A Letter From BluntMaster

[j_rud]

I do agree that Tracy's "for the 50 billionth time" thread was stupid. If you openly admit that a thought is merely your opinion, do you really need to state it "50 billion" times.

[Jenny]

CAN WE PLEASE JUST ALL STOP BEING DUMB FOR A SECOND AND JUST GO BACK THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE ALL THIS STUPID BULLSHIT HAPPENED AND I CAN READ THE "BAND" AND "MUSIC" THREADS AND GAIN INTERESTING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT A MUSISCAL GROUP I LIKE WITHOUT PEOPLE YELLING AT EACHOTHER AND CHALLENGING EVERYONE ELSE? AND CAN PEOPLE STOP BITCHING PLEAAAAAAASEEE!?!??! AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT OUR PAP'S AND HORKO AND LENNYTHETENT? EVERYONE'S BEING FUCKING CRAZY AND IT'S GONE TOO FAR. I DON'T UNDERSTAND!!! LETS JUST GET ALONG THERE IS NO POINT IN FRETTING ANYMORE BECAUSE
THIS
IS
THE
INTERNET!

Sorry. but really. lets put shit in perspective please. there's no point in being an asshole on the internet when we're in a community that just wants to love. in any case, i juts felt like i needed to say that. Homeboys need to stop hating.

thanks.
Jenny

[Angry Ewok]

Homeboy needs to stop saying "the vikings" are doing this-or-that... That's a very broad, sweeping statement. The vikings I know of, and am a part of, are fucking cool as hell.

[OnePoppedCherry]

...

As a neutral observer and messenger boy, let me remind you there is nothing forcing you to open this thread and read the contents.

[Jenny]

touche.
perhaps i posted this in the wrong thread.
i just want this bickering to stop.
whatever.

[OnePoppedCherry]

"let angry ewok know bluntmaster said he's cool. "

[n00bitron5000]

Sorry, cant help myself.

I agree with Bluntmaster.  If he's going to be banned, then Tracy should be and Tom as well.  Tom is guilty of personal attacks and offensive language. Tracy is guilty of egging people on, starting stupid threads, and some say a lot more.  In other words, what has Bluntmaster done that Tom or Tracy has not?

The only difference I see is that Tom and Tracy are friends with Riny. So Bluntmaster gets banned for going after Tracy.  Just like Goatboy was banned for upsetting EC (another friend 0f Riny) and Dylan was "shamed" and once banned for attacks on John Conaway (another friend of Riny).  I see a pattern here.  You can say what you want as long as you don't piss off one of Riny's friends.  Is that the rule?  Because its never been explained why these people were banned or what exactly IS out-of-bounds now.

I was hoping having a new mod would add some objectivity to the "moderating" that takes place here.  Maybe Fran can turn this place around and it can be a welcome place for EVERYONE as so many claim it already is.

Sorry to keep harping on this stuff but if people are going to be banned we should at least know why.  If personal attacks and offensive language are not allowed they should not be allowed for ANYONE!

[tomEisenbraun]

Dude, you have no validity if you don't say who you are/were. Seriously. In however much time you spent here, you never once took any of your problems up with the people you had trouble with. Unless you actually did. However, because of your anonymity, we can't know if you did or not. Uncool. We're taking all this shit up as ourselves. You've seen all the flack I've taken in the last few days. I'm still on my username taking it all on myself. I didn't quit and start a new name and then take up the same case under the guise of an "anonymous older member". Seriously, if you want to talk, tell us who you are and we'll talk. Otherwise, you've got nothing to say. You aren't objective. I'm not objective. No one's objective. What is objective is understanding that your opinion is subjective. If we know who you are, we can understand your claims, take it up with you and work on something. Seriously, I'd love to do that if you'd go ahead and tell us who you are.

[Jenny]

I guess i should litter this with safe language. In my opinion, I think you have to establish yourself. Also, another difference that I observe is that they are not only full of crude and racy language, they've got things to say and (i think) legitimate responses to internetters that may or may not crave attention.
just sayin'.

