Post Race!

[Niya]

I am not sure he is single in his head and it may explain the contains of some of his threads

I'm not sure he is even human. Could be an AI from a lab somewhere gone awry.

[Shaggy Hiker]

No. A perhaps, but not I.

[Shaggy Hiker]

There are people who have been banned quite a bit, and for longer. People just don't keep track. We've even had people who asked to be banned because they were a bit too literally an 'addicted member'. They wanted to be disallowed from visiting the site while studying for something, if I remember right.

[Shaggy Hiker]

And then there was the guy who I said was figuring out the AUP using the Braille system. He's still around, though infrequently, and much settled down...in every way. He was a bit of a lunatic, when younger, and that spilled over into his posting.

[Delaney]

I'm not sure he is even human. Could be an AI from a lab somewhere gone awry.

are you sure of that ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale-throated_sloth

[Niya]

Sounds like this place used to be fun.

[Niya]

The old internet sure was a lot of fun. Lots of good memories.

[Niya]

But now that politically correct leftists have taken over the internet, it's no longer fun. Amazing online personalities like Surfer4Life could not exist in today's climate. Too many snowflakes would get their precious feelings hurt.

[Niya]

I sure do miss the old internet. It was way better than the dumpster we have today with a bunch of politically correct idiots running around banning all who don't buy into their idiotic ideologies.

[Niya]

are you sure of that ? :d https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pale-throated_sloth

lmao

[Niya]

OMG I managed to find remnants of Surfer4Life's online persona still around today. <Link Removed> is one particularly legendary post still in existence! Of course it's only 0.01% of his glory. The forums he called home no longer exist today so all of his most epic rants can never be enjoyed again. Say what you will about Surfer, that dude was fire. His trash talking was legendary in the Starcraft BGH community and while he received a lot of push back from the community, we all secretly enjoyed seeing him go off on somebody that rubbed him the wrong way. That post is a snapshot of history right there. A taste of what the old internet was like when epic rants like that were common place. Seeing that post again makes me miss the old days so bad!

[Niya]

Even Surfer's most tame posts would be insta-ban on the leftist infesting watering holes of today like Reddit and Twitter.

[Niya]

Removed By Mod

[Niya]

Why God.....why did you let leftists ruin everything!!!!!

[Niya]

Why god!!!!! Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

[Niya]

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

[dday9]

This race is posty.

[Shaggy Hiker]

But now that politically correct leftists have taken over the internet, it's no longer fun. Amazing online personalities like Surfer4Life could not exist in today's climate. Too many snowflakes would get their precious feelings hurt.

Yeah, and mostly you.

It wasn't different, at least not here, aside from the fact that we were all a whole lot younger. You were, too. Don't be so quick to attribute the changes you see to some kind of policing. It could just as easily be the fact that we are all a whole lot older. I would guess that the demographic profile on this site has seen an average age shift of at least 10 years. The people who were around when I started, tended to also be in their twenties and thirties. If they came back now, they wouldn't be so young. A bunch of them are still around, too.

Also, I remember when somebody started a non-politically correct thread...and everybody jumped on them with both feet until they finally deleted the thread after a couple pages. Back then, the OP could delete a thread by deleting the first post in the thread, and they did. So, if you think it was so different...yeah, right. Sounds like nostalgia, to me.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Niya the snowflake.

[Shaggy Hiker]

This forum did tolerate cruder language, but not cruder ideas. Heck, I got banned for making a pun that was only very slightly blue, but was in no way mean. It just made a play on the different meanings of the word bush.

[wes4dbt]

Niya the snowflake.

We're all unique, so we're all snowflakes. lol

As far as what this site tolerates, I don't see an issue. I don't see opinions being suppressed, you just can't be aggressively insulting or hateful when you express them. This seems to be the norm on other forums I visit. And a good norm, I enjoy an insult or two but at least make an effort to be polite about it. lol

But I have no idea about Twitter, never use it.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, but he's the only one moaning about excessive sensitivity. In other words, he's the only one sensitive to sensitivity. He doesn't see it, but he's what he's complaining about, just viewed from a slightly different angle.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's my only objection to Niya: He IS what he's complaining about, just a different shade.

