#10

To answer the thread’s question, I think there have been a fair few new users.

I actually think it’s hard to expect this forum to hold a lot of people’s attention, though. Most people are on FB or Twitter or both, so for them there’s a question of what discussing stuff here with strangers offers over doing the same thing on other Social Media platforms.

For us we know the users here so that adds something to the situation.

#11

Don’t think that was proved at all and I doubt @plasticniki had the time or energy to view deep-blue’s IP addresses on the old site and compare to this Ace character. I think you’re only allowed one user account per IP anyway so as deep-blue is taken it may explain it all.

If it was about Garbage, maybe, but actually I would have expected deep-blue to apologise over the use of the ableism?

That sort of intense pro-fandom response isn’t really unique to deep-blue. I think what made his stand out was that he picked a band as bland and past it as Garbage to rally for. Grimes is much more current and more ‘expected’ as a focus of this kind of unreasoning fandom.

TL;DR, sorry.

#12

Not at all Theodore, I found your post informative and witty.

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#13

aggpass suggested perhaps he’d like to edit his post so it wasn’t so offensive, and the guy declined

there’s like 2 mods here atm, and i can’t be doing with shit like this. using slurs like that is an insta-ban for me these days.

people need to play nicer. the old DiS was a proper cesspit at times

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#14

That was almost certainly deep-blue (Ace)

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#15

I dunno, I mean I’ve tried having conversations about stuff I find interesting like books or art or music or whatever (with a certain amount of bloodymindedness), but they always seem to fizzle out, and then you come back, and it’s just full of conversations that are just these guys, but without the laughs, and 10 years older, and allowed to work in an office now, but haven’t quit with the mum jokes. So I’m not so sure why I’ve bothered, because it will just get drowned out by the Mediocre Office Bro Chat about why they hate people eating the wrong crisps or pronouncing a word a certain way or something.

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#16

Hey @plasticniki, can you please amend @anon5266188 's title to be ‘Mediocre Office Bro’. I would love that.

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#17

The fuck?

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#18

Sorry man, I meant this in jest, obviously :smiley:

#19

But still…

#20

I mean, say what you want about the quality of my content here but I have a relatively interesting job at least!

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#21

oh right, sorry, didn’t realise this forum was created purely for your specific needs.

#22

Well you fucked that up, didn’t you?

#23

don’t know what you mean man?

#24

actually, I do now.

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#25

No, but it’s just not very welcoming or engaging or interesting to a lot of people who look at it.

#26

to you, maybe not. to others, it might be. who are these ‘lot of people’ that you refer to anyway? have you done a straw poll or something. got Mori involved?

you could always do something else? read a more intelligent, thought-provoing thread perhaps?

#27

Well here’s to the influx of more identikit men who want to chat about “hurr hurr, you’re a paedo” and why they don’t enjoy things.

When people put photos of themselves, I literally couldn’t tell the difference between most of those men, and I have no issues with face recognition. Music is a pretty broad and common interest, yet this is the membership a music site with pretty broad readership has?

I had a look about an hour ago at the list of social topics and thought “there is not a single thing here I’m remotely interested in. Why am I bothering with this? Why did I bother trying to talk about other stuff?”

When you’re talking about “thought police” you’re acting like this is some kind of cutting edge radical zero-tolerance policy. Calling people racist/sexist/ableist slurs on the internet has been considered pretty unacceptable and ignorant behaviour for quite a long time now, you’re just behind the times. (And don’t make me laugh that comparing people to the Inbetweeners is like calling someone an R)

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#28

You should flag any slurs you see. One user was banned for using an ableist slur and there’s a specific thread started to request no one use ‘Paedo’ as a jovial insult (although I’ve not gone through it to see the result).

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#29

Has anyone baggsed the @needlesslydefensive username yet?

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