so I was meaning to ask… for anonymizing is enough to send a PM to the admin or is there some kind of official protocol?
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PM to orenwolf is my understanding.
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Here it seems to be done backwards (is that a good way to describe it?): news is posted more or less in the appropriate thread. Possibly Untrue Science News, Musk taking over Twitter, Elections 2023-2025, Felonious Ex-President, and so on.
Is this kind of thing adequate, or should we do it BB’s way? I look at the threads I’m interested and ignore those I’m not.
Edit for clarity
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I PMed him for this very reason well over 24 hrs ago.
I’m still there, apparently.
But then he’s probably busy AF.
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I do not at all believe Ellsworth Toohey is a real person (or a person distinct from the other authors). I am firmly in the belief it’s an alt account for Mark and/or an AI bot trained on Mark’s writing and fed other people’s content from Reddit and Twitter.
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Sadly or funnily, I spotted an SMBC which I found appropriate for the old place.
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The character from The Foubtainhead?
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Rob definitely has an account here. I don’t think anybody else has an account here. I seem recall back in the day the site used happymutants.space as its domain and Mark was asked for permission since he owned a trademark on that (which he granted). It’s not a stretch to assume that other BB authors are aware of this site. (Whether or not they remember/care is another story entirely, though… Given BB’s general apathy/disregard for the BBS community I’m going to guess they couldn’t care less.)
Yup. I’m only looking at the Substack thread and not much else these days. Still pondering whether I want to get anonymized or hold out some sliver of hope that things will return to the way they were. (I’m sure they won’t…)
Oh, that too. And totally on brand for Mark with his libertarian bent.
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I noticed Sekhmet posting anonymization notices in the General Mod thread, so if Ken’s backed up, maybe ask her? Or maybe tag @moderators in the DM so any community mod could step in?
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Oh!
So, might they have a say in some day calling for its demise? 
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Again, going on hazy recollections here, but uncertainty around this was part of why the domain became elsewhere.cafe. I’m sure @LockeCJ can keep me honest here if I missed anything. It’s been a while. 
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I’ve always appreciated the mix. The evergreen topics (Bad Musk, SCOTUS, Election, etc.) I really appreciate having an omnibus thread on. But if it’s a genuinely interesting article that warrants some extensive discussion it’s nice to have a dedicated thread. I think the BBS arrived at this balance naturally through community growth plus the BB integration. But maybe individual posts/threads isn’t really a requirement?
I could well just be responding to the cheese moving, of course. I’m happy to feel this place out more before barging in and proposing major changes as a newcomer.
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If we kept the happy mutants name, maybe. But we don’t use their trademark any more, we’re fully independent. So I don’t think they could ask us to close now.
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Samesies. I think it’s excitement at finding there is a place for the departed afterall but also that i get the impression this is more of a safe space and hopefully less susceptible to drive-by fascism.
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I think the fact it is harder to find Elsewhere will help with that. A lot of the ickiest comments seemed to come from people entering the BBS from the front page 's rage bait.
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I don’t recognise the echo chamber argument either, there were many instances of people having healthy, but respectful, disagreements with each other despite being essentially on the same side. I have felt that my beliefs and perceptions on various subjects were more challenged over the years by the regulars than anywhere else, not everything i have read there i have agreed with wholeheartedly.
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At this point I don’t give a damn about the echo chamber argument, to be blunt and honest.
Whenever someone (usually right-winger) tells me this, I usually point to them that thank you very much, is on purpose and point them to this comic:
You made freely expressing our opinions unsafe, don’t tell us now that we cannot have our safe space to express them.
ETA: fixed the with the correct strip from webcomic name, via @chenille
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And I know that being white, cis and masking as a “normie” makes me the less threatened person in the room, but as I often said: I don’t want to be part of a place where only I am going to feel safe.
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Bingo. Likewise, any place that is threatening to my friends is no place for me.
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Yes and.
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