Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[DavidCroquet]

The weirdest thing to me is that increasingly era is indistinguishable from a school of piranha in extremely chummed waters, but they are doing these silly sidelong arguments.

ex: defenseless Canadians vs. American imperialists, principled single day non-mcgriddle buyers vs. McGriddle enjoyers

but everyone is tiptoeing around the considerable audience of non-voters, or the admins that both didn't vote while encouraging others not to AND THEN had the gall to say "skip today's latte to save america".

It's not like people are afraid of bans...the bans are coming constantly. Embiid almost goes there, but even he stops short of a truly direct callout.

TL;DR: the whole forum is clearly angry as fuck and wanting a target, but seems to opt for tangential slap fights instead of going for the obvious, highly visible, and closest-to-sensible retards available.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/redlettermedia-ot-very-cruel.804/page-338#post-135638592

TheKeipatzy
Sorry whenever I hear people not wanting to hear quips or whatever on the front of a ship I know dang well yet again you guys have actually never been in the situation where you work with other people...

There are a lot of boring and lonely weeks You might as well joke with one another but whatever it's okay. We can all be bitter old Wisconsin people together I guess :/

But yes there is a balance between a Next-Gen crew versus full-on Lower Decks. I didn't want to go back to statues and background Gruffs (O'Brien was saved by DS9)

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[DocWager]

Look at all the sperging on the last ten pages or so about this topic in here. Not once did a single member immediately jump to holding another member personally responsible for major international or even national events being decided at the highest levels of political power.

That's why this place is an echo chamber afraid of debate.

Well we feel bad calling you an idiot.

[Snoopy]

Staff are aware of the massive amount of reports being made in this thread, but we're currently short-staffed in terms of being able to actually discuss policy and address them in a timely manner. Because this is news, we're not going to lock it; however, we are urging everyone to drop the meta commentary about the culpability of Era members and the general lashing out at each other. No one in this thread is on Trump's administration.

 

Look at them bashing the report button on each other. Bunch of rats

[benji]

Well we feel bad calling you an idiot.

WHO DID THIS AND FOR WHAT

[Potato]

Uhm, chuddie? NATO and America's sphere of influence caused this to happen. If the west didn't threaten Russia at every turn then Russia would have had no reason to de-nazify Ukraine.

Y'all would think America would help clean their own messes.

I mean, I know you're being sarcastic, but it's the truth...

[Potato]

okay so we exposed russia already, we wasted tons of their resources and showed they are a paper tiger.

why keep this going and going and going? continuing down this road of war is not helping any "side" at this point.

You don't end it by declaring your ally who you've been funding as a liar and a dictator and then go and embarrass yourself and your ally in a public press conference/summit. These people are rank amateurs and are damaging the US and its sphere of influence. The developing world is taking note of how the US treats its allies and China is laughing at you.

[killamajig]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/redlettermedia-ot-very-cruel.804/page-338#post-136068771

DrForester

Never got the impression they liked Deep Space Nine. Surprised they bought it.

I hate to use the word but how fucking retarded is Dr Forester? 

How can anyone watch RLM to the point they post in the thread on Era about it and think Mike/Rich didn't/don't like DS9 without having severe cognitive difficulties?

[benji]

They even have had kind things to say about Voyager and Enterprise especially compared to Discovery. I don't know how anyone could imagine they were TOS/TNG only type Trekkers, like nobody that age is. That's an earlier generation.

[Potato]

Anybody entering the Resetera contest to create a new Custom Logo?
 https://www.resetera.com/threads/contest-entries-make-a-new-era-logo.1122414/

As most of you know, you can pick a custom ResetEra logo from a long list of community created options. We are looking to expand on that list, to hopefully add a few, and are once again opening up to the community.

Smells a lot like free labor

My suggestion:
Regular:
Mobile:

Submit an AI logo. 

Start talking about paying artists for their work.

[Potato]

Look at all the sperging on the last ten pages or so about this topic in here. Not once did a single member immediately jump to holding another member personally responsible for major international or even national events being decided at the highest levels of political power.

That's why this place is an echo chamber afraid of debate.

I, for one, hold the collective nation of Yankee doodle dandies responsible.

[benji]

If anything, people on Era should be strenuously opposed to DS9 because it's full of moral compromises and lectures about forgiving people who have wronged you among other things they condemn. It's basically far-right propaganda.

[Ribosome]

Supporting giving money to Ukraine instead of the impoverished trans community? 

No wonder they're leaving Era in droves.

[DocWager]

Well we feel bad calling you an idiot.

WHO DID THIS AND FOR WHAT

I’m not up for debate.

But I am up for da-titties.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Uhm, chuddie? NATO and America's sphere of influence caused this to happen. If the west didn't threaten Russia at every turn then Russia would have had no reason to de-nazify Ukraine.

