WE SHARK NOW

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high effort posting in shitpost central again whoops
« Reply #45 on: August 20, 2017, 12:32:40 pm »
I like to discuss sensitive racial politics without walking on eggshells and pretending that reality doesn't exist.

I DO NOT use the word "nigger" to refer to any black person, or group of people.

I use the word "nigger" to refer to dumb niggers like snek when they are being a dumb nigger.

We WERE talking about ceph here, but if you want to start talking about me then I feel this needs to be made very clear. I don't care about the word itself, I don't really use it all that often. I have seen emilypi use it on several occasions, and just recently saw emilypi bully RasAlGhoul for being "off-white" and implying that he should be ashamed of his skin color.

That's super not cool and makes my skin crawl. I'm not saying they should be banned or anything, but you should be aware of the actual wolves in your hen house.
Yeah I'm aware that emilypi talks a lot of shit. I also speak with emilypi about her behavior on occasion. I tell her rationally when she's crossed a line and she responds by being respectful, and refraining from crossing said line in the future. This is how we solve problems like adults, by talking things out.

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Emilypi posts a picture mocking school shootings

Stoner Sentai (redheron)- Last Friday at 3:19 PM
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
yikes epi
I'm just gonna...
deletes image with moderator power
yeah.
Kick His Ass Seabass(emilypi) - Last Friday at 3:25 PM
too soon?
Stoner Sentai - Last Friday at 3:26 PM
idk man jokes about porn are one thing but jokes about people killing each other are quite another
especially stuff like school shootings...
Kick His Ass Seabass - Last Friday at 3:26 PM
i see the line
Stoner Sentai - Last Friday at 3:27 PM
not really funny considering innocent people die from that stuff you know
Kick His Ass Seabass - Last Friday at 3:27 PM
I will not poast morbid things again
Stoner Sentai - Last Friday at 3:27 PM
thanks <3
Kick His Ass Seabass - Last Friday at 3:27 PM
anytime, sunshine

The problem with what happened with ceph was such a conversation happened between him and rachel, where he agreed to follow the channel rules and not use the n-word, and then he did. It was a breach of trust. Then he disappeared so I can't even hear his side of what happened. I really would like to defend him but its really hard to when he says one thing then does another and disappears.

I feel like it would be easy for you to use a word other than the n-word when expressing your need to insult someone's intelligence. I still don't understand why you need to do that, btw. I also feel like you're being sort of hypocritical when you complain about emilypi's behaviors, considering how you act in channel a lot of the time. I have no doubt that you are a smart individual who can have nuanced, civilized conversations. I just feel like sometimes your anger, irritation, or frustration gets in the way of your ability to communicate ideas to others.

The difference between the early days of wetfish and now is that rachel has concern for the public image of her network now. She's inviting new users and they are having bad experiences within the first few minutes of joining the main channel. All the slapanus modules have been disabled because one of rachel's new friends was slapanus kicked within ten minutes of her joining. The bank game has a cooldown in #wetfish as well, because people were spamming the channel with it's commands. Loli's are now removed from the wiki on sight. I'm sorry but sometimes things change. Sometimes people realize that pushing people away with irrational abrasiveness inhibits one's ability to make new connections.

Maybe someday you'll be able to come back into #wetfish, if you can show some willpower and refrain from lashing out at people and saying the n-word.

I wouldn't count on it though. Not that I don't believe that you have the capability but rather I don't think you want to, so you won't. ‾\(ツ)/‾

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Re: high effort posting in shitpost central again whoops
« Reply #46 on: August 20, 2017, 01:04:27 pm »
I like to discuss sensitive racial politics without walking on eggshells and pretending that reality doesn't exist.

I DO NOT use the word "nigger" to refer to any black person, or group of people.

I use the word "nigger" to refer to dumb niggers like snek when they are being a dumb nigger.

We WERE talking about ceph here, but if you want to start talking about me then I feel this needs to be made very clear. I don't care about the word itself, I don't really use it all that often. I have seen emilypi use it on several occasions, and just recently saw emilypi bully RasAlGhoul for being "off-white" and implying that he should be ashamed of his skin color.

That's super not cool and makes my skin crawl. I'm not saying they should be banned or anything, but you should be aware of the actual wolves in your hen house.
Yeah I'm aware that emilypi talks a lot of shit. I also speak with emilypi about her behavior on occasion. I tell her rationally when she's crossed a line and she responds by being respectful, and refraining from crossing said line in the future. This is how we solve problems like adults, by talking things out.

