Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 29, 2021, 04:13:00 PM

Quote from: sureshot on April 29, 2021, 04:10:06 PM
Don't forget I am sure a bunch of people lurk here to make sure and then snitch like a rat 🐀 to the mods.

Probably. Dopamine hits from outrage won't generate themselves.

They set the precedent when they banned Sankarah, after all. Even though he agreed with them politically.

Hell, GM, maybe they banned him for acknowledging that other political and social views than theirs even exist. Honestly it seems even acknowledging other views and people exist is enough to get you banhammered there. I don't think the moddissars there want other views to be suppressed, i think they want the ultimate safe space where other views don't even exist or are acknowledged, a perfect little echo chamber bubble in which no other views are allowed to even be acknowledged.

Hell, they banned one guy for working for ICE, they cbanned another for saying that a black girl shot buy police had a knife in her hand and was trying to stab another girl. i'm amazed they don't start offering bounties like bonus brown noser points, to anyone who reports another user of rpg.net has a presence on a board where views they don't like can be expressed. Then they can move on to banning people because they think he might have a profile on a board they don't like.

Speaking of  mclannen, he personally and directly  threatened me on fb once, fat bald pussy never made good on it tho.  I guess someone told him his magic banhammer super omnipotent mod power only worked on rpg.net.  I'm amazed nom ones hacked that site yet. I'm hoping i can get someone to change that...

Quote from: matt swain on April 30, 2021, 12:39:03 AM

Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 29, 2021, 04:13:00 PM

Quote from: sureshot on April 29, 2021, 04:10:06 PM
Don't forget I am sure a bunch of people lurk here to make sure and then snitch like a rat 🐀 to the mods.

Probably. Dopamine hits from outrage won't generate themselves.

They set the precedent when they banned Sankarah, after all. Even though he agreed with them politically.

Hell, GM, maybe they banned him for acknowledging that other political and social views than theirs even exist. Honestly it seems even acknowledging other views and people exist is enough to get you banhammered there. I don't think the moddissars there want other views to be suppressed, i think they want the ultimate safe space where other views don't even exist or are acknowledged, a perfect little echo chamber bubble in which no other views are allowed to even be acknowledged.

Hell, they banned one guy for working for ICE, they cbanned another for saying that a black girl shot buy police had a knife in her hand and was trying to stab another girl. i'm amazed they don't start offering bounties like bonus brown noser points, to anyone who reports another user of rpg.net has a presence on a board where views they don't like can be expressed. Then they can move on to banning people because they think he might have a profile on a board they don't like.

Speaking of  mclannen, he personally and directly  threatened me on fb once, fat bald pussy never made good on it tho.  I guess someone told him his magic banhammer super omnipotent mod power only worked on rpg.net.  I'm amazed nom ones hacked that site yet. I'm hoping i can get someone to change that...

Big Purple is a cult. One of the more common reasons I've seen a ban issued is for when someone interrupts their session of Two Minutes of Hate by presenting a fact that might cause other users to stop and think, such as the poster pointing out the black girl who got shot was in the process of stabbing someone.

As for your hope to get someone to hack Big Purple...are you literally announcing to the world your intent to conspire to commit a federal crime? Over the sad debacle going on at TBP? Please rethink your priorities.

Quote from: wmarshal on April 30, 2021, 07:58:04 AM

Quote from: matt swain on April 30, 2021, 12:39:03 AM

Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 29, 2021, 04:13:00 PM

Quote from: sureshot on April 29, 2021, 04:10:06 PM
Don't forget I am sure a bunch of people lurk here to make sure and then snitch like a rat 🐀 to the mods.

Probably. Dopamine hits from outrage won't generate themselves.

They set the precedent when they banned Sankarah, after all. Even though he agreed with them politically.

