Time to leave

[miketx]

i'm sorry if i was a factor in your decision to leave.

You? Naw, you're a lightweight!

 

[Calypso Jones]

Good. I just got here and i haven't been as nice as i really am.

 

[miketx]

Good. I just got here and i haven't been as nice as i really am.

Yes, but I know where you live!

 

[Calypso Jones]

Good. I just got here and i haven't been as nice as i really am.

Yes, but I know where you live!

I bet you donnnn't. LOL

 

[miketx]

Good. I just got here and i haven't been as nice as i really am.

Yes, but I know where you live!

I bet you donnnn't. LOL

 

[Jitss617]

Hello friends and foe,

I have decided it is time for me to leave, because I prefer another forum, where blatant trolling and numerous personal attacks are strongly moderated. I grew tired of it here, decided to move on to a forum, where moderation doesn't let it destroy threads, the offender gets moderated.

I had to leave as I was starting to get more snotty in my replies which is another reason to leave, having to deal with the chronic trolling and stupid behavior of members who don't intend to discuss the topic, made me lose focus on why I am here. Sooo tired of the stupid partisan thinking and the blatant trolling here, the refusal of members staying on topic was the last straw for me, the off topic rules are not getting enforced much, I feel that I am just wasting my time here.

I prefer real point/counterpoint discussions on any topic, not finding it much here. I have in recent weeks pointed out how many members don't address my Post one articles, they attack the writer, the publisher while ignoring the content of the article. I consider that as a bad habit this forum has developed, which is yet another reason why I have decided to leave.

Two of my PM's to the Mods have been completely ignored, one was a suggestion (May 12) to create a resource section in the forum, which has been done elsewhere to success.

Thank you for the laughs, and the many positive reactions I have received in the two years I have been here. I learned all the while.

Kudos to Moderator Coyote, who often disagree with me, but always civil and tries to carry on a discussion, which forces me to try harder to respond in kind the same way, wish a lot more people can do that here, but alas....., I consider him the BEST of the democrats in the forum, nearly the ONLY one I can argue while staying reasonably calm and civil the whole time.

Kudos for PoliticalChic interesting long posts makes me look forward for more.

Kudos for Cruiserfranks many thanks given, appreciated it.

Kudos to billy_bob many thanks given, appreciate it too.

There is a lot I can say about how poorly this place are being handled by the mostly absente owner, and the undersized Moderation team who doesn't have an everyday Administrator to support them. The trolling and off topic behavior are not getting addressed in time, too many threads damaged early, which turns off part of the membership, it certainly cooled my forum interest here.

Well that is about it.

Not going to respond to the inevitable, even snotty bashing over this post, it would help me leave more easily....

Cheers,

Thomas

Dang you TOMMY! Don’t go! Tommyyyyu come back! Gob dang you Tommy! COME BACK!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Who is the OP kidding? No one really leaves. Winterborn is still posting and I saw Old Lady posted the other day. Even Dale Smith came back.

 

[Mindful]

I decided long ago......that if you want serious discussion with differing viewpoints.....go to a more regulated forum or one with adult members.

Then come here for entertainment purposes,

What about the invite only thread?

Or the CDZ?

The brawling can be quite fun. Even creative. And some of it can be metaphors for the truth. For example, I “get” MikeTX.

The sordid morbid gratuitous trolling and derailing of reasonable threads is the thing. No political point to it. Other than a weird flavour of the day obsession with certain posters.

 

[Picaro]

I decided long ago......that if you want serious discussion with differing viewpoints.....go to a more regulated forum or one with adult members.

Then come here for entertainment purposes,

What about the invite only thread?

It sucked. Go ahead and have more of those, lol.

 

[Picaro]

I've been attacked personally. People who do that are just too dumb to take seriously, so I just let them wallow in their ignorance and move on.

Without some emotion, though, a discussion can become kind of sterile and boring.

