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So in light of the flurry of super serious posts
And as an addendum to my thread 'trolling and aggression and how it's changed' - now that reading a thread is a lot like reading a transcript of a mum telling off a little boy (subtext- the feminists have taken over and it ain't pretty. Or funny) there are no lolz for me anymore- and the current thread about moderation makes me want to take you all to a beautiful Island, pop a cocktail in your hand and see how much you care.
I have had a wonderful time on Dis and I think you are wonderful people in your own unique ways. But with this, and my desire for lolz above all else, I would like a mod to ban me whenever he or she feels like it. Thank you so much Dis for all the fun I've had with you guys 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
Woah woah woah
Island and cocktail for everyone first. Tearful departure later.
Quitting because the forums have become too polite?
A new low... or high?
See you next week, prick
Dinner?
Gabrielle for mod
lol
The OP is wrong and awful in so many ways
well this was pretty inevitable
have you tried Taki Mag?
i love when people ask to be banned
is your self control so horrible that you can't stop yourself going to a website? get a grip.
It's just a nice neat way to wrap it up
yeah at least ban yourself, ffs
Thank fuck.
<3
I'll have a woo woo and parasol pls
I'm gonna supply everyone with swimwear too
If I stop replying you know why. (I'm in Primark shopping)
Listen up, dipshit
and this goes to anyone else complaining about this issue:
There's no restriction on free speech or expression here. You say what you want, others respond. If you say something they think is offensive, they respond by telling you to fuck off or banning you. It is as simple as call-and-response. Post whatever you like. If you're skilful, you can post as crudely, as wantonly, as disgracefully as you want, without offending anyone and getting banned. You can voice your opinion or your suspicions while avoiding the alienation or the disaffection of your peers' identities. It takes a bit of thought and maybe a teensy bit of self-denial, but it's how communities work.
On which note, none of you are dipshits really. Dismissed.
It still aint funny though :(
Talking about all this stuff is the opposite of comedy.
today has been a wrangle, sure
but an important one
there is time enough for comedy
The world doesn't exist solely for your amusement.
pretty much this
if you want a laugh, start a thread or encourage it. people who want to talk about serious things know that they need to at least start a discussion to encourage it.
The constant moralising is tedious as fuck, agreed.
say something funny, then
you can't just take you have to give
/you can always find somewhere else that is 100% just for pure bants hhahaha funny
like this forum is what the people who use it put into it and nothing more
yeah, exactly. too many users moralising, not enough being funny.
contribute funny or go elsewhere you say?
no
it's very selfish to expect others to satisfy your needs when they can post whatever they want to (whether it gets deleted or not is another conversation completely).
put in what you want to get out of it and, you know, if you want a laugh, actively start humorous threads of take part in the threads that you think are funny
if you want to moan about other people posting what THEY WANT to post and READ then go to a forum thats more strictly moderated or niche or something
Second time that you've suggested I go to another forum
just for expressing an opinion that I prefer humorous discourse over constant socio-political campaigning.
Says it all really.
this is so obtuse as to be staggering
nobody has mentioned 'constant socio-political capaigning'
if you've a problem with whatever you deem that to be, don't bother opening those threads
start new threads
threads you deem funny
or go somewhere that is guaranteed to please you
it's actually that simple
to quote the great untrue - #doesntgetit
I mentioned it, not a nobody
Your politics seem to encroach more threads than they need to, sucking the fun out of a lot of things.
I and 90% of DiS agree with you.
Three times leave the boards request!
lol i don't even talk about politics
maybe like 1 in 100 posts
*being made to feel guilty.
make a funny joke about zxcvbnm being down the schism cravasse
saying 'gritbins', I can't :(
I don't understand why someone would make a song and dance about this
If you disagree with something argue against it. If you're not engaging with it, comment on something else. But don't go throw your toys out the pram because people aren't talking about what you specifically want to, and how you're going to leave because of it.
In conclusion where is my holiday?
hi RFWare
In response to your post- I don't disagree, and there is nothing for me to engage with at the moment (and for a good while).
I appreciate everyone is working hard to be a good person, but as I literally am here because it made me laugh, long posts about feminist rights is basically a huge change and not what I can/want to engage in.
