Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails
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@boner said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
North Korea announces immediate and unconditional surrender.
I know we banned @Fox and all, but sending him to North Korea is a move that not even I would support...
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I know we banned @Fox
I must have missed some funny thing. Oh well, guess I'll read about it in due time a couple years later when I stumble on that thread.
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I know we banned @Fox
Link please?
https://what.thedailywtf.com/user/fox
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@PJHINCAPSDAMMIT
I suspect @bb36e was more interested in the posts preceding @Fox's ban.
Which could also been seen through @Fox's profile, I guess.
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@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I know we banned @Fox
Link please?
I find it interesting that we had a big debate about a certain person (and didn't ban him) but none whatsoever about @fox.
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@rhywden We had several debates about @fox, and in the end he was banned for repeatedly spamming a topic he'd had a post Jeffed from. Even after a one day ban to cool down
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@rhywden weren't you even in the last thread debating the ban?
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@arantor said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@rhywden weren't you even in the last thread debating the ban?
Clearly not.
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@arantor He was but he'd CSSed out everyone contributing so it looked like an empty topic?
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@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I know we banned @Fox
Link please?
I find it interesting that we had a big debate about a certain person (and didn't ban him) but none whatsoever about @fox.
Good lord you're beyond satire.
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@jaloopa said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@rhywden We had several debates about @fox, and in the end he was banned for repeatedly spamming a topic he'd had a post Jeffed from. Even after a one day ban to cool down
Two one day bans to cool down.
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@rhywden said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@bb36e said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I know we banned @Fox
Link please?
I find it interesting that we had a big debate about a certain person (and didn't ban him) but none whatsoever about @fox.
Good lord you're beyond satire.
Can we Jeff @Rhywden to the Poe or Noe thread?
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@obeselymorbid said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I know we banned @Fox
I must have missed some funny thing. Oh well, guess I'll read about it in due time a couple years later when I stumble on that thread.
@bb36e said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I know we banned @Fox
Link please?
@Fox objected to something that was posted in the news thread, so he attempted to start a flamewar in there. I asked for it to be Jeffed to the garage if we wanted to argue, so it was:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/23422/going-daily-postal
Then he got pissy and at some point in the garage thread just linked, he started spamming the news thread with his post. The first few were deleted and then they started to be moved to a new thread:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/23424/dipshit-posts/8
After enough of that @Fox was given 24 hours to cool off. He did not. He started using his bot account to argue and bicker some more, so that was given a temporary ban also. Shortly after the ban expired, he started spamming the news thread again. His @Fox account was banned again, and he came back with the bot account again. (bot account is @FoxBox) Eventually he started spamming the news thread again and he was temporarily banned one more time. Eventually, the mods and admins made the decision to permanently ban him.
Oh, and somewhere in all of this he threatened to email @apapadimoulis and tell him how @boomzilla is a fascist and he called me a "Wannabe Fuhrer of the forums" and changed the tags for the "Going Daily Postal" thread to include "boomzilliar" and called @boomzilla "Chief forum fascist", which is when he and I added those to our signature lines, if you were wondering about that.
I think that covers most of it. Or at least the parts that we peasants know about.
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@polygeekery said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
the parts that we peasants know about.
You're not a peasant. Boomzilla is your pupped mod who jumps to your bidding.
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@jaloopa some banned folks would have you believe that...
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Ugh. My funny post got jeffed because a bunch of dickweeds posted after it... and @fox was pissed over a perfectly justified jeffing...
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@anotherusername Should've replied as new topic in the garage to begin with.
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@anotherusername I know, but I judged it likely to generate more similar responses from people who didn't see the first bit or know about the jeffing. Today you're the egg in the omelette.
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@anotherusername said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
Ugh. My funny post got jeffed because a bunch of dickweeds posted after it... and @fox was pissed over a perfectly justified jeffing...