Hell, GM, maybe they banned him for acknowledging that other political and social views than theirs even exist. Honestly it seems even acknowledging other views and people exist is enough to get you banhammered there. I don't think the moddissars there want other views to be suppressed, i think they want the ultimate safe space where other views don't even exist or are acknowledged, a perfect little echo chamber bubble in which no other views are allowed to even be acknowledged.

Hell, they banned one guy for working for ICE, they cbanned another for saying that a black girl shot buy police had a knife in her hand and was trying to stab another girl. i'm amazed they don't start offering bounties like bonus brown noser points, to anyone who reports another user of rpg.net has a presence on a board where views they don't like can be expressed. Then they can move on to banning people because they think he might have a profile on a board they don't like.

Speaking of  mclannen, he personally and directly  threatened me on fb once, fat bald pussy never made good on it tho.  I guess someone told him his magic banhammer super omnipotent mod power only worked on rpg.net.  I'm amazed nom ones hacked that site yet. I'm hoping i can get someone to change that...

Big Purple is a cult. One of the more common reasons I've seen a ban issued is for when someone interrupts their session of Two Minutes of Hate by presenting a fact that might cause other users to stop and think, such as the poster pointing out the black girl who got shot was in the process of stabbing someone.

As for your hope to get someone to hack Big Purple...are you literally announcing to the world your intent to conspire to commit a federal crime? Over the sad debacle going on at TBP? Please rethink your priorities.

I find it particularly pathetic that he's not doing himself, he's going to get someone else to do it.

Just go crawl back to TBP, Swain. I'm sure if you lick the mods' asses they'll let you back in.

TBP could have a field day of victimization over this. "Look guys, those evil guys at that theRPGSite are targeting us for a hack! They cannot stand how stunning, brave and powerful we are!"

There's a decent chance that swain is acting as bait to try to get this site in trouble. Wouldn't take that much effort for a TBP true believer to create an account at TBP to deliberately catch a ban there, and then come over here and see if somebody here would back his play to do a hack. Maybe that's what happens at one of the chan sites, but I've never seen it here until now.

Quote from: wmarshal on April 30, 2021, 08:43:09 AM
TBP could have a field day of victimization over this. "Look guys, those evil guys at that theRPGSite are targeting us for a hack! They cannot stand how stunning, brave and powerful we are!"

There's a decent chance that swain is acting as bait to try to get this site in trouble. Wouldn't take that much effort for a TBP true believer to create an account at TBP to deliberately catch a ban there, and then come over here and see if somebody here would back his play to do a hack. Maybe that's what happens at one of the chan sites, but I've never seen it here until now.

If anybody here was going to do that, it would have already been done.  We have too much fun watching TBP shoot themselves in the foot to spoil it like that.

Now whether or not swain is a plant to set up something like that....maybe?
But it seems way too clumsy and ham-fingered, almost like the Smollett hoax.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on April 25, 2021, 10:41:57 PM

I've got another complaint about that remark. I'm not a rightwing nor a leftwing asshole, I'm a center asshole, or an asshole/asshole if you pretty please.

Sorry kid. Everyones against you. (except those that arent) Especially RPG.net. The Randivistic outlook made real.

Quote from: Wntrlnd on April 26, 2021, 04:07:17 AM
That said, I think any further discussion on that would be more befitting the Pundits forum rather than here. (although this thread seems to be given a slightly more leeway on politicial topics)

I think that is because there is nothing left of RPG.net other than these ever more stringent political attacks. They do nothing else anymore.

Quote from: Omega on April 30, 2021, 05:02:00 PM

Quote from: GeekyBugle on April 25, 2021, 10:41:57 PM

I've got another complaint about that remark. I'm not a rightwing nor a leftwing asshole, I'm a center asshole, or an asshole/asshole if you pretty please.

Sorry kid. Everyones against you. (except those that arent) Especially RPG.net. The Randivistic outlook made real.

LOL "kid" I bet I'm older than you. But yes, why is it that everybody hates me? I'm just an asshole/asshole!