If you read my thread about trolling Pegfoot made a great post summarising how Dis has changed. i don't think it can ever go back to the one I liked/laughed at.
YEAH BECAUSE EVERY POST IS A LONG POST ABOUT 'FEMINIST RIGHTS'
AND THERE ARE NO SHORT SHARP POSTS OF INSENSITIVE, UNCARING, POSSIBLY-HILARIOUS ABUSE, YOU CERTIFIABLE FUCKING LUNATIC CUNT PRANNY
#SSP
dashing myself on the fucking rocks of the sirenum scopuli here
i'm going to go and read the odyssey instead of waiting for someone else to reply to one of these three threads because i'm definitely not going to get any work done
good plan, i'm gonna order takeout
lost all my classical greek :(
Cool
But why tell everyone?
Because it's the nicest, easiest way
And two birds one stone if a Mod sees this and does the bad thing. (Deactivating this account)
No it's not, the easiest way is PM'ing a mod
This isn't nice this just seems like pointless attention seeking. Either way I hope you find a place that's more in tune with your sensibilities.
You're fairly new here, right?
Before this week I thought six months or so was a decent innings
Turns out most people have been on here for almost a decade, the mind literally boggles
It's all the most pointless venting anyway
Can't deny it's not enjoyable/addictive though
Would be a great shame if you left.
The only interesting woman on here nowadays.
Is it that time of year again already?
nooo, OpenTheSatellites
I like you. You're one of the good ones!
don't leave you dickhead
:) <- my best winning smile
Think I'll join you.
it's really funny how
the DiS feminist massive/'socio-political campaigners' get accused of taking things too seriously, wanting to police the boards to reflect their own interests and sensitivities, being intolerant of a diversity of opinions and levels of engagement, etcetera
correct me if i'm wrong, but pretty sure none of the 'socio-political campaigners' have ever done a dramatic leaving thread on the grounds that DiS just doesn't reflect the discourse THEY want and doesn't represent THEIR interests and waaaah you're all talking about THE WRONG THINGS SO I'M LEAVING
and okay that's everything i'm gonna say cos i am literally boring myself just by writing this. guys, you've done it: you've been tedious enough to LITERALLY DRIVE ME TO WANT TO WRITE MY DISSERTATION
no never
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4439800
:D
i actually left dis for a while
cause several people continued to make HILARIOUS sexual assault jokes about someone who had actually sexually assaulted me. might not be entirely clear from the thread you've just posted but it's in another thread from that day.
not at all embarrassed about having to leave dis for my mental health. says a lot more about dis than it does about me.
here's more details about it
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4439787
people constantly saying shit like: "Agree with most of what you've written, reasoned and points well made. Not emotive and over-reactionary like yesterday" (hadn't been at all 'over-reactionary' in the original thread. people on here had taken delight in invading others' privacy). like, imagine actually commenting on that with "agree with most of what you've written" when someone has just done a big post about how upsetting it is that people trivialize their assault.
i bet this post gets ignored as well.
Gringo always struck me as a bit of a prick
the kind whose unpleasantness is hidden behind a ''''reasoned'''' (...) posting style.
such is the irony about his tone-policing.
like... why do people have such a problem with people who have experienced sexual assault being affected by it?
also why do some women (idk, probably dealing with internalised sexism/ 12 year olds who say 'i'm not like the other girls' and 'i prefer to be friends with boys') who constantly sling shit at others who makes reference to the fact that it's something they've experienced/experience on a day-to-day basis.
the latter's pretty upsetting. the various proactive feminists here are fighting for GR's rights too, but she's so removed from the reality of things that she doesn't get that it's hugely important to have serious discussions. humour has to take a back-seat some times, it's one of the biggest obstacles to genuine progress.
I know girls irl who don't understand or appreciate a lot of the issues that affect them, which shows how ingrained patriarchy is. like one girl who remarked upon a rape story in a tabloid paper and expressed her opinion, but it was pure victim-blaming. couldn't believe I was having to explain it to her. :(
the former... people (men, mostly) seem to get personally offended at any expression of anger, as if it's aimed at them specifically. need to learn to check themselves and empathise more readily.
wow
Parsefone's post in the initial thread. really not sure how he's still a mod.
cause most people on here arent actually feminists
when was he made a mod?
can't have been long after those posts gb linked to the other day.
