Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[HaughtyFrank]

Since the ban litigations and ban brigading have become the main focus of this thread, despite this being against the thread rules. If this continues, we will temporarily lock the thread to give people a chance to cool down. After which, any additional litigations will be met with threadbans.

Additionally, this is our final stance on the matter regarding the Donkey Kong Bananza thread in question: staff believe the article wasn't contradictory nor was the writer maliciously peddling misinformation or falsehoods, and thus we stand by the remaining bans. After internal review, we reversed some bans that weren't aligned with this initial decision.

WORST DECISION

Isn't it funny how this "internal review" only happened because people called it out in the community thread and yet they also boldly state that issues like that are never to be brought up again?

"Good thing you told us about the radioactive leakage, but also, if you ever do that again you're fired"

[Hap Shaughnessy]

People don't respect how hard it is for us here on the hatesites.
Years of backbreaking posts hoping to see nepenthe permed, but the months drag on and they won't even toss us a Morrigan warning. 

I don't want Nepenthe banned, I want her to overthrow B-Dubs and become the general manager.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-will-it-take-to-get-you-off-twitter.1239987/page-5#post-142512513

 User Banned (2 Weeks): Inflammatory rhetoric towards Asians

So According to People in Here.
We Asians are Nazi supporter, get it..

According to you, you Asians keep using Twitter because you really wanna, despite having the same options as anyone to find alternatives for a Nazi platform, run by a Nazi, supporting Nazis and Nazi parties worldwide.

So, yeah, kinda? If what you're describing is true, then, I guess yeah, you would be.

[benji]

Speaking of Nazi supporters, one changed his display name but still lies in his profile:

[BIONIC]

So yeah, how about that Dragon Quest skin for the dice bot.

Neither of those two paragraphs of official staff communication reflect reality.

Honestly hard to imagine a worse response.

Unbelievable.

Another not good staff communication. Threats of threadbans and gaslighting (who needs to 'cool down'? It's been pretty level headed). This is the constructive feedback thread and we're trying to discuss how the community could be better served - sometimes that's going to involve how bans are handed out and handled in general.

And 'staff believe the article wasn't contradictory' well the site edited the article for clarity, because it wasn't clear and could easily be taken up differently than intended. It came across rushed, to me anyway. I think warnings would have sufficed and would like that see that in future more than outright bans like what happened.

If staff want to be done with it than fine, this is the last I'll say on it.

I implore y'all to consider precisely why this has been the subject of the thread the past two weeks.

I don't understand how after all this waiting for official staff communication that the best you were able come up with was ... that.

Yeah, not going to be talking about the bans or ban litigation, but that post was the most tone deaf thing I've seen on this website since it's inception. The actual discussion was about a lack of transparency and ways that maybe the relationship between staff and users could be reset to make this a much better place to be. It was also a really productive discussion when we had staff members engaging.

But now we get told "That's enough children, you've had your fun. The adults are drunk and have a headache". It really does foster an environment where it feels like a section of staff don’t actually read posts properly before responding, which is ironic considering the thread and the bans that started this….

So, it is the "final stance of the staff" that a post like this is inflammatory and we will get no further explanation or elaboration.



Well, okay then.

fucking ridiculous

just ignore the issue again again again

Completely embarrassing. Not a single shred of self reflection about why this blew up.

It was so well written and clear that they had to resubmit it. For clarity.

[JoeBoy101]

Since the ban litigations and ban brigading have become the main focus of this thread, despite this being against the thread rules. If this continues, we will temporarily lock the thread to give people a chance to cool down. After which, any additional litigations will be met with threadbans.

Additionally, this is our final stance on the matter regarding the Donkey Kong Bananza thread in question: staff believe the article wasn't contradictory nor was the writer maliciously peddling misinformation or falsehoods, and thus we stand by the remaining bans. After internal review, we reversed some bans that weren't aligned with this initial decision.

WORST DECISION

Is Plagarize teaching them how to properly communicate with users?

And yeah, all your guesses how that rancid statement is going down? They are all correct.

