Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[clockwork5]

Do say: Im very sorry. I will not be a disruption when I return. I understand how my actions have brought negative attention to the university and I regret that I have represented the university in such a way.

Do not say: Free Palestine. Divest from Caterpillar. Disclose all of your Israeli investments.

[benji]

Posting in here for visibility: the twitter embeds are wonky at the moment because of the forced URL change to x.com, put that as twitter.com leaving the rest the same and they'll embed correctly. I don't think this is actually my fault as it just asks for Twitter's own code and that's apparently not setup to read URL's that come in that aren't twitter.com.

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[kaleidoscopium]

I believe Nepenthe called her local sheriffs office. I believe they even took a statement down and said “we will look right into that maam “. Because that’s what they do in the sleepy suburbs, they call the cops over any little thing and the small town cops will write it down and get back to their poker game.

[kaleidoscopium]

Posting in here for visibility: the twitter embeds are wonky at the moment because of the forced URL change to x.com, put that as twitter.com leaving the rest the same and they'll embed correctly. I don't think this is actually my fault as it just asks for Twitter's own code and that's apparently not setup to read URL's that come in that aren't twitter.com.

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If it’s a standard myBB feature that’s broken you can submit a bug report here: https://github.com/mybb/mybb/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+X

Doesn’t look like anyone’s done it yet.

[Taco Bell Tower]

I need to vent a bit.

I worked at this company for 7 years, last few years have been shit and realized I don't want to do that line of work. So I did a smart move, my company allows education leaves so I took advantage. I decided to go back to school for something else (HR) and I like it. I currently have an upaid placement and was hoping for some type of work afterwards, It's looking a bit more grim now I still have 4 weeks left in my placement, During this whole 1 year off none of my co-workers messaged me and that was fine. All of a sudden starting 2 weeks ago they all start messaging me being super nice at first and chummy and then dropping conversation after asking what my status is. I said to each well if I don't have a job maybe i'll come back for a bit. Well these past 2 days one of them keeps messaging me non-stop sending long messages saying well we like the new person and they would love to stay and sending me pictures of well you need to tell HR at the company by this day and you should make up your mind.

Honestly, I don't want to go back but I need money. It hurts I ain't gonna lie. I was there for 7 years and the last 2 were hell and when I left last June nobody said goodbye or even a card for leaving,

I think i'm just gonna not come back to the company.

What's every bodies thoughts?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/took-an-education-leave-from-my-old-job-and-all-my-co-workers-are-telling-me-not-to-come-back.874461/

I love how most are agreeing to get hired in HR and recommend management to fire or deny them work 

[clockwork5]

To be fair, if everyone already hates you it makes sense to transfer to HR.

[clockwork5]

Posting in here for visibility: the twitter embeds are wonky at the moment because of the forced URL change to x.com, put that as twitter.com leaving the rest the same and they'll embed correctly. I don't think this is actually my fault as it just asks for Twitter's own code and that's apparently not setup to read URL's that come in that aren't twitter.com.

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It's just nuking some of these RE pages that have more than a couple embeds on my laptop, its really gumming things up over there.

[Snoopy]

Good news. Brother Noodle is allowed to stride around campus collecting accolades. 

Bad news. None if them will be from Nep. 

Pay his legal fees you insufferable cunt.

[Nintex]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-unpunished-how-extremists-took-over-israel-nyt-long-read.873693/?post=123114726#post-123114726

Does the article in any way acknowledge that Israel wouldn't exist if it wasn't for capital W Western Settler Colonialism forcing itself down the ME's throat, propping up a religious ethno-state, and displacing the established population?

Casting shade on the actions of the Israeli government and their zionist base is always welcome, but it often seems the focus is framed as "man… Israel has been problematic for a few years/decades now. I sure hope there are some more rational actors among future leadership." as opposed to the acknowledgement that the origin of its state is so fundamentally problematic that what we have seen for our entire lives (unless there are some truly elderly Era members out here) is simply the natural result. There is no peace to be had while the modern state of Israel exists, but to acknowledge its failure would be an indictment on the West, and the U.S. chief among them, the their nation building projects are trash. So instead we get well-written handwringing that aims to shift the root of the problem.

The root of the "problem" is Islam, which conquered the Middle East by the sword and displaced all the various Kurdish, Jewish, Armenian, Druze, Yezidi, Christian etc. tribes that lived there mostly peacefully. The reason why Islamists rarely mention the crusades but like to focus on the siege of constantinople is that the crusades weren't an offensive but a defensive war. The Christians didn't go there to attack the native population, quite the opposite. They moved to Jerusalem to protect the holy sites and various people living there (whose protection was the responsibility of the 'Holy Roman Empire'). The reason why the Islamists don't mention WWII even though the Germans and Italians invaded is because their leaders were very much on the side of the Axis. If Turkey hadn't been in such a dire state when WWII started they probably would've joined the war on the side of the Axis. 

