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hayden_horn

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  1. vegas is transparent in its duplicity. there's nothing hypocritical about a place so honestly after every dollar in your pocket. nashville is a cesspool. but dammit, although garth's popularity skyrocketed country pop crap, there's still room for the dance.
  2. whatever. i'm exressing my point of view. this is a message board on the internet. serious fucking business. i'm not looking for points. i'm just laying out methodology. maybe it's because i spend my days moderating thankless fights between my sons, i dunno, but my patience for "his headline touched me" is very low. i'll just move shit to cloak room. i don't know why yall can't just go there for your politics. it's the weirdest thing.
  3. congrats. you were a bad actor and received appropriate punishment. or you got caught up in a sweep. whatever. plenty of bans were handed out in both the covid threads and the blm threads. and any number of other fucking threads. that doesn't mean that every "bannable" offense or whatever the fuck got 100% justice according to whoever. i'm not taking any fucking blame here. yall go out of your way to make this political, then bitch to me that i'm not doing it right or that i'm unfairly taking one side or another or that @immamac and/or @blacklab have some sort of inherent bias or goal or moderating objective. you know what our agenda is? leave us the fuck alone and act like fucking adults. yall argue like teenagers over stupid intangible shit, and i still don't see what the end goal is. yall expect us to somehow be perfect, and it's not possible. not only that, but you are framing and viewing our supposed lack of perfection through a lens of your own crafting, then complaining to us about the focus or lack thereof. our goal is not to treat anyone "special." jesus christ, everyone is such a victim. we try to keep the politics and the news separate to the degree possible while making the most posters as happy as possible while at the same time trying to stand by the principles of the board, of which there are remarkably few, and every one gets pissed. hell, i even made a mistake and made a trump post on a dt thread that got deleted by another mod, and rightfully so. it was a mistake and i regret making it. we are (mostly) real people here all dealing with real lives and real shit behind our fake screen names. our goal is to try and separate bad actor trolls and bots from the real people with different opinions. it's not as easy as yall might think.
  4. yes, but again, those are news events happening in real time, not a criminal indictment. it's like covering the oj chase and the oj trial. two different elements. the news story of the slow chase, then the political aspects that came out during the trial. same with blm. real protests happening in real time in cities across the nation and people dying globally with covid. you could conceivably separate news from politics, but those threads moved real fast and of course we couldn't manage to keep all that shit segregated. again, i'd rather err doing nothing than err doing something when it comes to moderator action around here.
  5. lol, yes, true nobody is treated with kid gloves around here. there's some of us doing the best we can to keep a in a forum and b in b forum but sometimes you get a + b. i know the school shooting shit makes some people mad, but there's a difference between the news of a live event (ie, a CURRENT current event happening in real time) and political news. there's a political angle to mass shootings, yes, and that's covered in CR. believe it or not, my default is to do nothing. if that's "kid gloves" then i guess that's kid gloves. i'd rather err on the side of nothing than get in a pissing match with yall. with paxton and trump prosecution stuff though, there's just no viable way to separate it.
  6. maybe. maybe not. it's not surly's job to be the arbiter of information that people need to read. we aren't over here trying to determine what is newsworthy and what isn't. we're over here trying to keep politics confined to the politics board because it infects and destroys other boards that let it. if a news event is political, it should be discussed as political, not as a "news" topic so some of you so-called sneaky fuck trolls can try to get a rise out of each other like my teenage boys. yall do that to each other on dt over and over again. "totally not a political post but totally a political post" is a thing. yall do it for reasons that are beyond me. there are no tangible reasons for yall to fight like idiots over the forum where a discussion occurs. why does it fucking matter so much?
  7. who exactly do you think is being protected here? what agenda is being pursued?
  8. i guess the only thing i have to ask is what is accomplished by discussing political news in DT? i mean, there is virtually no fucking way to separate the politics from a former president being indicted. we can talk about nixon now in DT because it's ancient fucking history. this is real time history happening in front of our eyes, and it's highly politicized. sometimes a news story is just a political news story, and it cannot be separated. what's accomplished by having a "news only" indictment of a former president thread? what is it you'll get here you won't get in CR?
