Yeah, that was a stupid time.
Glad users in more recent times are mature enough to just quietly go elsewhere instead of trying to make an unnecessary and annoying spectacle out of it.
Glad users in more recent times are mature enough to just quietly go elsewhere instead of trying to make an unnecessary and annoying spectacle out of it.
lol, it's against the rules now so the mods remove them.
That's a good rule, some of the posts were in good faith and gave people an opportunity to say bye. Most were wreckers trying to make everyone feel bad.
yeah, it was abusive as fuck, and I hate how it was mostly mods doing it, and then not even leaving.
The whole point is to get a bunch of "don't leave! we need you!" posts. It's fishing for compliments from sad people who have no positive feelings in their lives. When your life is that shit, a single positive comment from an internet rando can make you smile, and you know how rare smiles are for them? Jesus.
Plus the "look what you did, now you made me leave" passive-aggressive method. "This is YOUR fault that this happened!"
Took the words right out of my mouth. It's a very vain and attention you-know-what thing to do.
I don't know the intimate details, I just thought it was tacky that she did the behavior described above and then did it again like a day later with an equally eye-rolling "I'M STAYING" post.
Just seemed like very drama queen behavior.
Their reaction was understandable when you look at the shit flung towards LGBTQIA users at the beginning of the site.
See my other comments for more info
Pretty sure she was wanting to leave after the pronoun shit show, so yeah I can't imagine why she was so frustrated 🙄
Of course that detail seems to be forgotten by some people
Or all the harrassing DMs people received on top of that.
Like there were legitimate problems that eventually got sorted out
Hot take:
TC69 was the worst non-troll poster on the site and if she had continued to take an active role in the site it would probably not still exist today. Extremely reddit person
Reddit behavior is when you're exhausted by people making a scene about pronoun tags on a website, so you log off and join a communist party...
Her mod decisions were good but they also came along with a healthy dose of savior mentality that really let everyone know how subpar they were doing on the posting front. Also, I can't recall if it was her who wanted to transform this place into an organizing space.
Look, I'm not lookin' to start an online feud or anything: Maybe overall she's great and I caught her on a bad posting day, we all have em'.
This was back when LGBTQIA users would regularly be harrassed in the DMs with propositions for nude pics or for slurs to be screamed at them. And straight users would brigade the LGBT communities for the purpose of being bigoted.
So it's understandable why people got mad.
So is this post your version of a "goodbye" post? Because you seem like you're trying to commit account suicide by mod.
I'm not, I'd hope I wouldn't be banned over what at most amounts to a light and pretty tame jab at an ex-mod who possibly hasn't been here for 2 months as of now.
I remember making a parody of one of those posts on an old account and then getting banned for it by a salty mod, who I believe then went on to make one themself.
Remember when a user here would feel the need to slip into someone’s DMs as soon as he learned they were trans and try to vaguepost his way into nudes?
Yeah, that was a stupid time.
Yeah plenty of LGBTQIA+ users got harrassed by the DMs early on.
I was one of them.
You didn't deserve it, I'm so sorry it happened to you :meow-hug:
I'm not sure weather to be glad that they didn't ask me for nude photos and just screamed homophobic slurs lol
No I didn't. I would never do such a thing and likely would've been banned ages ago if I did.
fuck you. nobody wanted to deal with a deluge of "why did budoguy get banned??? MOD ABUSE" posts, when no one wants to fucking post their DMs, people just wanna be left the fuck alone. fuck you for pulling this shit over and over, using the fact you're still here as your fucking alibi and character witness
When I leave it's going to be because chrome logged me out and I forgot my password so I had to make a new account. That's actually how I got this current account. Forgot the password to my old account.
who the fuck is scraeming "LOG OFF" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off
I see you're trying to shame me into quietly going elsewhere.
Jokes on you: I got nowhere to go and it's almost bbq season.
:grillman:
The pre-Vegan War era of the site had more drama than entire soap opera channels
I left during the vegan wars. I didn't make a big dramatic post about it, I was just really over the incessant drama. The site also had productive drama. The great pronoun wars needed to be fought.
I managed to get banned and then enough people got mad about it that I was unbanned
I think a lot of it was a product of well intentioned initial moderation decisions. Hexbear V1 had too much transparency.
The user union comm seemed like a good idea, but letting users or their friends debate bannings with the mods invited the mods to get into public arguments with the users, which was just a recipe for hurt feelings on all sides. That lead to certain users having personal vendettas against individual mods and waging wars against them, and that lead to the mods getting fed up, which led to them being shitty to the users, and the cycle went on and on leading to an endless cycle of dumb internet bullshit.
Things run much more smoothly now that the mods just quietly disappear users accounts in the night, like the stasi.
maybe the mods could just be reasonable fucking human beings instead of
the mods getting fed up, which led to them being shitty to the users
if you cannot just not be a dick you should not ever have any power over anybody
simple as
The war allowed the authoritarian tankie mods banning my right to be weird and annoying online and make a big spectacle out of me not looking at an internet forum and did :1984:
Revisionism. Based Ball got banned for making a joke “I love my trans comrades” post during the purge of transphobes. Learn your lore before you try to sabotage this site, wrecker.
Lol before opening it I thought your thread text was just gonna say, "I quit." Would be a funny bit tho lol
I mean there was alot of racist, transphobic and homophobic bs going on early on. I had someone try slip into the direct messages and scream homophobic slurs because I'm bi lol.
It was understandable why people were leaving, and they thought it needed to be brought to attention.
Pretty sure OP was one of those pervs sliding into dms and trying to get nudes from trans people. I don’t have the login to the old account that happened on anymore but uhhh wtf, this post is pretty gross coming from them.
Excuse me, that is not true.
I would never harass people in their dms for nudes anywhere, this site or otherwise.
u just wait for when i have to leave the site in disgrace i already have my bye letter written up its gonna be a banger trust me
Yeah this site was wild in the early days, I mostly just remember constant John kerry posting, I stopped coming for a long while after my old account got banned for an upvote I didn't even know I did. Seems more chill now for sure.
