... and so it goes ...

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[alt92]

The owner of a private website can enforce rules the way they choose.

It's amusing tho, watching the self-righteous preach and claim that their shit smells better than everybody else's.

 

[cowslinger64]

It's human nature. We tend to not really mind when someone else is ox is being gored. Especially if we don't like that particular person or their ox.

LTR said something valid to that effect in the Lance thread. She may or may not have a word with Sean when he says something odious.

Cowslinger pointed out how vicious Lance had been to him. I remember watching it at the time and frankly I was glad. That doesn't make me a good person by any stretch of the imagination.

He wasn't vicious, no more so than you.. what he showed me was I don't care enough or have the time enough to scour through posts made years and years ago by someone in order to post something. I never cared that you did that, it only showed how truly pathetic you were.. and lance showed how pathetic he was. I posted those things never thinking anyone could be such a loser to re-post them like that.. but those were things I said, it didn't bother me saying them the first time, so why would I care?

You completely and utterly made a fool of yourself on the playground, so I hope you enjoyed yourself.. I can't really say I was glad about it, tho you did deserve ever bit of it. By the time lance came along, I'd just about had enough of the silliness so he never got to have as much fun (lol) as you.

You're still a troll and so was lance up til the end.. and I've gone on and created a great life.. Who wins here?

 

[Bert Notorius]

Actually I did not enjoy it. I had different opinion privately with people I liked over this matter on more than one occasion and publicly on others. I remember it me rather unpopular at one stage because I respectfully pointed out it was not nice whether or not we liked a person to some one I liked ( later became fb friends with for a while) . The only posts of such nature I ever found amusing were those directed AT me. Because I knew the lack of validity of them. And I think at least one poster might vouch for my lack of any resentment over such.


As for deleting stuff, it’s for a reason other than ‘ regretting being too open’. I am not ashamed to be me. I am actually increasingly proud of it. I have been braver than many and I feel I have acted with integrity, something even those who take a stance different to mine might be forced to admit if they tried to empathise. I have surely behaved poorly at times; I am no angel nor ever pretended to be. And certainly I have been in a very difficult situation and making poor choices in recent months in my behaviour and certainly behaved... in increasingly taut ways. But, You know, I am looking around and ...I don’t have envy . I still like my drum’s beat the best for me.

Any way; I to not plan to return to be a litster; . I had a message from two people I have popped on to return.

Why is the Gb this state? I would say because we failed to self police. Witty snark? Fine; but hurtful snipes? People who find that amusing I think are part of the problem.

Have a great week every one .

some would say
it is because
you chose to
selectively
police.

 

[butters]

the uptick in bans is creating chaos amongst those naturally driven to rebel. they're all testing their luck and no more shits and free passes are given.

the people wiping their own accounts clean, have always done so and will continue, as they regret what they publicly posted. or regret the words they gave out freely. the cum is already spent and dried on the floor.

people threatening to leave if something isn't done, because they are what "makes the GB great."

don't let the alts smack your ass on the way out.

i've removed some of my posts for entirely different reasons than suggested here, and if it weren't so time-consuming would remove more of them. now i simply can't be arsed.

who is threatening to leave if something isn't done?

I don't care for the tactic at all. First, you have those hurling unfounded accusations in an effort to wound their internet opponents. That seems a pretty despicable subject to even delve into simply to score some sort of meaningless internet points.

Then you have another tier of posters who will go right up to the line using veiled references and vague innuendos, seemingly to display that they have a vaunted position here and are untouchable. Really, neither the fact that the innuendos are veiled nor the fact that they might actually be favored is responsible for those comments standing. It is simply the fact that there were not multiple reports of the post. Some probably don't report because it feels silly and petty to report a vague innuendo. That leads to more of the finger an inch from the nose, "But I'm not TOUCHING him, mom!" Childish, and poor repayment to our hostess.

Then tier three, those offended that the "favored" are "getting away with it" test the line by talking about people talking about someone talking about things they should not. Now two steps removed from tier one despicables, their meta-commentary gets reported with far greater enthusism by their usually large antifan base, leading to more charges of nepotism.

