The Problem With Wordforge as I see it.

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  1. gturner

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    But nobody has ever been able to show a lie. It's just more bullshit by histrionic juveniles.
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  2. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    There is a reason I like the spoiled princess attitude. I get I am not the smartest person in the world and am not always right. But IRL I constantly end up having to weed out my friends and acquaintances because of too many dicks. Just recently i was getting so mad when I got online, and it was clear that something was wrong. Well, I have a friend who is into brand names and she has a husband (They are swingers) who is a redneck fashion diva who has befriended a bunch of redneck racists and bigots. Now they are not overly silent about their style, but the redneck conservatards tolerate them because they are not like those other damn queers. And because they had friends who were not openly hostile I tried to not be openly hostile and respectful. So I was expected to not make political arguments because we were all being friendly, but then I had to tolerate the southern swastica and racist comments when black people were not around. It did not start out being all that much but eventually I had to go through the effort of culling all those friendships and I had to be really judgmental (For me) to one of my friends which I hate doing. I had to do it because I was seeing all this conservative bragging and propaganda and I would be the dick if I told them all off. So fuck em. I culled the friends list and told that friend i could not be polite any longer to her friends so I was leaving the area instead of punching them in the head.

    Online I like to spout out my opinion and argue it. That is what I come here for. I guess I would rather hang out with a bunch of open right wing conservatard assholes than to deal with censoring myself for the opinions of a bunch of touchy easily butthurt weaklings. I can have the Liberal deflector shield turned up to full blast here. I do not wish to ban their thoughts or piss on their parade directly, so I can wal away to other places. The moderators of this place presently have decided that weeding the dipshits is not necessary, and I want to fling poop around just like the rest at times so we have to put up with each other's poop. I like it that way. I do not wish to go some place which only allows certain types of poop to be thrown around, or only wants to let certain people throw the poop.

    That may be the problem with wordforge's popularity. I personally think it is advertising given the popularity of reddit and the chan's /b/ , but that is by design and I am cool with that. If things do change I will move on.
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  3. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    That's bullshit and you know it.
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  4. gturner

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    No, go back and revisit the multiple "gturner is a lying liar!" threads. It was a scream. I link it at other sites. It's the most epic failure of liberals I've seen in over a year. They ended up voicing their open support for Jim Crow, which is something I've not seen Democrats do in decades, just to defend Woodrow Wilson, their racist hero.
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  5. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Save that I'm not a liberal (I'm just not conservative by your standards either) and you are a liar, as has been proven more than once since that thread...and as you have just confirmed again in the Satanic thread I just posted.
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  6. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Do remember I self identify as a spoiled troll princess. Having a high opinion of myself comes with the territory. Though I would more accurately put my self opinion as magical girl, but that is not a common meme for americans so I use the next best alternative.
    Again, you are still like a dog. They pay attention to me about ten percent of the time also, and go about their world of finding stink patches and eating and smelling shit which is way more important than me to them. You are not really differentiating yourself from the dog in these areas. The only thing that seems to be different about you and the dog is that I do not need to feed you, walk you, or pick up your poop. Which I think we are both thankful for.

    When have I ever referred to myself as the sage of wordforge? You may get that idea because like the dog you look up to my superior nature and intellect, but in honesty I have done the spoiled princess thing, or if you want to be insulting to me the spoiled wannabe male princess. You know something like that, it doesn't really matter. You see I like to hear myself talk (metephore), and I think highly of my intelligence, and often lowly of other's intelligence. But i will admit to being flawed and not all knowing which is why I use the lesser rank of princess rather than queen or king or sage for that matter.


    Again, I freely admit that you endear yourself to me like dogs do. I do not really respect dogs, but i do see their purpose in the world and It do not have any open hostility towards them. You are cute in your ways, but I would not rely on you to do anything more important than licking your own ass.
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  7. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    :lol: Trying so, so hard.....
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  8. gturner

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    Well, then you'll have no problem linking the proof. I await it, as always, as I have been for years.

    :waiting:

    It's like being the Maytag Repair Man, or awaiting Christ's return. One day....
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  9. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    I already showed you the proof in that thread, namely the claim that member of the Detroit Satantic Temple were involved in crimes against humanity and the murder of 7 million people.

    Problem with you is that when you get proof, you just ignore it and then carry on pretending it doesn't exist. It's the same sort of revisionist delusion that Dayton engages in.
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  10. Quincunx

    Quincunx anti-anti Staff Member Administrator

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    People who see everything in terms of binary partisan politics?
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  11. gturner

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    And where the fuck did I claim that the people in the Detroit Temple had murdered 7 million people?

    Meanwhile, you claimed that Queen Elizabeth had ordered the execution of 2 million leprechauns.

    I have proved you did, but you pretend I haven't, because all you do is LIE, LIE, LIE!

