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KoTeMoRe wrote:American Eagle wrote:Why destroy ISIS if you can use them for your own advantage? This is more profitable and more FUN
Yeah 9/11 was obviously "extremely fun".
ExBeobachter1987 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:American Eagle wrote:Why destroy ISIS if you can use them for your own advantage? This is more profitable and more FUN
Yeah 9/11 was obviously "extremely fun".
Actually, he has a point.
9/11 and Daesh's territorialism are the results of a complete different strategies (target the superpower that supports our primary enemies versus target our primary enemies).
Americans do not mind the latter as much as the former.
Rodinazombie wrote:What i dont get, is why are you even responding to a blatant troll?
Ivan the Colorado wrote:Book, I have a question for you. How did the mods treat you? On the surface, it looked like you had everyone confused, even a few of the mods said they didn't understand you.
Gotcha.Book. wrote:Ivan the Colorado wrote:Book, I have a question for you. How did the mods treat you? On the surface, it looked like you had everyone confused, even a few of the mods said they didn't understand you.
MP mod split Yank v Roo...
Roo mod the dog ban me lot time
US mod Wolverblue Hollis unban
Book + XJ220 talk the football
US luv fooball kind like drug. they fight to keep
Ivan the Colorado wrote:Gotcha.
I haven't had the ability to keep up with all the other NFL developments besides the Broncos. How is your team looking this season?
You are a sane influence over there but it has gone very quiet.DTA wrote:Never had problems with mods on mp.net , all my bans and infractions were based on different rules - hot linking images, flaming offtopic wars - all my mistakes
Rodinazombie wrote:Just had a look over for the first time, the bit that surprised me is the low post count of a lot of the older members that used to very active on the old site.
It seems very flat and boring over there.
Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
I am mostly a newcomer to the whole community, from around 2011 and the start of the Arab Spring, but you seem to have a long history there. Did the whole community become more pro-west and biased over time? When did the whole Pro-GWoT nonsense and BTDT-class society start? And what do you mean by astroturfing?
KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
I am mostly a newcomer to the whole community, from around 2011 and the start of the Arab Spring, but you seem to have a long history there. Did the whole community become more pro-west and biased over time? When did the whole Pro-GWoT nonsense and BTDT-class society start? And what do you mean by astroturfing?
The pro-western leanings were there since the beggining, but they weren't on the charter until 2011/12 and as such mostly because Georgia, albeit the Georgians started it and then Libya. After Libya and the pro-West 50centers started popping up (czechmate67, RebelCze44, Kalerab, Gresh, leloup46 etc) a counter influx started as well. With more or less insane people. Then there were the local crazies that saw what was happening. You got people like Zeev (pro-zionist, pro-Russian schizo) or gleipnir (normal dudes with a functionning brain) simply seeing the writing on the wall and pushing back. And when the whole ordeal was done with, Mods simply added the Pro-West BS to stiffle the protest stream. It got so bad Hollis, big wig moderator went as low as posting a Muslim Brotherhood propaganda piece on Hama 1982 which had a video made by an affiliate of Al Qaeda. When I fronted him about that, I got my last suspension.
What changed over time was accountability for the mods. Hood was almost never there, and Hollis, who has nothing else to do, was there 24/7, therefore taking over much of the decisions. People like DW58 slowly got roller over, especially since DW had little tolerance for bigots, and MP 'Murricans can't keep their little Jesus in their pants. Along with their arrogance.
So basically there's that. The BTDT issue started because of the many posers, but stretched thin because of petty issues regarding performance of this or that. It also is a good cover for Hollis' bullshit, especially his non-sense about things he's vaguely heard of : ("Al Kindi baby formula plant" that one is funny, S300 protecting the Syrian Nuclear reactor is funny too, shit like that).
