Did you ever hear the tragedy of Based_ball the unwise? I thought not. It’s not a story the hexbears would tell you. It’s a posters legend. Based_ball was a Dark Lord of the posters, so powerful and so wise he could use the posting to influence the discourse, to create ratios… He had such a knowledge of the posting that he could even start the arguments he cared about from nothing. The dark side of posting is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice banned him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from logging out, but not himself.
basedball was where the site channeled all its struggle session energy. See what happens without them?
Using possibly the number one shitposter on the site as the example is a weird tactic but sure
I always loved based_ball. I don't want to look up what transphobic thing he said to get banned because it might ruin my memory, but he was a true poster, one of the greats
It wasn't super bad, just a really distasteful joke about the drama going on at the time
edgy shitposter and poweruser, made a norty potentially transphobia while the site was being raided by transphobes and got benned.
that's the simple version, i'm sure a sitemod would have a whole bunch of reasons.
That's pretty much it. It also wasn't the first time they went too far with edgyposting and the mod team had been annoyed with them for a while before that.
The lesson is: don't become so irony-poisoned that sincerity and solidarity become impossible (or at least, impossible to distinguish from a shitty bit).
