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  Are the minority groups that want to get rid of political threads in the room with us right now : bill crystals
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  • DITO Telecommunity requires all subscribers to register their SIM cards to continue enjoying mobile servi... : ditophlips
• Good luck with your website! : losder5000
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  Your money and your site so you do you Boo but to allow the current set of mods to continue is the real ... : RyDogg1
  • Yeah they’re the worst. : freshyk
  • What did I miss? I’ve been mostly inactive a long time. : re-verse
• So all politics talk are banned and all the same mods remain in place? : redshak
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    https://www.shacknews.com/settings#mercury : mechanicalgrape
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  • It’s a fair statement. I may not have stated it as such but it’s true. Despite all the ups ... : freshyk
  • Meh, it really is his Shacknews though. Just like it was Steves and Maartens. They pay the bills and the... : tboomer2
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    Feels written like a giant f you to a lot of shackers. To basically say it's your site, too bad, screw ... : Pacalon
    • Well said, kind of an empty castle is a hell of a poetic line. : re-verse
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  Thanks for the update. I have cancelled mercury per your request. : spazzium
  • Yup. Instead of hiding behind a community they say they are protecting, I'll send my paltry dollars to th... : erebus
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  Since Shacknews is apparently a financial site now (lol), that means posts about all of the dumb shit Elo... : ColoradoCNC
  • Does this mean the amazing 9to5 Elon podcast is making a comeback? : Garf Aznable
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  MY GRANDSON TRUXSTON WANTS A NINTENDO FOR XMAS BUT THERE ARE SO MANY. WHICH ONE DOES HE WANT? : ArB shmarb
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    Hi Arb : Borzoi
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      hi Borzoi. I hope you're doing well. : ArB shmarb
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        Things are starting to turn a corner for the better. Hope you’re doing well, yo! : Borzoi
        • Glad to hear it. Same for me, I think! Kind of a crappy year, but some things are going well. : ArB shmarb
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  That was a very long way to say you're killing the chatty because it's bad for business. I get that. It's... : thetangent
  • Also functionally equivalent to selling the site. : thetangent
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    Most people probably don't remember but it was donations from the community that allowed the site to surv... : Halen
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  One of the last good forums on the internet and you guys mismanaged it into total irrelevance. It's real... : bill crystals
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    Eh, the Chatty has been divorced from the front page for like 15 years now. We don't drive traffic and we... : rob_o_cop
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      The incredibly tiny Chatty is not the part of the website that costs any money to maintain. Hell, up unt... : bill crystals
      • It's not the money, it's the time and stress that comes with the drama. Even if the mercury subs paid for... : rob_o_cop
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    “Mismanaged into irrelevance.” lol. Lmao even, sweetest of summer childs. : JohnnyChugs
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      It has never been a relevant gaming website, but it used to at least have a passionate community : bill crystals
      • The joke isn’t funnier if you tell it twice. : JohnnyChugs
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  it's fair to say the current mod team has lost the trust of all parts of the community. I hope you addre... : pmchem
  • The mods were doing his bidding. so no, they probably wont address that. : Galadriel07
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      Even doing what it wants could have been handled with more clarity, consistency, and leadership. It’... : AluminumMallard
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  • This is true but if there's no community left because everyone is gone what's the point? : thetangent
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• The title for the novelization of this would be, "Of Mods and Men." : Sailor of Fortune
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  In no uncertain terms, this community has a negative reputation amongst minority groups, women, and LGBTQ : Fooldozer
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    I felt like the Chatty had been doing a very good job of turning the ship around on this. We'd run off a ... : Rodeoclash
    • It's amazing because the biggest incident that made so many high quality posters leave was the briefcase ... : bill crystals
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      I would agree with this as a woman coming to shacknews for 25 years as well. The entire thing is bullshi... : Galadriel07
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        These 2 posts would seem to negate everything written in the article imho. : redshak
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        • I've never encountered anyone in the real world who knew about the site, and I have two Shacknews shirts ... : thetangent
