>>52609 To be quite honest I don't really care about the fact that I'm feeding Sage by replying to him. The recent drama has at least given me something to do on the board ever since activity in the threads I usually care for died out, and though it's evident that Sage is not engaging in his crusade for reasons of integrity, what he's been doing has at least kickstarted some discussions that have been of greater value than his actions. On one hand I feel bad for the anons in the video threads who have basically been having all theirs hosts wiped and threads spammed by Sage's activities, but on the other the only thing that he's done that has really affected other users is necroing old threads, which doesn't have much of an impact in and of itself. >>52615 I get what you mean by the antiseptic nature of exposing wrongdoing, although weirdly enough I'm actually more cynical of the idea that the individuals involved would even be inclined to learn from their mistakes after exposure of them to the outside world. It seems to me like the main thing such "cringe-examination" does is reinforce the social norm by encouraging self-regulation, which while it obviously has its uses, I also feel like it tends to become masturbatory and idolatrous (i.e., the status quo of society is what is valued rather than the underlying values and virtues that caused people to shape society in the first place). As I suggested before I actually think that cringe threads like the ones on this board are more harmless than KF, and in fact I would go so far as to say that I would actually trust the anons here not to escalate anything into real-life actions. I can't say the same for KF. I know that it is perfectly legal and I'm not one of the types to advocate for governmental action shutting the site down, as free speech is important, but I can't in anyway defend the morality of it. In that way it is kind of like Stormfront. I think one of the most telling things about the atmosphere on KF is that I just can't imagine the users there seeming "normal" in the real-world. The average normie on seeing some of the stuff on KF would in all likelihood feel extreme disgust at the individuals written about, much as the KF users would, but they wouldn't dwell for so long on it and continually insult the users involved, they would just get the hell out and continue with their lives. At the end of the day, when it comes to cringe content I think I would just prefer if people just admitted that they're there for entertainment. As a reaction, cringing can't really be removed from the human psyche which is why it will always be a perennial staple. There just doesn't need to be the KF-style defensive positions about how the action is completely justified and in fact beneficial for society. When it comes to theology I don't really have anything to argue with you there. It's actually quite a strange relationship (not dissonance) between the purity and ultimacy of man and his utter delusion while he is lost in the world of form. While it may seem like my position is optimistic, and indeed it is, in practical terms I actually move through much of my life well aware of the utter depravity of man as he currently is in the depths of worldly life. Even the most "well-adjusted" individual in secular terms is evil in regards to him being less than perfect, which is the ultimate way in which good is measured. Even such apparently morally-neutral or even supposedly good things like marriage and reproduction are in fact distractions from the spiritual life and true agape towards others (it is quite telling just how often the world ignores the fact that monks do not take spouses). The main thing that I always emphasize because people often reify the apparent indignity of man and essentially start masturbating over how shitty everything is is that in its core humanity (and literally everything else) is innately perfect, and its current bondage is not its fault. It isn't a matter of humanity being inherently depraved but rather a "this world is not my home" situation. In any case it is actually quite interesting to hear the Methodist perspective, from my nearby society I was more familiar with Catholics and in adulthood I found myself studying and agreeing with the Latter-Day Saints more, but as you said my actual theology differed in very important ways which is why I went elsewhere. I actually feel great sympathy for demons and I do question just how comfortable a lot of magicians are in forcing them to do tasks for them (although I don't support demonolatry), and while I do acknowledge the existence of the realms traditionally called Hell, it is also true that "only atheists believe in Hell," and so in recognizing the divinity of the beings trapped there and the fact that God's omnipresence means he is necessarily in Hell as well, I acknowledge the fact that it is not eternal. Don't have much else to add at this point, although we do have some significantly different thoughts on the cringe threads, I think we actually agree on a lot.

