Where Did All You New People Come From?
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mrducks said:
The thing is... not all of us are kids. I'm turning 50 soon. I think most of the maniacs are in their mid-thirties, and some are in their 40's.
We're a dying breed of fans. The woke mob is taking over and we are not happy with it!
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When someone mentioned Vox was actively monitoring their forums, that explained it all. They are certainly on the "woke" side of the spectrum.
Ganett media (who owns USA Today, who owns Junkie) own these forums and it's possible that one day they will send someone in to do something similar to what Vox did. They don't actively manage/moderate things right now though (the admins here don't work for Ganett), mostly because no one on here as given them a reason to do so. Ganett has essentially deferred responsibility to the admins.
That's not to say it's a free for all and you can do anything... but the admins here are pretty lax when it comes to opinions.
The main things you can't do:
- porn (I know there's threads of near-porn, but it can't cross over into legit porn)
- spam/blatant advertising
- direct personal attacks on other members (you can disagree with people and say their idea is stupid, you can't repeatedly tell them they are stupid and you especially can't use any information they've volunteered about themselves to attack them on a personal level)
- don't blatantly try to circumvent the language filters. It's fine to say f---, but don't try to use a $ to get around s--- for example
- We haven't really run into this, but you should probably try to avoid anything that the social media sites would flag as overt "hate speech"
Honestly, most of it comes down to common sense.
For example, it's fine to "advertise" something that you use and think other people should use by mentioning it once in an organic discussion. It's not fine to create a username that exists for the sole purpose of advertising that thing, and spam links to sites in which you'll receive a kickback on if someone purchases thru it.
Common sense.
Eranys said:
Despite the fact that we like to bulls--- and go way off topic pretty much all the time, rest assured we are all true fight fans, and we take live threading very seriously.
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Yep. It definitely can and will devolve into talking s--- to each other while watching fights, but we are serious about being in attendance, lol.
MMAFTM13 said:
. there used to be posters on here that would drive the bad out of you with their s---.
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Well we've grown together. 'member when i got s--- faced on my first JFF title fight vs YOO and sent in picks like this...
Good times.
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10-tomas Almeidasub1
1Colby coingtn-dec-1
4-lance silvesb
Alan Joebain vs warle Alves-1?
3-treversmith-sub-1
1-coaoio Maghadeladezz-dec-1
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1 claudio slva-sub LOL
2-Diego Limasb3
7diegho rIvas------------------
osubuckeye4 said:
When someone mentioned Vox was actively monitoring their forums, that explained it all. They are certainly on the "woke" side of the spectrum.
Ganett media (who owns USA Today, who owns Junkie) own these forums and it's possible that one day they will send someone in to do something similar to what Vox did. They don't actively manage/moderate things right now though (the admins here don't work for Ganett), mostly because no one on here as given them a reason to do so. Ganett has essentially deferred responsibility to the admins.
That's not to say it's a free for all and you can do anything... but the admins here are pretty lax when it comes to opinions.
The main things you can't do:
- porn (I know there's threads of near-porn, but it can't cross over into legit porn)
- spam/blatant advertising
- direct personal attacks on other members (you can disagree with people and say their idea is stupid, you can't repeatedly tell them they are stupid and you especially can't use any information they've volunteered about themselves to attack them on a personal level)
- don't blatantly try to circumvent the language filters. It's fine to say f---, but don't try to use a $ to get around s--- for example
- We haven't really run into this, but you should probably try to avoid anything that the social media sites would flag as overt "hate speech"
Honestly, most of it comes down to common sense.
For example, it's fine to "advertise" something that you use and think other people should use by mentioning it once in an organic discussion. It's not fine to create a username that exists for the sole purpose of advertising something.
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Seems like reasonable standards to me...
osubuckeye4 said:
When someone mentioned Vox was actively monitoring their forums, that explained it all. They are certainly on the "woke" side of the spectrum.
