Be Excellent To Each Other

I don't want to whip all this up again, but we're indirectly mentioned on today's posting:
http://ramraider.blogspot.com/
Whoever Ram Raider is, he must be the only person on the internet to agree with the Rev on the whole business. Unless...

Fixed that for them. Regardless of where you stand on the ongoing politics (and although I hold a strong position on that I don't particularly want to read or write about it any more), I think it's inarguable that Stu's introduction of charges has badly damaged the WoS forum.

RAM Raider has been going for three years? Jesus, I definitely waste too much time on the internet.

Referenced here, too: http://z1.invisionfree.com/forums/world ... opic=10444

I was a subscriber, yet I didn't care in the slightest about his freebies, nor did I ever read the main site. I was happy to chip in a couple of quid a month just to support the place. I cancelled as soon as he first announced his ridiculous plans to limit access.

Still, this is a pretty exhausted debate now. Let's get back to being excellent.

Well part of it is of course because they've only seen the official public version of said events.

Aw. I was up for a moan

I do believe that that is what is known as a back handed compliment.

Got to love the accusing people of things they haven't done, accusing them of lying, when you know they have no right to reply though. Classy.

Presumably he's hoping if he calls it a lie several times he'll magically not have deleted posts and that thread where he announced the change then deleted all dissent's original version will magically disappear from rapidshare.

His accusations against BEEX though are of course complete lies, no non-banned member ever had a posted deleted on here, merely posts were deleted when people re-signed up when banned, which you'd expect.

I was agreeing with nynfortoo that this is a done debate until I read Stu's thread on WoS. Now I have read it though..... gngh.

Doesn't it just go to show how much we all miss him? Good to see grudges not being held all round.

Quite frankly, I don't care. I don't know if Stu even believes what he says, but quite frankly, he's welcome to live in whatever world he so desires.

Who?

Dudley. I thought he'd been banned?

See that Monday morning thread? Get to it toot sweet and restore the excellentness.

Oh, yes, I've just read that.

Moan away, Grim... but I think I'll stay out (lurking, of course). I don't really do forum politics.

Excellent work by Grim... though, pointing out just one of the tiny recent examples of Stalinist hypocrisy.

Who's Dudley?

I think it's more he misses us... after all said forum has precisely 2 updated threads so far today, and one of those is Anthony Flack taking a shot at Stu in the News thread.

I'll say that again, FLACK is taking shots at Stu...

There is no Dudley. We have never been at war with Eurasia.

Although I did enjoy the front page stuff too.

You what? I was making a joke.

Which since the split (where he promised more content) has consisted of 2 reprints from Imagine mags that I have on good authority are illegally reproduced, a few pictures and a nicer version of an article we've already had.

That's your £6 worth. There's more new content in an issue of OXBM and at least they know how to give a 2/10 properly and give you a shiny demo disk.



Indeed.

Hehe, that's quite funny. I love Stu, he can be such a shit sometimes, but he does make me smile

I'm kind of glad he banned Dudley, so Dudley can give us his full attention now

You really are a "glass half full" kinda girl, aren't you Meems?

EDIT - yep. CG's right. Whatever.

Oh, for crying out loud. Can't we just ignore all this? I'm about this close—''—to deleting both the WoS and BETEO links for good right now. Life's too fucking short to keep grinding axes.

I guess this'll have to be replied to here.

No-one said it wasn't tricky. But it's hardly a surprise that the forum where you're allowed to argue... has arguments... and there's the odd tricky decision.

Of course here it was posted in a thread and people were allowed to respond. And virtually every other thread remained untouched.

Then don't read the very occasional thread about it. I really can't understand this viewpoint. 1 thread a week (at the very outside) means you don't want to read anything on the site.

That just doesn't even make sense.

Part of the newly found freedom to post things includes a small background of bickering, it always will. There are 27 threads here with new-non-bitchy replies in since midnight. I know you don't have the free time to finish them.

On WOS that score is 0, 1 at the outside if you count Flack's comment in the news thread, which you probably shouldn't.

Shouldn't we just drop this, everyone? Does it really, in the greater scheme of things, matter? I'd have thought the unfortunate events of the past few days would have put this sort of thing into some harsh perspective.

I AM A SKILLED BLACKSMITH

Humungo-LOL at Mali's contribution on WoS.

You're legend, mate.

Quite right.

Any further conversation on this subject would be better on WoS, not here (sorry I started it, my bad).

Right - back to talking about Ram Raider, please (except for the couple of posts that were probably being written while I was typing this).

Not really, especially as we were attacked first here remember.

Again, if twenty seven new threads don't keep you happy, you really can't just not read this one.



Well I would but... you know...

'Someone emailed me' my arse. It's blatant he's a regular browser here, keen to identify any signs of trouble, so he can make the very post he's just made. His insistence of indifference is pretty well shot. While the CUS business is a bit unfortunate, it's not without cause and it's not like the forum has disintegrated because of it.

With the onset of 'mafia' and the continuous stream of threads that I'm quite happy to read (including some I'm quite happy to ignore), I deem this place better than WoS ever was. I haven't had one 'agree with me or BAN' threat yet.

You might get one if you don't start agreeing with me about the future of this thread...

Well assuming the angel2 troll from yesterday was not him (and their horrific grammar suggests not) then I assumed they did.



Indeed, the position of other administration on the matter only works if "Sending PMs percieved as abusive == daring to quite like a racing game where you brake". Even so, nothing CUS posted was deleted.

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Grim..., it's a perfectly legit conversation, I don't see the problem. Let's not ignore the elephant in the room because people can't ignore threads.

I love you, MaliA.

MR COLOUR ME INTIMIDATED FACE.

Quite agree. The point I was sort of trying to make was that as Ram Raider and Rev. Stu appear to be the only people on the internet who agree with the pay-per-WoS debacle, could they possibly be the same person?

Am I allowed to post in the thread so I can say "mohh omlo"?

No, they're not the same person. Really not.

And not just because RAM Raider sometimes gets updated.

Didn't his identity come out a year or so ago?

Not on XBox live, it would not have done.

I'm an office joker type! I need an office now!

We have some dull people here, you could write scripts for one of them.

My mate bought a real doll, who was a hot-desking temp.

She had 3 working offices.

I think you can come out on xbox live -- just don't expect to be using it for long afterwards.

The general consensus was Ram Raider = Daniel Emery.