A lot of ignore, with behind the scenes reporting is the most effective way this community can self-police. It starves the fire of oxygen. I've done that at times well to good effect, just not so much lately.

my ignore list is huge. the problem with that being a lot of people i may interact with now and again from it may make posts that should be reported but i don't see it - therefore i don't report it, and then because others often have the same people on ignore the scumbags continue posting their lies and general nastiness.

OR i've had it out with posters publicly, like rob and a few others, about their nastier posts - it does nothing to change them and i am not responsible for them so don't bother getting involved anymore. the whole thing between the two of you (and some true lowlifers who chime in with their insults) is so boring, so ridiculous, it's never worth my while to read it anymore.

 

[Bookishleigh]

There is that other "super secret" place everyone can go to, but keeps coming back from.

I think some just complain about the drama, make their half-hearted attempt to go elsewhere, and then come back for, what, the drama? Or maybe it's just dull if everyone has the same herd mentality and our differences are what keep it interesting. What's that song....you take the good, you take the bad.....

ETA: I didn't read more than a handful of responses on the first page so if anyone feels this post is directed to them, it's not.

 

[pink]

It is what it is.

 

[Richard_P_Feynman]

We all contribute to tge benefit of and detriment of by how we interact with each other. There are basically two approaches. Some people look at that as the carrot and the stick and that doesn't really work. To mix a metaphor it is the carrot and silent treatment.

Everyone's always says don't feed the troll however trolls can exist on the merest of crumbs. And there's always crumbs to be had. People quote, people laugh along with it, whatever.

Jezzi tends to post with anyone while they're making a post that is worth responding to and she tends to ignore the ones that aren't worth responding to. Kind of a selective ignore. Sometimes that improves the general discourse because the troll feels rewarded by having a reasonable discourse with someone. Carrots.

Sticks don't really work because the troll thinks he won because he got a reaction which is what he was looking for in the first place.

Ignore only works if it's the absolute silent treatment. Where significant number of people don't even acknowledge the existence. people have to make an individual choice that when any given poster crosses "x" line, they go on ignore and are never heard from or responded to again. Discussions about who's on ignore and wby defeats the point because it provides oxygen.

One of the things that was most remarkable about hashtag was her ability to get responses from just about everyone on the board me included even after being put on ignore. I mean hit the actual button and put them on ignore, ignore. Not fake hashtag ignore.

Just so we're all clear, the author of this (quoted) long-winded post is himself a troll, and an admitted alt-user who has talked about his reading of Rob's divorce papers. He definitely does not have the moral high ground he would like to project.

 

[adrina]

There is that other "super secret" place everyone can go to, but keeps coming back from.

I think some just complain about the drama, make their half-hearted attempt to go elsewhere, and then come back for, what, the drama? Or maybe it's just dull if everyone has the same herd mentality and our differences are what keep it interesting. What's that song....you take the good, you take the bad.....

ETA: I didn't read more than a handful of responses on the first page so if anyone feels this post is directed to them, it's not.

You're still my favorite drama queen.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

You're still my favorite drama queen.

I took drama in high school just so I could write a short story and kiss a girl.
I think I got a good grade.

 

[Bookishleigh]

You're still my favorite drama queen.

I'm honest and forthright. Some people don't like it. Some people can't be it.

 

[adrina]

I'm honest and forthright. Some people don't like it. Some people can't be it.

Don't ever apologize for it. It's one of the things I like about you. Or is it about me?

 

[Bidin~Time]

I've been here for way too damn long. All this hub bub has made me realize how many times, I wasn't shocked by things said to others. I read so much worse here when I first registered, that most things these days left me just rolling my eyes. Maybe that's one of those "my bad" things, and maybe my lack of shock should concern me, but it doesn't much. Shit happens and then you die, ya know?

