Genuinely saddened by the state I find Apolyton in...

[kentonio]

If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ah come on, it was never like this way back. Being less moderated than CFC just means the mods don't shoot people for minor grammar offences.

Uh... yes it was. The days of Urban Ranger, Giancarlo, Ned, etc. It was way crazier than now... just way more posters (so a lot more sane ones as well).

[Imran Siddiqui]

To give you some sort of idea of how it was, back then Ben Kenobi and MOBIUS were considered the saner extremists.

[kentonio]

To give you some sort of idea of how it was, back then Ben Kenobi and MOBIUS were considered the saner extremists.

Back then they were saner. Or at least because of the number of people around, they didn't have a free stage to show off.

You're forgetting my join date.

[Sava]

sounds like you need to reread some old threads

also, taking punitive action against personal insults is stupid (not necessarily characterizing your beliefs on the matter, just speaking in general)

i can just as easily call you a pussytwat with a generalization

with loopholes bigger than your moms ass, why bother?

[kentonio]

It's not that there's any issue with someone calling someone a ****ing moron, but when its pages of back and forth insults it just kills threads. having active mods means you don't have to rely on stupid rules with gaping loopholes, because the mod can just tell people to pack it in regardless.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Agree with Sava. Ben and MOBIUS were the same as they are now. It's that with Ned, Giancarlo, Urban Ranger, they didn't look as crazy. I mean Giancarlo constantly threatened to kill other posters - we mostly laughed it off because his manner of killing people was to get his father (who was some Argentine general or something) to get a helicopter and then he'd throw us off said helicopter. And, of course, Beniverse is a knock off of the far stranger and horrible Nediverse.

[Sava]

It's not that there's any issue with someone calling someone a ****ing moron, but when its pages of back and forth insults it just kills threads. having active mods means you don't have to rely on stupid rules with gaping loopholes, because the mod can just tell people to pack it in regardless.

I don't see how insults make a thread worse (or better). If someone is hurling insults, they could just as well be creative and hilarious. I want to learn new ways of calling people names. If the person in question just sucks at insults and isn't very creative, then that is the problem. Even if they weren't trying to tell me to suck my mom's dick, they'd still be the same stupid sack of ****. Why would I want to hear that person's opinion on anything anyways?

Best we can do is make fun of the idiots... maybe being ones ourselves at times

[Sava]

and lets not fool ourselves into thinking any thread on these forums is some shining example of intellectual debate

dont even

or that it would otherwise exist if i just didn't say **** YOU PUSSYTWAT

my opinions are just as stupid either way

so are yours

that's how it works

[Imran Siddiqui]

I made myself sad... I waded into the archives and we are talking about the exact same stuff in this forum that we were discussing TEN YEARS AGO

[Aeson]

I just want you all to know that Apolyton will continue on in it's present state until the last of you have left, at which time I will start selling carpet cleaning services as a front to sex trafficking.

And don't worry Sava ... we have you covered!

Spoiler:

the young, nubile hermaphrodite proficient with the whip will be over to clean your carpets at 4pm. His name is kentonio.

[kentonio]

I made myself sad... I waded into the archives and we are talking about the exact same stuff in this forum that we were discussing TEN YEARS AGO

I've spent the last couple of hours reading through the archives and came to a completely opposite conclusion.

Or rather the subject matter might be roughly the same, but the posting habits are very different.

[giblets]

Serb was exactly the same:

http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/125717-Ukraine

[kentonio]

Serb. Serb never changes..

[NICE MOBIUS]

To give you some sort of idea of how it was, back then Ben Kenobi and MOBIUS were considered the saner extremists.

Wow, Imran, at face value I was genuinely saddened by this series of posts of yours...

Though it did occur to me, on reflection, that if BK and I represent the two extreme ends of the spectrum, because my views are pretty much extremely the opposite of those of Ben's - then I must be the extreme opposite of Ben: reasonable; just; good. Basically the nicest poster on poly.

That is what you're getting at, Imran, that compared to Ben I am an extremist, compared say, to yourself?

Thank you for your faith, I am deeply touched.