Does Anyone Still Post at TrekBBS?

Your translations are just more of your made up bullshit you pull here on a daily basis. Keep your fantasies and projections to yourself.

If I razzed someone else, and that someone was liberal, you'd be shitting your pants with joy.

Wow, FF's obsessive rage boner for trans people really can get shoehorned into any topic, can't it?

In other news, wow, TrekBBS really wants me to enable push notifications.

Depends on who they are and what they said. More than likely I’d agree with them because you are a far left extremist.

For you "far left extremist" = "Alligator Alcatraz doesn't make you blast cum".

Me: "People shouldn't be deported because they're brown."
MAGA Conservatives: "You make me so fucking sick, you extremist."

Absolutely. The few interactions I had with her and the higher-up staff there a while back were...not pleasant. Registering as a dual was probably not as big a deal as they made it out to be, particularly in 2018 or so when the site was long past its glory days. But their site, their rules, whatever. Still, it wasn't staff who made me leave the place, it was obnoxious posters in TNZ.

I guess it all comes down to how well you're liked. When you're part of the in-group, it's not bullying, it's taking out the trash, but yeah, being on the receiving end hurts like a motherfucker.

Still, you don't spend 10+ years on a message board and not form relationships with people. Even after all of this time away, I miss quite a few people over there. Good people.

There are good people here, too. I came back when Garamet passed. She was someone I deeply admired, and her passing made me miss all most many some several of you.

All those trannies living rent free in your head...

I think this whole era is drawing to a close. Which is crazy to me because it seems like yesterday that I was posting on TK, bitching about Trekbbs. There are so many people who have passed that I wish I had a final conversation with. DEA, Garamet, Tamar. I think Tamar and DEA hit me the hardest and why I've come back here and to TK part time. I always knew Tamar was sick but I honestly never thought she'd pass away. She was so outspoken and took care of her health way more than I do. She always seemed on top of things. DEA was basically the same age as me and lived in the town where I was born. It was kind of a gut punch to hear he died of cancer. What's concerning is that I have a feeling it might have been pollution from the paper mill that caused his cancer and I've been exposed to the same chemicals. So that ain't good.

People aren’t being deported because they’re brown.

Right. They're being deported because they're not white. Get your facts straight, Wordforge! /s

Yeah, it really is. I used to make the little movie and TV credit videos here, adding Wordforge users and giving them silly characters just to have fun with people, and so many on that list are now gone. Dead. It's really sad to think about.

Ones attitude dictates the response one gets...
You really burned a lot of bridges at TBBS before they banned you with your attitude at the time...

The attitude of being against a genocide and speaking up for people who were being murdered.
More to the point, if attitude were enough to get people banned, 90% of that board would have been tossed a decade ago, including Bonz herself.

Nah, Bonz was personally offended, and didn't even hesitate when I questioned her demand that I stop, and yeah, it was a demand. 20 years. I wasn't a troll, wasn't a spam bot, and generally followed the rules, and that one incident was enough to get me banned? It was personal.

Hell, she came here to gloat about it. Remember?

It's an echo chamber, not being in line with the echo - whatever that might be gets you ganged up on - I saw it numerous times (I don't just mean to me) - remember CrazyEwoks treatment because he voted Brexit for example?

I do not remember that, actually. It's been a while.

That said, I don't mind when there's a large group of people who generally agree on most things, that's not the issue. Quite frankly, there are things we should agree on in general. The problem comes when someone deviates even slightly and then you have 20 or 30 people who have decided your previously reasonable posts are now just unacceptable. We see it in politics all of the time. Look how fast people change their opinions based on what they're told in the news rather than actually examining the evidence and asking questions.

When the terror attacks happened in the US on 9/11, I was at the height of my devout Christianity, and yet when I started seeing Muslims painted with the broad brush of being these hateful, violent people who want to kill us for our freedoms, I contacted CAIR and requested a Qur'an. I wanted to know how these people saw the world. I started talking to Muslims, listened to their perspectives, and found out the general narrative that they hate us for our freedoms was absolute horseshit.

Speaking up about it at the time, though, got you tarred and feathered in social circles. You were an appeaser, a terrorist sympathizer. The tune hasn't changed in the 24 years since, just as it hadn't the 50 years previous during the McCarthy era. None of this is new, none of it has changed, there will always be people in authority who get pissed if you move against the prevailing narrative, and there are people who are just as willing to back up that authority because they've equated that authority with morality.

Echo chambers are an end result of that in social media circles, but it honestly depends upon the kind of people in that social circle. Is it an echo chamber that I want to surround myself with people who are pro-transgender, pro-civil rights? I guess, in a way, it could be, but at the same time, who wants to listen to a guy telling people they're going to burn in hell for loving someone of the same sex? So "echo chamber" doesn't always fit in the way some think it should.

Sometimes it really does come down to just not wanting some guy to tell you that you shouldn't inconvenience him by existing and people agreeing with that.

