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When did forum moderation become a thing, anyway? I remember the wild west and nobody gave a single shit about anything that was said online in the early 90s. And then... I guess the first thing I noticed was when I joined TrekBBS back in 2000 or so and, well. It's all spiraled downward from the late 90s on I think. Most of these "mods" on Reddit or whatnot or "ops" on IRC are seriously basement dwelling zit-faced incels with zero life experience, kind of like Diacanu over at Turdforge but I don't think he has any sort of control there aside from his incessantly lame performance art schtick.

I spent several, umm, decades on IRC on various networks and I could see that said networks were being taken over by these types of irrelevant fuckwads. And yes, I was banned several times for just questioning that. Reddit somehow is even worse. Did I mention I got kicked out of r/startrek like five years ago because I said Discovery scripts were probably written with crayons?

End of rant for now.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
When did forum moderation become a thing, anyway? I remember the wild west and nobody gave a single shit about anything that was said online in the early 90s. And then... I guess the first thing I noticed was when I joined TrekBBS back in 2000 or so and, well. It's all spiraled downward from the late 90s on I think. Most of these "mods" on Reddit or whatnot or "ops" on IRC are seriously basement dwelling zit-faced incels with zero life experience, kind of like Diacanu over at Turdforge but I don't think he has any sort of control there aside from his incessantly lame performance art schtick.

I spent several, umm, decades on IRC on various networks and I could see that said networks were being taken over by these types of irrelevant fuckwads. And yes, I was banned several times for just questioning that. Reddit somehow is even worse. Did I mention I got kicked out of r/startrek like five years ago because I said Discovery scripts were probably written with crayons?

End of rant for now.
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Hell, it has come to the point where I miss actual moderation. I didn't really start posting significantly until a little after 2000 and back in those days if you, I dunno, called someone a pedophile or whatever, you'd get a "friendly" and if you did it again you'd get a formal warning. If you got enough warnings you got a time-out of an hour or two, then maybe a day, a week, a month. Only in the most rare and egregious cases did anyone ever get permabanned. Now days if you say something TPTB disagree with, POOF! disappeared.

Since I'm on it, I'll also say I liked substantitive rep--both positive and negative. The people that did away with it argued that rep was meaningless, but if they really believed that then why did they need to do away with it. Behavior might not rise to the level of moderation but if enough people got together and started negrepping as often as not behavior could be influenced. Giving someone red dots under their name and taking away their ability to dispense substantitive rep was an effective way to influence behavior.
 
I thought of a concept for a sci fi film, a device that I call a time segmenter. Which takes a moment in time and dishes it out a second at a time.

I imagine the film starts with some shitty country carrying out an above ground test of a nuclear bomb despite the ban.

A second after detonation the explosion vanishes leaving them confused and alarmed

Later in a city somewhere in the world, the next second of detonation happens, buildings explode, fires start, the blast wave spreads out but the initial explosion vanishes almost as soon as it starts.

This happens in two other cities, then the demands start coming in to the world governments, do what they say or more cities will fall.

That's all I got
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
When did forum moderation become a thing, anyway? I remember the wild west and nobody gave a single shit about anything that was said online in the early 90s. And then... I guess the first thing I noticed was when I joined TrekBBS back in 2000 or so and, well. It's all spiraled downward from the late 90s on I think. Most of these "mods" on Reddit or whatnot or "ops" on IRC are seriously basement dwelling zit-faced incels with zero life experience, kind of like Diacanu over at Turdforge but I don't think he has any sort of control there aside from his incessantly lame performance art schtick.

I spent several, umm, decades on IRC on various networks and I could see that said networks were being taken over by these types of irrelevant fuckwads. And yes, I was banned several times for just questioning that. Reddit somehow is even worse. Did I mention I got kicked out of r/startrek like five years ago because I said Discovery scripts were probably written with crayons?

End of rant for now.
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When Aaron Sorkin was producing The West Wing, he got his first real taste of fansites and forums/moderators. At first he interacted with them, but quickly learned his lesson and ran screaming from them (namely TWoP - Television Without Pity). He eventually worked out his frustrations in an episode...

 
I miss the old forum days, where people said what they wanted, we laughed at (or with) the "trolls", we posted silly shit all the time, and it was all SO FUN. I think facebook wrecked the fun, because so many people trustingly friended their forum friends, and then their irl was compromised. It was so weird. We all used to protect our PI so carefully, and then all of the sudden people were telling the whole world the private details of their lives.

