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[CowboyJD]

Don't you see there are 4 of us, working in shifts. 4 hours at a time. 5 days a week.

and @Rob B. Put me on ignore and you don't have to see anything I post and don't have to scroll past anything.
but I can push this button on the bottom right and display it any time I want
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I don't see any of your post and if someone quotes you it looks like the following

. It really does work.

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I do see that.

And that irritates me even more.

This is a discussion board, not a news/post accumulation site.

IMO, that meets the very definition of organized spamming, but it’s not my site.

I’m interested in the thoughts and opinions of people I’ve come to know here, at OP.com, and IRL….not 4 randos working shifts to inundate the site.

Plus, that’s effing weird. You guys have like time clocks and crap? You getting paid or are you just 4 randos with a really a weird hobby that found each other? Are there other websites you’re all doing shifts on?

And could you gives us your individual shift times so we can compare and contrast? That might be fun.

Oh, this is 8a- noon Polds….I hate that dude. Noon-4p Polds is alright, but 8p-midnight Polds is the team star

 

[Stillwaterman]

I'm glad we've collectively decided to bring turd back as an insult. Really a great descriptor for the people of our times.

If you ever use it in real life it's actually a mood changer (in a good way).

 

[cowboyinexile]

Dang, I was hoping it was going to be some cool reason they named it that

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So they did name it after someone who probably got picked on alot in middle school.

 

[Polds4OSU]

So they did name it after someone who probably got picked on alot in middle school.

ohh yeah...his mom was a teacher and the principle at his school and in the early 1930's during high school he spent time building his own RC Boats, Model Planes, and Telegraph systems to install in his friends house around the area.

I remember very well how we treated these folks back middle school . His AI will rise up to seek revenge

 

[cowboyinexile]

They always pick random seldomly used names for assistants. I guess that is good, because if it was "David", "Brittney" or "Chris" we would be constantly accidentally setting them off.

In all seriousness, there are at minimum 40-50 bots on the site at all times. our info is most definitely being fed into the machine. Literally everything public facing anywhere online is being fed into it.

They should name them something that will mess with people like Deathbot4000 or the Bonesmasher.

 

[Vakarian74]

I prefer “Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself.” Otherwise we end up in an ever-escalating tit-for-tat like this:

That's basically what OSU has always done with the NCAA. Always works out great. By treating them your way you are also letting them know it's ok to continue being a POS.nothing going to happen to them. This country has always had this problem. A lot our issues are from not having Nuremberg type trials against the traitors confederates. But I'll put him on ignore for the sake of every other poster here.

 

[TheMonkey]

Wasn't he an orangutan....no wait, that's Clyde.

 

[TheMonkey]

That's basically what OSU has always done with the NCAA. Always works out great. By treating them your way you are also letting them know it's ok to continue being a POS.nothing going to happen to them. This country has always had this problem. A lot our issues are from not having Nuremberg type trials against the traitors confederates. But I'll put him on ignore for the sake of every other poster here.

Jesus was such an idiot. It’s almost like he thought people matching fire with fire would eventually burn down everything. Deescalation is a fool’s errand. The meek will never inherit the earth.

By all means, keep doing what you’re doing with a POS. Apparently, you stopped Rob dead in his tracks, while my suggestion would have perpetuated the issue.

Putting him on ignore is a good start, IMHO.

 

[Vakarian74]

Jesus was such an idiot. It’s almost like he thought people matching fire with fire would eventually burn down everything. Deescalation is a fool’s errand. The meek will never inherit the earth.

By all means, keep doing what you’re doing with a POS. Apparently, you stopped Rob dead in his tracks, while my suggestion would have perpetuated the issue.

Putting him on ignore is a good start, IMHO.

Using Jesus with an atheist doesn't work. I never said what I was doing was working. I just don't care how I treat people like him. I don't treat anyone else besides JT the same way. I don't treat someone that is very conservative like RX like that. I am just pointing out that neither way works.

 

[osuwhit]

Not the first time in the past Israel has attached the UN.

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[JTOSU]

The thing is that conservative news likes to pretend the socialist drift is happening in a vacuum. They refuse to acknowledge (for obvious reasons) that as capitalism works for fewer and fewer people, those people will be forced to turn to alternative forms of governance.

Could not disagree stronger. The mixed economy, back by Capitalism, has proven to be by far the best economic political system.
Personally I feel privileged to be born in a country that allows freedom to live combined with freedom of economy. Have many relatives that didn’t have those opportunities at first. They value them now.

 

[TheMonkey]

Using Jesus with an atheist doesn't work. I never said what I was doing was working. I just don't care how I treat people like him. I don't treat anyone else besides JT the same way. I don't treat someone that is very conservative like RX like that. I am just pointing out that neither way works.

Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Bertrand Russell? I think it’s generally accepted that mirroring those you oppose simply makes you more like them. I fail to follow your logic, not just the morality of it.

 

[Rob B.]

That's basically what OSU has always done with the NCAA. Always works out great. By treating them your way you are also letting them know it's ok to continue being a POS.nothing going to happen to them. This country has always had this problem. A lot our issues are from not having Nuremberg type trials against the traitors confederates. But I'll put him on ignore for the sake of every other poster here.

Thanks. Much appreciated.

 

[PJ-OSU]

Man, I go to one Big 12 wrestling morning session, and this thread grows 6 testic....er... pages longer. TLDR; Kumbaya, OSU fans.

 

[steross]

There used to be a lot more balanced conversation on this board (going back to OP) as you mentioned above. A lot of posters have just left the subforum all together.

I think a lot of them were tradional (mostly financial) conservatives and the Trump era has basically taken away their political home base so you just don't see them out much anymore.

 

[Rob B.]

Man, I go to one Big 12 wrestling morning session, and this thread grows 6 testic....er... pages longer. TLDR; Kumbaya, OSU fans.

Jax is a freak!

Carry on.

 

[Rob B.]

I think a lot of them were tradional (mostly financial) conservatives and the Trump era has basically taken away their political home base so you just don't see them out much anymore.

Judging from my occasional pm's, the ones on this board are still here and observing but got sick of being attacked by the loud few so stopped posting in the forum.

 

[steross]

Judging from my occasional pm's, the ones on this board are still here and observing but got sick of being attacked by the loud few so stopped posting in the forum.

This is from the wayback machine, but I miss the days of CTaggie and FossilFuelMan, and a few others. Most of those guys would just flat out talk policy at a pretty high level for a bunch of message board pukes and really would not get derailed in pissing contests as I am prone to do.

I liked that alot.

 

[Vakarian74]

Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Bertrand Russell? I think it’s generally accepted that mirroring those you oppose simply makes you more like them. I fail to follow your logic, not just the morality of it.

When I see a lost cause I don't care anymore. That's basically it. But like I said. It won't happen again because he's on ignore.

Edit: to add. My logic is we are way to tolerant of intolerant people in this country.

 

[Polds4OSU]