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Offline Ballygrl

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Help and Meta Forum gone?
« on: May 21, 2012, 07:13:29 PM »
I don't see it under Forums, any idea if it's gone? or hidden?
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2012, 07:14:54 PM »
Hmm. I think you might have to be a registered member to read it, when I do a search it tells me to log in.
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2012, 07:19:11 PM »
Hmm. I think you might have to be a registered member to read it, when I do a search it tells me to log in.

Must have been due to the whining and bickering, distracting from the concept of transparency.
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2012, 07:20:03 PM »
Well that sucks!
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2012, 07:22:38 PM »
The primatives don't like it when their dirty laundry is out there for all to see.
May have been the most comedic forums there.
No bother, they reveal themselves just as much on others.

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Then-Chief Justice John Marshall observed, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

John Adams warned in a letter, “Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2012, 07:23:20 PM »
They must have see our musings on closing this forum and decided to get a jump start.

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2012, 07:31:12 PM »
You have to log in to see them. 

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2012, 07:31:23 PM »
Yep, it's been hidden.

Only franksolich's mole has access to it now, not franksolich himself; and of course other moles.

Too bad for the primitives.

What you see is a consequence of a little itty-bitty forum on a little itty-bitty conservative message board shining Light and Illumination on a great big forum on a great big primitive message board.

They want to hide.

We'll see how well that goes; it should be interesting as things evolve.
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2012, 07:32:34 PM »
DUmpmonkeys can't do anything right.

H&M was the only good thing about the new DUmp.

At least we still have Cooking, the loony bin, and GD.

Moles will have to bear the burden of carrying H&M craziness back here.

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2012, 07:33:39 PM »
Well damn.  I loved that forum.  But you know what could be fun?  Having a registered mole have some of us post some of their threads.  We can provide cover for the moles, and still get a laugh over their infighting and non-stop hurt feelings.  

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2012, 07:37:27 PM »
Young and even old, moles will need to tread carefully when visiting the MEnTAl Help forum.
Then-Chief Justice John Marshall observed, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

John Adams warned in a letter, “Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #11 on: May 21, 2012, 07:38:39 PM »


What you see is a consequence of a little itty-bitty forum on a little itty-bitty conservative message board shining Light and Illumination on a great big forum on a great big primitive message board.




This is a textbook example of the Margaret Mead effect.  I can't think of any other reason they would have hidden it from view. 

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #12 on: May 21, 2012, 08:05:01 PM »
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It appears that Help & Meta is now hidden from non-members.

I can't say that I blame the admins!

Just an FYI.

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1. Thank Dog!

It's bad enough that we see what's going on inside the walls of this group but to hang it out for the rest of the world to see... good decision by the admins!

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8. Cue influx of looky loo trolls in 3...2...1

But, pobably not a bad idea anyway.

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11. hopefully MIRT will get them quickly!

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21. this could even be an incentive for joining Du to see all the drama that goes on in this forum.

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23. You should have to log in to see H&M imo.

Why else would anyone need that forum? Makes perfect sense.

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #13 on: May 21, 2012, 08:08:07 PM »
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1. Thank Dog!

It's bad enough that we see what's going on inside the walls of this group but to hang it out for the rest of the world to see... good decision by the admins!

Has this person admitted that DU has a bunch of kooks posting there?
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2012, 08:14:14 PM »
Has this person admitted that DU has a bunch of kooks posting there?

What goes on, on monkey island, stays on monkey island.

Or so they think.  :-)


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forgot obligatory monkey fight vid:
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2012, 08:17:22 PM »
Does this mean that we need a subforum in the DUmpster that is strictly for H&M threads, a protected forum that only posters with a certain number of posts can see?

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2012, 08:43:34 PM »
This is a textbook example of the Margaret Mead effect.  I can't think of any other reason they would have hidden it from view.

Right; the Margaret Mead phenomenon where primitives, once they're aware they're being observed, either change their conduct or hide it.

It's all anthropological; what we have here is that the primitives, having been infiltrated and all is falling apart around them (i.e., the current political environment), retreat further and further into the interior of the forest, huddled together in the darkness, sweating in fear.

It's happened since Time Immemorial.

While it presents--temporarily--a minor nuisance, it doesn't especially bother me, the hiding of the forum.  I'm surprised my fellow alum Skins took so long to do it.  I figured he would sooner or later, but I didn't think it would take this long.
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2012, 08:44:28 PM »

While it presents--temporarily--a minor nuisance, it doesn't especially bother me, the hiding of the forum.  I'm surprised my fellow alum Skins took so long to do it.  I figured he would sooner or later, but I didn't think it would take this long.

Honestly, I'm surprised he ever had it out in the open to begin with. 

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2012, 08:45:41 PM »
Maybe now that Ban the GOP is a member here, he'll help his new forum buddies out by posting the funniest, craziest crap from Help and Meta?
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2012, 08:46:18 PM »
Honestly, I'm surprised he ever had it out in the open to begin with. 

By the way, the next time a primitive alleges the DUmpster is meaningless, laugh in his face.
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Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2012, 08:46:54 PM »
Maybe now that Ban the GOP is a member here, he'll help his new forum buddies out by posting the funniest, craziest crap from Help and Meta?

Is that really him? or someone pretending to be him?
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2012, 08:49:03 PM »
By the way, the next time a primitive alleges the DUmpster is meaningless, laugh in his face.

Maybe we should start a 'Greatest Hits' subfolder in the DUmping Ground?  Any walldudings, our buddy Omaha Steve, etc. would make a handy reference for any visiting primitives just how 'meaningless' the DUmpster is. 

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2012, 08:54:13 PM »
Maybe we should start a 'Greatest Hits' subfolder in the DUmping Ground?  Any walldudings, our buddy Omaha Steve, etc. would make a handy reference for any visiting primitives just how 'meaningless' the DUmpster is. 

Well, it's obvious there's only one reason, or at least only one really big reason (with maybe a few smaller reasons) the primitives are in retreat into the dark interior of Skins's island.

apres moi, le deluge

Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2012, 09:08:02 PM »
Is that really him? or someone pretending to be him?
Only one post. Very little invective. But I think it is him.

Maybe Skinner sent him a PM warning him off?
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Re: Help and Meta Forum gone?
« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2012, 09:11:38 PM »
Only one post. Very little invective. But I think it is him.

Maybe Skinner sent him a PM warning him off?

I hope he comes back to debate us.
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