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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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"Taking a page from cyberpunk, traditional West African Juju priests adapted their services to the needs of the information age and started leading down-on-their-luck internet scammers through strange and costly rituals designed to increase their powers of persuasion and make their emails irresistible to greedy Americans. And so "Sakawa" was born.
Now not only is Sakawa Ghana's most popular youth activity and one of its biggest underground economies, it's a full-blown national phenomenon. Sakawa has its own tunes, clothing brands, Sakawasploitation flicks, and even a metastatic backlash from Christian preachers and the press. When we were in Accra over the summer it was impossible to walk more than 10 feet without seeing the word Sakawa in blood-red Misfits letters on a poster or tabloid, often accompanied by bone-chilling horrors of the photoshopped variety."
And here's a 6-minute Young Turks summary and commentary:
@xcriteria Believe it or not, I was actually scambaiting one of those bastard 419 scammers (coloquially known as lads) for a 2 month period. I procrastinated on contacting him again (started to scambait him around the time I had to go back to school), but I think I went as far as to get him to waste his time and money to buy me history books on Ghana. I'm not joking.
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
(01-05-2014 08:35 AM)Hansgrohe Wrote: @xcriteria Believe it or not, I was actually scambaiting one of those bastard 419 scammers (coloquially known as lads) for a 2 month period. I procrastinated on contacting him again (started to scambait him around the time I had to go back to school), but I think I went as far as to get him to waste his time and money to buy me history books on Ghana. I'm not joking.
Believe it or not, he was posing as the US Ambassador to Ghana and it was a classic ATM card scam. He wanted me to pay a fee (which was 500 dollars) in order to receive it. Of course, I didn't send him jack. Even though I only had him for 2 months, it was definitely still worth wasting his time and possibly money.
There are actually plenty of good scambait stories online. Of course, don't believe the "they are all poor Africans" because a majority of these people are actually more rich than you think. Many of these scammers (lads) used to operate out of internet cafes, so the fact they could pay for that much internet usage tells you something. In fact, I'd say roughly half of these lads nowadays have home internet service, a luxury most Africans don't enjoy.
I got a spambait thing from a supposed princess residing in Ivory Coast and if I sent her money to leave the country her rich uncle would give me $500k. I led him/her on then they stopped bothering me after I replied with stuff about aliens, buddha and the 5th dimension...
I always see African. Even african sex slaves(not necessarily slaves but implies that the african chick will fulfill every sexual desire and fantasy you have...which sounds like slavery really). That probably catches the stupid pervs pretty good.