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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.
I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.
I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.
I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.
I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.
Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.
Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.
-SoulRiser
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go on then. let's see them pay more attention than us.
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random_name Wrote:go on then. let's see them pay more attention than us.
At least they won't post
"FUCK YOU"
"GO KILL YOURSELF"
"*insert loli picture here*"
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dont be so serious all the tiime
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I agree to all which has been posted in this thread. I no longer wish to troll against SoulRiser, but I really, really don't understand why she HAD to disable the forums. Does she think punishment is the right way to get things done? Otherwise I don't see why, for example, Scooby Snack's above post would not have had the same effect, even with all the forums enabled.
I still believe that the right way to fix this mess is to implement the usergroup idea; I hope it hasn't been abandoned.
Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.
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Disaster lurks within good fortune;
Who can say how things will end?
Perhaps there is no end.
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Escapist Wrote:I still believe that the right way to fix this mess is to implement the usergroup idea; I hope it hasn't been abandoned.
Not enough people for this usergroup crap. I hate having to repeat that.
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KitsuneSefam Wrote:Escapist Wrote:I still believe that the right way to fix this mess is to implement the usergroup idea; I hope it hasn't been abandoned.
Not enough people for this usergroup crap. I hate having to repeat that.
Does it really matter? It's much more effective than disabling forums, because disabling them means that no one can see them (except the admins). If the usergroup system is implemented, only certain people would have certain forums disabled, as a result of rule breaking or something like that.
Also, you said we don't have enough people. Please expand, I really don't know what you mean.
Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.
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Good fortune follows upon disaster;
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i dont think im liked enough to be included in any usergroup
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random_name Wrote:i dont think im liked enough to be included in any usergroup
Same.
Everyone who the small communities(2 to 10 members) doesn't necessary like will be left out from any usergroup. If you want to seclude members, I'd rather leave now.
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KitsuneSefam Wrote:random_name Wrote:i dont think im liked enough to be included in any usergroup
Same.
Everyone who the small communities(2 to 10 members) doesn't necessary like will be left out from any usergroup. If you want to seclude members, I'd rather leave now.
Aww, I like you Sarah and Stephane.
Anyway, who cares about the usergroup thing. What's done is done. And the disabling wasn't even as bad as I thought it was when I first found out.
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chemistry hater Wrote:Aww, I like you Sarah and Stephane.
Anyway, who cares about the usergroup thing. What's done is done. And the disabling wasn't even as bad as I thought it was when I first found out.
awww
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No prob.
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thanks chem hater - i dont actually know your name, now i think about it. youre great too.
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Err.......I'll PM you my name.
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ok then, thanks
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Actually, I believe the usergroup idea included immediate acceptance into any usergroup applied to, with removal only being done when the usergroup is seriously disrupted. Furthermore, the forums weren't disabled to punish anybody. It was disabled so everyone could figure out WTF should happen.
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It's not our job to make sure the forum doesn't suck. That's every single users job. Get it right.
I highly suggest Mobb Deep's albums The Infamous and Hell on Earth, if you have not listened to it yet.
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Darthmat Wrote:It's not our job to make sure the forum doesn't suck. That's every single users job. Get it right.
Riiiiiggghhhhtttt. And it's supposed to be your job to split derailing threads. So don't get up telling me about my job.
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It's actually the user's job to inform a mod or admin when they want a thread split. They don't view every thread. There's a report button at the bottom right of every post. Use it.
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Darthmat Wrote:It's not our job to make sure the forum doesn't suck. That's every single users job. Get it right.
QFT!!!
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
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chemistry hater Wrote:Err.......I'll PM you my name.
Hehehe I don't understand why you don't like it. I think it's just fine
And to all who are curious. To bad you don't get to know it
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Oh, christfuck, we need a name change thread or something.
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If things aren't brought back soon, we're fucked.
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SoulRiser should be unbanned tomorrow.
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BobManPerson Wrote:SoulRiser should be unbanned tomorrow.
Hopefully
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has it really been a week already?
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History, folks.
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History in the breaking.
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Can we shut the forums down again? That was fun!
Whilst some work diligently there are those who ask why. I am one of them
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This has been a test of the emergency pointless argument system. Had this been a real pointless argument, someone would have been called a facist.
Ceiling Cat: For that you need to wear a fursuit, though.
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Thanks for that trip down memory lane.
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