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Emilypi posts a picture mocking school shootings

Stoner Sentai (redheron)- Last Friday at 3:19 PM
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
yikes epi
I'm just gonna...
deletes image with moderator power
yeah.
Kick His Ass Seabass(emilypi) - Last Friday at 3:25 PM
too soon?
Stoner Sentai - Last Friday at 3:26 PM
idk man jokes about porn are one thing but jokes about people killing each other are quite another
especially stuff like school shootings...
Kick His Ass Seabass - Last Friday at 3:26 PM
i see the line
Stoner Sentai - Last Friday at 3:27 PM
not really funny considering innocent people die from that stuff you know
Kick His Ass Seabass - Last Friday at 3:27 PM
I will not poast morbid things again
Stoner Sentai - Last Friday at 3:27 PM
thanks <3
Kick His Ass Seabass - Last Friday at 3:27 PM
anytime, sunshine

The problem with what happened with ceph was such a conversation happened between him and rachel, where he agreed to follow the channel rules and not use the n-word, and then he did. It was a breach of trust. Then he disappeared so I can't even hear his side of what happened. I really would like to defend him but its really hard to when he says one thing then does another and disappears.

I feel like it would be easy for you to use a word other than the n-word when expressing your need to insult someone's intelligence. I still don't understand why you need to do that, btw. I also feel like you're being sort of hypocritical when you complain about emilypi's behaviors, considering how you act in channel a lot of the time. I have no doubt that you are a smart individual who can have nuanced, civilized conversations. I just feel like sometimes your anger, irritation, or frustration gets in the way of your ability to communicate ideas to others.

The difference between the early days of wetfish and now is that rachel has concern for the public image of her network now. She's inviting new users and they are having bad experiences within the first few minutes of joining the main channel. All the slapanus modules have been disabled because one of rachel's new friends was slapanus kicked within ten minutes of her joining. The bank game has a cooldown in #wetfish as well, because people were spamming the channel with it's commands. Loli's are now removed from the wiki on sight. I'm sorry but sometimes things change. Sometimes people realize that pushing people away with irrational abrasiveness inhibits one's ability to make new connections.

Maybe someday you'll be able to come back into #wetfish, if you can show some willpower and refrain from lashing out at people and saying the n-word.

I wouldn't count on it though. Not that I don't believe that you have the capability but rather I don't think you want to, so you won't. ‾\(ツ)/‾

I have already told rachel and others directly that I don't want to come back to #wetfish. It's a sad husk of its former self. If I were unbanned already I wouldn't even notice.

As for the "rules", the only rule that was active when I was there was "Don't be a dick" which is basically the root problem. Selective enforcement of a completely open ended and arbitrary rule makes enforcement less about what is said, and more about who it was that said it.

If I weren't banned for calling snek a "n-word" then I would have been banned for calling him a retard, or for stating the fact that according to FBI statistics, blacks are at least twice as likely to be murderers than whites.
(which is a fact, but we're still talking about a number that is in the thousands and represents a difference of something like 0.1% vs 0.2% of the US population, but I'm still not making any plans on moving to Detroit and starting a life there)

I understand why rachel would prefer to make the channel a Nerf-tastic safe space for her friends to play in, and that is why I have chosen not to ban-evade like others have. But like you said I'm not going to stifle my own speech just to fit into the echo chamber and pretend I agree with the opinions of the self-appointed thought police.

I'm perfectly happy to have a separate channel with no rules.
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Re: high effort posting in shitpost central again whoops
« Reply #47 on: August 20, 2017, 01:43:09 pm »
I have already told rachel and others directly that I don't want to come back to #wetfish. It's a sad husk of its former self. If I were unbanned already I wouldn't even notice.

As for the "rules", the only rule that was active when I was there was "Don't be a dick" which is basically the root problem. Selective enforcement of a completely open ended and arbitrary rule makes enforcement less about what is said, and more about who it was that said it.

If I weren't banned for calling snek a "n-word" then I would have been banned for calling him a retard, or for stating the fact that according to FBI statistics, blacks are at least twice as likely to be murderers than whites.
(which is a fact, but we're still talking about a number that is in the thousands and represents a difference of something like 0.1% vs 0.2% of the US population, but I'm still not making any plans on moving to Detroit and starting a life there)

I understand why rachel would prefer to make the channel a Nerf-tastic safe space for her friends to play in, and that is why I have chosen not to ban-evade like others have. But like you said I'm not going to stifle my own speech just to fit into the echo chamber and pretend I agree with the opinions of the self-appointed thought police.

