(October 1, 2018 at 8:54 pm)wyzas Wrote: They're still going thru withdrawal and shock. Some of you people are not making it any easier. You know who you are.

If you'd stop barking at them in their intro threads...

(October 1, 2018 at 8:55 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(October 1, 2018 at 8:54 pm)wyzas Wrote: They're still going thru withdrawal and shock. Some of you people are not making it any easier. You know who you are.

If you'd stop barking at them in their intro threads...

It's not my fault if they can't speak canine. I suppose you expect to hold their paws and stroke them.

(October 1, 2018 at 8:57 pm)wyzas Wrote:

(October 1, 2018 at 8:55 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: If you'd stop barking at them in their intro threads...

It's not my fault if they can't speak canine. I suppose you expect to hold their paws and stroke them.

I have no problem with you holding their paws or stroking them if you have permission.

I'm just glad we had you neutered before they all arrived...

(October 1, 2018 at 8:54 pm)wyzas Wrote: Some of you people are not making it any easier. You know who you are.

Maybe they don't. I mean, am I one of the ones not making it any easier? I truly do not know.

edit: don't take my questions too seriously or anything. TRANSLATION: What the fuck are you talking about, mh?

(October 1, 2018 at 9:19 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:

(October 1, 2018 at 8:54 pm)wyzas Wrote: Some of you people are not making it any easier. You know who you are.

Maybe they don't. I mean, am I one of the ones not making it any easier? I truly do not know.

I started two threads. I only started a handful of threads in my entire time at TFTSNBN, but I've started two here since we all started arriving.

(October 1, 2018 at 9:25 pm)Aliza Wrote:

(October 1, 2018 at 9:19 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Maybe they don't. I mean, am I one of the ones not making it any easier? I truly do not know.

I started two threads. I only started a handful of threads in my entire time at TFTSNBN, but I've started two here since we all started arriving.

Don't worry about wyzas.

Later some of us will be taking him behind the staff area and beating him with rubber hoses.

(October 1, 2018 at 9:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(October 1, 2018 at 9:25 pm)Aliza Wrote: I started two threads. I only started a handful of threads in my entire time at TFTSNBN, but I've started two here since we all started arriving.

Don't worry about wyzas.

Later some of us will be taking him behind the staff area and beating him with rubber hoses.

In case you weren't aware, I'm pretty sure he gets off on that sort of thing.

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(October 1, 2018 at 9:25 pm)Aliza Wrote:

(October 1, 2018 at 9:19 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Maybe they don't. I mean, am I one of the ones not making it any easier? I truly do not know.

I started two threads. I only started a handful of threads in my entire time at TFTSNBN, but I've started two here since we all started arriving.

And you seem like SUPER interesting too, Aliza. I imagine some of the TTA-ers will move on, but, if any of you decide to be regular users, I hope you will hang around and lend your insight into things (at least occasionally, if not regularly).

(October 1, 2018 at 9:28 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:

(October 1, 2018 at 9:27 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Don't worry about wyzas.

Later some of us will be taking him behind the staff area and beating him with rubber hoses.

In case you weren't aware, I'm pretty sure he gets off on that sort of thing.

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(October 1, 2018 at 9:25 pm)Aliza Wrote: I started two threads. I only started a handful of threads in my entire time at TFTSNBN, but I've started two here since we all started arriving.

And you seem like SUPER interesting too, Aliza. I imagine some of the TTA-ers will move on, but, if any of you decide to be regular users, I hope you will hang around and lend your insight into things (at least occasionally, if not regularly).

I'm planning on sticking around. I strongly support a two-forum solution, but I can just be a dual citizen.

(October 1, 2018 at 6:09 am)OakTree500 Wrote:

(October 1, 2018 at 5:59 am)DLJ Wrote: How so?

It was an act of vandalism.

WELL, I mean more so in the way of:

Choosing to shut it down in the first place? Was very random and strange from my perspective, but it was Seth's call. I don't agree with it, but I don't have much say in what he does.

Shutting down altogether instead of moving existing stuff to a new server? This seemed to be the right course of action, as many users didn't want their data being used, with a few asking to have it all removed prior to any potential move as well. Seemed like closing down altogether was the right way forward, in my opinion at least.

I've sure the new forum is going to be great, but this place seems to have a hive of activity and lots of awesome members as well.

I agree that shutting it down became an inevitable necessity toward the end, especially when threads started leaking out the holes in the bottom of the bucket.  BUT shutting it down about 10 or 12 hours earlier than we'd been told would happen was incredibly rude and disappointing, at best.

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(October 1, 2018 at 6:54 am)DLJ Wrote:

(October 1, 2018 at 6:09 am)OakTree500 Wrote: WELL, I mean more so in the way of:

Choosing to shut it down in the first place? Was very random and strange from my perspective, but it was Seth's call. I don't agree with it, but I don't have much say in what he does.

Shutting down altogether instead of moving existing stuff to a new server? This seemed to be the right course of action, as many users didn't want their data being used, with a few asking to have it all removed prior to any potential move as well. Seemed like closing down altogether was the right way forward, in my opinion at least.

I've sure the new forum is going to be great, but this place seems to have a hive of activity and lots of awesome members as well.

From a Realism / Hedonism perspective, yes. If a forum is a meeting place, this view makes sense... the important components (the people) move on to existing or new meeting places.  A political-realist could justly argue that if we could wipe all memories away there'd be no racism and the Israel/Palestine tiff would be a thing of the past... a past that itself would be forgotten.

Yet, from the perspective of Meliorism, no.  The important component (the knowledge and wisdom) has gone. The town council wanted to build a by-pass and some things had to go.  But there is a reason why even uninhabited medieval castles or Edwardian palaces don't get demolished.  That forum was an historical record, a reference library; recorded and time-stamped.  It had an identity of its own.

This act was more than vandalism, not just carving a love-heart into a tree, it was the destruction of the tree itself. It was the digital version of genocide... memeocide.

Like Alexander destroying the Avesta, like the demise of the Library of Alexandria, like ISIS bulldozing Nineveh, like the fire at the National Museum of Brazil... future historians will have nothing but a footnote and some salvaged wreckage to work with.

Daaaaaaaamn, DLJ---that was BEAUTIFULLY put!  Please know that I was saying "Yes!  Exactly! to the computer as I read that just now!

Maybe we can bribe them with some of these!