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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Jun 4, 2023 0:53:37 GMT
No worries. More bummed than I thought I would be. Permanent ban given without warning or explanation for as far as I'm concerned nothing seems excessive. I guess the idea of me being reinstated didn't garner much support. Probably not from people who wanted Xeliou66 and others to be allowed back on the politics board here or bans lifted. Be funny if Rissa is back over there. She deleted her account at one point after FM told her to go eat some fried chicken and watermelon. Maybe FM should have banned himself after that. I don't know about FM, but I stopped caring long ago whether or not someone who gets permabanned from here understands the reason. However, I don't remember ever thinking that maybe they didn't. Did FM ever tell you to stop discussing race but you kept doing it anyway? I've slapped a lot of wrists here for that very reason. I figure if they want to run a forum, it would be better to run their own instead of demanding that I run this one their way. Respect is a two-way street, meaning that if they respect the rules, I'll respect their account. After all, that's the deal that's agreed upon when a member registers an account here and I approve it. Only a pushover admin would hold up both ends of that deal. Of course Rissa is there. Can you not read FM's forum? I received no warning or explanation from FM. When he had a ban on race threads for a few weeks I stayed away and abided by his wishes. Like I say, I was posting one night, and FM was not involved in the conversation then next day I was gone. I try to access, and I'm met with "you have been banned from this forum". Can't read anything. I was thinking about posting about race issues on this General Discussion, but I felt it wasn't the place. Seems an easy-going board so I didn't want to rock the boat and spoil it for the regulars. If a rule is put in place I follow so I don't get banned. I guess Rissa is more willing to let bygones be bygones more than FM and good for her.
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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2023 1:01:36 GMT
To be fair, I don't believe it was intentionally timed in any way whatsoever. It was a knee-jerk response with no consideration given to the state of US Sports. lol. My decision to close the Politics board, however, did have something to do with the current state of US Politics. Are you saying US politics is getting ugly? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo lol. Yeah ok, I asked for that one. But I think Jill Biden is pretty, so what happens now?
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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2023 1:11:44 GMT
]I received no warning or explanation from FM. When he had a ban on race threads for a few weeks I stayed away and abided by his wishes. Like I say, I was posting one night, and FM was not involved in the conversation then next day I was gone. I try to access, and I'm met with "you have been banned from this forum". Can't read anything. I was thinking about posting about race issues on this General Discussion, but I felt it wasn't the place. Seems an easy-going board so I didn't want to rock the boat and spoil it for the regulars. If a rule is put in place I follow so I don't get banned. I guess Rissa is more willing to let bygones be bygones more than FM and good for her. Maybe FM will see your posts in this thread and loosen the straps. Ain't no shame in concessions.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on Jun 4, 2023 1:40:22 GMT
]I received no warning or explanation from FM. When he had a ban on race threads for a few weeks I stayed away and abided by his wishes. Like I say, I was posting one night, and FM was not involved in the conversation then next day I was gone. I try to access, and I'm met with "you have been banned from this forum". Can't read anything. I was thinking about posting about race issues on this General Discussion, but I felt it wasn't the place. Seems an easy-going board so I didn't want to rock the boat and spoil it for the regulars. If a rule is put in place I follow so I don't get banned. I guess Rissa is more willing to let bygones be bygones more than FM and good for her. Maybe FM will see your posts in this thread and loosen the straps. Ain't no shame in concessions. Perhaps, then again monkeys might fly.
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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2023 1:47:25 GMT
Maybe FM will see your posts in this thread and loosen the straps. Ain't no shame in concessions. Perhaps, then again monkeys might fly. That's only part of it... I never thought it had anything to do with the Wizard of Oz. js!
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jun 4, 2023 15:24:20 GMT
I don`t need to explain myself and i don`t owe you an explanation. Classic you. Not sure what I expected. Well its true.
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Post by Fetzer Zinfandel on Jun 4, 2023 20:18:40 GMT
I don`t need to explain myself and i don`t owe you an explanation. π€π
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Post by pennypacker on Jun 4, 2023 22:12:14 GMT
Itβs existed for a few years now, and the admin there had another forum before it.
Politics is somehow more of a cesspool there than it was here.