I'm perfectly happy to have a separate channel with no rules.
Yeah, the one channel rule is don't be a dick. Calling someone the n-word because you think they are dumb is being a dick. I'm not here to talk about why you want to prove black people are inferior with numbers. Something something systematic racism something something a bunch of shit you don't care about. The rule is don't be a dick and you act like a dick most of the time. So I can see how you can feel like you're being targeted, because in a way, you sort of are. Also using emotionally loaded words like "echo chamber" and "thought police" isn't helping you make your point. It makes it sound like you're a conspiracy theorist.

Wetfish isn't really an echo-chamber. Rachel works pretty hard towards getting people with various different viewpoints in there. She's genuinely one of those people who believes if you want to know someone's viewpoint you should talk to them about it, rather than listening what other people have to say about them behind their back. I sort of agree with her on that, which is why I'm trying to establish a dialogue here.

Do you think you could maybe explain why you want to act like a dick all the time? Specifically I'm asking about why you want to insult people's intelligence and call them rude names. I feel like having some insight on that would help me understand where you're coming from.

Re: high effort posting in shitpost central again whoops
« Reply #48 on: August 20, 2017, 02:22:51 pm »
I have already told rachel and others directly that I don't want to come back to #wetfish. It's a sad husk of its former self. If I were unbanned already I wouldn't even notice.

As for the "rules", the only rule that was active when I was there was "Don't be a dick" which is basically the root problem. Selective enforcement of a completely open ended and arbitrary rule makes enforcement less about what is said, and more about who it was that said it.

If I weren't banned for calling snek a "n-word" then I would have been banned for calling him a retard, or for stating the fact that according to FBI statistics, blacks are at least twice as likely to be murderers than whites.
(which is a fact, but we're still talking about a number that is in the thousands and represents a difference of something like 0.1% vs 0.2% of the US population, but I'm still not making any plans on moving to Detroit and starting a life there)

I understand why rachel would prefer to make the channel a Nerf-tastic safe space for her friends to play in, and that is why I have chosen not to ban-evade like others have. But like you said I'm not going to stifle my own speech just to fit into the echo chamber and pretend I agree with the opinions of the self-appointed thought police.

I'm perfectly happy to have a separate channel with no rules.
Yeah, the one channel rule is don't be a dick. Calling someone the n-word because you think they are dumb is being a dick. I'm not here to talk about why you want to prove black people are inferior with numbers. Something something systematic racism something something a bunch of shit you don't care about. The rule is don't be a dick and you act like a dick most of the time. So I can see how you can feel like you're being targeted, because in a way, you sort of are. Also using emotionally loaded words like "echo chamber" and "thought police" isn't helping you make your point. It makes it sound like you're a conspiracy theorist.

Wetfish isn't really an echo-chamber. Rachel works pretty hard towards getting people with various different viewpoints in there. She's genuinely one of those people who believes if you want to know someone's viewpoint you should talk to them about it, rather than listening what other people have to say about them behind their back. I sort of agree with her on that, which is why I'm trying to establish a dialogue here.

Do you think you could maybe explain why you want to act like a dick all the time? Specifically I'm asking about why you want to insult people's intelligence and call them rude names. I feel like having some insight on that would help me understand where you're coming from.

We could do this back and forth all day but at this point you're just being obstinate

"Do you think you could maybe explain why you want to act like a dick all the time?"
This is called a loaded question
If you actually want to have a discussion on my character we can do it in IRC and not a public forum where you try to force me to answer questions with the presumption of guilt. This is starting to get kind of stupid.

As for "Specifically I'm asking about why you want to insult people's intelligence and call them rude names."
Suffice it to say, if I have never called you a "n-word" then you are likely not my favorite person. There's a certain level of trust that has to be maintained when having a conversation with someone, and that trust includes the assumption that the other person isn't going to automatically assume the worst of your character simply for stating something that could be viewed as controversial. Calling someone a "n-word" is a sort of litmus test for that quality, but there are many others.
I'm going to guess that you do something similar to figure out which people are worth talking to? Or do you just automatically trust everyone you encounter to have your best interests in mind 100% of the time?

