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04-20-2019 , 07:27 AM
Bundy literally erect right now. Amazing how sad dude's life must be.
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04-20-2019 , 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by bundy5
You had your warning when Mason intervened and gave you a second chance. He didn't even have to do that. The powers at be for that forum didn't do enough with that chance and at the end of the day they are the ones that need to answer for this.
This is so hopelessly stupid but I have been committed to making an effort to maintain my composure lately in my communications.


The warning was a seeming attempt to lower the vitriol and nastiness in politics forum. To my knowledge all but maybe one or two outliers agreed we could do better. Jman made a moderation thread and issued bans. Posts were to be flagged and removed and bans issued if they went over the line. To my knowledge, there was no communication from management to the mods or users that this system was still failing.


Then to shut it down, with no banner, announcement, post, or whatever - is shockingly bad. I only see this post:

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Originally Posted by Mat Sklansky
i'm not going to address this much tonight and i did this without mason knowing, so it may be overturned. but if it is overturned i won't have anything at all to with the politics forum.


the topic really has no business here, especially as a feature. it can remain in existing forums/ threads until i get complaints. most likely the whole topic disappears from the site. if that kills the site, fine.
Which is buried a few pages back and I didn't even see it. If this is the attitude about their site, fine. Are you guys willing to sell it?
04-20-2019 , 07:33 AM
these commie tears are delicious
04-20-2019 , 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by bundy5
But not enough for him not to be the Republican nominee for 2020, huh?
It should be enough and would be if America had any honor left but we have very little of that or dignity. So yes he will be the nominee and have a good chance of winning. At least you can take your joy from others pain though. So you got that going for you.
04-20-2019 , 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by jmakin
David, I say this because I respect you a fair deal. So please take what I am about to say in this light, ok?

From a logical perspective this is just terrible business. I literally have had a guy hounding me for consulting right now, and him and his business partners for a website startup (it's already generated a few million in funding) is basically a website that would work like the politics forum, but monetized. What I've given him for advice is basically the ideas that have made the politics subforum so successful. There is a lot of noise vs signal these days. It's so bad that I literally cannot trust a single thing I read. The politics forum, filled with mostly very intelligent people, kind of worked together to crowd source the noise and get to the signal only. It was invaluable to me and I would definitely pay for this service as I'm sure others here would too. So, even if this subforum does not align with your current business model - whatever that may be - there is clearly SOME positive value to it that outweighs whatever negatives you claim to see.

If you think it's really bad for your business I think this is disingenuous. What it feels to me is that you and Matt have your fee fee's hurt about people calling Nazi's nazis. That is honestly what it looks like and I'm having a hard time coming up with any possible alternate explanation.

I have no doubt you're going to lose several mods and more than a few posters over this. In a website that has clearly been dying for years I cannot possibly see how nuking a strong community can be ideal for you unless you honestly have just stopped caring about the business. Honestly, if it weren't for my blog, I'd peace out. This is really dumb and I hope not permanent.
why are you addressing this to me. and why did that other poster ask me about rosie and trump the man who mocked the disabled reporter. does no one actually read my words?
04-20-2019 , 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by BOIDS
ppl gonna talk politics whether there's a politics forum or not.

if the foum was perma shut down (which clearly it is not, see you in there on sunday (not you bundy as you are banned due to holding racist views)) you'd just get politics discussion popping up everywhere else. including in this thread, right now
You realise that is a myth don't you?
04-20-2019 , 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by PokerPlayingGamble
these commie tears are delicious
There arent any commies in Politics so you are drinking something else. Probably bitterness.
04-20-2019 , 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
why are you addressing this to me. and why did that other poster ask me about rosie and trump the man who mocked the disabled reporter. does no one actually read my words?
You said people who call others ugly deserve to die. Trump called Rosie ugly, beast, slob, fat, etc. I ask if you think he deserves to die. Don't play dumb.
04-20-2019 , 07:48 AM
I guess someone put up a ProBoards or something. I'd do it but honestly I'd probably waste a lot less of my life if the politics forum didn't exist.
04-20-2019 , 07:52 AM
No issues with you coming to mine but you'll have to deal with me as administrator
04-20-2019 , 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
why are you addressing this to me. and why did that other poster ask me about rosie and trump the man who mocked the disabled reporter. does no one actually read my words?


Yea, coming from my professional background I guess it was kind of silly to me to expect the owners of a website to be in agreement or on even remotely the same page about something, especially when you share the same last name.

I addressed to you because like I said I respect you and you have always seemed more willing to discuss things honestly than Matt. And matt stated he wasnt going to talk about it. But, clearly I was wrong. Noted.
04-20-2019 , 08:13 AM
WTF?

Wasn't around, do I have the timeline correct?

- Vaya makes a post with some unflattering comments about Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the Mueller thread.
- Mat comes in and demands that Vaya be perma-banned (could he not have done that himself?) or the politics forum will be shut down.
- A few people mildly troll and/or push back on this threat.
- Before waiting for the politics mods to take any action on any of the posts, Mat shuts down the politics forum.
- This whole sequence took less than 45 minutes.
04-20-2019 , 08:18 AM
that’s about it.
04-20-2019 , 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by MrAdvantage
Is this how censorship started in Nazi Germany? I don’t think I’ve ever received an infraction in politics. I get my news there . I get to hear from other people as frustrated as I am w the state of our nation , and world for that matter.

Is this because the forum s anti trump?
It's def due to being anti trump and liberal. Dunno about the nazi stuff.
04-20-2019 , 08:28 AM
lol at anybody hoping for some sort of reprieve so Mat and Mason can keep treating them like ****.
04-20-2019 , 08:30 AM
There's no reason we can't link to it so people can read it for themselves is there? Apologies if it's not allowed for some reason

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/4...l#post55051018

Drama start at #1018
04-20-2019 , 08:30 AM
Don't think Mat should be in you blokes firing line as he is just the one carrying out the orders.
04-20-2019 , 08:33 AM
Link.


chezlaw you cant be on my spaceship if you cant link right.
04-20-2019 , 08:34 AM
lol
04-20-2019 , 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by batair
Link.


chezlaw you cant be on my spaceship if you cant link right.
Like 2 weeks ago Mat gave noted white supremacist Augue his own forum.

In addition to being a garden variety deplorable, Mat just isn’t very bright.
04-20-2019 , 08:43 AM
So wait on a holiday weekend he gave volunteer moderators 30 minutes or so to respond to an ultimatum and when they didn't get there in time he just nuked the forum?

That's even worse.
04-20-2019 , 08:47 AM
Jman and Wookie are both good dudes and to treat them like that is way more inappropriate and over the line than some stupid comment about how ugly Sarah Huckabee Sanders is, btw. **** ain't even close.
04-20-2019 , 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by champstark
So wait on a holiday weekend he gave volunteer moderators 30 minutes or so to respond to an ultimatum and when they didn't get there in time he just nuked the forum?

That's even worse.
Kind of ironic when the moderators themselves give those kinds of ultimatums and with ridiculous timeframes to posters to respond to their questions, no?
04-20-2019 , 08:50 AM
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Originally Posted by bundy5
Kind of ironic when the moderators themselves give those kinds of ultimatums and with ridiculous timeframes to posters to respond to their questions, no?
Not surprising you are incapable of seeing the difference between these two situations.
04-20-2019 , 08:51 AM
It just seems such a cack-handed and juvenile way of going about things. Genuinely looks like it was done in a fit of pique because Mat felt his masculinity undermined and his ego required a He-Man moment.
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