Topic: I'm getting really tired of being called a fucking idiot by the Board of this website.
+Anonymous A — 13.5 years ago #20,523
I know that this has been discussed before, and I also know that (despite the proud boast that this website is one of the final bastions of free speech) writing this may well see me banned, but it's got to the point where I honestly don't care anymore.
I am really getting tired of returning home after a 10-hour work day, chatting with my wife, putting my kids in bed, and then opening this site and being ordered to read a Bulletin telling me that I am a "fucking idiot" because I have not been furiously posting message after message through the night on this board.
What the hell gives this Sysop guy the right to say shit like this about me and about everyone else who uses this site? Ok, he works hard, he spends his own money to get the site up and running, he deals with a lot of idiots, and so on. Here's a newsflash for you - so do millions of other people who run their own websites. You are not a special case, ok? Amongst my friends, one guy runs a horror film fan site which costs him a fair amount of money and time to do, but he does it because it is his passion, and one of my wife's friends runs a website which helps new parents to swap and share toys for their children, again all with her own money and because she loves kids and wants to be helpful. Neither of these people is rich but they do it because they want to. They do not assume that they are automatically owed some huge debt of gratitude and donations by the people who use the sites, and they sure as shit don't send messages to the users saying "Spread the word about this website you fucking useless cunts!"
And so turning to this website, it's a good idea and I can (and often do) spend many hours on it at night reading the posts, adding my own, and just generally relaxing in a venue where almost no topic is banned. While I do this, I also watch films online, maybe send a few e-mails, browse other websites, and so on. Yes, forgive me Il Duce Sysop but I have a life beyond your website. The fact is, this is a far from unique site. It is true that if you want to talk about illegal stuff, then this is one of the few places on the net to do it, but that is not why I (and I imagine most other people) use it. If it closed down tomorrow (as Sysop endlessly threatens will happen if we do not return to our stations and "type, dammit, type, type for the Fuehrer until your fingers bleed!!") it will be unfortunate, but not exactly a tragedy. Sysop's endless obsession and vague threats about this site closing down makes me wonder about just how full his own life is and how HE (not us) would survive without it. It is not, as he loves to say, "the greatest site on the internet", and neither does it stand a chance in hell of becoming "the biggest", as he demands we make it. It is, I want to repeat, an excellent idea and a very well organised site, and I am genuinely sorry for all the dickheads who try to fuck it up, but I'm not going to be labelled a "fucking useless idiot" when I am not that.
A few months back I did actually recommend 4 of my friends use this site (following the Directive from the Desk of The Supreme Leader to "spread the word"). 3 of them stopped using it within a few weeks, NOT because of the illegal stuff that sometimes gets discussed here, but because of the offensive messages sent to them by the Board for perceived linguistic errors. I have been an English teacher since 1998, I honestly think I know more about the English language than Sysop. He insists on exceptionally high standards of English, and yet this often boils down to his own erratic versions of the rules. Yesterday I received an angry Bulletin from him informing me that he is "disappointed at you all" (the correct preposition after "dissapointed" is "in", not "at"). He works himself into apoplexy over people who use block capitals, and yet today I am informed by yet another Bulletin that I am a "FUCKING IDIOT" (block capitals, no?). And don't get me started on the absurd notion of correct comma use, but if there is some address to which I can post him a copy of David Murphy's seminal "English In Use", please someone let me know what it is. Many other examples of piss-poor English than he uses. But when someone else does it, he starts calling them every name under the sun.
What Sysop never seems to comprehend is that, yes, this site is a great idea and it should have a huge volume of traffic coming through it...but it doesn't. As he himself wrote in one of his tirades, "It is pitifully low" before going on to label us all fucking useless. The question is, why? Why does this very usable and interesting website get almost no traffic? Has he never considered that the reason for this is his own megalomania? Sysop seems to believe that everyone who visits his site has some kind of battered wife syndrome, that we are all pathetic losers and the more he 'beats' us, the more we will come to obey his every commandment. This simply isn't the case, mate. Most people here have families, jobs, social lives, countless interests, and I think I speak for most people here when I say that when we visit your site and enjoy it, we also have 5 or 6 other windows open and are enjoying those sites equally. Sure, there are probably some people on here who have easily-intimidated natures and who fear your every PM, but believe me mate, most people are just normal guys and girls who visit your site (probably BECAUSE of the work done by the users to "spread the word")...and then YOU go and fucking chase them away with your shit attitude! You come across like some Soviet factory commander screaming at his workers "WORK, WORK YOU STUPID FUCKING FUNCTIONARIES!!!". The difference is, the Soviet commanders had the power to summarily kill those who did not obey their commands, and that is why they could get away with such abuse. You, however, have no such power, you just keep threatening to close down a website. Dude...come on, think about how it comes across. A lot of users here DO spread the word...you then fuck the whole thing up by writing indiscriminate insults to everyone who uses the site. I got 4 people to come here in one day...3 of them left because of you. And then you start creaming about the users not bringing people to the site. Do you honestly think anyone without serious self-esteem issues is going to stick around a website where they are called useless fucking idiots practically every week by the very guy who is imploring them to use his site? I have managed to take it for a few months, but as I said, it's just getting too much now, I look at my wife, my kids, I consider my career and university achievements, and honestly, some guy on a laptop is not going to call me a "fucking idiot" day after day.