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Post by Catman on Jun 5, 2023 1:34:06 GMT
Itβs existed for a few years now, and the admin there had another forum before it. Politics is somehow more of a cesspool there than it was here. Yeah, if someone starts a thread with good potential, you have to reply within a few minutes before it turns into a braindead back and forth among a few posters that never ends.
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Post by Cat on Jun 5, 2023 1:42:40 GMT
Itβs existed for a few years now, and the admin there had another forum before it. Politics is somehow more of a cesspool there than it was here. Yeah, if someone starts a thread with good potential, you have to reply within a few minutes before it turns into a braindead back and forth among a few posters that never ends. So many times that happened. I almost always go by thread title and that's how I leap into threads. Sometimes there would be a conversation several pages long already that makes me think damn I wish I was there in the beginning.
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Post by merh on Jun 5, 2023 3:24:48 GMT
Initially I did not care much. If they wanted their own board to talk about boring politics then fine. It seemed those posters didn't seem to participate on the other sections anyway. So good riddance.
But out of curiosity I went there to check it out and found out that it wasn't just a politics board, but also had many other individual boards for Film, TV etc as well... Why? Most of those posters seemed to stick only to the Politics board here on IMDb v2, so why would they need their own film boards etc? Is the reason they never participated here because they didn't want to associate with non-politics people? Pretty anti social behavior. But the thing that baffles me the most, was that I saw some of our OWN posters moonlighting over there. I can not make any sense of this at all. Why post on a forum filled with people who think they are too good to post on ours? Especially considering how quiet it has been here lately. Why split your postings across two dead forums instead of helping to keep this one active? Where is the logic?
Explain yourselves.
I go back to IMDb. I started on the Marvel boards, expanded to the DC ones, & then found my way to the politics board. When IMDb announced they were shutting down various other boards were created. I saved them all to my favorites, but only visited a couple. Eventually I stuck with this one, but i did have a log-on marked "monkey's board." When ABBEY got banned I eventually learned he was on Human Voices & Monkey's board, but it wasn't the monkey's board I bookmarked. Apparently he had a board, but now there is a different board. (?) So I had to create a new log on for V1. Long story being the oldest post I can find on the existing board's posts is December 2017 so it's been around awhile. I registered here February 2017. Of course all of the politics crowd wanting to discuss politics go to V1. While we're there, it's just as easy to post other topics over there. We were having movie night (first Saturday every month) & learned our home was gone. Poof. Shock & dismay. Yet you blame us? We aren't posting on this board like we did before it was nuked? For my side, the movies getting released are not coming at a pace to sustain near the number of posts I made before April 1. I've managed 2,200 posts over there since then, though I had 48,000 here since 2017. So you are feeling betrayed, but the politics board people felt betrayed when we lost our home of 5 yrs. Many were hoping it was a mistake & the board would return which it did, but they weren't welcome. So no, Feologild , ck100 , Mulder and Scully , petrolino aren't being deceptive or disloyal. They have friends on V1 & interact with them there.
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Post by SciFive on Jun 6, 2023 10:32:51 GMT
Initially I did not care much. If they wanted their own board to talk about boring politics then fine. It seemed those posters didn't seem to participate on the other sections anyway. So good riddance.
But out of curiosity I went there to check it out and found out that it wasn't just a politics board, but also had many other individual boards for Film, TV etc as well... Why? Most of those posters seemed to stick only to the Politics board here on IMDb v2, so why would they need their own film boards etc? Is the reason they never participated here because they didn't want to associate with non-politics people? Pretty anti social behavior. But the thing that baffles me the most, was that I saw some of our OWN posters moonlighting over there. I can not make any sense of this at all. Why post on a forum filled with people who think they are too good to post on ours? Especially considering how quiet it has been here lately. Why split your postings across two dead forums instead of helping to keep this one active? Where is the logic?
Explain yourselves.
I hope you understand by now that IMDB1 was actually created a long, long time ago.
People went there because the deletion of IMDB2.2 was so sudden and they didn't want to lose friendships they'd built up over the years.
I think the point is to connect with people. It doesn't matter if it's spread over two or three forums.
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Post by SciFive on Jun 6, 2023 10:51:24 GMT
The point of all this is not to service forums as if they are in some internet competition.
The point of all this is to connect with people and (hopefully) enjoy the connections.
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