So yeah, how about that Dragon Quest skin for the dice bot.

You know, I think a 'like' system for posts might be a halfway decent idea. Anyone else?

Low-key love these.

Neither of those two paragraphs of official staff communication reflect reality.

Honestly hard to imagine a worse response.

Another not good staff communication. Threats of threadbans and gaslighting (who needs to 'cool down'? It's been pretty level headed). This is the constructive feedback thread and we're trying to discuss how the community could be better served - sometimes that's going to involve how bans are handed out and handled in general.

And 'staff believe the article wasn't contradictory' well the site edited the article for clarity, because it wasn't clear and could easily be taken up differently than intended. It came across rushed, to me anyway. I think warnings would have sufficed and would like that see that in future more than outright bans like what happened.

If staff want to be done with it than fine, this is the last I'll say on it.

Profile in bravery there.

I implore y'all to consider precisely why this has been the subject of the thread the past two weeks.

Completely embarrassing. Not a single shred of self reflection about why this blew up.

I don't understand how after all this waiting for official staff communication that the best you were able come up with was ... that.

Yeah, not going to be talking about the bans or ban litigation, but that post was the most tone deaf thing I've seen on this website since it's inception. The actual discussion was about a lack of transparency and ways that maybe the relationship between staff and users could be reset to make this a much better place to be. It was also a really productive discussion when we had staff members engaging.

But now we get told "That's enough children, you've had your fun. The adults are drunk and have a headache". It really does foster an environment where it feels like a section of staff don't actually read posts properly before responding, which is ironic considering the thread and the bans that started this….

fucking ridiculous

just ignore the issue again again again

And… of course…

Unbelievable

So, it is the "final stance of the staff" that a post like this is inflammatory and we will get no further explanation or elaboration.



Well, okay then.

I’m telling you, Morrigan would fit here. She’s feels so close and just needs that extra step.

EDIT - Dammit, Bionic!

[BIONIC]

Speaking of Nazi supporters, one changed his display name but still lies in his profile:

Guess you have to be a college dropout to think the MCU is high art

[kaleidoscopium]

Speaking of Nazi supporters, one changed his display name but still lies in his profile:

Are his twitch intentions new? Will be interesting to see Jeff Marvel in real time.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-will-it-take-to-get-you-off-twitter.1239987/page-5#post-142512513

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-will-it-take-to-get-you-off-twitter.1239987/page-5#post-142512792

Don't mind them, white people and western have been smarter and ordering other countries how to live to their standard.

Like the same sex marriage vote in Taiwan a few years ago, the biggest anti group were western money and religion and government influence.

And similar to how they want Brazil and EU to have Absolute free speech, because it lead to Trump in their countries so they know best for sovereign countries and don't need to hear of first hand experience of citizen, because we are ignorant baby that just need to listen to them

Cool, casual racism in response to being called out for supporting a nazi platform.

I don't understand the point of threads like these. They mainly serve as an indirect way for people to shame others still using it or just to brag that you're not using it. Anybody on this forum that still uses it probably isn't gonna post about it, much less talk about why for that reason.

if it wouldn't be for threads like these, I would very likely still be on Twitter thinking it wouldn't matter anyway. It took talks and discussions and, sure, threads full of blame and questioning, to realize that no, I in fact do not really need it and to see the reason I stuck with it was much less conviction and much more convenience. And there's probably more people realizing this through threads like this.

 

Its not just Musk, though. Big Tech is openly courting fascists, facilitating genocide, accelerating a return to fossil fuels. You name it, they're at it. Sergei Brin accused the UN of antisemitism this week, because he didn't like how they called out his company for profiting from war crimes.

They're not just tech companies now. They're defense companies. And they've aligned themselves with fascists and white supremacists.

Twitter plus anything owned by Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Apple, Palantir, Open AI. We should all be making an effort to seek alternatives as much as is possible. In every corner of our lives.

I know Era isn't one person, but it's truly staggering to see this forum be unapologetically leftist in every front except using the Nazi social media platform. How anyone with a conscience is still using it in 2025 is beyond me.

Jeff has no conscience confirmed.