 

[cleaver]

it is better with 'them' gone, i hear...
between the 'oh, but it's become necessary' sentimental lines.
i remain unthreatened by 'them' - whomever 'them' the them du jour might be...
i come here to be challenged
not to be coddled;
(it's the only real price in the free admission)
and am strong enough to weather whatever i might deem reprehensible.

this is about personal responsibility and...
well...
* wasted breath *, i fear;

the group has begged its deliverance.

iggy is, and always has been a baton in the struggle...
one's own voice, one's contribution,
is really the only responsible other.
...or choose - as many have - to move on....

censorship is ...oh so nefarious an instrument
once openly unholstered...
morphs from water pic
to seemingly unmanned runaway firehose...

anyone, really, could be sent to the corn.

rules. yes.
the privileges of ownership. yes.
the chimera of "free speech - no spam", even... yes.

but the ultimate responsibility remains - or rather - should remain
in our individual purview...

are there ban-able offenses? sure.

there are any number of posters i choose not to read;
others i choose not to follow...
(for whatever pecunious offense that might ignite me)
but even the ones i find reprehensible, or just tedious - or simply dull...
have, for the most part, as much standing in our free little litter box.

are there ban-able offenses... sure.

but there also seems to be a very ready vigilance brigade
with ever thinning hide
more and more itchy to find reason to push the un-like button...
( some brag of who hit the button first - "me too" - 'i'm in"!... saving... us)

bahhhhhh....

this community shows its vulnerability
(and eventual mortality)
when it craves to be a mommy state...

and it cannot be much fun...

for mommy.

 

[Bookishleigh]

(and eventual mortality)
when it craves to be a mommy state...

and it cannot be much fun...

for mommy.

This, right here. The alleged beauty of the GB is the lack of moderation and yet we have been given a GB Lounge with some amount of moderation and it still isn't enough apparently.

To quote Stephen King, "Go then. There are other worlds than these."

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

I've been here for way too damn long. All this hub bub has made me realize how many times, I wasn't shocked by things said to others. I read so much worse here when I first registered, that most things these days left me just rolling my eyes. Maybe that's one of those "my bad" things, and maybe my lack of shock should concern me, but it doesn't much. Shit happens and then you die, ya know?

I was given Lit as a place to add my crappy stories. At the same time I was warned it's a rough and tough group. Still I came, I joined, I wrote, I comment, my wife got hooked, she comments, she writes, we are not sorry we came and we stayed.
Most likely we are part of the problem. yet we feel like we are among family. And so it goes.

 

[daimoniotica]

I've been here for way too damn long. All this hub bub has made me realize how many times, I wasn't shocked by things said to others. I read so much worse here when I first registered, that most things these days left me just rolling my eyes. Maybe that's one of those "my bad" things, and maybe my lack of shock should concern me, but it doesn't much. Shit happens and then you die, ya know?

That's the thing, right? The issues discussed here, the names called, all that was so much more rancidly adult then than it's allowed to be now. The GB's rep was established by being one of the very last bastion's of actual free speech on the Internet, and that if you can't handle such free speech, then The Playground is just a click away, and - btw - adios, mofo. Remember telling petrified noobs the GB had no moderator at all - and it was true? Today, the GB is fully moderated, even to the point that posters are censored/warned/banned for no actual violation of the posted site rules at all. It's all totally subjective moderation, now, and there's no free speech in that at all.

 

[cleaver]

chris hemsworth?

btw glam...
always a great pleasure to roust you from the mucks...

may your stay be...
worth it.

 

[nowisthetime]

There is a whole world inside literotica beyond the GB. I don't understand couping oneself to a single board. This place doesn't really mean much to me, I am just here at times to thump the tiny heads of misguided rightists who have shit to say about people beyond their little bubbles. Really, I never give a thought about this place once I log off into the real world. I just shake my head incredulously believing that some people really need to travel and meet various types of cultures. Some people make it their livelihood to post threads chastising groups they hate and biased articles. These people do not get laid enough. I guess it makes them feel superior about their lowly selves.

Otherwise there are some really cool posters on here. Unfortunately, free speech comes with consequences especially during this heated time period.

 

[Rotadom]

Actually I did not enjoy it. I had different opinion privately with people I liked over this matter on more than one occasion and publicly on others. I remember it me rather unpopular at one stage because I respectfully pointed out it was not nice whether or not we liked a person to some one I liked ( later became fb friends with for a while) . The only posts of such nature I ever found amusing were those directed AT me. Because I knew the lack of validity of them. And I think at least one poster might vouch for my lack of any resentment over such.


