You can make fun of each other, call each other names, and what the **** ever, but leave the new people alone. It's pretty simple. Stop posting fictitious information in the Name That Tune threads. I didn't see your posts, otherwise I would have said something. I said something to Lucem, and he got belligerent. That's a one way ticket to banland.

Hey well, I don't really agree with that.

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jk pls don't ban me pls

They're not new people. I don't think I've ever seen anyone who's first post was in the Name that Tune section actually become a contributing member of the forum for any amount of time. Those people are functionally spammers. As far as I'm concerned if that section ever served a function that was useful to the actual forum then that time has long since passed.

So why should we give a **** about treating it seriously? Just to enforce rules for the sake of enforcing rules? To protect people who will likely only ever post once, and who almost never even thank us when we find whatever song they were looking for? **** that.

lol awh look batlord is sticking up for his butt buddy

It's obviously within the mods' rights to enforce rules and to ban someone for noncompliance and abusive posts, but I think we need an unofficial double standard for that particular thread so that off-topic nonsense and non-abusive trolling is ignored. Cause who the **** cares?

I agree that that thread is a bit of a joke but you need to have some sort of structure, order, and rule system in place or else this place WILL devolve into Lord of the f*cking Flies type "fling your poop at the new person" type of site. I agree with what Plank did. Plus, I think the response was what cause this to happen in the first place. Your Merzbow joke is stale Bats. Progress yourself.

Driving sucks man I know. I suck as well.

Not enforcing the rules to a small extent in one single section that everyone already agrees is pointless and would probably be removed if it were up to us would not cause any chaos. And telling someone posting in that thread to "**** off" for no good reason would still be actionable, just not goofing off at the expense of a drive-by noob.

And I post that video to drive off anybody who can't even deal with a few seconds of Merzbow or take a joke. I'm not really going out of my way for comic brilliance.

The worst part is there really isn't a way to avoid doing it lest you live in a more bike-friendly city. Living in the urban south, 30 minutes away from downtown I have no option to do so.

are you a commie? asking for a friend.

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Lol

He's right tho

This to an extent. I'm not exactly phobic about driving, but I suck at it and have below par situational awareness. If there was reliable public transit around here I'd use it in a heartbeat. Instead what we have are a few ****ty buses that may or may not show up on time.

Also this to an extent. In a world without climate change capitalism is just morally dubious, but in the real world it may end up leading to our extinction. If humanity can evolve culturally to an extent that destructive greed can be curbed to an "acceptable" extent then great, but if we're all dead by then then all of capitalism's pros amount to a pile of ****.

That's a humanity thing, not a capitalism thing.
We're ****ed no matter what silly ideology we choose to follow.
I'm for voluntary human extinction. And not because of the environment or something. **** the environment.

If that pic didn't have any text that post would have been top shelf funny.

Because a system about personal ownership is evil. Lol. Or is it people that are evil?

But that's a strawman though. As far as I know elphie never said that. And when you add a passive aggressive "lol" to your posts like that it just makes you look like a numbnut.

Define private property?

I don't think a system is evil. Plain and simple. I think people are evil and that's it. I personally feel communism is a terrible system that would never work. but I'd never call it the root of all evil.

Oh, yeah in that case for sure.

But the main problem with communism is it's never worked in the past because the leader always assumes absolute power. The real winner here would be a hybrid of Communism and Capitalism: Socialism.

First of all, I don't give a flying fuck what you think, and second, bullying people just trying to find the name of an artist or song is pathetic, no matter how much you want to try and justify that kind of behavior. If you don't like it, you know where the door is.

I like Marxism as well.

The way to go is some kind of one world totalitarian regime with strict-ass population control and eugenics.
Not sure it's worth it though.
Plus nobody could lead such a thing without becoming yet another silly dictator.
Perhaps some skynet thing will come along the way and do the job.

Bullying? Get a grip, you drama queen. They don't care about being here so I highly doubt a little harmless ****ery is going to do more than annoy them a bit. And this isn't your forum, so if you don't like my opinions then you can get the **** out yourself.

i'm not necessarily pro-capitalism but i don't see an existing system that i feel would work any better. i think grindy is pretty close to the truth with what he initially said.

I don't agree. Who is this "everyone" you're referring to? It's purpose is to help people out that are looking for a song, and I personally find it very rewarding when I can help.

You post harsh video's to give yourself the illusion that you're superior. It's a form of bullying, and 99.9% of the time there's some underlying personal issue that manifests itself into this behavioral defect.

So much bull****. I'm really tired of it. The ****ing frat house behavior around here is what drives a lot of people that are looking to talk about music away. It's really sad.

Well unless space colonization becomes a thing or we have drastic improvements in housing (like arcology) then reproductive rights may very well become a luxury we can't afford. I'm thinking more China and less Nazi Germany though.

As I said, I'm not sure it's worth it.
But the future of humanity would be much better ensured by something like that than by your silly hippy feel-good bull****.

There you go resorting to name calling. You really do get upset when someone gets banned. It's kind of funny.

Well good for you. Merry Christmas and ****. Cause the rest of us just see drive-bys who aren't worth the effort of helping since they almost never post more than once.

No, I post harsh noise videos for the slight amusement I get when I imagine somebody who's never heard of Merzbow getting blind-sided. If they can't handle getting very mildly trolled then good riddance.

http://www.effectivemanagers.com/wp-...DoorPolicy.jpg

And if the human race ever reaches a population level that becomes unsustainable given the technology of the time then that may become an acceptable trade off.

it's really cute to me that a bunch of white american teenagers have become all pro-communism over the last few years. remember that whole #resistcapitalism thing last year? l o l

I had no idea you were the voice of your people.

Going through life trying to blindside everyone won't work out very well in the long run. Good luck with that.

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I think it's funny that kids are becoming libertarians now. That's something new to the last decade or so as far as I know.

And being a hardline forum moderator probably isn't going to get you to where you want to go either.

Oh and...

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when el first joined he fought back and now look at where he is, hanging in there with the best of us.

He's come far in life.

A decision I've regretted since day 1.

You just ran out of steam on this one. The proof is in the gif. You always pull that one out when you're backed into a corner.

...and for the record, at 50 I still look better than you ever will. Bitch.

The point is that that pic and getting called on dad jokes seems to make you irrationally annoyed, which is why it's fun. Like, anyone else would laugh it off or just not care, but not you. The stick up your ass seems to jab right into your brain and you just can't help but short circuit a bit.