Posts made by raphjd

That is some serious mental gymnastics to justify Marion Barry and Susan B Anthony being praised, while others are demonized.

I must be a loser.  I only have 82 fb friends.  Of course I know all of them either personally or have extremely close ties to them online.  None of that bullshit of "the person with the most fb friends wins" for me, thanks.

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Fred makes and excellent point about how shitty the thumbs system is.  A person can spam the thumbs down button, targeting a single person, then cry that they are being bullied.

I think it's obvious.

A group of people with very little reputation and very low thumbs up ratings (compared to what I had) were able to destroy my over 15k thumbs up rating.  All combined, their thumbs and reputation scored didn't add up to even a quarter of what I had.

However, because their relatively low reputation scores, they weren't able to do the same thing to my reputation rating.

With the thumbs ratings, you can have the absolutely worst rating and still destroy another person's rating.    The same can't be said for reputation.

1.  The more rep you have, the bigger the hit/boost is to the other person.

2.  NOPE.  Everyone is treated equally.    If an admin has 10k rep and a user also has 10k rep, the effect on others is the same.

3.  The stars are your forum level, as are the colors.  Newbs have the lowest with admins having the highest.

4.  Titles (except staff) are based on post counts.

Thumbs mean nothing either when a handful  of users can destroy over 15k in thumbs up surplus in a few months, simply by following their enemies around and down voting EVERYTHING they post, even filling porn requests and helping others use the site.

Anyone can ruin a positive thumbs rating, but it's harder to do that to reputation.    The same goes the other way, anyone can artificially inflate their thumbs rating when they clump together, but it's a lot harder to do that with reputation.

Let me just point out, if you didn't care, you wouldn't be asking.    I don't care about the tax rates in INDIA, so I don't look it up or ask.

Just looked and only the main and the "ghetto" accounts were used to attack me.

The 3rd account was used to post rubbish in other parts of the forums.

The problem is, the identity politics is coming from one side; the LEFT.

It would be "racist" if it was the other way around, but of course the left never, ever believe that whites can be the victim of racism even when it clearly meets the made up definition leftists used so that only whites could be racists.  The same goes for sexism.

Imagine the shit storm if it was 3 white men and a VOC, "at the eleventh hour", decided to run and people started to tell her she couldn't run because she isn't white and has a vag.

If it was reversed, it would be international news, not just local news that happened to make it to YouTube.

Don Lemon and Simone Sanders would be screaming "OH HELL FUCKING NO!!!  CRACKERS NEED TO FUCKING DIE!!!!  WE TOLD YOU ALL HONKEYS ARE RACISTS!!!".

Let's ignore this specific tax plan for a minute.

The headline and mantra of the article are common place regardless political party and/or leanings.

In the UK, under labour, taxes went up and when people struggled to pay their bills because wages were stagnant, while taxes and inflation skyrocketed.  Gordon Brown (the then tax man) told the nation to put their bills on their credit cards.

@cteavin:

@raphjd:

What facts did flozen bring?    The white guy is running against VOCs, aka identity politics.     You told me that i wasn't supposed to talk about identity politics

You were the one to bring up thumbs, so I explained the history of it and how your leftist buddies abused it.  Now you are praising it as the better system.

LOL, you are so full of yourself.   When I'm bored I re-read current threads to see if there is something I might have missed.

It always amazes me when people like you come to the site an think EVERYTHING revolves around you.    Oddly, we've had about a dozen in the 12ish years the site has been going.    The site existed and did well before you got here and will continue after you leave.    You aren't special

I don't bully people.  Unless you mean I treat them equally.

You have the same information on loop: X happened on a college campus + feminism = the white male is oppressed. That's it. That's all you ever bring to the table.

Flozen brought up the fact that the white dude had zero qualification and accepted that it was identity politics; you bring up college politics + feminism = the white man is oppressed. (It really comes off as that repetitive.)

And you forget you brough up the thumbs two days later after making posts that were not replied to. Why? It's not important. Ah, because you're bored. Sounds like you should make better life choices.

The bolded is exactly what I told you in a different post. Do you feel original for bringing up what I told you? Do you feel empowered? What is the point in telling me what I already told you? Again, you can not be fifty. I can not accept that.

And yes, you do bully people. Those aren't my words. Those are from other members. That's how you make them feel. Go look into my PM folders.

Ah, you really are getting butthurt aren't you?!

LOL, "bully" has lost all meaning over the last decade.  Everything is "bullying" according to the left for at least 15 years now.

It is extremely telling that you can't argue anything I say, so you have to argue me.    You try to shut me down by insulting me,  like leftist always do.

I noticed that since you and I got into it over your stance on murdering innocent men in hopes it might prevent a crime, that you became the darling of the leftists on the site.    If you ever agree with me on anything, they will stab you in the back quicker than you can blink an eye.  Ask RoyalCrown89 about the "love" his fellow leftists showed him when he supported free speech as defined by the USSC (which I also support).  As the 6 or 7 leftists who finally, after several months, finally condemned the violence by both sides.

So what you are saying is, your "facts" are the same as mine, just from the opposite side.

IDENTITY POLITICS

We can't ignore the very real fact that identity politics is the main reason that this WHITE MAN is being told that he can't run is because he's running against 3 VOCs.    No one would have batted an eye if he too was a VOC.