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    • As another longtime gay poster here (almost 15k posts over two decades), it is really shitty to use us as... : mathyou
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    I also didn't realize that, at all, the chatty feels a million zillion times less toxic than any other on... : Milleh
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      • Respectfully, can we udder touch? : anhero
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    • Yeah weird, I didn't realize that either? If this had been the case I would have been long gone. This w... : JohnnyDanger
    • You didn't realize this because it's bullshit. This whole post is just full of bad takes and straight mis... : Kub666
    • I feel the same way. I’m not really a part of any of the groups listed though so I may not realize ... : Blackdawgg
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    It does not. It’s just an excuse to justify an action. : Korban
    • I wish i could INF this more than one time. : Galadriel07
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    I wonder what sites are considered LBTQ/minority friendly. Everything I see across the wider Internet is ... : Gylis
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  • He's still 10x better than Gamefly ever was. : GodZilly
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  • This exactly. These kind of issues shouldn't be political, they should be facts of life, of the way th... : Rodeoclash
  • "We welcome marginalized peoples but we don't allow them advocate for themselves." If you don't talk a... : Sailor of Fortune
  • I don't know if I am either. Neurodivergence wasn't listed so I'm probably not, but discussions around me... : thetangent
  • The new rules don't even have the "lived experience" clause. : Arcanum
  • You worded it just fine. : Conan
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  • 100% this. : Rice-Rocketeer
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• LOL. You’re all laid off and I’m going on vacation. Awesome sense of transparency with this... : PhoenixPuck
• Goodbye : AssGoblin
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  Thanks for the update. I am 100% on board with what you say in this post, especially if Shacknews has a n... : skizl
  • This place doesn’t have a reputation among any communities. It’s been niche for 10 fucking ye... : Garf Aznable
  • I mean I'm just thinking of AuroraBeam who specifically was bummed that the new rules preventing them fro... : nwillard
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  I’ve only been here 5-10 years so I have no experience with the kind of horrific language Asif is c... : AluminumMallard
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    The entire thing is absurd. Many of the few people left around here have been here for 20+ years. The cha... : maulla
    • This is pretty much where my mindset is right now. I have reread the new chatty rules twice now and I am... : Dr_Cube
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    The thing he cited in the article was a fucking typo someone made and everyone thought it was funny becau... : Galadriel07
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  "In fact, many of the unmoderated hateful posts in the last ten years have appeared in political threads ... : cornchak
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    I would have more respect for this if they admitted that the reason is they can't adequately police these... : Arcanum
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  As someone who has never been banned/timed out (that I know of), I actually felt the political discussion... : bcyde
  • Well said. : sixfoot6
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  • Yeah, you’re right. I’ve learned about a much broader group of people and ideas than my relat... : freshyk
  • Exactly. It is part of what kept me coming back to the chatty. As ugly as some of the political talk or h... : Dr_Cube
• This entire thread is about a moderation decision, so shouldn’t it be nuked per the new rules? : maulla
• This is either a solution looking for a problem or coming up with a solution by misunderstanding the prob... : FirstPersonCooter
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  • Well said. Thinking back through this ownership tenure, it’s pretty incredible how things have ch... : maulla
• Most of these replies read like posts in a thread about SNL. It sucks now, whatever recent thing they did... : Amusatron
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  "We want to be welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community. That's why they're not allowed to talk about things im... : Arcanum
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    I’ve never had that issue, I just don’t because there’s everything TMWTB said convincing me and oth... : JohnnyChugs
    • Several members of the LGBTQ+ community have spoken about why they've left. We can take a moment to look ... : TotalFusionOne
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      Forcing the LGBTQ+ community to shut up and go back into the closet… that’s healthy to you? : Korban
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        It’s not doing that. And if you really feel that way, it’s because you read what you wanted to read a... : JohnnyChugs
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          So you’re anti-LGBTQ+ too. Got it. : Korban
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            No, actually I’m bi with a trans spouse. What now?

