44 posts in one day?
Bit much isn't it?
44 posts in one day?
Bit much isn't it?
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums...&postcount=305
I don't think I need to say much more.
The User Super Moderator said:
It violates the rule of "no complains".complaint threads will be getting closed
When we speak, nearly everything we say is a word game.I do request you keep that thread cordial and without further incident of being inappropriate. Inappropriate being that you are not playing word games, trolling, spamming or flamming. Censor bypasses are not allowed whether in typed or picture form.
Trolling is a word that has no precise definition.
Spamming use to be equivalent to "annoyance" so if the moderator is annoyed everything will be spam.
Fascist censorship bypasses not allowed....
Will they ban me there for what I posted here?![]()
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
By the way, in case you weren't convinced Stephen Fry is always right:
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums...d.php?t=698801
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
The World Forgotten Statistics
Threads 268 Posts 8,293 Members 125
Atari Forums Statistics
Threads: 343,769, Posts: 6,806,304, Members: 212,028, Active Members: 3,043
It means this forum has 1 of every 24 Atari active members.
Not bad...
The most toxic combination comes when you combine a big ego with power.
Hitler had both...
Do be cordial, guys...
So even his Godzilla twinks have to be told to be nice?
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Fighting for the future health of the forums, those still there, and those yet to come; regardless of our departure.
I still don't believe this came from Atari upper echelons, and was not sanctioned, and possibly isn't even known about. It explains the amateurism, the demodding of smart potential trouble makers, etc.
I ain't standin' for that!
Not to knock the wind out of your sails, but Atari is a private company and what they do with their website is up to them. This is why we're
free to go here or any other dozens of sites and criticize the US government. There is no law that corporations have to give you a free soap
box to shout about anything you want to on.
Go get 'em tiger!
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Well, it looks like companies want US to imitate China.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debat...ernet-freedom/
Clinton speech:Now is the time that Internet and technology companies must step up and take on the very challenges that the Global Internet Freedom Act was intended to address in order to ensure that their services and technologies do not become tools for surveillance and oppression.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN...pe=marketsNews
It looks like a company that restricts freedom of speech may be an antiUS company. A company that opposes US foreign policy and that may want to provide China an argument to point out "American hipocrisy"."We feel strongly that principles like information freedom aren't just good policy, not just somehow connected to our national values, but they are universal and they are also good for business. To use market terminology, a publicly listed company in Tunisia or Vietnam that operates in an environment of censorship will always trade at a discount relative to an identical firm in a free society. If corporate decision makers don't have access to global sources of news and information, investors will have less confidence in their decisions over the long term.
(...)
And censorship should not be in any way accepted by any company from anywhere. And in America, American companies need to make a principled stand. This needs to be part of our national brand. I am confident that consumers worldwide will reward companies that follow those principles."
The whole existence and success of these forums is caused by censorship on politics by a company we already know.
Last edited by ar81; 02-11-2010 at 04:17 PM.
You're kidding right?![]()
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Yeah, I'm certainly aware that I'm a nobody. But I did get an email from Will Treves back on the 13th of last month where he said HE was responsible for the forums and acted like he had no clue as to what was going on after I wrote to corporate.
While he said he'd be back in touch I haven't heard anything. I wrote again on the 5th to Jim Wilson, Treves and others pointing out what an amateur job this whole thing has been, again, no response, although I also didn't get any messages that the email's weren't delivered. I'm not convinced that they haven't caught wind of things, but I really don't think they want to know what was going on. Who am I? I'm a nobody, they could care less what I have to say. Unless I buy a large chunk of their shares they can ignore me. My ten shares doesn't count worth shit.
They lump everyone together as just a bunch of disgruntled complainers I think. I'm sure that's what the higher-ups have been told. "Ass covering time".
I generally try to sound halfway civil and cordial, but it's getting harder and harder. Tim's just making stuff up as he goes along, pulling rules out of his ass. He just can not see how it's making him look.
I know many people here don't like biogal. However, I personally don't think she's as bad as some think. I've tangled with her more than once, especially during the whole Skipper incident. While she's still there I don't get the feeling that she's all that happy about the changes either. She's looking the other way on a lot of stuff there. I do think she's trying to preserve what's left of the RCT section. Let's be honest, she didn't like some of the CC regulars and they didn't like her, but her mod duties in other areas haven't always been that strict and certainly don't show her marching lock step with Poxie.
Last month in the midst of the spamming with the porn she was banned herself. She couldn't get on-site, she couldn't get ahold of anyone at Atari at all, but she knew my email address and she contacted me to let me know. I tried contacting others without going public in case her being banned was a mistake, which it turned out it was. I just wouldn't be so quick to think she's a big supporter of the current regime there.
Isn't it about time this thread gets closed? It's getting more than a bit embarrasing to have a thread on a place that is all but closed down as the biggest topic on this board.
Congratulations America
You want to lock a thread complaining about a jackass who does nothing but closes threads? That's...
Well that's meta, alright
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Hey, at least we know now that referring to white people as 'negros' is just peachy-keen in Timmy's book, but don't fucking call that stupid, black, pedo cock-mongler a negro - it's offensive!
I'm amazed how he's replied to you being called a negro by saying "ah, but you're not African American" rather than "sorry, I missed that".
Well, come on, he didn't apologize to me for implying that I'm a slut.
And Phoxe even sent me his reply to a report about that. Of course, considering how fast Timmeh rebanned me after my temp ban was done I think he's trying to get rid of everyone who doesn't suck his dick.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
I have no problem with referring to myself as a slut. I even have no problem with people who are my friends (even in the interwebby version of friendship) calling me a slut. I do have a problem with someone who I dislike implying my whorishness while banning other people for saying things of a similar nature.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.