<2022-11-28T07:20:29.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: I'm admiring your dedication to bullying that guy. He's always been getting into fights over anime though. If you want him gone, you need to bait him into continuing to says bad things about anime, the site or staff, and not address you. He won't bend the knee, it is not how dudes in this thing are, ever. It only ends in "NO U" type posting.Make some threads about beloved shows, if he takes the bait, it should pull in people to dog pile him and if enough get involved, mods will see. Even better if those mods are your mutuals.In the earlier days of Poast, it was easy to get enforcement because there were fewer users and Graf was able to tard wrangle more directly. Now it takes more to get this attention.Inb4 kikery, this is how Poast works. I moved because I got tired of gatekeeping with a lot of other old accounts.
<2022-11-28T07:21:38.000Z> Eschatology: I'll be frank with you. I'm really more interested in him apologizing for his completely garbage pedo-jacketing of my person because of my current avatar. I take that charge extremely seriously.
<2022-11-28T07:22:27.000Z> Eschatology: That having been said, I do take the culture of Poast seriously and while I don't intend to get him banned (this is just shitposting to be honest, I think it's iconic and it makes people laugh), but I wouldn't be overcome with grief if it happened. The pedo-jacketing alone was enough for me to not lose sleep over that particular consequence.
<2022-11-28T07:22:52.000Z> Eschatology: Mugicha.Club is fantastic by the way. Never a bad take from any of you guys.
<2022-12-01T07:28:32.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: Sorry for the late reply. You're probably not going to get one unless you get some power over him, and even then he can still tell you to fuck off. Another wonderful trait of this sphere, never ever apologize. Add in the fact he's an older 4chan user, and you've got a person who can be shittier and retarded longer than you can be mad and stay sane.He's probably a younger Gen X, or older Millennial. It likely wasn't uncommon for him growing up to think anime was for fags, but at the same time he claims to be an oldfag, so idk how he can spend almost two decades on another anime respecting site and still hate anime unless he's just being a contrarian faggot.
<2022-12-01T07:30:31.000Z> Eschatology: All good. It's still like I said though. I don't want power over him or anything, but I want him to conform to the site's culture considering this site has already given me a ton of enjoyment -because- of that culture. He's very disrespectful. I wish I wasn't like that when I first got here, because now I have an intense like of Poast culture, including the anime.
<2022-12-01T07:41:49.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: People who view anime as pedophilia have mental issues. The hair trigger freakouts just show how out of touch they are and how they are incapable of weighing the importance and impact of issues. Dude will step on a landmine one day and get banned. Shit flinging while constantly signalling you're an outsider will not win friends. Buddy up with some of the mods, and one day you may get to call in a drone strike.
<2022-12-01T07:42:57.000Z> Eschatology: I'd hate to have that happen but honestly, he came in trying to shit stir about anime this time. What he said had nothing to do with the conversation, it was just another chance to start something about anime. I don't appreciate that at all, especially when he's conflating that with Christianity for no reason.
<2022-12-01T07:45:15.000Z> Eschatology: He deserves banning. It's a shame people like him impacted the culture so much.
<2022-12-01T07:54:24.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: You've got pretty good engagement and mutuals. I have no doubt, you'll have a bigger better impact than him. Every time I've seen him on my TL, it because he's getting beat up for being a retard. You can make a groupchat on the Poast Matrix with your mutuals and call in backup when he's being a faggot again.
<2022-12-01T07:56:15.000Z> Eschatology: He shouldn't -be- a faggot to begin with, at least not about anime. I'm surprised graf didn't cap him when graf asked him why he was even here.
<2022-12-01T09:24:10.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: It's clear from his engagement he is not a significant person. Casually looked, gets less than one like per post. I have better ratios and only have like 50 followers. He's a lone attack dog. He stays because he has no friends elsewhere to take him in because he's unlikable.
<2022-12-01T16:35:32.000Z> Eschatology: I think I was right when I said he's so culturally insignificant that nobody even cares what he says about Poast culture or anime in general. He has jester's privilege, plain and simple. Not even worth banning because nothing he says matters.
