• Moving Forward

    From Neofree@VERT to All on Friday, August 16, 2024 19:09:17
    Hello everyone,

    I wanted to take a moment to summarize my thoughts and responses in a new post. I've seen a lot of activity across various threads, and I think it's important to address a few key points moving forward. If anyone wants to revisit previous discussions, feel free, but I'll be focusing on how we can improve our debates here.

    Some have suggested that I belong on Reddit. I want to clarify that I've been part of this BBS community for decades and deeply value the diverse perspectives here. I'm not seeking an echo chamber; I'm here to engage in meaningful debate, and I believe this community is capable of that.

    I've been accused of trying to avoid debate by making provocative statements and then moving on quickly. I assure you, that was never my intention. My goal was to spark a lively discussion, and I'm here to engage fully with anyone willing to have a constructive conversation.

    It's been noted that toxicity is present in this forum. I agree that it can sometimes derail our discussions. My hope is that we can steer away from personal attacks and focus on the issues, making this forum a more welcoming space for everyone.

    Debate is most productive when it challenges ideas, not individuals. I encourage everyone, including myself, to keep our discussions centered on the issues at hand and to respect differing opinions, even when we strongly disagree.

    Moving forward, I'm committed to maintaining a respectful tone in all my interactions here. I hope we can all do the same, ensuring that this forum remains a place for thoughtful and civil debate. Let's keep our focus on the topics that matter and leave personal attacks out of the conversation.

    Additionally, I'm currently working on modernizing and re-releasing GT-PowerBBS, as I am the rights holder, and getting back into BBS communities. I'll likely be connecting to DOVE-Net, so I'm looking forward to interacting with many of you in that space as well.

    Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I look forward to continuing our discussions in a more constructive and respectful manner. This community has potential, and I hope we can work together to make it a better place for meaningful debate.

    Thanks,

    Neofree

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Neofree on Saturday, August 17, 2024 08:49:00
    -=> Neofree wrote to All <=-

    <SNIP drivel>

    Ne> It's been noted that toxicity is present in this forum. I agree that it
    Ne> can sometimes derail our discussions. My hope is that we can steer away
    Ne> from personal attacks and focus on the issues, making this forum a more
    Ne> welcoming space for everyone.

    <SNIP more drivel>

    You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in
    Texas, you couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions printed on the
    heel. You are a canker, an open wound. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be
    seen with you. You took your last vacation in the Islets of Langerhans.

    You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm
    deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, and a
    weasel. I take that back; you are a festering pustule on a weasel's rump. Your
    life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a
    sour lemon.

    I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as
    you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of
    you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile,
    worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this
    earth. You are a technicolor yawn. And did I mention that you smell?

    You are a squeaking rat, a mistake of nature and a heavy-metal bagpipe player.
    You were not born. You were hatched into an unwilling world that rejects the
    likes of you. You didn't crawl out of a normal egg, either, but rather a mutant
    maggot egg rejected by an evil scientist as being below his low standards. Your
    alleged parents abandoned you at birth and then died of shame in recognition of
    what they had done to an unsuspecting world. They were a bit late.

    Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress
    us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be
    available to readers, but they will be able to access it ever so much more
    rapidly. If cluelessness were crude oil, your scalp would be crawling with
    caribou.

    You are a thick-headed trog. I have seen skeet with more sense than you have.
    You are a few bricks short of a full load, a few cards short of a full deck, a
    few bytes short of a full core dump, and a few chromosomes short of a full
    human. Worse than that, you top-post. God created houseflies, cockroaches,
    maggots, mosquitos, fleas, ticks, slugs, leeches, and intestinal parasites,
    then he lowered his standards and made you. I take it back; God didn't make
    you. You are Satan's spawn. You are Evil beyond comprehension, half-living in
    the slough of despair. You are the entropy which will claim us all. You are a
    green-nostriled, crossed eyed, hairy-livered, goisher kopf, inbred
    trout-defiler. You make Ebola look good.

    You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and
    profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look
    down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic,
    starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. You are not ANSI
    compliant and your markup doesn't validate. You have a couple of address lines
    shorted together. You should be promoted to Engineering Manager.

    Do you really expect your delusional and incoherent ramblings to be read?
    Everyone plonked you long ago. Do you fantasize that your tantrums and
    conniption fits could possibly be worth the $0.000000001 worth of electricity
    used to send them? Your life is one big W.O.M.B.A.T., and your future doesn't
    look promising either. We need to trace your bloodline and terminate all
    siblings and cousins in order to cleanse humanity of your polluted genes. The
    good news is that no normal human would ever mate with you, so we won't have to
    go into the sewers in search of your git.

    You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious.
    You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a
    meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a loathsome disease, a
    drooling inbred cross-eyed toesucker. You make Quakers shout and strike
    Pentecostals silent. You have a version 1.0 mind in a version 6.13 world. Your
    mother had to tie a pork chop around your neck just to get your dog to play
    with you. You think that www.GuyMacon.com/flame.html is the name of a rock
    band. You believe that P.D.Q. Bach is the greatest composer who ever lived. You
    prefer L. Ron Hubbard to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Hee-Haw is too deep
    for you. You would watch test patterns all day if the other inmates would let
    you.

    On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in
    all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank
    and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. Spammers look down on you. Phone sex
    operators hang up on you. Telemarketers refuse to be seen in public with you.
    You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever
    you go. May you choke on your own foolish opinions. You are a Pusillanimous
    galactophage and you wear your sister's training bra. Don't bother opening the
    door when you leave - you should be able to slime your way out underneath. I
    hope that when you get home your mother runs out from under the porch and bites
    you.

