/vx/ - Videogames and Paranormal

>>173531
Acknowledged.

>>173532
>reason
Nah, it is just plain bounding and gagging.

>>173524
You already have a very loyal set of flies posting to this garbage pile of a thread. What more do you want?

>>173535
~Oh nooooo....! No free speech to be had on /mlpol/. Time to look for greener pastures.
Perhaps Facebook would be more to your liking.

>>173537
Keep dreaming.

>>173536
>What more do you want?
The Flat Earth bumping as it should. Not more, not less. I'm not asking much, just to be allowed to shitpost in my designated containment thread without being torpedoed by the management.

>>173539
You're not being torpedoed, you're just being asked to follow the basic rules of the site. If you want to insist on being a cunt about this we can go down that road, but you probably won't like where it ends up.

>>173505
>every corporation, every scientific study, every entrepreneurial venture (see, Elon), et cetera
blatantly false lie. why would you make this up?
>>173515
why are you asking me why all those figures in the past and present can never demonstrate how they verified curvature? everything they show us is fake, using CGI, photo manipulation, or greenscreen pools inside studios.

VERY GOOD QUESTION ON WHY THEY WOULD JUST RANDOMLY SAY ALL THIS SHIT, AND THEN ITS GETS THROWN INTO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION CIRRUCULUM.
WHY. WOULD. THEY. DO. THAT?

>>173542
>never demonstrate how they verified curvature
Aristotle didn't have greenscreen pools (what do you mean pools?), photo manipulation, CGI, or....photos. He had raw math and shadow measurements with which he extrapolated a close estimate of the volume of the earth.
>blatantly false lie
It's literally the only way that the globe earth model could be sustained -- if absolutely no flights followed the flat map, or any spacefaring craft or ballistic weapon. Because if the flat earth model were true, those who utilized it would be able to launch missiles faster, fly jets faster, move satellites faster, and get the advantage in any conflict or race. And yet...we don't see that. We see pilots flying routes in a specific route, as though the earth were a globe.

>>173542
>why are you asking me why all those figures in the past and present can never demonstrate how they verified curvature?
Are you high, or just a bad typist? I'm not asking anything even remotely close to that. I'm asking who you think organized this vast conspiracy you're claiming exists, and what, if anything, they hoped to gain from it. Still waiting on an answer, btw.

>everything they show us is fake, using CGI, photo manipulation, or greenscreen pools inside studios.
That's a pretty bold claim to make. Have any proof?

>WHY. WOULD. THEY. DO. THAT?
That's literally what I'm asking you. Also, I repeat my earlier question: who exactly are "they?"

>>173542
>VERY GOOD QUESTION ON WHY THEY WOULD JUST RANDOMLY SAY ALL THIS SHIT, AND THEN ITS GETS THROWN INTO THE PUBLIC EDUCATION CIRRUCULUM.
Also, this is not a sentence, nor is it the proper spelling of the word "curriculum." Those little red squiggly lines under the words you type indicate spelling errors, you should pay more attention to them.

>>173543
using sticks and shadow IS NOT verification of curvature or valid measurement. its not aristotle youre referring to goof, its eratosthenes who first made this dumb idea up
>>173544
Im asking YOU why they would say all this shit without being able to verify it. they never brought forth falsifiablity to begin with.
>I'm not asking anything even remotely close to that.
okay tell me why I should care? thats why I asked you the thing I asked you specifically. youre being psychoanalytic like a jew, and questioning my stance against a positive claim thats never been verified. "why would they fake it all" is not the question to be asked, its "why have they never verified shit to us but still make these claims"

>>173548
>youre being psychoanalytic like a jew
You use "Jew" like a meaningless buzzword, as if that behavior is somehow exclusive to them. People do that shit on the internet all of the time.
Also, Psychoanalysis isn't real. It's pseudoscience, and modern psychology has since moved passed it.
>questioning my stance against a positive claim thats never been verified
You are making very many positive claims about a supposed global conspiracy to convince people that the earth is round.
>why have they never verified shit to us but still make these claims"
When they verify it with actual photos and math, you say they are fake.
What would even count as verification to you?

