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Great Rumbler

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Look, we all know that a big chunk of the forum has been pretty crap for a while now and we all know a big part of the reason for that. So, with that I'm mind, I'm doing some things that will be in effect for the next 3 months.

1. Several posters will be banned. [if you have someone specific in mind and are wondering if they're included, the answer is "yes"]

2. Off-topic is done. Nobody cares about NeoGAF and Reset anymore. If you see something interesting on reddit, post it in the meme thread. Otherwise, just chuckle to yourself and move on.  We will try the other forums thread in the members-only sub-forum.  Don't fuck it up!  http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48300.0

3. Maybe a few other minor things here and there.

This will be in effect for 3 months. If at the end of the 3 months everyone hates this and wants things to go back to how they were, I'll undo everything and leave the board for good.
« Last Edit: December 14, 2021, 06:53:32 PM by Great Rumbler »
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2021, 10:57:52 AM »
The crusades have arrived at the bore :o

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2021, 11:06:27 AM »
Explains the red dot that just appeared on my chest.

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2021, 11:08:13 AM »
 :'(

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2021, 11:11:32 AM »
pictured: thebore.com


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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2021, 11:12:11 AM »
:gaas
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2021, 11:20:24 AM »
 :existential

Great Rumbler

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2021, 11:23:34 AM »
Explains the red dot that just appeared on my chest.

I like you, Smokey, I'll ban you last.
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2021, 11:26:56 AM »
How about this weather?

paprikastaude

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2021, 11:27:49 AM »
My resetti consumption has definitely and thankfully decreased tremendously. Still I wouldn't have wanted to miss hilarious shitshows like the Cerium bail.  :doge  But I get it, the thread seems to have multiplied Nintex types and even I thought it was getting uncomfortable. :trumps

Great Rumbler

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2021, 11:31:12 AM »
My resetti consumption has definitely and thankfully decreased tremendously. Still I wouldn't have wanted to miss hilarious shitshows like the Cerium bail.  :doge  But I get it, the thread seems to have multiplied Nintex types and even I thought it was getting uncomfortable. :trumps

Something major like that is fine to have its own thread. We're just done with all the "haha look at this rando being hypocritical or stupid on another forum" posts.
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2021, 11:32:57 AM »
Rumbler I tried but i'm honestly too dumb to figure out who is banned.

Great Rumbler

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2021, 11:36:38 AM »
Rumbler I tried but i'm honestly too dumb to figure out who is banned.

Think about the people who post all day but haven't posted in here yet. There's your answer.
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2021, 11:37:06 AM »
These are thoughtful decisions. Sounds good to me.
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2021, 11:40:26 AM »
Just came to post in the shit thread and saw this.... stay safe fellow crackers  :goty2
Look we all know the potato guy is banned

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2021, 11:43:53 AM »
I like you, Smokey, I'll ban you last.
'preciate it. I'm also forwarding this post to my Mum because she thinks everyone hates me and I knew she was wrong.

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2021, 11:45:55 AM »
Rumbler I tried but i'm honestly too dumb to figure out who is banned.

Think about the people who post all day but haven't posted in here yet. There's your answer.

 :pika
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2021, 11:52:18 AM »
Rumbler I tried but i'm honestly too dumb to figure out who is banned.

Think about the people who post all day but haven't posted in here yet. There's your answer.

Are they like, gone gone or 3 months gone?

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2021, 12:08:47 PM »
Rumbler I tried but i'm honestly too dumb to figure out who is banned.

Think about the people who post all day but haven't posted in here yet. There's your answer.

If you banned benji, I will leak the sex tape

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2021, 12:18:31 PM »
This is smart. You're doing both those people and the community a favor even if it doesn't seem like it.

I won't name names, but I know for a fact that one of those people is severely mentally ill and letting them go unchecked here as a dominant personality does far more harm than good. Severing is the right choice and I truly hope they get the help they need
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2021, 12:20:20 PM »
Don't worry party Smoky I'm not banned.