And astroturfing is simply the process in which cellar dwellers and mommyboys become ultra Divan Boevikis and swarm any given internet outlet to vouch for "their" cause. This is more than trolling, very serious idiots make very serious forays with their facts and or propaganda. Take Dforce for instance. Or Flagship Hausoffer (AKA Jeremy Sun at the MEss).
Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
I am mostly a newcomer to the whole community, from around 2011 and the start of the Arab Spring, but you seem to have a long history there. Did the whole community become more pro-west and biased over time? When did the whole Pro-GWoT nonsense and BTDT-class society start? And what do you mean by astroturfing?
The pro-western leanings were there since the beggining, but they weren't on the charter until 2011/12 and as such mostly because Georgia, albeit the Georgians started it and then Libya. After Libya and the pro-West 50centers started popping up (czechmate67, RebelCze44, Kalerab, Gresh, leloup46 etc) a counter influx started as well. With more or less insane people. Then there were the local crazies that saw what was happening. You got people like Zeev (pro-zionist, pro-Russian schizo) or gleipnir (normal dudes with a functionning brain) simply seeing the writing on the wall and pushing back. And when the whole ordeal was done with, Mods simply added the Pro-West BS to stiffle the protest stream. It got so bad Hollis, big wig moderator went as low as posting a Muslim Brotherhood propaganda piece on Hama 1982 which had a video made by an affiliate of Al Qaeda. When I fronted him about that, I got my last suspension.
What changed over time was accountability for the mods. Hood was almost never there, and Hollis, who has nothing else to do, was there 24/7, therefore taking over much of the decisions. People like DW58 slowly got roller over, especially since DW had little tolerance for bigots, and MP 'Murricans can't keep their little Jesus in their pants. Along with their arrogance.
So basically there's that. The BTDT issue started because of the many posers, but stretched thin because of petty issues regarding performance of this or that. It also is a good cover for Hollis' bullshit, especially his non-sense about things he's vaguely heard of : ("Al Kindi baby formula plant" that one is funny, S300 protecting the Syrian Nuclear reactor is funny too, shit like that).
And astroturfing is simply the process in which cellar dwellers and mommyboys become ultra Divan Boevikis and swarm any given internet outlet to vouch for "their" cause. This is more than trolling, very serious idiots make very serious forays with their facts and or propaganda. Take Dforce for instance. Or Flagship Hausoffer (AKA Jeremy Sun at the MEss).
Thanks, very enlightening! The sense I get now is that they want to go for a sort of high brow intellectual -identity, but the atmosphere is so uptight now many posters are hardly posting anymore, like RZ mentioned. It is telling that a 50 cent account like Plato doesn't even find it worth the bother anymore to defend the PRC viewpoint on themess.
Gresh is an EE 50 center? Always thought he was a US veteran.
That whole 1982 MB Hama thing is quite sad really, it is only because it happened in Syria that it is considered a massacre. We all know how it would have been treated in the western media if it had happened in Saudi Arabia.
Still I think a lot of the heartache of that site could be taken away if the bias were removed and some posters weren't more equal than others anymore. Just my .2 cents.
Book. wrote:I think cheese puff left to
yea it kind bad...
nazi take over
KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
I am mostly a newcomer to the whole community, from around 2011 and the start of the Arab Spring, but you seem to have a long history there. Did the whole community become more pro-west and biased over time? When did the whole Pro-GWoT nonsense and BTDT-class society start? And what do you mean by astroturfing?
The pro-western leanings were there since the beggining, but they weren't on the charter until 2011/12 and as such mostly because Georgia, albeit the Georgians started it and then Libya. After Libya and the pro-West 50centers started popping up (czechmate67, RebelCze44, Kalerab, Gresh, leloup46 etc) a counter influx started as well. With more or less insane people. Then there were the local crazies that saw what was happening. You got people like Zeev (pro-zionist, pro-Russian schizo) or gleipnir (normal dudes with a functionning brain) simply seeing the writing on the wall and pushing back. And when the whole ordeal was done with, Mods simply added the Pro-West BS to stiffle the protest stream. It got so bad Hollis, big wig moderator went as low as posting a Muslim Brotherhood propaganda piece on Hama 1982 which had a video made by an affiliate of Al Qaeda. When I fronted him about that, I got my last suspension.