>>173466
>>173516
>>173512
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>>173528
Here's who I see it:
<Mysteriously, this thread fell off to page two around 2.6k posts.
<The bump limit is apparently set at 2200 or was this a recent change?
<Perhaps that could explain why the thread dropped off past threads that hadn't been bumped at the time.
<This could obviously just be a technical thing but it's just a bit weird and why I included it.
<Admin Lotus said, he can't click reply (while mod mode on) without his phone crashing.
<The thread is therefore too big and needs a new one.
>Posting a new one before it falls off would technically be in violation of the "no duplicate threads" rule.
<I disagree.
<GG posted, in that case, duplicates of his threads back when he was reviewing F:E.
<Now he's reviewing a longer work, obviously you can't reasonably force him to post in his thread past 700 posts until it drops off the catalog.
<I would also say that Occupied Equestria threads also falls into this category of being duplicates of one another.
>If you post a new thread while this one is still in the catalog, it will be deleted.
<This board has very low activity. This will take forever. I don't believe you don't know this.

Anyway, I don't really see the problem. It's been here for years, just let OP post a new thread and then it can sit here for years too. Through this period he hasn't posted his ideas outside of his containment thread, as far as I'm aware. Like look at the humor thread's Op that's on the board right now, it literally makes fun of his position but you can't find him replying to it to start anything.

>>173551
>Mysteriously
I will retract that mysteriously. I honestly don't know and I sorry for accusing anyone. I kinda just copied the wording of the previous post that I replied to in the post.

>>173551
>GG made new thread
There's nothing worth talking about in Flat Earth. No big new thing that absolutely needs to be talked about.
Every time in GG'ss it's a new topic fully exposed or exhausted and it's not on /vx/ which is much shorter.
OP and cohorts didn't even answer anything.
You never answered.
There's never an answer.
Ever.
Why are you even on this stupid bastard's side?
He shoveled shit and dances around every point.
>173526
>This is texbook FlatEarthphobia, WOW.
He lies constantly.
>I don't really see the problem.
Really?
Have you even read these past thousand posts?
Good God man.
You know what happened next?
He made a new thread anyway!
It's been deleted, but for fucks sake dude.
Nobody gets any answers every time someone says post a curve and someone does so or there's fucking math it's dismissed on insane nonsensical grounds or never talked about again.
Every fucking time.
>I would appreciate not using such harsh language.
Well there's nobody answering anything except retarded images and twitches hour long rambles that fuck up the FlatEarth position or just says "hehe globbers dum".

Since OP loves long videos. Here we go.
[YouTube] Something is hiding behind the curve. [Embed]

One more for good measure.
[YouTube] Flat Earth Proof Debunked with 6th Grade Math [Embed]

>>173553
>You never answered.
I did answer.

Besides, the idea that whoever gets last word wins doesn't make any sense.

>Really?
There's no problem with having a containment thread for this question.
>There's nothing worth talking about in Flat Earth. No big new thing that absolutely needs to be talked about.
Never stopped threads before nor are you unbiased judge for this.
>Why are you even on this stupid bastard's side?
I'm not really on anyone's side. I simply think the flat earth model is convincing and I find no argument so far as I lurked that really convinced my otherwise, but obviously it could be wrong, which I'm very open for. That people generate drama about this has nothing to do with me.

>>173556
>I simply think the flat earth model is convincing
What model? Any model that a flat earther provides either contradicts itself or has to introduce new ideas to compensate for its inconsistencies. Like if gravity is just an upward force, as another anon said, then it would have to always be accelerating in order for objects to accelerate downward. If the flat earth map people associate with it is to be believed, then people on opposite ends of the outer ring are all seeing the southern cross from completely different areas in other directions. And then the questions of what are north and south come up. On the map with the north pole as the center, this means that there is no east or west, north is just an inward direction, and south is literally just "head towards the nearest point on the ice wall" (don't get me started on the ice wall argument, my head hurts already).

If OP has any long term memory he might remember when I confronted him about the southern cross hundreds of posts ago.

