What's TrekBBS?

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by 9nkit, Nov 16, 2015.

  1. gturner

    gturner Banned

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    No, I did a lot of the theoretical work showing that a one might be possible. The breakthrough was realizing that it wasn't a zero sum game.
  2. BeamMe

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    TNZ was fun years ago, when you could actually discuss topics and ideas without the conversation instantly devolving into character-attacks.
  3. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    were those geek boys mean to you? You go right back and tell them that the master troll of wordforge said you are cool and groovy and things like that. I am sure that will have a great effect on them. No really, I am serious. I actually want to see what happens.
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  4. Amaris

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    Um, TNZ has been that way for ages, and the Red Room is very much that way right now.
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  5. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Do it or I will go over there myself and do it for you.
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  6. BeamMe

    BeamMe Fresh Meat

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    It's nowhere near as bad... yet.
  7. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Don't worry I will give you some time to get your words ready.
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  8. BeamMe

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    Is there a name for what's wrong with you?
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  9. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    You are not getting what I am saying. I am giving you this moment to do this in the way you want to. I do not normally do that. I will grow bored and make a ruckus over there in your name. You are our cabin boy and we cannot have you being taunted by their rabble.

    However you might not wish to be the first shot of a fun little game with trekbbs. Perhaps you are not the type who can handle chaotic fame. So I will give you an out. Make a thread here to my greatness and I won't join you over there.

    Oh, and yes there is a name for what is wrong with me. I am the troll princess. Oh, and do remember you were the one casting stones at them, I just am going to make them hit their mark and get their attention.

    I am off for a bit to slip into the darkside of the moon. I will come back.
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  10. armalyte

    armalyte Unsafe for everyone.

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    TrekBBS got boring a decade ago. That's when the Trek fandom kinda died.

    Actually it's pretty boring here too but I kinda can't help myself from coming back over and over and over.
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  11. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Oohh, do you have links to any of those threads? Could be comedy gold!
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  12. armalyte

    armalyte Unsafe for everyone.

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    Actually I miss the Trekkies. I miss when it was a lively fandom. I wrote a post on tumblr about my thoughts on it...

    I got some amusing answers from some retards, too.
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  13. ed629

    ed629 Morally Inept Banned

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    Actually getting a promotion, assistant coach. Or not moving every 2-3 years due to your inability to keep a job.
  14. Martok

    Martok Fresh Meat

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    I will look around.
  15. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    So am I the only one here who is not a Star Trek nerd?
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    Get him, he's not of the body!
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  17. steve2^4

    steve2^4 Aged Meat

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    No, there is another...
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  18. armalyte

    armalyte Unsafe for everyone.

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    Basically if you have a user registry date of 2004 to 2005, you are certified nerd...
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  19. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    Welcome to Wordforge, btw.

    And thank you for comtriburing something other than bitching about TBBS right out the gate. We get a lot of the banned assclowns migrating over here (*cough* gturner *cough*) doing the same dumb shit that pissed off every one there, but you seem like you're legit. Thanls. :)
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  20. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    It's more accurate to say you're the only one left. TKO found this place while doing some research in high school and Meka from waaaaaay back in the day came across thing randomly on the Interwebz.
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    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    I got given a link to this place by Sultan Bergesh on another website that was so left wing I was considered too conservative. He said this place might be a better fit for me.
  22. Jenee

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    The question is, why do you care? This place is not the end all and be all of life. These people have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not your bills get paid, doesn't have anything to do with loving someone or being loved, they can't improve or deteriorate your health.

    This board is ... standing around the water cooler at work. It's entertainment when you have nothing else to do.

    This has absolutely nothing to do with your real life, so don't try to use your real life to prove the members of this board should like or respect you.

    If you want to ... "be liked" or "respected" on this board, change your posting style.
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  23. armalyte

    armalyte Unsafe for everyone.

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    Alright, @Jenee, I disagree.

    Whatever Dayton's political beliefs may be, and however much of a clown he is, he deserves the same level of integrity as anyone else on this board. This is the only way we can maintain an open discourse. If people were to fuck me over to the extent Dayton has been fucked over, for - well - being a Leninist? - I'd leave this place, but clearly, he is invested, and if we follow basic rules of conduct, there is no reason he shouldn't be.

    Violating the rules by posting off-board information in this manner is bad, but I have a certain amount of sympathy for him in this matter. If I understand things correctly - and please do correct me if I'm wrong, because I haven't followed the decade-long Dayton drama, since I am not invested or involved - then the grayzone behavior of some posters has actually hurt his personal life. This can't stand, not for a board that prides itself on open debate.

    Dayton shouldn't have to change his ideology in order to avoid real life attacks.

    So you get your first "disagree" from me, and if you can show me how I am mistaken, I will revoke it.
  24. gturner

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    You do realize that you're only a Leninist because

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    Subconsciously reminds you of these two:


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    Well, real leaders aren't bald.

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  25. armalyte

    armalyte Unsafe for everyone.

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    Yeah but Vladimir Ilitch was a really handsome guy.
  26. gul

    gul Revolting Beer Drinker Administrator Formerly Important

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    Nobody has done anything to Dayton in real life. Pretty much everything you've missed by ignoring it for ten years revolves around things he says here or said at TrekBBS, and people responding to it.
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  27. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    Dayton has not been harmed by anyone here IRL.

    *Someone* allegedly contacted a school where he once worked, but there's never been proof that the person who supposedly did it was or is a Wordforge poster.
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  28. gturner

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    Well hell, nobody can figure out who NotDayton is, so I reckon it would be pretty hard to figure out if someone from here made a call.
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    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Dayton has spent nearly fifteen years splashing every detail of his personal life all over the internet. He has no concept of risk or privacy. Plus, he's an idiot.
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  30. armalyte

    armalyte Unsafe for everyone.

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    Fine, I'll take you at your word. @Jenee, revoking now.