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May 23, 2018 at 6:13 pm #86493
Billy_T
ParticipantAnd the fucking cowards there didn’t even have the guts to tell me before I tried to say my goodbyes. I was in the middle of writing a farewell post when I noticed that I was locked out.
No warning. No PM. Just a silent ban.
This followed upon a deletion of one of my posts saying why the new NFL policy regarding the players and the anthem protests was wrong, responding to yet another anthem thread cheering this suppression of rights on . . while the admins left the rest of the thread intact.
I then write a post requesting an end to that kind of practice, which is already “political” and highly selective, and it garnered several positive responses. And then IT was deleted.
Fucking cowards.
Sheebus. What has the world come to when you can’t even say goodbye on your own terms? As in, I was banned right in the middle of trying to leave the board!!
In a way, it’s kinda funny. But in a lot of other ways, it’s not funny at all.
May 23, 2018 at 7:12 pm #86502Zooey
ModeratorWell…at least your citizenship is still good in this corner of AmeriKKKa.
May 23, 2018 at 7:46 pm #86511Billy_T
ParticipantWell…at least your citizenship is still good in this corner of AmeriKKKa.
Thanks, Zooey.
It’s frustrating, cuz there was no warning. At all. No words from the mods. Not for the first deletion, which I thought unfair; not for the deletion of the thread I started requesting that the mods not delete things in that manner — which was perfectly polite, but firm. And there was no warning for the lockout.
I had decided after my thread was deleted that I’d write a board farewell, like James did a few months ago, and was locked out in the middle of writing that.
Again, it kinda sounds funny when I think about it. But it also really pisses me off. It’s just not cool to do something like that with absolutely no warning(s).
All of this after roughly 23 years. Oh, well.
May 23, 2018 at 8:15 pm #86516wv
ParticipantYeah, its not a place leftists can chime in on subjects like the National Anthem, etc.
I think the admins interpret leftist views as “political” (which they are) but they dont view centrist or mainstream views AS political. They dont ‘see’ the politics in mainstream views. Ya know. So, if you “support the Troops” and “support the anthem” etc — thats not politics to them.
Of course it IS, but they dont see it. Like a fish doesnt see the water. Or somethin. Ya know.
How come James left the Herd btw? Do you know?
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vMay 23, 2018 at 8:45 pm #86519Billy_T
ParticipantYeah, its not a place leftists can chime in on subjects like the National Anthem, etc.
I think the admins interpret leftist views as “political” (which they are) but they dont view centrist or mainstream views AS political. They dont ‘see’ the politics in mainstream views. Ya know. So, if you “support the Troops” and “support the anthem” etc — thats not politics to them.
Of course it IS, but they dont see it. Like a fish doesnt see the water. Or somethin. Ya know.
How come James left the Herd btw? Do you know?
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vI agree with you 110%, WV. Ironically, that’s pretty much what I said in my own thread in response to the first deletion.
And, this may shock you, but I was uncharacteristically brief, too.
;>)
Perhaps three short paragraphs or so, and I just asked them to please stop doing those selective deletions while leaving the rest of the supposedly non-political posts intact. They aren’t non-political, etc. I asked them to basically delete all of it or let all voices be heard.
(I’d much rather they do the latter.)
The few people who got to respond before it was all deleted seemed to have approved.
As for James: I corresponded with him just once after he left, but he wouldn’t give any details. I think he was just tired of some of the admins. I don’t know what, specifically, was the final straw. But he wrote a pretty long farewell, and he had a lot of people responding to it, trying to get him to stay.
I wanted to do something similar, but never got the chance. The admins must have been saying to themselves, “You can’t quit!! You’re fired!!.”
Anyway, need to just move on, I suppose, but I’d really like to say a good old fuck you to the silent, faceless, “deep state” admins. ;>)
This all makes me feel like I’m in short story by Kafka. Admittedly, one he probably tore up, but still.
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May 23, 2018 at 8:53 pm #86522Billy_T
ParticipantBtw, WV,
What would Robinson Jeffers do after a banning?
May 23, 2018 at 9:37 pm #86523zn
ModeratorWell BT you know this board has one advantage no other board does.
Pie.
May 23, 2018 at 9:52 pm #86525Billy_T
ParticipantWell BT you know this board has one advantage no other board does.
Pie.
Thanks, ZN.
And may I say that I much prefer your style of being up front about mod stuff? I mean, we actually know it’s you when you hit us in the face with those pies. You don’t try to hide the fact that you’re a notorious, old-school pie-thrower. There’s nothing Kafkaesque about it, when you do that. It’s more like The Lucy Show.
Comedy is good for the soul!!
May 23, 2018 at 10:35 pm #86527TSRF
ParticipantI feel for you, brother.
Any board that would ban you is no board for me.
(this is the only board I post on, but I’m sure you get what I mean).
Matt
May 23, 2018 at 10:57 pm #86528Billy_T
ParticipantI feel for you, brother.
Any board that would ban you is no board for me.
(this is the only board I post on, but I’m sure you get what I mean).
Matt
Thanks, Matt.
Much appreciated. Hope all is well.
May 23, 2018 at 11:06 pm #86529TSRF
ParticipantFits and starts, moving out of a dark place. I know you can relate. But, life is good.
All the best.
May 24, 2018 at 2:45 pm #86551waterfield
ParticipantAnd the fucking cowards there didn’t even have the guts to tell me before I tried to say my goodbyes. I was in the middle of writing a farewell post when I noticed that I was locked out.
