Disillusionment Thread (stop lurking and post)

[NateAndTheTulpaTrio]

I can't switch without knocking my host out. So, I can't do what you do.

 

I must be really bad at explaining, because it's is the same for me. I don't know how I managed to give the impression of anything else :/

[KarlYoshimura]

I have the feeling this thread was made to cause more petty squabbles rather than provide cooperative dialogue over a moribund forum or amelioration of grudges or perceived grievances.

 

It would have sufficed for the moderators to do something like this, yet it would appear the staff is more concerned with grooming their favourites or ignoring any potential issues-at-hand (as usual).

 

As for leaving - just leave. There is little use in fishing for pity or announcing faux melancholic good-byes to anyone outside of friends in passing or privacy. If you must return later, this place will be as much of a mausoleum as it was when you left.

[Solune]

I uhh... maybe should have clarified on what I was saying. We don't switch every time someone wants to speak, we just switch and have one of us talk to some friends and then do the same thing with a different tupper maybe the next day or so.

 

It's cool bro, I misunderstood you. If it takes a few posts to hammer out a point there's nothing wrong with that =D

I'm gonna steal that idea and use it to practice our switching.

 

I have the feeling this thread was made to cause more petty squabbles rather than provide cooperative dialogue over a moribund forum or amelioration of grudges or perceived grievances.

 

There's nothing I can say to make you believe me, but I definitely have no interest in creating drama.

I felt like this thread could help clear the air... but perhaps I have overstepped my bounds.

I just felt compelled to do it. I guess it's a case of "better to ask forgiveness than permission".

I got pm'd by a couple people and even if I only helped those two people I feel like the thread has been worth it.

[Tewi]

Nothing's wrong with the thread, it's fine and possibly helpful given the lack of activity here.

[KarlYoshimura]

@Solune:

 

As excised from https://community.tulpa.info/thread-everybody-is-wrong-godbless?page=7&highlight=GodBless :

 

"I would rather risk unfriendliness than stagnation. If everybody just peacefully stated their beliefs and respected others beliefs... what would we even talk about?

The weather? Conflict breeds strength. Comfort breeds weakness. That's what I believe."

 

Granted, your views may have changed since this time. Yet the above is diametrically opposed to any notion of eschewing further conflict. Moreover, to delegate any magnitude of communal welfare unto a conceited Discordian would be as if one were to lead small fishes near the maw of a saw-toothed crocodile - unwise, and excruciatingly sardonic.

[tulpa001]

Oh, get off your high castle, you are misinterpreting that quote, and way off base on this thread.

 

I would just like to say that I think the forum looks healthy to me. I wasn't around for the days when there were a bunch of four channers running around making off topic comments and poking fun at each other, but I am fine with that. I expect I would not have enjoyed that.

 

(1) Nothing wrong with lurking or rarely posting. Lurkers are our readership, and part of a healthy forum ecosystem. Feel free to lurk and read guys!

 

(2) This is an informational site. Casual conversation is generally directed to the chat, and repeating ourselves is actively discouraged. If you want to change this dynamic, I can get behind that, but it also seems fine to me.

 

(3) Overall forum activity has not altered really at all during my time here, and neither has average post quality. Both of which seem decently high to me.

[Vos]

Both the forums and the IRC seem fine to me, outside of people who occasionally complain about the small things.

[KarlYoshimura]

@tulpa001:

 

What is there to misinterpret? If someone divulges their philosophy of strength and explicitly pegs it to that which is embroiled in and refined by conflict, it would be foolish to assume this person regards more diplomatic enterprise as anything but another mean of self-service, if that.

 

To expound, I feel some users will forego the emphasis on neutrality in this thread to instigate or deepen conflict, if your knee-jerk response to my suspicion is any indication.

[tulpa001]

It's no knee jerk response. It's a facepalm response. I take it you are unfamiliar with the concept of friendly aggression.

 

In addition, you now seem to conflate antiestablishmentarian leanings with selfish philosophy. This relationship is by no means a given.

[KarlYoshimura]

@tulpa001:

 

"friendliness" and "aggression" seldom work towards the same interests. With the exception of a very select few, there is only aggression shewn herein. Writing off any such kind of behaviour as remotely amicable solidifies this segment of community's reputation as one bewitchingly primed for bitterness and hostility whilst providing no consideration, let alone self-awareness for what is wrought.

 

Kindly elucidate as to what passes for "anti-establishment" within this forum. There is certainly little opposition towards the staff or the fedorite popular-rationality every other user subscribes to.