>>17673I work late. And I have maybe an hour or two after work on work days where I can catch up with people on here And with some of those people this is the only place I really have to catch up with them. So it basically brought the board to a halt at the only time I really had to catch up with said people (because many of whom, for that reason, were like "whatever. I'll just go to bed early/go do something else.")
And I've always, in the midst of board drama, been an advocate of individual use of post filters over moderation. But that really requires post filtering to be effective.
>>17667(And here. I try my best to make sure I'm not someone people want to filter so that I'm not preventing others from doing the same. I don't post smut outside of mature tagged threads. I don't post controversial takes outside of political tagged threads. But here you go. Filter away.)
I could have not mentioned that I had filtered and maybe ya'll never would have known and just kept using the same names but I mentioned it as a personal favor. To let you guys know that the 'conversation' was effectively over on my side. Because I (apparently mistakenly?) consider you guys friends. It was my way of saying "Okay, you guys have killed the joke. See you when you're done with it." But instead you guys decided to double down.
And like I know bandwagon threads happen, whatever. But they normally contain text. There's normally some open two-way exchange of thoughts involved and aren't just some off-site inside joke being shoveled on people who aren't a part of it. And I really only reported one thread, which was when a new thread was created for absolutely no purpose when there were already then 2 or 3 different threads where you guys were spamming data pictures. Because at that point you're disrupting the board operation. You're sliding threads at the end off at an unnaturally elevated pace. And surely I'm not the only person that likes to scroll through the catalog every now and then and wax nostalgic about past discussions. By the end of it all you guys had made I think I counted about 7 or 8 threads? That's 6 or 7 more past discussions, completely erased, than needed to be.
And the screenshot there. That bothers the ever-living shit out of me. Because nobody mentioned reporting anything. Which means the only way he knew a report was made is if you told him in private. And considering that no moderator action was taken and the shitposting campaign only elevated at that point the only reason I can think of for him to have been informed about the report is for purpose of incitement. So should I be exclusively VPN posting here now if high-trust admin-side information is being punted around willy-nilly to people who aren't in the need-to-know?
Anyway. I'm hurt. And that's why.
I'd like to call you my friend still but zipping up that wound is going to take time and a little more understanding of the situation than "lol just go do something else for a few hours.".