Quote from: Ratman_tf on April 29, 2021, 03:18:52 PM
For a bunch of overworked, unpaid volunteers, they seem to have the time to check up on what posters are doing on other sites.

This is unfortunately rather common and was so well before the current moral outrage iteration hit. Its just gotten worse since the current onset. Several publishers spy covertly on forums and sites. White Wolf staff was the first encountered back in 99-2000. SJG, GW, Privateer, Asmodee, FFG, and several others all have. And have taken to applying gag orders and NDAs to staff to strongarm them into keeping quiet about the publishers dirty little secrets.

Other publishers seem to be the opposite and near totally oblivious to the net or forums.

Now toss in Fora Wars and it becomes really oppressive.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on April 29, 2021, 09:02:51 PM

From experience over there way back I'd say that they were originally a relatively normal forum/database. But like BGG. There were cracks early on. Then at some point the cracks widened. I've seen this sort of gradual decay on fora, chars, even MUDs and other MU**s. Especially ones where there is some sort of "buddy system" for who gets a moderator bit. Or where the admin seem to be actively gunning for the players and deliberately making staff the worst of the lot to make it more of a hell for the normal player/customer base. Like they want the product to fail.

And for all the odd staff behavior over on RPG.net. Its still a better RPG gaming database than BGG's.

Meh. I stay my idea: some people in high places think that they can rule change the World for the better by embracing Nazi-wokeness. Their position and the possibility to speak through big megaphones gives the illusion that they are succeeding.

They aren't. Have you seen what happened to the Oscars? People have already a lot of real worries. Being lectured in places where you seek fun and escapism is not what all of us are looking for. And it is being realised that "Get woke, go broke" is not a "Toxic Fandom Banner" but wise advice.

Will they change? No, and neither their Stockholm-syndromed followers will. The vast rest of us, meanwhile, is moving on.

"Insufferable woke-a-thon" is not something conied here: Sky News Australia came up with this definition. While they referred to this year Oscars' fiasco, it's interesting how the very same sentence has an universal value. You can take it and use it to describe RPG.net and friends.

They came out with an interesting segment, considering that they are MSM: Ricky Gervais' speech at the end is pure gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy-qn2ctY7A

Quote from: wmarshal on April 30, 2021, 07:58:04 AM

Quote from: matt swain on April 30, 2021, 12:39:03 AM

Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 29, 2021, 04:13:00 PM

Quote from: sureshot on April 29, 2021, 04:10:06 PM
Don't forget I am sure a bunch of people lurk here to make sure and then snitch like a rat 🐀 to the mods.

Probably. Dopamine hits from outrage won't generate themselves.

They set the precedent when they banned Sankarah, after all. Even though he agreed with them politically.

Hell, GM, maybe they banned him for acknowledging that other political and social views than theirs even exist. Honestly it seems even acknowledging other views and people exist is enough to get you banhammered there. I don't think the moddissars there want other views to be suppressed, i think they want the ultimate safe space where other views don't even exist or are acknowledged, a perfect little echo chamber bubble in which no other views are allowed to even be acknowledged.

Hell, they banned one guy for working for ICE, they cbanned another for saying that a black girl shot buy police had a knife in her hand and was trying to stab another girl. i'm amazed they don't start offering bounties like bonus brown noser points, to anyone who reports another user of rpg.net has a presence on a board where views they don't like can be expressed. Then they can move on to banning people because they think he might have a profile on a board they don't like.

Speaking of  mclannen, he personally and directly  threatened me on fb once, fat bald pussy never made good on it tho.  I guess someone told him his magic banhammer super omnipotent mod power only worked on rpg.net.  I'm amazed nom ones hacked that site yet. I'm hoping i can get someone to change that...

Big Purple is a cult. One of the more common reasons I've seen a ban issued is for when someone interrupts their session of Two Minutes of Hate by presenting a fact that might cause other users to stop and think, such as the poster pointing out the black girl who got shot was in the process of stabbing someone.

