My real life person and my online person are 0% removed from each other. If you wanted to you could find my address in a few clicks.
The thing I worry about the most are the facebook groups I troll, this isnt even a blip on the radar. I’m sorry about your situation but if this site poses any real risk to you you’ve made some massive, unforced errors.
When I was first considering putting my name on the server hosting agreement, I had to think about the (small) possibility of exposing myself to some sort of legal liability. I decided I was OK with that and would be willing to fight for the community if necessary.
Six months later the reality is a tiny minority of the community that cares about any of this crap is debating how hard we should self-censor over completely non-existent threats.
What a world.
I’m on track to break into the amethyst league on Duolingo.
“Malicious” site is quite a leap. I find it quite hilarious and have shown it to my coworkers.
Dont twist my words deliberately. I’m saying if anything posted on this site causes you problems you’re making unforced errors. Nothing posted here could be any stretch of the imagination get one in super hot water - with the possible exception of the mental health thread.
If you’re browsing this forum at work, well lolyou. I do it when it’s very slow but because no one cares at all.
I had a kid stay the night in fifth grade. We were going through my baseball cards and he noticed a large baseball-shaped cardholder at the top of my closet.
Well, I hadn’t anticipated that would come into play. A few weeks earlier I had shit my underwear and hid them in said baseball cardholder. Why I had done that, I can’t remember. I’m sure it had to do with shame and I was supposed to ditch them at a more opportune time.
Guess what randomly got brought up senior year at the coolguy lunch table?
Some people will dislike you for any political position. Some people in my neighborhood surely dislike me because I’ve posted on Nextdoor that I think it’s good to help homeless people and we shouldn’t just have the police chase them out of town.
It’s possible that could cost me business, but probably not.
Unforced error, pants shitter.
It was a malicious shite.
Are you saying he’s a good poster?
Gregvid Sklansky itt
Not sure what the point of this is or what problem it solves, but I created an NSFW forum in BBV that you can only see or post in if you join the Edgelord group. New threads, or even new posts, could even be subject to mod approval.
Right now anyone can manually join the group, but it’s only visible to logged in users (the NSFW forum is not visible unless you’re already in the group). The group can be set so it’s not visible to anyone and users need to request to be added.
So, if, for example, someone wanted to do a draft of people who should get really bad colds and have trouble sleeping for a couple of weeks and feel miserable all day, if it were in the BBV=>NSFW forum, in order to be able to see that the thread exists, you would have to know the Edgelord group exists, PM an admin to join, and know there was a semi-hidden BBV forum that had an NSFW subforum in it.
Again, I don’t what this accomplishes, just wanted to see how it would work if we wanted a top secret forum that your boss or border official could never find unless you happened to have the forum open while they were looking at your device. If Johnny’s class traitor colleague were to browse this site with some colleagues, they’d never know of the NSFW forum, unless they find this post that will self-destruct in 5 minutes .
Won me over with the self-destruct part. Now it has to happen imo.
Johnny, you can always sign up with a new username.
Make it a wiki and change the content to something innocuous. The original version will still be there but deeply hidden.
You are trying to process what happened.
If someone threatens me with information, my first instinct would be gather information about the other person, to see what can be weaponized against them, if I feel the need to protect myself. Which doesn’t mean that I plan on retaliating, but I want to be prepared in case I feel I have to.
That being said, you said that sharing information might have been malicious or it might have been a case of bad judgment. The first step is in figuring out which one it is, or if there are any other options in the range of explanations, before planning a response.
For all my posting that others find problematic, it’s not that I am unaware that participating in political discussion can have real-world repercussions. I’m not being careless. It’s not necessarily that I believe WAAF, but I think we’ve reached a point where there is no going back to some sort of pre-Trump civility. There’s no moving forward without passing through some sort of transitional period of conflict. Not necessarily civil war, but not some peaceful change where a bunch of people realize that they have been racist butt-heads and repent. And I don’t shy away from the idea that civil war is in the range of possible outcomes.
So much of all of our decisions are rationalization and bullshit.
This is an idea worth exploring. I do come back a lot to consequentialist vs deontological reasoning. I think most people decide their preferred outcome and work backwards to find a path that lets them arrive at that outcome. I am much more willing to focus on the decision-making process and accept what ever consequences are output by that process. I may go a bit overboard in highlighting spots where I am willing to accept undesirable consequences as a way of proving a point.
Given the poker-related genesis of this forum, we can talk about results-oriented thinking and concepts like Sklansky bucks. I’ve internalized the idea of not being results-oriented, so it might be reasonable to say that I evaluate politics in terms of how it affects theoretical lives rather than how it affects actual lives. And I can see how that perspective will rub some people the wrong way, how it might come across as lacking in empathy, or even sociopathic.
In determining how to resolve your personal situation, it is possible that you see tension between how you think you should act and what you think will actually happen if you act that way. It would be natural to want to adopt a more risk-averse strategy because we are talking about a single case.
In my head when you started talking about the forbidden cardholder (I thought it was going to be porn because my dad had a hidden pack of porno cards), somehow I decided that you were the dad having a sleepover party for your kid and even though I figured out it had to be wrong, it was way more delightful to read about the hidden Poop of the Loom from this perspective.
I do think Johnny is possibly over reacting but then again I’m not in his shoes so maybe I’m failing to see something or possibly living in a fairyland where nobody could possibly hurt Johnny because, well, he’s Johnny. Who the fuck would do that? Then I remember the anxiety I had when I had a falling out with someone online, who I had shared personal information with and how that affected me when they were happily sharing stuff about me online to other forum members, virtual strangers. It felt really bad and the possibility of being compromised in RL felt overwhelming. So I do understand somewhat how Johnny is feeling and I empathise with him. Now I’m more in the Idgaf mentality because my viewpoints are my viewpoints and if people in my RL don’t like them so be it. They already know I’m quite left leaning and I don’t think my behaviour online is particularly bad. Some areas I needed to improve in and I have been working on them. Having this forum has been a godsend. I’ve learned so much and met so many good people, it gives me hope for the world.
Anyway basically my rambling is to indicate that whatever Johnny decides I will support even though I adore his posting I would support him leaving if he truly felt compromised about being on here. I’d hope he would reconsider at times about coming back as often once some time has lapsed the anxiousness regarding a situation dissipates.
Options should have been “Oui” and “Non”.
Tout le monde est critique!
I work with a bunch of relatively dumb hicks, who have for a continuum of 30+ years and in favor of single-issue non-issues like gun rights, consistently voted against their best interests. We are all facebook friends, so they know I’m the black-sheep leftist. No real consequences for me from either online exchanges or real-life ones lmao I actually look forward to schooling these tards, though do not actively seek it.
what are the consequences you face?