            Dec 20, 2024 6:53pm PST
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            No, actually I’m bi with a trans spouse. What now? : JohnnyChugs
            • Are they a POC for the trifecta? : freshyk
    • lol, lmao even as you would say : Downforce
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• I hope you get what you want out of the web site you bought. : owly
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  Do what you want with your website man but I wonder if you could have made a worse article to announce it... : the_burd
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    The disdain in that post for the chatty and all that dwell here is palpable. : AluminumMallard
    • "Disdainful" is exactly the word I had in mind for the tone of the message. Kind of speaks to the real mo... : thetangent
    • Exactly. I'd have felt more respected if he just emailed me "fuck you" and then shut off the chatty. : the_burd
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• I love how all the hand waving about “community feedback” and “a trial phase” was... : AluminumMallard
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  TL;DR? : Korban
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    Find another home. : erebus
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  • Your favourite website wants a divorce. : jehkyb
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  This had to happen eventually and I’m glad it did. There’s a lot of good here and it gets marred by u... : JohnnyChugs
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    Whose alt are you lol. : erebus
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      Yeah am I crazy for not recognizing this name? First post 2019 : bill crystals
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        Based on the passionate support for TMWTB, perhaps a writer for the site? : owly
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          If any of you actually crawled out of chatty once in while, it wouldn’t be a mystery. : JohnnyChugs
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            LOL good to know how y’all really feel. : Garf Aznable
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              I’m speaking for myself. “Y’all” doesn’t apply. : JohnnyChugs
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            Thank you for this inclusive message, person. : owly
            • You’re welcome, other person. : JohnnyChugs
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            Write better articles and maybe they would : maulla
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              SureJan.gif : JohnnyChugs
              • "Relevant" perhaps should be the word, not better. I used to read a ton of articles on the site (Esp. ... : Fayk
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            This was a community of posters for like 15+ years before you joined this site. Before Asif owned it and... : bill crystals
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                LOL, complaining about changes to a community I've belonged to for 25 years is apparently "bitching the e... : thetangent
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                    I can't take you seriously in the slightest. "Threadshitting"? Apparently discussing the ongoing changes ... : thetangent
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                      • That's nice. : thetangent
                  • But members of a community do get to pick how it turns out. That’s basically the definition of comm... : Danny5225
              • Also, doesn't this post violate the rule stating "Personal attacks or insults" which comes right after "S... : thetangent
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              Barring that it’s the third time you’ve said the same thing at me in different words, if Chatty wasn�... : JohnnyChugs
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                Buddy, you gonna hear it about 400 more times from more than me. It's one of the most idiotic things I'v... : bill crystals
                • I’ll be sure to take it as seriously the other 400. : JohnnyChugs
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                    Oh yeah. This is reminding me of NeoGaf most recently. You can definitely kind of feel it when the foru... : bill crystals
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            that's right Johnny, you insult em, you insult em real good : Halen
            • Go easy on him, he’s just doing his job. : Mad Brahmin Disease
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        Guessing a sockpuppet account. Those are a thing apparently. : thetangent
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          Relax. He's a writer/editor here. : rms
          • Potato/potatoe. : thetangent
          • Dunno how that makes it better : quadeh
    • One of the majority obviously!!! : r_picmip 5
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    There are also not so good people. Who the fuck are all these BAD PEOPLE...we've legit shed almost 50%... : RyDogg1
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    • Me. : ShXIII
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      I'm a bad enough dude : Rodeoclash
      • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Bad_Dudes_DragonNinja_arcadeflyer.png : papaskot
    • Maddog is a bad people. That's what I heard. : TheBadGoat
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    bro look at your last 15 posts today, it's all antagonistic garbage trying to get a rise out of the folks... : MikkleThePickle
    • holy shit I just realized you're actually Shacknews staff. To call this ironic would be the understatemen... : MikkleThePickle
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  IIRC "10% n----r d--k" was funny / accepted because it was simply a typo and had the benefit of a gener... : tunis5000
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        • Yeah, it has to be like at least a decade old? No one fucking references it. u breadloaf : freshyk
    • yeah the meme is actually “10% bigger dick” but I don’t expect the powers that be to un... : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    On the one hand, true. On the other hand, it's still pretty inappropriate and potentially offensive to p : Arcanum
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      on the gripping hand : pulsedrive
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        I use "on the third hand" deliberately. : Arcanum
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          Someone doesn't like Larry and/or Jerry : pulsedrive