As for your hope to get someone to hack Big Purple...are you literally announcing to the world your intent to conspire to commit a federal crime? Over the sad debacle going on at TBP? Please rethink your priorities.

Federal crime? No, just letting people about a thing that exists. I'm not encouraging anything when i do that. if it happens, c'est la vie.

Quote from: wmarshal on April 30, 2021, 07:58:04 AM

Quote from: matt swain on April 30, 2021, 12:39:03 AM

Quote from: Ghostmaker on April 29, 2021, 04:13:00 PM

Quote from: sureshot on April 29, 2021, 04:10:06 PM
Don't forget I am sure a bunch of people lurk here to make sure and then snitch like a rat 🐀 to the mods.

Probably. Dopamine hits from outrage won't generate themselves.

They set the precedent when they banned Sankarah, after all. Even though he agreed with them politically.

Hell, GM, maybe they banned him for acknowledging that other political and social views than theirs even exist. Honestly it seems even acknowledging other views and people exist is enough to get you banhammered there. I don't think the moddissars there want other views to be suppressed, i think they want the ultimate safe space where other views don't even exist or are acknowledged, a perfect little echo chamber bubble in which no other views are allowed to even be acknowledged.

Hell, they banned one guy for working for ICE, they cbanned another for saying that a black girl shot buy police had a knife in her hand and was trying to stab another girl. i'm amazed they don't start offering bounties like bonus brown noser points, to anyone who reports another user of rpg.net has a presence on a board where views they don't like can be expressed. Then they can move on to banning people because they think he might have a profile on a board they don't like.

Speaking of  mclannen, he personally and directly  threatened me on fb once, fat bald pussy never made good on it tho.  I guess someone told him his magic banhammer super omnipotent mod power only worked on rpg.net.  I'm amazed nom ones hacked that site yet. I'm hoping i can get someone to change that...

Big Purple is a cult. One of the more common reasons I've seen a ban issued is for when someone interrupts their session of Two Minutes of Hate by presenting a fact that might cause other users to stop and think, such as the poster pointing out the black girl who got shot was in the process of stabbing someone.

As for your hope to get someone to hack Big Purple...are you literally announcing to the world your intent to conspire to commit a federal crime? Over the sad debacle going on at TBP? Please rethink your priorities.

Revenge fantasies are only a crime on TBP not in the real world. 

Quote from: Omega on April 30, 2021, 05:18:08 PM

Quote from: Ratman_tf on April 29, 2021, 03:18:52 PM
For a bunch of overworked, unpaid volunteers, they seem to have the time to check up on what posters are doing on other sites.

This is unfortunately rather common and was so well before the current moral outrage iteration hit. Its just gotten worse since the current onset. Several publishers spy covertly on forums and sites. White Wolf staff was the first encountered back in 99-2000. SJG, GW, Privateer, Asmodee, FFG, and several others all have. And have taken to applying gag orders and NDAs to staff to strongarm them into keeping quiet about the publishers dirty little secrets.

Other publishers seem to be the opposite and near totally oblivious to the net or forums.

Now toss in Fora Wars and it becomes really oppressive.

huh...the worst I ever got from SJG was a bit of a raised voice when I overstepped once or twice.  And I probably deserved it.  I got a "please stop or we'll have to take action" from ICE once.  I think tbp does have a score against sjg relating to their not knuckling under when pressure was applied to deplatform one of their targets of the day.

Quote from: David Johansen on April 30, 2021, 07:22:44 PM
I got a "please stop or we'll have to take action" from ICE once. 

There is a certain problem with acronyms.

"THERE'S BLM AGENTS IN THE WOODS!"
Well? That's where I would expect to find them...

I take it you are referring to Iron Crown, rather than those guys that make TBP hyperventilate?

(I have visions of "You will cease to hire day workers...")