>>173551
Moderating a site like this tends to be a balancing act between preserving free speech for all users which includes idiots with nothing especially valuable to say while still maintaining a high-quality discussion environment. Rules on the site exist for the purpose of maintaining that quality. To that effect, how stringently a given rule is enforced will depend on the situation and the general attitude of the site's userbase, as well as the overall effect any mod action would have on the quality of the site as a whole. In other words, the interpretation of the rules is subordinate to their purpose.

For instance, the No Generals rule was put in place originally because generals were a huge problem on 4chan at the time the site was founded, but since this site didn't really have the same problem, we didn't feel the need to strictly enforce this rule for most of the site's history. The Syria General and Anonfilly threads technically count as generals, but those threads are well-loved by the community and have been an integral part of board culture for some time. To my knowledge nobody has ever complained about either of them.

Eventually, though, the "random news" thread and a couple others turned into massive generals which were being constantly bumped with low-effort content and no discussion, mostly by one user. This meant that every time someone visited the site, it was usually the same couple of low-quality, general-topic threads at the top of the page. This led to multiple complaints, which were deemed valid, because essentially this one user was filling the board with the kind of low-quality high-volume posting that people come here from 4chan to get away from. So, in this case, the no generals rule was enforced for these threads, while other threads like Anonfilly and /sg/, which arguably are generals, were left alone.

>GG posted, in that case, duplicates of his threads back when he was reviewing F:E.
The Glim Glam threads are each dedicated to a review of a single story, so each thread is technically its own topic. The FoE review spilled into multiple threads because of the 700 post limit on the main board + the length of the story + Nigel's endless shitposting taking up space. It was an ongoing topic that was consistently producing new content, and the duration of the thread was determined by the amount of time needed to review the entire story. As soon as the story ended, there were no more GG FoE threads; the next Glim Glam thread was about a new story. In other words, every Glim Glam thread has a self-contained topic, and the lifespan of the threads is determined by how long it takes to exhaust discussion of that topic.

This thread is different. For one, it's gone on for three years, for almost 3,000 posts, without any apparent conclusion being reached. How many more threads of the same length would it take to bring the discussion to a close? The problem with this thread is that it's not a discussion that's going to end, it's just going to go on the way it's been going in perpetuity forever. Since the OP of this thread is the same person who was responsible for a large portion of the high-volume low-quality posting I mentioned earlier, it's likely that he sees the endless cyclical nature of this thread as a feature and not a bug.

Basically, what OP wants is for this thread to be continuously bumped to the top of the overboard so it's constantly visible, the same way he wanted visibility for his other low-quality junk threads. The problem with this is that what makes him happy tends to piss everyone else off.

So, in effect, we're being asked to piss off the entire mlpol community or at least most of it in order to accommodate the whims of one obnoxious schizo. To this request, we say "neigh." If people want to discuss flat earth, they are free to do so in this thread until it expires. Meanwhile, the rest of the community gets a break from seeing it constantly occupying the top spot on the overboard. Pretty much a win-win for all parties involved.

When I first encountered the idea of “flat earth” a decade or so ago, I was convinced that it was a troll created to troll Reddit atheists, and generally the kind of people who always want to believe that they are smarter than someone else and will argue with anything. So when this thread appeared three years ago, my opinion was that people who tried to argue against flat earth should know better than to think they were going to have a sincere discussion on a scientific question, and they should just not reply to the thread and not engage in argument. And that’s exactly why I have not been a part of this thread for the past three years - because I don’t expect a real conversation.

After three years, I’ve been basically proven correct that this is nothing but a troll topic. Only meme images are posted, questions challenging the theory are ignored, and in every way the thread behaves as a bait or troll thread. OP even refers to his activity in this thread as “shitposting.” Where I was wrong was in believing that users would eventually learn not to reply to bait. They have not. This thread is very often top of the overboard and crowds the homepage, and always with very bad, unproductive content of people raging.

We have rules against bait threads and generally delete them on sight. This thread has been treated leniently because it’s posted by a regular user, and maybe, just maybe, the OP is sincere in his belief and doesn’t intend to create a terrible thread. But the reality is that this thread is identical in all practical respects to a bait thread. Given that, the best solution is to just keep discussion here in a thread that will not bump. Maybe if things changed and the quality of discussion were raised to be higher than simple bait, then a new thread would be warranted. But I don’t think that is ever going to happen.