What changed over time was accountability for the mods. Hood was almost never there, and Hollis, who has nothing else to do, was there 24/7, therefore taking over much of the decisions. People like DW58 slowly got roller over, especially since DW had little tolerance for bigots, and MP 'Murricans can't keep their little Jesus in their pants. Along with their arrogance.
So basically there's that. The BTDT issue started because of the many posers, but stretched thin because of petty issues regarding performance of this or that. It also is a good cover for Hollis' bullshit, especially his non-sense about things he's vaguely heard of : ("Al Kindi baby formula plant" that one is funny, S300 protecting the Syrian Nuclear reactor is funny too, shit like that).
And astroturfing is simply the process in which cellar dwellers and mommyboys become ultra Divan Boevikis and swarm any given internet outlet to vouch for "their" cause. This is more than trolling, very serious idiots make very serious forays with their facts and or propaganda. Take Dforce for instance. Or Flagship Hausoffer (AKA Jeremy Sun at the MEss).
Thanks, very enlightening! The sense I get now is that they want to go for a sort of high brow intellectual -identity, but the atmosphere is so uptight now many posters are hardly posting anymore, like RZ mentioned. It is telling that a 50 cent account like Plato doesn't even find it worth the bother anymore to defend the PRC viewpoint on themess.
Gresh is an EE 50 center? Always thought he was a US veteran.
That whole 1982 MB Hama thing is quite sad really, it is only because it happened in Syria that it is considered a massacre. We all know how it would have been treated in the western media if it had happened in Saudi Arabia.
Still I think a lot of the heartache of that site could be taken away if the bias were removed and some posters weren't more equal than others anymore. Just my .2 cents.
Before Libya and Syria Gresh had 580 something posts...and he's a 2006 memeber. HE quadrupled that while I was there. Ergo until early 2013. The Hama thing was unfortunate, because of Hollis ignorance. He did know who or what Forsane Alizza was...These people are the definition of useless idiots.
As for highbrow...lol, you're still there you can see the kind of "high-brow" Intellectual BS they spew there. Tis Sad but there's nothing intellectual over there. What is also self-hurting is the whole, Link Information to prove what you say. That's how for Hollis there's no KSA sponsorship of Islamic terror. Unfortunately, Wikilieaks recently proved how deep the Saudis were in buying off the press.
Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
I am mostly a newcomer to the whole community, from around 2011 and the start of the Arab Spring, but you seem to have a long history there. Did the whole community become more pro-west and biased over time? When did the whole Pro-GWoT nonsense and BTDT-class society start? And what do you mean by astroturfing?
The pro-western leanings were there since the beggining, but they weren't on the charter until 2011/12 and as such mostly because Georgia, albeit the Georgians started it and then Libya. After Libya and the pro-West 50centers started popping up (czechmate67, RebelCze44, Kalerab, Gresh, leloup46 etc) a counter influx started as well. With more or less insane people. Then there were the local crazies that saw what was happening. You got people like Zeev (pro-zionist, pro-Russian schizo) or gleipnir (normal dudes with a functionning brain) simply seeing the writing on the wall and pushing back. And when the whole ordeal was done with, Mods simply added the Pro-West BS to stiffle the protest stream. It got so bad Hollis, big wig moderator went as low as posting a Muslim Brotherhood propaganda piece on Hama 1982 which had a video made by an affiliate of Al Qaeda. When I fronted him about that, I got my last suspension.
What changed over time was accountability for the mods. Hood was almost never there, and Hollis, who has nothing else to do, was there 24/7, therefore taking over much of the decisions. People like DW58 slowly got roller over, especially since DW had little tolerance for bigots, and MP 'Murricans can't keep their little Jesus in their pants. Along with their arrogance.