As for deleting stuff, it’s for a reason other than ‘ regretting being too open’. I am not ashamed to be me. I am actually increasingly proud of it. I have been braver than many and I feel I have acted with integrity, something even those who take a stance different to mine might be forced to admit if they tried to empathise. I have surely behaved poorly at times; I am no angel nor ever pretended to be. And certainly I have been in a very difficult situation and making poor choices in recent months in my behaviour and certainly behaved... in increasingly taut ways. But, You know, I am looking around and ...I don’t have envy . I still like my drum’s beat the best for me.

Any way; I to not plan to return to be a litster; . I had a message from two people I have popped on to return.

Why is the Gb this state? I would say because we failed to self police. Witty snark? Fine; but hurtful snipes? People who find that amusing I think are part of the problem.

Have a great week every one .

Sounds like one hand "clapping".

 

[MelissaBaby]

There is a whole world inside literotica beyond the GB. I don't understand couping oneself to a single board. This place doesn't really mean much to me, I am just here at times to thump the tiny heads of misguided rightists who have shit to say about people beyond their little bubbles. Really, I never give a thought about this place once I log off into the real world. I just shake my head incredulously believing that some people really need to travel and meet various types of cultures. Some people make it their livelihood to post threads chastising groups they hate and biased articles. These people do not get laid enough. I guess it makes them feel superior about their lowly selves.

Otherwise there are some really cool posters on here. Unfortunately, free speech comes with consequences especially during this heated time period.

The GB is not the most unfriendly board on Lit.

 

[adrina]

The GB is not the most unfriendly board on Lit.

Agreed.

 

[neci]

i've removed some of my posts for entirely different reasons than suggested here, and if it weren't so time-consuming would remove more of them. now i simply can't be arsed.

who is threatening to leave if something isn't done?

i've only removed ones that had naked pictures, said something i felt too revealing, or was just plain drunk (although i like to keep most of those.) from the outside looking in, it looks an attempt to control the edit. i have no records other than what is here. i wonder if there is a record of the edits somewhere, or once it is gone, it is gone.

after fata was banned, many people brought up how it was not fair, or did not seem right that she got the permaban, while others got away with tons of shit. here and there calls of walking for something better. lit breaks discussed by lots of regulars. outta here's thrown. bye fuckers, see you if it ever gets better, but maybe not. more added drama, which makes people keep coming back to see who held up their words and who stayed around to toss the subject back and forth.

it's normal for oldtimers to pop back in occasionally and go, yep. still shitty in here. and poof away again. that or change names and move to the fetish lounge where people are not so pissy. i am guessing most of us have a shelf life.

 

[cleaver]

There is a whole world inside literotica beyond the GB. I don't understand couping oneself to a single board. This place doesn't really mean much to me, I am just here at times to thump the tiny heads of misguided rightists who have shit to say about people beyond their little bubbles. Really, I never give a thought about this place once I log off into the real world. I just shake my head incredulously believing that some people really need to travel and meet various types of cultures. Some people make it their livelihood to post threads chastising groups they hate and biased articles. These people do not get laid enough. I guess it makes them feel superior about their lowly selves.

Otherwise there are some really cool posters on here. Unfortunately, free speech comes with consequences especially during this heated time period.

The GB is not the most unfriendly board on Lit.

Agreed.

well said, to all...
the gb is not the all...
or the least friendly nook of lit.

but it has always been the most pulse-beat honest nook...

it has been, indeed, a most special place in the clouds.


i'm resolved by experience (if not always desire) to change...
... and so it goes ...

there are always a basket full of 'reasons' when;
most often at variance with the post-mortem...

i really know nothing - but for what my gut feels.

tides

 

[trysail]

There are assholes and mental midgets here.

So what?

There are assholes and mental midgets all over the place.

If you can't deal with the assholes and mental midgets here, you probably can't deal with 'em anywhere else. They're as much a part of life as the sun rising in the morning.


After all, as the sainted Mencken pointed out, America is "A commonwealth of morons."


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