>>173549
pilpul is a jewish tactic, thats where it originates. in you stating that "everyone on the internet does it" doesnt make it non-jewish behavior. its not a buzzterm, its a discription of a behavior thats originally jewish. and youre partaking in it
physchoanalysis is a noun. psychoanalytic is a verb. maybe learn english?
A poisitive claim about a conspiracy is actually the conclusion thats arrived at when they cant support all the positive claims they make. do you know the meaning of 'conspiracy"? i means cover-up. how do you cover up? by lying. have you ever heard of deductive reasoning?
what the fuck else would you call it if not a conspiracy then? theyre lying because as I stated before, their cartoon theories have never been verified. why would you trust any of it?

>>173570
>do you know the meaning of 'conspiracy"? i means cover-up.
it literally doesn't though

>>173569
>We have rules against bait threads and generally delete them on sight. This thread has been treated leniently because it’s posted by a regular user, and maybe, just maybe, the OP is sincere in his belief and doesn’t intend to create a terrible thread. But the reality is that this thread is identical in all practical respects to a bait thread. Given that, the best solution is to just keep discussion here in a thread that will not bump. Maybe if things changed and the quality of discussion were raised to be higher than simple bait, then a new thread would be warranted. But I don’t think that is ever going to happen.
It is fine. You are the Admin and have the the final say.
On my end, I see the issue from a very different stand point and I pay more attention to actions than words. I stand for the plane and my refusal to entertain shills under no circumstance may be understood as lack of proof, all of which has been posted and in great quantities. Also I'm not blind to the /mlpol/'s move to mirror ZOG's policies to stonewall emerging narratives and inconvenient truths online, such as the oxymoron: "Freedom of Speech is Not Freedom of Reach".
Not my intention to debate or even to challenge your decision as I see it as a "fait accompli" and therefore my intention is no longer participate in a controlled opposition playground. On my part, it was a good ride and I truly enjoyed it
Cheers.

>Flearther still complaining that he can't make a clone thread with no new content
Shut up, nigger. Everyone can still see your shitty thread on the main board.

>>173597
You want to fuck the ponies from my little pony? What is wrong with you?

>>173571
>subversive has no connotation to the term "cover-up"
youre being ridiculous. you know words exist because they are descriptive, not prescriptive? being hung up on definitions doesnt help anyone

>>173599
>you know words exist because they are descriptive, not prescriptive?
No. English is a prescriptive language. English has grammatical rules and standards, despite your disregard for them. Prescriptive linguistics is the only thing that prevents English from devolving into ebonics.

>>173598
>You want to fuck the ponies from my little pony
Where do you think you are?

>>173596
>/mlpol/'s move to mirror ZOG's policies to stonewall emerging narratives and inconvenient truths online, such as the oxymoron: "Freedom of Speech is Not Freedom of Reach".
What utter bullshit. Your presence is only tolerated because of this site's commitment to freedom of speech.
>my intention is no longer participate in a controlled opposition playground. On my part, it was a good ride and I truly enjoyed it
Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
Cheers.

>>173570
>in you stating that "everyone on the internet does it" doesnt make it non-jewish behavior
It's normal behavior on chansites, and has been since the beginning of 4chan.
>its not a buzzterm, its a discription of a behavior thats originally jewish
You're using it like a buzzword.
>physchoanalysis is a noun. psychoanalytic is a verb. maybe learn english?
>learn english
Ask me that again when you learn to type a proper sentence.
Your grammar is terrible, you mispel words, and you don't even capitalize your sentences. You type like a nigger. It's annoying as hell.
>A poisitive claim about a conspiracy is actually the conclusion thats arrived at
A positive claim is a positive claim.
>theories have never been verified
They have been verified countless times. You just dismiss all of them as fake. Nothing would count as verification to you.

