Deny Ignorance is shutting down

[BIAD]

Well, I'm here from there, from ATS. Not that I ever interacted much with anyone, but I do enjoy the reading.

You're very welcome.

[putnam6]

Explanation: I welcome all newcomers and returnee refugee's to RN ok!

I felt the need to post ( I was holding back so that i could mod this thread and save any other mods who have posted from doing so and creating a conflict of interest ) after seeing what has just occurred in the above recent posts.

HERE ARE THE BASIC TWO RULES OF RN!

1: YOU NEVER ATTACK A FELLOW MEMBER NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY. IF WHAT THEY SAID IS INAPPROPRIATE PLEASE ALERT A MOD AND THE MOD TEAM WILL DEAL WITH IT OK. FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS RULE WILL GET YOU BANNED QUICKLY AND ALL OFFENDING POSTS REMOVED. BREAK IT AT YOUR OWN RISK OK!

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2: NO PORN AND LIMIT THE GORE ( i SUGGEST JUST LINKING TO THE GORE WITH A SIMPLE HEADS UP WARNING )!
FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS MESSAGE WILL GET YOUR POSTS REMOVED PRONTO AND OR YOU BANNED! BREAK IT AT YOUR OWN RISK !

DIRECTED AT EVERYBODY: THIS IS YOUR ONLY AND FINAL WARNINGS ON THESE MATTERS! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED OK!

Please be Mature ok!

Personal Disclosure: Now after that nasty unfortunate mod business, I'd like to suggest to everyone to please also use the shoutbox on RN ok. I AM the supermoderator for the shoutbox and you will be able to always find me online (unless I am sleeping etc) in there. If I am indisposed due to being alseep etc. I will follow up your replies asap. 

Good Luck and Carry On! 

  Thanks for giving us DI's refugees a gathering place...probably some will stay, some will move on, but glad I rejoined previously

[Zona]

Hello all. I guess I'll be coming here to check things out with all the other ats,di drifters. I look forward to meeting new posters, and seeing some of the old ones.

[DontTreadOnMe]

It's near impossible to post in these communities if people know who you are and even worse if you run the site. TSK is fucked and that's sad. He was 100% honest in his dealings with me and protected me when I needed it for what it's worth. I don't think he is the bad guy he is being made out to be and doesn't deserve this.

I don't see TSK being persecuted here.

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Still finding (blundering?) my way about.

What are the buttons?  How do you like a post?

And the RATE button is similar to the LIKE button on DI.

[Freija]

And the RATE button is similar to the LIKE button on DI.

Wait, what? There's a rate button? I've been here for a spell and don't think I've ever used it? I've always used the "Add a thank you" button. You learn something new every day, I guess? 

[IgnorantGod]

And the RATE button is similar to the LIKE button on DI.

Wait, what? There's a rate button? I've been here for a spell and don't think I've ever used it? I've always used the "Add a thank you" button. You learn something new every day, I guess? 

It seems the rate button is the one tied to the "reputation", from what I understand.

[babushka]

I don't see TSK being persecuted here.

Thank you captain obvious.

[The Crying Bunny]

Um hi.  It's me.  beezzer, DBCowboy.

The Crying Bunny.

Am I okay on this site?

It's been a while.

[RadioKnecht]

Hello everyone!

Just recently disembarked from Deny Ignorance. Making my first post here.

Sorry for unloading on you with you this, but honestly, the current owner over there is a dictatorial asshole. As the saying goes, he won't pitch, he won't bat, wont field, won't nothing.

He just unilaterally shuts down any effort for transparency or a healthy discussion to save that place. I understand that he may be overloaded, but then, for fcks sakes, move over and let other people carry on!!! 

Screw him. I just feel really bad for all the people, moderators, supermoderators, OPs, etc. that spent time in trying to build that place, just for that jerk to decide that he just has too much on his plate to chew (and won't even allow others to step up to the plate). He's acting like the proverbial whineboy taking his ball when he is losing.

Sorry for venting out. I just had to. 

Anyways...I look forward to meeting other ATS, DI and extraterrestrial refugees here.  

I'll properly introduce myself on another thread.

[Freija]

Am I okay on this site?

Depends on if you're going to play nice or if you're going to continue shit posting, agitating and political trolling?

As a fresh start with a clean plate, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt but I got my eyes on you, bud.


As to the rest of you DI refugees I don't have history with, wekcome! 

[The Crying Bunny]

Am I okay on this site?

Depends on if you're going to play nice or if you're going to continue shit posting, agitating and political trolling?

As a fresh start with a clean plate, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt but I got my eyes on you, bud.


As to the rest of you DI refugees I don't have history with, wekcome! 

I'll not stop speaking facts and hurting feels.

If that's the case, ban me now toots.

[Ninurta]

I don't see TSK being persecuted here.

Thank you captain obvious.

