dahmage

possessed is a cool cat

some guy created one and posted about it only a week or two ago, but i can’t seem to find it. probably deleted

i think we solved this problem as of today.

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.

Jay said:

Possessed said:

dahmage said:

snooker said:

I miss Frink.

yeah. there are some really stupid decisions being made.

Be careful, disagreeing seems to get you banned and topics locked these days.

No, being a snide troll and a constant pain in the ass does.

https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1250734/action/topic#1250734

The political threads haven’t been permanently deleted and I haven’t decided what to do with them yet, but I guess it’s best to throw a tantrum and post a bunch of conspiracy-laden garbage about an admin trying to cover up his mistakes, then follow it up by going after oojason in his Sport thread because you’re still seething over your previous ban.

A member can make my job more difficult only for so long before it becomes easier to ban them and shutter threads than continue to deal with the nonsense.

there is always more than one side to every issue.

Possessed said:

dahmage said:

how are you doing

I’m okay. Stressed out from work and bummed that this place has become what it has become. Yourself?

uh yeah, pretty similar.

glad its the weekend (Almost). depressed that this place has turned into as much of a morass as washington DC has.

Possessed said:

dahmage said:

snooker said:

I miss Frink.

yeah. there are some really stupid decisions being made.

Be careful, disagreeing seems to get you banned and topics locked these days.

there is no point in trying to avoid the illogical.

how are you doing

Hello?

snooker said:

At least he died saving what he loves, not fighting what he hates.

haha. also, sad face.

snooker said:

I miss Frink.

yeah. there are some really stupid decisions being made.

yeah, that’s what when i buy movies, i buy the edition designed for plasma hdtvs.

here is some of it… but not all page are archived.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180402044949/http://originaltrilogy.com:80/topic/Politics-2-Electric-Boogaloo/id/53003/page/1

yeah i didn’t either, but here is proof: https://web.archive.org/web/20180313120726/http://originaltrilogy.com:80/announcement/Updated-OTcom-Forum-Rules-and-Guidelines-Applies-to-all-forums-including-Off-Topic/id/52717

TV’s Frink said:

I’d probably put everyone on my list just for the cat pics.

the pics will be so cute, that i couldn’t blame you.

The ignore feature is controversial feature, and rightly so imho. it is a heavy handed response to an issue, and it probably doesn’t actually solve anything, and only further isolates different viewpoints from each other.

What would be better is a feature that gets at the root of the issue, something that helps diffuse the tension.

You know how sometimes when you go to send an email, you get a warning ‘hey, it looks like you meant to include an attachment’, or ‘hey, you didn’t include a subject line’.

I propose a similar feature here.

• you add a user to your ‘avoid arguments’ list.
• all of those users posts are sligtly more opaque when browsing (subtle, enough to still read them, but visually de-emphasised).
• when you reply to one of their posts, you get some sort of “slow down buddy, remember you added this user to your ‘avoid arguments’ list because you often get into pointless arguments… is this really worth posting? here are some links to cute cat pics instead” warning.

This is a 100 percent serious suggestion.

that was my take as well, and if I am gonna be honest, i think it was ooJason’s take as well, which is double irony?

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Nice knowing you dahmage.

citation (apparently) needed

I insist on seeing a birth certificate. (Do they have those in n Canada land?)

My favorite debate rule is that there are limited times that the same person can reply.

What is your favorite debate style?

DuracellEnergizer said:

No Social Commentator

Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

DuracellEnergizer said:

dahmage said:

Warbler said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Recreational marihuana is now legal in Kanata.

I, for one, couldn’t care less.

Kanata? Where is that? I’ve never heard of Kanata before.

marihuana isn’t a thing either. DE was being phonetically artistic. the country is actually “Canada”

*ahem*

*second ahem*

Okay so I don’t know anything about Canada.

In my defense, no one does.

oojason said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Your signature, which appears beneath all your posts, may not contain … social commentary.

Seriously? WTF?

Think it’s been a rule for a couple of years now mate.

It’s hard to keep track.