Jolt Country

Well, get remembering him, everybody. This is the thread in which we remember.

So far you are all doing terribly.

I don't think anyone here much cared for the man. RIP, I guess????

At least he didn't take his kids with him?

I don't think everyone is giving this thread their all.

It occurs to me that without Flack, this place (above the fold, NATCH) is essentially just us two talking to each other, with Vark and Milker chiming in occasionally with a bon mot or two.

Might it be time? Might it be time... to take steps?

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

A decade of online history isn't a light thing to toy with as struggles have occurred here, events have accumulated because souls have touched this place with their words and thought but have moved on. There is history etched into these pages, stories come and gone of struggles, terrors, thoughts and actions both of importance and the mundane. This place holds purpose, life, history, thought and a spirit its own...

The question becomes, should it be left standing for the hope of renewal or does one tear it down and let it die at its most vulnerable and thus fragile moment?

That last thing!!

Well, I tried to make a fun, funny forum with people ragging on each other, nothing taken too seriously, and no Napoleon-complexed admins screaming at people.

The Internet said, "Thanks, but no thanks."

People don't want that. They don't want chill sites. They don't! People want to be told what to do and told what to think. They want "safe spaces." They want posts deleted, and posters banned.

It's fucking shocking to me that everything I enjoy about a forum flies in the face of what everyone else likes.

This is the worst funeral ever.

ZOMBIES!!!!!!!! RUN!!!!!!!!!!

That was good!

This is like the part in Tom Sawyer where everybody thinks Tom has drowned and they have a funeral for him and he sneaks in and gets to watch his own funeral. Well actually it would be like that if he sneaked in and saw everybody was texting and not paying attention to the funeral.

I sometimes wonder if we could have done more to keep him around, and to keep him alive, but honestly -- since Flack left without zilching out his kids, I think we have to consider this a Jolt Country Success Story.

Ah. In re-reading this thread, I see that pinner has already made the "kids" crack. That's how shitty this thread is: I am recycling "jokes" (sneer quotes) that aren't even jokes from like the second reply.

"So far, you are all doing terribly" is a line that Flack used when we didn't reply to one of his threads a few months ago. That was meant to be a HOMAGE to the man, who is now gone. Though I do recall him demanding multi-dimensional arrays in Hugo, over at Caltrops a few days ago. Logins, please.

I'm out of the loop here. Was it from the excessive heat in Oklahoma or a fatal case of tdarcosis?


Interesting side note that was possibly covered elsewhere: I was looking at a list of forum rules on another website and I suddenly realized that here there are no formal posting rules. It's all up to us to be responsible and polite. I like that.


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AArdvark wrote:I'm out of the loop here. Was it from the excessive heat in Oklahoma or a fatal case of tdarcosis?

It was #2.

I don't want to be a d-bag who says, "either he goes or I go." That's lame. But what I will say is that while he's running amok through the forums rampantly destroying every single conversation people are trying to have ... I'll be elsewhere. His repeated and intentional attempts to either derail or ruin every single thread he posts in finally succeeded. His regurgitation of irrelevant movie quotes and Wikipedia entries along with a constant rehashing of topics that only make sense in his head are so distracting and grating that it cancels out any enjoyment I get from visiting here.

The only reason forums exist, I think, is for conversation. You can define conversation many different ways and it happens on many different levels, but, again this is just my opinion, but the whole idea is and has always been that these places exist so that people can communicate. Someone says something; other people process what was said, and say something else. Tdarcos' constant droning, interruptions and off-topic drivel very literally interrupts that process. It's like a guy with a megaphone shouting into your ear while you're trying to talk to your friends on the phone. It's like ... this:

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Based on recent events, it looks like I got a six month stay. After that, who knows. I'm not very good at ignoring flies, and swatting them in public isn't very nice either. Maybe by then someone will build a better bug zapper. All I know is, watching every. single. thread. get derailed got real old, real quick.

Flack wrote:

AArdvark wrote:I'm out of the loop here. Was it from the excessive heat in Oklahoma or a fatal case of tdarcosis?

It was #2.

I don't want to be a d-bag who says, "either he goes or I go." That's lame. But what I will say is that while he's running amok through the forums rampantly destroying every single conversation people are trying to have ... I'll be elsewhere. His repeated and intentional

Always got to be the bastard, eh Flack? Always got to presume malice. Always got to presume dishonesty. Always got to presume other people are evil. I pity you in your warped, twisted sickness.

Please don't make us IP ban you.

Advocating an IP ban is harsh but... Tdarcos's sense of etiquette drove me off the forum for several weeks (when he decided to defecate in one of the "Fat Ass Challenge" threads) and has posed a significant barrier to my own enthusiasm in adding my thoughts to a thread.

While he has been banned and shamed to a certain degree, I've developed a set of habits that force me to reconsider if its worth putting time and thought into a thread because I've become conditioned to him completely derailing a conversation. Because as Flack pointed out, Tdarcos enjoys walking into a quiet conversation with a megaphone and calling attention to himself.

So as I said, advocating an IP ban is harsh but I don't want to have to deal with the possibility of reading and having to work around Tdarcos's own personal posting habits. I'm here to be enlightened and maybe add my voice to a thought or topic, not worry about someone with a half smile walking into the middle of the room screaming at the top of his lungs while banging a set of cymbals.

Retro

PS I'm also tired of talking about and having prolonged conversation tracks based around "what will Tdarcos do next."