And you may reply, in your inimitable style, "Ok well just fuck off then you useless fucking cunt and use those sites, why the fuck do you use mine you fucking useless piece of fucking animal shit?" The answer is: because this is just one website from billions. Try to understand this: YOU chose to set up this site, just as my friend has his horror film site. Nobody owes you anything because (here's the important part, read it carefully) you are not selling a product here. You are providing a free-to-use venue. If you want donations, politely ask for them, but do not expect or demand them. If you DESPERATELY want to keep the site up but nobody is voluntarily donating, then do what many other sites do and make it a pay-site. Then maybe you will see just how many people here share your belief that this is the greatest, most indispensable website on the internet. You understand that point? Turn this site into a pay site for just 1 week, and see how many users continue to use it. Then maybe you will realise that this site is not as great or indispensable as you seem to think we all believe it to be, and so you really have no right or cause to hurl insults at us all.
Ok, that's all. This will probably be deleted, along with myself, but fair enough. I would genuinely like Sysop to be true to his assertion that this site's greatest value is absolute freedom of speech and leave it up, and not show his neo-Soviet tendencies ("You can say absolutely anything you want to say...but only if it is exactly what I want to hear") by pulling it. We'll see. I hope he will reply to the points I've made, preferably without resorting to childish insults. And I hope also that this post generates some opinions both from people who feel the same way I do, and also from those who disagree with me, because that - as I was given to believe when I found this site - is what this place is all about. Finally, for what it is worth and since this may be my last ever post on this site, it has been a great website to use, I can find absolutely no fault in it EXCEPT for those Bulletins, and I've had many interesting conversations over the months with many users here. Thanks for that.
I am really getting tired of returning home after a 10-hour work day, chatting with my wife, putting my kids in bed, and then opening this site and being ordered to read a Bulletin telling me that I am a "fucking idiot" because I have not been furiously posting message after message through the night on this board.
What the hell gives this Sysop guy the right to say shit like this about me and about everyone else who uses this site? Ok, he works hard, he spends his own money to get the site up and running, he deals with a lot of idiots, and so on. Here's a newsflash for you - so do millions of other people who run their own websites. You are not a special case, ok? Amongst my friends, one guy runs a horror film fan site which costs him a fair amount of money and time to do, but he does it because it is his passion, and one of my wife's friends runs a website which helps new parents to swap and share toys for their children, again all with her own money and because she loves kids and wants to be helpful. Neither of these people is rich but they do it because they want to. They do not assume that they are automatically owed some huge debt of gratitude and donations by the people who use the sites, and they sure as shit don't send messages to the users saying "Spread the word about this website you fucking useless cunts!"
And so turning to this website, it's a good idea and I can (and often do) spend many hours on it at night reading the posts, adding my own, and just generally relaxing in a venue where almost no topic is banned. While I do this, I also watch films online, maybe send a few e-mails, browse other websites, and so on. Yes, forgive me Il Duce Sysop but I have a life beyond your website. The fact is, this is a far from unique site. It is true that if you want to talk about illegal stuff, then this is one of the few places on the net to do it, but that is not why I (and I imagine most other people) use it. If it closed down tomorrow (as Sysop endlessly threatens will happen if we do not return to our stations and "type, dammit, type, type for the Fuehrer until your fingers bleed!!") it will be unfortunate, but not exactly a tragedy. Sysop's endless obsession and vague threats about this site closing down makes me wonder about just how full his own life is and how HE (not us) would survive without it. It is not, as he loves to say, "the greatest site on the internet", and neither does it stand a chance in hell of becoming "the biggest", as he demands we make it. It is, I want to repeat, an excellent idea and a very well organised site, and I am genuinely sorry for all the dickheads who try to fuck it up, but I'm not going to be labelled a "fucking useless idiot" when I am not that.