>>173603
its not a positive claim, its a conclusion based on invalid positive claim on the globe. the globe hasnt backed its positive claims yet.
I make zero positive claim except that theres no detectable curvature and no verifiable measurement, which you continue to keep ignoring and will do so everytime you reply to my posts
>They have been verified countless times. You just dismiss all of them as fake. Nothing would count as verification to you.
can you verify them or not? go over your methods. thats all weve been asking. it hasnt been done a single time in this thread. please show me the post where its been done, ive read all of them already

>>173607
>its not a positive claim
It is.
>its a conclusion based on
That's not mutually exclusive with being a positive claim.
>I make zero positive claim
Earlier you claimed that thousands of airline flight paths didn't exist and that the tens of thousands of people who took them were paid actors. That's a claim, and it is positive (says X happened).
>no verifiable measurement
By your ridiculous John Locke tier standards of refusing to believe anything that you do not see with your naked eyes (unless of course it supports your narrative) in spite of no evidence of fabrication.
>which you continue to keep ignoring
I see them. I just disagree.
>can you verify them or not?
Which thing do you want verified? There are so many.

>>173608
>Earlier you claimed that thousands of airline flight paths didn't exist and that the tens of thousands of people who took them were paid actors. That's a claim, and it is positive (says X happened).
no i didnt, you just made that up. i said flight paths make no sense on a globe. also there are pilots who are flat earthers, but ofc i have to explain that to an ignoramus
what do you want me to conclude other than that its a conspiracy? you refuse to answer the question
>By your ridiculous John Locke tier standards of refusing to believe anything that you do not see with your naked eyes (unless of course it supports your narrative) in spite of no evidence of fabrication.
flat earth evidence requires the naked eye, globe evidence requires believing in unfalsifiable claims
>Which thing do you want verified? There are so many.
unfortunately there is zero otherwise you wouldnt be doing this song and dance about it, and show me

>173609
>you wouldnt be doing this song and dance about it
I think I'll just stop then. I'm tired of dancing with you.

>>173596
>my refusal to entertain shills under no circumstance may be understood as lack of proof, all of which has been posted and in great quantities.
>I'm not blind to the /mlpol/'s move to mirror ZOG's policies to stonewall emerging narratives and inconvenient truths online, such as the oxymoron: "Freedom of Speech is Not Freedom of Reach".
See, this kind of attitude is part of why this thread has turned into an endless cyclical argument with no purpose, and why staff is no longer inclined to take your complaints seriously. You've basically made up your mind about what's true, and anyone who disagrees or presents another point of view is automatically a shill or ZOG. You're willing to debate people, but only within a very narrow framework whose boundaries you get to define.

As I recall, you took the same bull-headed attitude when everyone was asking you to please stop dumping facebook memes all over the site. You're very similar to Nigel in this regard: you're either unable or unwilling to understand why your posting style rubs other people the wrong way, and whenever you're criticized you immediately spin it into some kind of persecution complex. Maybe it's an autistic thing, idk.

In any event, your interpretation of this situation is way off. There are no "shills" in this thread, just anons who are mocking you because you keep making outrageous claims that you can't back up. There is no attempt on the part of management to "stonewall" you either. If we really wanted to quash discussion of the "inconvenient truths" you think you're dropping, we would have done it three years and 2700 posts ago. For the last three years, you've had a platform from which to spread your ideas. You couldn't make your case effectively, and you've been shouted down by the crowd. That's all that's happening here. You might not like it, but this is how free speech works.

I'll tell you the same thing I told Nigel the last time he threw one of his trademark hissy fits: if you want to keep making an ass of yourself all over the site you're free to do so. However, you're still bound by the same rules that everyone else is; we're not just going to let you endlessly shit everything up with impunity. /mlpol/ is not your private blog. If anons don't like the content you post, you're going to get mocked and shouted down. If you double down, you're just going to get mocked and shouted down even harder, it's just part of imageboard culture. I hope at least some of this gets through to you.

I did not like how the moderation team handled this. This has created a rift between me and them. A lot of my faith in their judgement has tanked by this.

I have been gone from the site for like a month now due to being busy with irl stuff but also because of this. Every time I got the irk to lurk here, I remembered this and so the irk ceased. Obviously, inb4: You don't contribute to the site anyway so who cares if you leave and so on. Regardless, I don't believe in leaving or staying and such. I can do either whenever I feel like it and change that as well. But I did feel like I didn't belong here anymore, or something to that effect. Maybe it's unhealthy to make connections in these situations but would be true for irl relationship as, I think, so whatever.