No warning. No PM. Just a silent ban.
This followed upon a deletion of one of my posts saying why the new NFL policy regarding the players and the anthem protests was wrong, responding to yet another anthem thread cheering this suppression of rights on . . while the admins left the rest of the thread intact.
I then write a post requesting an end to that kind of practice, which is already “political” and highly selective, and it garnered several positive responses. And then IT was deleted.
Fucking cowards.
Sheebus. What has the world come to when you can’t even say goodbye on your own terms? As in, I was banned right in the middle of trying to leave the board!!
In a way, it’s kinda funny. But in a lot of other ways, it’s not funny at all.
Just so you know Billy I wrote the Admin and asked why the entire post was not pulled.
May 25, 2018 at 9:06 am #86575Billy_T
ParticipantJust so you know Billy I wrote the Admin and asked why the entire post was not pulled.
Good to hear that, W.
How did they respond?
After a day of chemo, and listening to the (sometimes horrific) stories of other patients — which is unusual for me. I generally keep to myself when I’m there — I’ve had time to “sleep on it” a bit. About the only thing that bothers me now is the faceless, nameless aspect of it all. As in, I don’t know who deleted the posts, and I don’t know who locked me out just as I was getting ready to write a final post to the board.
To me, that’s cowardice, and it’s — struggling for the right expression here — bad form.
James, for instance, would have told me personally before any of this happened. He would have sent an email or a PM. The new mods — whomever they are — don’t have to stones to back up their own actions by divulging their handles at least, which, of course, still keeps them basically anonymous.
Not cool. Not. Cool.
May 25, 2018 at 5:58 pm #86590snowman
ParticipantI stopped clicking the HERD link months ago. I get sooo tired of reading the cheerleader posts, or self-appointed talent evaluator expert posts. Billy, you got banned from a dive bar!
May 25, 2018 at 8:59 pm #86601waterfield
ParticipantJust so you know Billy I wrote the Admin and asked why the entire post was not pulled.
Good to hear that, W.
How did they respond?
After a day of chemo, and listening to the (sometimes horrific) stories of other patients — which is unusual for me. I generally keep to myself when I’m there — I’ve had time to “sleep on it” a bit. About the only thing that bothers me now is the faceless, nameless aspect of it all. As in, I don’t know who deleted the posts, and I don’t know who locked me out just as I was getting ready to write a final post to the board.
To me, that’s cowardice, and it’s — struggling for the right expression here — bad form.
James, for instance, would have told me personally before any of this happened. He would have sent an email or a PM. The new mods — whomever they are — don’t have to stones to back up their own actions by divulging their handles at least, which, of course, still keeps them basically anonymous.
Not cool. Not. Cool.
They have not responded.
May 25, 2018 at 9:43 pm #86608Billy_T
ParticipantJust so you know Billy I wrote the Admin and asked why the entire post was not pulled.
Good to hear that, W.
How did they respond?
After a day of chemo, and listening to the (sometimes horrific) stories of other patients — which is unusual for me. I generally keep to myself when I’m there — I’ve had time to “sleep on it” a bit. About the only thing that bothers me now is the faceless, nameless aspect of it all. As in, I don’t know who deleted the posts, and I don’t know who locked me out just as I was getting ready to write a final post to the board.
To me, that’s cowardice, and it’s — struggling for the right expression here — bad form.
James, for instance, would have told me personally before any of this happened. He would have sent an email or a PM. The new mods — whoever they are — don’t have the stones to back up their own actions by divulging their handles at least, which, of course, still keeps them basically anonymous.
Not cool. Not. Cool.
They have not responded.
Figures. That’s flat out cowardly. No response. No names. Little baby autocrats, in hiding.
That board seems to have changed more than just its name in recent months. It lost its soul.
May 25, 2018 at 9:44 pm #86609Billy_T
ParticipantI stopped clicking the HERD link months ago. I get sooo tired of reading the cheerleader posts, or self-appointed talent evaluator expert posts. Billy, you got banned from a dive bar!
Agreed, Snowman.
I won’t miss it.
May 30, 2018 at 5:01 pm #86814Ozoneranger
ParticipantDecided to stop by and saw this. That’s a shame.
I left there 17 years ago and never looked back. Same issue, authoritarianism. I was against registration and how the admins were increasingly suppressing posts. After all this time, I now agree with reg. People change. Or they get old. I think everyone here is old. Haha!
Sometimes I check the site out and I’m glad I left. The place is like Borg collective, all those thoughts going through your head so fast.
May 30, 2018 at 6:53 pm #86818wv
ParticipantDecided to stop by and saw this. That’s a shame.
I left there 17 years ago and never looked back. Same issue, authoritarianism. I was against registration and how the admins were increasingly suppressing posts. After all this time, I now agree with reg. People change. Or they get old. I think everyone here is old. Haha!
Sometimes I check the site out and I’m glad I left. The place is like Borg collective, all those thoughts going through your head so fast.
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Well, not to get too fill-o-sophical but…every board is different. We are all ‘compatible’ with some boards and incompatible with other boards (i find its a lot like dating, btw).
There’s people that love the Herd Board and people that dont. And so it goes.
The great thing iz…the INTER-NET. The big, beautiful, hideous, monstrous, cacophonous, beyond-words, INTERNET. I mean look at us. Here we are. Strange people, from all over the place, talking to each other. Its awesome. I think.
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