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            I honestly don't know who they are. : Arcanum
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              Oh well, I assumed you had a reason. Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle were the writers of The Mote in God'... : pulsedrive
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                Ahhhh. I'm pretty sure I've read some of both their works, but not that specifically. : Arcanum
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      Of course not. It was inappropriate then and it obviously is now. But we are lying to ourselves if we say... : Garf Aznable
      • It was almost 20 years ago believe it or not lol March 2005 : tunis5000
    • People never typed it out, they would just link to it as the punchline for some joke : Halen
  • I had actually totally forgotten about it until this article. : theghostofsmdever
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  • Yeah using it as an excuse is just ridiculous. : Kub666
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    Hopefully somebody has screenshots of it. That was arguably one of the most shameful incidents in the his... : ColoradoCNC
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      This is just a website on the internet: https://web.archive.org/web/20210116174438/https://www.shacknews.... : krym3
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        Damn man, that article really is personal attack after personal attack.... : nwillard
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          You could argue he helped caused a suicide, bullying a person with his website. Then to act all high and ... : pwnjoo
          • wow, i never saw that before..yeah he bullied a guy who committed suicide. and he wants to come off the ... : deathofrats
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    No, you see, the scary political threads (that are hidden by default) are what runs users away. Not the s... : maulla
    • inherited purchased : erebus
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  • You’re expecting too much from this unserious, ineffectual coward of a person. : freshyk
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    Are you talking about that campaign shitting all over abrasion, a shacker that went on to commit suicide? : Korban
    • Yep, exactly that. And I have continued to be here after it but remains a thing I think about a lot when ... : funnynamehere
  • I feel like that incident was the turning point between TMWTB and the community. Perhaps this is the fall... : thetangent
  • Seriously, the ugliest event I can recall on the Shack, and it was an officially sanctioned attack by the... : fishbone
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  • Agreed, I still remember how shitty for Abrasion this was. I expect nothing from Asif on this front at th... : Kub666
  • That’s when I decided cancel Mercury because I did not want to support that kind of owner with my m... : sonicdeathwalrus
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    Ironically, that event drove away a lot of prolific/diverse members of the community. : Gylis
    • Yup, he's been super toxic for this place ever since. This place ending was inevitable, but I'm extremely... : thetangent
    • Yep, tons of people deleted after that. : spazzium
  • He didn't deserve that. And now he's gone. I had chatted with abrasion many times over the years. Can't h... : Gibolas
  • " If you’re serious about fostering a community aligned with values like respect and inclusivity, " Na : Disarray
  • dear lord, if common sense were common, it would be great : moshman
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• Shame my mercury sub was useless. Explains why I never got rewards after years @ $100 : krym3
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  The updated guidelines still list ninjase as an active mod. Maybe give that list a second look? : Code RedBeard
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  • They lost the password to edit that page and the email to reset it. : Sailor of Fortune
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  I would hope you are lenient on banning for political posts. Seems like it would be pretty easy for a new... : Senate5000
  • That's cute. You think this place is getting new people. I'm kidding. But only a little. : kagath
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• I can support the decisions you're announcing here in a vacuum, but I find the history discussed here sev... : the_doctor
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  Here's an invite to Chatty Discord while this place circles the drain: https://discord.gg/thechatty : bill crystals
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      One's Playing/Streaming Star Citizen : Sailor of Fortune
      • Try not to hold that against us please : errational
  • Guess I need to get on the discord. : Thund3rball
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    I joined I think but I don't get discord. Where is the main chatty hang? I see game chat but for the life... : redshak
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      the role thing is ridiculous, but if you can figure it out then it opens many different sub-threads focus... : sixfoot6
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        I guess it's not for me. I come to the chatty for just seeing what shackers are talking about, I don't ac... : redshak
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        • Yeah, it sucks for the most part : feek
      • Wait but how do we get the roles? : Danny5225
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    This forum is infinitely better to use than the Discord. : Don Koharski
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    • I had the same problem. In the “welcome and rules” channel, there’s a little quake symb... : waxthirteen
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• It’s really a shame, I’ve been here since early 2000s (I think 2001) and since you’ve t... : Korban
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• "repeated threadshttiing" gets a perma now? are we even allowed to discuss those new guidelines here? b... : pmchem
• I'll give you tree fiddy for the chatty. : yosemiteclimber
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  I guess I’m the weird one for being fine with this. Everything must evolve. : rossimo
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        or we're all just getting older and want to talk about current events. : peat
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          • That seems like a lot : peat
