Bannings
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I’m interested in more from this genre. What happened to MSB? Wrong answers only.
It’s pretty hard to top @Meg’s solve. YOU GOT ME. But.
My theory is that MSB was never real. It was a poorly designed and implemented AI chatbot. None of these posts are real. We are all glitching algorithms trapped in a recursive loop.
I wish the best of luck to anyone trying to top Meg.
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@Kestrel I once played on a game where it turned out multiple staff bits and most of the PCs were all the same person. #wearealljackson
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@helvetica said in Bannings:
@Kestrel I once played on a game where it turned out multiple staff bits and most of the PCs were all the same person. #wearealljackson
I literally flinched. GOD SAVE ME.
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MSB tried to invade the US and Patrick Swayze and some high schoolers defeated them
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I literally went through this thread upvoting @Meg, because I really needed something to do to burn down the timeclock before leaving.
I’ve done my good deed for the day.
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@helvetica said in Bannings:
@Kestrel I once played on a game where it turned out multiple staff bits and most of the PCs were all the same person. #wearealljackson
I still have a spreadsheet titled ‘Jackson’s Whole’.
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lol how does anyone manage that
sometimes I just spontaneously confess to being me without any prompting
and then person usually says ‘yeah, I already knew’
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lol lmao
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@Kestrel The wokes ruined MSB with their wokeness and all the power they get from being woke.
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@Kestrel Soviet invasion, but the United States still claim the victory was their own.
So the Space Race, just with internet forums and endless lewds (to which my invitation is sure to arrive any day now)?
Mummy Pun? MUMMY PUN!
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As the old ‘Those who are not welcome were those engaging in personal attacks’ line has been trotted out again, let’s actually look at what happened.
So. The bannings started after Gany’s post of 7:31pm on the 5th of May.
The first people to post was Karmabum stating they were not breaking any rules, and Gany should go back to pretending this isn’t happening. Result? Ban
Second is Snackness saying Karmabum was accurate and that she isn’t sorry for posting, as she isn’t in secondary school. Result? Ban
Tsar says it is obvious Gany doesn’t want convo, so why not lock the thread rather than ban people, critiqued Gany’s tone and suggested she step. away. Result? Ban
Arkandel posts mild criticism of Derp’s ability to admit he is wrong, and asked for clarification on points. Result? Not banned.
Meg posts that people didn’t deserve this, and begs Gany to unban and lock thread. Result? Ban. Later reversed.
Third-Eyed Crow suggests Anglo Saxon fornication to Gany. Result? Banned (Note: The first real “personal attack”)
Narson, the evil dipshit, states they are confused on why Arkandel isn’t banned for the fourth post after no talking. Result? Banned.
Sahin asks ‘Why?’ and posts a cat GIF. Result? Warning to ‘Don’t. Just Don’t’.
Arkandel posts asking what did he do in response to Narson. Result? Gany offers to PM with him.
Gany posts to Sahin and Arkandel.
Ifrit posts critiques Gany’s ‘Emotionless Cat Lawyer Boy’ persona, and suggests she has destroyed 10 years of community by not just stepping back, he then says goodbye. Result? Banned
Bear_Necessities repeats Third-Eyed Crow’s offer. Result? Nothing at this point (Note: Arguably the second real “Personal attack”)
Flyrannosaurus posts a gif of an M60 firing out of a helicopter. Resault? Nothing
Bear states they weren’t silenced and for Gany to stop and reverse bans. Result? Banned
Sahin says they won’t stop and asks for ban. Result? Banned.
DeletedUser posts gif of mass slapping. Result? Nothing
Herja points out the hypocrisy in this action compared to Derp situation, and states Gany looks like a clown. Result? Ban
Prism states that they’d rather be banned than hang around with who is left. Result? Banned
Scar states Gany is unhinged. Result? Banned but then reversed.
Coin states ‘message received’. Result? Banned but reversed without comment and removed from even original banned list.
