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Thank Christ for an(other) adult board

Hey fuckers, Kay/Pregnant Sally, now Suzannevega here (didn't mean to use that for a username), just call me Kay for the love of Gawd. Trying to navigate my way around so thought I'd start this thread to thank Paolo for starting something that we don't have to worry about every single word we use, how we express it, and the content in which we post. Just pathetic how downhill that board has gone, thanks to the iron fisted, rigid mods.

So now now that that is outta the way, everyone who's here now been disenchanted with that board for a while now? Anyone looking forward to talking Bruce politics?

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rachelharms

Sep 05, 2020

I’m laughing to myself because we have a whole new board here and I still completely forgot to have a username that wasn’t my real name...

karenburke247

Sep 07, 2020

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I know, right? 😂

Kay

Sep 02, 2020

Yeah, I've been a member of that board for 13 years and have never so much as received anything resembling warning level. Which doesn't mean shit, just cause you've been around for a while - sometimes that is the clue we need a break - doesn't preclude me from appearing on the shit list but of course it was from the usual suspect and guess what I did, post a political comment on a political thread.

I told Karsten that he ought to take a serious look in the mirror, if they're going to leave a political thread by its very nature up, then randomly deleting non-inflammatory political posts takes the freakin' cake.

Kay

Sep 02, 2020

Oh hey Josh, haven't seen you since Cali on The River tour!

Kay

Sep 02, 2020

Mario, good little summary of the shit show. I could add to that but why bother really. Actually, I will, what happened for me is that the Bruce thread a while back that got so many of us put in the corner, I would actually post on the thread, get a PM in the middle from the most rigid mod in the cosmos, and tell me how I could phrase it as to not sound so political, but then if Bruce did say something about politics, I could post about it. Which was funny coz every time I did that my posts were simply deleted which resulted in me finally telling a mod where to go and shove her dictatorial tendencies up her ass.

So had I continued I would be banned, no doubt. I was put on a "warning" and that was enough for me. So yeah, not worth it for a lot of us, simple as.

whispered secret

Sep 02, 2020

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Wow Kay! I had no idea this happened. I know there have been a bunch of suspensions over the last few months, which, although it didn't happen to me, made me think we were all back in the classroom.

SteveInJoburg

Sep 02, 2020

Nicely done K, well said.

joshuafkitchen

Sep 01, 2020

So what exactly happened over on GL? (aside from janey and her cake)

Mario Brega

Sep 01, 2020

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I'll try and answer this one. It'll be a lengthy reply, but hopefully it's engaging.

The place has been on a downward swing for a while now. It lost the charm I felt it had from 2016 to late 2018 (or even earlier for many I imagine), and it just never felt like it was going to improve.

Sometime last year (was it last year?) the mods banned political talk, as there's a bunch of contrasting political opinions on there - which, I've gotta say is really odd on a Bruce Springsteen forum, but never mind - and people had been arguing and saying nasty stuff for a long time. The mods tried to keep it civil while maintaining the politics forum, but ultimately it was easier for them to shut talk down.

Here's where the problems arose: Doing that censored a lot of people from expressing themselves and saying what was on their mind. Yeah, it's a Bruce Springsteen forum and that's what I was there for, but sometimes people just want to talk about the real world, and there's so much random, trivial stuff you can talk about before it gets boring. Given that there's a lot of very important socio-political matters going on, for adults to not be able to talk about any of them is, in a word, baffling.

Regardless of this, several posters continued to post the odd political comment, and for that they were reprimanded by the mods. Some, such as Kay, decided there was no point in hanging around, while others, such as Jerseyfornia, were warned and subsequently banned for posting political thoughts and then giving their thoughts about the mods' warnings. I believe one mod would remove political posts, but leave his or hers up - "so hypocritical".

When posters whose posts you really enjoy reading leave or are banned, you start to get very disillusioned at the direction of a forum, and when Jerseyfornia pulled a Snake Plissken-like move and broke in on Saturday to properly say goodbye, it rekindled the good days we used to have on the forum. There was also a lot of annoyance when the mods wiped that thread and most of his others - 100% of which contained incredibly thoughtful pieces of writing. That led to a lot of us wanting out, or at the very least just some communication from the higher ups to put our minds at ease (or something like that). What was got was a locked PSA thread that we couldn't reply to, where we were reminded that we're not allowed to discuss moderator decisions on the forum and to, "like it or leave".

We left, and the rest is hysterical- I mean history!

Hope this helps 🙂