Y'all would think America would help clean their own messes.

I mean, I know you're being sarcastic, but it's the truth...

I'm not trolling, that's the official platform of the DSA on the war. 

[Mediocre Lager]

Look at all the sperging on the last ten pages or so about this topic in here. Not once did a single member immediately jump to holding another member personally responsible for major international or even national events being decided at the highest levels of political power.

That's why this place is an echo chamber afraid of debate.

The restaurant got my takeout order wrong and I'm holding you personally responsible and consider this an act of American aggression.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Staff are aware of the massive amount of reports being made in this thread, but we're currently short-staffed in terms of being able to actually discuss policy and address them in a timely manner. Because this is news, we're not going to lock it; however, we are urging everyone to drop the meta commentary about the culpability of Era members and the general lashing out at each other. No one in this thread is on Trump's administration.

 

Look at them bashing the report button on each other. Bunch of rats

Fragile Americans. Just like JEWS.

[benji]

Already making friends on Bluesky:

lol, it's Chet Faliszek, who blocked him for this

was in response to:

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[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Quickest delete in the west.

[Kyon1988]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/hegseth-told-mexico’s-military-officials-that-the-us-is-prepare-to-attack-the-country-if-mexico-does-not-meet-trump-demands-on-fentanyl.1122522/page-3#post-136425777

Entremet getting dragged as he self hating American routine falls flat.

entremet is such a terrible person. He makes 1000 threads a day but he never listened to any feedback in any of them

[benji]

ALLIES, LISTEN UP:

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

ALLIES, LISTEN UP:

[Snoopy]

Meanwhile Dubs Neeson is back on drugs -

Honestly, blaming each other for shit does absolutely nothing. We're not Congress, we're a videogame forum. We aren't deciding any of this shit. We're here to talk about things we find important and interesting and fun. Blaming each other, attacking each other, standing up on a soapbox and demonizing and preaching to each other, this shit does nothing.

A few years ago Hecht shared this story about a homeless shelter and the bathroom in said shelter. The people who used the shelter would totally destroy the bathroom every single day, regardless of how much the people who ran the shelter asked them not to do so. They did this not because they hated the people who ran the shelter, they very much appreciated the people helping them, but because it was literally the only thing in their lives that they could control. They had zero control over their lives. They couldn't decide what to eat or when, they couldn't decide what to wear, they couldn't decide what color their bedsheets were. They were homeless and had no control, so they fucked up the bathroom every chance they got because that was the only control they had over their lives.

That's what you guys are doing by blaming and attacking each other, you're messing up the bathroom. None of it has any real effect on anything going on in the world, but the way you treat each other is the only real control you can express, the only control any of us can express, and so people act like jerks and attack each other relentlessly. Standing up on a soapbox feels good in the moment because it feels like you're actually doing something, but in the end it amounts to nothing. Most of you guys agree with each other on everything! Hell, everyone agrees this is beyond fucked. Nobody thinks this is a good thing and yet here we are, demonizing and attacking each other over this because it makes us feel better in the moment.

The absolute truth is that we can lower the temperature, we can stop attacking each other like we're the enemy, and we can still say what we want to say about what is going on. Being respectful of each other and expressing a strong opinion are not mutually exclusive, you can do both.

[clockwork5]

Declaring support is less than nothing.

$$$ for Monster Hunter saves lives.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

What do you call it when a foreign military bombs a sovereign country uninvited

Please think

What Americas involvement does to the middle east? 

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

ALLIES, LISTEN UP:

Sorry. I care more about the global south, not some fat white ass American begging for "food" constantly on the internet while posting porn and gunpla.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

I really don't understand the logic of non Americans attacking Americans in THIS forum. Go to twitter or any other right wing cesspool for that. Like no one here voted for this, and many of us minorities are the first victims of this fucking administration. It's literally victim blaming.

[benji]

I was replying to someone in a thread about the growing push of right-wing social media that censors the left — and I brought up why Reddit hasn't been converted into TikTok or Twitter (yet) even though they do censor progressives on the regular.

It's about the data, stupid. Or rather, it's about the stupid data:

https://np.reddit.com/r/Hasan_Piker/comments/1ia736v/tiktok_hating_fascists_is_not_allowed/m9ciolj/

Here's the copypasta of the post:

Okay so why are there so much left content I've been seeing

Get a fresh device set up with a fresh account and start watching YouTube videos. Joe Rogan's right-wing pipeline will be shoved in your face in no time. You will very quickly be inundated with right-leaning and right-wing content without asking for it.

