WHAT KILLED THIS BOARD?

Riiight - 

"We are a bunch of pre-programmed robots"

"From the moment you were born, you have made the choices that factors outside of your control have determined that you were going to make."

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On that note, you've also called me "deranged", which is the mental illness equivalent of "n*****"

I know I'm late to this discussion but here's a more detailed account. I don't know if it counts as doxxing, but DT and his gang attempted to harass people in their real lives which could be worse.

Around 2010, another longtime regular named worov told me about a message board he had been on which was occupied and disrupted by a troll group led by someone named Aye Lewis. I didn't take it seriously because I had never seen anything like that happen and I didn't think they would ever show up on the IMDb.

When I later googled "Aye Lewis", I found other websites where people talked about how Lewis' group had destroyed their community. Apparently this is their hobby. I'm not sure such a person actually exists. I suspect the name is used by several of them to help create an internet legend.

Around 2012 a poster appeared named 'He_Cant...'. He used variations of the name but it always began with 'He_Cant' That was his trademark. He seemed like just another poster. I later learned he was part of the Lewis group. He may have been an advance scout for what they were planning to do.

Later I learned that just before the trouble began, DT (DiscerninglyTasteful) had contacted Twinkwrangler (a longtime demi-troll regular) and asked if he wanted to join them in "taking over the board". They even gave him an extra account and password. Twink never played well with others and declined the offer.

They started spamming the board in 2013. Among other things they attempted to stir up old feuds between regular posters, encouraged new feuds and started rigged polls. Many of the voters in those polls had never before been seen on the board. It was pointless to vote because if they didn't like the results, they would delete the thread and start another identical poll. After getting a couple of accounts wiped, they were even bold enough to start a thread asking who they should target next.

We had seen troll attacks before and weathered them well enough. But what was different this time was they seemed to have the uncanny ability to have threads deleted and accounts wiped at will. Many of us grew to believe that an IMDb admin was among them or at least sympathetic to their goal. By this time the IMDb had turned over responsibility for handling abuse reports to GetSatisfaction.com. It seemed too suspicious that there was an admin there who refused to act on any complaints against members of the Lewis group.

They first targeted ChucklesOToole and thefleetsin. Chuckles was a particularly rude and aggressive atheist and I suppose they didn't like fleets' poetry. Somehow the trolls discovered the Facebook pages of each poster. Chuckles taught music and made the mistake of putting his phone number on his FB page. They discovered fleets' place of employment and threatened to contact his boss and accuse him of attacking Christians, etc. Successful or not, these activities were what most unnerved many in the community. Chuckles acquired a board on another website and offered it as a refuge from the trolls. Many of us took him up on the offer. It was supposed to be temporary, but for many it ended up being permanent.

I'm the one who discovered the manlymovies forum which was their current little clubhouse. At that time it was open to the public but not for long. Before it went private I learned some things about the Lewis group from reading all the threads. There were about a dozen of them and they referred to themselves as "The Platoon". Many of the names there were nearly identical to their IMDb names. In one thread they were laughing it up and waxing nostalgic about all the communities they had wrecked in the past few years. That's where I learned that He_Cant was one of them. One of their advantages was they had access to a nearly unlimited supply of phone SIM cards. If the IMDB wiped out one of their accounts, they just used a new SIM card to create a new account. That's why the IMDb could never get rid of them.

I view that chapter as the most significant change in a community history which goes back to 2003. It's just still astounding that anyone would devote so much time and effort into trolling and attacking individuals and random communities.

Only for the ultra-simplistic mind.  Cause and effect does not yield that sentient beings are "robots"; it is headsmackingly obvious that we are quite unlike them.  

Which is irrelevant to the pure derangement of continuously choosing to frantically attempt to to get people to choose "differently" while simultaneously "holding" that real choice does not exist.

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Can neuroscience understand Donkey Kong?

I never took you for a Nazi, Mic, just loopy. NOW I know that you are certifiably insane.  You are not worth my time.

So heretofore, you thought that although I have been stating that reproduction is the source of all harm, I never wanted anything to be done to prevent people from procreating? And because I don't venerate the right/privilege to impose on others for selfish reasons, you've deduced that I'm 'certifiably insane' (what diagnosis would be on the certificate, and what credentials do you have in order to be making this clinical diagnosis)?

Sane people don't want to end ALL life on earth. ( except your own of course because you have to prothelytise for ending all the OTHER lives on earth) lol

Mic must be last man standing!

Tell that to the psychiatric board!

"Sufficient data about the inputs that are going into the decision making of any human" is pure handwaving emptiness.  If you had "sufficient" data about anything you'd be able to know whatever the data was sufficient in revealing.  And what you conjecture for cause is nothing but (silly) conjecture for cause. 

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Does Free Will Exist?

Knowing what somebody will do doesn't mean there's no free will.  I know what many people will do under certain circumstances, that doesn't mean they're not doing the choosing, of course.

And your frantic scrambling while there being no difference to be made is pure derangement, again, of course.  You "having no idea" does not add one whit of effect to anything you think you might do.  We covered waaaay back that it could be you understood that it makes no difference  but that the forces in motion dictate that you frantically act like it does or that those same forces just made and keep you highly irrational.  But you could still be screaming on the inside that you understand, but the forces keep you hands typing different things. 

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"I am opposed to the creation of new life, on the basis of the fact that it will impose risks upon someone who cannot consent to those risks"
"If it's OK not to seek someone's consent because they cannot refuse consent, then it's OK to rape a woman who is passed out drunk and who cannot be revived to request permission."

The bats!t crazy of calling the superior position of an option of experiencing this blast or checking out early as a "cycle of imposition and harm" and of course "rape".  Oh yeah, the claims being of nonviolent while wanting the world nuked  as well as people forcibly prevented from procreating.  And the endless utter irrationality.

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On that note, you've also called me "deranged", which is the mental illness equivalent of "n*****"