I'm planning to write a post with everything I disagreed with this decision and post it here. I'm not certain it will reach the mods but I'll try.

That will take a while though due having other pressing matters to attend to.

>>174146
I'm sorry you feel that way about it, and you're certainly welcome to air any grievances you might have. Same goes for everyone else. However, I stand by the decision. Boomer Anon is angry because he no longer gets to enjoy whatever dopamine high he gets from seeing his junk threads endlessly bumped to the top of the overboard, and in protest he appears to have fucked off into the aether for now. I can't say that I miss him. However, he's not banned, and neither is his ridiculous thread. He is free to return if he likes; all we ask is that he behave himself. The same goes for you if you decide to leave, it's not a question of who contributes what or to what degree. I like your posts and I don't particularly want you to leave, and I don't get the impression anyone else does either, but you are of course free to do as you please.

While I've made no attempt to conceal my personal disdain for the topic of this thread, discussion of this subject is not banned and the thread is still here if people want to continue arguing about it, so I don't think staff is in the wrong here. We made the decision to not allow a second thread for this subject because:

1) this one is almost 3,000 fucking posts long
2) very little serious discussion has been going on in here; it's mostly a no-u loop at this point
3) people have complained about this thread being constantly bumped in fact I'm fairly certain this thread is the reason people have requested on /qa/ that we lower the bump limits
4) the problems with this thread are more related to boomer anon's stubbornness and egocentricity than to anything having to do with whether or not the earth is flat
5) one thread for this topic is plenty

If people want to continue the debate over this subject they are free to do so, but I feel I can safely speak for the majority of users when I say that we all could use a break from seeing it endlessly bumped to the top of the overboard.

>>174149
>2) very little serious discussion has been going on in here; it's mostly a no-u loop at this point
More importantly, when he was asked if he had anything new to add for a new thread (>>173517 >>173519) he couldn't even produce anything that would warrant such a new thread. He even openly admitted that he just wanted a thread to bump into perpetuity (>>173524).
Realistically, he exhausted all of his novel arguments/sources/content to post ~2-3 years ago, and had long since resorted to bait posting to get engagement with redundant arguments that had already been discussed earlier in the thread. Sometimes he even posted redundant images and resized memes, because he had nothing new to post.
This kind of posting is the actual reason why we don't have generals in /mlpol/. Generalfags post bait to get engagement and bump their threads without content forever, because they insist on seeing the topic they like at the top of the catalog, even when there's nothing new to say.
>the reason people have requested on /qa/ that we lower the bump limits
This is only one of the reasons for that. Bump limits exist for a reason, and having reasonably sized bump limits maintains the health of a board in the same way that cells in the human body have auto-kill sequences once they've divided enough times: to prevent cancer.

>>173598
Pretty sure this was Boomer's last post on the site, btw. It goes to show how little respect he actually had for this community.
He never posted ponies in any context other than that stupid reaction image folder he downloaded from somewhere.

>>174146
This again? Still, I want to hear how we got this wrong and if it will amount to anything more than an argument that you can't stop anyone from posting, period. If that if your stance, we have tried that for years at this point. I actively attempted to work with the guy with discussion after discussion. I even broke down my problems with him.
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Yet, he ignored me time and time again.
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He actively seeking out the worst possible means forward and antagonizing anyone that sought to criticize him.
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He plays the victim directly after violating rules I tell him not to violate mere minutes after I clarify the rules to him.
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I have tried being nice, offering suggestions, offering feedback, offering solutions, offering compromises, and doing short bans to get the message across... nothing worked. If this decision is a problem, I fail to see any other way to go forward other than just continue to put up with him and we can't take any action against him no matter what. I seriously fail to understand what you could be offended over to such a degree that you are getting Vietnam flashes every time you visit the site. I don't mean to be terribly rude, but it is just that ridiculous to me. I hope you can clarify what the issue is.

