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

[HaughtyFrank]

Remember when they were so offended by the Jada Pinkett Smith bald joke that they declared baldness a disability? But now Nepenthe is offended that people think bald jokes are offensive? 

[DavidCroquet]

Maybe that's where this bald = black women fake talking point is coming from? They're hoping to bait someone to mention the Jada event, so that Nepenthe can pull another 1000-word screed to tell "ya'll" how that was different.

[BIONIC]

All I think is …writing all that to defend a stranger online is very weird to me.

Try to focus on the content of the posts instead of trying to find inconsequential ways to invalidate the substance.

At the least that user who made that long insulting post should receive some type of punishment, most of it was needless insults.

You mean the post that began with a bunch of childish 4-Chan level insults? That post?

I read that post , most of it is childish insults , probably one of the dumbest things I've read on this site.

Only Nepenthe implied that .
FYI: the whole thread is here for people who want to feast their brain on the best ERA has to offer (or who just don't like third party hearsay).




Sorry, but if an admin resorts to using what is, at best, a proxy to attack her critics on the 'Constructive Community Discussion' thread, then we've long passed the point where bald head jokes are the real issue.

Sorry but accusing someone of basically using an alt account is very funny when your account reads like that

This is like the third time Nepenthe had users conjuring up a conspiracy about her true intentions lol. Makes you wonder what they *really* don't like about this particular admin.

People here trying to dismiss others is really sad to see.

I think thinking this is weird when you consider Nep has consistently been the target of harassment for like 5+ years for being the only black woman admin. Its no wonder someone would jump to defend her. A lot of the last few pages comes off as thinly veiled agenda posting against her

[BIONIC]

B-Cucks:

I'm locking this for now and odds are most of you won't be allowed back on when we're done here.

Holy crap, this is embarrassing.

Odds of him NOT making the worst and dumbest decision possible for the situation?

[DavidCroquet]

BabyDontHurtMe, blink twice if you are in danger.

[DocWager]

B-Cucks:

I'm locking this for now and odds are most of you won't be allowed back on when we're done here.

Holy crap, this is embarrassing.

Odds of him NOT making the worst and dumbest decision possible for the situation?

“Embarrassing”? I’m sure there are other forums where the mods manipulated their users, but Era might be the most abusive forum around when it comes to this.

[DavidCroquet]

I think thinking this is weird when you consider Nep has consistently been the target of harassment for like 5+ years for being the only black woman admin. Its no wonder someone would jump to defend her. A lot of the last few pages comes off as thinly veiled agenda posting against her

Damn, we got transphobes in the community constructive now?

[DocWager]

I think thinking this is weird when you consider Nep has consistently been the target of harassment for like 5+ years for being the only black woman admin. Its no wonder someone would jump to defend her. A lot of the last few pages comes off as thinly veiled agenda posting against her

Damn, we got transphobes in the community constructive now?

Pronouns trap card activated.

[DavidCroquet]

being able to block staff who aren't acting in an official capacity is good actually. Bringing up the topic of wanting to block staff because you don't want to read or consider or can't understand marginalized opinions that don't center you, however, is not.

*hurls insults at the whole forum*

...with that said, I do believe you should be able to ignore mods, aside from official posts. 

Unless you have committed a thoughtcrime, of course. 

Also you can't ask for this feature when you are upset with the mod.

You can only request to ignore them when all is at peace and you arbitrarily decide you don't want to see their posts anymore.

[Averon]

Looks like I missed a hell of a lot last night with Nep. Pretty pathetic of her to use her friend/an alt to to attack. Too chickenshit to use her own account. And yet BabyDontHurtMe still seems to look like the most pathetic of them all acting like a simp to Nep

[Averon]

All of this would have been avoided if B-Dumbs had demodded and/or banned Nep. She's given him so much fucking ammo to do so, and yet he's still acting like a coward and not doing either.

[Uncle]

I think thinking this is weird when you consider Nep has consistently been the target of harassment for like 5+ years for being the only black woman admin.

