Council of Captains Discussion Thread

[Smacc_25]

@MichaelDavis

The single action that increased the likelihood of the forum dying the most was the publishing of this pm thread, and that was done because jmakin didn’t like how the forum was going for him , after impugning the humanity and decency of people that he thought were doing the same.

[StrontiumDog]

[Aofrantic]

While this is true, wasn’t one of the main vectors for this the trolling of the mental health of someone who has posted about mental health issues?

No one is defending what jmakin did, but can we also not do shit like that?

[catfacemeowmers]

Thanks. I appreciate your responses ITT - I have no intention of making more work for you with my questions, but unfortunately you’re the only person with the access and technical knowledge to provide any answers. Appreciate it.

Although I have to admit that I don’t find any of jmakin’s explanations of how a few months ago he “accidentally clicked into” some people’s PM thread and saw things he didn’t want to see to be convincing, and I still find it interesting that folks not ITT were referencing it days before it became public. What’s your reasoning for thinking jmakin wouldn’t know how to manipulate the logs?

[clovis8]

And don’t forget in this very PM sabo’s calling out jmakin’s mental health was defended as “suppose to be a PM” he somehow accidentally posted publicly.

[goreo]

@catfacemeowmers

Although I have to admit that I don’t find any of jmakin’s explanations of how a few months ago he “accidentally clicked into” some people’s PM thread and saw things he didn’t want to see to be convincing,

This is absolutely convincing for a number of reasons that I will go into later today once I’ve managed to take care of some of my own stuff. This is the end of my 14 day wait after my second vax so I have a bunch of real life things planned for today that I’m hoping to still be able to do

[6ix]

Going to sleep and signing off with saying that I think my favorite part of all this is everybody going I CANT NOT READ A PRIVATE PM MY EYES THEY HAVE MINDS OF THEIR OWN.

[Jalfrezi]

You might be missing the sarcasm there.

[FuncrusherPlus]

If this is true and Jmakin and fellow admins jobs are easily replaceable then why don’t the malcontents simply start their own forum?

[jmakin]

I made that thread because I thought you guys wanted one, it was asked of me to make the subforum, and I tried to do it through the appropriate channels. You assigning all these malicious machiavellian motives to me, honestly, strikes me as utterly bizarre and absurd.

[WichitaDM]

I mean I think you know why. The irony of all this is that the main complainers post the least actual content of any of the posters here. What exactly would they have left to post about without being able to demonize mods and once they were re-allowed to use the C word again.

The people producing actual content for the site aren’t the ones complaining about modding.

[Jalfrezi]

@clovis8

Your posts today claiming I was the cause of all this

1200+ posts with 0 rows, then you arrive and it all kicks off. It’s all there above.

@clovis8

This is the last post or acknowledgment of your existence I will ever make.

Does ghosting count as an abuse of my human rights too?

[econophile]

@anon46587892

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.

[suzzer99]

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.

[jman220reading]

@Jalfrezi

Now drop the hostility.

That you can say this with a straight face, in the context of your body of work in this thread, is simply amazing.

@Vict0ar

I think an admin needs to reinstate post deletion capabilities.

This whole thread should be nuked and deleted.

[jman220reading]

@goreo

I have reset max post deletions per day to 50. The default is 10 but we upped it to 50 at one point

This thread should be deleted.

[FuncrusherPlus]

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.

Jadakiss - We Gonna Make It (Closed Captioned) ft. Styles

[Aofrantic]

That belittling the mental health of posters and openly discussing strategies for trolling is "0 rows is quite telling!

[superuberbob]

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.

[dadbud]

Agree. This thread should be deleted.