Based on her posts here regarding the Israel/Palestinian situation, I can't think of many forums where she wouldn't get banned.

While the few interactions I had with her on TrekBBS were pretty negative, I wouldn't have cared much if it hadn't felt so personal. You would have thought I was trying to crash the board and kill her puppy by registering a dual twice because I am horrible at remembering account details. At least I learned my lesson, though--there was no defending yourself over there. Once you got the scarlet letter it was best to keep your head down and not draw attention to yourself.

Sounds like a fun party where do I sign up?? Is Bonnie Blu gonna be there?

he was watching strap on porn and then about halfway through realized it wasn't strap on porn after all...

same with the next 12 times he logged in

Well, it's funny, because attitude is often subjective. One can be very polite while condemning thousands of people to their deaths.
One can have a George Carlin vocabulary while defending the rights of the oppressed.

Attitude is a fickle thing and depends upon the viewer more than anything. How often have we seen people ask an honest question and have it taken as an insult, or someone be a sealion pretending to ask an "honest question" while being as hateful and derogatory as they can be?

Context is king. That's where the real power of the message lives.

For me, as someone who is autistic, I'm always asking all kinds of honest questions and, for some reason, that makes certain people really angry.

@spot261 once mentioned that when I would say something there was always a second meaning behind it, and that's true. I don't usually say anything unless I've already worked out the thought process, and at times there is a message for the target of my question, and usually there's a message for the people I'm supporting in that same sentence.

But I always mean what I say.

Remember, it's not gay as long as the balls aren't touching.

You became an asshole before you got banned...

Being an asshole, alone, isn't usually a reason to be banned or, again, 90% of the board would be banned.
Oh, and it was TNZ. I certainly recall you being an asshole many times, or is that different?

Half of TNZ was full of people who could get hateful and angry, and would gang up on others. You want them gone? You want TNZ gone?

I think your outrage is selective.

No, no, no no, no

You don't get to complain about your ban

You were given a choice - take that river to sea message out of your sig or be banned

You chose to keep it

Open and shut case, no wiggle room

I left TrekBBS like a decade ago after having a melt down, and I never returned for several reasons.

The melt down: I made some posts in Misc. about dating being frustrating. In particular, a pattern I noticed in which I'd meet someone, it seemed like there was romantic interest, but there was hesitation, then, seemingly out of no where, there'd come a "I'm not interested in you and I never was," and sometimes a "you seemed lonely and I thought it would boost your confidence if I pretended to be interested in you for a bit." Somehow, this was interpreted as I refused to acknowledge rejection and was stalking people who clearly weren't interested. I tried explaining that I was trying to understand the pattern so I could avoid repeating it in the future with new people, and that specific interactions I mentioned were examples involving people I no longer interacted with much if at all, but several people kept insisting I was trying to make something happen with the people in my examples. I kept arguing much longer than I should have because, well, it was bothering me, and eventually I got fed up and left.

I never returned because most of the people I enjoyed interacting with had left by that point, and it seemed like most of my posts were either ignored or making people angry, so there was no point in continuing to be there.

P.S.: I did eventually figure out that dating issue. I put out major people-pleaser vibes at the time and attracted manipulative people. The reason for the sudden "I'm not interested in you and never was" came after I resisted their manipulation attempts more than they were expecting. I figured that out after everything in my Blue Room thread, which was just more of the same shit, but at least they fucked me before the "I was never into you" gaslighting. Anyway, dating is stupid and I don't do it any more.)

This post was a mistake. Now I'm tempted to log in and see if my meltdown is still there (The actual meltdown too place in a TNZ thread where people talk shit about people in Misc, so I'd have to log in to see it.)

EDIT: After logging in, it seems I no longer have access to TNZ or it no longer exists. Probably for the best.

I don't see how these two things are mutually exclusive?

Being given an ultimatum seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to be upset about, and complaining is a reasonable response to being upset.

I mean, if I was in prison, and my cellmate cornered me and said "shit on my dick or blood on my knife," and then turned around and told me I don't get to complain about my ass being sore because I was given a choice...

If someone had "Israel has a right to defend itself" in their signature, and we banned someone for not removing it, I'm sure he would agree it was fair and justified because they made their choice.

I think now you have to opt in to post in TNZ, it’s hidden until you do that

No you’re right, she can complain but it’s very hard to take the complaint seriously

Is having a controversial political slogan in one's signature at the TrekBBS listed as an actionable offense in the rules? I could see why it might be, if only because the sig follows the user out of TNZ. If so, if one was asked to remove a political signature and refused, getting banned wouldn't be surprising...or even necessarily unfair.

But if the request (or demand) was made because it personally offended the admin, that's different. I'm not a fan of the "river to the sea" slogan but it isn't the same as having "DEATH TO JEWS" as a signature. It's controversial, but not overly so. It's just not a good look to ban long-time users like that, especially when everyone's emotions were running hot like they were over the Gaza conflict. But then again, who admins the admins?