Oh, and if Tracy and Tom're out me too, please.

i said i'd stop this. sorry. it's just silly, in my opinion. what is with this anonymity? it's hard for me to take this seriously.

i'm going to go watch saved by the bell.

PS: Tom and i both used ANONYMITY in consecutive posts, but i didn't know he did. I didn't even know that was a word until about a minute ago. EEEEERIEEE!

[ycartrob]

i'm going to go watch saved by the bell.

hands down, without a doubt, since I started coming here in 2003, the greatest line ever typed here.

Raaazor sharp

thank you Face, my heart soars like a hawk. You are sooo ahead of your time.

very impressive indeed  :)

[tomEisenbraun]

PS: Tom and i both used ANONYMITY in consecutive posts, but i didn't know he did. I didn't even know that was a word until about a minute ago. EEEEERIEEE!

We're probably related or something?

Do you go the Dark Lord's First Sacrificed Nondenominational Lamb of Massachusetts? I'm working my way into the youth group at the one here in Athens.

Holla!

[Jenny]

TOM-DUDEBROTHER! I'VE BEEN GOING TO THE DLFSNLoM for YEAAAARRRSSSS! Come stop by!!! Seriously, soooo many good times.

SMOKE W33D.


also, please say DLFSNLoM like a word.

[The DARK]

This forum is hanging by a thread... :-/

EDIT: Damn I need an autocorrect or something.

[tomEisenbraun]

Internet HIGH FIVE!!!!!11!111!!!one!

Lord I love this place!

Smoke DRuGGGGGGGZZZZZZ

[n00bitron5000]

What does it matter?

Either I have a point or I don't, you don't need to know who I am, this is the internet, after all.  

[tomEisenbraun]

p.s.

dulf-snaw-lum?

[Jenny]

I BET IT'S TRACY!
OR THE DARK LORD HIMSELF!

oh, what's the difference?!!!!

[Jenny]

PS:
something like that, I was saying

Dolf-Snull'om.

[tomEisenbraun]

What does it matter?

Either I have a point or I don't, you don't need to know who I am, this is the internet, after all.  

Oh, I thought the point of the internet was to connect with people all over the world, making friends and connections far beyond the way that any previous generation has ever been able to, having an effect on people globally, even. I've gotten birthday gifts from Japan and Bowling Green, KY on this board. I've driven two states away with some ridiculous old dude I met here and then randomly at a show and he didn't try to grab my ass along the way. I've sold tickets to someone on here to a show in Chicago, and when he paid me for them, something about the way the band works and the way this board works had him feeling generous enough to throw in about $30 extra to help me out as kid in college. I sold the tickets back to get the money back that I'd paid for them so that I could do okay with money in school, never asked for a handout. This dude just wanted to give back part of the experience. Was very cool about it, and didn't make a big deal. He wasn't trying to be the world's greatest thing, just wanted to give some of that mutual love for the Jacket back.

Isn't that what all this is about? Forging relationships based around our love for this band, connecting with people, and having a really cool time because we know each other well enough to be able to?

You can't even begin to convince me that the internet is about anonymity. How selfish of a concept is that? I've had so much fun and done a lot of cool stuff with people and for people because I've been myself here and worked with people as myself. Problems I've had I've taken up with people as myself. I've never been one to join under a pen name and work under anonymous invincibility.

So who are you? That's sort of a yellow-bellied move to come in here anonymously making attacks and allowing us no way to connect with you. Seriously, what have you got to hide if you're on the way out?

[The DARK]

What does it matter?

Either I have a point or I don't, you don't need to know who I am, this is the internet, after all.  

I'm with everyone else. You seem to think this is a totally public place. Now if you were some guy on the street that walked up to me and gave me several debatable points about George W Bush being a great president, does that mean that I'm going to listen to you? And this forum isn't a totally random collection of people who don't actually know each other; we're a bunch of friends. If you're new and acting like you love the band and want to have a good time, we'll all get along. If you come in here and insist that the new album is the worst thing you've ever heard, you really should take that elsewhere. Start your own forum or something, but we're all trying to be friends here, not great debaters.

If every post was made by a random anonymous person, I wouldn't be here.