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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Evil Eye » Sat Apr 17, 2021 10:48 am

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Cyber Bishop wrote:Also remember there was kind of a purge around the time of the STFU movement..

The uh, the what?
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Cyber Bishop » Sat Apr 17, 2021 2:39 pm

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Evil Eye wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:Also remember there was kind of a purge around the time of the STFU movement..

The uh, the what?



This was well before your time. Hell I most likely have a bullseye on my back for bringing it up. F-it..
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Rodimus Prime » Sat Apr 17, 2021 3:14 pm

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Cyber Bishop wrote:
Evil Eye wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:Also remember there was kind of a purge around the time of the STFU movement..

The uh, the what?



This was well before your time. Hell I most likely have a bullseye on my back for bringing it up. F-it..
'Movement.' :lol: A bunch of jack-offs acting '1337' to try to make themselves look cool out of insecurity. Like bullies in a middle school. Movement my ass.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Cyber Bishop » Sat Apr 17, 2021 3:47 pm

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Rodimus Prime wrote:'Movement.' :lol: A bunch of jack-offs acting '1337' to try to make themselves look cool out of insecurity. Like bullies in a middle school. Movement my ass.


Pretty much however there was a reason they started what they did and if I bring it up I can guarantee that I'll be banned from this site.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Burn » Sat Apr 17, 2021 3:54 pm

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Holy **** CB, get over yourself already. No one's going to ban you for remembering the past. Stop trying to make us out to be the arseholes that we're not.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Blastback » Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:21 pm

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Evil Eye wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:Also remember there was kind of a purge around the time of the STFU movement..

The uh, the what?
Round 2003 when I joined, things were simultaneously more fun and more toxic..


Rodimus Prime wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:
Evil Eye wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:Also remember there was kind of a purge around the time of the STFU movement..

The uh, the what?



This was well before your time. Hell I most likely have a bullseye on my back for bringing it up. F-it..
'Movement.' :lol: A bunch of jack-offs acting '1337' to try to make themselves look cool out of insecurity. Like bullies in a middle school. Movement my ass.

That was always my take on the whole thing. It had already started by the time I joined, so I never really understood what may have triggered it, but they were just acting like slagheads. I wasn't ever really a target, but it got old. There was this one admitidly sometimes annoying kid, that couldn't post so much as a dang happy birthday message without them stalking him into the thread and insulting him.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Cyber Bishop » Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:45 pm

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Burn wrote::lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Holy **** CB, get over yourself already. No one's going to ban you for remembering the past. Stop trying to make us out to be the arseholes that we're not.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Pm coming your way bud and yes after what happened to me (and the person that stalked my wife on FB but I got blamed) a few years ago I don't trust anyone on this site. No I don't forget things especially when that happened.

What initially started the STFU crap was something about fraud and cheating someone that was trying to buy things from the store here that was set up, also that some claimed that the site owner was a huge tool (I'll keep my opinions about that to myself for the time being). It was a whole nasty mess.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Blastback » Sat Apr 17, 2021 8:48 pm

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yeah, that whole mess was a cluster****. I never got involved, and honestly, didn't pay enough attention to have an informed opinion, but the fallout got bad.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Rodimus Prime » Sun Apr 18, 2021 12:23 am

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Alright, let's move onto something a little less negative. You guys remember the building thread?
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Blastback » Sun Apr 18, 2021 6:15 am

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Rodimus Prime wrote:Alright, let's move onto something a little less negative. You guys remember the building thread?

which one? my favorties were the world domination headquarters, and another night at the energon pub. man, good times. Honestly were I made most of my friends on the site.

*Gets behind bar and starts passing out energon drinks.*
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Rodimus Prime » Sun Apr 18, 2021 10:58 am

Motto: "Individual freedom above all else."
I was referring to the original one. The 1 I started. :-D

I left for 3 years from 2005 to 2008 so I don't really remember a lot else. I popped in once or twice a week but didn't pay attention to the goings-on closely.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Blastback » Sun Apr 18, 2021 12:29 pm

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Rodimus Prime wrote:I was referring to the original one. The 1 I started. :-D

I left for 3 years from 2005 to 2008 so I don't really remember a lot else. I popped in once or twice a week but didn't pay attention to the goings-on closely.

i wasn't there for the first one.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Rodimus Prime » Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:50 pm

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The 1st 1 was just fun. It was just a spam thread but it was allowed because it contained all the spam. I guess the others cropped up after I was gone so I don't remember them. I do remember there being a ban on building threads when I came back in '08. I guess they got out of hand.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Cyber Bishop » Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:51 pm

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Burn wrote:arsehole


You going to reply to my PM?

