Damn, sorry. Wishing you and your wife the best.
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Btw the way I knew about this is this showed up in my notifications after the original thread was opened this morning:
Seems kinda ironic that I was quoted in what was essentially a private subforum, spurring a short discussion about me. But a few of the key participants are still having fainting spells about their own personal privacy.
For the record I was asked to participate in a thread a lot like CoC with the goal of starting a new forum - and declined.
Iâm not saying that it was intentional. But I am saying some posters are trying to use the second transgression to completely absolve the first.
And also that the existence of the PM thread was leaking out anyway. Anyone who expects to keep a secret with 50 people is deluding themselves.
Ok but who are those people and who is yadi
So that screenshot was from the original CoC thread?
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I mean it was nothing bad. I posted more or less the exact same thing publicly directed to you. Actually the public version was meaner, I told you to go fuck yourself. I was wrong and I apologized to you.
Were there any posts to the effect of âHey Fidget thatâs not coolâ?
Maybe I imagined it but it sure looked like some of the people accused of trolling the mod thread for the last year were admitting and bragging about it.
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The original thread seemed pretty shitty to me any way you slice it. It was basically âWe donât like the rules and mod decisions, but we canât win in the endless public debate on the subject, so letâs strategize on our own how to bend the forum to be what we want. Or destroy it if we canât get what we want (at least for some).â
I mean if thereâs any forum on earth where mod decisions are discussed openly and ad infinitum itâs this one. I donât see the need for a private thread to discuss anything constructive that couldnât be discussed in pubic. It feels more like coordinating strategy to me.
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By âbend the forum to be what we wantâ do you mean open a subforum with independent moderation that will strive to change the culture of posting to a more open and friendly style? Because I guess those two formulations arenât completely at odds with each other but yours is a pretty uncharitable reading.
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He literally bragged about instigating a fight between Wookie and CN. That is the definition of trolling.
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Nah. I donât care if all my pms are published either except for the need to redact some personal info and email addresses/ telephone numbers.
I have no particular like or dislike for you. I just hope you note that JTâs posts attacking you donât get many likes. They seem a bit unhinged.
I still feel like I comprehend maybe 50% of whatâs going on in this thread.
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The 233288 mod threads arenât open enough for you?
It was almost the exact opposite of that. Instead of bending the forum to be what we want, we wanted to create something else (a subforum) that reflects what we want. I jokingly posted about a coup and was immediately jumped on and told we should make the subforum or make a new forum instead.
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Why couldnât you guys have just done what the topshot people did and just made a discord? Itâs much smoother and doesnât look super weird and shady and you donât give people you donât like to begin with access to your thoughts.
I donât know about exact opposite. Seems like these guys just wanted a private subforum instead of a new forum.
But yeah you didnât start it to strategize changing the main forum. So it was definitely different.
This kerfuffle may end up killing unstuck and youâll get your wish.
Being ignored or demeaned comes with the territory if your desire is to push heterodox ideas. If you want a forum where you are not pushed back against, then you donât want to live in the real world.
Iâve always been a lonely figure with a unique perception of the world around me and Iâve built up a tolerance to being disagreed with that makes me emotionally equipped to fight a war of one vs all, if necessary, for the things I believe in. I donât expect to win when that happens, but I insist on being true to myself and accepting the consequences.
Politics, like religion, is such an intimately personal thing that itâs hard not to take a firm rejection of your politics as a personal rejection of yourself. Maybe itâs sociopathic, but some people need to learn how to disassociate their politics from their self if they want to participate in a place like this.
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