Minneapolis is Burning-+* The moderators and admins of this site are TERRIBLE and STUPID and IGNORANT.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

21 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

You are the least self-aware person I have ever met.

I know, I should be killing the messenger by immediately pointing out how not self aware they are instead of focusing on the actual issue of discussion. How silly of me. 

Edited June 10, 2020 by Hugo Stiglitz

[Nicole44 22315]

1 minute ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

I know, I should be killing the messenger by immediately pointing out how not self aware they are instead of focusing on the actual issue of discussion. How silly of me. 

Stay away from the food thread goddamnit! 

[Nicole44 22315]

12 minutes ago, Viper said:

so @Huckleberry is banned from DT too?

I gotta say. Not a fan! 

[Hate 20249]

or he's very self-aware and just acts unaware to troll

This is 100% correct. That post was a troll post as are most of his posts.

[mdmost 44059]

The Derka-like effect that Hugo has on some of you is breathtaking. 

[workswithseed 2204]

1 hour ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Because you're trolling. There's a time and a place for that discussion and the DT thread is not it.

I can see how it can be seen that way. I like it more than BL's answer that it was cause of opinion.

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

59 minutes ago, mdmost said:

The Derka-like effect that Hugo has on some of you is breathtaking. 

Derka has a legit excuse he's got actual mental issues. What's Hugos excuse ?

For the record Hugo is among the more polite in the CR room.  There is actual debate with him without the asshole factor being his chief tool.

[mdmost 44059]

Some of the people who react to both Derka and Hugo could also be looked at for mental issues. 

[Brian Fantana 6867]

What about people that refuse to acknowledge their obvious mental problems like Icono?

[SHOOTER12 8886]

22 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

What about people that refuse to acknowledge their obvious mental problems like Icono?

Sounds like something a person with mental problems would say.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

27 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Some of the people who react to both Derka and Hugo could also be looked at for mental issues. 

True.

[Huckleberry 34668]

2 hours ago, Viper said:

so @Huckleberry is banned from DT too?

I don't follow. I said you have to be an idiot to believe something idiotic.

Does the poster I was quoting believe it? I don't know, but he knows. If he believes it then he's an idiot. If he doesn't then he probably shouldn't make posts implying that he believes it. But probably more importantly, it has nothing to do with politics. It is more a consideration of someone's ability to understand English. It's like saying "you have to be an idiot to believe the Earth is flat." I doubt that's what blacklab is talking about.

[TriStone 1724]

3 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

Now you can admit that its not that you don't want to read about politics, its that you don't want to read about the other teams politics.

I think we can all admit that your schtick is well past its sell-by date.

[Viper 12221]

14 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

I don't follow. I said you have to be an idiot to believe something idiotic.

Does the poster I was quoting believe it? I don't know, but he knows. If he believes it then he's an idiot. If he doesn't then he probably shouldn't make posts implying that he believes it. But probably more importantly, it has nothing to do with politics. It is more a consideration of someone's ability to understand English. It's like saying "you have to be an idiot to believe the Earth is flat." I doubt that's what blacklab is talking about.

sorry, was just joking that blacklab included grammar nazi's in his examples.

[Sawbonz 28225]

4 hours ago, blacklab said:

It is funny to me how one liberal poster after another has come to this thread and in different ways said the same thing, that Trump is so bad we need to be able to discuss politics everywhere and especially DT, as if people didn't already know that. 

Sounds like something a trump loving Nazi would say

[Nicole44 22315]

So this has to do with banning/reporting posts? Do y’all guys just report people non-stop? Talk about gaping vaginas! 

[Goo Punch 4275]

I have purposely avoided bringing this up, because "pick your battles" and all that, but this banner that we currently have at the top of the forum is stupid and insulting, and the admins should be embarrassed by it. When the owner/admin of the site is notorious for banning anyone who so much as argues with him or hurts his feelings, it's pretty fucking tone deaf for that same guy to hang a banner telling other people that this isn't the website for them if their feelings get hurt too easily. I mean fucking seriously. It's asinine. 

edit: and just to be clear, I haven't even crossed paths with immamac in like a year, ever since he and BL told me theyd permaban me if I ever tried to publicly call him out again, but during that time ive watched him/them continue to go full Katy Agnor on multiple people on this site, and this banner of his is just too much. The guy literally permabanned spystud for arguing with him. shaggy was great, but surly, being run by immamac, is a totally different animal. There's a "protect our own" mentaility among the admins here that didn't exist when immamac wasn't in charge. 

And once more for posterity, bexause I cannot stress this enough: when I pm'd blcklab and hayden to ask them why immamac was allowed to ban anyone who he didn't like, they literally told me, "its his site, he can do what he wants. if you pm us again or post about immamac again you will be permabanned." FACTS. if that isn't what they said verbatim it's damn close. and yet these clowns want to talk down about other people not being mentally or emotionally mature enough for this site. fuck out of here, all of you hypocrites. it's a joke. 

