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Leonard Helplessness said:
There's a high likelihood that that particular goon is some kind of performance artist, given he's posted about fingering an ancient exceptional man's asshole before:

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This is SA though, and the GBS coronavirus thread is literally titled "We Are All Gonna Die" and is full of wild-eyed doomers, so who fuckin knows. Elsewhere on the forums, like in the E/N Chat thread, you get to see shit like this:

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E/N used to have a "Mental Help Megathread" but it got closed due to too many incidents of goons coming in posting "I'm gonna kill myself and nobody can stop me tee hee hee." So now you see that shit everywhere else instead.
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This has to be a troll. I really hope that this is just Poe's Law in action.
 
The CSPAM drama continues.

Here is the executive summary: Various posters in politics-poisoned subforums like DnD and CSPAM have a bad habit of posting about how they want their political enemies to die. They periodically veer into naming specific people. This has caused some concern about Lowtax getting visited by the feds.

Whenever this is brought up, various CSPAM posters flood into the thread basically claiming that there is some conspiracy by former FYAD posters to shut down CSPAM in revenge. To "prove" this the CSPAM posters go through each supposed FYAD person's post history looking for any dirt whatsoever, such as some people posting in a different thread together.

This has gotten two threads shut down. A third one has recently appeared:

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It was fine for discussion until the CSPAM people came in with posts like this:

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And it culminated in this lock post:

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Period, huh. I guess weak trans jokes are a bigger reason to close a subforum than implying (if not just out and out saying) a politician should be assassinated.
 
And a 4th thread has hit the towers.

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The mods are pretty blatantly trying to shut discussion down by making it a requirement to PM the totally neutral admins before opening a QCS thread.
 
the one thing i hated about ZDR and FAU, was how they burned out and just kept closing thread in QCS because he was done not explaining shit.

in the mod forum leaks you had jeff saying he didnt like people digging through post history to win.

oh wait this is just like before were people would run into a thread shit it up the mods would do nothing then the whole thread would be bad and gassed.
 
But wait, there's more!

It turns out that a poster actually PMed Renee, who locked the third thread with this post I am relinking for emphasis:

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This was the response:

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Remember, QCS is the public Talk to Staff forum. They are mad that people are demanding action against posters advocating violence.
 
X Prime said:
Remember, QCS is the public Talk to Staff forum. They are mad that people are demanding action against posters advocating violence.
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It's funny to me how even the mods indirectly see that the only way to shut down leftists inciting political violence would be to shut down cspam.
 
Jeffrey of YOSPOS said:
A few days ago the topic of people making violent threats came up in QCS. If someone says that they want to strangle a senator who is pushing legislation that they hate, is it a dumb joke or a serious threat?

At the end of the thread Lowtax came in and posted this:

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The Secret Service has visited lowtax before and, well, they don't seem to value humor the way we do here at Something Awful Industries. It's better for everyone if we can avoid this situation going forward.

So please - don't do this, at all. If in the course of a discussion about politics, you post something that looks like a death threat, we are going to come down hard. I understand if this means you're going back to Gaia Online where jokes are legal, but it is what is best for our community.

Now, we also recognize that there is a lot of gray area in between someone writing that they have a rifle and want to kill a politician and, for example, generally hoping that someone suffers a heart attack or catches COVID. Both are ghoulish, but only one might get the secret service involved. We recognize that political figures can cause a lot of harm, and that this harm threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions, including many posters here. We're going to try very hard to read these gray areas and not permaban people for shit that really falls under political speech, but anything involving violence or death is going to get a very hard look. Please don't put us in the position of having to look at a post and figure out if it actually constitutes a threat, even a vague one. The list of politicians you'd like dead isn't exactly funny, informative, or interesting and those sorts of posts will not be missed.

We have no desire to go back and re-litigate old posts under this standard. Deciding if posts from weeks, months, or years ago run afoul of this is a huge waste of everyone's time. Please, let's all stop doing this now, for everyone's sake. If you find something that someone did before today that is particularly concerning to you, PM or email an admin.
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He's trying to lawyer Richard's directive as hard as possible in order to avoid banning his posting pals, basically. He's also trying to make sure everyone knows he's completely innocent and blameless whenever the troon terrorist du jour gets banned: "I'm sorry but I HAVE to ban you now for talking openly about making a bunch of pipebombs to murder your local farmer; it's completely out of my hands and you should blame Lowtax for outlawing hilarious guillotine jokes, not poor little ol' me for following orders, I'll miss you I promise."

