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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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Elfy
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I haven't been on this forum in ages, glad to see it's still going. My usage declined after I left school 4 years ago - I'm still a firm believer that compulsory education is wrong. I'll be hitting 20 this year.
Where are all the oldfags at?
RIP SCHOOL-SURVIVAL 04/07/2019
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KFC Nyan Cat
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Oldfags? GONE!
City YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/kfcnyancat
City Tumblr: http://kfcnyancat.tumblr.com (no longer operational due to personal issues)
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" - Donald Rumsfeld
For anyone who remembers me going on an archive binge: Thank you all. I know I ended it being a drama queen, I don't really agree with the ideology anymore, and I'm really not the same person I was (I went through a neopagan phase!) but still this site was the first online community I was in. I graduated from school and turned 18. Time flies. KFC Nyan Cat, June 20, 2019.
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Welcome back!
I think I've seen you around.
RIP URY AND GWEDIN
"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches a lesson."-Tom Bodett
"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."-Neil Gaimen
Usernames that I have used before: Lollipopgirl
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Elfy
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To be honest I post here about once every 6 months when this forum pops into my head, have a quick how's your father with my younger years and then forget all about it.
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I've seen your posts. Welcome back.
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Hey, I'm almost 20 as well. I just have to wait until 2015 rolls around.
The less you try to control things, the less you need to.
Boredom is the #1 enemy of learning. Therefore, school is the #1 enemy of learning.
"Bodies fucking fuck."~Night.Artist
"free speech under the constitution only guarantees the government won't stop him saying it and does not guarantee his right to say things and have no consequences at all as a result. also i completely doubt that he is motivated solely by "i'm saying it because i can" and is probably motivated by a more shitheady motive like "i think it's funny to annoy people and Rustle Le Jimmies and is just hiding behind the first amendment to try to deflect any consequences or make you realize that being allowed to annoy people is a superior moral right. you can still disdain someone for doing things for dumbarse wankery purposes and you have evne more right to ban and insult them for it" ~Trar's friend about Potato.
Thanks for the diploma… can I have my childhood back?
I’d love to have a battle of wits with you… but I hate to fight the unarmed.
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(04-17-2014 09:25 AM)DoA Wrote: I've seen your posts. Welcome back.
Thanks
(04-17-2014 09:26 AM)Heil_Kaiba8921 Wrote: Hey, I'm almost 20 as well. I just have to wait until 2015 rolls around.
Feels weird looking back at old posts. I was such an angsty fucker about school, but I guess since I've left all that angst left, I dabbled into day to day pot use ever since and I do a fair bit of campaigning for biggest legalisation group in the UK. Left home and the freedom was like a rush of blood to the head, in a good way.
To anyone in school having a bad time at the minute, it gets a hell of a lot better. My advice is to find people who are on the same level as you in terms of your opinion on the school system, they will probably be cool enough to be lifelong friend worthy, the only good thing that came of school for me - rebel if you want to, have faith in your reasoning and be a free spirit, at the end of the day it's your reality.
RIP SCHOOL-SURVIVAL 04/07/2019
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HOLY SHIT AND OLD MEMBER. I've actually seen a few of your posts. Although I am a newer member. As you can see SS has changed alot since you last visited.
And yes most of the Old Users are gone, they fled to DnE. However we are still here and are rebuilding, Sharpie and Stadium have returned(for better or for worse), and well some things have occured, but other than that there isn't much going on that has ties to the older times. Other than Duelix(aka Zagix/Fagix). So welcome back Here have a cookie! (>^.^)>O
Also feel free to join us on IRC!
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Also, your sig is awesome.
Public Service Announcement: First world problems are still problems.
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Hey welcome back, you might remember me
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(04-17-2014 10:20 AM)Sharpie Wrote: Hey welcome back, you might remember me
I remember seeing you around.
Quote:As you can see SS has changed alot since you last visited.
Things got better by the looks of it. I remember when there was tons of shitposting, threats, horrible members and the forum went down for awhile.
RIP SCHOOL-SURVIVAL 04/07/2019
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Yeah after the Final Purge, DnE was created. Basically most of the members are there. We got rid of Aya and Gore along with a newer user(I think) named Potato. Most of the trouble users are gone, and with a new moderation team, mainly to look out for Duelix(yes he's been a pain in the ass for a while now, hell we have ops on IRC because of him now(of which I am a member of both)).
Also, I just want to say welcome back if I already haven't.
Oh and I've become somewhat of a controversial moderator/operator around here although that's mainly behind me, but is a problem at times....
Pretty Much my only signature...I'm mainly a lurker....you can find me on the IRC (or on DnE and their IRC).
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Elfy
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I used to be a mod, but I was just too inactive after awhile.
What is 'DnE' ?
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DnE stands for Dark 'N Edgy. It's where most of the oldfafs went. Lunatic runs it, I think.
Yeah, I remember hearing about the old days when Soul let lots of users have modship. With me on board, this is probably the most we've had since that time!
