moose face posted:

you don't have to post here you know if they're so bad i don't understand why you would choose to do that

Pon de Bundy posted:

but somehow , other forums are worse. have you ever seen bodybuilding misc posts . or rerolled.org . man gently caress poo poo

Poetic Justice posted:

Poetic Justice posted:

somethingawful is actually an internet cult and they meet most of the criteria needed for being a cult. The way in which they effectively serve as an internet cult is that it is possible for anyone to easily join the cult so long as they have an internet connection and a somethingawful account and are willing to do exactly what they are told by the somethingawful moderator hierarchy and the people who control and run the subsomethingawful. The worst thing about somethingawful, however, isn't that they have their own lovely subsomethingawful that makes zero sense to the outside world and to those who are sane and don't believe in the views of social justice warriors and radical feminists. The worst thing about somethingawful is that they and their friends from other like-minded sub forums on somethingawful - with the cooperation and unspoken support of a few somethingawful administrators - have managed to turn somethingawful into Digg 2.0 where a clique of users who are chummy and friendly with each other have managed to take over a very large portion of this website. The users who have turned somethingawful into Digg 2.0 and who threaten to ruin the site are what I and some others who understand the situation have come to know as and refer to as "metasomethingawful cancer." I have taken it upon myself to go ahead and create the subreddit /r/metasomethingawfulcancer to act as a watchdog that chronicles everything that this cabal of somethingawful users are doing to turn somethingawful into Digg 2.0 and - in particular - to turn the site into a place run by social justice warrior and feminist moderators who tolerate no deviation from their beliefs in the numerous subsomethingawfuls that they have come to control as moderators.

My hope is that after reading this comment of mine that you will subscribe to /r/metasomethingawfulcancer so that you can stay well-informed about a very serious situation that has arisen - largely unknown to most users - on this website so that we can all gain a greater understanding of what a powerful cabal of agenda-driven users are doing to and have done to this site that we all love. I am a long-time user on somethingawful who has intimate and in-depth knowledge of this cabal and who has modded multiple subsomethingawfuls both large and small, who has been intimately involved in discussion with this cabal of users regarding their control of somethingawful, who knows what their agenda is and what they want to do with their power and control, who has sat in their private discussions in internet chat rooms, who has seen leaks from their private subsomethingawfuls, and who has absolutely had enough of what they have done to somethingawful and of what they will continue to do to this site unless the rest of this site is exposed to who and what they are and what their endgame is. What happened to Digg and what has happened to 4chan very recently is undeniably and positively what is happening to somethingawful now and what has been happening here since 2012.

The cabal of users and moderators who I refer to as "metasomethingawful cancer" hail from the subsomethingawfuls Shitsomethingawfulsays, circlebroke, Braveryjerk, circlejerk, TheBluePill, SubsomethingawfulDrama, SRDbroke, and Drama. This cabal of users are - for the most part - the moderators of these subsomethingawfuls and these users also control many other subsomethingawfuls with thousands and even hundreds of thousands of subscribers. They mod subsomethingawfuls like /r/news, /r/politics, /r/worldnews, /r/Subsomethingawfuldrama, /r/creepyPMs, /r/offmychest, /r/TIFU, /r/explainlikeimfive, /r/changemyview, /r/LGBT, and numerous other subsomethingawfuls where they have managed to worm their way into moderator positions over the years and then go on to have total control over the type of discussion that goes on in their subsomethingawfuls. They make sure that any discussion that goes against their social justice and feminist beliefs is censored and controlled and/or they mod their subsomethingawfuls like ban-happy dictators who get rid of anyone who breaks the circlejerk that goes on in their subsomethingawfuls every week. This is absolutely the case with offmychest, creepyPMs, and Subsomethingawfuldrama. Maybe the worst example of their way of worming into moderator positions and destroying subsomethingawfuls is that of /r/LGBT and how 2 transsexual radfem somethingawful trolls - one of which has become infamous on somethingawful and other chan websites - managed to take control of the subsomethingawful in 2012 and then acted like dictators and abused their power so badly that somethingawful's administrators had to be called into the drama. The admins refused to remove the two somethingawful moderators, the LGBT subsomethingawful went into meltdown because of them, and this led to the subsomethingawful being ruined and people having to flock to the newly created /r/ainbow subsomethingawful because one of the biggest forums for discussing LGBT issues on the internet was taken over by members of Shitsomethingawfulsays. This is the first notable time that somethingawful and other metasomethingawful cancer have taken control of subsomethingawfuls and they've gone on to manipulate somethingawful's subsomethingawful request system to bring even more subsomethingawfuls under their control. They organize subsomethingawful request attempts in private subsomethingawfuls where they plan out their agenda and they do the same in their internet relay chat rooms as well. I can say with total confidence that there is no other somethingawful clique and group operating on this website that looks to take over and control as many subsomethingawfuls as they can in a clear and indisputable attempt to control the flow of conversation so that conversations in any given subsomethingawful always lean and kowtow to radical feminism and a perverted form of social justice. NO OTHER GROUP EXISTS that is looking to take over as much of this site as possible.

