Cyber Bishop wrote:Blastback wrote:And why do these discussions always drag up STFU back up? Every time we make a nostalgia thread, their one of the main topics.
Guess that says alot about how much they influened the board back in the day.
I know for me it was my first introduction to internet bullies, at the time I was used to actually looking face to face with people that have any issues with me and settling it whatever way is needed in person (I still rather it this way to be honest), watching people being attacked with no fear of physical recourse (or any kind of recourse for that matter) is kind of disturbing when you are fresh and new to internet forums.
Fair point. I still find it kind of funny that they never really went after me, despite being something of a bully magnet irl at the time. But I'd learned that bullies feed on your reaction so I guess my not responding to their bs kept me off their radar. Only run in I had was with ShinjiConvoy if I remember correctly... His sig was Hound pumping water out of Spike's lungs with a dirty caption. I'd been on vacation without internet when the ban on Building threads was made, so when I got home I made one only to have him come and try flaming me before Lord Galatron closed it (at least my thread Seibertron visits Cybertron was on a board approptiate topic
).
Oh, anyone remember the time we had an actual Nazi on the site? not in the "your political opinion offends me so I'm gonna try to discredit you as a Nazi" but an actual fricken antiemetic Nazi? Stefan or Stephan or some such... One time I don't think
anyone complained about a ban.