Anyone else notice that Sage's latest spam attack was right after the OP for the cringe thread explicitly said the thread was created in part to bait and spite Sage... with it being rightfully pointed our Sage is predictable and swallowed the bait hook and all almost immediately? It just looks to me that Sage wants it gone after it's been there for a month because that entire thread makes makes him look like an idiot because most of it is just people baiting and goading him and it working every time. Knowing what little I do about Sage this seems more like the thread hurting his ego directly than anything else. This is a guy who has apparently been holding a grudge for years with this board. If it's such a bad thing in his eyes why does it look like he only seemed to freak out and spam the board after a month of people making him look like a fool? I like to imagine Sage had some weird unrealistic idea he would manage to own everyone in that thread only for it to backfire spectacularly and get his posts deleted which pissed him off more than the existence of the thread. That thread wouldn't have the activity it does if not for Sage. When you get down to it there just isn't a ton of stuff that is cringe, actually worth noting, or ABDL. It's very niche to check all those boxes. Without Sage that thread would probably only have gotten a few posts a month and currently there's only what? 5? 6? people actually posted talked about there that have no relation to this board? The latest person mentioned in it has been around for years 2009 was the year of his divorce or just the restraining order? Cringe threads #1 and #2 didn't hit the bump limit for years because there just isn't a lot of cringe ABDL content much less new cringe ABDL that is really notable enough to talk about. Meanwhile the latest thread is over 140 replies in a month, not counting the deleted posts. My point is that thread only has people's attention because of Sage. It's like Sage never heard of the Streisand effect. If he ignored it would have taken months for it to get to 100 because at this point people are more intersted in fucking with Sage than the actual cringe. That is laughably pathetic and his only real weapons are spam, being easily baited, DMCA claims. We can work around the third one, but the others just having a decent janny to delete his posts and clear spam so board owner doesn't have to work so hard would render Sage powerless. BO, if you have someone you can genuinely trust to help you with this board I'm all for it. Most othr boards and other sites with more users don't really have this issue because the work load isn't mostly on one person. Sage isn't unique and most places deal with their obsessive trolls without too much issu. Sage's ego and namefagging even makes him easier to spot.

