Dies to Removal

But seriously Pendulum, you are a very decent poster during low drama times but just when you've build up some cred here you go and blow it by freaking out over the most inane stuff. Like when you tried to get G_R to resign since you thought he hacked user accounts when all he did was change the author's of posts.

Well, if we're going to get serious here, I think you need to realize that I feel I have to
overreact to shit to get any sort of positive change out of you guys.

It's not your job to parent us. You call Galspanic out for that shit all the time but you're sort of doing it in your own way here. We didn't ask for someone to come along and "right our wrongs" or put us on the right course. Believe it or not, most of us are actually fairly smart and have jobs, careers, etc. We don't need you to flip out for our own good.

But seriously Pendulum, you are a very decent poster during low drama times but just when you've build up some cred here you go and blow it by freaking out over the most inane stuff. Like when you tried to get G_R to resign since you thought he hacked user accounts when all he did was
change the author's of posts.

Well, if we're going to get serious here, I think you need to realize that I feel I have to overreact to shit to get any sort of positive change out of you guys.

It's not your job to parent us. You call Galspanic out for that shit all the time but you're sort of doing it in your own way here. We didn't ask for someone to come along and "right our wrongs" or put us on the right course. Believe it or not, most of us are actually fairly smart and have jobs, careers, etc. We don't need you to flip out for our own good.

No, I think you're reading my words wrong. I do respect you guys, and I think you've done a hell of a good job setting up the site and running it, especially with all the troubles you'd experienced along the way; I do appreciate you letting me blather here, and know that I can be a burden. Hence it's with humility I try to help out, but you guys have a very insular
community that seems nearly frightened of letting someone from outside that community help them. It's like that "shut up and take my money" meme, I can be pretty up front but that's because I want to be direct in wanting to craft something here.

Well it seems to have quieted down. It's time to blather in peace.

Also someone just got rebanned

Onar, we welcomed you and made you tech and you responded....well...I'm not going to recap the Yomako stuff. So you claiming we're not welcoming to strangers is disingenuous at best.

I came here randomly and joined. My dream is to one day attain staff level.

I came here randomly and joined. My dream is to one day attain staff level.

last I know your FOS though

I mean is it just that you guys view me as some super-serious nerd hunched over his computer combing the site for drama? I like to think that I blather rather freely with a jolliness, I made the Free Harkius thread because it seemed lulzy, is that not coming through clearly?

You guys shouldn't be looking at this as me wanting to introduce a little chaos or whatever Machiavellian scheme you all think I do; it's actually a positive. Back when he was originally banned, I took it
as just another piece of instability in what I had come to think of as the most unstable place I was willing to go on the 'net; that may be just because I myself was pretty fuckin' unstable back then, or maybe that I didn't get the culture, or the very distinct possibility that you were, in fact, the most unstable place around... I think perhaps the latter has a smidgeon of truth to it.

But since then, what's surprised me in the growth of the site is an atmosphere of quick and efficient change; quite the change from MTGS where they let problems fester far too long and resort to masks and bannings to hide their dirty laundry instead of just, you know, doing their laundry. I like to call it an atmosphere of "self-help"; I just say what's on my mind, and the community, especially Scumbag, comes up with a solution in short order. And these solutions are often simple, elegant, and just what is needed. It's a way of life too personable for MTGS to understand, and to my mind it is no big
realization to see how Harkius has felt muzzled there despite them keeping him around. In him, I see a caged bird, and in our maturity here, so different from the groupthink of MTGS, I would like to at least give him the chance to sing.

So yeah, there probably will be drama bombs, there probably will be internet fights (hell, even if he doesn't maek post there probably will be), but I at least have confidence that when they come we have the skills and insight to handle them. We don't need to fear drama here.

I mean is it just that you guys view me as some super-serious nerd hunched over his computer combing the site for drama? I like to think that I blather rather freely with a jolliness, I made the Free Harkius thread because it seemed lulzy, is that not coming through clearly?

It's actually a big concern of mine, I hear all the time that I sound angry and shit and that's really not the case. I respect the freedom to yell when I want, it's a rare and precious thing for me, but I apologize if that's what you remember about me instead of the constant stream of bright-hearted blathering.

I mean is it just that you guys view me as some super-serious nerd hunched over his computer combing the site for drama? I like to think that I blather rather freely with a jolliness, I made the Free Harkius thread because it seemed lulzy, is that not coming through clearly?

This post doesn't sound "lulzy". It was clearly one of your "serious forum reform posts":

You guys shouldn't be looking at this as me
wanting to introduce a little chaos or whatever Machiavellian scheme you all think I do; it's actually a positive. Back when he was originally banned, I took it as just another piece of instability in what I had come to think of as the most unstable place I was willing to go on the 'net; that may be just because I myself was pretty fuckin' unstable back then, or maybe that I didn't get the culture, or the very distinct possibility that you were, in fact, the most unstable place around... I think perhaps the latter has a smidgeon of truth to it.

But since then, what's surprised me in the growth of the site is an atmosphere of quick and efficient change; quite the change from MTGS where they let problems fester far too long and resort to masks and bannings to hide their dirty laundry instead of just, you know, doing their laundry. I like to call it an atmosphere of "self-help"; I just say what's on my mind, and the community, especially Scumbag, comes up with a solution in short order.
And these solutions are often simple, elegant, and just what is needed. It's a way of life too personable for MTGS to understand, and to my mind it is no big realization to see how Harkius has felt muzzled there despite them keeping him around. In him, I see a caged bird, and in our maturity here, so different from the groupthink of MTGS, I would like to at least give him the chance to sing.

So yeah, there probably will be drama bombs, there probably will be internet fights (hell, even if he doesn't maek post there probably will be), but I at least have confidence that when they come we have the skills and insight to handle them. We don't need to fear drama here.

I just try to get a long with everyone. Except baguy, I still wanna fight him.

I mean look at the petition; I agreed with a structured response to a growing concern, so I jumped right on board; my response was to give you guys tips on how to get others to sign and help you get over any insecurities you might have had about talking people into agreeing with your cause. Does that seem particularly angry?

I just try to get a long with everyone. Except baguy, I still wanna fight him.

you guys view me as some super-serious nerd hunched over his computer combing the site for drama

Spam gets +1 to Diplomacy

Spam gets +1 to Diplomacy

I'm an Ambassador of Goodwill.

Also someone just got rebanned

Spam gets +1 to Diplomacy

I'm an Ambassador of Goodwill.

Which is why, if anyone checked to look, I didn't reban anyone.