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BEN!!!111 OMGWTFROFLHOUSE!!!111 | 4 | 5.41% | |
Because _____ left the board. | 4 | 5.41% | |
Because none of these dolts can solve the puzzles I post. | 2 | 2.70% | |
I'm a man. I'm 40. (Life happens and I have less time for this.) | 52 | 70.27% | |
Optical Illusion. There are just as many posts, but they're in the massive mega-threads. And the dress is blue. | 8 | 10.81% | |
All of the above. | 6 | 8.11% | |
You're wrong...the reason is... | 6 | 8.11% | |
Anaheim Angels #27 | 5 | 6.76% | |
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05-28-2015, 12:14 PM | #151 |
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Modding is a thankless job, and I would be terrible at it.
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05-28-2015, 12:33 PM | #152 |
lolzcat
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REPORTED.
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Superman was flying around and saw Wonder Woman getting a tan in the nude on her balcony. Superman said I going to hit that real fast. So he flys down toward Wonder Woman to hit it and their is a loud scream. The Invincible Man scream what just hit me in the ass!!!!! I do shit, I take pictures, I write about it: chrisshue.com |
05-28-2015, 12:51 PM | #153 | |
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Come on. Give me a break. Ben and Ryan are the administrators. cuervo, wademoore, QuikSand and I have mod rights for all boards. There are several people who have mod rights for specific topics or sub-topics. |
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05-28-2015, 01:16 PM | #154 |
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I am the Hot or Not mod
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05-28-2015, 01:44 PM | #155 |
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I was not going to post here again but I have been tagged by multiple people to respond to this thread.
I walked away because I was boxed for two weeks for reporting an exceptionally abusive post. That in itself is an absurdity. But it's worse than that. My impression is that some racial/religious groups (Christians, African-Americans) on FOFC are treated with far more respect than others. If you're not one of these "favored groups", it's fair game to say anything. It's gotten to the point that some posters have gotten away with advocating that certain groups (ex. immigrants, Muslims and a couple of others) should be executed. Murdered. Killed. It hasn't just been one or two comments either but a constant stream of bile. That's not a lot of fun when you or the ones you love are part of one of those demographic groups. I don't expect any particular group to be treated with kid gloves but I do expect some semblance of common respect and fairness. I'm not seeing that at FOFC anymore. When I was boxed, I posed this discrepancy to the mods. I never received a satisfactory response. In fact, it was meant with silence. What it boils down to is if "my kind" aren't wanted here then there are other places to go. And thus... Peanuts Gang Singing "Freebird" by: Lynyrd Skynyrd - YouTube Last edited by Blackadar : 05-28-2015 at 01:45 PM. |
05-28-2015, 01:46 PM | #156 |
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I am the College Lacrosse thread mod. All Syracuse fans have been put In The Penalty Box until they make a final four again!
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05-28-2015, 01:53 PM | #157 | |
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It did actually happen once... But for the most part this was a joke. |
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05-28-2015, 02:18 PM | #158 | |
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So, forever then.
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05-28-2015, 02:23 PM | #159 | |
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Shit. See you in 4 years.
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05-28-2015, 02:39 PM | #160 |
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Location: NYC
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Hmm. I always figured Blackadar was African American.
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05-28-2015, 02:54 PM | #161 |
Pro Starter
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God bless FOFC and its vanilla suburbs.
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05-28-2015, 03:05 PM | #162 |
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Amen to that, brother. Ain't nothin' like them MILFS up Lake Oswego way! Amirite?
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05-28-2015, 03:08 PM | #163 |
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05-28-2015, 03:18 PM | #164 |
Death Herald
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For the record, I will not accept a banning.
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05-28-2015, 03:37 PM | #165 |
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Me too given his reaction and stories in the Ferguson debates, which are personally the main reason I don't bother posting much anymore. Just to clarify not only because of his posts, but they were the straws that broke the camels back - I can't be arsed to deal with vitriol for having an alternative view to someone else or even asking questions, which is why I found his apparent distaste of being victim of an aggressive post somewhat ironic. I generally wouldn't make this post this any more, but given people are asking for reasons why posts are down - for me, the board has become more regularly aggressive and distasteful: on that much I agree with Blackadar. (To stress the point, other than a couple of headline posts, JiMGA is actually now one of the more reasonable posters - you may not agree with everything he says, but at least he tries to make his points with debate, not insults or aggression) Edit to add I am talking about the current affairs threads - outside of these things are generally Ok
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05-28-2015, 03:54 PM | #166 |
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He's been black to me since fof2 was released, far to long to change my image of him.
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05-28-2015, 04:00 PM | #167 |
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05-28-2015, 04:02 PM | #168 |
College Prospect
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Probably curious what color I think you are, purple.
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05-28-2015, 07:47 PM | #169 |
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digamma is obviously crimson.
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05-28-2015, 08:01 PM | #170 |
"Dutch"
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Location: Tampa, FL
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I dont give the mods shit because it is a thankless job. Plus, I'm 40...Im a man!!!
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05-29-2015, 04:56 PM | #171 |
Coordinator
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I'm a FOFC'er.
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05-29-2015, 10:25 PM | #172 |
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Location: Chicago, Ill
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For a worthless 2 cents, this used to be my home page. I never had any issues personally with mods but I did roll my eyes at the random times they'd institute their power and folks were boxed or banned. It's just not worth the investment of time for me if the people in charge are more interested in FOF and OT is an afterthought when I haven't personally been interested in FOF for years.