One of the more troubling things that I have come to understand having been an intimately involved user of somethingawful for years, is that some of somethingawful's current and past administrators support and belong to this cabal of metasomethingawful cancer. An administrator who was fired from somethingawful two years ago immediately was added as a mod of Shitsomethingawfulsays as soon as he left his admin role and made clear what some users had already known: he was literally a member of Shitsomethingawfulsays and as an admin he used his power to carry out somethingawful's agenda. He routinely ostracized and terminated the accounts of (shadowbanned) people who posted in subsomethingawfuls that somethingawful want destroyed and now he sits as a moderator of somethingawful. This is one of the biggest yet unknown bits of corruption in somethingawful's history yet you wouldn't know it because the subsomethingawful created as a watchdog for this sort of thing - /r/Subsomethingawfuldrama - was taken over by somethingawful and somethingawful metacancer in 2013 and they censor discussion about themselves so that people aren't aware of what is going on. The takeover of SubsomethingawfulDrama is one of the worst things that has ever happened on this website because of its 150K subscriber size and because the very people who are the problem that I am discussing happen to be in control of SubsomethingawfulDrama. This is clearly a monumental conflict of interest given that anything nefarious that this group of users do cannot be openly discussed in SubsomethingawfulDrama without their consent.

What caused this cabal to come to be and what is it that unites them in their desire to control the site through moderator power and through cliques?

A need for friendship that's lacking in real life. A # of users involved in this cabal are depressed, aren't "cool", are LGBT (more difficult to be included socially if you are a member of this group in real life), are social outcasts, or just want to have some internet friends because they spend a lot of time on this site. This last reason differs a bit from the other reasons and is different in that some users - a smaller number - belonging to this cabal get drawn into it without knowing what the agenda is and they simply just want some internet friends. However, they always cave to the agenda when it is brought up (perverted feminism and social justice and tightly-controlled, censorship-happy moderation in the cabal's subsomethingawfuls) and so it doesn't matter that their intentions for joining the cabal were innocent. In the end, they always come around and you can already see how this is cult-like behavior. Anyone who doesn't toe-the-line and go along with the agenda is shunned or cast out. I've spent time talking to one of them who was cast out of one of the cabal's private subsomethingawfuls after realizing that the nature of the cabal and "group of friends" wasn't innocent and that everything revolved around feminism, social justice, and the ego-driven desire to control as many subs as possible. The scary thing about my interaction with this cast-out former member is that the cabal looks to get your name and personal information. They do this through their everyday IRC chats and in Facebook groups where some choose to take friend requests with their real names. Others use new Facebook profiles with their somethingawful names. This cast-out user used his real account and he knows now that a reason why they send friend invites is so that you think twice about going against them because then they have your personal info and can come after you with threats at home, work, and anywhere else.

What the users in the cabal do to gain entrance is act smug and superior (social justice, feminism, morality policing) to somethingawfulors. The cabal acts as their cool kids club that they weren't good enough for in real life. THAT IS HOW AND WHY THEY ARE FRIENDS AND WHAT BINDS THEM TOGETHER BECAUSE ANYONE CAN ACT THIS WAY.

A cabal on Digg is what led to the deterioration of the site and is what led to the migration that saw users flood to somethingawful. I'll be damned if I watch the same type of behavior from a group of a few dozen users continue to move somethingawful towards becoming Digg 2.0. 4chan has been thrown into a serious mess like this after Moot gave mod positions to authoritarian mods in the last year who now control the site given his recent abdication as site admin. Let's not let this develop further on somethingawful because there's a point of no return.

