- Joined
- Jan 30, 2013
Today, as most of you know, I deleted the Lolcow forum. I was upset that this was done without my say, despite by expressed wishes. Normally, I would not apologize in such an instance because I, as your fearless leader, don't wish to show weakness that would undermine my credibility. However, I did something that went against a core principle I have, namely I made a decision based on my emotions at the time instead of using reason.
For that, I apologize for deleting the forum and the posts. Like I said, I was just upset at the time and I didn't really look at the posts, I honest didn't see there was a 30 page thread, if I saw that I would have moved it. I unfortunately can't replace it which is a shame as I didn't mind that thread.
I am however worried about attracting the nefarious element from /cwc/. To be honest, most of you are harmless sort of folks - you just want to talk about Chris, maybe some other lolcows, as you just have a morbid fascination with them. What I don't want is the user from /cwc/ who is looking for the next Chris because they want to tear someone down like what happened with Chris. There's an element that creates an atmosphere where you have to call someone out as a lolcow or else they'll call you out as a lolcow. Remember, most of the lolcows people discuss are people from the CWC community - ADF was discovered from his CWCki edits, The Iconclast was discovered likewise, A-Log was discovered from his rantings on Chris. Then you have /cwc/ers who are now considered lolcows - Van Krause, Medic, Atlus, those guys. The fact most of you are here to talk about Chris, in 2013, would consider you lolcows to most of these people and I don't want to see anyone getting trolled.
However, I remember when someone asked if I could make a General forum and I was against it, namely I was afraid of people making threads about their bizarre fetishes and post fanfiction of their OCs raping some anime characters but that turned out not to be a case. Not to say General is perfect, but it's pretty normal discussion. That said, I will in fact bring back the Lolcow forum. However, like the Chris forum, it will be just for discussion of lolcows and not trolling them. I want to keep Null's nose clean and I can't predict what these other lolcows will do. Also, I don't want dox. One thing I don't like about /cwc/ is that people will do personal army shit by posting the doxs of someone they don't like and calling them a lolcow. I don't want that shit to go down here and likewise, I want to keep our noses clean.
I want to apologize to Null as I did something I normally would never do, namely biting the hand that feeds me.
So once again, I apologize for deleting the forum and in the future, I will wait until I will put off any of these sort of decisions until I can rationally approach the problem or discuss it with the staff. I will bring back the Lolcow forum and you can all post about lolcows other than Chris there. As I've said, I have no problem with you all talking about other lolcows than Chris, it's probably a reasonable thing to do at this point, but like I said, I don't want shit where you're trying to find a new Chris to tear them down.
For that, I apologize for deleting the forum and the posts. Like I said, I was just upset at the time and I didn't really look at the posts, I honest didn't see there was a 30 page thread, if I saw that I would have moved it. I unfortunately can't replace it which is a shame as I didn't mind that thread.
I am however worried about attracting the nefarious element from /cwc/. To be honest, most of you are harmless sort of folks - you just want to talk about Chris, maybe some other lolcows, as you just have a morbid fascination with them. What I don't want is the user from /cwc/ who is looking for the next Chris because they want to tear someone down like what happened with Chris. There's an element that creates an atmosphere where you have to call someone out as a lolcow or else they'll call you out as a lolcow. Remember, most of the lolcows people discuss are people from the CWC community - ADF was discovered from his CWCki edits, The Iconclast was discovered likewise, A-Log was discovered from his rantings on Chris. Then you have /cwc/ers who are now considered lolcows - Van Krause, Medic, Atlus, those guys. The fact most of you are here to talk about Chris, in 2013, would consider you lolcows to most of these people and I don't want to see anyone getting trolled.
However, I remember when someone asked if I could make a General forum and I was against it, namely I was afraid of people making threads about their bizarre fetishes and post fanfiction of their OCs raping some anime characters but that turned out not to be a case. Not to say General is perfect, but it's pretty normal discussion. That said, I will in fact bring back the Lolcow forum. However, like the Chris forum, it will be just for discussion of lolcows and not trolling them. I want to keep Null's nose clean and I can't predict what these other lolcows will do. Also, I don't want dox. One thing I don't like about /cwc/ is that people will do personal army shit by posting the doxs of someone they don't like and calling them a lolcow. I don't want that shit to go down here and likewise, I want to keep our noses clean.
I want to apologize to Null as I did something I normally would never do, namely biting the hand that feeds me.
So once again, I apologize for deleting the forum and in the future, I will wait until I will put off any of these sort of decisions until I can rationally approach the problem or discuss it with the staff. I will bring back the Lolcow forum and you can all post about lolcows other than Chris there. As I've said, I have no problem with you all talking about other lolcows than Chris, it's probably a reasonable thing to do at this point, but like I said, I don't want shit where you're trying to find a new Chris to tear them down.
