State of the Board

[zoogs]

censorship/stifling dissent/Hitler/etc

This is getting kinda crazy. The people who were initially banned weren't shown the door for having different opinions. They were shown the door for showing no interest in complying with requests to better handle their disagreements with other members. (Of course, you may disagree with that determination, but it's not like this was a first incident with any of those guys, either.)

I don't know that anyone has ever had a ban lifted, but personally, I think a few of them (and their posts) are rather at home on Twitter these days.

Obviously that's not really a catch all for everyone who was banned, some of whom I wish were still around, but I suppose that those members left no choice.

I don't know, I hope we've done a decent job of answering questions and concerns about this. Keep them coming, although understand that the bans themselves aren't really up for referendum (as they never have been).

 

[rawhide]

Wow, so this is what it feels like to be on the other side. Not having to listen to the sound of the tinfoil rubbing on my head.

I like being on this side of the tinfoil conspiracy conspirators.

 

[walksalone]

I guess this what I don't get...

It's been weeks since the "Purge" and people are still bitching about it. Build a bridge, get over it. If them still being banned is such a problem, then get your sh*t together, and go start a new board. The whining and crying about it has run it's course...

Man the f*ck up or GTFO...

 

[walksalone]

Do you know who else liked to stifle dissent?

Hitler.

George Orwell called, he wants his sh*t back...

 

[walksalone]

The names I'm familiar with didn't go bonkers on the public board.

and those are the names that are obviously still here...

Uh, no. I'm talking about the names among the banned.

If them being banned is such a problem for you, go on a hunger strike on Knapp's doorstep until you get your way or he gives you some rice.

Either way, you're wasting a lot of f*cks on this silliness...

 

[Redux]

Maybe the reason things have been slow around here, and Im just spit ballin here, is because its the offseason.

Maybe Mavric is making a lot of threads because we recently had singing say and we are now beginning spring practice.

Maybe the woodshed is slower because of the aforementioned offseason AND because a banned poster or two made such a stir they were the focal point of the dirty sub forum.

 

[StPaulHusker]

Maybe the reason things have been slow around here, and Im just spit ballin here, is because its the offseason.

Maybe Mavric is making a lot of threads because we recently had singing say and we are now beginning spring practice.

Maybe the woodshed is slower because of the aforementioned offseason AND because a banned poster or two made such a stir they were the focal point of the dirty sub forum.

Never heard of singing day. Is this where all of the athletic departments enter an a cappella competition? That would be sweet.

 

[Redux]

I would watch that

 

[The Dude]

This place certainly has less of a community feel to it now. It seems more like a comments section where the narrative is well-controlled and censorship runs rampant.

bullsh#t it does. Community is what you make of it. If you need other members to make you feel like you belong then you're not trying hard enough to contribute.

I'm don't know what you're talking about, I guess.

 

[StPaulHusker]

This place certainly has less of a community feel to it now. It seems more like a comments section where the narrative is well-controlled and censorship runs rampant.

bullsh#t it does. Community is what you make of it. If you need other members to make you feel like you belong then you're not trying hard enough to contribute.

I'm don't know what you're talking about, I guess.

He's saying you don't need other people to be part of a community. Just contribute harder. Makes sense to some people, I guess. Just give him a few more posts to explain to you how you should feel about things. He's good at that.

 

[The Dude]

Yeah, I didn't even mention the bannings. I was offering my opinion on the state of the board.

You seem to be the one hung up on the bannings.

 

[NUance]

Do you know who else liked to stifle dissent?

Hiter.

And my wife. But that's a whole other discussion

Does she also have a small mustache? Inquiring minds want to know.

/ Just to be clear, I'm talking about a *face* mustache.

 

[StPaulHusker]

If Blitzfirst didn't see a drop off in conversation from the people that were banned or left on their own accord then he is typing just to read his own posts.

 

[StPaulHusker]

Do you know who else liked to stifle dissent?

Hiter.

And my wife. But that's a whole other discussion

Does she also have a small mustache? Inquiring minds want to know.

/ Just to be clear, I'm talking about a *face* mustache.

Yes with an if or no with a but

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

Just to be clear, I was in no way comparing Board Administrators to Adolph Hitler.

That would be ludicrous.

It's more of a Joseph Goebbels thing.