So basically there's that. The BTDT issue started because of the many posers, but stretched thin because of petty issues regarding performance of this or that. It also is a good cover for Hollis' bullshit, especially his non-sense about things he's vaguely heard of : ("Al Kindi baby formula plant" that one is funny, S300 protecting the Syrian Nuclear reactor is funny too, shit like that).
And astroturfing is simply the process in which cellar dwellers and mommyboys become ultra Divan Boevikis and swarm any given internet outlet to vouch for "their" cause. This is more than trolling, very serious idiots make very serious forays with their facts and or propaganda. Take Dforce for instance. Or Flagship Hausoffer (AKA Jeremy Sun at the MEss).
Thanks, very enlightening! The sense I get now is that they want to go for a sort of high brow intellectual -identity, but the atmosphere is so uptight now many posters are hardly posting anymore, like RZ mentioned. It is telling that a 50 cent account like Plato doesn't even find it worth the bother anymore to defend the PRC viewpoint on themess.
Gresh is an EE 50 center? Always thought he was a US veteran.
That whole 1982 MB Hama thing is quite sad really, it is only because it happened in Syria that it is considered a massacre. We all know how it would have been treated in the western media if it had happened in Saudi Arabia.
Still I think a lot of the heartache of that site could be taken away if the bias were removed and some posters weren't more equal than others anymore. Just my .2 cents.
Before Libya and Syria Gresh had 580 something posts...and he's a 2006 memeber. HE quadrupled that while I was there. Ergo until early 2013. The Hama thing was unfortunate, because of Hollis ignorance. He did know who or what Forsane Alizza was...These people are the definition of useless idiots.
As for highbrow...lol, you're still there you can see the kind of "high-brow" Intellectual BS they spew there. Tis Sad but there's nothing intellectual over there. What is also self-hurting is the whole, Link Information to prove what you say. That's how for Hollis there's no KSA sponsorship of Islamic terror. Unfortunately, Wikilieaks recently proved how deep the Saudis were in buying off the press.
LOL about gresh. Not bad, getting paid for jerking off to TOW vids hitting hapless Syrian soldiers.
I think the posting with links works both ways, without it all sorts of useful idiots could also make their claims without being called out for it. I prefer it if people are open about their sources...
KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
I am mostly a newcomer to the whole community, from around 2011 and the start of the Arab Spring, but you seem to have a long history there. Did the whole community become more pro-west and biased over time? When did the whole Pro-GWoT nonsense and BTDT-class society start? And what do you mean by astroturfing?
The pro-western leanings were there since the beggining, but they weren't on the charter until 2011/12 and as such mostly because Georgia, albeit the Georgians started it and then Libya. After Libya and the pro-West 50centers started popping up (czechmate67, RebelCze44, Kalerab, Gresh, leloup46 etc) a counter influx started as well. With more or less insane people. Then there were the local crazies that saw what was happening. You got people like Zeev (pro-zionist, pro-Russian schizo) or gleipnir (normal dudes with a functionning brain) simply seeing the writing on the wall and pushing back. And when the whole ordeal was done with, Mods simply added the Pro-West BS to stiffle the protest stream. It got so bad Hollis, big wig moderator went as low as posting a Muslim Brotherhood propaganda piece on Hama 1982 which had a video made by an affiliate of Al Qaeda. When I fronted him about that, I got my last suspension.
What changed over time was accountability for the mods. Hood was almost never there, and Hollis, who has nothing else to do, was there 24/7, therefore taking over much of the decisions. People like DW58 slowly got roller over, especially since DW had little tolerance for bigots, and MP 'Murricans can't keep their little Jesus in their pants. Along with their arrogance.