Rodimus Prime wrote:The 1st 1 was just fun. It was just a spam thread but it was allowed because it contained all the spam. I guess the others cropped up after I was gone so I don't remember them. I do remember there being a ban on building threads when I came back in '08. I guess they got out of hand.


Yeah they started really getting out of hand.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Blastback » Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:54 pm

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Rodimus Prime wrote:The 1st 1 was just fun. It was just a spam thread but it was allowed because it contained all the spam. I guess the others cropped up after I was gone so I don't remember them. I do remember there being a ban on building threads when I came back in '08. I guess they got out of hand.

You were still around some I think when they first started getting out of hand. It got limited to one at a time, which was fine. But after a while, the posting in the building would stop save for a handful of people.

To be fair, alot of us in the threads were either in highschool or college, so we were pretty immature, just having fun.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Cyber Bishop » Sun Apr 18, 2021 1:59 pm

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Blastback wrote:To be fair, alot of us in the threads were either in highschool or college, so we were pretty immature, just having fun.


And I was at my old job while posting.. I could do a lot while the machines were cycling through their programs..
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Blastback » Sun Apr 18, 2021 2:02 pm

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Cyber Bishop wrote:
Blastback wrote:To be fair, alot of us in the threads were either in highschool or college, so we were pretty immature, just having fun.


And I was at my old job while posting.. I could do a lot while the machines were cycling through their programs..

This was the first forum I'd joined, and I got so excited I spent to much time on it and not enough studying, so I kept getting grounded at one point. When I got back, several of the people I'd come to be freinds with were gone.. :( Contributed to me being a very on and off member.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Cyber Bishop » Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:43 pm

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Blastback wrote:
Cyber Bishop wrote:
Blastback wrote:To be fair, alot of us in the threads were either in highschool or college, so we were pretty immature, just having fun.


And I was at my old job while posting.. I could do a lot while the machines were cycling through their programs..

This was the first forum I'd joined, and I got so excited I spent to much time on it and not enough studying, so I kept getting grounded at one point. When I got back, several of the people I'd come to be freinds with were gone.. :( Contributed to me being a very on and off member.


I kept getting in trouble for posting on it by my supervisor who was in turn watching animal porn on his pc.. Yeah we busted him one time after he jumped my ass for it..

And as far as my comments earlier on about the Ban, Burn informed me of some things and I did not realize that a certain person got that out of touch with the forums.. At one point bringing up STFU or any of the stuff that went on literally meant instaban (either he or he would tell me to do it when I was site admin) from on high.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Cyberstrike » Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:49 pm

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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Burn » Tue Apr 20, 2021 6:34 pm

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Everybody keeps bringing up STFU but no one seems to bring up duragrip.

Which is probably a good thing.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Rodimus Prime » Tue Apr 20, 2021 6:49 pm

Motto: "Individual freedom above all else."
Burn wrote:Everybody keeps bringing up STFU but no one seems to bring up duragrip.

Which is probably a good thing.
So by your own admission you just did a bad thing.

[Cartman]That's a bad Burn! Bad![/Cartman]
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Burn » Tue Apr 20, 2021 6:57 pm

Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings to randomly click things in the Admin Panel to see what it breaks."
Bad would be unbanning him.

Might do that before I quit. mwahahahahaha
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Blastback » Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:28 pm

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think I might have missed him? what's the story there?
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby Burn » Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:40 pm

Motto: "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings to randomly click things in the Admin Panel to see what it breaks."
Blastback wrote:think I might have missed him? what's the story there?

He had a ... thing ... about going off on tangents.
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He had an incredibly unhealthy obsession with The Hulk.
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Re: Remembering the posters of yesterday

Postby BeastProwl » Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:30 am

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Burn wrote:
Blastback wrote:think I might have missed him? what's the story there?

He had a ... thing ... about going off on tangents.
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He had an incredibly unhealthy obsession with The Hulk.

Oh god I think I remember him :shock:
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