    You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You
    grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish
    foot-licking half-twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless
    crook-pated tosser. You bloody churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You craven
    dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You
    gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted
    clapper-clawed flirt-gill. You jetere steatopygous pilgarlick hircine
    whigmaleerious rhadamanthine lintlicker. I refer you to the reply given in the
    case of Arkell v. Pressdram.

    You are so clueless that if you dressed in a clue skin, doused yourself in clue
    musk, and did the clue dance in the middle of a field of horny clues at the
    height of clue mating season, you still would not have a clue. If you were a
    movie you would be a double feature; _Battlefield_Earth_ and _Moron_Movies_II_.
    You would be out of focus.

    You are a fiend and a sniveling coward, and you have bad breath. You are the
    unholy spawn of a bandy-legged hobo and a syphilitic camel. You wear strangely
    mismatched clothing with oddly placed stains. You are degenerate, noxious and
    depraved. I feel debased just knowing that you exist. I despise everything
    about you, and I wish you would go away. You are jetsam who dreams of becoming
    flotsam. You won't make it. I beg for sweet death to come and remove me from a
    world which became unbearable when the bioterrorists designed you.

    It is hard to believe how incredibly stupid you are. Stupid as a stone that the
    other stones make fun of. So stupid that you have traveled far beyond stupid as
    we know it and into a new dimension of stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid cubed.
    Trans-stupid stupid. Stupid collapsed to a singularity where even the stupons
    have collapsed into stuponium. Stupid so dense that no intelligence can escape.
    Singularity stupid. Blazing hot summer day on Mercury stupid. You emit more
    stupid in one minute than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. It
    cannot be possible that anything in our universe can really be this stupid.
    This is a primordial fragment from the original big stupid bang. A pure extract
    of stupid with absolute stupid purity. Stupid beyond the laws of nature. I must
    apologize. I can't go on. This is my epiphany of stupid. After this experience,
    you may not hear from me for a while. I don't think that I can summon the
    strength left to mock your moronic opinions and malformed comments about boring
    trivia or your other drivel. Duh.

    The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most
    of your of what you wrote, because, well ... it didn't really say anything.
    Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really,
    stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly
    effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell,
    and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that
    many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of
    mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this
    world who find these things to be difficult. If I had known that this was true
    in your case then I would have never have exposed myself to what you wrote. It
    just wouldn't have been "right." Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I
    wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to
    be placing such a demand on you.

    P.S.: You are hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly,
    deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome, despicable, belligerent,
    opportunistic, barratrous, contemptible, criminal, fascistic, bigoted, racist,
    sexist, avaricious, tasteless, idiotic, brain-damaged, imbecilic, insane,
    arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, byzantine, conspiratorial,
    satanic, fraudulent, libelous, bilious, splenetic, spastic, ignorant, clueless,
    EDLINoid, illegitimate, harmful, destructive, dumb, evasive, double-talking,
    devious, revisionist, narrow, manipulative, paternalistic, fundamentalist,
    dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, cultic, diseased, suppressive, controlling,
    restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, dyspeptic, stifling,
    uncaring, plantigrade, grim, unsympathetic, jargon-spouting, censorious,
    secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, arassive, poisonous, flagrant,
    self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, pinguid, and Generally
    Not Good.



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  • From Denn@VERT/OUTWEST to Neofree on Monday, August 19, 2024 20:28:02
    Neofree >I wanted to take a moment to summarize my thoughts and responses in a
    new post. I've seen a lot of activity across various threads, and I think it's
    important to address a few key points moving forward. If anyone wants to
    revisit previous discussions, feel free, but I'll be focusing on how we can
    improve our debates here.

    Some have suggested that I belong on Reddit. I want to clarify that I've been
    part of this BBS community for decades and deeply value the diverse
    perspectives here. I'm not seeking an echo chamber; I'm here to engage in
    meaningful debate, and I believe this community is capable of that.

    I think a lot of people turned on you over the way you were slobbering over
    Kamala.

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  • From SYS64738 to Neofree on Tuesday, August 20, 2024 00:07:48

    > Hello everyone,

    > I wanted to take a moment to summarize my thoughts and responses in a new
    > post. I've seen a lot of activity across various threads, and I think it's
    > important to address a few key points moving forward. If anyone wants to
    > revisit previous discussions, feel free, but I'll be focusing on how we can
    > improve our debates here.

    > Some have suggested that I belong on Reddit. I want to clarify that I've been
    > part of this BBS community for decades and deeply value the diverse
    > perspectives here. I'm not seeking an echo chamber; I'm here to engage in
    > meaningful debate, and I believe this community is capable of that.

    > I've been accused of trying to avoid debate by making provocative statements
    > and then moving on quickly. I assure you, that was never my intention. My
    > goal was to spark a lively discussion, and I'm here to engage fully with
    > anyone willing to have a constructive conversation.

    > It's been noted that toxicity is present in this forum. I agree that it can
    > sometimes derail our discussions. My hope is that we can steer away from
    > personal attacks and focus on the issues, making this forum a more welcoming
    > space for everyone.

    > Debate is most productive when it challenges ideas, not individuals. I
    > encourage everyone, including myself, to keep our discussions centered on the
    > issues at hand and to respect differing opinions, even when we strongly
    > disagree.

    > Moving forward, I'm committed to maintaining a respectful tone in all my
    > interactions here. I hope we can all do the same, ensuring that this forum
    > remains a place for thoughtful and civil debate. Let's keep our focus on the
    > topics that matter and leave personal attacks out of the conversation.

    While I appreciate your sentiment, the only way to avoid being offended is to
    not participate.