negotiating with a terrorist
sounding like someone got owned
You want to know who's posting? 99% of the posts are made by the same one person that posts about the same one thing. You don't need to worry about that.
The fact that this bothers you makes me understand what ppl feel like when I go on a rant about NATO
This is so funny to me. You're corroborating what are effectively conspiracy theories as to what is happening to the site. This is just natural entropy from inactivity and the growing age of the site users. The concept of one or any group of people collaborating and conspiring to intentionally grief the forum and reduce morale for no real reason has no tangible benefit to anything.
Rhythm of nature.
If these people did exist, and they get enjoyment and satisfaction out of destroying your forum, then why would they effectively kill it?
You lost a ban match to grandgrant so I penned you for it and you have never gotten over it 10+ years later.
We were awful moderators. I issued a total of maybe 3 bans the entire time I was mod for years. I was wrong. Spitwad was wrong. We should have strict moderation and rules.
The most traffic this website gets now is literal nazi circle jerking. The results aren't good.
That aside. The LEAST we can do is the very normal 1 account 1 user rule.
I can verify I am the true owner of this account by scoring a 200pp+ play on osu on demand at any hour of the day, or having >45% accuracy on cata longstafes, or over 200 pops no miss on 1 minute jumbo tile frenzy, or clearing jump_rook_beta, 140wpm+ on monkeytype, or solo clearing cata twinz on vermintide2 on any stage. Anyone who can't do any combination of these things is not the true owner of brendan
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this is yns confirming ownership of my account
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What kind of low ceiling is that?
Being penned for losing a ban match is one thing from nadota history that I have never had any negative feelings about. It was fair and also a funny story (the story is it was actually sumail who challenged me from grant's account - another multi-account from the history of nadota that you probably didn't even know about). And I didn't even know it was you that pressed the button - you are irrelevant in that story
The reason I didnt like you at the time on nadota was that you were a bad person. The way you guys (the moderator team) spoke to people in general was disrespectful, you contributed to the cynical & snarky vibe of the site while contributing nothing interesting or valuable and being altogether some of the least intelligent & interesting posters there.
Not to mention several significant events where you proved you had no backbone and no sense of humor about yourself - such as orchestrating a massive ban bet with Dendi over Trump's election and then pussying out when it came time to ban yourself. You and bees lost all credibility in that moment as "moderators" - you were just unintelligent guys enforcing your personality politics and shitting on the "unpopular" people of the site. Perpetuating the strict hierarchy of toxicity that defined that place.
What I am saying here is not really meant to be an attack on you personally but an attack on the way you choose to interact with the site (now and especially the way you chose to interact when you were "in charge"). For a similar but positive example go look at the history of Osiris. There was a time he was acting like you - going around as a moderator taking snide potshots at people, generally contributing nothing and shitting on people and shutting them down. I (and others) basically bullied this out of him and he actually took the feedback and turned around and became one of the most interesting guys and best-loved posters on the website.
The turnaround is in the mindset - prioritizing posting about yourself and talking about interesting things in the world while avoiding being snarky & discouraging to others. I've actually really liked your posts on several occasions when you talk about yourself and the world and I think you could be a great poster if you shifted your focus like this.
For the guys posting this PGP nonsense.
The mod team discussed and we agreed Jones set a new bar for this - we are not going to accept verification any more in the form of this crypto nonsense. Instead, post a video of yourself like Jones did or send a photo of your dick to dan. These are the two officially-endorsed ways to get a verified account.
This is so funny coming from you. You've almost always been an unpleasant person to be around, except when you were making funny jokes on the wintermute account. You're mostly, ironicallyt I guess, just a bad person who spends most of his time on here putting other people down. Don't try to be sneaky or cute about it, you spend a HUGE amount of time on this website, and a lot of it is being just a mean and hateful person.
So lame to project all of this onto others instead of looking at yourself, do you really think people are this stupid or forgetful?
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Then I should improve. I'm mostly here to talk about myself, my life, dump my opinions on things etc and I want to interact with people pleasantly.
If you think I am speaking to people hatefully you should call me out on it just like I did for Osiris. Maybe I can improve the way he did.
But I dont include the section where I was talking to huber (or the one where I just responded to jdance in the other thread) because these people are soliciting a conversation which is critical in nature. I'm not just following jdance around being a dick to him - if anything it is the other way around and I tell him off for it.
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For the record I think I've always interacted with you pleasantly and kindly
I think that some of you guys get confused between "this person is posting a political opinion I don't like" and "this person is a bad person and is being mean on the internet"
Oh yeah I remember you claiming he was """following you around""" becuase he was posting in one of the 3 active threads at the time
See this is where I think you're acting in bad faith, because when people are "all trans people should kill themselves" or "blacks are lower IQ and should be deported", aka nazi filth opinions, you laugh and call it funny trolling, get over it, it's a joke. etc
Then when someone suggests you hit that person with a hammer in the head, you're suddenly worried about the sanctity of free posting. I don't really buy it at face value from you, it seems like trolling honestly.
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There is literally no option for anyone to engage in that behavior unless they take it private. We're trapped in a cage together.
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So you get how these are two different things right
I have different opinions about what should be acceptable to post & where the line is
I'm opinionated and share those opinions
It's not the same as being a toxic & negative person toward others & never sharing yourself, which is what I was talking about with huber. And disagreeing with you =/= bad person or unkind to others. I can kindly disagree.
So do you think posting minority hate nazi stuff is good and kind to others?
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