I'm also going to guess that my way of figuring out which people are worth talking to is somehow not valid to you, and thus I'm a very very evil person omigoshh
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« Reply #49 on: August 20, 2017, 04:12:32 pm »

We could do this back and forth all day but at this point you're just being obstinate

"Do you think you could maybe explain why you want to act like a dick all the time?"
This is called a loaded question
If you actually want to have a discussion on my character we can do it in IRC and not a public forum where you try to force me to answer questions with the presumption of guilt. This is starting to get kind of stupid.
Sorry, I specifically mean in the context of the channel rule "Don't be a dick" so its not a loaded question, I'm seriously asking you this. Is there a way we could agree on a definition for something that's objectively dicklike behavior? Could we, as a community, come up with a definition for "being a dick" that everyone finds acceptable? Bold added for emphasis to anyone who happens to be reading this.
 
As for "Specifically I'm asking about why you want to insult people's intelligence and call them rude names."
Suffice it to say, if I have never called you a "n-word" then you are likely not my favorite person. There's a certain level of trust that has to be maintained when having a conversation with someone, and that trust includes the assumption that the other person isn't going to automatically assume the worst of your character simply for stating something that could be viewed as controversial. Calling someone a "n-word" is a sort of litmus test for that quality, but there are many others.
I'm going to guess that you do something similar to figure out which people are worth talking to? Or do you just automatically trust everyone you encounter to have your best interests in mind 100% of the time?
No, I don't test people when we start to talk to see if they're worth talking to. Testing people in such a way, acting offensive on purpose to see how they respond and if they're worthy of socialization, seems kind of manipulative. Not really something I'm into. Also, a social test with an insincere premise seems like it would have skewed results. If they are not a secretly bigoted person, why would anyone act like one to judge people's reactions to such things? If you're afraid of being assumed incorrectly of bigotry when talking about controversial subjects, why not make an effort to talk in a way that doesn't sound bigoted?

I just assume anyone is worth talking to, because I believe 1. everybody has something interesting to say about things that they're interested in (something I could talk about at some length but I'm pretty sure you don't care), and 2. respect is NOT something that has to be earned, its something a person deserves by default and then gets taken away when one acts like a dick/jerk/asshole for no good reason. I don't automatically trust people to 100% have my interests in mind though, that'd be ridiculous. I just prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt when given the opportunity. And yeah it burns me sometimes but I feel like the friendships I have made through extending my trust to others far outnumber the people who make me regret trusting them.

Everyone has different ways of interacting with others. When I meet someone with an opposing opinion, I'd prefer to talk about it like this, rather than deciding "well they're obviously shitty" and writing them off forever. You can learn a lot from someone if, instead of getting confrontational, you just ask them about it. Even though sometimes it can come across as being unintentionally patronizing, I feel like its important to at least try to understand where other people are coming from. Everyone's choices and opinions are a culmination of their life experiences up to that point. I feel like rejecting people based on judgments I've made about them before actually getting to know them fosters miscommunication and distrust, and is bad for us as a society. looks significantly at shitty tumblr callout culture.

I'm also going to guess that my way of figuring out which people are worth talking to is somehow not valid to you, and thus I'm a very very evil person omigoshh
You're not evil. You're a jerk. On purpose, if I'm interpreting what you said right. These two things are not the same. Like I said, everything you think is a result of everything you've experienced in your life. It's not my place to tell you if you're valid or invalid. My place is to keep hate speech and spammers out of #wetfish.

Thanks for talking to me about this in a mostly rational manner, btw. I appreciate you taking the time to read all this even if you do think I'm garbage or whatever.

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Re: WE SHARK NOW
« Reply #50 on: August 20, 2017, 04:20:43 pm »
HOLY JESUS
WHAT IS THAT
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
WHAT IS THAT PRIVATE PYLE
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Re: WE SHARK NOW
« Reply #51 on: August 20, 2017, 05:14:06 pm »
"Could we, as a community, come up with a definition for "being a dick" that everyone finds acceptable?"

Not without running into the same problems I've already highlighted. The more specific a rule is, the less likely it is to be enforced arbitrarily. I always assumed that when rachel said the "don't be a dick" rule would only be a placeholder for future, concrete rules, that that would actually happen. Unfortunately it never did, and nobody knows what is actually allowed vs. what is not allowed aside from what someone may have said weeks or months ago.

As for the second part, I should have said "invest social capital in" instead of "worth talking to"
They have the same meaning for me, but apparently that got lost in translation. Obviously I talk to everybody. That doesn't mean I personally value the communication I have with everyone equally.

