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August 2001 - June 2017
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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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Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2 "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein "I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
I once had some strange sugar-free chocolate pepper cake(That's how I remember it tasting. It was for some 90-year old guys birthday). It was horrible. Ever since, anytime I see anything that looks like a chocolate cake, I stare at it suspiciously and wait for someone to taste it first.
There was one time you shut it down for a while which was when you switched over to phpbb3 that may have been somewhat passive aggressive but it seemed like it was more out of necessity with the software switch.
03-19-2013 03:42 AM
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SoulRiser
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Switches... from Navboard to phpBB2, then from that to phpBB3, then from that to MyBB... and various random other things inbetween, like an accidental deletion of the database without a backup, the forums getting hacked and me not being available for a few days, moderators and admins getting all emo and mass-deleting shit, me getting all emo and mass-disabling shit... yeah, we've had quite a bit of notable downtime.
Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2 "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein "I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2 "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein "I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2 "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein "I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
SS is completely androgynous... or something. I suppose it wouldn't be fair to give it a gender... it doesn't really lean either way in particular anyway.
Or maybe SS is actually twins, one boy and one girl. Or it has multiple personalities.
Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2 "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein "I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
Well, there is a hypen there. Is it because it's twin-twin.net
In which case, School would be one twin and Survival would be another. I'm going to ask stupid questions about twins now .. is School the boy twin or the girl twin? Which is older? Do they have the same father? Are they identical or fraternal?
If I seem rude to you, please call me on it gently.
One thing (among many others) school couldn't teach you.
SS is 14 years old, and I have been around for merely nearly 5 of them. Doesn't seem like long ago SS was celebrating its 10th birthday, and I was 4 years younger... *Typical blather of how quickly time passes by from somebody who can't quite comprehend that he is rapidly aging without any brakes* Keep it up another 14 years Soul! Let this site be a safe-haven for teenagers in generations to come.
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