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2021, 12:29:40 PM »
My resetti consumption has definitely and thankfully decreased tremendously. Still I wouldn't have wanted to miss hilarious shitshows like the Cerium bail.  :doge  But I get it, the thread seems to have multiplied Nintex types and even I thought it was getting uncomfortable. :trumps

Something major like that is fine to have its own thread. We're just done with all the "haha look at this rando being hypocritical or stupid on another forum" posts.

Not gonna step on your toes, but if people want that kind of thread back, it will go in the closed subforum, hidden away from everyone else who doesn't or no longer cares.  But only if it's agreed on.
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2021, 12:33:51 PM »
Don't worry party Smoky I'm not banned.
You know as well as I do that one of these days we’re going to have to work together to overcome some mild peril. You can just feel it in the air. I’m tentatively excited, though I’m apprehensive as to whether you’ll turn on me after our triumph.

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2021, 12:34:03 PM »
It was the “I’m gonna get rich because NFT” post, didn’t it?

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2021, 12:41:02 PM »
Is this some Discord shit?
Seems like all Bore drama is discord shit.


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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #25 on: December 14, 2021, 12:51:46 PM »
Is this some Discord shit?
Seems like all Bore drama is discord shit.



No, it's garbage posters being given too much free reign for too long and things need to change. Discord has nothing to do with it.
« Last Edit: December 14, 2021, 01:08:37 PM by Great Rumbler »
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« Reply #26 on: December 14, 2021, 01:29:57 PM »
Posting to see if i am still alive

edit: phew
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #27 on: December 14, 2021, 01:31:14 PM »
Posting to see if i am still alive

edit: phew

Same

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« Reply #28 on: December 14, 2021, 01:40:04 PM »
I got the final post

:snob
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2021, 01:43:27 PM »
came to the bore for the shit thread, stayed for the multiple breakdowns of friendships, also LOL, discord, I still get people messaging me saying I also left due to a certain poster in there  :doge

Also, whilst I add to the target on my back, fuckers like Shosta gloating over peoples bans is pretty fucked. Like just because the discord failed as you all failed to deal with the abuse that glenda dished out but couldn't receive isn't a victory, just what the fuck happened in discord? Also please delete my shit in there, which I know you hadn't done.
« Last Edit: December 14, 2021, 01:48:41 PM by Ghoul »

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #30 on: December 14, 2021, 01:50:21 PM »
Just came to post in the shit thread and saw this.... stay safe fellow crackers  :goty2
Look we all know the potato guy is banned
Nope. Still here.
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #31 on: December 14, 2021, 01:50:24 PM »
in my personal opinion I feel that it's important to have the ability to talk about such things, but maybe it doesn't need a dedicated thread, I feel like it could go in bad vibes where I'm sure a lot of people already don't go anyway

with certain people gone I'm sure a lot of things that would've been said about it would be reduced regardless

I know it's not a democracy and any subject that mods would want to ban is up to them, but I feel like this gets into territory where you're like, ok people (not even at era) are trying to cancel this game because the tits are too big, are we able to talk about that since it's adjacent? jason schreir has dug himself a real twitter hole this time, does this get a new thread somewhere? nft bros are being morons, oh wait now the people making fun of them are being morons

there's always something weird going on and I'm not sure what's too "era adjacent" and what isn't, and I don't like the idea of having to be on tiptoes or risk being banned

if you'll just close topics you don't like that's fine

I don't even know if I would be posting about these things, I honestly found the thread to be a good internet news source in general
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #32 on: December 14, 2021, 01:55:46 PM »
Is this finally a safe space?

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« Reply #33 on: December 14, 2021, 01:55:55 PM »
the shit thread should have stayed in the "secret forum" there for those who want it, and out the way for the rest.

I get that it brings a vibe from certain posters just shitting the place up, but I think a single thread is far better than multiple "lmao, look at this dork" - then mod locks

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« Reply #34 on: December 14, 2021, 01:58:55 PM »
Is this finally a safe space?

