While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[Crezth]

I mean, how can you say to care about the community and purposefully separate yourself from a nontrivial portion of it?

 

[Azale]

I mean, how can you say to care about the community and purposefully separate yourself from a nontrivial portion of it?

Some people didn't like the way #nes conducted their business (obviously I was one of them), now they have an alternative. Now people won't think any particular irc chat represents the community as a whole. #nes can do their thing, and people who don't like it don't have to deal with it.

Why are you pressing this?

 

[North King]

#nes doesn't represent a "nontrivial" portion of the community. It represents a very specific subset of the community. Moreover, it is an environment which is actively harmful to the greater community. In such circumstances, it is not only conceivable but reasonable to suggest that participation would not be a positive contribution to NESing as a whole.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Moderator Action: Discussion is fine, just keep it civil.

 

[Caprine Synesth]

I'm talking about the damn forum, come on. IRC chats are offshoots off the community, whether it's #neverending or #nes.

Ooh, whats #neverending and #nes?

 

[Azale]

Ooh, whats #neverending and #nes?

chatrooms

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Search mibbit on google click the first result, scroll to the bottom of the page and click 'chat now', then click the server tab and type 'razorvine.selfip.net', put in whatever name you want, and type in either #nes or #neverending into the channel area, or type #nes,#neverending to join both.

 

[Crezth]

Some people didn't like the way #nes conducted their business (obviously I was one of them), now they have an alternative. Now people won't think any particular irc chat represents the community as a whole. #nes can do their thing, and people who don't like it don't have to deal with it.

Why are you pressing this?

I'm simply pointing out that someone who pretends to care about the community as opposed to his own aggrandizement wouldn't try to take over the largest chatroom in this community and, upon failing, attempt to sabotage it by establishing a rival chatroom on the same server, ostensibly as a haven for poor and downtrodden but noticeably as a den for wannabe revolutionaries.

#nes doesn't represent a "nontrivial" portion of the community. It represents a very specific subset of the community. Moreover, it is an environment which is actively harmful to the greater community. In such circumstances, it is not only conceivable but reasonable to suggest that participation would not be a positive contribution to NESing as a whole.

Link to video.

 

[North King]

You're crazy.

...

I'm simply pointing out that someone who pretends to care about the community as opposed to his own aggrandizement wouldn't try to take over the largest chatroom in this community and, upon failing, attempt to sabotage it by establishing a rival chatroom on the same server, ostensibly as a haven for poor and downtrodden but noticeably as a den for wannabe revolutionaries.

umm...

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Azale decided against that coup before it was carried out, by my understanding, and those who left for #neverending did so out of frustration with the attitudes of the ops of #nes. Crezth, I think that the reasons you're putting forward have already been discredited.

Judging from the way that #neverending appears to be run right now, I would heavily contest that it exists for anyone's self-aggrandizement.

 

[Crezth]

No, you're right, I guess I just can't see how dedicated Azale is through what must be a clever mask of misdirection via unprincipled power plays.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

The power play was abandoned before it was carried out, and what was planned looked more to be originating from anger over a fairly short timespan, rather than a long-term, Machiavellian plot.

At any rate, I don't think anyone should be trying to commit hostile coups on anyone's channels.

 

[Crezth]

Splitting the community is a funny way of showing that you care about it.

 

[Dachs]

The intellectualism displayed in this thread is truly incredible. Thank god we have the internet.

Are we at CFC intellectuals?

 

[North King]

@Crezth: That point has already been answered.

@Dachs: Obviously I was holding people to a standard they are unprepared to meet.

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[Crezth]

Yes, I've heard the story that Azale is simply a misunderstood hero trying to bring down a harmful, tyrannical regime. I don't buy it, but I've heard it.

 

[North King]

Yes, I've heard the story that Azale is simply a misunderstood hero trying to bring down a harmful, tyrannical regime. I don't buy it, but I've heard it.

What the hell, dude. The "story" is that people didn't like #nes, and went to a new chatroom. Stop trying to turn this into some sort of confrontation between good and evil.

 

[Crezth]

Weren't you the guy who just said that #nes is actively destroying the community or whatever?

 

[North King]

You'll notice I said "it is an environment which is actively harmful to the greater community," not "it is an arm of an imperialistic, dogmatic regime which seeks to exert power over the entirety of NESing, reducing it to a puppet show run by a cabal which is completely chosen by a group of #nes insiders."