INCOMING WALL OF TEXT
I am doing something. You want action and a rallying cry? A waving flag? I just ordered one along with a Che Guevara shirt and this killer distressed graphic tee with the anarchy symbol on it.
This thread is a critique on policy and a reminder that the admins here have a funny way of glazing over real facts. Mods too apparently. This is what it is and this is what it always has been. Just a friendly reminder to those who are new or too drunk to remember last month

I've tried to have dialogue with higher ups, it's abundantly clear to me that they are more interested in having circlejerks with their friends than actually preserving this community or making it function. It's also my reputation that's getting in the way of actual communication. Apparently you can't question authority without the other monkeys getting worked up. Too bad, since most monkeys ain't cognitively advanced enough to question authority, or themselves for that matter. It's a pitiful world.
If they cared they wouldn't be running this site into the ground with all these rules that
PROHIBIT ACTUAL CREATIVE THOUGHT AND EXPRESSION. If they had any vision or social competence they would understand that while guidelines are important, they do very little to increase our ability to understand and adapt or make art that is a true representation of our heart and soul.
This site has only gotten worse since shit Phade shit himself over getting sued by the RIAA and went into lockdown mode. This is art for fuck's sake. How is a restriction in the realm of the creation of art beneficial to actual expression and the medium? How are foul language and violence even seen as an issue? Why can't we edit our posts unless we pay money? Why could you not edit your posts for a long time back in the day? Why is the functionality of this site on a 10 dollar per year use basis when captcha or other revenue streams could be utilized instead? Why are you still reading this?
cause it makes you think IMO The policy on this site has been directly influenced by the new wave of terror in the United states. As surely as the academic institutions and workplaces have adapted to post 9/11 life with new rules and regulations, websites have as well. These rules are not for the protection or preservation of anyone but the person who owns this site and has legal liability. We are afraid and making policy decisions from a place of fear - THIS IS NOT HEALTHY AND WILL NOT PRODUCE GOOD RULES.Phade or the moderati or puppet boy or whatever herd runs this site now are not capable. If you're offended, too damned bad. I watched the IRC channel go from a lush, vividly coloured rainforest that I helped sow to a barren field of stumps cut down by AD and his strict observance of rules created in a time of war and fear in the world. Then AD turned around and broke most of them on a consistent basis and pulled the dictator card whenever it happened. He must just be more equal than others, just like the sunken modship and the other puppet admins who have the presence and likability of boiled spaghetti. The fact that mods and admins keep changing on this site tells me that there's something going on in the leadership chain. At this point it looks to me like whoever is in charge of ordering the power structure in this community has been fumbling with it since 2003.
Listen, I know ya'll are well meaning but when you get a bunch of monkeys in a room they are going to eventually have issue. There will always be problems in social communities that need to be taken care of prudently and responsibly, however, employing people who are basically social incompetents does nothing but promote disharmony. This is the IRC currently. The IRC isn't helped by the fact that it's an asinine committee of people who don't even have the time to do their duty on a consistent basis or communicate with each other. It's all hush-hush and done behind closed doors. The IRC channel is run like a fucking day care. This is what you people want isn't it? Someone to think for you? Someone to tell you what to do?
On to the redesign: This redesign is too little too late and will do nothing to attract people if the social climate stays this way. People have more autonomy on YT and more freedom to speak their minds and that will be far more attractive.
If the higher ups in this scene can't handle people speaking their mind and asking for a leadership that actually understands how to run things to the benefit of their users and the community at large there is no hope. The question is, at a time when the admins are clear-cutting: Are you bracing against the tree with all your might or lying down on the forest floor blanketed by its looming shadow, awaiting the crushing blow?
A state of the org address? Really? You compare yourself tongue-in-cheek to the president? That's fitting, cause Barack's a pawn too.This site needs new leadership, without a competent plan to move forward it's dead. As far as I'm concerned a place that limits my ability to express myself DOES NOT HAVE MY GOOD WILL IN MIND. If you disagree, so be it. But that shit don't fly with me no way no how and it makes me sick to my stomach that other people think this shit is alright.