It's not about "rejecting people", as you say, but it's about knowing how likely someone is to be able to maintain a rational and productive conversation about something. It's about not spending energy that isn't worth spending. We've had a very long conversation in this thread, but for the most part I believe it was worthwhile. If we were talking about racial politics, however, it would not be. It's not that I wouldn't want to go down that rabbit hole with you, specifically. It's that you wouldn't respond well, it wouldn't go anywhere, and neither of us would get anything out of it.

Sometimes I like to say something that is controversial in a public channel, and use that as a sort of lure to figure out who is and is not capable of actually having a real debate. It's not about who agrees with what I say, it's about who can be a good sport and have some fun.
My personal Hell would be me stuck in a room with only people who agree with everything that I say.
Sometimes the most controversial statements provoke the most interesting (to me) conversations.

And I don't believe you're garbage, even though you say I'm a jerk. I just don't like you.
You seem to have a mommy complex, needing to defend people from words. You assume offense for others who were never offended in the first place, and use that as cause to ban people (or have people banned, in my case).
You overreact with a preference to your perceived offense to your friends or others.

Telling me that you are some kind of paragon of judgement of people who have opposing opinions doesn't fit at all with my own interactions with you. That's not to say you can't do better, I just know that you won't.
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Re: WE SHARK NOW
« Reply #52 on: August 20, 2017, 06:39:40 pm »
Why do you think I had you banned? I'm pretty sure that was 100% rachel.

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« Reply #53 on: August 20, 2017, 06:42:47 pm »
Why do you think I had you banned? I'm pretty sure that was 100% rachel.

One of several bans. Rachel banned me after you told her I made Hyrulean #quitwetfish4eva because I made a joke about killer whales being black.

(he was back later that same day, didn't care about the whale joke)
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Re: WE SHARK NOW
« Reply #54 on: August 20, 2017, 08:35:28 pm »
One of several bans. Rachel banned me after you told her I made Hyrulean #quitwetfish4eva because I made a joke about killer whales being black.

(he was back later that same day, didn't care about the whale joke)
Still sounds like rachel banned you to me. I talk to rachel about a lot of stuff that happens in channel. If rachel doesn't want to do something, theres no way I can talk her into it. I take orders from her, not the other way around.

Re: WE SHARK NOW
« Reply #55 on: August 20, 2017, 09:07:49 pm »
One of several bans. Rachel banned me after you told her I made Hyrulean #quitwetfish4eva because I made a joke about killer whales being black.

(he was back later that same day, didn't care about the whale joke)
Still sounds like rachel banned you to me. I talk to rachel about a lot of stuff that happens in channel. If rachel doesn't want to do something, theres no way I can talk her into it. I take orders from her, not the other way around.

She told me, specifically, because of what you said, I would be banned.

Seriously, fuck you. Take some responsibility for being shitty for once.
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Re: WE SHARK NOW
« Reply #56 on: August 20, 2017, 09:26:10 pm »
She told me, specifically, because of what you said, I would be banned.

Seriously, fuck you. Take some responsibility for being shitty for once.
I'm pretty sure I wasn't the one being shitty in this situation.

Re: WE SHARK NOW
« Reply #57 on: August 20, 2017, 09:35:43 pm »
She told me, specifically, because of what you said, I would be banned.

Seriously, fuck you. Take some responsibility for being shitty for once.
I'm pretty sure I wasn't the one being shitty in this situation.

I knew I was right about you. Thanks for proving it for me.
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Re: WE SHARK NOW
« Reply #58 on: August 20, 2017, 09:57:36 pm »
I knew I was right about you. Thanks for proving it for me.
You seem to be convinced of this weird fantasy where I'm some kind of evil adviser poisoning rachel's mind. How this kind of thing usually goes is I message her to talk about stuff, like I do with all my other friends. I don't send her messages with the intent to manipulate her into taking action against you or anyone, I'm literally just talking to my friend about what happened. She's not even the only person who talks to me about this stuff. I exchange logs with some of the other opers too. It's not an unusual thing. Friends talk to each other about stuff. I still can't force her to do anything she doesn't already think is a good idea.

And don't even act like you don't talk about drama with other people. I was literally there reading along when you were talking about me in #freefish and spacing out the letters in my name so it wouldn't highlight me lol.

Re: high effort posting in shitpost central again whoops
« Reply #59 on: August 20, 2017, 10:22:30 pm »
All the slapanus modules have been disabled because one of rachel's new friends was slapanus kicked within ten minutes of her joining.

actually it was literally within 30 seconds, say is a monster
*spork*