Easy on the name calling. We don't do that shit here amongst our own. You can name call outsiders all you want, but it ain't gonna fly internally, against one another.

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[Ninurta]

And the RATE button is similar to the LIKE button on DI.

Wait, what? There's a rate button? I've been here for a spell and don't think I've ever used it? I've always used the "Add a thank you" button. You learn something new every day, I guess? 

The "rate" button is hit or miss for me. Sometimes it works for me, sometimes it does nothing at all. ['ve not found a rhyme or reason for that yet, but I have noticed that it tends to work more in Firefox than it does in Opera. Sometimes, it will work for me in either one, and sometimes both deny it to me, but Firefox makes it work more often.

So, I usually use the "give a thanks" button in lieu of it.

It's a ghost in the machines.

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[Ninurta]

Um hi.  It's me.  beezzer, DBCowboy.

The Crying Bunny.

Am I okay on this site?

It's been a while.

Well, we haven't banned you yet in any of your incarnations, if that's what you mean...

Welcome home, Beez!

Someone put the fatted calf on the broiler!

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[The Crying Bunny]

Um hi.  It's me.  beezzer, DBCowboy.

The Crying Bunny.

Am I okay on this site?

It's been a while.

Well, we haven't banned you yet in any of your incarnations, if that's what you mean...

Welcome home, Beez!

Someone put the fatted calf on the broiler!

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thanks boss  

[Ninurta]

Am I okay on this site?

Depends on if you're going to play nice or if you're going to continue shit posting, agitating and political trolling?

As a fresh start with a clean plate, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt but I got my eyes on you, bud.


As to the rest of you DI refugees I don't have history with, wekcome! 

To be honest, I don't have a problem with shit posting or political trolling, so long as it's not directed at one or more of our own members.

There is a difference between kicking the shit out of Democrats or Republicans in general, and kicking the shit out of one of our own because they are a Democrat or a Republican. Folks have to learn to separate themselves from whatever party affiliation they tend to reflect at the time. They also have to learn to separate other folks (in this case members here) from whatever their politics of the moment are.

One is a PERSON, a real live human being with feelings, emotions, and baggage, and the other is just some abstract ideology that usually leaves all of it's adherents flat on their asses once it takes power.

You may recall once upon a time when one of our mods let his politics overload his ass, and he went on the attack against one of our own members. You may recall that. You may also recall that I banned his dumb ass, mod or not, for being outrageously stupid in allowing his politics to overload his own ass. What you may not recall is that he was from among my own political party, haranguing someone who likely was not among my political allies. Political ally or not, it was another member here, a real live human being, not a political abstract nor a punching bag. Political ally or not, the targeted individual was a member here, and thus a friend.

I don't put up with friends coming under attack. Never have, never will. Papa Bear comes roaring out when that happens.

I give no shits. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and not even a mod is gonna trash talk one of our own PEOPLE, human beings,  on my watch.

What you also may not know is that I caught a little shit at home for that decision - but I stood by it. I didn't get to be this old by not being able to withstand the bullshit , whatever direction it comes flying from.

And that is why OmegaLogos came roaring out upthread. He understands. Talk all the shit you want, but never direct it at another member.

Bad things are prone to happen when that occurs.

Now, with that said, some folks are prone to rough, but friendly, banter amongst themselves. They don't mean nothing by it, it's just how they relate to one another. Beez is one of those folks, although he can tend to run pretty far afield some times. Banter among the willing I can handle. It's when one starts offending another member that it crosses the line.

See, I can shit-talk Beezzer, and Beezzer can shit-talk ME, and no harm done. It's happened before, and no one died. We're tough, we can take it, and we're friends. We don't get offended by a little shit-talk. Well, I don't. Beez might. You can never tell for sure about those emotional bunnies, y'know?

BUT we aren't going to offend a third party by shit-talking to them. If they're offended, we'll get warned and either apologize, or we'll get a time-out for a day or so to start... but penalties escalate if bad behavior is not un-learned quick. They can rise to bans, and sometimes they can rise really fast to bans, as was the case with the previously mentioned mod.

I've never done it yet, but I ain't above banning myself. No shit.

Folks really have to get on my last damned nerve to get banned here. I think, out of all the years and all of the incarnations of RN, I have only banned two people other than spammers. Spammers get an auto-ban and erasure of all of their posts as soon as I catch them.

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[The Crying Bunny]

Am I okay on this site?

Depends on if you're going to play nice or if you're going to continue shit posting, agitating and political trolling?

As a fresh start with a clean plate, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt but I got my eyes on you, bud.


As to the rest of you DI refugees I don't have history with, wekcome! 

To be honest, I don't have a problem with shit posting or political trolling, so long as it's not directed at one or more of our own members.