          • THEN KEEP THE POLITICAL FILTER OFF FFS : feek
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            Very clear to me now why you left previously and are back to gloat now. Good to know. : quadeh
            • Very encouraging he's an antagonistic bully and the mods inf the post. It's rich telling me I've aged out... : peat
          • I think more people would have agreed with this reasoning than whatever bullshit he tried : Disarray
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      • TIL selective breeding = "behavioral evolution" : Halen
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    • It’s just like the Reagan administration! : AluminumMallard
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    • i lied. i wouldn’t ban you and i’m sorry i said i would. i before e except : lacker
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    wait… glhf? I’m old : Korban
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      • Play it straight? Jeez, homophobic much? ;) : waxthirteen
• This is all a kick in the nuts. Mercury never mattered. Good to know we all kicked in for nothing and : RevRaven
• Here is my brain dump I would like to know what online community has the best reputation with minority g... : quazar
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  • Aww hell no, no shirts and no hoodie : cactus44203
• I’m no celebrity Shacker. I started lurking in 2006/7 and then a member a little later. I don’... : Thund3rball
• This is just weird nonsense. A total mischaracterization of the nature and tenor of the forum over the la... : FlatlineDixay
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  Man, right on the as I'm getting ready for the country to go to hell in general, this site also deciding ... : Herman Toothrot
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    Just FYI, Asif, this community and those political posts is a huge part of my re-evaluation of my own vie... : Herman Toothrot
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      You’re making an assumption when you think management wants this to be a “progressive” ... : AluminumMallard
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        I'm expressing my feelings on what I find valuable about this place. If those are counter to management's... : Herman Toothrot
        • Your feelings of disappointment are shared by many. : AluminumMallard
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  It's insulting that you think we're so stupid we'd believe your bullshit rationale--that by silencing pol : Bold
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  The fucking irony of all of this standing up to political threads and silencing cohorts of people. And r : krym3
  • Screenshot https://i.imgur.com/VqjZ1he.png : krym3
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      yes. he made the statement to point out users have no power over him. he has money hats from elsewhere. : sixfoot6
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  Good riddance to the politics thread. I wish I would have never started the political/trump daily dump i... : stgdz
  • What if you could filter it out using native site tools? : bill crystals
  • Well, I read it every time and thank you for your service. : cactus44203
  • Yes, you’re the reason we’ve been discussing politics for the past 8 years. : AluminumMallard
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      • I feel the same way about the discord format. Much more difficult to just drop in and check on things. : spazzium
  • I'm in the same boat. It's really sad. : thetangent
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  • Nothing says it better for me. : Borzoi
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• Someone Explain Like I am Five years old to me. No more political threads or talk? : Dr_Cube
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• Thanks for letting us know how you feel I hope Shacknews continues to have an awesome community. Thanks f... : gameindustryplant
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• Dude… just, what in the fuck? Do we live in the same reality? I don’t even know where to begi... : feek
• I, for one, welcome all of the LGBTQ+ and lady-Shackers that will come flooding into the chatty. : Nighteyes
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• Bye bye mrs american pie : Floated Jr.
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  Whooooooo wee. Welp, F2 F2 : Downforce
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  FFS, have you never heard of no change Fridays? : CplBeaker
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  • Nah, he's paying people to start subthreads like this instead: http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=4272908... : quadeh
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• This whole thing is super sad and weird. I always thought of shacknews as a more open and progressive web... : JohnnyDanger
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  Using the typo in 10% bigger dick as an argument for racism is GOP level propaganda. The "if you don't... : Kub666
  • I agree with this 100%, shacknews has always been my internet home and this is all super depressing : Borrowed Ladder
  • I agree with this 100%, shacknews has always been my internet home and this is all super depressing : Borrowed Ladder
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• Maybe the problem is - among other things - that you are adding the following FINALLY in TYOOL2024 "Thi... : Fayk
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• Been here more than 20 years and like anything all good things come to an end. Sad to see it die like thi... : hobosapien
• If you feel like this path forward is not your Shacknews, you are right. It is my Shacknews. The general... : Gylis
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  Chiming in here to say this is a giant crock of shit. Thanks for the slap in the face asif, good luck wit... : focusdaily
  • No one in the last year got their merch, including myself : cactus44203
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    They’re giving away some bans this year. : freshyk
    • But does it come with a ps5? : Jackass1233
• Welp...it was a good run while it lasted, guys! : PenicillinX57
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  I appreciate you bro esp when I best you in Shaqball. : whistletits
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  • Same here. :( It’s maybe the only social media site I’d truly be sad to see go. : sirkne
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    • Continuing to exist as a shell of what it was is the same thing. : thetangent