    Those Leprechauns will be avenged, or something. No wonder new people don't post here. It's like joining an insane asylum.
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  12. Bickendan

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    I made a list! :polarslam2:
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  13. gturner

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    That segment was a bitch. Almost no WF members have a four syllable moniker, much less with a certain meter. I had to marry up gul and garamet because their just wasn't anything else to go with. I threw meter out the window and just went with rough syllable counts, and in places I had to throw those out, too. Poetically, the result is pretty much a near cluster fuck, but it perhaps serves as a retrospective setup to the punch line part once you read it backwards.
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  14. Dayton Kitchens

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    I think the accusation of liar is thrown around too freely here.
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    Well, the only ones I have ever offered it to are gtwat and occasionally you. Oh, and Castle when he pretends to be something he isn't, but he doesn't count because his fraud was long ago established beyond doubt.
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    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Oh we certainly gave Clyde a hard time, but it wasn't because he was on staff. It was because he became a complete trolling douchebag. Trolling staff members have always been here -- that wasn't the issue. We were just responding to Clyde as we would have responded to any other troll.

    Clyde did have an issue as a staff member, which was that he demanded people treat him better because of his position. He felt that he shouldn't be trolled back because it meant that people didn't respect his service to the board. That's why we fired him. He was a perfect encapsulation of the eliteforge concept. Staff are no better than anybody else. And they also have the same liberties as posting members of the board as everybody else. Clyde didn't understand the former point, Volpone doesn't understand the latter point.
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  17. Dayton Kitchens

    Dayton Kitchens Banned

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    And I've always resented mightily being called a liar just because I post something that I mis remembered from two decades ago.

    Human memory is not like a camera or a recording. It is deeply flawed. But I always thought that most people when they heard someone speak or post automatically knew it was an "if I recall correctly".
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  18. K.

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    Well, you're wrong. When you state something as fact, you are saying that you know, with reasonable certitude, that it is a fact. If you don't know that, then you're deceiving your audience.
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  19. Dayton Kitchens

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    Not the way I see it. I see nothing wrong with stating something as though you are 100% certain when in fact you're only 51% certain.
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    So you don't see why passing off 51 as 90 (not 100, with humans) is making a false statement, and doing so deliberately is called telling a lie?
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  21. Shirogayne

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    First, Clyde went off the rails way before Lanzman sold the board. I wouldn't have cared, except for he'd pull his shit during official capasity, something that's gotten Listkeeper and Chris bounced amount others. I won't slam Lanz too much because I realize he was going through a tough spot in his life but I'm glad Anc and Co. kicked him off staff. :shrug:

    Second, I haven't had a problem with staff trolling in the RR since I was in college, and that was a long damn time ago. I do have a problem when it's in the HD and people have legit issues (such as a moderator changing a thread title because, morality) and get called shit stirrers for that.

    Anc wasn't perfect, but you can at least count the number of board drama she was a part of with one hand. Compare that with Elwood preemptively banning his ex's boyfriend or Tamar coddling her many pets like Ted Wolf and Eccentric. Yeah, I don't excuse Discouragementgate but I'll take it over goddamn Meka.
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  22. Dayton Kitchens

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    I seemed to have not noticed lots of the board drama involving staff members for some reason.
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    No I do not.

    Incidentally, I've been told in the past both at this board and other places (including real life) is that is in part one reason that I make people angry and they tend not to likely.

    I've been told that I speak and write with an indication of absolute certainty. As though there is no room for argument or dissent.

    For some reason people seem to find it off putting.
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  24. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Interesting, so you are lying right in this post. Be that as it may, you linking it at conservative boards is a great idea. If we are as retarded as you claim, that will pull in some new members hoping to point and laugh at us. This hasn't happened, so either you've lied about linking, or your "friends" at those boards saw you get your ass handed to you and felt ashamed by any association.
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    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    I remember that passive-aggressive shit he pulled on Nick Walzac once where he kept moving his thread outta RR and into MC. I didn't think much of it because it was Nick and his history of wanting to be a special snowflake staffer is longer than the Harry Potter series, but looking back now it was definitely the beginning of his toolery.
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  26. El Chup

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    Clyde was a product of Lanzman, who believed you had to be superior when he decided, but in the end became the perfect example of a double standard.
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  27. El Chup

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    Do you not have the intelligence to know why that approach is disliked?
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    So to summarize:

    1) People who agree with me used to be able to bully, berate and shout down anyone who disagreed with us, but now they've gained enough numbers to fight back, so it's not fun anymore.

    2) Wordforge can't be taken seriously because there aren't enough threads about how Obama is the worst president in all of history!!! :drama:
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  29. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Here's a novel concept, if you are going to assert something as fact CHECK TO MAKE SURE BEFORE YOU SAY IT. Saying "I misremembered" isn't an excuse.
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    And almost all of them boil down to several things:

    -mods being condescending
    -letting egos get in the way
    -mods being too eager to "do stuff" because reasons
    -Tamar coddling her pets. Of the three reasons, this one was probably responsible for a lot of the early BS of the board.

    At least we can call out staff when these situations occur and 99 percent of the time no one will be punished for it.