There is a difference between kicking the shit out of Democrats or Republicans in general, and kicking the shit out of one of our own because they are a Democrat or a Republican. Folks have to learn to separate themselves from whatever party affiliation they tend to reflect at the time. They also have to learn to separate other folks (in this case members here) from whatever their politics of the moment are.

One is a PERSON, a real live human being with feelings, emotions, and baggage, and the other is just some abstract ideology that usually leaves all of it's adherents flat on their asses once it takes power.

You may recall once upon a time when one of our mods let his politics overload his ass, and he went on the attack against one of our own members. You may recall that. You may also recall that I banned his dumb ass, mod or not, for being outrageously stupid in allowing his politics to overload his own ass. What you may not recall is that he was from among my own political party, haranguing someone who likely was not among my political allies. Political ally or not, it was another member here, a real live human being, not a political abstract nor a punching bag. Political ally or not, the targeted individual was a member here, and thus a friend.

I don't put up with friends coming under attack. Never have, never will. Papa Bear comes roaring out when that happens.

I give no shits. Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and not even a mod is gonna trash talk one of our own PEOPLE, human beings,  on my watch.

What you also may not know is that I caught a little shit at home for that decision - but I stood by it. I didn't get to be this old by not being able to withstand the bullshit , whatever direction it comes flying from.

And that is why OmegaLogos came roaring out upthread. He understands. Talk all the shit you want, but never direct it at another member.

Bad things are prone to happen when that occurs.

Now, with that said, some folks are prone to rough, but friendly, banter amongst themselves. They don't mean nothing by it, it's just how they relate to one another. Beez is one of those folks, although he can tend to run pretty far afield some times. Banter among the willing I can handle. It when one starts offending another member that it crosses the line.

See, I can shit-talk Beezzer, and Beezzer can shit-talk ME, and no harm done. It's happened before, and no one died. We're tough, we can take it, and we're friends. We don't get offended by a little shit-talk. Well, I don't. Beez might. You can never tell for sure about those emotional bunnies, y'know?

BUT we aren't going to offend a third party by shit-talking to them. If they're offended, we'll get warned and either apologize, or we'll get a time-out for a day or so to start... but penalties escalate if bad behavior is not un-learned quick. They can rise to bans, and sometimes they can rise really fast to bans, as was the case with the previously mentioned mod.

I've never done it yet, but I ain't above banning myself. No shit.

Folks really have to get on my last damned nerve to get banned here. I think, out of all the years and all of the incarnations of RN, I have only banned two people other than spammers. Spammers get an auto-ban and erasure of all of their posts as soon as I catch them.

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When a surgeon removes a tumor, it hurts.

When doctors treat a cancer, it hurts.

When someone tells the truth. . . . . . .it hurts.

[Ninurta]

When a surgeon removes a tumor, it hurts.

When doctors treat a cancer, it hurts.

When someone tells the truth. . . . . . .it hurts.

Thank you. Now I gotta add not getting cancer to all my other worries.

Telling truth is one thing, beating someone down for shits and giggles is another thing altogether.

Remember how I used to be at ATS? I'd beat folks down. BUT I didn't generally beat them down for shits and giggles, I beat them down so I could build them back up into a better person. I didn't beat 'em down and just leave 'em laying there in a puddle of piss. Made a lot of friends out of former enemies like that, but I digress.

Some folks just can't be rebuilt. I might be one of them. But I don't generally beat folks down any more. I tend to just let 'em be who they're gonna be, and if I don't like who they intend to be, I just don't hang out with them... and I make damn sure they ain't gonna hang out with me, either.

Probably why I live here in the middle of nowhere, just me and Grace and one of the kids. I think it's better for all concerned like that. I don't get on civilization's nerves, civilization don't get on my nerves, errybody happy!

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[LightAngel]

Hello everyone!

Just recently disembarked from Deny Ignorance. Making my first post here.

Sorry for unloading on you with you this, but honestly, the current owner over there is a dictatorial asshole. As the saying goes, he won't pitch, he won't bat, wont field, won't nothing.

He just unilaterally shuts down any effort for transparency or a healthy discussion to save that place. I understand that he may be overloaded, but then, for fcks sakes, move over and let other people carry on!!! 

Screw him. I just feel really bad for all the people, moderators, supermoderators, OPs, etc. that spent time in trying to build that place, just for that jerk to decide that he just has too much on his plate to chew (and won't even allow others to step up to the plate). He's acting like the proverbial whineboy taking his ball when he is losing.

Sorry for venting out. I just had to. 

Anyways...I look forward to meeting other ATS, DI and extraterrestrial refugees here.  

I'll properly introduce myself on another thread.

I hope it doesn't shut down because I like the place, but this place also seem good.

This is also my first post here.

So hello everyone. 

[727Sky]

Crying Bunny It's me.  beezzer, DBCowboy. See you are here 5 minutes and already are confusing me !! Glad you made it back CBbDBC ... Why is everything so hard ?? Well at our age not everything ??