>>52593 >i dont care about your vendetta Yeah, no shit. But you don't get to bring it up to make a point in an argument and then say it's irrelevant later when it suits you. It discredits you. >not going to stop no matter what I suppose that you will believe that no matter what I say, so there's no use arguing against it. I can only repeat that once the video thread was settled I left, and once 8kun's BO transferred BO over to NumberNine I left. I only got reengaged to delete his work that was founded on mass paranoia, and to remove hate from this board that was founded and predicated on being a better board than 4chan which facilitates/breeds hate and violent actions. >cringe is a part of image boards Only the ones you seem to care about. Luckily the internet is wising up to the fact that hate breeds further hate in an endless cycle. That's why you can't stand reddit. It goes against everything you stand for. The reality is people like you are a dying breed. Thank god for that. >comparing what I'm doing to tyranny If speaking up and putting a stop to hatred is tyranny then MLK was tyrannical by your definition. Stop talking. >>52606 >never had to deal with cluster B people My last roommate was officially diagnosed with BPD who flew off the handle after thinking I opened her door while she was at work when in reality it was her cat. I had to get a restraining order on her after she threw a knife at my head. In my early 20s I dealt with someone with APD who would pee in bottles rather than go to the bathroom when my and my ex were home watching TV in the living room. I dunno where you would get the idea that I haven't interacted with weirdos in my life. It's the very reason I can have empathy for them because I've seen the good in them, and seen that sometimes they can be reformed and helped. My mother is a prime example of that, but I'll refrain from getting too much into that because of doxxing etc. But, anyway I've seen the effects of repeated kindness and it is almost always more effective than ridicule and hatred. >avoid them and ignore them And then they go and shoot up a school. Sound logic my guy. >>52611 No matter what you say spreading hate and encouraging people to doxx others is, in fact, more cringe than anything I may do. You can think otherwise but that's only because you're trying to justify being a hateful spiteful creature. Unfortunately we live in an unjust world where sometimes we need to make our own justice. This is my justice. And you hate it for a reason. You don't wanna stop being hateful after all! >>52616 Nope! ;) >>52620 You can get AI to write in whatever writing style you want and with world info set up in specific ways can get it to write incoherent gibberish or improper english. Sillytavern and KoboldCCP and some clever prompts do wonders. AI analysis doesn't really work as well as you think it does. >>52621 >not doing this for integrity Think what you want. It doesn't take a genius to come to the conclusion that hate breeds further hate. But it takes a lot of hate and rage to use so much time and energy to try to justify being hateful to others. >not much of an impact Brother, the video thread has seen more content in the last 3 months than it has in the last 2 1/2 years. All thanks to me. Shows how much you've been paying attention. As a note, if I were to truly spend 8-12 hours a day necroing threads for a year this board would inevitably die no matter how many jannies were here. BO knows this and that's why he's scared. He knows I am just crazy enough to do that. I can destroy this entire board if I wanted. Stop pretending like I have no power. I have plenty. Just look at what I've done with words alone. BO is shitting himself because he's seen how dedicated I am. You could hire 16 jannies and it would neither stop me nor discourage me. I would hire people of my own, money be damned. >>52629 No, I got involved after Trooper was doxxed. Whether people pay attention to me or insult me is of no consequence. I don't get personally upset by words on the internet from strangers I will never meet. That's you guys. I've stated on more than one occasion I want the smoke. I want it because it helps take the focus off of others. You'll respond with "but we'll do it anyway just to spite you!" sure, probably. But the end result is you have less time out of the day to fuck with others and spend most of it fucking with me instead. I am undoxxable. And even if I somehow were doxxed the absolute worst thing you could do is you could get people at my job to look at me weird at best. The people closest to me in my life know 99% of all things that I am into and have experienced in life. I'm a truly open and honest person with those I care about. I would be more fearful for my wife getting harassed than me, to be honest. And that's the real reason why I don't freely tell people information about myself and try not to get doxxed. It's not for my benefit, it's for hers. There are people out there whose actual livelihood would be at stake if they were harassed. I stand up to fight for those people because I'm in a position they are not in. There is no world where spreading further hatred is an intelligent and rational thing to do. There is no world where ridicule and amusement at the expense of others is not wasteful energy. Not only are you hurting others, but you're using time to laugh at other human beings when you could be educating yourself or contributing something to our society. You hurt the world by doing what you do. And you hate the fact that I call you out on your bullshit because you *need* to be able to hurt others and laugh at others to sustain yourself. You use all these words, examples of logical fallacies, fancy pseudo-logic, and useless jargon to type paragraph after paragraph of words you think make your point more valid when in reality you are just saying "I want to be able to make fun of other human beings, and I know I am a piece of shit but I am okay with that." At the end of the day, all your words, all your logic it fails you because you refuse to be the bigger person and extend a hand to others. I am not going anywhere. I will ALWAYS stand up for the weak and mentally unsound. I will always advocate for kindness and understanding over hatred and ridicule. @BO, 24 hours remaining

>>52632 >Brother, the video thread has seen more content in the last 3 months than it has in the last 2 1/2 years. While I was trying to defend you there on the grounds that you clearly weren't that disruptive to the board and thus administrative action would be an overreach, I will admit that I hadn't really realized how much people were invested in the video thread. As I said before I mainly come to this board for 2D art and discussion, so the whole thing with the videos being DMCAed never affected me. With that being said I will give you credit in that you have had a huge impact on the board. As for then earlier comment on integrity, the main reason why I'm sticking to that is that you have seemed awfully hostile to religious statements that weren't actually criticizing you and lumping them in with internet "schizos" (not that you used that term, just the general archetype) or manosphere neo-Gnostic revivalists, as though the idea of anyone genuinely engaging in religious and occult thought was alien to your worldview. As an aside I will say that one of the things that I really dislike about this situation is that it seems to have gotten many anons indignant and self-righteous about Sage, when you/he have not been stopping the board from being used in any meaningful way. This might just be from my own perspective and from not taking into consideration anons who like 3D content, but I still think that a lot of people's reactions have been disproportionate and reactionary. In particular some of the current BO's comments have made me think that he might have been encouraged to walk in the old BO's footsteps, but he might just not care about the matter too much and it might be too early to tell.