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05-29-2015, 10:54 PM | #173 |
Hall Of Famer
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Kind of miss when the forums were combined, before FOF and Off Topic were separated.
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05-30-2015, 06:55 AM | #174 |
Coordinator
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05-30-2015, 03:03 PM | #175 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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I know I posted earlier in this thread, but I didn't really give much of a reason, so here's what you didn't really ask for:
All you guys grew up and I didn't. I now confine myself to places where people have to choose to put up with my immature bullshit, such as Facebook or Twitter or my house. So, in short, it's not you. It's me.
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05-31-2015, 11:32 AM | #176 |
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For me, life changed. I still visit, I still read and I still post at times. But I am not in front of the desk anymore for work.
I am back out on the road, traveling constantly. Whenever I hit a city I usually let FOFers I am friends with on FB know before I get there, other than that I have moved back to Utah and gotten back into my old hobby of fishing and since it is the best time of year for it here, I am constantly out on a lake or river somewhere catching some fish.
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06-01-2015, 08:32 AM | #177 | |
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06-03-2015, 05:36 AM | #178 | |
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Man, this nails it. Just go look in the baseball thread. I make some over the top posts about Jacob deGrom, full well admitting I am being over the top and a fanboy, and some people just can't wait to pull out stats and prove how wrong I am. Then of course the internet grammar/spelling police come calling with pitchforks because I have the audacity to not proofread everything while posting at work or half paying attention and the wrong word auto corrects and they completely ruin what was a lighthearted conversation and banter. I guess it makes some people feel superior and better about themselves when they correct others spelling and grammar on the internet, but really all it makes them is a colossal douche bag. I hope I spelled that right. Last edited by Lathum : 06-03-2015 at 05:36 AM. |
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06-03-2015, 10:00 AM | #179 |
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Fair is fair. I'm good with you thinking I'm a douchebag (one word), I'll keep considering you a twit.
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06-03-2015, 11:12 AM | #180 |
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There are definitely random isolated times in this board's history where calling posters douchebags and twits would get you a boxing. If that doesn't happen here, let's see if the board survives or if this little dispute just between Lathum and cuervo72 just fizzles out shortly. That will be a good indication of how much we need the protection that boxings provide, and how much value they've added to the board v. the negative of how many posters they've driven off.
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06-03-2015, 02:26 PM | #181 | |
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Yeah I agree with you. I think at any point in the board's history you always would have been called out for the DeGrom posts and didn't think any of those responses were mean spirited. The grammar nazis were a little overboard, especially for somebody like you that has been around forever. |
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06-03-2015, 03:06 PM | #182 |
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Well sure, but he's also been screwing that up forever!
Which was worse? Break up of Lakers or Bulls? - Front Office Football Central None of this is big news. None of it is even unique - pretty sure there are sizable camps that think I'm a douchebag and that Lathum's a twit. Life goes on. *shurg*
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06-03-2015, 03:23 PM | #183 |
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06-03-2015, 04:47 PM | #184 | |
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I feel like the variety of places I could post these days actually just dilutes my interest and contributes to me not posting. Something like internet fatigue. Like, if I see an interesting news/culture tidbit I could probably post something about it at the place where I read it to nobody in particular, or I could post about in an email thread, or I could post about on Facebook or Twitter, or I could post about it here or any other of a half-dozen places I casually visit. If I DO post about it somewhere there's no guarantee that I'm going to post in the same place in the next instance, so my attention (and presence at all of these places) gets fractured. Usually though I just get some combination of bored & overwhelmed, and eventually choose not to post at all, anywhere. That didn't use to be the case when I felt like there were only a few outlets for my attention. Likewise it has slowly dawned on me that communicating over the internet tends to stoke my anxiety, since it can be such a conflict-ridden bitch-fest, and as such my interest in engaging anyone online has faded.
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06-03-2015, 09:15 PM | #185 |
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I hope that wasn't directed at me ya jag off. Wanna fight?
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06-03-2015, 09:19 PM | #186 |
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After school. Behind the bleachers.
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06-03-2015, 09:26 PM | #187 |
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Can't, gotta lift!
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06-03-2015, 10:11 PM | #188 | |
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Don't be so hard on yourself. Don't overlook the factions that think you're a twit.
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06-03-2015, 10:12 PM | #189 | |
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Hasn't Reddit been around for, like, forever? Or does it just seem that way to me?
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06-03-2015, 11:01 PM | #190 | |
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Heh.
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06-03-2015, 11:47 PM | #191 | |
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Just for the record, the above wasn't particularly directed at this place, as much as the internet in general. For all of my joining in on the kvetching in this thread it seems worth mentioning that for a board whose topics focuses mainly on sports, video games, and politics it's still probably less contentious than most boards dedicated to those particular topics. I recently stopped going to the Lions board I frequented for like 15 years when I realized literally all I was doing was getting in bitchy fights about shit I don't care about, and that whatever microscopic slivers of unique "information" I had gleaned from the place wasn't anywhere near worth the effort.
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06-18-2015, 01:39 PM | #192 |
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Does there seem to be more posting activity recently?
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06-18-2015, 03:14 PM | #193 |
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Seems like it. I have looked at the page after a day at work and there has been several threads with recent activity where there was a point where I could be away for a while and there would be maybe 4 threads with activity (on a good day).
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06-18-2015, 04:45 PM | #194 |
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You're welcome.
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11-18-2015, 09:49 AM | #195 |
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11-20-2015, 12:24 AM | #196 |
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Fascinating
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