I was going to suggest the "Verrit.com authenticated Peter Daou fan thread" but then I remembered the last time we jokingly engaged a crazy person from twitter.
But to be serious for a second and repeat myself in part because I have been spending upwards of five minutes thinking about this since the whole discussion started and Cindi's ban thread exacerbated it.
I find value in the dumpster thread for multiple reasons. And renaming it to "other forums (GAF, Coli, ERA, SA, etc.) drama/dumpster thread" is somewhat of a throw back as we used to have more than just GAF in the title, I remember SA was a part for a while, and PD still posts Coli links probably once a month among other users. Something I don't have a problem with other than the fact that the place is so cac even I can't understand half of it.
And there's a confliction I have regarding my other idea which is my old admin instincts (no Momo) kicking in along with my protectiveness of this place now as I don't particularly like the idea but I'm trying to fish around for a solution. And that's a separate dumpster argument thread (GamerGate, social studies warriors, 2016 primaries, women voting, etc.) that probably shouldn't be stickied but is a place for people who want to continue to hash that crap out to go, that keeps them out of the forum thread which I agree should be way less serious than it has been over the last year or so, but I also disagree with deporting them whole cloth into the Politics thread because no matter what I do to that thread I consider it of a higher standard than to rehash all this stuff outside of something new coming along. For example, to use the closest thing to a legitimate politics argument, it's one thing when Hillary releases a book and has surrogates dredge up Bernie or he holds a big event or whatever and another when it's just the same posters dredging up that shit yet again off of some comment some other poster made. (Or Jack just being Jack.)
It may really suck as a thread but I think that a lot of people still need to work their way through some of that stuff, especially the social studies warriors boogeyman. Even venting probably helps.
Although I also feel Novid needs a stickied thread about this whole CIA psychops that goes back to George H.W. Bush in the 1970s that only he can post in. Because it'd be good to get this information in one place and protected from agents who have infiltrated the Bore simply to cast aspersions on his extensively fact checked and undeniable proof of an extensive conspiracy that the creation of Spacewar began.
I also don't really mind if you guys do decide to just cut the cord entirely, but again, no Momo, but the forum I modded and site/forum I was admin for both did see value from a garbage shittalking thread that'd be archived like you've been doing with the GAF thread, it didn't go entirely unmoderated really and people had to break things up sometimes, but it stopped what had been a problem of posters following each other around the boards fighting. One of the benefits to the GAF thread for many years was that new threads and posts would ensure that any arguments or debates wouldn't last long. I mean I personally was shitting up the thread about Tim Soret after reading the GAF thread and his waypoint interview and the total disconnect with what they were seeing from what he said, which I was basically done with but for examples sake had I continued that or other people started arguing with me or each other or whatever, just a few hours later GAF imploded and the only reason that subject ever came back in the thread was Soret's tweet asking who the real tea-drinking anteater was now. (Also I think I or someone else quoted a ResetEra post still pushing the narrative that his game was an anti-feminist tract rather than a post-scarcity one.)
To make this even more blech, I want to hop on the bandwagon that people saying "GAF is dead, get rid of it" don't really get the point of the thread versus the label. It wasn't about GAF really, GAF "dying" doesn't end what it existed for. The reason it was so GAF-centric and eventually was just called that is because it's the one thing that for the most part unites many of us, we all have ties to GAF sometimes of a decade or more, we know all kinds of people that were there, we know the mods, we knew more about the mods than the average user, we knew the users who posted fifty times a day and their garbage, we know histories of GAF including Evilore's history going back not because we're cataloging it as much as we've lived through it, and for the most part it was a handy quick active site to pop around for a few minutes and almost be assured of seeing something stupid that you'd post on the Bore because maybe someone else might get enjoyment out of it. Or you're trying to bait benji into posting in the thread, er I mean what, Vom would never do that. The GAF diaspora had always been limited to here and Saelent and nobody can navigate that site but ERA will pick up the same traits and GAF will sputter along for a while longer and maybe even bounce back some as juniors and such feel safe to start taking over. Like many of the people we've bitched about took over for some of us as we drifted from GAF.
tl;dr ban benji, free Creepy Stalker, icon evilore
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