TL;DR: The somethingawful cabal controls too much of and is ruining somethingawful

Poetic Justice posted:

bb misc forum is the best man, wtf are you talking about

Poetic Justice posted:

somethingawful is actually an internet cult and they meet most of the criteria needed for being a cult. The way in which they effectively serve as an internet cult is that it is possible for anyone to easily join the cult so long as they have an internet connection and a somethingawful account and are willing to do exactly what they are told by the somethingawful moderator hierarchy and the people who control and run the subsomethingawful. The worst thing about somethingawful, however, isn't that they have their own lovely subsomethingawful that makes zero sense to the outside world and to those who are sane and don't believe in the views of social justice warriors and radical feminists. The worst thing about somethingawful is that they and their friends from other like-minded sub forums on somethingawful - with the cooperation and unspoken support of a few somethingawful administrators - have managed to turn somethingawful into Digg 2.0 where a clique of users who are chummy and friendly with each other have managed to take over a very large portion of this website. The users who have turned somethingawful into Digg 2.0 and who threaten to ruin the site are what I and some others who understand the situation have come to know as and refer to as "metasomethingawful cancer." I have taken it upon myself to go ahead and create the subreddit /r/metasomethingawfulcancer to act as a watchdog that chronicles everything that this cabal of somethingawful users are doing to turn somethingawful into Digg 2.0 and - in particular - to turn the site into a place run by social justice warrior and feminist moderators who tolerate no deviation from their beliefs in the numerous subsomethingawfuls that they have come to control as moderators.

My hope is that after reading this comment of mine that you will subscribe to /r/metasomethingawfulcancer so that you can stay well-informed about a very serious situation that has arisen - largely unknown to most users - on this website so that we can all gain a greater understanding of what a powerful cabal of agenda-driven users are doing to and have done to this site that we all love. I am a long-time user on somethingawful who has intimate and in-depth knowledge of this cabal and who has modded multiple subsomethingawfuls both large and small, who has been intimately involved in discussion with this cabal of users regarding their control of somethingawful, who knows what their agenda is and what they want to do with their power and control, who has sat in their private discussions in internet chat rooms, who has seen leaks from their private subsomethingawfuls, and who has absolutely had enough of what they have done to somethingawful and of what they will continue to do to this site unless the rest of this site is exposed to who and what they are and what their endgame is. What happened to Digg and what has happened to 4chan very recently is undeniably and positively what is happening to somethingawful now and what has been happening here since 2012.

The cabal of users and moderators who I refer to as "metasomethingawful cancer" hail from the subsomethingawfuls Shitsomethingawfulsays, circlebroke, Braveryjerk, circlejerk, TheBluePill, SubsomethingawfulDrama, SRDbroke, and Drama. This cabal of users are - for the most part - the moderators of these subsomethingawfuls and these users also control many other subsomethingawfuls with thousands and even hundreds of thousands of subscribers. They mod subsomethingawfuls like /r/news, /r/politics, /r/worldnews, /r/Subsomethingawfuldrama, /r/creepyPMs, /r/offmychest, /r/TIFU, /r/explainlikeimfive, /r/changemyview, /r/LGBT, and numerous other subsomethingawfuls where they have managed to worm their way into moderator positions over the years and then go on to have total control over the type of discussion that goes on in their subsomethingawfuls. They make sure that any discussion that goes against their social justice and feminist beliefs is censored and controlled and/or they mod their subsomethingawfuls like ban-happy dictators who get rid of anyone who breaks the circlejerk that goes on in their subsomethingawfuls every week. This is absolutely the case with offmychest, creepyPMs, and Subsomethingawfuldrama. Maybe the worst example of their way of worming into moderator positions and destroying subsomethingawfuls is that of /r/LGBT and how 2 transsexual radfem somethingawful trolls - one of which has become infamous on somethingawful and other chan websites - managed to take control of the subsomethingawful in 2012 and then acted like dictators and abused their power so badly that somethingawful's administrators had to be called into the drama. The admins refused to remove the two somethingawful moderators, the LGBT subsomethingawful went into meltdown because of them, and this led to the subsomethingawful being ruined and people having to flock to the newly created /r/ainbow subsomethingawful because one of the biggest forums for discussing LGBT issues on the internet was taken over by members of Shitsomethingawfulsays. This is the first notable time that somethingawful and other metasomethingawful cancer have taken control of subsomethingawfuls and they've gone on to manipulate somethingawful's subsomethingawful request system to bring even more subsomethingawfuls under their control. They organize subsomethingawful request attempts in private subsomethingawfuls where they plan out their agenda and they do the same in their internet relay chat rooms as well. I can say with total confidence that there is no other somethingawful clique and group operating on this website that looks to take over and control as many subsomethingawfuls as they can in a clear and indisputable attempt to control the flow of conversation so that conversations in any given subsomethingawful always lean and kowtow to radical feminism and a perverted form of social justice. NO OTHER GROUP EXISTS that is looking to take over as much of this site as possible.