You do know that Maine Journal has the journalistic integrity of breitbart and the accuracy of trump trying to give a speech on acid, right? Even just reading the article, it has two sources: a facebook post from a secondary source and a local news site that itself cites zero sources and adds nothing to the credibility of the story. Furthermore, it doesn't list the author of the article. Yet another perfect example of the shady practices that made Maine Journal famous for being a fake news site. For all we know, this entire situation could be made up, and even assuming the local news site is telling the truth to the best of their ability, that still just means that the furry received a complaint and responded to that complaint in some fashion, which could just as easily have been to check security camera footage, see that the fire was not treated that way, and promptly ignore the complaint.
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@boomzilla oh, I know. Just... pointing out, mainly cuz @fox liked to proclaim how unfairly treated he, and only he, was...
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@jaloopa said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
Maine Journal
Huh: it's a real site with real things on it. And it looks pretty normal to me: just a bunch of stuff about stuff at the university.
wonders if the name 'Maine Journal' has been substituted for the original publication's name
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@raceprouk said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
wonders if the name 'Maine Journal' has been substituted for the original publication's name
The photo was something Journal and the print below it was something like "Maine's original newspaper", so I made an edumacated guess
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@anotherusername said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
I know we banned @Fox and all, but sending him to North Korea is a move that not even I would support...
There are two ways to interpret this, by the way. And since we're in
the garagemeta? now, I'll clarify that the "...because he might get hurt or killed" way was definitely not the one that I meant.
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@jaloopa said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
@raceprouk said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
wonders if the name 'Maine Journal' has been substituted for the original publication's name
The photo was something Journal and the print below it was something like "Maine's original newspaper", so I made an edumacated guess
And you were wrong! :P
Not that it matters: I only Googled 'Maine Journal' because I'm bored.
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@raceprouk said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
I only Googled 'Maine Journal' because I'm bored.
You often say you're bored recently. Did you try shooting aliens ?
I mean, between reboots for updates, obviously
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@timebandit said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
You often say you're bored recently.
No more than usual.
@timebandit said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
Did you try shooting aliens ?
Nah: been favouring smashing robots lately instead
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@anotherusername Just FYI because everybody's getting this wrong and it's bugging the shit out of me:
North Korea threatened Guam before Trump's speech. The North Korea press release was made shortly after, but it's reporting on a speech that was given the day before.
Somehow almost all major media sources have gotten this wrong. Because journalists are fucking terrible.
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@arantor said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
@rhywden weren't you even in the last thread debating the ban?
For lucas? Yes. The one for Fox I must've missed.
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@blakeyrat that's nice and all, but why does it belong in my thread?
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@polygeekery
Interesting. So it has finally happened.I have to admit that this is a sad, anticlimactic ending, though. He's written so much idiotic shit; his criticism of the Daily Fail was pretty reasonable in comparison.
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@asdf said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
@polygeekery
Interesting. So it has finally happened.I have to admit that this is a sad, anticlimactic ending, though. He's written so much idiotic shit; his criticism of the Daily Fail was pretty reasonable in comparison.
Just to clarify, we banned him because he wouldn't stop spamming, not due to the content of the spam. Spam gets you banned, and harassing the mods into cleaning up your shit isn't looked on kindly either.
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@yamikuronue said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
harassing the mods into
cleaning up your shitdoing work isn't looked on kindly either.FTFY.
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@asdf said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
He's written so much idiotic shit; his criticism of the Daily Fail was pretty reasonable in comparison.
To add to what @Yamikuronue said, which was 100% correct, and as I said in the Garage thread, it wasn't a problem that he criticized the Mail, but he decided to say something about Trump, which not surprisingly took the discussion in a Garage like direction, which was why multiple posts were moved.
It wasn't moved until about 27 posts in (I just went to count) and definitely wasn't the sort of discussion that belongs outside the Garage.
Then the tantrums began. I had a PM conversation with him that went about as well as you might imagine. He did email Alex, FTR. There was much discussion, both among staff and in the garage. He expressed an intention to continue the behavior after the temporary "cool down" suspensions. Then he acted on it.