No safe spaces here chum only love dumpsters.  :cody

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« Reply #35 on: December 14, 2021, 02:02:44 PM »
also for me it wasn't all "point and laugh" in a mean-spirited way, it was sort of a thread to respond to all the weirdness from across the internet, because you can't or won't respond to their face, not because you're being abusive but because you're trying to be thoughtful/reasonable in a place where reason isn't welcome

kind of work through how I feel about shit but also have transhumans and such steering back to not going too far, and all that
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #36 on: December 14, 2021, 02:04:17 PM »
came to the bore for the shit thread, stayed for the multiple breakdowns of friendships, also LOL, discord, I still get people messaging me saying I also left due to a certain poster in there  :doge

Also, whilst I add to the target on my back, fuckers like Shosta gloating over peoples bans is pretty fucked. Like just because the discord failed as you all failed to deal with the abuse that glenda dished out but couldn't receive isn't a victory, just what the fuck happened in discord? Also please delete my shit in there, which I know you hadn't done.

You should come back. There's been literally no drama in there for months, and I think everyone, that certain poster included, would just move on like nothing happened.

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #37 on: December 14, 2021, 02:04:38 PM »
If you wanna talk about a specific thing mentioned on Re or Twitter, you can make a thread about it. As long as it's for actually talking about the issue and not just dogpiling, fine. But we're well past the point where it makes sense to have a dedicated thread for every stupid or hypocritical thing some rando on another forum says.
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« Reply #38 on: December 14, 2021, 02:09:08 PM »
in my personal opinion I feel that it's important to have the ability to talk about such things, but maybe it doesn't need a dedicated thread, I feel like it could go in bad vibes where I'm sure a lot of people already don't go anyway

I got rid of that thread, actually.  :P

the shit thread should have stayed in the "secret forum" there for those who want it, and out the way for the rest.

I get that it brings a vibe from certain posters just shitting the place up, but I think a single thread is far better than multiple "lmao, look at this dork" - then mod locks

I'm not against it being brought back and placed in there.  I think it makes more sense.

If you wanna talk about a specific thing mentioned on Re or Twitter, you can make a thread about it. As long as it's for actually talking about the issue and not just dogpiling, fine. But we're well past the point where it makes sense to have a dedicated thread for every stupid or hypocritical thing some rando on another forum says.

We had a single thread to keep all that shit contained, though.  I prefer that to multiple topics.  Again I think we should just have a thread in the private forum so nobody who wants to see that shit has to go there.
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #39 on: December 14, 2021, 02:17:35 PM »
A single thread locked away in the bowels of the forum and only accessible by registered members might be the way to go. We can try it out at least.
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« Reply #40 on: December 14, 2021, 02:19:47 PM »
Just came to post in the shit thread and saw this.... stay safe fellow crackers  :goty2
Look we all know the potato guy is banned
Nope. Still here.

:pika

Meanwhile, the forum's like-front feels kind of empty rn :thinking

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« Reply #41 on: December 14, 2021, 02:21:29 PM »
Rumbler I tried but i'm honestly too dumb to figure out who is banned.

Think about the people who post all day but haven't posted in here yet. There's your answer.

 :pika

if this is true I'll be the loser who sticks up for james

he made too many stupid threads but they were mostly harmless dumb goofs

I liked the james fund saga  :lol

unless I'm way out of the loop I think any reputation he had was just memes  ???
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #42 on: December 14, 2021, 02:24:48 PM »
James made way too many pedo-adjacent jokes.
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #43 on: December 14, 2021, 02:26:33 PM »
Rumbler I tried but i'm honestly too dumb to figure out who is banned.

Think about the people who post all day but haven't posted in here yet. There's your answer.

 :pika

if this is true I'll be the loser who sticks up for james

he made too many stupid threads but they were mostly harmless dumb goofs

I liked the james fund saga  :lol

unless I'm way out of the loop I think any reputation he had was just memes  ???

