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.
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.
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.
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.
Keeed asked to have the PM participant limit raised. Obviously a group chat with 50 people is some kind of private splinter forum. Even I knew something was going on at that point, and I’ve been one of the most oblivious people to all of this.
For the record my lame attempt at a light-hearted jab at keeed in one of the LC threads had nothing to do with mental health, and has been hopefully cleared up in that thread to everyone’s satisfaction.
I think if I make that post 6 months ago no one bats an eye. But apparently I got caught up in some kind of forum war that I was completely oblivious to until now.
I had a private conversation with lovemuffin in the first few months of this place wherein we discussed some of the sillier early tensions we had here as resulting from having far fewer people to roast than on 2p2. I had a private conversation with cuse in the “we need to stop NBZ from edgerlording about killing political enemies” saga; I may have name checked Wookie’s inaction in that, I don’t remember. That’s it, the rest is walrus submissions.
So you’re 0/1 in trying to assuage your guilt for participating in a 1000 post PM thread in which poster after poster was burying other users of the site without their knowledge with nary a comment by anyone that it was an utterly gross exercise. I also didn’t plan any putsches when I was close to leaving UP, that’s just me though.
I’d be pretty shocked if goofy had weird PMs. We’ve had the topshot discord which goofy has been maybe the most active user for 6+ months and there have been no instances of people deriding the other posters here.
That kind of thing could devolve into name calling and clique based like the published PMs did, but it absolutely never has. It should be illustrative as why one led to such and the other hasn’t.