Why I left/am leaving TW

nigafool said:

jeremy daspin - received goatse in the mail (died)

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Thriky said:

It's my opinion (as an experienced forum and IRC admin btw) that while it's impossible to stop people posting compromising information — and usually it's completely by accident because they underestimate what techniques can be used to piece your life together — the responsible way to go is to ensure that if people use the forum as a medium for fucking with someone's life they should be stopped.

You can't stop someone from posting a photo that someone will use to track down their social network accounts and from there wreak all kinds of havoc, I understand that. But when someone starts using TW to mess with someone's life — whether they got the information via TW or not — you should step in and give them a (temporary) ban. Don't allow TW to be used as a vector for that kind of shit.

People have to take responsibility for what they post, but if you take away the soapbox that assholes use for harassing people they'll usually be far less inclined to bother. If someone really hates someone they might cause shit for them outside of TW, but that's something you don't have to worry about. The key is people feeling secure that the admins won't allow the forum to be used as a bandwagon for attacking them beyond the forum. This lack of trust is what puts exceedingly high-quality posters like myself off being more involved and/or makes them leave because they know nobody's got their back should someone decide to be as cunt.

It's quite simply about discretion. If someone posts a photo that gives away their location, great. Sucks for them that someone might use it to bother them, but it's not really an admin issue. But if someone posts someone's location and it's clearly for no other reason than to cause grief for that person, it's not hard to work that out and take action (ie: remove post, ban offender). It's not like we're talking about some subtle thing here: it's extremely obvious when a nexting is occurring and that the person is being a complete asshole.

Basically TW has adopted a culture of it being fun to frequently fuck with people. This is a product of how the forum has been managed, and on forums managed differently this kind of shit doesn't happen — yet free speech is barely compromised at all.People should know if they next someone it's an instant ban, and that anything they do post will be removed. If people decide to echo it to cause further grief, they get removed. A little time consuming but that's part of managing a community.

But hey, if everyone wants TW's quality to continue degrading into a mess of Reddit/Digg/SomethingAwful re-posts, trolls, and general bullshit then go for it. It'll be sad when every worthwhile member has moved on and found less hostile communities or just stopped posting on forums altogether because the forum used to have a great atmosphere and I still see plenty of peeks of that in the cracks between all the garbage, but I guess all things end.

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Morganstern said:

Nexting refers to a concentrated effort by a small group of posters who torment a poster with the intent of chasing him or her off of TW. At times this is achieved through posting personal information or actively seeking out information to use against the Nextee. Does that clear things up for you?

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tehvul2 said:

Do you have children?

If you do then look at your baby daughter, and ask me that question again.

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havax said:

but before you look at your baby daughter, rayn, snort some coke and do some crack with your closest male friend and then find a transvestite and fuck and party all night with them. then call your wife a whore and leave her and your children and travel the country doing every drug known to man while acting like a wannabe thug. then flash 200 bucks at a camera and brag about the cheese.

then ask him that question again, man.

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nigafool said:

is there a master list of all the people who have been nexted and what happened to them:

kurayami - received a phone call (left forever)
tse tse - email hacked (left forever)
yoda - professor received an email (i dont think he left, maybe he did?)
fourstar - got fired after being nexted by another forum
blitz - says he didnt get fired for taking pictures of women at toys r us but probably did
jm4k - ??
jeremy daspin - received goatse in the mail (died)
cyanide - received a phone call from strega aka the sheriff of nottingham (still posts)
nigafol - cy called my mom and told her i sold coke (still posts)

who am i missing

there must be dozens more based on how upset ppl are about it

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Joemomma5000 said:

If you find yourself in a situation where you feel the need to try to scare someone off of the internet by searching through their lives, you are one pathetic loser.

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