ANYWAY, this is so cool

 
The Dog wanted to go for a walk, in spite of it raining like a bastard out and her having apparently strained a muscle in her front right paw. Because that's what we do in the afternoon. Dogs are creatures of habit. Luckily for me she does have some sense and we got about 8 feet out the front gate and she decided it was too wet for a walk and turned around to go back to the house.

Now I've got to try to get some stuff done. Unfortunately I'm also a creature of habit and after the Saturday afternoon dog walk I go get groceries and I don't want to go out in the rain and get groceries. So I should clean house, read e-mails, and pay bills, but the cruddy grey weather and being old and weak makes me just want to curl up in bed and nap until it stops raining--likely sometime tomorrow.
 
Back in the 80s and early 90s, TSR had a Marvel Superheroes roleplaying game. I only played it a few times a long long time ago, but I remember it being a pretty slick and innovative game system that very playable and fun. One of the coolest features actually seemed stupid to me at the time. One of your character traits was "Resources." So college student Peter Parker couldn't buy the sorts of things millionaire playboy Tony Stark could, for example. And I sorta got that (I should've understood it a lot better, given that I had a list of comic books I wanted to buy that I had to wait until I had the money for but that's another story) but I didn't understand how, say, Tony Stark had any limits to his resources. He could have anything he wanted, right?

Of course over the last 10 or 20 years I've really come to appreciate that aspect of the gameplay because I understand it so much better these days. I make OK money (maybe not compared to some of my peers and associates, but compared to undergrad me...) but I also spend OK money to keep everything on track. Mind wandering as I'm socked in by this daylong thunderstorm and daydreaming about things I could buy but checking those thoughts with "first you need to rebuild your emergency fund and start paying down your home loan principal" and thinking about how the money gets spent as fast as it comes in and now I really understand that aspect of the Marvel Superheroes game. I'd actually enjoy playing it again. I suspect it would hold up rather well. Might have to see if I can find a copy on eBay.
 
Combing through Facebook to delete out content to spite Zuck, I came up with this witticism from May 2020: I want to get a .25 Beretta and name it "Covid-19"--it'll hit pretty much anyone if you get close enough, but it won't kill most people.
 
Volpone said:
Back in the 80s and early 90s, TSR had a Marvel Superheroes roleplaying game. I only played it a few times a long long time ago, but I remember it being a pretty slick and innovative game system that very playable and fun. One of the coolest features actually seemed stupid to me at the time. One of your character traits was "Resources." So college student Peter Parker couldn't buy the sorts of things millionaire playboy Tony Stark could, for example. And I sorta got that (I should've understood it a lot better, given that I had a list of comic books I wanted to buy that I had to wait until I had the money for but that's another story) but I didn't understand how, say, Tony Stark had any limits to his resources. He could have anything he wanted, right?

Of course over the last 10 or 20 years I've really come to appreciate that aspect of the gameplay because I understand it so much better these days. I make OK money (maybe not compared to some of my peers and associates, but compared to undergrad me...) but I also spend OK money to keep everything on track. Mind wandering as I'm socked in by this daylong thunderstorm and daydreaming about things I could buy but checking those thoughts with "first you need to rebuild your emergency fund and start paying down your home loan principal" and thinking about how the money gets spent as fast as it comes in and now I really understand that aspect of the Marvel Superheroes game. I'd actually enjoy playing it again. I suspect it would hold up rather well. Might have to see if I can find a copy on eBay.
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I remember wanting to play that game but my friends and family wanted to play D&D, Star Trek, Star Frontier and Gamma World. Dralasite named Aaaaaaargh! armed to the teeth with various grenades, you are missed.
 
Does any contemporary radio not suck? Overall I do not regret moving from Portland OR to Louisville KY but one of the things I miss is the radio stations. 2-3 years after moving, I started hearing songs that were on the air in Oregon before I moved. There is an Indiana high school station that is pretty interesting and the other day they played some Mumford and Sons and I'd forgotten how good they were. Sad that they broke up because their banjo player wasn't woke enough.

Also jazz. There is allegedly a jazz station in Louisville but it must be very low power because I can't get it on my car or at my house and I need jazz in my car. It keeps me from murdering stupid people. I need a jazz station and a classical station. Because the classical station might start playing Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" and give me "Apocalypse Now" flashbacks and the jazz station might be playing the "Peter Gunn" theme and give me "Spyhunter" flashbacks. So far I have never had the classical station playing "Ride of the Valkyries" at the same time the jazz station is playing "Peter Gunn."
 
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