OrangeDragon wrote:
Taking the low road, I know... but after the frustration of dealing with all of this for the last 24 hours while trying to get packed, say my goodbyes, and figure out how one puts 2 years of their life in cold storage for a year... I'd just gotten fed up.

LoL, we forgive you!

dagenham wrote:Having exhausted this thread we can all now hold hands in a prayer circle...

Definitely!

So, OD made a controversial call, banning Daggers for 24 hours.

We are both new admin, and we will both undoubtedly make unpopular calls sometimes. I can't even say I agree with Daggers banning, but it was only for 24 hours. OD did why he thought he should do at the time, and has explained his reasoning publicly.

At least he didn't go crazy like a tooth-ached admin and delete shit, or delete our beloved Daggers.

I really like that everyone on this thread has just sucked it up and gotten over the whole banning incident and is still posting on here.

We may make unpopular choices from time to time, but we welcome feedback on it and don't go around banning and deleting anyone and anything we don't like.

Many of us know each other in person, and I like it when things get a little heated from time to time, and there will be times we have to decide at a moments notice if something has gone too far.

I especially like Rain Dog's attitude on the whole thing. He felt no real lines were crossed, thus didn't even think of using the "report this post" feature. If he did feel a line was crosses he would have used it. Great attitude.

I also thought Stroppy was getting a little shitty too. I forget what, but sounded like he was throwing insults around. Meh, so what. Doesn't sound like anyone was really butthurt over anything he said. I can see why some might say he looked protected in this exchange, but we don't protect him, or anyone else for that matter.

And Daggers. Our dear friend Daggers. He is a master of getting people into these debates. I don't think anyone that replied to him on this thread didn't see what they had coming to them.

I think the nice thing about us not having concrete rules about every single little thing you can and cannot do is that it really gives everyone on CEO to do their own thing, and it's not a problem until it's a problem. It also lets us seriously take on feedback from individual users and what they think.

If YOU have a problem with a post, report it! Don't hesitate. The Dragon and I are very reasonable and take EVERYTHING into consideration.

We wouldn't have taken positions as admin if we weren't ready to put in the hard work to give it our best shot. We always listen to you guys, so don't ever hesitate to contact us.

As a random example:

I'll sometimes get complaints about other members via PM (either to me directly, or through the report post function). Sometimes I agree, and sometimes I don't. Either way, I'll go look at the problem, and if it's not too bad I'll leave it and just send a message to the offender to cool it. I don't need to go into a long story about who reported them, etc, it's just a polite request.

I think most people offend others and don't even realize it. I know I've done it. And when I realize I have, genuinely try to make things right.

So, if you see something you don't like, report it. It's not petty. If it bothers you, it's likely someone else, or many others, are also bothered by it. Kind of like when you're in math class and you totally don't get anything the teacher is rambling about. You look around, and everyone looks fine. You say fuck it, and decide not to say anything because it's probably just you. Then, some random geek raises their hand and says they're totally lost. You and half the class all go, "yeah, me too! Glad someone said something!"

So, speak up. We've always been very welcoming about constructive criticism, so let us know!

Just remember, CEO is a community project. It's up to everyone to keep this boat sailing smooth! ! Even the admin play by the same rules, so you should all feel like you have just as many rights on here as we do and it doesn't matter if you have 5,000 posts or 500, if you've been in Cambodia for 20 years or 2 days, and it definitely doesn't matter if you know us all in person or are a total loner and have no plans to ever make it out for a meet-up.


Oh, and I love group hugs. Seems nobody walked off in protest, which is good to see that everyone has thick skin. Things got heated on here, a controversial 24 ban got levied, we all discussed it here without fear of being censored/deleted, and we're all still here.

I've been busy too, Stateside and in the middle of moving to Saudi, so I haven't had the pleasure of reading a lot of threads, but I like what I have seen. You guys deserve more than a group hug for getting along so well with such little moderation and few rules. Gives me hope for humanity, and for Daggers.

I fucking hate unnecessary rules, but realize that some our needed. Let's keep those to a minimum if we can. I love the freedoms on here! It would be a shame to have to over-regulate CEO because of a few spats here and there.

So, get out there and start new threads about whatever you want and see if others find them interesting too. I love seeing new content on here, as I don't have time to find everything on the web myself, but most of the random stuff you guys come up with happen to be something I like. Even this thread!

Ok, time for me to get back on my Kindle Paperwhite and see if my books from the pirate bay have loaded correctly.

LMFAO!!! WHAT A TOOL BAG YOU ARE....see how stupid you are...sniffing your own farts cause you read a political piece of propaganda written by a "professor" of Princeton!! ... YOU MY FRIEND ARE A USEFUL MORON that is suckered into this none sense...

Ok, let's STOP the direct insults (also known as name calling).

Everyone should feel free to argue here, but I will DELETE further name calling.

This is NOT to single ^ this poster out, but it's a damn good example of what I will be deleting in the future on this thread.

Thx all.

Tim Linkinwater wrote:Think I got it.

The General, notoriously one of the nastiest (and funniest) bastards around in a previous incarnation, suddenly became nice and started a new site:

Converted by the Missionary Man and off to Saudi to do the (correct) Lord's work.

LoL. Something like that!

Ok, if I come across any ISIS members on my trip to Saudi, I'll befriend them and get the inside scoop. Maybe they're just misunderstood.