It's just weird.
We have cross posters.
Why do you care??
In my country they have a saying for this...rowing your boat on two rivers.
Running with the fox, and hunting with the hounds...
People are just interested in what both groups have to say. No biggie.
Quote from: "RW"
I got that but it struck me as kind of weird anyway. Two groups discussing the same topics (often worded the same in the titles) but maintaining two separate sites.
It's for the best :)
Conscious decoupling.
It also doesn't help that little Eddie copies threads here and pastes them over there. Hence the Seaweed/Bacon thread and it's opening post appearing word for word on bother sites.
In case there are those that are unaware, he also steals avatars, pictures and whatever other personal info he can glean from the members here and keeps them for future mischief.
Whatever floats his sad little boat. He won't be allowed to cause mischief here.
Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
I haven't had time to read VF in a long time, but I would assume the same topics would be discussed all over internet.
I post in both very different forums for quite different reasons. When I have what I consider an especially interesting, important or provocative thread placed here, why would I not use it for both?
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Yes, of course
Jeeez ... I just noticed that Goofus has stolen Spec's Stolen Valour thread word for word and posted it "over there"
along with other peoples threads as well
One thing for a thread to be re- posted to by the originator, another for it to be stolen word for word
Then, Goofus is Goofus, eh?
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:laugh:
So why not combine the two and call it The Blue Van?
Because we intentionally split.
What was the one event or group of events which caused the split?
Long story.
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I'd like to understand it one day. I'm still trying to piece it together. It's a mystery wrapped in onion skins and baked into a hard ball for me.
I'll tell you one day.
That would clear up some of my confusion on this.
It seems like a pair of divorced parents with liberal visitation rights for the kids (or threads).
A lot of it is VF trolls doing that to be shits over there.
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I think most of the sour assholes at VF have let the issue drop and have moved on. It's pretty much down to just one disturbed little sociopath trying to keep the issue between this place and Van alive. The air under mommy's skirt must be a little stuffy and foul these days as he has been a bit more active and angry of late.
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It seems like a pair of divorced parents with liberal visitation rights for the kids (or threads).
OK. Short version.
One of the cretinous swine there stalked and harassed another female member.
RW was a mod and banned his ass, in agreement with the other mods.
The owner re-instated the creep, saying she could rehabilitate him.
RW rebelled and quit. The other mods stood by and let her fall on her sword rather than stand up for principle.
I went to war on the owner and remaining mods, and tore the place apart for their treachery and indifference to member's welfare. I exposed their duplicity, favouritism, prejudice, deception and perfidy. It reached a point where they used the mod panel to retaliate by dumping posts and threads and banning without due cause. RW was eventually permabanned because she was more popular and supported than the despicable ogre that owned the place. I tore the place apart, as I informed them I would. Le destroyer des mondes.
The disaffected moved to the Asian forum.
The Asian forum transformed into The Blue Cashew.
All in all, it was jolly good fun. Well, to be fair, some were distressed, hurt, angered, enraged and psychotic,,,but generally it was fun. There were some side issues based on personal conflict, but for a while there it was quite the tempest.
Questions?
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Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
It seems like a pair of divorced parents with liberal visitation rights for the kids (or threads).
OK. Short version.
One of the cretinous swine there stalked and harassed another female member.
RW was a mod and banned his ass, in agreement with the other mods.
The owner re-instated the creep, saying she could rehabilitate him.
RW rebelled and quit. The other mods stood by and let her fall on her sword rather than stand up for principle.
I went to war on the owner and remaining mods, and tore the place apart for their treachery and indifference to member's welfare. I exposed their duplicity, favouritism, prejudice, deception and perfidy. It reached a point where they used the mod panel to retaliate by dumping posts and threads and banning without due cause. RW was eventually permabanned because she was more popular and supported than the despicable ogre that owned the place. I tore the place apart, as I informed them I would. Le destroyer des mondes.
The disaffected moved to the Asian forum.
The Asian forum transformed into The Blue Cashew.
All in all, it was jolly good fun. Well, to be fair, some were distressed, hurt, angered, enraged and psychotic,,,but generally it was fun. There were some side issues based on personal conflict, but for a while there it was quite the tempest.
Questions?
No questions I can think of now after that synapses of yours. Any other views on this?
Go ask over there.
Tell them Leopardsocks sent you.
Sounds like a fools errand. Can't you elaborate further or do your thoughts on it have an offensive smell? :laugh:
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Leo forgot to add that there were a bunch of regular posters accounts put inactive or banned. RW was not the only one.
If you want a hard look, search a thread called "retardation on the other forum" please dont bump it, let it die
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Quote from: "Dinky Dianna"
It seems like a pair of divorced parents with liberal visitation rights for the kids (or threads).
OK. Short version.
One of the cretinous swine there stalked and harassed another female member.
RW was a mod and banned his ass, in agreement with the other mods.
The owner re-instated the creep, saying she could rehabilitate him.