>>52632 >spreading hate and encouraging people to doxx others is, in fact, more cringe than anything I may do >No, I got involved after Trooper was doxxed My brother in Christ, learn what doxxing is. Recognizing a dude and sharing his very public social media is not doxxing. Was it a mistake to post Trooper's car accident? Yeah, sure. But you kept crying and keyboard-warrioring about it and it kept being funny. >You could hire 16 jannies and it would neither stop me nor discourage me. I would hire people of my own, money be damned. Still funny, touch grass.

>>52634 >giving me credit Aw, how sweet! Thank you though, seriously. >hostility towards religious statements I mean, I don't think the particular self proclaimed schizo that is pretending to have gone insane from my posts is anything but a troll spouting religious nonsense to bait me to play ball with him. Regardless, I am not religious, nor do I condemn those that are. It's funny that I'm replying to a comment on religion, me and the wife just sat down and watched The Exorcist. I hadn't seen it, as I'm normally against watching super old films. She, as a horror obsessed gothic woman, said it was illegal and basically strapped me to the bed. I could make an analogy for some of the lines spoken in the movie for the situation we deal with on this board. The demon possessing Reagan as a means to show the world that God does not, and could not love us if it would allow such a pure and sweet innocent girl to succumb to demonic possession. And I could use another analogy to describe a priest, fed up with the cruelty and unfairness of life, deciding to trade his life for an innocent soul after seemingly feeling guilty over losing his faith. A penance of sorts. Perhaps that's what this is for me. Perhaps, somewhere in my life, I felt like I could have helped others and either chose not to, or could not. And maybe this is my way of helping those that cannot help themselves. I don't really know for sure. All I know is, that it isn't hard work to be a good human being and be kind to one another. It takes more effort to be a bad human being and disrupt the lives of others. That effort is very taxing. Anyone that would oppose me in some massive ban war with deleting my posts or banning me would inevitably succumb to fatigue far faster than I could. The reason for that is simple: I truly believe I am doing the right thing in defending the mentally ill and protecting those from harm from those that would unjustly target them. You, while you don't think you're necessarily evil, don't think about it on a deeper level than "it's just for fun, lulz". It's why I am confident in my approach and why I know for a fact I will inevitably prevail. >>52635 You're forgetting the fact that someone in the thread literally said "let's doxx this fucker!", shall I show you the screenshot or are you capable of scrolling through it yourself? It's not hard. Though maybe I'm giving you too much credit. >touch grass Oh, no thank you! Grass is often dirty and wet causes a lot of stains etc. I'll stick to the sidewalk, thank you! >it pains you to know you can't say anything to me that I can't fire back at you >being less witty than me Get some ice for those burns. I like to cook but I don't like my meat burned.

>>52639 >You're forgetting the fact that someone in the thread literally said "let's doxx this fucker!" In a post that happened long after your little hissy fit (>>52250) that didn't provide any new information that wasn't already posted in >>52101. That is also assuming you didn't make that post so you could claim harassment later (now). I know you'll probably mock me for the paranoia, but you've shown that you're not above samefagging and sockpuppeting. As a final note, I leave you with this: Even if you become the next BO for some godforsaken reason, all your shenanigans will catch up with you. All the bridges you burned and all the gooners you upset will become the sagefags of your regime. If the current BO has trouble dealing with one of you, do you really think you'll be able to handle a dozen copies of yourself?