 

how many admins is a site supposed to have? isn't b-dubs the only white man admin?

[Averon]

They are all trying to come off as “Normal”, but it just comes off as Dollar Tree GoT, with all the tricks, and backstabbing. Also clearly using this thread to gather info from Benji. Like Embiid wouldn’t guess it was a “Friend” if he didn’t look here.

You ain’t slick Embiid! Reading all this “Alt-Right” info. You are a monster!

Nep really showing her facist tankie card the last few days.

Despite what they think, they almost all act like petty high schoolers with their cliques, favoritism, and stupid hierarchies. Most of them are in their late 30s/early 40s still acting like they are 15-16 years old and never graduated from high school. Like, what is Nep doing bringing her friend in to do this (or maybe it's just Nep using an alt)? Nep's in her 30s acting like a kid less than half her age? No maturity at all. Arrested development.

[HaughtyFrank]

This is like the third time Nepenthe had users conjuring up a conspiracy about her true intentions lol. Makes you wonder what they *really* don't like about this particular admin.

He's the worst little bitch in that thread, only ever saying shit if he knows he has backup

Salacious B. Crumb kind of fucker 

[Kyon1988]

They will probably sacrifice that stupid friend of nep nep but nep nep herself isn't going anywhere

[JoeBoy101]

For edification and reminders, this is where the little dickie/chrome dome (I’m bald, so I get a pass to say it) thread went into the weeds.

She first had a back and forth baiting a poster blatantly:

In my circles I don't tend to see small penis jokes used literally. As in, unlike with fat, bald, ugly, etc jokes, almost every time someone uses "small dick" as an insult, it's not based off them having seen the subject's dick size. Usually it's used as an insult to suggest that someone is behaving in a manner that may be born from insecurity. It's often not used in a literal way from what I can tell.

Bear in mind - this is the exact argument that people use to try to justify their use of the homophobic F slur in their friend groups.
"We're not actually calling him gay - we love gay people - we're calling him a f because he's acting like a stupid person and it's just different in the context of my friends"

Is there not a fundamental difference between being homosexual and having a small penis size that you can name?

They're both things you're born with
I'm not sure what fundamental point you're talking about

Do you not think that homosexual people have gone through more physical and legal oppression than people with small penises that fundamentally changes the relationship between insults aimed at such demographics? How we're not all saying the "sp-word" or "sp-slur" for a reason?

You can just say gay, "homosexual people" is very DSM language and has fallen out of fashion.
And I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the nature of my line of thinking.

I'm not saying homosexual people to be politically correct; it's just how I refer to them.

Regardless, I think the nature of your line of thinking is fundamentally fallacious; indeed it's a literal ad hominem and it's common around here. "The logic is bad because x person said it." That's not true. Bad people can make sound arguments or true statements all the time.

*sigh*

 

How do you refer to people of African descent?

Later, she brought in the true derailer:

Outright mockery is absolutely a useful tool not only for disempowering oppressors but for empowering the oppressed. Running the dozens is basically a national past time amongst Black folks and I don't think we're gonna stop roasting each other or intended targets because liberals take mockery personally.

It's one thing to talk about the social implications of certain types of humor amongst the masses. But we're about to start giving quarter to the feelings of fucking fascists? Fuck them and their feelings.

And the thread went to utter shit from there.

[DocWager]

No, it’d be a great mockery for That user to continue without being banned while the others who made the accusations be banned for a month.

Remember, they like to humiliate all their users and then laugh at them on their discords. Even though B-Dubs once threatened am offsite Discord because they legitimately used offsite words against her as evidence.

Truly pathetic behavior.

[Averon]

They will probably sacrifice that stupid friend of nep nep but nep nep herself isn't going anywhere

This is yet another perfect chance for B-Dumbs to get rid of Nep. But as we all know, B-Dumbs always pick the stupidest, most cowardly route when these blow-ups happen. So, yeah, most likely is that Nep's friend get a perm--which will be immediately undone with Nep giving her another alt to use--and anyone accusing Nep of using alts/shitting on the community by proxy through her friend will get permanently threadbanned while sycophants like BabyDontHurtMe that cheer led Nep and her friend remain untouched. Nothing is resolved and the bitterness between the admins/mods and the users builds further.