• Let YouTube Autoplay Until It Turned Me Alt-Right

• I Watched Shorts Until It Turned Me Alt-Right

Not just Youtube. Properties such as Facebook have been notorious for decades for being utterly infested with right-wing content. The only places that "lean left" or even just centrist are places that don't force right-wing content down everyone's throats. When content grows to have a so-called "liberal" or somewhat leftist "slant" that tends to happen organically. When content grows to have conservative, right-wing agendas it's often very inorganic and is provoked by much more money and manipulation.

Digg was a social media site that organically became "too left" so an entire sockpuppet campaign was used to pervert it towards right-wing content and it helped to destroy that platform:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg_Patriots

The only reason Reddit has survived this long is the admins (despite being corporatist right at best and fascist appeasers at worst) wanted to profitably harvest quality data from a flourishing social media site. The data harvested from right-wing websites was dogshit and they knew it. Dogmatic, rightwing data is near worthless.

The admins (with the assistance of complicit mods) still pushed Reddit in a "corporate media" direction as much as possible. For example, Reddit pushed for right-leaning Corporate Democrats over leftist progressives for years on end within their most promoted/popular subs. And, they still do that to some extent today within the main news and political subs, for example.

The only reason Reddit hasn't had a full right-wing takeover of censorship like we see with TikTok, Twitter/X, etc. is the Reddit admins still want the communities here to flourish so they can continue to harvest fresh, quality data that feeds into their AI infrastructure. If they crack down too hard, everyone who isn't a dumbshit right-wing idiot will jettison and take their valuable data with them to other properties — or detach entirely.

Have you ever wondered why even the AI programs owned by Elon Musk will point out facts against his ideology and even Elon himself? It's because the data that feeds AI isn't right-wing and it can't be or it would tell you 2+2=JESUS.

Right-wingers are regressive, fearful, hateful, willfully ignorant, dogmatic and reactionary by their very nature — they provide useful, profitable distractions from real issues so they are propped up all over the place by corporatists that want the public to focus on their dogmatic bullshit, conspiracies, etc. instead of wealth disparity, corporatism, healthcare, climate, etc. — an idiocracy can be extremely profitable (for a while until it collapses).

However, that's where their usefulness ends. Weaponized useful idiots are great for distraction, but absolutely horrendous for getting useful, logical, scientific, truthful, helpful data needed for AI to perform correctly. Shit, if it wasn't for all the infestations of right-wing content on Reddit and elsewhere, AI would be vastly more productive to use today.

Okay if it has been going on for many years why until now has it been a problem for us to express anti-fascist ideas

You can make posts against literal Nazis on Reddit that can and will get you permabanned from Reddit. Go ahead and try it. I can send you a link to a picture against literal Nazis that got others permabanned and you can go ahead and post it yourself.

PM me and I'll get it to you. I fucking dare you to post it on some leftwing subs I recommend. You'll not just be banned from the sub, will be permabanned from Reddit entirely. Put your money where your mouth is if you don't believe me.

I'll be awaiting your PM.

[benji]

Meanwhile Dubs Neeson is back on drugs -

Honestly, blaming each other for shit does absolutely nothing. We're not Congress, we're a videogame forum. We aren't deciding any of this shit. We're here to talk about things we find important and interesting and fun. Blaming each other, attacking each other, standing up on a soapbox and demonizing and preaching to each other, this shit does nothing.

A few years ago Hecht shared this story about a homeless shelter and the bathroom in said shelter. The people who used the shelter would totally destroy the bathroom every single day, regardless of how much the people who ran the shelter asked them not to do so. They did this not because they hated the people who ran the shelter, they very much appreciated the people helping them, but because it was literally the only thing in their lives that they could control. They had zero control over their lives. They couldn't decide what to eat or when, they couldn't decide what to wear, they couldn't decide what color their bedsheets were. They were homeless and had no control, so they fucked up the bathroom every chance they got because that was the only control they had over their lives.

That's what you guys are doing by blaming and attacking each other, you're messing up the bathroom. None of it has any real effect on anything going on in the world, but the way you treat each other is the only real control you can express, the only control any of us can express, and so people act like jerks and attack each other relentlessly. Standing up on a soapbox feels good in the moment because it feels like you're actually doing something, but in the end it amounts to nothing. Most of you guys agree with each other on everything! Hell, everyone agrees this is beyond fucked. Nobody thinks this is a good thing and yet here we are, demonizing and attacking each other over this because it makes us feel better in the moment.

The absolute truth is that we can lower the temperature, we can stop attacking each other like we're the enemy, and we can still say what we want to say about what is going on. Being respectful of each other and expressing a strong opinion are not mutually exclusive, you can do both.

Literally tone policing how marginalized people speak to their oppressors.

[Gamegirl Nostalgia]

Online activism y'all