The emotion can be great, and the accompanying insults hilarious. If it’s focused on the contentious issue at hand.

But the other stuff is about the troll having a hard on for certain posters, for whatever reason. And it’s relentless, tedious, and not even funny.

I get stalked by those nearly all the time; they're thinning out some the last few weeks, some threads might go 3-4 pages without some left wing POS's and their retarded relatives popping in and ruining them.

 

[Mindful]

I decided long ago......that if you want serious discussion with differing viewpoints.....go to a more regulated forum or one with adult members.

Then come here for entertainment purposes,

What about the invite only thread?

It sucked. Go ahead and have more of those, lol.

Never tried it.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

I decided long ago......that if you want serious discussion with differing viewpoints.....go to a more regulated forum or one with adult members.

Then come here for entertainment purposes,

What about the invite only thread?

Or the CDZ?

I tried to post a thread in CDZ and got trolled.......so pffft

 

[Mindful]

I decided long ago......that if you want serious discussion with differing viewpoints.....go to a more regulated forum or one with adult members.

Then come here for entertainment purposes,

What about the invite only thread?

Or the CDZ?

I tried to post a thread in CDZ and got trolled.......so pffft

Even there?

 

[Picaro]

What about the invite only thread?

The depth of dialogue in a lot of those invite only safe spaces is typically unimpressive, in my view. But, that's the purpose of a safe space, I suppose. Really, that's a great way to stimulate more intellectual contributors to seek elevated discussion on the critical issues of the day elsewhere.

They should bring back groups.

But if they're gonna keep the invite only safe spaces, they should make em invisible to everyone else. It's almost offensive to have to read some of that stuff with no means to correct the participants.

It's similar to when a bunch of people get in a public elevator with you and start farting and you can't really say anything about it. lol.

they already have invite only forums here, or at least they used to; the incessant trolling of every single thread in the Religion forum from sick degenerates and pedophiles pretty much forced board Christians into a private forum. I think that one ended up closed down, though.

The CDZ is where trolls go to start troll threads.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

I decided long ago......that if you want serious discussion with differing viewpoints.....go to a more regulated forum or one with adult members.

Then come here for entertainment purposes,

What about the invite only thread?

Or the CDZ?

The brawling can be quite fun. Even creative. And some of it can be metaphors for the truth. For example, I “get” MikeTX.

The sordid morbid gratuitous trolling and derailing of reasonable threads is the thing. No political point to it. Other than a weird flavour of the day obsession with certain posters.

Well I am so glad you cleared that up about 'metaphor'.......cause nobody 'gets' Mike

 

[JustAnotherNut]

I decided long ago......that if you want serious discussion with differing viewpoints.....go to a more regulated forum or one with adult members.

Then come here for entertainment purposes,

What about the invite only thread?

Or the CDZ?

I tried to post a thread in CDZ and got trolled.......so pffft

Even there?

yep, but I don't think they realized where they were at the time

And as for the invite only.......well, I wasn't invited

 

[Picaro]

I decided long ago......that if you want serious discussion with differing viewpoints.....go to a more regulated forum or one with adult members.

Then come here for entertainment purposes,

What about the invite only thread?

Or the CDZ?

I tried to post a thread in CDZ and got trolled.......so pffft

Even there?

yep, but I don't think they realized where they were at the time

And as for the invite only.......well, I wasn't invited

Many just click on the active topics list on the right part of the screen, and don't pay attention to what forum it's in when they get there.

 

[WillPower]

I've been at this since 2002 on four boards...some under several aliases. On one board, they gave up on trying to moderate us and marooned us from public view. My leadership savvy quickly made me the yard boss without any real power other than group condemnation. The leftists had their own bullies and it worked quite well but with no new blood it got hard to come up with interesting exchanges. Everybody hated everybody else in the end and the board was finally closed. A migration to a new board followed and many swore they'd never let the new home turn into the kind of savagery we had where we came from. We quickly ran off the board regulars and took over. Management tried to PAY us stay with a certain number of posts getting the writer a $100 on Paypal. So of course both gangs posted multiple one and two word posts, as many as 100 a day so by the end of the week they owed dozens of us $100. Then they refused to pay. Oh oh....can't have that so we drove them out and a new owner claimed he bought the board without buying the indebtedness. There are maybe 20 posters left there....tumbleweeds blowing through the streets.