>>52642 >implying the goal wasn't to "doxx that fucker" originally. Shall I link his social media posts then? You know, the one's specifically stating that people were harassing him? It's wild to me that you'll go this far to defend actions that are detrimental to the success of another human being and think you're doing some kind of justice to society. You're not. You're not a hero. You're a bully. Period. >paranoia Nah, I don't blame you for being paranoid. I'll admit to samefagging a bit. But, certainly not to the level you might think. There are more people here that agree with me than you'd believe. Regardless, I still think you're paranoid. That's the point tho! >how would you deal with a dozen copies of yourself That's the thing though, I wouldn't have to. By the time I revealed myself to be sage from 8chan the community would have adjusted to the new rules and not want to move elsewhere. Most of the fuckwads would have moved on to other boards. No, you'd all have to move now, before I gain power. But that in a sense, would also be a victory for me. You lot fucking right off back to kiwifarms and whatever rat infested trashcan you came from without my direct interference would be most ideal anyway. But let me clear: One way or another I am going to become the BO of the next major /abdl/ board. Whether it's 8chan or elsewhere, it's going to happen. And when it does, I hope you remember all these conversations. I hope you know I'll remember them as well. And then you'll understand what it feels like to wake up every morning and look out your windows wondering if some nutjob is going to come knocking on your doors or harassing your family. That realization of "fuck, is this what those people dealt with?" will lead to a change within your own life and personality. And in the end, good will come from it for yourself and those around you. Or, maybe you won't come to that realization, fuck with the wrong person, and go to jail after they sue you for defamation? Either way, it's a win for society. When I said I was playing the long game, I fucking meant it. No one believed me. Said I'd get bored, said I'd be done in a few months. Nah son. This is a multi-year thing. I knew that from the start. I highly suggest that if you aren't willing or dedicated enough to your own cause and views that you'd be willing to dedicate years to this then you should fuck off back to kf now. You and the community would be better for it.

>>52644 just start your own board on 8chan now, we'll see how well it does

>>52645 Maybe. You might not know this but NumberNine (also known as Cirno) was also the BO of abdlchan. He might not reveal this information outright because that experiment was a bit of a failure, but he himself branched off and created a separate community on Endchan afterwards that, when all was said and done, ended up with him sitting in the drivers seat over here. I know you were trying to be snarky or whatever, but it has happened before. The current BO is the result of that very thing. But, I don't think it's the right course of action for me personally. I think, best case scenario, you lot find a new board to be shitty human beings on. There are plenty. And you leave this board to those that would seek to promote healthy happy behavior. Serious question: Doesn't being hateful ever get tiring? Doesn't it even weigh on you? Like, I can't imagine being the kind of person that holds all of that weight in their mind. It's gotta suck. Not even trying to flame but holy shit.

>>52646 nope not being snarky, genuine advice. you want power and to be a bo so bad, well go ahead and do it, nothing is stopping you, put your money where you mouth is, build your utopia and best us in the marketplace of ideas

>>52646 >Doesn't being hateful ever get tiring? Do you even read your own posts? You're the guy who's been holding a grudge for years.

>>52648 >missing the point Goes to show you that you don't belong here. I look forward to seeing you flock back to your trash loser land over at kiwifarms. >>52647 In due time. Right now it hasn't gotten to that point yet. I'd like to salvage what's left of this community and cast you out if I can. No sense in building a new community when there's already one established here. Most don't align with your hateful ideology. It's just unfortunately the reality that the hateful ones are the loudest in any group. I won't give up on 8chan, for now anyway. We'll see how the next few weeks goes. When NumberNine realizes I'm dead serious, and realizes that nothing he does is going to sway me he has some decisions to make. What those decisions are will determine my next course of action.

>>52650 yeah i knew you'd chicken out, its way easier to shit on everything then actually go through the effort and risk of putting your ideas into practice, you're all talk