RW rebelled and quit. The other mods stood by and let her fall on her sword rather than stand up for principle.
I went to war on the owner and remaining mods, and tore the place apart for their treachery and indifference to member's welfare. I exposed their duplicity, favouritism, prejudice, deception and perfidy. It reached a point where they used the mod panel to retaliate by dumping posts and threads and banning without due cause. RW was eventually permabanned because she was more popular and supported than the despicable ogre that owned the place. I tore the place apart, as I informed them I would. Le destroyer des mondes.
The disaffected moved to the Asian forum.
The Asian forum transformed into The Blue Cashew.
All in all, it was jolly good fun. Well, to be fair, some were distressed, hurt, angered, enraged and psychotic,,,but generally it was fun. There were some side issues based on personal conflict, but for a while there it was quite the tempest.
Questions?
I tried my best to stay out of that SPECTRE..
I almost forgot what the underlying points of contention were.
I just wrote that down on paper with pen and will be sure to have a snoop around for it, Keeper.
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Well, all i can say is read it with humor.
I always take everything with a grain of salt.
Also there was an underlying foul current in the place well before the shit with RW went down. The owner of the place was and is a revolting hag. She has attacked posters viciously and personally on many occasions. She is all sweetness and light until you say something that she doesn't like and it doesn't matter what it is. It could be anything from politics to your personal taste in peanut butter, you never know what will set her off. Unless you are in her little circle of sycophants and toadies you are fair game.
Van used to be a large thriving community of interesting people until the owner decide to go off her rails and rip the place apart. She basically ran the community into the ground. The issue that the Inspector is talking about was just the culmination of a shit storm that was long time in coming. As anyone can see the old harpy is now desperate to rebuild the place and save face. That's why she so readily let all the BF refugees in and basically gave the farm away to them without first discovering what kind of posters they are. She has a very sick and disturbing need to take in strays and will support and defend them no matter how poisonous they may be while at the same time, she will shit all over the decent people who make her forum an enjoyable place.
Spectre's version is unfortunately not accurate and I don't want to sour this place with the memory of that place by correcting him either.
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ac_umm I think you just did what you didn't want to do. :laugh3:
Not to the extent a stickler for accuracy like me would like to have :)
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We shall see.
But if I know anything about our esteemed Aussie colleague, I don't think he will take very well to being called inaccurate. :laugh3:
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Van used to be a large thriving community of interesting people until the owner decide to go off her rails and rip the place apart. She basically ran the community into the ground. The issue that the Inspector is talking about was just the culmination of a shit storm that was long time in coming. As anyone can see the old harpy is now desperate to rebuild the place and save face. That's why she so readily let all the BF refugees in and basically gave the farm away to them without first discovering what kind of posters they are. She has a very sick and disturbing need to take in strays and will support and defend them no matter how poisonous they may be while at the same time, she will shit all over the decent people who make her forum an enjoyable place.
That bipolar twat is a prime example of why accepting bogus refugees is bad for Canada.
It's not my fault he doesn't have it right Wulf.
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OK. So some facts were ommitted or modified for dramatic effect.
Its only for Dinky Di anyway, so who cares.
The part about me ripping them up was true though. ac_beating
Yes that part was true.
I chatted with someone this morning who used to post here, but stopped..
This person also said that someone is copying our threads and reposting them on VF.
Why did that person stop posting here?
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Check your messages in a couple of minutes RW.
Thanks Fash. Sometimes other forums are a better fit for people and I'm totally cool with that.
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I agree RW and I wish that person the very best.
Gee...let me guess...name starts with a D, ends in a K.
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Quote from: "RW"
I agree RW and I wish that person the very best.
Oh yes. As do I.
Quote from: "SPECTRE"
Clever Cookie.
Eye no.
Quote from: "SPECTRE"
That guy can whine with the best of them.
Jeeez, I must not spend enough time on forums. Or I'm totally clueless. (Try hard to let an easy agreement pass by ac_smile ).
I didn't even know what happened "over there" some time back let alone who just left to go over there
signed - Clueless in White Rock
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Actually, does it matter?
Whether or not they have the same title, they are still different because a fair number of posters on the Blue Cashew never post on memebee, and the same is true of posters over there who never come over to the Blue Cashew. So I fact, a completely different dynamic develops and the shape of threads is not the same.
So you can get a different set of responses from threads which have the same title.
As a result they are not the same.
Anyone else noticed that Joe's medication seems to be working?
The guy is making sense.
He definitely does on occasion.
So, its not just me. That's a relief.
Ya. You are OK ... or, we both are crazy is another possibility
Well, I must admit...I've sometimes wondered about you...
:tease:
Crazy people often do
Joe/Frank states the obvious and people start thinking he is semi-normal. :nea:
Let's not start jumping to conclusions, shall we? :laugh3:
true. Sometimes I make too many allowances
for infidels
Quote from: "Wulf"
Let's not start jumping to conclusions, shall we? :laugh3:
Yeah.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.