I know this place was pretty backwards then, but that's a fucking grave error of judgement.
is he one of the ones who always says something really irritating like
'your posts have really made me think about feminist issues'.
always cringe when the male posters of DiS say that.
i don't think he even says that tbh
do find it a bit pathetic when people say they agree with "90% of what [i] say". love to know what the 10% they dont agree with is.
i'm proud of you x
this is just really embarrassing (for OTS).
... urgh jesus christ, though (people actually behave this way -- on a blimmin' forum?!),
imo the ones that like talking about serious political stuff
are on average a lot funnier than the ones who dont.
can't imagine how boring this place would be if it was exclusively full of people who find it funny to talk about stuff like what type of metal their spatulas are made out of, which is what a lot of people seem to want.
i don't get why people seem to think it's impossible to chat about serious things in a non serious manner, which i think the majority of good threads basically on the entire internet have been
i think DiSers in general seem to be kind of humourless in general actually
remember when i made a taylor swift thread the other day i called her the 'aphex twin of my generation' and a load of people posted in the thread going "ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS?! THAT'S THE STUPIDEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD!!!"
that's because even on a non-serious level
it's a really stupid thing to say.
It doesn't matter either way
The mods must have deleted those replies from a load of people anyway, so we're all good: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4452640
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4452640#r8248287
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4452640#r8250298
:D
come on, soft lad. if you're going to claim the screeching fanaticism isn't entirely serious, you can surely see that reply isn't entirely serious
I know, I was disappointed by the lack of good bites too
It was a killer set-up.
man, the squares in that thread make me want to like pop music more
I think you'll find my response to that was a stone cold pearler
yeah people complaining about the lack of humour on here
are just failing to see humour in things. no offence but it does tend to be the really tedious, quite thick people.
This was the 69th post
hue hue hue
no it wasn't
Mine wasn't
Darwindudes was... unless it wasn't.... but the WAS a 69 post here.
nah, incandenza's was the 69th post
I'd like to congratulate incandenza
for helping lightening the mood
The funniest users of this forum are the trolls tbh
i think it depends because some people who are called trolls aren't even trolls they're just not very introspective
I guess I'm just a naturally funny guy
there's a Stephen Wright-esque pause between that line and this line.
you don't really mean "no offence" here, do you?
;)
I'd love to see Taylor Swift taking up the rubber bands on the face look, or maybe cavorting in a video with her face, but Richard James' body in a bikini.
it's cos most people on here are quite old
Good to see, as usual, 1/3rd of this thread is now about feminists rights/opinion
You couldn't make it up. But it's ok, cause, in between arguing about this drivel, DD has posted a thread today 'breasts' where breasts are to be discussed.
No humour, just feminism, socio-political bullying, and then some breasts and vag chat as compo for the guys you spent all day bullying.
Ban me already. You ruined a good website, girls. Well done.
Is it one in, one out now? Didn't realise this place was so popular. I'll give you my space, if you like.
I'll pat you on the head and tell you you're pretty too, if that's what you'd like.
your misogyny wont keep you warm tonight, moz
'feminists rights'
http://ecoopportunity.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Banging-your-head-against-a-wall.jpg
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4453452#r8271464
💁
Personally, I think feminists should be allowed
the same rights as everyone else.
WELCOME BACK!
Now we know that she's going to be lurking anyway
Can she get her ban wish so she at least won't be tell us about it all the time?
You could start humorous threads or only visit threads that are so
If you're complaining about a right to be misogynistic then you should probably leave.
But I'm sure this has been said upthread somewhere.
my 12th account is leaving for good!!!!!!!!!
Your wish is my command.
Also, JFC, no one's forcing you to read or participate in certain threads. Christ.
*sexploitation flick voiceover*
YOU HAVE BEEN TROLLED BY
THE SOCIO-POLITICAL / FEMINIST BULLY CREW 2K14
http://i.imgur.com/P302Wdt.jpg
XXX