The secret is to maintain quality of your posts and don't take any crap from anybody. Pretty soon your foes will discover messing with you is a fool's errand because you'll destroy them. My advantage I suppose is from all the years and hundreds of enemies, I know pretty much all the replies that will chase off pretenders. I have my stalkers but within a few days, they're aware they can't touch me in insult-exchanges. Tommy expects these forums to have some form of normalcy which this one does and is therefore why I try to put up with management that thinks I'm a maniac and keeps a close eye on me. So what I've found is that if you come here or someplace else have a strategy. Mine is to appreciate the smart ones and laugh as much as possible whichever side it comes from. I despise leftists but a couple of them are pretty original and clever and sometimes I let them know it. Other boards' tribes don't allow that but my guru in the beginning, a cat from S. Carolina and former helo-jockey, showed me he could have fun with the communists and maybe slowly change them into normal people. So I've tried to pass that along to my allies on occasion...not now, this close to an important election. It's tribal until 4 November and we can all lower our guard then. If this diatribe helps anybody, fine...if not that's fine too. Just have yourself some fun, get pissed when it's called for, then settle down and have fun again.

 

[Gracie]

Meh. This place isn't for being all serious and shit. It's supposed to be for entertainment purposes only. Or venting. Or bitching. Or poking. Or laughing.

When it starts to get serious..then leave for awhile. Come back. Start all over again. Wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[Mindful]

I've been at this since 2002 on four boards...some under several aliases. On one board, they gave up on trying to moderate us and marooned us from public view. My leadership savvy quickly made me the yard boss without any real power other than group condemnation. The leftists had their own bullies and it worked quite well but with no new blood it got hard to come up with interesting exchanges. Everybody hated everybody else in the end and the board was finally closed. A migration to a new board followed and many swore they'd never let the new home turn into the kind of savagery we had where we came from. We quickly ran off the board regulars and took over. Management tried to PAY us stay with a certain number of posts getting the writer a $100 on Paypal. So of course both gangs posted multiple one and two word posts, as many as 100 a day so by the end of the week they owed dozens of us $100. Then they refused to pay. Oh oh....can't have that so we drove them out and a new owner claimed he bought the board without buying the indebtedness. There are maybe 20 posters left there....tumbleweeds blowing through the streets.

The secret is to maintain quality of your posts and don't take any crap from anybody. Pretty soon your foes will discover messing with you is a fool's errand because you'll destroy them. My advantage I suppose is from all the years and hundreds of enemies, I know pretty much all the replies that will chase off pretenders. I have my stalkers but within a few days, they're aware they can't touch me in insult-exchanges. Tommy expects these forums to have some form of normalcy which this one does and is therefore why I try to put up with management that thinks I'm a maniac and keeps a close eye on me. So what I've found is that if you come here or someplace else have a strategy. Mine is to appreciate the smart ones and laugh as much as possible whichever side it comes from. I despise leftists but a couple of them are pretty original and clever and sometimes I let them know it. Other boards' tribes don't allow that but my guru in the beginning, a cat from S. Carolina and former helo-jockey, showed me he could have fun with the communists and maybe slowly change them into normal people. So I've tried to pass that along to my allies on occasion...not now, this close to an important election. It's tribal until 4 November and we can all lower our guard then. If this diatribe helps anybody, fine...if not that's fine too. Just have yourself some fun, get pissed when it's called for, then settle down and have fun again.

Is that what it amounts to? Gang warfare? lol.