  9. lol all these guys are going down thing is, multiple people were running audio on that meeting including his autobiographer (?) so he knew tape was running and just didn't care
  10. to be fair, @blacklab stays out of the politics side of the board for the most part, so he won't see what you are referencing. donkey's one of the weird ones. sometimes, he comes across as successfully sincere, but there are sooooo many bs posts of "aw shucks guys, i mean, i don't like x, but answer all these questions or address all these points" that it becomes difficult to hide after awhile. for those of you bitching about people coming back - it's amazing the time and effort people will put into burner emails and vpns to avoid bans or ip bans. it's massively mentally fucked, but people need the interaction. as to why we don't play whack a mole, it's because we rely on reported posts most of the fucking time. we don't read every post. i read WAY more than blacklab, and even then i miss hosts and hosts of content on this website. it's a big place. also, we do rely on crowd sourcing of trolls and spambots - so it's a powerful weapon you wield when you rep. 'just kidding, it's mostly bullshit, but seriously, stop chasing down old posts to neg, unless it's justified from a recently bumped thread.
  11. i've said it many times before, but i'll say it again: my default moderator action is to do nothing. there is not a single thrill that comes with moderating this board. i hate having to suspend people for posting stupid shit. it's bad enough that we are dealing with old school spammer bullshit from time to time, but you goddamn legit posters need to take a breath. i realize that some of you are legit trolls, maybe getting paid for it, maybe not, but again, my default action is to do nothing, until i see repeated behavior. i'm far more likely to respond to reported posts, as those indicate to me that this post bothered someone enough to report it. sometimes yall report things like "he called me a poopyhead," or "he told me he'd pee in my wife's butt" which is all perfectly acceptable. but often enough the reports are close enough to one of the few lines we've got here (and yeah, we started with one, and maybe have a handful now, get over it and grow up) that i hit someone with a suspension. sometimes those people get butthurt about it, won't stop and realize that 1) i'd rather that fuck around with them in the time i spend here and 2) i know whoever gets suspended is going to bitch to high heaven about how "biased" i am or some bullshit. if i've banned you, i'd advise you to have a think and if you're really bothered by it, send me a message. i'll consider and respond. i will say, generally, i have better things to do than chase down whether a cadre of posters are harassing a particular poster via pm or rep fatwa, but given that it can end very badly, i try to spend some time on it. usually, the person getting the negs are fucking pains in the ass themselves and there are no good guys to choose from. so i get to be the bad guy. it's okay. someone has to be, i guess.
  12. it's just a grift. i don't know how it works but i know it's a scam because Republicans are involved
  13. who changed the fucking chyron font? there's your answer
  14. imagine spending a decade or more slowly turning into a version of escriva.
  15. i just tried to use this to plan my trip to Greece and London. Even with flight information, it couldn't keep the days straight for sample itineraries. I was correcting the thing a lot. like it was fucking with me. i dunno.
  16. they changed the chyron font and within days the ceo is gone. generally you can do what you want in management but the font mafia is always gonna win
  17. it's well tilled ground so i won't go over it all again (shit, we are talking now in decade long time spans) but suffice it to say there's a good reason that's one of the only rules around here.
  18. i did want to address this also because it is super relevant given the age of our posters but also the continuity and 20+ years some of us have been part of this same community... things started changing "here" when shit got real and someone took their own life. i won't get into the details but the whole idea behind this community is to be edgy assholes (even back to hornfans). but there's a wonderful undercurrent of community and caring here. it's special and hard to describe. as such a self moderated and self policed community, what is acceptable has changed. and that's good. and it's going to keep changing for the better. and that's a good thing. this place was sort of founded on an ethos of go fuck yourself and die in a fire. that's changed and that's cool. tl;dr: go fuck yourself
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