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• So, are we moving somewhere? I'm lost. :) : TrOn
• Thanks for letting me know I should cancel my Mercury subscription. : gilivray
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  • Can’t have bill gates or Phil Spencer finding it : maulla
  • Lol, c'mon : aethyr
• The road ahead for Shacknews leads into a sinkhole : snot3353
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      • I don't think anyone predicted websites lasting three decades so 'perma' was never quite what it meant : Halen
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  • To the majority of the rest of the community too. : kagath
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  There’s no Selfie Saturday. If Milleh has been driven off, then we have truly lost the best of us. : Don Koharski
  • He's over on the discord, come join us : redshak
  • he is writing terrifier 4 : lacker
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• so its gonna be even more of an echo chamber than it is now...swell : skookum_choocher
• You are a weak person. Your money gives you the ability to buy your safe space, but this will not make it... : theWhite
• this is worse than the ending to game of thrones : rick
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  I’m out of here. To all of you who pushed for this and enabled it: Kick rocks in your own shitty... : focusdaily
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    NO HOODIES! FUCK! : focusdaily
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          As riveting as your eating ass posts are some of us came to talk politics. : erebus
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          This is not true. There was a few weeks break ONCE. Stop making crap up. : thetangent
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            Yeah and wasn't it fine? : mr.sleepy
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                I was responding to your assertion, if I understood it correctly that during the two week break there was... : mr.sleepy
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                  Never said a word about the two week break. You’re a super confused individual lol. : jingletard
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                • No we were not. Yes you may be, who knows. Almost everything. : Kub666
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          He did post a picture of his jizz on his keyboard. That was pretty serious. : ashkie
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          Festivus airing of grievances. ^^This is the kinda shit that annoys me. I'd rather have more mr. sleepy p... : aethyr
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          • Don’t you dare pick on roushi! : Nighteyes
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  • Extremely well put. : quadeh
  • I wish I could INF this more than once. : TroZ
  • Perfectly said. : yosemiteclimber
  • This is the thread’s mic drop : feek
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  tl:dr? : moshman
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    My Shack. Don't like it, take a hike. About sums it up. : kagath
    • I don't mind joining discord, or whatever, but I don't see it as at least an equivalent : moshman
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      • TELIVISION : moshman
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        Don't forget: finally nukes the 'problematic' thread twenty years later too. : kagath
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    tried to buy everyone's love, didn't work, wah : Korban
    • But I have money! : moshman
    • "wah" is my new favourite word : moshman
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  oh man, I missed some shit. Where are we going again? : moshman
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    Away : BeowolfSchaefer
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      i see the discord, but voice chat is not what I signed up for haha : moshman
      • The dulcet tones of Maddog : aethyr
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          i'm probably too old : moshman
          • If you haven't joined it, discord is modern irc and top minds are working on familiar shack clients : Jenings
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      did Clay agree to this? : moshman
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        what?! : Clay
        • I'm so glad you're here : moshman
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      that's all voice chat tho? : moshman
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        No, read the roles section and you'll see a lot more. : TotalFusionOne
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          I must be a thicko, cos I can't find it :( : moshman
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            The roles section is at the top of the channel listing. Read through it and you should be able to open up... : TotalFusionOne
            • Thank you. I should deal with it when I am not drunk : moshman
            • nah, I don't get that option. : moshman
      • Nah it’s scrolling text. There’s also a new subreddit. : AluminumMallard
  • deeper into the echo chamber : skookum_choocher
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  What the hell happened with the tags in this thread ? : Disarray
  • Did they add a “bye” tag yet? : AluminumMallard
• You have a real talent for building and supporting communities. They just happen to be the ones your user... : BeowolfSchaefer
• Engagement is up : peat
• I picked a weird time to log back in. : metalzombie
• :( : Nehvrook
• What in the world?? Why have you done this? This is absolutely horrible. What are you doing?? This horrib... : Trips
• What a bum ass dude. This site is nothing without the community since it lacks content : burningpantsman
• Very sad that it came down to this and that the community has now been fragmented. : SAS_Ale
• “The Man with the Briefcase” reminds me of a fascinating story I once uncovered during my research on... : shawshank595@gmail.com
• “The man with the briefcase” instantly reminded me of a photo I took in Prague—mysterious, timeless... : Gerda Wilson
• Thank you for sharing amazing chatty system and if you can try gps car system so you can visit https://mu... : LuisCummings
• Managing community evolution is tough, like a tricky round in the Slope Game and keeping things fun and l... : CalebKitchen
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  Oh, so this is why all the new Chatty threads are dead. Dang. : Havoc1c4
  • I was confused until I ran across this thread. : guido anchovy