>>52253 NumberNine I have no qualms with you and think you're a fine BO, but the simple unfortunate fact is we have one person whose directly admitted that his goal is to disrupt this board, at least when he's not contradicting himself, and he's going above and beyond the typical means used by your average troll. Ignoring him just makes him take more drastic measures until he can't be ignored. I know you probably have reasons for not wanting to appoint mods/jannies, but we're at the point where that isn't really an option any longer. Most of the people here very much do use the "adult" portion of AB to follow the rules and occasionally even engage in meaningful or interesting conversation, or at the very least, somewhat witty insult slinging. Unfortunately we have one troll who is hell-bent on taking everything too far. I had hoped that his time spent wasting the GMs time would have been enough to make him a global pest that would be dealt with by the GMs, but that obviously hasn't happened, at least not yet. Part of the reason this place "used to be more fun" was because we didn't have one troll railroading everything. He's already making the board do what he wants because he's butthurt that he isn't BO. He needs to be purged from here by any means necessary for this place to be "more fun" again, and if that means mods/jannies so be it. >>52269 I get where you're coming from, but don't entirely agree. I'm fine with NumberNine remaining BO as long as he appoints some jannies to deal with the troll. I'd nominate Dropbox Guy if he proves who he is and other people not willing to put up with the bullshit that our resident human sewer spews on a daily basis. If NumberNine decides to no longer be BO, I again nominate Dropbox Guy (providing he can prove who he is) for that position knowing it infuriates the troll. >>52575 Although I personally dislike the existence of the cringe thread, I think it should be left up if for no other reason than it pisses off the troll, which means that it's doing it's job. Removing it to appease him is just letting him overrule you in your position as BO, in effect making him BO by proxy. I don't want us to give that guy anything. He's already extracted concessions in the video links thread that he didn't deserve. I think the better option is mods/jannies and to continue banning him on site. Surely there are people around here who can cover this place for 12+ hours a day to make his life hell when he can't get the responses he wants as his posts are perpetually nuked. Just my input as another random anon.

>>52654 Just say "I'm a shit human being and I'm okay with other people being shit human beings". It's a lot less effort than whatever bullshit you just typed up. Pic related: Outdated pic, but it's probably most of you garbage.

>>52656 It really doesn't help your case when your reply boils down to "You're just an ignorant conservative redneck." How do you not understand this just makes people hate you more? That you use that as an insult makes it clear you're just another screeching internet leftard.

>>52657 >leftard >hurrdurr leftist! >hurrdurr righty! >fight fight fight like a ten year old! >but im smert XD! It's insane that you think using this word makes you sound cool or whatever. I don't care of extreme left or extreme right. And anyway, the truth is politics are a fucking joke in this world anyway. Very few people in that world play a game with people's lives such that they hold onto power for as long as possible for their and their families benefits. There are, unfortunately, not a whole lot of truly selfless individuals in the political space whether they are left leaning or right leaning. I don't care much at all for this worlds politics. Frankly, I'd sooner nuke the entire fucking world and start over from scratch with a few hundred of the smartest individuals on the planet before trying to untangle the mess that is this worlds nonsensical politics. But, that obviously has its own fair share of issues that would need to be overcome, and it's an unrealistic idea. I'm just saying, that politics and me never truly got along. There's too much hate and selfishness. We should be building spaceships to visit neighboring planets. We should be trying to unravel the mysteries of our universe. Instead we (you, I mean) complain about blue haired people, trans rights, gun rights, and other petty human garbage that quite frankly we should have grown out of a hundred years ago. We debate issues that should have had answers decades ago. We destroy policies and put in place new ones only for them to be destroyed and replaced with new ones a few decades later, or earlier. It's disgusting to me, legitimately. I shy away from the pathetic game that is the political world because I genuinely want to see humanity surpass what we exist as today. The reason for that? We live a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of our lives compared to the time that the universe exists and will exist. Don't you want to know the reason for it all? Isn't that more important than some petty nonsense and cringing at other human beings that have absolutely nothing to do with you? It's comically sad. You speak of left vs right as though it's a point that matters in the grand scheme of things. I speak of human progress in a way that most don't. This is the shit I'm passionate about. You're passionate about trolling on the fucking internet for lulz. The fact that you think you have any ground to stand on is incredible. Go fuck off back to kiwifarms with the rest of the degenerate 80IQ fuckwads. I'm doing work here.

>>52658 Uh huh... if you're so above politics then why do you only really use politically charged insults against the right and conservatives, but not the left? I've more than once seen you compare your enemies to Hitler and Nazis, basically just meaningless buzzwords with how it's used especially so much on the left, but you claim to be above politics.

