Man this forum is so inactive, it's a real drag

[Quixilated]

Don't change the rules or blame the rules or get ride of the rules: Get rid of the rules as a thing altogether.

Keep the rules, but get rid of the impact of the rules on the current members. By current members, I mean the Moderators. The Mods are the ones who suffer the rules.
Everybody else gets banned, follows the rules, is ignorant of the rules, breaks the rules and is told not to or is not told not to.

Many people don't post here because there are rules. I don't use indoors restrooms unless I shit, as I live near the woods. The internet is the woods, the people coming here to take shits have a since of urgency about them: that's why they break the rules. But many more people are using the restrooms at work, the bathrooms at home, are dead, don't need to excrete, like some of my Dulcineas, or are using the woods like I do. When they see woods with no trespassing without permission from owner of the land they go to other woods. I go to both, because I'm crafty. I have cookie-cutter shaped intestines. Everything I craft is pretty much the same but for how much and what I ate and drunk.

The rules aren't the problem the felt experience of the rules as ontological scaffolding is too much for people who express themselves through emotional poems rather than longform podcasts you don't have to pay for but have to at least join the Patreon to engage with.

I am not sure we actually have mods anymore

Gasp!!!!!!



But the reason for that is, everyone kept blaming the mods for anything they perceived to be a problem with the site. We kept making the circle smaller, trimming down the rules, being less and less noisy. You asked us to stop asking newbies to leave critique with their first poem. We have let everyone enter and post their poem unhindered. I can’t see that it affected the numbers much. We have stepped out of the way entirely other than banning spam, moving threads when requested, and answering emails for assistance. We have grown moss. Not really sure what more we can do to stop being the problem other than hand the banhammer to the citizens republic and dissipate entirely

[Quixilated]

The Mods need a makeover.
When one comes to the site, one could hear cold jazz, real live versions from records, none of the 8-chip stuff.
To get in the groove, Mods could go to and fro their outworld jobs on scooters.
CRNLSM could start wearing sunglasses when he plays music, even when he's recording from his livingroom.

For someone who doesn’t like rules, you listed rather a lot of rules just now. 


The mods can’t have a makeover. I have tried so very many times to add more mods so that the ones we do have can breathe or rest or whatever. No one wants the job. The mods are us. We are what we are. If you have a problem with that, feel free to help out around the site. Be part of the community structure. Anyone who complains about the mods will risk the penalty of becoming one.

[wasellajam]

The Mods need a makeover.
When one comes to the site, one could hear cold jazz, real live versions from records, none of the 8-chip stuff.
To get in the groove, Mods could go to and fro their outworld jobs on scooters.
CRNLSM could start wearing sunglasses when he plays music, even when he's recording from his livingroom.

For someone who doesn’t like rules, you listed rather a lot of rules just now. 


The mods can’t have a makeover. I have tried so very many times to add more mods so that the ones we do have can breathe or rest or whatever. No one wants the job. The mods are us. We are what we are. If you have a problem with that, feel free to help out around the site. Be part of the community structure. Anyone who complains about the mods will risk the penalty of becoming one.

lol indeed the most fearsome threat. Hi quix

[milo]

Don't change the rules or blame the rules or get ride of the rules: Get rid of the rules as a thing altogether.

Keep the rules, but get rid of the impact of the rules on the current members. By current members, I mean the Moderators. The Mods are the ones who suffer the rules.
Everybody else gets banned, follows the rules, is ignorant of the rules, breaks the rules and is told not to or is not told not to.

Many people don't post here because there are rules. I don't use indoors restrooms unless I shit, as I live near the woods. The internet is the woods, the people coming here to take shits have a since of urgency about them: that's why they break the rules. But many more people are using the restrooms at work, the bathrooms at home, are dead, don't need to excrete, like some of my Dulcineas, or are using the woods like I do. When they see woods with no trespassing without permission from owner of the land they go to other woods. I go to both, because I'm crafty. I have cookie-cutter shaped intestines. Everything I craft is pretty much the same but for how much and what I ate and drunk.

The rules aren't the problem the felt experience of the rules as ontological scaffolding is too much for people who express themselves through emotional poems rather than longform podcasts you don't have to pay for but have to at least join the Patreon to engage with.

I am not sure we actually have mods anymore

Gasp!!!!!!



But the reason for that is, everyone kept blaming the mods for anything they perceived to be a problem with the site. We kept making the circle smaller, trimming down the rules, being less and less noisy. You asked us to stop asking newbies to leave critique with their first poem. We have let everyone enter and post their poem unhindered. I can’t see that it affected the numbers much. We have stepped out of the way entirely other than banning spam, moving threads when requested, and answering emails for assistance. We have grown moss. Not really sure what more we can do to stop being the problem other than hand the banhammer to the citizens republic and dissipate entirely

yah - I think that is rowens just being rowens - there is definitely no issues with moderation or rules here.  As for not having the noobs leave a comment first not helping - it's not hurting either.  And if it's not hurting, no reason to enforce it.

[rowens]

The Chinese Place in South Park


They put poems in the hands of children
but clowns with the weaponry of silence
invoked the clause against. Against? 
Against in general.

And from then they realized the now
was the then,
not now, not fun or love or death,
not ever.

But some didn't want to return,
and took the graven words
for hooved truths:

And worshipped a famous woman
as soon as Satan.

[CRNDLSM]

'Not sure who needs to hear this but the algorithm doesn't care that you spent hours filming, editing, and picking your favorite song. It cares if you stop the scroll. My advice, take a 5-7 second clip from your camera roll, pick a trending sound, text on screen and POST IT'

Three different 'tiktok growth managers' on my feed in 2 minutes saying the same thing. The world wants garbage, promotes garbage, and gets endless garbage.

[rowens]

I don't know, I produce garbage daily, and I'm still not banging starlets every day.

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The world is algorithmic.
Get angry about money problems and money seeks a worthy devotee.
If you're going to get money about anger, I mean get angry about money
get angry at your lack of money. Not the situation. Not the people who have or control money and influence.
The Initiates who cast the spell of humility around poverty make our "inner" algorithm want to be poor.