Welcome back, forum member Justin Cobb!

[Michael]

He's done it before and there's no reason to believe anything he says about blog sizes.

[mixjourneyman]

Someone should sue him for character defamation.

[Ian]

Womanizer, woman-womanizer
You're a womanizer
Oh, womanizer, oh
You're a womanizer, baby

You, you, you are
You, you, you are
Womanizer, womanizer
Womanizer

Boy don't try to front, uh, I
Know just, just, what you are, ah, ah
Boy don't try to front, uh, I
Know just, just, what you are, ah, ah

[D_Glenn]

The guest comments on the blogs was automatically allowed when the blog is created. I had to go into my blog and turn it off after I found all the spam, then I PM'd Justin Cobb and had him remove all of it. This happened about a year ago, so Justin has known about it for some time . I should forward that PM again.

[GrahamB]

The guest comments on the blogs was automatically allowed when the blog is created. I had to go into my blog and turn it off after I found all the spam, then I PM'd Justin Cobb and had him remove all of it. This happened about a year ago, so Justin has known about it for some time . I should forward that PM again.

That's clearly a deliberate attack on their system

[Dmitri]

http://www.emptyflower.net/forums/index.php?s=5fef7941493a6bf6375fccb7547b3400&showtopic=5999

"decided to covertly use resources that didn't belong to them and co-opt our PM system to try and ruin the board as it existed"
I guess that was mostly about me, -- in the usual passive-aggressive and highly dramatic fashion...

Man oh man...

"resources that didn't belong to them"?! Well, basically everyone on your forum (or any forum, for that matter) is doing it on a regular basis, aren't they? Those bastards, stealing the resources they don't own! THE NERVE!!!

"to try and ruin the board" -- oh puh-lease... Nobody was trying to "ruin" your board, people were simply given fair information so that they could make an informed decision where to go -- some came back here, some stayed, some are still visiting both places. You are NOT that important guys, sorry, you really are not, it wasn't about you, -- it was about everyone else, the members who had no idea what was going on.

"co-opt our PM system" -- PMs were the ONLY option you left available. There were a TON of people who had no idea what happened, and there was a thread stickied at the top that was informing everyone of the details of the transition and the "split", put up there per mutual agreement, and you guys "un-stuck" it (i.e. basically removed it, for all practical purposes) a day or two later. Breaking yet another agreement/promise, which wasn't really surprising anymore. Any other threads on the subject were explicitly forbidden. There was no other way than PMs to inform those who weren't aware of the situation.

[yusuf]

.. oh for fucks sake.. can;t we just let the shit settle so the .net turds can get flushed away

[shawnsegler]

But why? It's like a slice of neoconism that I can affect.

Plus, when they are acting like a bunch of shitheels I feel like I can be a dick with the moral highground...and boy howdy do I get off on being able to do that.

S- Taking back the moral highground for America from some of the lying bitches who take advantage of our wonderful country and it's ideals. Dirty lying bitches.

[Chris McKinley]

It's sad to me. I would have liked to see them both remain just so that everybody would have a place and there wouldn't be any more schism threads. With another forum, there would be more opportunity for on-topic information exchange, which is something the old EF always had a problem with and still does, frankly. I personally haven't posted there because, while I was away from posting recently after the schism, they created such an intensely and relentlessly poisonous atmosphere there for anyone who wasn't as politically far-Leftist as they are that I simply don't feel welcome, and I'm not going to provide my contributions, such as they are, to such an environment.

Everybody knows I'm a Conservative; so what. I don't demand anybody agree with me. But when the vitriole against anything remotely associated with the beliefs I hold dear gets to the level it has over at that forum, especially when the worst of it is coming from management, then I'm out. I don't need to be told how evil, stupid, etc. I am everyday in multiple threads, then asked to cheerfully give all I can to the forum. Sorry, but that just loses all credibility with me.

It's tough enough over here being one of the tokens among so many far-Leftists, but to some extent it just goes with the territory of neijia so I really don't get on the political threads and whine. There's still plenty of anti-American and/or anti-Conservative propaganda here, but so far it hasn't reached the same unacceptable level. If it does, I'll happily dump this place as well. Till then, I'll stay put I guess. Too bad...the other forum really was a much better place in terms of features, but features don't make a good forum, they only add convenience. What makes it good is trust and friendship, and they broke both with me.

[Dmitri]

features don't make a good forum, they only add convenience. What makes it good is trust and friendship

Well put; couldn't agree more.

[Darthwing Teorist]

LMAO @ Brian!

[GrahamB]

features don't make a good forum, they only add convenience. What makes it good is trust and friendship

Well put; couldn't agree more.

Awwww group hug!

[Plante]

I'm with Chris on this one (even if I'm more center-left socio-democrat french canadian...), I think the politics shouldn't overshadow the first goal of this forum: martial arts... But hey, we're all human with opinions. I just keep that stuff to myself most of the time.

[nianfong]

Chris, I totally agree man. when I had "the talk" with brian and justin to decide to "break up", I honestly hoped they'd just get along fine without us. now brian acts like that psycho stalker ex-gf. it's really sad.

to make it official, none of the administration have made any spam bombs on .net or any of that bullshit on .net. We have moved on. I haven't even looked at their site in months, except when someone else directed me to see something.

-Fong

[shawnsegler]

Even Intraweb BBS'S can haz Crazy, Stalker Ex-Girlfriends.

Sounds kind of like a Phillip K Dick novel.

S