thebookofkevin wrote:do you guys remember cum?

leave the bees alone, and the bees will buzz away.[/url]

and here i thought cum had been banned...

Scott, sorry, toomanyhelicopters,

I know you're just playing the role of friendly cop, but if you remember, when this board started, you were the original troll. You posted so goddamn much no one knew what to think about it. Not to mention that half the shit you would post was beyond ridiculous that no one could figure out if you were serious or if you were so goddamn high that you didn't know any better. Some of them/us still don't.

I realize that some "people" on here have differing opinions from "the norm", and I also realize that some people don't know how to behave themselves on what is essentially an anonymous message board, but what we all must keep in mind is this:

IT'S AN ANONYMOUS MESSAGE BOARD!!!

It could be gone tomorrow. No shit. So, stop freaking out. You only make things worse. Reactionary attitudes and defensive stances serve no purpose in this arena. No one is going to hold you accountable for what you say here, especially when everyone has a made-up handle.

You want ChaosMaster banned, fine. I'll look into it. But it does absolutely NO GOOD to freak out about it.

God Bless You.

toomanyhelicopters wrote:

thebookofkevin wrote:do you guys remember cum?

leave the bees alone, and the bees will buzz away.[/url]

and here i thought cum had been banned...

not only that, but all of his posts and topics removed.

It's just creative writing. It is a joke, and it is a funny one. In the same way that Big Black songs are funny. I can also count threads I have seen by him on one hand. Like Russ said, it's a message board. Our buddy Walter says ridiculous stupid shit all of the time. MadChaosopher isn't genuine, but that is no reason to kick him off of the board. How many people do you know in real life that are genuine? There's something to think about.

My vote: He stays.

PS: Don't behave like a school-boy bitch and try and get people kicked out of the crew. (You shouldn't take that seriously, either. Just a message board. Though I believe people should be held accountable for what they communicate. Whether they speak or type they should always be responsible for opinions that they project. Just saying the impression you're projecting upon the rest of us is that of a 4 year old decrying his classmate to a teacher.)

I am in favour of banning persistent trolls, I am in favour of not replying to persistent trolls, and I myself would like to spend a lot less time on this board.

What am I doing here all the time?

In a word, procrastinating -- at least most of the time. So yeah, I vote shut the General Discussion and Crap/Not Crap forums down completely. Keep the Tech forum up and maybe one on baseball and/or gambling. I need salvation not from trolls, but myself. Help me help me. . . Ha, that's it: Russ, please ban me.

sorry russ, i'll shut up. done here. etc. if EA is cool with this website being full of "fuck niggers" and "fuck fags" talk, that's obviously your choice, and whether or not i or any number of other folks think that is shitty has no bearing on anything. it seems clear this shouldn't be my concern.

and hey, russ. i actually do take offense at your referring to my behavior when i first came here in the same light as the behavior of these folks. sure, i posted a lot then and still do now. i also sent PM's to you, Brad, and Tim, on multiple occasions, making sure i wasn't going too far. so if you think me posting a whole bunch, or me saying i don't like Killdozer, or i don't like the Velvet Underground, is the same kinda trolling as "fuck fags", "fuck niggers", then you're either not really thinking through what you're saying, or you got hit in the head with a large blunt object since the last time we spoke. and if you think i don't do more than troll for conflict by talking trash with like 90% of my posts, then that makes me sad, but that's really easy to get over, because i've made a lot of friends here and had a lot of people tell me how much they appreciate some post or another. and for some reason of substance, not because i said something so clever as "you uppity tards are about as funny as hemmeroids on a dead nigger fags corpse". i feel sorry for people who think that's commendable as remotely clever, even assuming it to be what it almost certainly is, generic trolling of the lowest form. if it's not trolling, if it's not meant to push buttons, then the guy who wrote that should be dropped into some fucking magma.

going to try and stop being so uppity now,

scott

sorry andrew, i will try and keep my posting down to a handful per month. actually i'll try and never post again, but i probably will find a couple spots irresistable.

TMH,

Aww, I can't stand to watch you sulk away all dejected like that so I will speak up: I have no problem with you! Don't get all self-pitying! It's hard to watch/read! I agree with Andrew (but I'll try to put it a little more gently)! I do see the issue with that one guy, but otherwise, don't worry so much! It's just an internet board!

So just chill out, ok?

Go have sex or something. EA is not worth getting this worked up about. I just noticed you're well over 4,000 posts. FOUR THOUSAND.

Connor

TMH (et al.),

This was originally going to be a private message to you, TMH, but I’m going to post it for all.

I don't really want to 'come down' on any side in this discussion as I honestly think the time I put into this board is kind of ridiculous and wasteful as it is (but hey, I don't have a teevee -- I don't even download The Daily Show anymore).

But, I do want to affirm you and your concern for the standards and dynamics of the board. I think the 'hey pal, chill out' kinds of responses you've gotten are, unsurprisingly, the product of people who care less about and have less invested in this board than you do. But that doesn't make their 'it's just an internet message board' dismissals true ipso facto.

This a discursive space where real people from a fairly diverse set of backgrounds and locales have congregated in language—yes, yes, willy-nilly disembodied anonymous words—not only to crack wise and talk nonsense, but to assemble as peers and get at some real things, some of which we might be unable to in the same way, off-line.

From personal health issues ranging from serious clinical depression to hearing loss, tobacco and cigarette addiction and dietary issues, etc, etc, users of this board have actually, genuinely contributed to the well-being and betterment of each other’s lives.

Through EA, many of the nine-to-fivers among us have surreptitiously been introduced to songs, stories, and glimpses of individuals and lives in the course of what may otherwise be dreary shifts devoid of laughter and spirit.

This board was an important place for shared memories and sentiment in the real, lived grieving process(es) of those who loved, knew, or merely knew of Michael Dahlquist.

The existence of this board has resulted in the meeting of two people who have since committed to spending their lives together, to getting married and (I presume) raising one another’s children as their own.

This is not so easily dismissed as 'internet retards being retarded.' No one familiar with TMH’s posts and my own would mistake us for peas of a pod - we've butt heads and dismissed one another on numerous occasions -- but I applaud his concern for the state of a community he has an emotional investment in. It is an admirable thing (And for some people this board is a serious crutch: Angriest_Dragon, god bless you, but what would you do if there were no EA forums? Your life would be radically different. Better or worse, I do not presume to know)

Yes, we are "internet retards." But we are also more than that.

So, the Astros and Cards tomorrow... that should be great!!