad faith he still manifests as it. So the distinction is meaningless imo.
I’m actually shocked at the maturity level of some of the grown adults shown itt. I’m sure you don’t act that way in your daily lives. Why does this forum turn into lord of the flies? I’m not saying I’m perfect by any means. But sheesh. It’s just a message forum.
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That you can say this with a straight face, in the context of your body of work in this thread, is simply amazing.
This whole thread should be nuked and deleted.
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This thread should be deleted.
I’m getting ready to take off the kid gloves but I respect the fact I’ve only been here since the split.
This place is gonna land on its feet.
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That belittling the mental health of posters and openly discussing strategies for trolling is "0 rows is quite telling!
I found a lot of that PM thread to be pretty fucked up. Kind of imagined everybody in that thread sitting in the war room from Dr. Strangelove planning out how to fuck with forum members.
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Agree. This thread should be deleted.
I too doubt that this place ceases to exist. But it’s clear to me we are clearly at a turning point for what it is likely to be going forward.
Lost in all of the whining and complaining is still one of the best places on the internet. If the whiners are so miserable here that they are going out of your way to try and destroy it how about just GTFO. At some point it gets ridiculous. We are at a year plus of literally the same people with the same complaints. It’s probably time they understand things aren’t going to change and it’s probably time for the rest of us to understand they aren’t going to change.
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It reminds me of the old SE chat where the cool kids would strategize then come back and pile on uncool posters like me.
Am I the only one not really afraid of this? The only people I have complained about in PMs are the same people I have openly complained about in the forum to their face. The fact that this somehow is seen as a big threat leads me to believe we have a lot of behind the scenes PM shit talking going on which you know might actually be part of the fucking problem here. I’ve almost never PMed people period because why not just say it to their face. If you are scared to do that why do it at all.
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A 30 person secret got out??? ZOMG WTF
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There was a SE chat?
Shit, I posted there a ton and knew nothing about it.
It’s super odd to me anyone would use a PM function on a website to say things that they would be super upset if turned public.
I’ve been on forums for 20 years and have never sent a PM that I’d be embarrassed to share.
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I think a lot of people around here need to just calm down and work on not being a dick to other people for a little bit.
it’s an internet forum ffs.
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Have I ever actually said that? I’m only like 90% sure who you even are.
Of course not. Read my original post where I say I would be sad to lose most of the people in this PM thread. Obviously you were included in that.
I am not going to delete this thread. I will figure out a way to hide it from just before it went public, and let the people who were using it in private decide what happens to it. I will put the posts that have been made since going public in a new public thread.
I will now lock this for a few minutes while I take care of the plan above so people don’t keep posting and make things harder.
Okay this thread now only has posts from after if was made public. We’ll figure out what to do with the earlier stuff later, but now I have life to attend to.
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I wasn’t asked, but I’ll add my two loonies on the sitch. I think you got radicalized in the covid thread because you took a completely defensible but unpopular position, people aggressively disagreed with you but you kept at it and at it and at it, until you were in so deep that you could only leave that experience with a boatload of resentment.
Then stuff… and eventually you took up cause with a bunch of other selfish hypocritical frauds to do a PM putsch to destroy this place.
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You apparently have what’s referred to as self-control.