Edited June 10, 2020 by Goo Punch

[SHOOTER12 8886]

7 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

So this has to do with banning/reporting posts? Do y’all guys just report people non-stop? Talk about gaping vaginas! 

Oh no, you've got it wrong.  They only report people on Monday and Friday.

[SHOOTER12 8886]

1 minute ago, Goo Punch said:

I have purposely avoided bringing this up, because "pick your battles" and all that, but this banner that we currently have at the top of the forum is stupid and insulting, and the admins should be embarrassed by it. When the owner/admin of the site is notorious for banning anyone who so much as argues with him or hurts his feelings, it's pretty fucking tone deaf for that same guy to hang a banner telling other people that this isn't the website for them if their feelings get hurt too easily. I mean fucking seriously. It's asinine. 

You're just upset because you can identify with the banner.

[Js1 87187]

32 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Oh no, you've got it wrong.  They only report people on Monday and Friday.

Because Tuesday is bird day. We’re busy then. 

[Michael Knight 13231]

4 hours ago, blacklab said:

Your opinions on the subject at hand are not news but opinion and belong in the right place.

If people would leave it at "the president shouldn't do this because the constitution says x" it would be fine.

But when one person says that the next 3 posts are some combination of "cheeto man bad", "fucking libtards", "you're team bad", "it's your you fucking idoit"

And it sucks it goes that way. We simply don't have time to clean up the messes like that and you guys can go to town in another place.

You literally just described 85% of the posts on all of surly. Hell how many posts are just a combination of "regarded" "ou sucks" "damnit derka"

[blacklab 12065]

Hyperbole much?

If 85% of posts are garbage why are you here?

[Guest Lobo]

for the savings?  

[Js1 87187]

So someone posts partisan OANN stuff and calls people libs and SJWs and our mods just make them their own thread in DT?

I thought they don’t want to see opinions and politics 

[blacklab 12065]

yes, I probably should have moved it but I didn't think it was too partisan and I kinda thought more people should see it.

 

[Deej 77840]

4 hours ago, Goo Punch said:

if you pm us again or post about immamac again you will be permabanned." 

[atomheartbevo 90651]

19 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

I just feel like current event threads get CR’d in a way that makes it virtually unrealistic to weigh in most of the time.

Maybe it’s just me that feels that way.   I’ve never been shy about expressing myself. But there is a frustrating feeling for me visiting the DT. Again it’s probably just me. And anyway I don’t think the mods/admins should focus on just some random asswitch like me.

The problem is that there are politicians who are making the policies that lead to the current event threads that you don't like.  Through these policies/actions, they are injecting politics as much as they can into these current events, because it's an election year, and they are playing to their base.

When I was a naive kid during the Reagan years, and even a young adult volunteering for George W's gubernatorial and first presidential run, it was still fairly easy to believe that the people making policies had the interests of your typical Americans at heart.  Yeah, naive as fuck, I know.

Now, it's 24/7 and full-on Fuck You Pay Me and "I'm going to openly push conspiracy theories and stir shit up on purpose, because  I want my people voting, so fuck you."

And then it gets hard to discuss those events without the policy discussion that is driving those events.

But the mods are able to keep it under control, regardless of what people say.  And I say that as somebody who got to have their posts moderated by the mods for two weeks.

Edited June 10, 2020 by atomheartbevo

[atomheartbevo 90651]

21 hours ago, blacklab said:

what I don't understand is why you aren't over on texags informing the gomers of the wrongs of their ways.

The vast majority of this board, including me can't stand Trump. You really need to get over there and inform them what's up.

Any forum that embraces and allows Qanon shit, cannot be reasoned with.  At All.  Plus, they are aggy.

Any normal college fandom, where a site like TexAgs might dominate their online discussions, would be horrified that their fandom was pushing batshit Qanon Art Bell Alex Jones Lovechild Stuff.

But TexAgs.

[Anastasis 23721]

3 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Any forum that embraces and allows Qanon shit, cannot be reasoned with.  At All.  Plus, they are aggy.

The CR shouldn't throw many stones.  Glass houses and all.  Some of the posters like Hugo and triple and numerous others right out trafficked in some of the craziest ass server/praque/allorgchartsmerged conspiracy theories with nary a peep of broad dissent. 

[Viper 12221]

I think it probably needs to be decided by topic. Some of them are too close and it's just too big a headache to keep politics out

[Deej 77840]

7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Any forum that embraces and allows Qanon shit, cannot be reasoned with.  At All.  Plus, they are aggy.

