>>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.

>>53529 Sagefag's ultimate plan was to shit up the board so much that people would be willing to jump to a new /abdl/ board on another chan. One where he could be the BO. He would deflect and dissuade, but all he really was was a power tripping loser. Agreed though, it's best to not mention him and let him be forgotten.

>>53636 Incorrect. My ultimate goal was personal amusement. This just became unfun for me after awhile. Nothing more nothing less. I wanted to see if it were possible to destroy or at the least severely impact a board using just words and basic trolling tactics. It was an experiment purely out of curiosity. I reached a conclusion when NumberNine admitted he couldn't keep up with me. I had won. Then, I lost my motivation to continue. It really is as simple as that. >power tripping To be fair, I completely destroyed this board using words alone. I think I've earned the right to be honest about how much power I truly hold. For example... >>53529 The above post is actually me. I'm the one who typed that as a subtle reminder that in the end, I won and got what I wanted. I can control narratives here however I want. I can induce paranoia, I can issue takedowns. I have quite a lot of power. It's not my fault that the bulk of you are so dumb that you don't even realize that the best way to stop me was to stop responding to me. Regardless, this experiment is over. I proved I can destroy the board whenever I want. NumberNine gave up, and the only reason why I am not attacking the board right now is I quite simply do not have the time. I laid the ground work for someone to do it in the future however. Not that it's needed. This board is completely dead. I hope you know that I will be jerking off on your tears knowing that I made you lot so angry that you'll never stop thinking about me for the rest of your lives. I will never post as sage again, but I will still be around. Inevitably you'll reply to me unknowingly, and I will chuckle about that. For one last time: Cooked.

>>53638 The board was slow before your antics and went back to being slow after. All you did was cause a spike in activity because of your spam and people trying to get a reaction out of you. You're still a dumbass flinging shit and claiming you actually did something important when you're just a petty moron. Everything you've ever said and tried to justify just makes you look like pic related.

>>53642 >obvious bait in an attempt to lessen the impact of me completely destroying your self esteem and lower your anger levels I'll bite just to make this final point: Read what I wrote. The entire point was to get you to reply to me. You're still doing it. You're still a retard who got caught in a series of fairly obvious ragebaits. Everything I said about the previous BO and his history of domestic violence was a lie. Everything I said about my personal life was a lie. Everything I said about me being on vacation, or uploading the original 2023 mass torrent, everything about me finding out about a discord etcetc all of it. Basically all of it. Every single bit of it was fabrication for the purpose of distraction, lulz, and to derail the entire board. You can post whatever weirdo cringe 4chan memes you want (thus proving you are no older than 19 years old or if you are you're a fucking loser living in your moms basement), the reality is I convinced at least a dozen people that what I was saying was factual, and lead them on for nearly a year just for personal amusement. It was a masterclass in trolling that you are unable to even come close to. Say what you want about me, my motives, my life, and how pathetic I am yadda yadda. The end result was that I got exactly what I wanted out of it and the only reason I stopped was I got bored. Your need to reply to me to mock me is just further proof that I will forever live in your head. That alone even disregarding any other event, is enough for me to walk away laughing my fucking ass off. Okay for real this time. Goodbye and get cooked LMAO. Losers.

>>53644 >Obvious bait You keep saying this, but then also keep taking the bait because you've repeatedly shown you can't just walk away and ignore something.

>>53138 >>53150 >>53357 This is explained in Ruling7 on the site meta board, here: >>>/site/4555 TLDR, it's there because the Admins and Global Mods know it's nigh impossible to permanently ban someone here using a VPN or TOR. Every time someone gets banned with this and IP hops they have to redo the Proof of Work which slows down their posting and makes spam bot nets significantly more expensive to use.

>>53642 >>53647 Let's just continue to ignore sagefag, yeah? He deflects and everything he says may as well be bullshit. It's not even clever, he just says "nuh uh" but with paragraphs of words. He can say it was "for the lulz" all he wants, but we all know what his true intentions were.

>>53636 it is quite funny how everytime a retard reaches the end of the road with their shitty antics they fall back on it 'it was a social experiment' like clockwork the retard here did as well

Eh, a lot of this just feels rather masturbatory at this point. It's pretty clear that he did succeed on some level because he got the volume of responses that he did and basically killed the video threads. People were clearly annoyed enough to post about his antics even in threads that weren't related to them (see how the "sagefag situation" eventually leaked out of the filesharing threads which was where most of his ire was directed). At this point if people actually want to move on from him, they would just go radio silent on the topic, but the whole situation is just too entertaining, and so threads inevitably fall back on it. At the end of the day, bitching and conflict provides a perverse pleasure to the mind.

/b/ is looking for janitors. If anyone here wants to become a hotpocket, apply here: >>>/site/15853