So basically there's that. The BTDT issue started because of the many posers, but stretched thin because of petty issues regarding performance of this or that. It also is a good cover for Hollis' bullshit, especially his non-sense about things he's vaguely heard of : ("Al Kindi baby formula plant" that one is funny, S300 protecting the Syrian Nuclear reactor is funny too, shit like that).
And astroturfing is simply the process in which cellar dwellers and mommyboys become ultra Divan Boevikis and swarm any given internet outlet to vouch for "their" cause. This is more than trolling, very serious idiots make very serious forays with their facts and or propaganda. Take Dforce for instance. Or Flagship Hausoffer (AKA Jeremy Sun at the MEss).
Thanks, very enlightening! The sense I get now is that they want to go for a sort of high brow intellectual -identity, but the atmosphere is so uptight now many posters are hardly posting anymore, like RZ mentioned. It is telling that a 50 cent account like Plato doesn't even find it worth the bother anymore to defend the PRC viewpoint on themess.
Gresh is an EE 50 center? Always thought he was a US veteran.
That whole 1982 MB Hama thing is quite sad really, it is only because it happened in Syria that it is considered a massacre. We all know how it would have been treated in the western media if it had happened in Saudi Arabia.
Still I think a lot of the heartache of that site could be taken away if the bias were removed and some posters weren't more equal than others anymore. Just my .2 cents.
Before Libya and Syria Gresh had 580 something posts...and he's a 2006 memeber. HE quadrupled that while I was there. Ergo until early 2013. The Hama thing was unfortunate, because of Hollis ignorance. He did know who or what Forsane Alizza was...These people are the definition of useless idiots.
As for highbrow...lol, you're still there you can see the kind of "high-brow" Intellectual BS they spew there. Tis Sad but there's nothing intellectual over there. What is also self-hurting is the whole, Link Information to prove what you say. That's how for Hollis there's no KSA sponsorship of Islamic terror. Unfortunately, Wikilieaks recently proved how deep the Saudis were in buying off the press.
LOL about gresh. Not bad, getting paid for jerking off to TOW vids hitting hapless Syrian soldiers.
I think the posting with links works both ways, without it all sorts of useful idiots could also make their claims without being called out for it. I prefer it if people are open about their sources...
I don't know if he gets paid or not, but he and the others were pretty prolific when it came to "revolutionnary videos". It's the overall attitide they have.
Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
I am mostly a newcomer to the whole community, from around 2011 and the start of the Arab Spring, but you seem to have a long history there. Did the whole community become more pro-west and biased over time? When did the whole Pro-GWoT nonsense and BTDT-class society start? And what do you mean by astroturfing?
The pro-western leanings were there since the beggining, but they weren't on the charter until 2011/12 and as such mostly because Georgia, albeit the Georgians started it and then Libya. After Libya and the pro-West 50centers started popping up (czechmate67, RebelCze44, Kalerab, Gresh, leloup46 etc) a counter influx started as well. With more or less insane people. Then there were the local crazies that saw what was happening. You got people like Zeev (pro-zionist, pro-Russian schizo) or gleipnir (normal dudes with a functionning brain) simply seeing the writing on the wall and pushing back. And when the whole ordeal was done with, Mods simply added the Pro-West BS to stiffle the protest stream. It got so bad Hollis, big wig moderator went as low as posting a Muslim Brotherhood propaganda piece on Hama 1982 which had a video made by an affiliate of Al Qaeda. When I fronted him about that, I got my last suspension.
What changed over time was accountability for the mods. Hood was almost never there, and Hollis, who has nothing else to do, was there 24/7, therefore taking over much of the decisions. People like DW58 slowly got roller over, especially since DW had little tolerance for bigots, and MP 'Murricans can't keep their little Jesus in their pants. Along with their arrogance.
So basically there's that. The BTDT issue started because of the many posers, but stretched thin because of petty issues regarding performance of this or that. It also is a good cover for Hollis' bullshit, especially his non-sense about things he's vaguely heard of : ("Al Kindi baby formula plant" that one is funny, S300 protecting the Syrian Nuclear reactor is funny too, shit like that).