They're mostly just jealous that jews did what they never could. Turning the desert into an oasis one Kibbutz at a time without billions in oil money. All they did is finish the job their ancestors started some 1400 years ago, to violently destroy any opposition to Islam which is still happening to this day and actually accelerated post WWII. Want to talk about genocide? 10% of the Syrians were Christians (some 1.5 million) before the civil war, today only an estimated 300k remain and only 1% - 2% of the UNHCR registered refugees are Christian. Some probably converted to Islam but many were killed in horrific ways. Did the Arab nations fight against ISIS? No, they funded them instead.  

Islamic history is filled with episodes where some Sultan already dug a hole to bury all the jews in but then decided to take away their belongings and cast them out instead as an act of mercy. Anti-semitism and genocide is part of Islamic culture.

[kaleidoscopium]

Going in for my meeting with the Dean of Students today regarding what happened the day of our sit-in. A little nervous for sure, but it's all good. Had a phone call with my attorney earlier and now I know what to say/what not to say.

UPDATE: Good news: I'm no longer banned from campus! Bad news: I still have a court case to deal with!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/protests-at-columbia-university-continue-as-groups-on-both-sides-of-the-aisle-call-for-action-to-be-taken-university-shifts-to-hybrid-classes.851787/page-34?post=123126339#post-123126339

[Nintex]

What they think: "If we give this guy another shot, he will probably learn from the error of his ways"

What is actually happening is that they are teaching him he can get away with shit like this and will continue to radicalize further. 

Will Noodlesoup be ResetEras first school shooter? 

Or will they burn themselves in the Deans office next time? 

[benji]

If it’s a standard myBB feature that’s broken you can submit a bug report here: https://github.com/mybb/mybb/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+X

Doesn’t look like anyone’s done it yet.

Nah, the "tweet" code I made is just a call to Twitter's own thing for embeds using the code they supplied, it must be broken on their end. This happens sometimes but not for such a stupid reason before. 

Just to illustrate with a random tweet I just saw, if you use the tags with x.com:
https://x.com/GeorgistSteve/status/1791315312585113916

If you use the tags with the exact same but "x" replaced with "twitter" it works:
https://twitter.com/GeorgistSteve/status/1791315312585113916

It calls Twitter's own javascript file on their own server but doesn't seem to accept x.com urls. I could probably split the string or something to change it before sending it but it's really something they need to fix on their own end.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/announcing-new-feature-highlighting-posts.873306/page-4?post=123131823#post-123131823

So, I want to note about the idea of "invisible likes" being used to nominate posts. There's a few different issues with this--some technical, some in terms of users understanding what the purpose of this is--but the biggest issue is this: the site is way too active for that to actually work. We could potentially make it work on a technical level, but there's so much engagement on a daily basis that this would literally just get buried under a standard day's activity.

You guys need to remember that we're one of the last big internet forums and what works for smaller spaces isn't really going to work for us simply due to how big and active the community is. Stuff that's more easily done on a smaller forum tends to break when under the sort of load we tend to put these systems under. You guys need to remember that we're more active than gamefaqs and generally have as many active members at any given moment as reddit's main gaming board does.

We're going to work on the styling, what was suggested was originally the plan in terms of how this will look but the forum software is being annoying about it, and we're hoping that people will see that this isn't the big disaster people are imagining. This isn't about pushing specific ideology or anything like that, it's about trying a different way of making discourse on the site better. We can't ban our way out of every issue, but maybe we can highlight what harder discussions should look like.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-unpunished-how-extremists-took-over-israel-nyt-long-read.873693/?post=123114726#post-123114726

Does the article in any way acknowledge that Israel wouldn't exist if it wasn't for capital W Western Settler Colonialism forcing itself down the ME's throat, propping up a religious ethno-state, and displacing the established population?

Casting shade on the actions of the Israeli government and their zionist base is always welcome, but it often seems the focus is framed as "man… Israel has been problematic for a few years/decades now. I sure hope there are some more rational actors among future leadership." as opposed to the acknowledgement that the origin of its state is so fundamentally problematic that what we have seen for our entire lives (unless there are some truly elderly Era members out here) is simply the natural result. There is no peace to be had while the modern state of Israel exists, but to acknowledge its failure would be an indictment on the West, and the U.S. chief among them, the their nation building projects are trash. So instead we get well-written handwringing that aims to shift the root of the problem.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-unpunished-how-extremists-took-over-israel-nyt-long-read.873693/?post=123128820#post-123128820

This seems like a problematic viewpoint to hold.