[benji]

Are his twitch intentions new? Will be interesting to see Jeff Marvel in real time.

Earlier this year he announced that he was no longer going to be posting on Twitter other than announcements for his major new content coming. Back in April he added to his profile that he would start streaming on Twitch in May. A while later he changed it to say "next week!" which would be in June. Two weeks after that to say "this week!" which it has said since.

He has yet to stream even once. He has never stopped posting on Twitter, especially replying to chuds.

He also still pays for Twitter but hides the blue check.

[kaleidoscopium]

I love how they continue propping up bluesky as if its a real solution. No one uses that site.


https://bskycheck.com/stats.php

The few freaks who wanted to sign up did, and it's now coasting slowly to its death.

[BIONIC]

Alice Amber

This thread is now being temporarily locked, and will reopen tomorrow.

[JoeBoy101]

You can sense the frustration in the Staff Post, but it's going to do nothing to refuse the situation leaving so many issues unaddressed.

It was so well written and clear that they had to resubmit it. For clarity. But I agree, this is over now. Admins have dug in their heels and refuse to admit fault, of which they had plenty. The disdain is palpable.

Haven't people been discussing policy and process, using prior bans as examples? Hard to see this as anything other than shutting down discussion, at which point why have this thread?

Give us a chance to "cool down"? It's been calm discussion. So much ink spilled just to be casually and coldly ignored.

I have such a lower opinion of this place now. Come the fuck on. I'm honestly speechless that this is the end result.

It's utterly bizarre. Like the tone had turned a corner and the conversation was extremely calm. Even if they didn't want to talk about it directly anymore, they could have just left it in containment. Almost feels like they wanted to rile people up again.

Yeah threatening to lock the thread is beyond tone deaf. Especially since the conversation was very level headed and cool. What exactly do users need to cool down from?

This isnt helping building up trust between staff and regular users and will only fuel the us vs them mentality.

Leading to the inevitable conclusion…

This thread is now being temporarily locked, and will reopen tomorrow.

EDIT: I’d like to point out my post had more effort and quotes in it, not like Bionic’s drive by.

[DavidCroquet]

I’m telling you, Morrigan would fit here. She’s feels so close and just needs that extra step.

She loves Nepenthe way too much for that.

Embiid has a better shot. Please notice me senpai~~! 

[benji]

I love how they continue propping up bluesky as if its a real solution. No one uses that site.

https://bskycheck.com/stats.php

The few freaks who wanted to sign up did, and it's now coasting slowly to its death.

This is the worse graph: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats


Though this one probably hurts Bire members more:

[BIONIC]

EDIT: I’d like to point out my post had more effort and quotes in it, not like Bionic’s drive by.

Putting effort in shitposting

[BIONIC]

I’m telling you, Morrigan would fit here. She’s feels so close and just needs that extra step.

She loves Nepenthe way too much for that.

Embiid has a better shot. Please notice me senpai~~! 

[HaughtyFrank]

I love how they continue propping up bluesky as if its a real solution. No one uses that site.


https://bskycheck.com/stats.php

The few freaks who wanted to sign up did, and it's now coasting slowly to its death.

Another problem is that mostly just the boring or radical leftwing people evacuated to blue sky. So any kind of funny memes and shit is still on twitter

[kaleidoscopium]

I love how they continue propping up bluesky as if its a real solution. No one uses that site.


https://bskycheck.com/stats.php

The few freaks who wanted to sign up did, and it's now coasting slowly to its death.

Another problem is that mostly just the boring or radical leftwing people evacuated to blue sky. So any kind of funny memes and shit is still on twitter

indeed, bluesky opening up just made twitter better because the annoying people self-removed themselves.

[benji]

Another problem is that mostly just the boring or radical leftwing people evacuated to blue sky. So any kind of funny memes and shit is still on twitter

Nice try but that thread is full of demands that people name anyone who is not on Bluesky that anyone would want to follow. And nobody names any because they're probably following Nazis like ZeoVGM, Hasan or Contrapoints.