[wes4dbt]

That's my only objection to Niya: He IS what he's complaining about, just a different shade.

I get it. People complaining about people who complain. Your feisty today. lol

[Niya]

The problem is not their complaining. The problem is they use use soft and hard power to stifle debate. I'd have no problem if it was just a bunch of people arguing back and forth. But when people start getting fired from their jobs, losing big contracts or even getting banned from online spaces like Twitter just because some crazy leftists didn't like what they said, that's when I have a problem.

I also find it interesting that go-to response of leftists to opposition is to silence them. This tells me that whatever they are advocating for cannot stand up to scrutiny so. People who are sure their ideas have merit aren't afraid to have it scrutinized. This is precisely the problem with Twitter and one of the bigger reasons why Elon wants to buy it.

[Delaney]

be careful, if you turn 3 times to right, you turn left

[Shaggy Hiker]

The problem is not their complaining. The problem is they use use soft and hard power to stifle debate. I'd have no problem if it was just a bunch of people arguing back and forth. But when people start getting fired from their jobs, losing big contracts or even getting banned from online spaces like Twitter just because some crazy leftists didn't like what they said, that's when I have a problem.

I also find it interesting that go-to response of leftists to opposition is to silence them. This tells me that whatever they are advocating for cannot stand up to scrutiny so. People who are sure their ideas have merit aren't afraid to have it scrutinized. This is precisely the problem with Twitter and one of the bigger reasons why Elon wants to buy it.

You're really going out on a limb when you say you know why Elon Musk wants to do ANYTHING. It's why YOU want him to buy it, but what he actually wants...who knows. I'd guess he never intended to buy it, at this point, but it's just a guess.

Still, if it was just debate, that would be one thing. Perhaps in your country it IS nothing but debate. In the US, it's the right to discriminate that is being fought over. The right to be racists. The right to be xenophobic. The right to silence those you don't like by putting a rope around their necks.

If it ever just becomes the right to debate, that would be amazing. Of course, the debate isn't based on data. People are 'debating' by putting up youtube videos.

Also, you're celebrating somebody for being obnoxious and offensive. You are aloud to be all of that, but not everywhere. You never have been allowed to be like that everywhere. You certainly haven't ever been allowed to be like that here. I was pointing out that this has never been a 4Chan cesspool. There have always been lines. They've moved a bit over the years, as different moderators came and went. There were a LOT more bans at one point, and a lot more lenience today. There was also a time when language almost didn't matter (see the snake thread as an example), but never a time when intolerant and ignorant positions were not met by strong push back. Stronger than today, even.

There are places where you still need to act polite, even if you aren't.

[dday9]

Two wrongs don’t make a right. But three lefts do.

[dilettante]

In the US, it's the right to discriminate that is being fought over. The right to be racists. The right to be xenophobic. The right to silence those you don't like by putting a rope around their necks.

Surely you don't actually believe any of that?

[dday9]

Absolutely I do. I just stood there, turned three times, and now I'm facing right compared to where I started.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Surely you don't actually believe any of that?

Yes, every word of it. I suppose you could say that's not ALL that is being fought over, but as far as what Niya is talking about, that's what is being fought over. The people I know who feel silenced say that because they are not allowed to say what they want to say...which is that people who don't look like them are stupid, lazy, and shouldn't exist. They don't have constructive contributions, they just have some beliefs and they don't feel allowed to share them.

[dday9]

This post does not have any constructive contribution.

[FunkyDexter]

@Niya I've said before to watch the language. And you definitely need to watch the language in the posts you're linking to. I'm going to clean some of that up, please don't post its like again.

Edit>I've removed the posts and links with offensive language. I've left enough in place to demonstrate the point you were trying to make.

[dday9]

What do you call 100 rabbits hopping backwards?

[dday9]

A receding hare line.

[FunkyDexter]

Ha! Nice one.

[dday9]

My wife sent me to the store to pick up 6 cans of sprite.

[dday9]

When I got home, I realized I picked 7up.

[wes4dbt]

Surely you don't actually believe any of that?

You should know by now that his name is "shaggy" not "Surely".

[FunkyDexter]

A hospital. What is it?