the fastest way to get banned...
 

what do you think is the easiest way to have your nick killed?

:)

Act like SoBe.

I am a master at this one but if I post it, I am likely to get banned for good.

I just wopke up 6 am and i am soft

Criticize Lensman, AMP, or GFY

Don't worry Aaron's naked!

fuck gfy.

And fuck Lensman and AMP while we are at it!

Lensman, utterly clueless about what happens on his own board. Hires a halfwit to monitor it for him.

are you looking to get banned?

jDoG

Joking doesn't count.

hmm. yet he has the the most successful board in adult history.

Did you see a smile behind that post? :winkwink:

Because it was the first board at that time that didnt ban idiots. So all the idiots flocked here.

Comparing the value of banners vs sigs?

you think that's the only reason?

i believe there is more to it than that. maybe i'm wrong - but the reason i think this place got so huge, was luck. there was around 10 posters who kept this board going the first 18 months. if it was just idiots, you can look at a 100+ boards that do that just. and are not huge.

The word of the day is "Politics."

:uhoh

Sure, I agree with luck for the most part. I have been here since the beginning. People like Boneprone and that crew that really got shit flying on here would not have been tolerated at other boards. At the time what were the other big boards? The fact that you could get away with talking jibberish and slinging your own shit like a chimp made this place popular real quick. That combined with the association to the ever popular AP per click program and the incentice/reward program brought people out of the woodwork.

GFY built itself like a cancer. You had to be a real jackass to get banned and that lent itself to epic pissing matches and strong strong board personality development.

Lens had nothing to do with it other than hosting it and dangling the hope of getting a tshirt or a dvd player in front of newbs faces. Like you said, luck.

Lens owes Boneprone huge.

Careful in this thread quiet, or you will end up [Quiet].

yep, luck. ynot, then netpond, then gfy i guess. neither were anything like gfy of course.

i read the boards for years, before i ever posted. the first time was gfy.

again, maybe i'm wrong, but i think lens understands exactly what's going on here. this board is more popular than ever, regardless whether or not any of us like it anymore.

i agree - huge bunch of idiots and spammers these days. yet the place is more popular than ever. time will tell i guess, as always.

but you may be right, maybe lens doesn't see what's going on here. some how i doubt it though.

oh well.

Oh, I think he understands how to keep people posting. Newbs eat up post count, tshirts, dvd players, hiring geek chum like Cheshire and Loryn, that is sheer brilliance.

But does he understand the day to day politics of GFY? The undercurrents that built this board? Who hates who, who likes who, the stories blah blah blah. Does he understand the soap opera that is GFY?

Not at all. The fact that he bans long time posters and allows the spammers to over run his board only proves my point. Lens only cares about impressions, how they are created is irrelevant.

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i'm in compete agreement with you here.

this is obvious, and has been happening for long enough that it should make all of us realize just how little any single poster is actually worth any more. basically nothing.

but let me ask you a question: do you think gfy will decline in the next 2 years? i don't think so, regardless if fletch, myself, amp, etc are all banned.

hell, maybe it will decline. but i don't think so. at least not in the next 2 years.

and of course, the entire idea was to make money - as long as it does, nothing will change.

Boneprone said his Mod status had been taken away.

my nuts itch.

Nah, I think its still growing. More newbs jump on every day. How many of the old guard still post?

So long as there are newbs that are obsessed with post count and the promise of a dvd player and seeing some boobies, GFY will exist.

There is nobody on this board that will say it is better now than it was 2 years ago. It is quantity over quality now.

For every good one (KRL), dozens of grogans.

absolutely.

and it's almost completely over. and yet depending on your perspective, it's just the beginning.

I don't think that goal is unique to GFY - I think it's what motivates every board out there whether it's GFY or a newbie board somewhere.

oh, you removed your post... oh well.

Nothing wrong with that. The dynamics of virtual communities are getting a lot of attention.

This place is a gathering place of neurotics, paranoids, recluse, multiple personality disorders, scammers, pedos, spammers, and any brand of deviant you can imagine.

A gathering place of people who work in smut, people want to work in smut, people who do not work in smut. Where else can you have someone like Amp telling someone like Shaw or MikeAI that they know nothing of how to run a business?

Having a background in social science, this place is a fucking gold mine.

i can put it back. there was no reason for that post, other then to incite more responses.

and yet those who've done it all, mantrize (is that a word) what they might have done, over and over.

my eyes have been opened, thanks to several 'big players', on just how small this playing field really is right now.

hahaha.

Yeah, it appears Amp PwN3d me again a couple hours ago.

I see your nick has changed again...yet I didn't see a thread where you were banned again. Sniper got you???

Agreed.

It is a shame...you are one of the few with an intellect. Do you still intend to do your thesis on the subject you previously stated? If so...are you already working on it? I would like to read it when it is completed.

Yeah, same topic. My advisor is a maniac and loves the subject. I am not working on it right now, I am in the middle of a bunch of courses on delinquency/deviance, popular culture, and the justice system. Which coincidentally is going to fulfill requirements for a BS in Criminal Justice. So at the same time I am gathering up theory that I will have to incorporate into the thesis, I get a free degree. Bonus. That and I was introduced to the work of a Marxist philosopher that has really changed the way I am going to approach the subject. I need to spend the next few months trying to wrap my brain around this guy.

So yes and no.

Which one would that be?

http://www.marxists.org/reference/su.../ge/adorno.htm

I am only concerned with his work on popular culture.

This guy has seriously fucked me up. Brilliant shit.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by LabratReducks
do you really buy this?

Partially. I am completely unfamiliar with the Kant reference, but the power and purpose of the culture industry I will not dispute.

You two are the philosophers, I am the sociologist, be gentle.

destroy Kant's philsosopy (which end the end i dont' agree with, in under 40 words).

i need another beer.

Someone should register "intelligentdiscussions.com" and put a message board on there. Individuals who wish to participate have to complete an IQ test.

care to ellaborate even just a bit?

Be like Labret, tell the truth.

Evidently being on the intelligent or interesting side like Labret, Joe Sixpack or Cherry works well.

Rejects can post forever and ever. Just ask to see some boobs, announce when you get laid for the first time, and post total garbage over and over and you can stay forever.

ban him!!