Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I'm supposing the high level emotional chaos is the result of the latest shill tactic and also the mod efforts to control discussion. I'm seeing a lot of low updot 3 year passionate accounts making rebel rousing comments and back a couple weeks ago we had a post stickied for a few days policing content rather than out saucing research... the mods do a mostly pretty good job but blew it on that and opened up a low effort emotional degeneration here.
Funny that you mention that. I have noticed that a ton of fishy and sus activity from accounts that are created years ago (sometimes even towards the beginning periods of the forum) but do not have the posting or commenting history of someone who is a active and fruitful participant. Maybe they are lurking a lot, but my theory is that many of such accounts were created back then by these shills and trolls, went joyriding around the forums, were put away into dormancy when the heat becomes too much, and were brought back out again once people's memories faded or the shills needed more numbers for a job.
Same thing over at Truth Social; noticed that a lot of the shill accounts have creation dates dating back to the 2022's and does not have a lot of history until recently where they were brought out to troll and pollute, like there were dormant for a long time.
We really need a system to deal with said sleeper accounts.
Just had this happen with a user with like a 25 count post score though he/she’s been around for a couple years and comment history is overall contrary to others. I deleted my post because I was trying to help some people out who were interested in the matter-and he/she sniped on it right away and I think that’s their MO. Snipe, cause deflation and less board action. I’ve noticed this for a very long time personally. It’s like they lay in wait and must have a situation going on like that Southpark episode where they’re gaming in the basement- fat, bloated, eating hot pockets and their mom is coming with a bucket to have them take dumps in. They lurk and pounce and occasionally comment in what they think is a brilliantly negative way. .
But I’ve noticed this a lot and it’s directly why I don’t post much anymore unless I’m ridiculously excited about something but even then I get my stuff shot down and field stripped and nobody even sees it really. I’m here to help. I’ve never attacked anyone personally. Not once. I don’t criticize. I don’t doom. I try to be humorous when possible. I’m too dumb to sit at the grownup’s table so I keep it simple but geeeeez I’m tired. Been here a long, long time and it has changed a lot here.
It used to be a friendly and supportive place. A full breath of fresh air and safe haven from the foaming at the mouth, viscous attacks and negativity at Patriots.win. There used to be no dooming allowed and that was a strict rule, there used to be no cursing (specifically F bombs,) there used to be no personal attacks, there used to be no antisemitism etc. I’m just tired. Don’t know where else to go though.
Just as an aside- if you ever look at your followers on TS and there is a blank on the side that says “follow” or “unfollow,” click on the person’s name and the hit “block” which is under the “...” tab at the top right of their profile. I just like getting rid of the deadwood.
I’m not sure. I guess either they’ve been banned, they deleted their account or are bots. Sorry, I don’t have a decent answer but I remember early on looking at my list of followers and finding a whole lot of them and being the ocd person I am, needing a way to get them off my list. The blank to me just seems to say they are gone. Sorta messy imho.
Yep I just posted about this in general chat about a week ago. Beware of the trolls
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Maybe these were the trolls that were under the bridge and Baltimore.