You guys understand you're a joke, right? I mean you have your retarded peanut gallery of Liet, garamet, Dinner, Chardman and whoever else, who lap up your treacle. And you have your JohnCastle and (to a lesser degree) FederalFarmer that will play with you. And you even have 1 or 2 Loyal Opposition people like Paladin who use you as a sort of debate practice machine. But the rest of us just use you for a laugh. If we still come here at all, it is to push your buttons and watch you spin around in circles on the floor, like Curly, while shrieking "WHOOPWHOOPWHOOP!" Wordforge is dead. Hail Wordforge.
Sorry Fox, you're just going to have to live with the fact that not everybody agrees with you on politics. But then again, you're mostly a troll, not a very good one, but at least The Flashlight and John Castle think you're cool.
Yeah, pretty much nailed it. Probably the smartest member, evenflow, barely even bothers. Paladin and a couple other more sporadic posters carry the banner stoically but, mostly, seemingly perfunctorily. I stopped bothering like five years ago after over 5 years of fruitless more civilized search for a good argument from the left (I still tried about a dozen times following the subprime crisis). With the pair of drones Dayton and his left-mirror wordin, and then Castle and the other "writers" posting amazing volume of words correlated in direct inverse proportion to their content, it seems all the most prolific wordforgetypists have the least to say. The left wing circle jerk WF's devolved to is now generally uninteresting and not especially entertaining or amusing. Hard to sustain self on Oldfella clever quips, neonmosfet particular style and the 'return' of itinerent posters like shoes quest or prufrock; mostly gone are posts by the fascient, Ramen or the 'boose. And almost absolute zero of unique thoughts or comments worth checking in for. [Speaking of unique, ecky's back, but where's hood?]
I'm not sure precisely what Volpone's complaint is. He doesn't like the politics of the people who own the board? What specifically is wrong with the way they're running it?
Jackin it's cool, I like it too. But you can't let it be your whole life. You gotta work on sustaining youself solely through your own efforts for like a year. Baby steps. Maybe then you could find things to relate to others about besides playing with yourself, and everyone wouldn't have such pity or contempt for you.
On the topic of echo chambers, is WF more or less like Twitter? http://qz.com/179158/turns-out-twitter-is-even-more-politically-polarized-than-you-thought/ I have to admit, after being away for a couple of years, the complete reversal of political views being held by the majority is surprising. The board drama remains, however.
...and why is the gul portion of the persona so heavily channelling Baghdad Bob/Turd Axelrod? I mean, it is pathetic, watching him jump through hoops to justify the embarrassment of The Saviour, Obama.
I think he doesn't like being in the majority? I used to be one of the token liberals/moderates on the board, now I have nothing to say (because posting to say "yes, I guess I agree" is kind of boring). Which should mean that Volpone should have more to say?
The President controls a narrative. WF reflects that narrative. Leftie talking points is in, but won't be forever.
Yeah, I was surprised by that too, after being away for about 4 years. More surprising, is how ill prepared guys like Volpone were for the change. You'd think after years of being in the majority, he might have learned a thing or two from the minority. It's rather perplexing, that he'd choose to curl in to a fetal ball rather than engage. I guess it's a reflection of what he wanted from the minority when he was in the rep gang era of glory.
Not really. The then-minority, now-majority, was and continues to be fucking retarded. That's why you cunts were a minority in the first place.
Eh, it's not as raucous as it once was, but why should it be? We've all beat each other over the head, called each other a cunt and more, and we've grown together. Opinions have changed, mellowed in some areas, more entrenched in others. Things grow, change. Those that don't die. Christ, if I want to want to do nothing but argue and snark, I'd get married.
Yawn. Honestly, IMO, the ownership of the board--whatever it happens to be at any given moment--doesn't amount to a hills of beans when it comes to the day-to-day functionality of this board. I mean, unless they go apeshit with changes or rules or whatever--which no one really ever does--what impact is there? Calling them a "joke"--whomever they happen to be currently--just reflects upon how finnicky Volpone has become, that he thinks any notices that kind of crap. (I do like the upgraded softward, though).
How was the decision made for Anc & Gul to be the public faces of the new ownership cartel? I doubt half the board would have jumped ship if evenflow was front & center. And Tex - what the hell has happened to him? Totally disappeared. I think Flow & Tex need to step forward and engage in some massive damage control.