Bannings

[Pavel]

@Kestrel Well. That’s not a totally inaccurate interpretation of things. We were rather sick of the secrecy around the decisions as well as the decisions themselves.

That said… I’m getting rather tired of this “rebuild trust in our fractured community” bullshit that’s being peddled. We’re done with MSB, in general. We’ll trade information when it’s pertinent, but otherwise we’re two distinct and independent entities that just happen to be about the same niche hobby.

[Third Eye]

@Kestrel
I was also briefly VERY CONFUSED about who was moneylaundering, but then I realized that by devoting thought to this I’d already lost.

[Kestrel]

@Third-Eye said in Bannings:

@Kestrel
I was also briefly VERY CONFUSED about who was moneylaundering, but then I realized that by devoting thought to this I’d already lost.

I am here to make losers of us all; but also to double check that I’m too young to be going senile already.

[Pavel]

@Third-Eye said in Bannings:

@Kestrel
I was also briefly VERY CONFUSED about who was moneylaundering, but then I realized that by devoting thought to this I’d already lost.

I dunno about money laundering, but I do know that in the past at least one erstwhile member of our community accepted financial assistance that was offered based on false assertions made by the recipient.

Which is a convoluted way of saying someone, allegedly, lied about a medical issue and received financial assistance from another person for said issue.

[SpaceKhomeini]

@Pavel

Isn’t that just called “Scamming?”

[Pavel]

@SpaceKhomeini said in Bannings:

@Pavel

Isn’t that just called “Scamming?”

It’s also called fraud.

[kalakh]

@Kestrel said in Bannings:

?

???

[Jennkryst]

Does it count as Politics-talk, pointing out how Musk is going full Ganymede on Twitter, throwing out all the banz? Because watching the death spiral is oddly similar.

[Pavel]

@Jennkryst Eh, it’s right on the edge I’d say. I’d generally prefer it not to become a significant topic of conversation, but I’m not against it officially.

[sao]

Even after everything that happened I wouldn’t go so far as to compare Ganymede to that puerile temper tantrum in the body of a dude.

[GF]

@Jennkryst If discussing a non-politician’s actions in the context of a privately owned company is politics, then I have no idea what isn’t politics.

[Coin]

@GF said in Bannings:

@Jennkryst If discussing a non-politician’s actions in the context of a privately owned company is politics, then I have no idea what isn’t politics.

Everything is politics. It’s just not necessarily partisan politics.

[Roz]

This seems like a really weird reason to resurrect this thread.

[Pavel]

@GF said in Bannings:

@Jennkryst If discussing a non-politician’s actions in the context of a privately owned company is politics, then I have no idea what isn’t politics.

It’s not politics per se (excepting the Coin Caveat that everything is politics) but it is Real Life Important Thing That Could Flare Tempers and Tensions, much in the same way political conversation is.

[tsar]

Oh man, I’d managed to entirely put this thread out of my mind. I saw it come up and was like DID SOMEONE GET BANNED.

Whoops. Just our origin story.

[Sammich]

@tsar said in Bannings:

Whoops. Just our origin story.

Makes us sound like superheroes!

[Pavel]

@Sammich

[Testament]

I had honestly thought this whole extravaganza was put behind us all.

[Aria]

@Pavel said in Bannings:

@Sammich

Mostly a total tangent here, but David Bowie playing this song at the Berlin Wall is probably one of my favorite rock stories of all time and if you don’t know it, you totally should.

[kalakh]

Not going to comment on Musk’s behavior unless it’s in a thread made for it, but I will agree the reaction to him has the extreme “lol ban me you coward” snowball energy that brought us all together.

edit: Or, as I put it somewhere else:

Like an earth-sized shitposting bat signal, a call to all corners of the internet that says “come make fun of this fucking guy until the heat death of the universe.”