Your buddy cteavin even had to strawman my argument by claiming that I was claiming he was the most qualified.    I never said that.  I only talked about the left and their blatant use of identity politics at every turn.

It wasn't as elaborate as that, but that is the general idea though.

The sock puppet accounts have been disabled.

The worst part was that one of the sock puppets was pretty "ghetto"  and the creator of the sock puppet was white.

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I love debating topics with people, but we need to have it be fair.

What facts did flozen bring?    The white guy is running against VOCs, aka identity politics.    You told me that i wasn't supposed to talk about identity politics, because in your delusional mind, if the opposing side stop opposing it, it will magically go away.    You have double standards for your leftist buddies.  They can run rampant with their identity politics bullshit, but the other side must never mention it.

AND?!

You were the one to bring up thumbs, so I explained the history of it and how your leftist buddies abused it.  Now you are praising it as the better system.

LOL, you are so full of yourself.  When I'm bored I re-read current threads to see if there is something I might have missed.

It always amazes me when people like you come to the site an think EVERYTHING revolves around you.    Oddly, we've had about a dozen in the 12ish years the site has been going.    The site existed and did well before you got here and will continue after you leave.    You aren't special, despite what your momma told you as she bundled you off on the short bus each morning.

I don't bully people.  Unless you mean I treat them equally.  Like you and your buddies, I am allowed to thumbs and rep anyone I want.    I'm allowed to disagree with you on topics, such as the murdering innocent men in hopes it might prevent crimes.  I don't have to only focus on the specific parts you demand I focus on so your point of view looks better.

I'm far more lenient than most staff when it comes to the crap being done by people on the site.  Do you really want me to get all YouTube and enforce blanket rules, regardless of which side violates them?  Of course you don't.  You only want me to enforce the rules you like, against the people you don't like.  I've been doing this for 11 years on this site and I know how people work.

I'll give you guys a hint.

Despite what someone says publicly, running to the helpdesk crying about something shows you care.

We pretty much had this conversation, with different specifics, several times before.

I'm gonna paraphrase RoyalCrown89;  "while I get what he's doing and agree to some degree, he should be a stoic figure and let others do the dirty work".

That's not the person who was elected.

People tried to change the way Jimmy Carter spoke because his accent was deemed by some as too "hillbilly" to be President.

The use of sock puppets (fake accounts created by "you" [generic]) to support yourself and/or your side, is pretty shameful.

It appears this happened here.

I won't mention any names, but I will tell you it wasn't Fred.  It is a current member though.

Anyway, a member here created 3 accounts (I guess didn't know about our Dupe-warrior software).  While slagging me off, a virtually brand new account suddenly popped up and slagged me off too.  I don't remember if the 3rd account slagged me off too, but I know for a fact that at least 2 of the accounts did.  Even worse, is praising your sock puppets for attacking enemies too.

If it had nothing to do with the topic, then YOU want off topic when you brought it up as a lame attempt to insult me.    YOU should follow your own "advice" and do better, much, much better.

I do love how you keep showing you are a hypocrite though.

The UK doesn't have free speech like the US does.    "Causing offense" is a crime in most of Europe.

I don't get why the left would even be talking about this case, since they only support free speech they agree with.    You guys protest pro free speech rallies in the US.

This is an example of trying to start a fight. You didn't make any contribution to the topic though it is important to you. Instead, you made an unrelated comment. As an Admin you should do better. You are supposed to be the one setting the correct tone on how to behave and yet here you are giving an example of how not to behave.

This is a good example of why the red/green reputation bar has no meaning. You have a long green bar but you go off topic constantly. The number of thumbs up/down correctly reflect your contribution.

Still, I won't put a thumb down because I reserve that for bad content related to the topic. That's why I have given so few.

My comment in that thread was not "off topic" because YOU mentioned thumbs down and I explained it, then you got all prissy.

And fuck off with your constantly telling me what I must and must not do.

If you have absolutely nothing better to do than constantly attack me, then maybe you need a vacation.

Personally, I don't care about any of it. I'm posting this because my comment got into someone's psyche and they obsessed on it all weekend. I've set this post up to let all of you say what you think and let him vent all he wants.

You really do worship yourself, don't you.

If you want to bring up "thumbs up/down" then you should learn the history of it, rather than just spouting off about something you have no clue about.

Your leftist buddies used to follow their enemies around the forums and blindly thumbs down everything they posted, even posts filling porn requests or answering question in the Support section.  They would do the same, but the opposite for their own side.    It still happens, but not as much as it used to.

When they would get called out on it, they would cry.

Also, leftists would lie and try to get me fired because of things I never ever did.  They are too fucking stupid to know that the site records EVERYTHING, including staff actions.    One leftist (who I had never heard of before) claimed I called him a "fucking faggot nigger", which I never did and the proof was there that I never did.  He finally admitted that I never did, but that he accused me  of it because I was critical but factual about BLM and the DNC.  He couldn't point to a single thing I said that was false, so he emailed the site owner and claimed I called him those names.

Don't think he was the only one.  Leftists contacting the Helpdesk and/or other staff claiming that I'm screaming pro-nazi stuff in the forums.  It was rampant.  It still happens, like with the thumbs down bullshit, but nowhere near as much as it used to.