>>52658 do you ever practice what you preach? why don't you go and unravel the mysteries of the universe then, go hiking in the Himalayas and learn from the wise old hermits instead of dedicating all your energy to an utterly insane plan of revenge because someone shared a mega link and said something naughty on a minuscule website christ what an absolute joke you are, it would be funny if weren't so pathetic

>>52639 Honestly glad to hear your first statement, likewise! While I can't sympathize with your theological sentiments I can with your moral ones in this situation, although again I do think that some of your statements come across as needlessly mean? Like you can obviously state the ways in which you disagree with their position and in how they themselves are legitimately committing objective evils, but when it comes to name-calling it just feels needless. I do realize that the other party is engaging the exact same behavior, but I just don't agree with falling down to their level of behavior out of principle. Also, I am not quite sure about why you though I was in favor of cringe threads "for the lulz" so to speak, I thought I made it clear in my previous posts that I only supported cringe threads being allowed in principle so that the freedom of speech could be maintained, not that they were morally justifiable.

Our onion link looks like it's dead. Clicking it or putting it directly into TOR results in this message: Onionsite Not Found Details: 0xF0 — The requested onion service descriptor can't be found on the hashring and therefore the service is not reachable by the client. Probaby an issue for the GMs, but I have no clue how to kick it up to them.

>>52828 IIRC Sage Anon said he only uses Tor to access the site not a VPN. Is that why we haven't seen him in awhile?

>>52830 You don't need to use the onion address to use tor browser.

>>52838 So... all that threatening BO and screeching about how you're going to bring this board down if the cringe thread isn't deleted and your demands aren't met was absolutely meaningless and accomplished nothing beyond further making you look like an idiot internet tough guy. Gods, you're such a pathetic joke.

>>52933 The cringe thread was not deleted so his demands were not met either way?

>>52936 I know... I just find it funny he went through all that and acted like he singlehandedly had the power to delete the board, even gave a time limit for his rambling ultimatum like he's a super villain or something, only for his sturm and drang to mean absolutely nothing.

>>52937 Oh sorry, misinterpreted your post for some reason, my bad

>>52830 >>52838 I'm guessing what put an end to Sage's antics was Proof of Work getting enabled on the board. It makes spamming much harder and more resource intensive while not affecting normal posters too much.

>>53031 doesn't seem like that would phases a devoted lunatic like him hopefully he's getting the help he needs

>>53031 I dont understand the proof of work at all... I know you can look it at, but even with that, i dont get why something like that would stop sage. All that i understand is that my pc is being used for something, i need to wait a few seconds to a few minutes, and then it works. Does it check your IP in another way so you cant use a vpn or what? Why does it mean a problem for the sage guy?

>>53138 Proof Of Work was originally conceived to combat spam not crypto it got better known for. Basically to post the server demands some processor task first. If you're just a normal single poster it's not really an issue to wait a few extra seconds or minutes, especially since it's not vital to post instantly on an imageboard or forum. For a spammer trying to make rapid fire posts Proof of Work significantly slows down things and uses more resources because every spam post has to show proof of work. TL;DR It's just telling your computer to solve a math problem as proof of being an actual user and not a bot or automated program spamming. It's simple enough not to take long, but non-trivial enough it heavily slows down spammers and increases resource use for them. It's just a spam/bot deterrent like captcha.

>>53150 >because every spam post has to show proof of work I access via tor browser and every time I connect it's a new connection and new cookie being set. My first post always requires the proof of work process to complete. During that session though I can make more posts in different subgroups and never get asked for additional proof of work. I don't mind TBH as long as it does keep spam down. I'd rather be able to post slowly than not post at all. But a spammer would have the same outcome, right? They just need to get past the first proof of work and then they can make as many more as they want...

so, was sage's autism completely sealed?

>>53523 Probably not. He himself stated he posts in other threads here without the name so I suspect he's still around just disengaged or perhaps he feels he reached his goal, whatever that goal was. I never quite understood why he was even posting here to begin with. He would give one reason one day and another the next. Regardless of his real intentions or current lack of presence on the board it's quite clear that his actions have deeply effected the board. How many people did he run off with his antics, I wonder? Was that the goal all along? Only he can answer that I suppose. There are two things I know with certainty. 1: He is currently not posting and the level of drama has gone down significantly which is a win for all of us. 2: The board is a shell of what it once was. In that respect perhaps he ultimately got what he wanted. I think it's best to move forward without mentioning him at all. He seems to reappear whenever someone mentions his name.