In sadder news, this thread's biggest fan isn't doing so well. Edgar Allen Ho has been put on a self-requested mental health probation, e.g. a thing that goons do when they're absolutely fucking addicted to posting and don't know how to simply log off.

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Banmes were better when they weren't i'll-miss-you-fam hugbox shit. I noticed during Lowtax's New Years Eve stream that the interface for queueing a ban includes a dropdown for nuking images that the user posted, because bombing the everlasting fuck out of one or more threads on your way out was a thing (as was banfiction, but that shit was often too elaborate and high-effort to be funny). Hell, Sigvatr's banme was so stylish that rather than remove the pictures from his post, the admins converted them all to attachments and goldmined the thread.
 
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Catgirl IRL said:
Could someone quote that? I'm squinting like all hell trying to read it on mobile.
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A few days ago the topic of people making violent threats came up in QCS. If someone says that they want to strangle a senator who is pushing legislation that they hate, is it a dumb joke or a serious threat?

At the end of the thread Lowtax came in and posted this:

Lowtax posted:
I don't fucking want another government agency interviewing me because of some dumbass getting mad about politics. This shit needs to stop, and anybody making even VAGUE threats needs to be PERMABANNED, NO QUESTIONS ASKED.

I have enough shit going on in my life, and the last thing I need is the government interviewing me about GoKuLord42069 posting threats to every government official. Stop being fucking stupid.
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The Secret Service has visited lowtax before and, well, they don't seem to value humor the way we do here at Something Awful Industries. It's better for everyone if we can avoid this situation going forward.

So please - don't do this, at all. If in the course of a discussion about politics, you post something that looks like a death threat, we are going to come down hard. I understand if this means you're going back to Gaia Online where jokes are legal, but it is what is best for our community.

Now, we also recognize that there is a lot of gray area in between someone writing that they have a rifle and want to kill a politician and, for example, generally hoping that someone suffers a heart attack or catches COVID. Both are ghoulish, but only one might get the secret service involved. We recognize that political figures can cause a lot of harm, and that this harm threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions, including many posters here. We're going to try very hard to read these gray areas and not permaban people for shit that really falls under political speech, but anything involving violence or death is going to get a very hard look. Please don't put us in the position of having to look at a post and figure out if it actually constitutes a threat, even a vague one. The list of politicians you'd like dead isn't exactly funny, informative, or interesting and those sorts of posts will not be missed.

We have no desire to go back and re-litigate old posts under this standard. Deciding if posts from weeks, months, or years ago run afoul of this is a huge waste of everyone's time. Please, let's all stop doing this now, for everyone's sake. If you find something that someone did before today that is particularly concerning to you, PM or email an admin.
 
Meanwhile, if you ever call someone a stupid tranny nutbag, you get permabanned. Ya gotta love the priorities of SA's moderation team in the year two thousand and twenty. The best part though, is that when Biden probably loses the insanity will reach an absolute fever pitch.
 
Anyone manage to get onto Bread and Roses? I can't help but wonder what insanity Cascadebeta's gotten up to now that he's in control of his own fiefdom (unless everyone left already, lol).
 
Manah said:
Anyone manage to get onto Bread and Roses? I can't help but wonder what insanity Cascadebeta's gotten up to now that he's in control of his own fiefdom (unless everyone left already, lol).
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Lemme guess, another insane left-wing SA off-site? I'll reiterate that I have no idea how insane you have to be to actually need something like that.
 
Manah said:
Anyone manage to get onto Bread and Roses? I can't help but wonder what insanity Cascadebeta's gotten up to now that he's in control of his own fiefdom (unless everyone left already, lol).
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I'm on there with my Cascade Beta account, and there's nothing on there you wouldn't expect. Gay forum grudges & lefty parroting. Too gay to warrant archiving or screen shots.

Just imagine a man in a dress, screeching forever.
 
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