Ganett media (who owns USA Today, who owns Junkie) own these forums. They don't actively manage/moderate things though (the admins here don't work for Ganett), mostly because no one on here as given them a reason to do so. Ganett has essentially deferred responsibility to the admins.
That's not to say it's a free for all and you can do anything... but the admins here are pretty lax when it comes to opinions.
The main things you can't do:
- porn (I know there's threads of near-porn, but it can't cross over into legit porn)
- spam/blatant advertising
- direct personal attacks on other members (you can disagree with people and say their idea is stupid, you can't tell them they are stupid and you especially can't use any information they've volunteered about themselves to attack them on a personal level)
- don't blatantly try to circumvent the language filters. It's fine to say f---, but don't try to use a $ to get around s--- for example
- We haven't really run into this, but you should probably try to avoid anything that the social media sites would flag as overt "hate speech"
Honestly, most of it comes down to common sense.
For example, it's fine to "advertise" something that you use and think other people should use by mentioning it once in an organic discussion. It's not fine to create a username that exists for the sole purpose of advertising something.
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I can already tell that the current level of moderation here seems totally fine. There's a whole lot of stuff in the politics thread that would never survive on Mania. Cory would regularly delete posts from any political angle he disagreed with. And on some issues, he was
extremely
sensitive. I am also happy there is a political section to keep that stuff there for when one chooses to read it or engage with it. I strongly prefer rants about Trump/Biden not corrupt other topics, but it is fine to have a section for it specifically. I'm quite opinionated myself, but I don't need to think about that s--- constantly.
But, aside from most of us being rather crude and not used to a profanity filter, I think we will fit in just fine.
bconcrete said:
Shelly is the poster child for the argument in favor of post-term abortions.
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I liked HER. We had a few good chats.
Actually, I know it's not a she. I've been trolling you guys from the beginning. I know all these commenters are dudes , I just like to say they are she's. Why? Because that's what I decided at one point that I wanted to do. No real reason.
mrducks said:
I liked HER. We had a few good chats.
Actually, I know it's not a she. I've been trolling you guys from the beginning. I know all these commenters are dudes , I just like to say they are she's. Why? Because that's what I decided at one point that I wanted to do. No real reason.
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mrducks said:
I liked HER. We had a few good chats.
Actually, I know it's not a she. I've been trolling you guys from the beginning. I know all these commenters are dudes , I just like to say they are she's. Why? Because that's what I decided at one point that I wanted to do. No real reason.
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We use to have a she. She pops in every couple of years to say hi.
Eranys said:
We had a few legit female commenters, but Ducks is known for wishfully thinking that 50% of people on Mania were available females.
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Lol. I've been screwing with you the whole time. I know I was wrong, but I kept pushing the issue for fun. That's trolling.
Eranys said:
I can already tell that the current level of moderation here seems totally fine. There's a whole lot of stuff in the politics thread that would never survive on Mania. Cory would regularly delete posts from any political angle he disagreed with. And on some issues, he was
extremely
sensitive. I am also happy there is a political section to keep that stuff there for when one chooses to read it or engage with it. I strongly prefer rants about Trump/Biden not corrupt other topics, but it is fine to have a section for it specifically. I'm quite opinionated myself, but I don't need to think about that s--- constantly.
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Oh yea, that's the other thing I didn't mention... try to keep things on reasonably on topic, especially between the different forums.
Things are way more loosey goosey here in the off topic and I'll derail JonnyRico's various comic book/MCU threads sometimes with other nonsense because they annoy me
... but I know that if I (or anyone) starts going into the General MMA Discussion forum and derailing UFC card threads with stuff like Biden/Trump nonsense that's a really good way to get a warning and possibly banned if you don't get with the program.
Again though, it's common sense right? You can talk all the Biden/Trump political nonsense you want, just keep it in the Off Topic politics thread, easy enough.
Eranys said:
But, aside from most of us being rather crude and not used to a profanity filter, I think we will fit in just fine.
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You get used to the profanity filter after awhile.. don't worry, when you say f--- we know you mean f---.
You get used to the ---'s at some point and read the word as intended.