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Gryphon
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Aug-08-13, 08:39 PM (EDT) |
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"the reaping"
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Out of a morbid curiosity, I ran the inactive account reaper for the first time in many years. We lost 102 user accounts, among which were a few surprising names. If you hadn't logged in since before March 1 of this year, that's why your account is gone. If you've come back after a long absence to find that this has happened to you, no worries - your old name is available, DCF doesn't maintain a list of names that have been used but aren't any more. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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twipper
Member since Jan-8-03
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Dec-10-13, 10:08 AM (EDT) |
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7. "RE: the reaping"
In response to message #6
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You know, I still have not visited Reddit. I also don't have a Facebook account (or anything from Facebook's progenitor social sites), a Twitter account, and am only vaguely aware as to what Snapchat is. I am the neolithic equivalent of an interweb use... Brian
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Gryphon
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Dec-10-13, 12:17 PM (EDT) |
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8. "RE: the reaping"
In response to message #6
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LAST EDITED ON Dec-10-13 AT 12:18 PM (EST) >There also might be an appropriate sub-reddit for fanfic discussions. Oh man, Reddit? Fuck that; Reddit is the web equivalent of those newsgroups where predatory net.larvae would gather to get their kicks and celebrate their eliteness by picking on the steadily arriving freshmen every September. Advertising for new readers there would be like taking out a personal ad with a heading like SEEKING SOMEONE TO ABUSE ME - ARE YOU THE ONE? True story: I was in a class a while back with a kid who liked to talk about his personal life, which mainly involved being an active redditor and belonging to an explicitly griefing-oriented PVP guild in EVE Online. I once asked him if he had any hobbies that didn't involve being a dick to strangers on the Internet, and he proudly replied that he did not. He was particularly proud of one adventure in which he and his Reddit posse had allegedy ganged up and gotten some guy fired from his job in revenge for some trivial social faux pas. No thank you. Even if that wasn't true, why would I risk attracting the kind of asshole who thinks it's a fun tall tale? --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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eriktown
Member since Jan-28-06
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Dec-10-13, 11:03 PM (EDT) |
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12. "RE: the reaping"
In response to message #11
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>I actually know a guy who was (maybe is, depends on if he's still >involved in the game at all) who was part of Goons. I've heard a good >deal about that whole situation, and I count it as being among the >primary reasons for avoiding that game like the plague. Truth be told, I run an internet spaceship guild that is a close ally of theirs, and the leader of Goonswarm is an old friend/drinking buddy at this point. Members of Goonswarm can be howling barbarians at times, but their leadership are, by and large, intelligent, capable and reasonable folks. You have to be, to manage a 12,000-member organization. |
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MuninsFire
Member since Mar-27-07
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Dec-10-13, 05:09 PM (EDT) |
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10. "RE: the reaping"
In response to message #8
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>He was particularly proud of one adventure >in which he and his Reddit posse had allegedy ganged up and gotten >some guy fired from his job in revenge for some trivial social faux >pas. It's always been an unwritten rule (at least in those places I've chosen to frequent) that, even if all other bets were off and you were ripping into someone in the cruelest possible manner, you left real life out of it. I actually left a community because one of the members kept threatening to bring his...anger issues into real life. Pranks, flames, and embarrassments online are one thing; crippling someone's ability to make a living is quite another. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea |
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