Also, it's funny how that's an exact quote from Hamas: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/09/israel - "Bomb delivered Hamas message: no peace while Israel exists"

Not saying Hamas is exactly right or that their logic about it is sound, but it's not wrong to say that the current state of Israel (referring to the government) is dangerous to the integrity of the nation and the safety of its citizens.

Edit: Get in there Bor Gullet.

[clockwork5]

Who wants some mustard yellow box around their post? At least make the highlight aesthetically pleasing…  After much planning… lol you goons.

[HaughtyFrank]

This isn't about pushing specific ideology or anything like that, it's about trying a different way of making discourse on the site better. We can't ban our way out of every issue, but maybe we can highlight what harder discussions should look like.

Weird how "highlighting what discussion should look like" is highlighting a post that exactly echoes Nepenthes beliefs

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-idea-that-hip-hop-can-only-truly-be-experienced-by-black-folks-is-puzzling-to-me.863466/post-122584287

Like who is he trying to fool here? It has never been about the tone whether someone would get banned. You just slap "dismissing concerns" on it no matter how well written and respectful it is because the person was having an opinion you couldn't stand.

[books]

BDubs is that simpleton Hodor in regard to likes in that thread. Gotta protect the prominent nuts.

[benji]

There's like fifty topics or more they've outright said "harder" discussions or any kind of discussions aren't allowed about. I'm sure we can all think of our favorites like whether men have natural physical advantages or whether people with bad Twitter follows can do valid scientific research.

[Tucker's Law]

Who wants some mustard yellow box around their post? At least make the highlight aesthetically pleasing…  After much planning… lol you goons.

Oh my god, I bet it's that color because they're thinking of it like it's a fucking legendary item drop in an MMO or similar shit 

[benji]

Hell, even though Hecht makes it sound like Israel-Palestine is a new thing the staff has been swamped with, they've had a specific section about it on their rules for five years that rules out all kinds of discussion points:

Israel and Palestine

Threads about the Israel/Palestine conflict are some of the most contentious and difficult to moderate. While we have tried being more hands off in the past, these threads have tended to escalate out of control when they are not tightly moderated. As a result, we now enforce four primary rules to keep these threads as civil as possible.

• Do not conflate civilians with their leadership: This means you should not conflate all Palestinians with Hamas or attempt to paint all Palestinians as terrorists. You should also not hold all Israelis responsible for the actions of their government.
  
• Do not condone violence or killing: This goes for both Hamas and the IDF, especially with regard to civilians.
  
• Do not deny the right of either Israel or Palestine to exist as independent states.
  
• Due to historical considerations, the term "Nazi" is not appropriate or acceptable when used in reference to Israel, Israelis, and Jews. This includes comparisons between the Israeli government/IDF and Nazi Germany. You are welcome to criticize Israel in all other ways, but that specific analogy is off-limits, period.

[Nintex]

You should also not hold all Israelis responsible for the actions of their government.

Do not condone violence or killing: This goes for both Hamas and the IDF, especially with regard to civilians.

Do not deny the right of either Israel or Palestine to exist as independent states.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

sigh can moderation just STOP caping for israel?

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

BDubs is that simpleton Hodor in regard to likes in that thread. Gotta protect the prominent nuts.

at least hodor is actually useful.

[FEUER FREI.]

the bire "aka well known hate forum" trying protect and educate ze world from reeeeeetards



RIP BROTHERS

 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Hodor and Jon Snow flexing his fingers. Name a better power couple in all of ASOIAF.

[Disco55]

https://x.com/OrdinaryGamers/status/1791609706202505611


LOL. r/youtubedrama having a normal one over Mutahar's video on Keffals.

[HaughtyFrank]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/ClickHole/status/605146779571478528?t=A1BQUhGCYDJYCzBgdd_Sag&s=19[/tweet]

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Hold the Door
Hodor is a man
Holding a door open for a woman is sexist
Therefor Hordor is a sexist and misogynistic shitlord.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://x.com/OrdinaryGamers/status/1791609706202505611


LOL. r/youtubedrama having a normal one over Mutahar's video on Keffals.

This reads like a PhD in racism

[kaleidoscopium]

"our community is just too big and active for a like system to work" is such a stupid stupid fucking statement. I know he isn't smart, likely to be a janitor at a high school as previously revealed, but good lord.

This reply is pretty great:

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here at all? What would be buried? The idea suggested was an invisible likes threshold automatically triggering the post highlight, I think? No matter the level of activity on this site, surely this is something that can be easily tweaked to work well. For example, 200 likes in Gaming, 150 likes in Etc, 20 likes in Hangouts. Adjust the numbers up/down until highlighted posts are at the preferred volume per day. Maybe it's more like 1,000 likes needed to create a highlight. Maybe even a per-thread override value so super-busy threads aren't full of highlights. What am I missing?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/announcing-new-feature-highlighting-posts.873306/page-4?post=123132516#post-123132516