And astroturfing is simply the process in which cellar dwellers and mommyboys become ultra Divan Boevikis and swarm any given internet outlet to vouch for "their" cause. This is more than trolling, very serious idiots make very serious forays with their facts and or propaganda. Take Dforce for instance. Or Flagship Hausoffer (AKA Jeremy Sun at the MEss).
Thanks, very enlightening! The sense I get now is that they want to go for a sort of high brow intellectual -identity, but the atmosphere is so uptight now many posters are hardly posting anymore, like RZ mentioned. It is telling that a 50 cent account like Plato doesn't even find it worth the bother anymore to defend the PRC viewpoint on themess.
Gresh is an EE 50 center? Always thought he was a US veteran.
That whole 1982 MB Hama thing is quite sad really, it is only because it happened in Syria that it is considered a massacre. We all know how it would have been treated in the western media if it had happened in Saudi Arabia.
Still I think a lot of the heartache of that site could be taken away if the bias were removed and some posters weren't more equal than others anymore. Just my .2 cents.
Before Libya and Syria Gresh had 580 something posts...and he's a 2006 memeber. HE quadrupled that while I was there. Ergo until early 2013. The Hama thing was unfortunate, because of Hollis ignorance. He did know who or what Forsane Alizza was...These people are the definition of useless idiots.
As for highbrow...lol, you're still there you can see the kind of "high-brow" Intellectual BS they spew there. Tis Sad but there's nothing intellectual over there. What is also self-hurting is the whole, Link Information to prove what you say. That's how for Hollis there's no KSA sponsorship of Islamic terror. Unfortunately, Wikilieaks recently proved how deep the Saudis were in buying off the press.
LOL about gresh. Not bad, getting paid for jerking off to TOW vids hitting hapless Syrian soldiers.
I think the posting with links works both ways, without it all sorts of useful idiots could also make their claims without being called out for it. I prefer it if people are open about their sources...
I don't know if he gets paid or not, but he and the others were pretty prolific when it came to "revolutionnary videos". It's the overall attitide they have.
These guys were/are so slimy -> they know how to toe the terrorism line very well, and admittedly the Assad regime is its own worst PR enemy, but they are so infuriatingly naive in their support for pseudo-revolutionaries and Al-Qaeda collaborators. That or they are Sunni trolls pretending to be westerners.
KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:KoTeMoRe wrote:Fred333 wrote:not an easy site to moderate, for sure. that being said, I feel that lately it has been increasingly moderated to death, heavy moderation is really stifling the atmosphere there. maybe they should get in more mods to share the workload, because now it seems only 2-3 guys are doing all the work (of a total of around 10 official mods), and more often than not they are resorting to draconian measures for lack of time and patience, or at least it seems like that to me.
And the bias: well, it's there in the forum rules when you sign up...
It seems to me that a lot of people in this thread want a MP.net without the bias...why not band together and make it so then? Just assemble a good international crew, get some forum space somewhere, really try to keep it neutral, objective and non-nation centered. Should be possible, or?
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
I am mostly a newcomer to the whole community, from around 2011 and the start of the Arab Spring, but you seem to have a long history there. Did the whole community become more pro-west and biased over time? When did the whole Pro-GWoT nonsense and BTDT-class society start? And what do you mean by astroturfing?
The pro-western leanings were there since the beggining, but they weren't on the charter until 2011/12 and as such mostly because Georgia, albeit the Georgians started it and then Libya. After Libya and the pro-West 50centers started popping up (czechmate67, RebelCze44, Kalerab, Gresh, leloup46 etc) a counter influx started as well. With more or less insane people. Then there were the local crazies that saw what was happening. You got people like Zeev (pro-zionist, pro-Russian schizo) or gleipnir (normal dudes with a functionning brain) simply seeing the writing on the wall and pushing back. And when the whole ordeal was done with, Mods simply added the Pro-West BS to stiffle the protest stream. It got so bad Hollis, big wig moderator went as low as posting a Muslim Brotherhood propaganda piece on Hama 1982 which had a video made by an affiliate of Al Qaeda. When I fronted him about that, I got my last suspension.
