New beginning?

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@ethang5
We may have served as a way of building clique identity via communal mockery of an outside group. But in the spirit of "new beginnings", who among us can say we've never indulged in something along those lines at some point. Although I wouldn't say I consider them among my proudest moments.

But if they want to talk about the obliviousness, in my case I can clear that up right now.

If you were there for the forums, it just seemed like nowhere else had a steady pulse. I could go into other forums, create a thread, and have it die without one response. Amid a graveyard of other threads that died without one response. I could post in non-religious forum threads and have it take so long to get a reply that when I saw it in my notifications I would no longer recognize the thread title. Even the more active forums could take hours to update, while the religion forum updated by the minute. Nothing else could compete with that kind of fast pace entertainment and of course it conditioned me to center my attention on the place of highest action. People even posted topics there that really had nothing to do with religion, because they wanted the thread to get instant high traffic. Now I haven't been on DDO since the beginning and I'm sure the activity has fluctuated, but this was just my experience.
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That was because AirMax let the board degrade with trolls. The politics board was like a KKK convention. Traffic began to die long before there was a spam problem. The religion board kept the racist at bay with unity. But just barely.

Maybe Juggle liked the traffic and prohibited AirMax from banning anyone, but in that situation I would have banned hari and given up the job. Nothing is worth my integrity.

Mike here is not an american, and may not have the American sensibility of how vile racism is, but I really hope he doesn't let Dart become just like all the other racist infected boards on the net.

The success of this site is not a given.

590 days later

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More than a year later, cheers to Virtuoso and Ragnar and the new mod team.

The religion board bigots have fallen away one by one. The politics board has managed to keep the racists at bay. The owner's new updates are going to draw in new blood.

Dart is in a good place.
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@ethang5
Be careful what you say.

You are slowly tending towards bigotry in our discussions.


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@zedvictor4
That must be why you're currently chasing me around the site. What, "frustrated" wasn't working for you so now you're going to try bigotry?

I've run through a dozen yokels like you Zed. Somehow you become fixated with me and think you can take me down.

You will lose. Unless you get your bearings and stabilize yourself, you will lose. 
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@ethang5
you are right, i am happy for this place
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@ethang5
Ha Ha.

Not chasing.

You just tend to have the time advantage.

And it's just a debating website Mr Ethan....No winners, no losers....Just entertainment.



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@zedvictor4
No winners, no losers....
If you stalk, spam, and drone sophistry, there will be losers.

Just entertainment.
Watching you attempt to be intellectual is entertaining.
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@ethang5
Intellect is what it is.



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Lol! Stop! You're killing us! So funny!