I dont really know how to do this, so I will just come out with it and be done with it. I apologise for my part in what happened a while ago. And to anyone that had anything said to them while in the middle of it all. Id like to think Im a different person now and how no intention of arguing with anyone.
You people do not keep up with internet drama, and are therefore unpopular on teh internet. Goldeneye was one of the 2 people banned in the whole CheekyMonkey fiasco. There was a lot of drama over it because CheekyMonkey threatened to use her bf's account (Goldeneye) to reveal personal info. As a result, both were banned because they might have done something against board rules. Maybe WF should have an Encyclopedia Dramatica section.
I dunno, I've been here longer than people seem to realize. This is my... *counting*... almost fifth year. And I do recall the username Goldeneye.
Hmm, it seems you left in mid 2007. In terms of board dramas, a lot of it was garamet being a drama queen and people calling her on her dishonesty and shrill lies. On that, you didn't miss much, just more of the same usual bullshit. Other things you missed: - phantomofthenet the ultimate rep warrior, was driven off by a rep war alliance, according to some, but according to him, he had lost vision in both his eyes, and therefore couldn't retaliate, yet was outed as having a dual at TrekBBS, which posted regularly during this time. It is still debated to this day whether it was really rep war that drove him off, or blindness. Some people say the poster Dr. Manhattan is him, although in very neutered form. You can read about it here: http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=54645 http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=55590 - Nick, who was a technical admin in late 2007, got a Media Central thread moved, flamed in, closed, reopened, and finally ragequit the board when he got warned in his own thread. A 400+ reply thread ensued: http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=55430 - Around mid 2009, two posters, Starguard and Baba, were starting to really bring down the Red Room with all their bullshit spam and worthless threads. The tradition here had always been for the posters to police themselves, so several members got together and decided that not only would they neg rep these threads, but neg rep the posters who posted in them as a way to dissuade them from contributing to the problem. Of course, this went over as well as a fart in church. Not only that, but our two resident village idiots, Liet and 14thDoc, decided that they wanted to prove some sort of point, and started bumping Startard and Baba threads ad nauseum, ruining the board for everyone. Only a last ditch Kobayashi Maru workaround by Order2Chaos prevented the Red Room from being completely overrun with spam. It's the reason why, now, if you have someone on ignore, you can't even see the threads they start. You can read all about it here: http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=70313 - Jamey Whistler and 14thDoc had an ongoing rivalry, and continued to escalate things to provoke each other. Jamey found out 14thDoc's real life first name through various sources at TK, and decided to flaunt it by posting a banner of images depicting Ray Charles, Ray Ban sunglasses, and sting Rays in his sig. By themselves, these images didn't say anything. But 14thDoc, convinced that Jamey was revealing his personal info, complained to the admins about it and asked they ban Jamey for revealing his personal info. While the mods and admins were deliberating, he grew impatient, and started a Help Desk thread about it, revealing to everyone what the banner meant. Jamey was wrongfully banned as a result, even though it was himself that revealed his own name. Because of this, there was a mass protest, where a multitude of members used pictures of Rays in their avatars, to protest this very stupid ban. Lanzman PMed most of the offenders, and as a reply, the majority of them told him to go to hell and to just ban them if he was going to let one member dictate what we had in our avatars. Eventually, the right decision was made, Jamey was let back in, and people now refer to 14thDoctor by his real life name "Ray". Great entertainment all around: http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=71937 http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=71828&page=2 From Shelter: - And continuing on with the Ray hijinx, 14thDoc defends director Roman Polanski's rape of a 13 year old girl. http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=74767 - A lot of "Wordforge is dying threads that seem to devolve into leftists complaining about too many neo-cons on Wordforge, how it needs more balance, and how Sokar is ruining it all by continually butthurting liberals. - Mid 2009, Shepherd came out as a transexual. There was some teasing like here: http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=72183 but the majority of people seemed to give him support and understanding. He changed his name to Nova. - Jenna has some sort of meltdown in mid-2008 and quits the board. http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=64787 - Late 2008, Cass gets banned. The reason, she reveals KIRK1ADM's first name in retaliation for KIRK, in every thread, using garamet's first name as a troll. She hasn't been let back since, though she has asked Lanzman to reinstate her. I can't find the thread, but her last regular posting dates were Nov 2008. Those are pretty much the big ones. There were some minor ones in between, but the ones you need to study and read up on are listed above. I've been going through old threads this afternoon because my hockey game got cancelled, and I've noticed that a lot of people complain about how Wordforge is dying, and how only threads that talk about ourselves and/or board drama get any sort of responses going, but aside from some large board dramas, and a few minor squabbles here and there, the majority of threads here are about what this place was intended to be" a forum to discuss politics, science, religion, and current events.
Oh, and also a couple different people said a bunch of really naughty things. I have nothing to do with them, though. Or their staggeringly unprofitable naughty-ness.
It's pretty easy. Hit the "Replies" link on the main index in the Red Room ,and it'll sort all the posts by the number of replies. It's easy to pick out the biggest drama threads from there. I tried to find that one, but I think that was too far back. It doesn't show in the list.
Huh... I've never tried that before in all these years. That was pretty cool. Some of the craziest threads we've ever had just float right up to the top of the list. It also gives me great pleasure seeing how many times I've made PrickDeckard and Danny Boi cry.
Uhhh You mean how many times you've said things that people who agree with you by default agree with?
And I was correct. You are a retard, you have a playground mentality, and people have left because of you and your stupid clique 'rep warring'. Its pathetic, you actually think you're 'cool'. You would be,........ if you were 12.
Meh, fuck it. I'm tired of waiting for whatever your lame retort was going to be. In response... Like hell. That's a load of horse shit. I had pretty much nothing to do with any of the posters I had featured in my previous sig. They were all just a bunch of soft, whiney little bitches that couldn't hack it here because their skin was too think (aka 'liberals'). Oh, they certainly tried to last. Crying to the staff to get rules changed to protect them from being called on their dumb shit. Taking their discussions to the green room so their delictate little asses weren't exposed to the frustrations brought on by their idiotic claims or hypocrisy.`But they failed and ran away to places where they were protected from challenges to their superior world view. The reason you can't see that is because you're one of them. Only difference is you managed to stick around for some reason. You've even managed to make sense a time or two unlike your boyfriend Rick.
Actually, part of this is wrong. Cassandra has not asked to return which most likely at this point is the main reason she isn't back. She should e-mail Lanzman if she wants back in.