A few months back I did actually recommend 4 of my friends use this site (following the Directive from the Desk of The Supreme Leader to "spread the word"). 3 of them stopped using it within a few weeks, NOT because of the illegal stuff that sometimes gets discussed here, but because of the offensive messages sent to them by the Board for perceived linguistic errors. I have been an English teacher since 1998, I honestly think I know more about the English language than Sysop. He insists on exceptionally high standards of English, and yet this often boils down to his own erratic versions of the rules. Yesterday I received an angry Bulletin from him informing me that he is "disappointed at you all" (the correct preposition after "dissapointed" is "in", not "at"). He works himself into apoplexy over people who use block capitals, and yet today I am informed by yet another Bulletin that I am a "FUCKING IDIOT" (block capitals, no?). And don't get me started on the absurd notion of correct comma use, but if there is some address to which I can post him a copy of David Murphy's seminal "English In Use", please someone let me know what it is. Many other examples of piss-poor English than he uses. But when someone else does it, he starts calling them every name under the sun.
What Sysop never seems to comprehend is that, yes, this site is a great idea and it should have a huge volume of traffic coming through it...but it doesn't. As he himself wrote in one of his tirades, "It is pitifully low" before going on to label us all fucking useless. The question is, why? Why does this very usable and interesting website get almost no traffic? Has he never considered that the reason for this is his own megalomania? Sysop seems to believe that everyone who visits his site has some kind of battered wife syndrome, that we are all pathetic losers and the more he 'beats' us, the more we will come to obey his every commandment. This simply isn't the case, mate. Most people here have families, jobs, social lives, countless interests, and I think I speak for most people here when I say that when we visit your site and enjoy it, we also have 5 or 6 other windows open and are enjoying those sites equally. Sure, there are probably some people on here who have easily-intimidated natures and who fear your every PM, but believe me mate, most people are just normal guys and girls who visit your site (probably BECAUSE of the work done by the users to "spread the word")...and then YOU go and fucking chase them away with your shit attitude! You come across like some Soviet factory commander screaming at his workers "WORK, WORK YOU STUPID FUCKING FUNCTIONARIES!!!". The difference is, the Soviet commanders had the power to summarily kill those who did not obey their commands, and that is why they could get away with such abuse. You, however, have no such power, you just keep threatening to close down a website. Dude...come on, think about how it comes across. A lot of users here DO spread the word...you then fuck the whole thing up by writing indiscriminate insults to everyone who uses the site. I got 4 people to come here in one day...3 of them left because of you. And then you start creaming about the users not bringing people to the site. Do you honestly think anyone without serious self-esteem issues is going to stick around a website where they are called useless fucking idiots practically every week by the very guy who is imploring them to use his site? I have managed to take it for a few months, but as I said, it's just getting too much now, I look at my wife, my kids, I consider my career and university achievements, and honestly, some guy on a laptop is not going to call me a "fucking idiot" day after day.
And you may reply, in your inimitable style, "Ok well just fuck off then you useless fucking cunt and use those sites, why the fuck do you use mine you fucking useless piece of fucking animal shit?" The answer is: because this is just one website from billions. Try to understand this: YOU chose to set up this site, just as my friend has his horror film site. Nobody owes you anything because (here's the important part, read it carefully) you are not selling a product here. You are providing a free-to-use venue. If you want donations, politely ask for them, but do not expect or demand them. If you DESPERATELY want to keep the site up but nobody is voluntarily donating, then do what many other sites do and make it a pay-site. Then maybe you will see just how many people here share your belief that this is the greatest, most indispensable website on the internet. You understand that point? Turn this site into a pay site for just 1 week, and see how many users continue to use it. Then maybe you will realise that this site is not as great or indispensable as you seem to think we all believe it to be, and so you really have no right or cause to hurl insults at us all.
Ok, that's all. This will probably be deleted, along with myself, but fair enough. I would genuinely like Sysop to be true to his assertion that this site's greatest value is absolute freedom of speech and leave it up, and not show his neo-Soviet tendencies ("You can say absolutely anything you want to say...but only if it is exactly what I want to hear") by pulling it. We'll see. I hope he will reply to the points I've made, preferably without resorting to childish insults. And I hope also that this post generates some opinions both from people who feel the same way I do, and also from those who disagree with me, because that - as I was given to believe when I found this site - is what this place is all about. Finally, for what it is worth and since this may be my last ever post on this site, it has been a great website to use, I can find absolutely no fault in it EXCEPT for those Bulletins, and I've had many interesting conversations over the months with many users here. Thanks for that.
+FRITZ !BOX/NNYj5s — 13.5 years ago, 37 minutes later[T] [B] #249,273
> And then you start creaming about the users not bringing people to the site.
> creaming
shitlisted
> creaming
shitlisted
+Anonymous C — 13.5 years ago, 6 minutes later, 44 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #249,275
+The Commander !cqD6VNKBfQ — 13.5 years ago, 12 minutes later, 56 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #249,281
Yes, feed the board more useless copypasta...+Anonymous E — 13.5 years ago, 31 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #249,320
@previous (The Commander !cqD6VNKBfQ)
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
+Anonymous F — 13.5 years ago, 6 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[T] [B] #249,398
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