<2022-12-14T04:29:28.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: Here's an effortpost I made on what happened with the old guard and drama from this summer.Regarding the exodus, Graf has signaled to a lot of the old guard that if they don't like how he's running things they can leave. The site is still safe, but he’s not interested in preserving what made the site a home for so many of us in 2021. Broadly speaking, we wanted a fun club house, he wants to grow the platform into a business. You can skip the wall of text if you don’t care for internet drama, it’s mostly egos clash between Graf and a few ecelebs.It's a culmination of three things: flood of users, a public blow up with a two adjacent sites, and major misunderstandings snowballing out of control. In September we were inundated with thousands of new accounts (more than doubling the amount of active users) after @Jim, aka Mister Metokur, a Youtuber with a lot of followers made an account here. He brought his fans, who are more interested in internet drama because that’s the type of content he creates.At the same time, Kiwi Farms, an adjacent site that is for discussing lolcows (and allows doxing) was attacked by a sophisticated platforming campaign run by a tranny named Keffals. During their downtime, Graf opened the door to them and said they were welcome here. Ultimately, they wore out their welcome when they started trying to dox some of the moderators, and @Undu, former second in command at Poast and long time friend of Graf’s quit the fediverse entirely.All during this time, a lot of the old guard were very vocal about needing swifter action to ban the bad actors and start serious tard wrangling because hazing and bullying wasn’t enough to drive them off. Graf continually said they were welcome and for people to just make their own instances. So some people did.In mid October, Graf was exploring some sort of investment or partnership with Odysee, an alt-tech video streaming website. Two major players on Poast used it regularly for their streams, RandBot and Sven (a podcaster with TRS (TheRightStuff.biz)). Someone tagged graf in a screenshot of their TOS, which bans racism, sexism, harrassment, etc. However, it has been there since at least February and has never been enforced. Rather than reach out for clarification, Graf burned the bridge very publicly by publishing his emails with them and announcing that he wouldn’t be helping people who work with them. This set off a bunch of hellthreads, and a slapfight between Graf and Sven ensued. Rand briefly suspended simulcasting from Odysee to appease Graf. Nothing was accomplishedA week ago, Sven found himself in a hellthread discussing loli, which drove him to publically quit the fediverse. He didn’t phrase things well in his anger, and Graf misunderstood it to be being labeled a pedo. Sven went back to the TRS forums, and said he’d be returning to Twitter as well. Ultimately things died down.Then a few days ago, some dumb ass said Borzoi’s wife was shit taking poast on her podcast. She was not, she was discussing the negative social media in general, and how it’s full of anime porn and gore. Borzoi is another TRS podcaster, who had quit the fediverse in September because he recognized it was having a negative effect on him and family during the flood of dramaniggers. He was a major reason why so many people ended up on Poast in the first place, and has done nothing but post about books, haze liberals, and try to use his voice to help new users adopt the culture. He had also some partnerships with Graf making an archive of old podcasts. So when Graf responded to these accusation with, essentially, “fuck him, I’m not listening to what they’re saying, I’m deleting his shit,” he was met with a lot of blow back from the old guard and TRS supporters. Graf continued to give us the ultimatum, shut up or leave his site when even asking for him to sleep on it. It continued to blow up, as Graf kept escalating, confronting Borzoi on Matrix, a chat app, where he blindsided him with accusations, to which Borzoi was like, I’ve been doing Halloween stuff with my family I have no idea what you’re talking about. Borzoi, being the bigger man, did apologize for everything and told him he’d move all his files off. He later posted on Telegram he dislikes how right wing people seem to only resolve issues by “squaring up” rather than talk it out. Graf took it personally, called him a kike, and said anyone who was banned in the past for posting Borzoi or his wife’s dox and photos would be unbanned if they emailed him. This made many of us very concerned because the reasoning on why he wasn’t more willing to ban users in September was he wanted to be consistent with the rules. Both Sven and Borzoi have clarified their positions, which is essentially none of them have a beef with Graf despite this but they’re moving on. There is now an official TRS/NJP instance as well.I made this my alt back when the flood started because I wanted to be on a smaller instance, and know the admin IRL. Graf has always advocated for making more instances. Currently, managing Poast is his more than fulltime job, and the software it runs on was never meant for it to handle the +26k users it has. You can still interact with everyone of course and you're welcome to join other instances, it's just that we're not all under one roof anymore.
<2022-12-14T04:33:37.000Z> Eschatology: That all pretty much falls in line with everything I understand about Poast culture and the resultant fallout after September. It's Godawful, that any of this even had to happen because it didn't. There just needed to be some extreme tard-wrangling. Like I said, if you have admins and mods in your corner, and they back you, a community can stand.
<2022-12-14T05:27:58.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: Basically, we didn't so the battle was lost
<2022-12-14T05:28:23.000Z> Eschatology: At the very least, you guys had a fallback position. Most people aren't so lucky.
<2022-12-14T05:32:10.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: We were flooded with requests to join. We should have taken more on but didn't want to draw a target on our backs or make this the I hate Graf instance
<2022-12-14T05:33:25.000Z> Eschatology: Mugicha? I'm pretty sure the admin hates my guts. Rightfully so. I don't hate graf, I just understand he made his choices to run Poast more like a business than a home.
<2022-12-14T05:37:56.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: No idea what Nozaki thinks of you but he's pretty chill though so I doubt it.
<2022-12-14T05:38:21.000Z> Eschatology: He's got me blocked, but that's probably because I mouthed off to him once early on in my Poast dealings. Deserved.
<2022-12-14T05:38:50.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: Regarding Ocean, I'm on her block list for being a "pedo". I had her blocked for months for being a woman though so I didn't know until I got tagged into the thread.https://poa.st/@OceanRedux/posts/AQAJg6pMKSRi4EQwfQEveryone on this list was people who interacted with this posthttps://poa.st/objects/7c7ec222-9ee1-457b-a72c-5effce5c91e5Personally, I don't care btw. Don't go white knighting for me, since I had her blocked anyway. I want nothing to do with her. Just watch out, people with a hair trigger like her are prone to blowing up on friends.
<2022-12-14T05:41:24.000Z> CaoCao@mugicha.club: Well, it likely was more to do with being a Joined September 2022 account than anything egregious. He doesn't hate many people.
<2022-12-14T05:41:55.000Z> Eschatology: I remember that she accused one of my dearest friends here of being a pedophile. That pissed me off immensely. I'm still pissed off about it, if I can confess to that. And that's good to know. I'd hate to have upset Nozaki terribly.