Any normal college fandom, where a site like TexAgs might dominate their online discussions, would be horrified that their fandom was pushing batshit Qanon Art Bell Alex Jones Lovechild Stuff.

But TexAgs.

Leave Art Bell out of this 

[atomheartbevo 90651]

1 hour ago, Deej said:

Leave Art Bell out of this 

I thought the board was against Americans who moved to the Philippines and married or whatever.

[Deej 77840]

Just now, atomheartbevo said:

I thought the board was against Americans who moved to the Philippines and married or whatever.

Only those that post about "supporting" underage prostitutes. 

[Michael Knight 13231]

2 hours ago, blacklab said:

Hyperbole much?

If 85% of posts are garbage why are you here?

Same reason you are, funny cat pics and snippets of news

[Michael Knight 13231]

1 hour ago, Viper said:

I think it probably needs to be decided by topic. Some of them are too close and it's just too big a headache to keep politics out

look at this fuckin guy being reasonable and shit

[Michael Knight 13231]

2 hours ago, blacklab said:

yes, I probably should have moved it but I didn't think it was too partisan and I kinda thought more people should see it.

 

[blacklab 12065]

Are you just here to troll?

I move stuff to CR and you get mad. Now you report a post in DT asking why is it here.

Would you make up your fucking mind.

 

[Michael Knight 13231]

15 minutes ago, blacklab said:

Are you just here to troll?

I move stuff to CR and you get mad. Now you report a post in DT asking why is it here.

Would you make up your fucking mind.

 

You said you didn't see a problem with a blatant piece of racist propaganda and you wanted more people to see it. I guess the question is did you want people to see it because you agreed with it or you disagreed? Cause frankly that garbage has no place on this site and is a stain on surlys good name.

[blacklab 12065]

ah, yes, pro censorship with ideas you don't agree with.

what I meant was more people should see turkelton is an idiot, and I think the thread showed how the board feels about people like him and posts like that.

but keep being you, smartest person in the universe and expert on all things message boards.

 

[Michael Knight 13231]

3 minutes ago, blacklab said:

ah, yes, pro censorship with ideas you don't agree with.

what I meant was more people should see turkelton is an idiot, and I think the thread showed how the board feels about people like him and posts like that.

but keep being you, smartest person in the universe and expert on all things message boards.

 

And you don't see how treating that blatantly political post differently than the other political posts and then amplifying its voice paints a disturbing picture and maybe sends the wrong message? This just highlights the difficult position you've put the mods of being the arbiters of political thought.

[Anastasis 23721]

11 minutes ago, blacklab said:

but keep being you, smartest person in the universe and expert on all things message boards.

He use to post pics of spectacular tits. 

[blacklab 12065]

21 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

And you don't see how treating that blatantly political post differently than the other political posts and then amplifying its voice paints a disturbing picture and maybe sends the wrong message? This just highlights the difficult position you've put the mods of being the arbiters of political thought.

Ah, ok, so you're in favor of removing all political talk from DT?

[Michael Knight 13231]

Just now, blacklab said:

Ah, ok, so you're in favor of removing all political talk from DT?

No, but if its consistent and fair I won't protest

[atomheartbevo 90651]

Can we all at least agree that aggy turning on each other, causing racist aggy examples to trend on twitter, and aggy going after the Sul Ross statue is one good thing to come out of the unrest?

Photo of the person(s) running the official TAMU twitter accounts right now.

[Sawbonz 28225]

1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

He use to post pics of spectacular tits. 

Thanks a lot Trump

[Nicole44 22315]

Fucking brilliant! 

[Chooky 13340]

5 hours ago, blacklab said:

yes, I probably should have moved it but I didn't think it was too partisan and I kinda thought more people should see it.

 

Just curious, what value did you think people would glean from that post?  And as far as partisan goes, are you familiar with the OAN channel?

[blacklab 12065]

 turkelton is an idiot

[Chooky 13340]

At best

[Cheeseweasel 26439]

12 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

When I was a naive kid during the Reagan years, and even a young adult volunteering for George W's gubernatorial and first presidential run, it was still fairly easy to believe that the people making policies had the interests of your typical Americans at heart.  Yeah, naive as fuck, I know.

You're old enough that you've figured it out & probably smart enough to distinguish truth from BS. One of the problems now is that we've created echo chambers (what news you watch/who you follow on social media) by which we get our information. Seems like we've created an abundance of people who are so set in their ways/ideas that any difference of opinion is treated as "conspiracy theory" "fake news" and instead of attempting to find the truth, we just insult the person and disregard their opinion (I'll admit that I've done it). I don't like where this is headed for our nation. We share too much in common to be torn apart by the minutia that doesn't matter. But that's what the politicians and the media want and many of us are too blind to see it.