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DnE is Dark 'n Edgy, it's where Gore, Aya, Potato, Lunatic, V.R. and others hang out now. Basically SS has been dubbed the 'hugbox' by them(or something of the sort). Sharpie is also a member there.
Edit: Ninja'd
And yes for a long period of time we had no one in power beyond SoulRiser, even in the IRC. Then spammers became a problem and well, op was given to xcriteria, and then later to me, neue, HeilKaiba, and MichealMerging(who I don't think is actually a forum member), then Kaiba lost his, and Hansgrohe got Op in the IRC.
THen after Duelix became a huge problem, Soul tried a new usergroup thing, that failed and Trar posted a long rant and got Soul to make Me and DoA ops, with xcrit becoming an op when Duelix first became a problem. She also offered the position to Night(.artist) who then accepted. So we have 4 moderators.
Pretty Much my only signature...I'm mainly a lurker....you can find me on the IRC (or on DnE and their IRC).
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Unsurprising a new forum was created. SS didn't need the shitposting and genuinely hateful content, maybe SS should be a 'hugbox' - we're all in this world together. Support, help and kindness trump bitterness and I don't need to guess that some people here have all kinds of problems in their life, shitposting can drive those people away and it may even make some sort of crucial difference in their life.
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Heh thanks, nice to see that an older member actually agrees with us in a sense, if you want you can join us on IRC(there is a link on the frontpage to it, and it's embedded in the front page too!)
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Well, while there are sections of the forum that have devolved into borderline spam, users in such threads tend not to make fun of each other or curse like drunken sailors near as much as they used to. I'd call that an improvement.
Perhaps you might remember the name "xcriteria". He's been around even longer than you have, but has recently come back to help the School Survival movement gain some bona fide credibility. We're looking more and more respectable, and soon enough our environment will look drastically more positive than it did in previous days.
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Yeah I'll check the IRC soon. Think I'm here to stay for a good while this time
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Well then I guess you're back for a bit.
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Hey Elfy! I still remember you! I remember we were conversing far back in August 2013, back when I first joined and I was about to go back to school for the 2013-14 year. You mentioned you were starting a job as a chef.
Well, to say the least, my life has changed a lot since I first joined here. When I first joined here, I didn't take these forums too seriously and thought it'd be a nice place to vent and all and make the occasional long post about something political or whatnot, but really this site has become much more than that, and recently I took the CHSPE, which would let me exit school if I pass it with an equivalent diploma. My results come in on April 22nd, so I may be another School Survivor that gets out early.
Oh, and a lot of the oldfafs aren't around here. There has been a lot of conflict between the oldfafs and the newfafs, with things such as "free speech", blah blah blah. Long story short, not pretty.
(By the way, I'm Hansgrohe, may switch back to that username soon)
RIP GWEDIN
RIP URITIYOGI
RIP NIGHT
RIP VONUNOV
RIP WES/THEWAKE
RIP USERNAME
Stop jerking off to porn and whining and do something about it
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(04-17-2014 11:45 AM)MichaelTownley Wrote: Hey Elfy! I still remember you! I remember we were conversing far back in August 2013, back when I first joined and I was about to go back to school for the 2013-14 year. You mentioned you were starting a job as a chef.
Well, to say the least, my life has changed a lot since I first joined here. When I first joined here, I didn't take these forums too seriously and thought it'd be a nice place to vent and all and make the occasional long post about something political or whatnot, but really this site has become much more than that, and recently I took the CHSPE, which would let me exit school if I pass it with an equivalent diploma. My results come in on April 22nd, so I may be another School Survivor that gets out early.
Oh, and a lot of the oldfafs aren't around here. There has been a lot of conflict between the oldfafs and the newfafs, with things such as "free speech", blah blah blah. Long story short, not pretty.
(By the way, I'm Hansgrohe, may switch back to that username soon)
I had a job as a kitchen porter for about half a year. After working in a kitchen it's safe to say I don't want to become a chef only for my enjoyment at home. Those guys work damn hard.
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(04-17-2014 09:26 AM)Heil_Kaiba8921 Wrote: Hey, I'm almost 20 as well. I just have to wait until 2015 rolls around.
Following that logic, I'm almost 50. I just need to wait until 2045 rolls around.
Welcome back though.
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Elfy me and you might have actually talked at some point now that I think about it. I mean it's unlikely as for the first 5 or so months I lurked alot.
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Wazzup.
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elfy!
i hope you remember me because I remember you!
No, this is Patrick.
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Long time no see. Welcome back
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Welcome back, mate. Long time, no see. Saw you in the IRC, though, that was cool.
I'm miffed nobody mentions me when they mention old members, but whatever.
I did indeed post a long polemic about how we needed to get our shit together. I'm pleased we did. Things are looking up for us, now. I hope you stay around...
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Elfaaaaay.
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;
Disaster lurks within good fortune;
Who can say how things will end?
Perhaps there is no end.
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