[HaughtyFrank]

B-Cucks:

I'm locking this for now and odds are most of you won't be allowed back on when we're done here.

Holy crap, this is embarrassing.

Odds of him NOT making the worst and dumbest decision possible for the situation?

Bet your ass he'll bend over backwards to defend nepenthe who then only thanks him with scorn

[Lonewulfeus]

Nepenthe got away with saying Israel deserved the 10/7 attacks, mocking tiny pped baldies isn’t even going to register in the grand scheme of things.

[DocWager]

Nep escaped encouraging users to burn themselves alive as a protest just like the crazy ass soldier did. I’m sure if she pushed it even harder, knowing that a lot of the current user base is insane, they would have done it.

[DavidCroquet]

I like "liberals take mockery personally".

Like she just gets to assert that taking mocking personally is the sole property and unique experience of a center-left global-west democratic political subset. 

Absent any other debate, this is clearly, obviously wrong, and Nepenthe herself certainly knows that that. There's no way a reasonable person could interpret such a statement as anything other than literal trolling. But when Nep does it it's just another day on era.

[HaughtyFrank]

Later, she brought in the true derailer:

Outright mockery is absolutely a useful tool not only for disempowering oppressors but for empowering the oppressed. Running the dozens is basically a national past time amongst Black folks and I don't think we're gonna stop roasting each other or intended targets because liberals take mockery personally.

It's one thing to talk about the social implications of certain types of humor amongst the masses. But we're about to start giving quarter to the feelings of fucking fascists? Fuck them and their feelings.

And the thread went to utter shit from there.

The sheer irony of saying "Don't take everything personally" and then turn the argument into an extremely personal "so you want to dictate what black people can say????"

[Lonewulfeus]

It’s actually ironic just how Trumpian it all is.  Nepenthe’s fief is obviously much smaller but the similarities are glaring.

[Alpacx]

Skimmed through those long ass screeds thinking "oh, Nepenthe is on one again". It's 100% her alt.

[Snoopy]

You people need to stop thinking short term. If Nep goes it will be bad for us. Get in there and circle the wagons

[books]

Nep leaves; a new abrasive Lucio obsessed poster appears!

[DavidCroquet]

A new sicko will rise to take her place. Imagine PrincessBubblegum becoming the main character of Era, that would be fun!

[JoeBoy101]

Dubs will hem-haw harder than a Neville Chamberlain cosplay and in the end, make a few bannings that he hopes will mollify people in some cases, and silence in others. ERA being ERA, it’ll blow over in a week and Neppy will continue her intifada against all bald, small-dicked, white Jewish men throughout the world.

The only thing I have a question for Dubs is, what does she do for you? She doesn’t update the board rules, hasn’t done the retroactive archiving, so from an outside views perspective, it’s Jack shit. Does she do a ton of ‘report resolutions’ of banning people? What are you getting for the cost? 

In his mind, I think he honestly thinks like other deluded posters there, that its all the Chuds making her a source of contention on the board.

Chuds didn’t run AsianERA off the board. That was her.
Chuds didn’t post virulent antisemitic opinions on her Twitter. That was her.
Chuds didn’t reveal their apology for those opinions to be forced and hollow. That was her.
Chuds didn’t derail a thread on physical mockery. That was her.

You’ve had to ban a legion of people, destroy a couple of *ERA populations, close a multitude of threads, and play all sorts of damage control over things she’s said and done. 

What is she doing for you?

[JoeBoy101]

Skimmed through those long ass screeds thinking "oh, Nepenthe is on one again". It's 100% her alt.

I know Doxjin posted receipts about her friend, and I do believe it is her friends account. I also think, due to posting behavior (a flurry of posts and nothing for months, only on topics about her, suspiciously times) and types of posts (language, word vomit, aggressiveness), I think she’s using her friend’s account for herself, and they don’t bother logging in there anymore.