>>174153
>all those citations
I feel sorry that you went through all that work to prove the obvious truth that boomer is a massive fucking faggot.

>>174155
Kek. It is better to show what happened than to simply say to trust that we did try to work it out. The process of finding these posts is worth the trouble to help solve any issues. Plus, it is fun to go back through and see just how angry he gets when being told to post better.

>>174156
>just how angry he gets when being told to post better
Honestly, this was probably the single most irritating thing about him: the fucking persecution complex.
This site was perfectly fine before he arrived. Once he came and started shitting up the place, Anons told him to fuck off like is normal on any chansite. And then he had the audacity to play the victim, like he was being persecuted/oppressed over normal reactions to his asinine behavior and inability to follow basic rules/etiquette. He acted like he was the most important person on this board, and he even called people who had been here for years before him "shills", "newfags" or "glowies". He had no respect for this site, or anyone who used it. He just treated it as his designated shitting street because it was slow enough that he could feel like he was king of the trash pile if he posted his sewage in such volume; and if you dared call him out for it he would whine about it like a fucking child and say it's actually all the other active users who were abusing him.

>>174146
What were we supposed to do?

The thread was at the time a dumpster fire. Boomer would make some claim, someone would respond to it, Boomer would reply to that response with a complete non-response, and very many people got angry. It became a cesspool of drama and flames that would dominate the home page and add up to very many non-productive posts every day. While Boomer had maybe one or two supporters, there were far more who were fed up with his behavior on the site in general and this thread in particular. They complained here in the thread, on /qa/, and on the Teatime server.

The bump limit on /vx/, which was set to an arbitrarily high number, was especially a concern. Some user started just spamming the thread, hoping to trigger the bump limit. The spam was deleted probably. I don’t recall and a reasonableish bump limit was set on /vx/ to stop it from happening again. It was apparent if nothing was done that users would start breaking rules to try to stop the thread from filling up the overboard, and likely they’d eventually just leave. Everyone was tired of the drama by this point, except Boomer and I guess you. I was tired of the flat-earth drama filling up the home page constantly.

So what were we supposed to do? The main problem with the flat earth thread was that people would make arguments against flat-earth that they thought were cogent, and that they certainly put a lot of effort into, and Boomer would just dismiss these arguments, which made him seem insincere, or at least completely incompetent. So we tried to improve his posting. For a year. It didn’t work. Boomer himself even refered to his flat earth thread as “shitposting.” No. That’s not what this thread is. This thread is presented as a venue to take the concept of flat earth seriously. Not shit posting.

It would have been best, I thought, if people would just stop replying. They couldn’t, because the thing kept getting bumped on the overboard and shoved in their faces. When the thread stopped bumping, people slowly stopped replying to the flame bait.

Many people - and most of the moderation staff - thought that Boomer should just be banned. I thought that was heavy handed and incorrect, as Boomer seemed to be in good faith.

So I did the best thing that could be done. Boomer is free to post whatever he wants in the thread, and other users are free to reply to it (within the rules). But the arbitrarily high bump limit of /vx/ was not coming back, and no new thread would be made.

Again, pray tell, what were we supposed to do?

>>174146
Hi fren.
I understand your frustration but a sanity must prevail. What we have here is a bunch of snowflakes who cannot tolerate what they see as uncivil, rude, non-constructive, blah blah blah. Nothing can be done about it as those charges are just a way to intellectualize their "feelings', I mean, it is not actually my shitposting what bothers them the most, but my persona; in other words, it is personal. So, let them be, it is their choice.

Fucking hell, the nigger is still here.
>174161
>snowflakes who cannot tolerate what they see as uncivil, rude, non-constructive, blah blah blah.
If you act like a nigger, people are going to call you out for it. They'd do the same on any other chansite, but if course you wouldn't know that.
> I mean, it is not actually my shitposting what bothers them the most, but my persona
Again with the persecution complex.
There's are no "personas" here you stupid namefag. This is an anonymous board: if not for your recurring behavior and obnoxious posting style, nobody would know it's you. You would be completely anonymous and have no reputation if you behaved differently, so it is in fact your shitposting.
>So, let them be
Good. Fuck off back where you came them.