What changed over time was accountability for the mods. Hood was almost never there, and Hollis, who has nothing else to do, was there 24/7, therefore taking over much of the decisions. People like DW58 slowly got roller over, especially since DW had little tolerance for bigots, and MP 'Murricans can't keep their little Jesus in their pants. Along with their arrogance.
So basically there's that. The BTDT issue started because of the many posers, but stretched thin because of petty issues regarding performance of this or that. It also is a good cover for Hollis' bullshit, especially his non-sense about things he's vaguely heard of : ("Al Kindi baby formula plant" that one is funny, S300 protecting the Syrian Nuclear reactor is funny too, shit like that).
And astroturfing is simply the process in which cellar dwellers and mommyboys become ultra Divan Boevikis and swarm any given internet outlet to vouch for "their" cause. This is more than trolling, very serious idiots make very serious forays with their facts and or propaganda. Take Dforce for instance. Or Flagship Hausoffer (AKA Jeremy Sun at the MEss).
Thanks, very enlightening! The sense I get now is that they want to go for a sort of high brow intellectual -identity, but the atmosphere is so uptight now many posters are hardly posting anymore, like RZ mentioned. It is telling that a 50 cent account like Plato doesn't even find it worth the bother anymore to defend the PRC viewpoint on themess.
Gresh is an EE 50 center? Always thought he was a US veteran.
That whole 1982 MB Hama thing is quite sad really, it is only because it happened in Syria that it is considered a massacre. We all know how it would have been treated in the western media if it had happened in Saudi Arabia.
Still I think a lot of the heartache of that site could be taken away if the bias were removed and some posters weren't more equal than others anymore. Just my .2 cents.
Before Libya and Syria Gresh had 580 something posts...and he's a 2006 memeber. HE quadrupled that while I was there. Ergo until early 2013. The Hama thing was unfortunate, because of Hollis ignorance. He did know who or what Forsane Alizza was...These people are the definition of useless idiots.
As for highbrow...lol, you're still there you can see the kind of "high-brow" Intellectual BS they spew there. Tis Sad but there's nothing intellectual over there. What is also self-hurting is the whole, Link Information to prove what you say. That's how for Hollis there's no KSA sponsorship of Islamic terror. Unfortunately, Wikilieaks recently proved how deep the Saudis were in buying off the press.
LOL about gresh. Not bad, getting paid for jerking off to TOW vids hitting hapless Syrian soldiers.
I think the posting with links works both ways, without it all sorts of useful idiots could also make their claims without being called out for it. I prefer it if people are open about their sources...
I don't know if he gets paid or not, but he and the others were pretty prolific when it came to "revolutionnary videos". It's the overall attitide they have.
These guys were/are so slimy -> they know how to toe the terrorism line very well, and admittedly the Assad regime is its own worst PR enemy, but they are so infuriatingly naive in their support for pseudo-revolutionaries and Al-Qaeda collaborators. That or they are Sunni trolls pretending to be westerners.
Meh, there's pleny self-righteous ijits that think they know best. That's nothing new. The new thing is the paradox at MP.net and now the Mess. In a coupel of years the US will bomb these people back to the stoneage.
KoTeMoRe wrote:,
There's nothing on the forum rules regarding Pro-Western leanings. That was a late addenda on MP.net, but so far there's nothing about that in the current format. As for creating a new forum...it's useless. See the MEss, they wanted to bank of the notoriety of MP.net and they failed. Forums are mostly cyclical. MP.net had its peak before the Ukrainian crisis, then it bubbled because of the Ukrainian crisis. Then you got the very big issue of astrotrufing. What could you do about that....I say nothing.
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