Some people mentioned foreign language stuff and as was accurately pointed out they probably have their own websites and people got information before Twitter so this isn't even necessary.

[HaughtyFrank]

By the way:

Hasan. Still on twitter 
Taylor Lorenz. Still on twitter 
Emma Vigeland. Still on twitter
Jeff. Still on twitter 

When even your kings and queens can't leave it...

[BIONIC]

Waiting on Jeff Marvel to start streaming

[benji]

Made the switch to bluesky, but at least the German part of it is sooo dead....

Was thinking about going back several times..

I keep hearing this and I still don't understand. What actual German Twitter accounts are you missing? Like, what concrete accounts? Most of the left is there, most if not all media is there, many if not all public and official agencies n stuff are there. I honestly don't know what could be so important that it would make German bluesky "dead".

That's simply not true. Take ZDF for example. Has an account but zero posts. Take my local emergency services, have accounts but zero posts. I could go on but you get the idea.

This myth that all accounts are active on bsky is simply not true

I don't live in Japan.

Is it really true what people are saying? You need Twitter to that degree? Websites don't post information outside of their Twitter accounts? You can't visit multiple sites, forums, and even Reddits to stay informed?

Any ERA members that aren't on Twitter yet stay informed?

For US users who claim to NEED Twitter for their local news, I don't quite understand. I'm able to keep up with my current city's news as well as my hometown of 15,000 people pretty well without Twitter. There are tons of other sources of information that get it to you as its happening.

TV station websites, other not-completely-filled-with-nazis social medias, text alerts, etc. Maybe a very, very small fraction of people can't get their news anywhere else, but I'm not buying that you literally have to have Twitter to survive.

These posts are making my mind melt.
Twitter is deeply embedded into Japan's news media and emergency services. If you want the quickest information when an emergency happens you literally need to use Twitter because depending on the area that is all they will use to post information.

Eh, 40% of Japanese people aren't on Twitter, and they're not dying in emergencies or lacking for local news.

No country is at 90% or greater Twitter saturation. The reality is hundreds of millions of people the world over do not use it, and they're not Amish or whatever. People act like it's air or water. I promise, you're not gonna die if you don't have an account.

I don't live in Japan so I literally can't comprehend this which is why I'm asking for clarity. These news sites do not post their own information on their own sites? If they see an emergency happening on Twitter it'll just stay in the Twitter ecosystem?

Pretty fucking stupid of Japan then to literally put all of their eggs (supposedly) into one social media platform

So just like the US. It was still easy to leave.

No point in even going down this rabbit hole again on this site though. Like it went from oh I need my sports and art to oh, Americans just don't get the world doesn't revolve around them bs as of these aren't numerous examples of the owner trying to influence things overseas just the same. As with everything in life, some people can't do the most basic of things to stand up for their so called views and I'll just leave it at that.

[benji]

Lot of people in that thread ignoring that Bluesky allows both Jesse Singal and Microsoft on their platform. Oh, wait, Era members don't care about websites that profit off the latter, my bad.

[FEUER FREI.]

morrigan threadbanned

[DavidCroquet]

[Nintex]

Zero of these candidates support their position. (I probably don't need to say that neither does JD Vance or any other GOPer.) But they're telling themselves that not just Democrats but the American public are turning anti-Israel and anyone not realizing this is trapped in a bubble.

This is all assuming the GOP won't run Laura Loomer for President

[Propagandhim]

Are his twitch intentions new? Will be interesting to see Jeff Marvel in real time.

Earlier this year he announced that he was no longer going to be posting on Twitter other than announcements for his major new content coming. Back in April he added to his profile that he would start streaming on Twitch in May. A while later he changed it to say "next week!" which would be in June. Two weeks after that to say "this week!" which it has said since.

He has yet to stream even once. He has never stopped posting on Twitter, especially replying to chuds.

He also still pays for Twitter but hides the blue check.

Blueball, why can't you commit to a single stream, my dude?  What is this mental illness?

[benji]

You ever consider that following your favorite streamers, commentators and micro-celebrities online is creepy and mental illness?

[Uncle]

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