I miss him, but he was deliberately disrupting the forum (not that he agreed with that, of course) and made it clear that he wouldn't stop and that got him a permanent ban.
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@blakeyrat said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
Somehow almost all major media sources have gotten this wrong. Because journalists are fucking terrible.
And they have a hard-on for getting rid of Trump by any means necessary.
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@yamikuronue said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
@asdf said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
@polygeekery
Interesting. So it has finally happened.I have to admit that this is a sad, anticlimactic ending, though. He's written so much idiotic shit; his criticism of the Daily Fail was pretty reasonable in comparison.
Just to clarify, we banned him because he wouldn't stop spamming, not due to the content of the spam. Spam gets you banned, and harassing the mods into cleaning up your shit isn't looked on kindly either.
It certainly did not help that he was being a complete and total cunt to the mods. For anyone interested in where that began, you can see the beginning of it right here:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1194667
At which point @Yamikuronue uncharacteristically, but understandably, lost her shit. :)
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@raceprouk said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
@boomzilla said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
he decided to say something about Trump
Does that mean if I say I think his hair is silly, it'll eventually get Jeff'd? :P
If it lead to something that looked like a political flame war, then yes, it would. If people just read it and moved on (possibly voting) then that sleeping dog would continue to lay in the same place.
For reasons too tedious to enumerate, a silly hair post of yours is less likely to start that sort of conflagration than @fox comparing the Mail to Trump on acid.
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@polygeekery said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
It certainly did not help that he was being a complete and total cunt to the mods. For anyone interested in where that began, you can see the beginning of it right here:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/1194667
At which point @Yamikuronue uncharacteristically, but understandably, lost her shit.It's funny how he assumes that enforcing freedom of speech is the job of the moderators. First of all, moderating is always mild censorship, by definition, and second of all, how do you even enforce free speech? That doesn't make sense at all.
Also, @boomzilla and @Yamikuronue, no need to get defensive, I never assumed you banned @Fox for his political views. My above post wasn't entirely serious.
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@asdf said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
Also, @boomzilla and @Yamikuronue, no need to get defensive, I never assumed you banned @Fox for his political views. My above post wasn't entirely serious.
I wasn't really being defensive, just giving an overview on what happened. I know that people may or may not have followed things closely and certainly aren't aware of all of the events, such as intra-staff discussions.
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@asdf said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
Also, @boomzilla and @Yamikuronue, no need to get defensive, I never assumed you banned @Fox for his political views. My above post wasn't entirely serious
Just a note, in case anyone is thinking otherwise, we make efforts to include all moderation staff in any discussion about potential perma-bans of long-term forum members. The execution of this perma-ban in no way rests solely upon @boomzilla and @Yamikuronue.
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@abarker I'm sure the final decision was given by @Polygeekery
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@wharrgarbl said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
@abarker I'm sure the final decision was given by @Polygeekery
All the mods are just my alts. This is all an elaborate ruse.
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@polygeekery but the real fuhrer is still @Maciejasjmj
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@wharrgarbl You mean Lord High Wangdoodle or whatever his name is now?
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@obeselymorbid said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
I must have missed some fu
nnrry thing
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@anotherusername said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
I know we banned @Fox and all
Wait, what ? I go away on vacation, and that's when you guys do all the fun things?
What was the inciting incident?
edititalicised text** never mind, read the rest of the thread
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@rhywden said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
@arantor said in Fox Fanned, Funny Not Found:
@rhywden weren't you even in the last thread debating the ban?
For lucas? Yes. The one for Fox I must've missed.
"One"? I can recall at least two. .. and those were just the petition threads I started
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@raceprouk said in Fox Fanned, Funny Finding Fails:
Nah: been favouring smashing robots lately instead
Ah, I feel safer now....
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@lorne-kates i never even noticed either, and i've been around a lot recently for no reason. although i generally avoided fox topics because he was a special kind of annoying, and in those topics people I normally like in discussions would become insufferable.