Almost like these dumb arbitrary decisions are based on personal vendettas or something when literal nut jobs like cindi are still stinking up the place  :society
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #44 on: December 14, 2021, 02:28:43 PM »
nintex, james and filler died so Cindi could run, stumble and call out all women for being cunts.

Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #45 on: December 14, 2021, 02:30:47 PM »
nintex, james and filler died so Cindi could run, stumble and call out all women for being cunts.

Don't forget blaming feminism and a bunch of overt covert comments about women dressing conservatively.

So many red flags.
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« Reply #46 on: December 14, 2021, 02:32:40 PM »
nintex, james and filler died so Cindi could run, stumble and call out all women for being cunts.

Don't forget blaming feminism and a bunch of overt covert comments about women dressing conservatively.

So many red flags.

I blame youtube personally. How could they get away with this?

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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #48 on: December 14, 2021, 02:38:50 PM »
James made way too many pedo-adjacent jokes.

ok do not chalk me up as sticking up for a pedo then :jeanluc
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« Reply #49 on: December 14, 2021, 02:39:14 PM »
A single thread locked away in the bowels of the forum and only accessible by registered members might be the way to go. We can try it out at least.

Here is the the other forums thread, take...25?

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=48300.0
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« Reply #50 on: December 14, 2021, 02:42:10 PM »
James made way too many pedo-adjacent jokes.

Just read that disgusting comment he made to zomgee after his divorce offering to "comfort" his 24 year old daughter. Absolute filth.

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« Reply #51 on: December 14, 2021, 02:43:20 PM »
James made way too many pedo-adjacent jokes.

Just read that disgusting comment he made to zomgee after his divorce offering to "comfort" his 24 year old daughter. Absolute filth.

This.  He would have been gone already if I saw that last week.
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« Reply #52 on: December 14, 2021, 02:46:16 PM »
Lmao preferring women to dress conservatively is a red flag. Fuck off. Loving the liberal tears. Reminds the streets of New York. Do I see a rainbow flag in the bore logo? Liberalism truly is a cancer.

Oh noooo someone think of the feminism. Lol
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Re: State of the forum, where we go from here, and a short experiement.
« Reply #53 on: December 14, 2021, 02:47:32 PM »
James made way too many pedo-adjacent jokes.

Just read that disgusting comment he made to zomgee after his divorce offering to "comfort" his 24 year old daughter. Absolute filth.

check DM :D but yeah the Zomgee thing was awful, as well as when he wanted the underage pics from some girl that other fucking weirdo "attempted to date"

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« Reply #54 on: December 14, 2021, 02:48:24 PM »
Lmao preferring women to dress conservatively is a red flag. Fuck off. Loving the liberal tears. Reminds the streets of New York. Do I see a rainbow flag in the bore logo? Liberalism truly is a cancer.

Oh noooo someone think of the feminism. Lol

fuck off back to youtube. OHHH WAAAHMANN PLS NO ANKLE.


YA girl is a Mormon

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« Reply #55 on: December 14, 2021, 02:53:20 PM »
 :awesome
« Last Edit: December 14, 2021, 03:00:23 PM by bork »
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« Reply #56 on: December 14, 2021, 02:54:40 PM »
TIMU > HIMU

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« Reply #57 on: December 14, 2021, 02:57:02 PM »
:awesome
« Last Edit: December 14, 2021, 03:00:34 PM by bork »
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« Reply #58 on: December 14, 2021, 02:57:58 PM »
Lmao preferring women to dress conservatively is a red flag. Fuck off. Loving the liberal tears. Reminds the streets of New York. Do I see a rainbow flag in the bore logo? Liberalism truly is a cancer.

Oh noooo someone think of the feminism. Lol

OK, time for a walk in the park.
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« Reply #59 on: December 14, 2021, 03:00:52 PM »
This thread got weird  :fbm