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ray_afraid said:

You are NOT Bud-Light. You are a well crafted brew. And while it can be depressing seeing those lame blue cans fly off the shelves while you sit and wait, remember that those cans are going home with terribly boring people with horrible taste.

I love this analogy. 😃

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I had a nose hair that was being particularly bothersome and, since it was just the one, tried to take care of it with scissors instead of my electric trimmer.

…I may have mildly Chinatown’d myself. Ouch.

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ChainsawAsh said:

I had a nose hair that was being particularly bothersome and, since it was just the one, tried to take care of it with scissors instead of my electric trimmer.

…I may have mildly Chainsaw’d myself. Ouch.

well that really sucks.

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ray_afraid said:

Alien: Covenant already looks to have all of Prometheus’ problems. Why are all these scientist/explorers going into the unknown without protective suits? The trailer shows that they get infected by something bad through their unprotected ears and then cuts to people saying “we have no idea what’s out there.” Stupid.

Resurrecting (hah) this to say I thought Covenant was much worse than Prometheus.

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Drank too much mocha today, got myself a caffeine headache. Thank God I finally ran out of the stuff.

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DuracellEnergizer said:

This past year has seen this forum turn to ass.

Off Topic has been ass for years.

The rest of the forum is fine.

Different strokes and all.

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Jay said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

This past year has seen this forum turn to ass.

Off Topic has been ass for years.

The rest of the forum is fine.

Different strokes and all.

so then maybe leave off topic alone… just saying.

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Jay said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

This past year has seen this forum turn to ass.

Off Topic has been ass for years.

The rest of the forum is fine.

Different strokes and all.

It starts to get better every now and again and then you start posting in it again.

Yes it’s obviously had hiccups here and there with people crossing the line, but nothing about it has sucked more than the times you’ve been active in it. You are such a fucking baby. And off topic sucks because of you.

I will agree the rest of the forum is fine though.

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dahmage said:

Jay said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

This past year has seen this forum turn to ass.

Off Topic has been ass for years.

The rest of the forum is fine.

Different strokes and all.

so then maybe leave off topic alone… just saying.

Hard to argue things weren’t more enjoyable here when off topic was unmoderated and we were allowed to have silly fun threads without fear of an admin locking them for seemingly no reason other than he can’t handle some joking criticism.

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DominicCobb said:

dahmage said:

Jay said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

This past year has seen this forum turn to ass.

Off Topic has been ass for years.

The rest of the forum is fine.

Different strokes and all.

so then maybe leave off topic alone… just saying.

Hard to argue things weren’t more enjoyable here when off topic was unmoderated and we were allowed to have silly fun threads without fear of an admin locking them for seemingly no reason other than he can’t handle some joking criticism.

Unmoderated Off Topic was a caustic shithole that turned new members away.

You guys lived and breathed it for so long that you didn’t see it.

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Jay said:

DominicCobb said:

dahmage said:

Jay said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

This past year has seen this forum turn to ass.

Off Topic has been ass for years.

The rest of the forum is fine.

Different strokes and all.

so then maybe leave off topic alone… just saying.

Hard to argue things weren’t more enjoyable here when off topic was unmoderated and we were allowed to have silly fun threads without fear of an admin locking them for seemingly no reason other than he can’t handle some joking criticism.

Unmoderated Off Topic was a caustic shithole that turned new members away.

You guys lived and breathed it for so long that you didn’t see it.

Right, moderated off topic is now incredibly inviting to new members.

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snooker said:

His point

Your head

Not at all.

Old Off Topic treated new members like shit and drove them away with its grade school-like hazing. It was only silly and fun if you fell in line with the humor of the in-crowd; it was miserable for you otherwise.

And a lot of that behavior spread to the rest of the forum. New members would show up and get called out for asking questions or just trying to fit in. That attitude was perpetuated by many of the members who spend most of their time in this section and who label themselves as oppressed today.

The General Guidelines were written specifically to deal with that behavior.

Most of those leaving today—voluntarily or otherwise—contributed to that environment.

Any memory of Off Topic in the last 8 or so years as a warm, fun, silly place is rose-tinted and not reflective of reality, and anyone leaving today because “this place sucks now” is merely getting a dose of what they fed to other members for so many years.

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DominicCobb said:

Jay said:

DominicCobb said:

dahmage said:

Jay said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

This past year has seen this forum turn to ass.

Off Topic has been ass for years.

The rest of the forum is fine.

Different strokes and all.

so then maybe leave off topic alone… just saying.

Hard to argue things weren’t more enjoyable here when off topic was unmoderated and we were allowed to have silly fun threads without fear of an admin locking them for seemingly no reason other than he can’t handle some joking criticism.

Unmoderated Off Topic was a caustic shithole that turned new members away.

You guys lived and breathed it for so long that you didn’t see it.

Right, moderated off topic is now incredibly inviting to new members.

The only “new member” who’s had difficulty recently is Collipso, and it should be obvious why.

You can point the finger at me all you want; it doesn’t erase the fact that for years you guys ran Off Topic like it was your private club and membership was based on your approval. That ended a while back and some of you have been salty ever since.

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All I know is that the seemingly nonsensical locking of the ot.com debate thread seem to be the flashpoint.

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snooker said:

And you’re innocent of these crimes?

Of hazing new members and treating them poorly? Yes. I only dealt with new members harshly when they were obviously trolling. If anything, I usually gave them too much leeway and the other mods would bring it to my attention asking if we should intervene.

Collipso posted on an issue right after I warned everyone that the next post would result in a ban, then when I unbanned him a few days later, he PM’d me to call me an asshole, and I let it drop. Pretty sure that’s the harshest treatment I’ve administered to a new member.

I’m not sure what “crimes” you’re referring to other than that.

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Jay said:

DominicCobb said:

Jay said:

DominicCobb said:

dahmage said:

Jay said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

This past year has seen this forum turn to ass.

Off Topic has been ass for years.

The rest of the forum is fine.

Different strokes and all.

so then maybe leave off topic alone… just saying.

Hard to argue things weren’t more enjoyable here when off topic was unmoderated and we were allowed to have silly fun threads without fear of an admin locking them for seemingly no reason other than he can’t handle some joking criticism.

Unmoderated Off Topic was a caustic shithole that turned new members away.

You guys lived and breathed it for so long that you didn’t see it.

Right, moderated off topic is now incredibly inviting to new members.

The only “new member” who’s had difficulty recently is Collipso, and it should be obvious why.

You can point the finger at me all you want; it doesn’t erase the fact that for years you guys ran Off Topic like it was your private club and membership was based on your approval. That ended a while back and some of you have been salty ever since.

I actually wasn’t much of a frequent poster in off topic until around the time it became moderated, but when I was new here I always appreciated the goofiness that populated the section. So you lumping me in with this nefarious “you guys” generalization is not just condescending, but inaccurate. Not to mention most of the “hazing” you’re talking about was limited to the myspleen thread, which you locked anyway. But you’re free to make up whatever you like to justify your reasoning, it’s your site of course.