One of the more troubling things that I have come to understand having been an intimately involved user of somethingawful for years, is that some of somethingawful's current and past administrators support and belong to this cabal of metasomethingawful cancer. An administrator who was fired from somethingawful two years ago immediately was added as a mod of Shitsomethingawfulsays as soon as he left his admin role and made clear what some users had already known: he was literally a member of Shitsomethingawfulsays and as an admin he used his power to carry out somethingawful's agenda. He routinely ostracized and terminated the accounts of (shadowbanned) people who posted in subsomethingawfuls that somethingawful want destroyed and now he sits as a moderator of somethingawful. This is one of the biggest yet unknown bits of corruption in somethingawful's history yet you wouldn't know it because the subsomethingawful created as a watchdog for this sort of thing - /r/Subsomethingawfuldrama - was taken over by somethingawful and somethingawful metacancer in 2013 and they censor discussion about themselves so that people aren't aware of what is going on. The takeover of SubsomethingawfulDrama is one of the worst things that has ever happened on this website because of its 150K subscriber size and because the very people who are the problem that I am discussing happen to be in control of SubsomethingawfulDrama. This is clearly a monumental conflict of interest given that anything nefarious that this group of users do cannot be openly discussed in SubsomethingawfulDrama without their consent.

What caused this cabal to come to be and what is it that unites them in their desire to control the site through moderator power and through cliques?

A need for friendship that's lacking in real life. A # of users involved in this cabal are depressed, aren't "cool", are LGBT (more difficult to be included socially if you are a member of this group in real life), are social outcasts, or just want to have some internet friends because they spend a lot of time on this site. This last reason differs a bit from the other reasons and is different in that some users - a smaller number - belonging to this cabal get drawn into it without knowing what the agenda is and they simply just want some internet friends. However, they always cave to the agenda when it is brought up (perverted feminism and social justice and tightly-controlled, censorship-happy moderation in the cabal's subsomethingawfuls) and so it doesn't matter that their intentions for joining the cabal were innocent. In the end, they always come around and you can already see how this is cult-like behavior. Anyone who doesn't toe-the-line and go along with the agenda is shunned or cast out. I've spent time talking to one of them who was cast out of one of the cabal's private subsomethingawfuls after realizing that the nature of the cabal and "group of friends" wasn't innocent and that everything revolved around feminism, social justice, and the ego-driven desire to control as many subs as possible. The scary thing about my interaction with this cast-out former member is that the cabal looks to get your name and personal information. They do this through their everyday IRC chats and in Facebook groups where some choose to take friend requests with their real names. Others use new Facebook profiles with their somethingawful names. This cast-out user used his real account and he knows now that a reason why they send friend invites is so that you think twice about going against them because then they have your personal info and can come after you with threats at home, work, and anywhere else.

What the users in the cabal do to gain entrance is act smug and superior (social justice, feminism, morality policing) to somethingawfulors. The cabal acts as their cool kids club that they weren't good enough for in real life. THAT IS HOW AND WHY THEY ARE FRIENDS AND WHAT BINDS THEM TOGETHER BECAUSE ANYONE CAN ACT THIS WAY.

A cabal on Digg is what led to the deterioration of the site and is what led to the migration that saw users flood to somethingawful. I'll be damned if I watch the same type of behavior from a group of a few dozen users continue to move somethingawful towards becoming Digg 2.0. 4chan has been thrown into a serious mess like this after Moot gave mod positions to authoritarian mods in the last year who now control the site given his recent abdication as site admin. Let's not let this develop further on somethingawful because there's a point of no return.

TL;DR: The somethingawful cabal controls too much of and is ruining somethingawful

owl milk posted:

i, too, have 4 alt accts here and can do find+replace on epic reddit posts

Poetic Justice posted:

bb misc forum is the best man, wtf are you talking about

Prettz posted:

Whenever I've wandered into FYAD I've been completely bemused by it, not because I've found it clever or exciting or (dare I say it) avant-garde (internet!), but because the majority of posts in there seem to believe that it *is*. Perhaps it's a kind of surrealist ethos I just don't get but quite frankly I think it's the Emporer's New Clothes in a slightly-off shade of pink. (See what I did there?)

Let he who is without surrealism cast the first fish.

Pon de Bundy posted:

but somehow , other forums are worse. have you ever seen bodybuilding misc posts . or rerolled.org . man gently caress poo poo

Zombies' Downfall posted:

Why is not jerking off such a popular topic on the bodybbuilding forums