Thank you, baby.
I miss Vernonbird, too.
ETA:
I am now catching up on this thread; just hadta first express my joy re: OWYAC’s arrival.
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Yay!
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Thank you! I’m very happy to be here, and see all of you! I had thought that the community had evaporated after TOP (I’m learning “the lingo”) switched to SuS.
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Search this very BBS for “jlw”, “happy fun ball” / HFB, “Jason”, “angry owl”, etc. and you’ll get plenty of examples.
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Elsewhere was founded April 11, 2017 in response to a series of bannings (aka the massacre) over on the old place, including one ban of 10 years (@OtherMichael, I believe).
The main founders were @tinoesroho and @LockeCJ
Other names bandied about:
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Credit where it’s due: That was poor ModusOperandi, I believe. I can’t imagine that he said anything ban-worthy. There was some discussion about the TV show St Elsewhere. I missed the whole thing. I think it was cleaned up and deleted by the time I found out.
And I would like to point the new people to this topic. A place to introduce yourself and see who else is here.
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Thanks, another piece of the puzzle.
I discovered the BBS at TOP late; I’m usually allergic to comment sections. By the time I had an account and started following some old threads, I noticed a lot of “This use is no longer active” among some previously very busy posters. I wondered what happened. It felt like too many to be the usual attrition numbers.
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I miss that guy. They were hilarious.
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The “St Elsewhere’s Day Massacre” also led to the creation of the pseudo-Lounges behind the scenes of the old BBS. The original Regulars Lounges included ones devoted to griping about persistent trolls like Mister44, Medievalist, and Max_Blancke. Jason deleted all the Lounges when a couple of the trolls became Regulars, saw they were the subject of complaints and mockery, and whinged to TPTB. We just immediately re-created them using rolling DMs.
A bunch of us ran those behind the walls for almost eight years with only Ken (and perhaps Rob) knowing about it. There were rules (e.g. no brigading, no organised flagging) and we abided by them well enough that Ken let them continue to exist.
They served as a safety valve so that our exasperation with, say, 44’s gunwanking or Medi’s nitwittery didn’t constantly boil over into the public Topics. We were also responsible for finally getting Max and his submarine accounts banned, as well as other trolls like Flapjack. We also IDed potential new trolls and brought them to Ken’s attention before they became long-term problems.
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I must admit, I don’t miss the ammosexuality.
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This production still is how we pictured the NRA shill and obsessive collector:
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I don’t miss the condescending techdouches and muskholes, either.
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There was a second wave of joiners when the regular women posters walked out of bb a few years back due to ongoing sexism. Which lead to some changes at bb.
This would be the third influx.
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Yeah, I joined in that second wave. I wasn’t very active in the BBS back in 2017, so I missed all that, even though I had been a member for several years by that point.
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That’s when I came over too.
I was mostly a lurker on BB back in 2017 so I missed most of the drama that led to this place coming to be. I didn’t really get into many discussions back then since who wants to hear the opinion of yet another mediocre white guy? I didn’t get really active in the BBS until I came out as trans in 2021.
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Likewise. I had just joined in 2017 after lurking for a bunch of years. I only learned about the massacre after being invited “behind the scenes” and hearing from the wise veterans about it.
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We just immediately re-created them using rolling DMs.
Hopefully you all left this cliquish bullshit behind when you came here.
What’s clique-ish about objecting to abusive behavior and finding ways to cope with it?!
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I was just an antisocial. I was def around and active, but I was hesitant to engage in a lot of the community topics, I can’t explain why. Maybe I wouldn’t have great things to share, impostor syndrome, I dunno. I’m still trying to shake off those antisocial behaviors, but I mostly missed the first two dust ups. I vague recall some update posts and people saying good bye. This year I was getting more involved with the BBS and then all of this happened {waves wildly}
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Nope. The first ban (at that time) was MO, but his was relatively short. He actually came back after it to say farewell in his inimitable fashion. It was OtherMichael who subsequently received ten years.
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