Welcome to the Cave of Dragonflies guestbook.
Amaterasu, I'm just as surprised myself. Banning members for their views is rather fashionable across Helen's forums.
Another problem Helen seems to face is her lack of honesty and not only with us but with herself out of all people. Helen, unfortunately, your urge to reply to our accusations is too obvious. As you have done so already, only with the refusal to address us directly in which comes off as a rather try-hard attempt to balance out between Ignoring and replying, it's in our standards to inform you that this is not getting in-tact very well and it's making you seem somewhat desperate in your attempt, and this, Helen, is what we refer to as your politics.
"to deal with people in an opportunistic, manipulative, or devious way." - Dictonary.com
The pressure inflected on members doesn't run by you single handedly. It's in the system your forums operates. It's in your rules and it's in your absolute selectivity with who gets to become a Mod, and it's in your morality, it's in your breath, it's in every trace you make, it's the person that you just are, Helen.
If you want an example, out of the blue - An ethical person wouldn't Administrate a person all of a sudden for being a "your boyfriend", without regard to your members viewpoints, let alone - De-administrate him, out of the blue and with no warning - without regard to the members' viewpoints. Democracy 101.
It's just some inane ramble about how apparently I DICTATE EVERYTHING on my forums even though all I ever really do on them is read threads and post an average of less than two posts a day. Also he thinks this has something to do with politics. It's too silly and vague to be threatening. In fact, I find it mildly entertaining.
Okay Justice, if you have a problem, I suggest you shove it *insert rant here* and take off. This may seem as offensive, but still, you need to shut it. I haven't even been here all that long and I know you're being a jerk. I'm surprised Butterfree hasn't banned your IP yet.
we are familiar with your sleazy politics Hely, it was cute when you're 15 but you're too old for such games now
It would be nice if we were inaccurate Helen but if that was the case your forums wouldn't have gone through the so-called drama it did throughout the last 10 years. Everything would've been smooth and A-okay, just like in many other forums. I think you can agree that yours was no where close to such place, our only disagreement? We believe its you that's completely at fault.
If you take a closer look you will see that most drama were centered around particular subjects; Mod Abuse and to what others identified as the "Kool Kids Krew", your forums DID witness a wave of change in the last 3 years, many mods, for starters, are now banned and even demodded which is a good step. However If your forums, or rather, your attitude was absolutely perfect, this place wouldn't have gone through a decade of instability. Better yet, there wouldn't have been major changes such as this one - but only after continuous pressure from members, of course. Remember when you and Nidokingu went as far as to ban topics that fuse drama?
Our only warning is that the so-called wave of change won't last as long as your dictatorial attitude stays where it is.
Allow people to make mistakes - just let the culture of this place grow naturally. How you think you can dictate what this place can or can't be by force is the source to all its problems.
These words are that of many. Go through your forums history and you will see a few topics talking about similar subjects. If not exactly the same subject. You can behave as if such criticism are absolutely inaccurate even though our voices have been echoing within the last 10 years, over and over - Your close-mindedness to criticism evidently proves your arrogance.
That guy has nothing to say on the current state of the forum, because he obviously hasn't been on it in several years (most egregiously, he still thinks Furret, a member who left years ago, is relevant).
"TCoD limits creativity and freedom of thought. More to come later, take care"
…No, it doesn't. This is fact, the only place where I feel free to show others my creativty.
It's a website about pokemon, not 1984.
"Freedom of thought"
Te loca, freedom of thought…
Lolwut.
I think the most amusing thing about this is how there doesn't seem to be a sentence in it that isn't factually inaccurate in ways that parody themselves.
It's been a few years, and whenever I think of TCoD, I just imagine what would a country be if Helen was in control? She loves talking about liberalism all across your forums. Her attitude however, in the way she controls the forums from A to Z proves otherwise; until today, she's the most fascist individual I have ever met.
1. The so called "Rules" works as Filtering rather than actual rules. For starters, it literally doesn't let you in if you don't fully read them. I heard this addition is no longer there and I hope that's true, but overall; it dictates what kind of person you MUST be to join the forums, It's hardly about 'rules'. This comes in the degree of 'Warnings' for things such as posting to many emoticons, 'flaming' (30 points?), 'backseat modding', 'bad english', it's almost as if these forums want to be in control of it's image, and it's people, than to just give people to space to be. The number of people banned from the forums simply for being different, is a great indicator. Why is it that other forums are relaxed about how their people behave, unless it gets absolutely serious - while this one pressures people's to the tip of their mind? "Am I saying this right", "is this post in the right forums..", and the constant justification people make after they make a topic, from "I was bored" to "i'm not sure this is in the right place bu i concluded it is because ect", just reflects such pressure.
2. Selectivity in mods. You're modding method is simple: You mod people who are exactly like you. People as uptight and as aggressive and as arrogant as you are. No one would dare think he has the freedom to be himself under this great leadership.
2. Corruption. See; Furret. There's obvious selectivity in who is allowed in the forums, and who isn't.
TCoD limits creativity and freedom of thought. More to come later, take care
I would make one splash. Just like I didn't make a splash for 3,500,000 because that was less than a month after 3,000,000 and clearly came about because somebody was really bored and spent a few days refreshing the front page incessantly.
That was supposed to say "in like 24 hours". I have no idea why Number Lock was off…
That's another thing that bugs me - people who say the only people to use the number pad are accountants and such. I use it all the time - I almost never use the ones above the letters. Even more, I prefer the Enter key over there, for whatever reason.
If, hypothetically, the site suddenly got insanely popular, and it went through the next, let's say six, milestones you have planned, in like hours, would you still make all six splashes? Or, would you just make one?
I know that's not likely to happen, but still.
Why on earth would there be a new splash? The next front page hit milestone is four and a half million.
Now can we have a new splash?
The title of the post is "Nine Years and Counting", but the first lines of the poem are "You are now just one year from a ten-year career". Both correctly imply the site is nine years old. If that's not what you're getting at, I'm lost.
I just noticed; i use the Shiny Ninetales thingy and the message on the front page says "You are 9 Years away from being a 10-year-site" or something.
yeah i didnt quote it directly.
I put in my Soul Silver in and head over to my friends house that has Wifi… Go to the Plaza and no ones there… I guess it's understanable since everyones playing Black and White but I still like my Pokemon following me.
Didn't know TomSka had passed by…
I like trains!
-everybody gets hit by a train-
Happy belated birthday, site! I promise to visit you more often instead of just putter about on the forums. :D
i know…well its actually not the sites birthday anymore,but people are still wishing it a happy birthday lol