Groth asks if this is how it ends. Result? Nothing
Hellfrog posts a GIF asking what in tarnation. Result? Nothing
Selira says Gany has killed the board. Result? Nothing
Ghost posts a question mark, then says the baord is getting better from bannings in a second post. After a while he posts two more times, after another Gany ask to stop posting. Result? Finally banned. Then reversed.
3543thrh67 posts that Gany is surprised. Result? Nothing
Cobalt posts asking Gany to take a cool off. Result? Gany states she won’t ban Cobalt for it.
ILuvGrumpyCat posts pointing out Ghost’s problematic history, and also addresses their disappointment in Gany’s choices. States she can go ahead and ban them. Result? Banned
OldFrightful says just lock the thread. Result? Nothing
Roz posts that Gany has degraded her authority, and cross links to the Macha/Farfalla logs. Result? Banned
Now. When it comes to personal attacks, the more clear are Scar, Third-Eyed and Bear-Necessities. Of those, Scar’s ban is reversed and Bear has to post a second time in order to get banned. The challenge to authority, the questioning of it, rather than the personal attack is what gets the ban. And I’d argue that is the more obvious common denominator there. And in terms of whether bans got reversed, several of those who were banned (Like Coin), Gany stated her own feelings that these were the hard ones. So friendship matters more in not being excluded (kinda…well…what’s the term? Clique behaviour?).
So no, those that are unwelcome on MSB aren’t those who engaged in personal attacks. It is those that asked questions of an admin who admits their behaviour could be reasonably described as unhinged (hence the reversal of Scar’s ban for the unhinged personal attack). Several of those who did engage in personal attacks or expressed glee at the bannings etc didn’t even get a warning. Again, suggesting that standards were relaxed for those supporting the admin position even if their behaviour mirrored or was worse than those being banned.
lmao that Ghost is the one that kept posting the longest despite being told to stop.
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Also, re: fascists in gaming, my “favorite” places to run into nazis are online survival games, because they always, always, always fully and firmly believe that they’re top skilled and will naturally dominate everyone else.
Then they name themselves Hitler88, stick a sign outside their base with a poorly drawn swastika, and express confusion and dismay when the rest of the server races to see who gets to burn their place down and take all their stuff.
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@helvetica Heeey @Herja and I met on a game like that.
I draw things! http://www.mahaldoodles.com
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@helvetica Heeey @Herja and I met on a game like that.
This was in like, 2015. I know caryatid@msb played there, too. But we didn’t know one another. -
Yo, Ghost, the answer to your question is dead easy:
It’s because you keep lying. Quit lying about the reason for the bannings and the people that were banned. Quit using them as scapegoats. Quit attacking them. Else quit whining about people wanting to defend themselves and/or their friends and/or just general injustice on the board where they keep being attacked, in a thread where you said they should be culled from the MU-ing community, and where folks continuously keep doing the same. Also laffo at you complaining about people trying to skirt under the rules.
Same to you, Derp. That’s the answer to your question as well. You want folks to calm down about this, quit doing that shit.
People are pissed, boohoo. They’ve a right to be. What happened was bullshit. But you’re not banned from this board. Any of you can come to defend yourselves (well, maybe not any of you, but I’m not a mod). The folks here can’t do the same, so if you follow the spirit of your own damn rules, I guarantee the urge to go argue will die down a lot faster than it has been, and with a lot less ill feeling (though still quite a bit of ill feeling).
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tbh I’m amazed at the fortitude anyone has to read Ghost’s giant long posts. I hear them referenced and I go to look because I’m curious and I usually get a couple of lines in and I’m like
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Why so much reaching across the aisle to ensure that you’re continuing to interact with people you don’t like, Ghost?
Ah, I get it. Slow news day.
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tbh I’m amazed at the fortitude anyone has to read Ghost’s giant long posts. I hear them referenced and I go to look because I’m curious and I usually get a couple of lines in and I’m like
“Here’s a well-spoken and well-crafted argument” … proceeds to word vomit across the board nonsensically while skirting along the “very clear” rules in order to attack - but not PERSONALLY!!! attack - people who cannot defend themselves because they are banned.
You know what it would take to repair the community? Nothing. The community isn’t broken, MSB is.
