It wasn't based. The faggots there, AOU in particular, put on a tense passive-aggressive smile - as they had to - in order to welcome you through the door, only to later turn about and unleash their pent up anti-Goat frustration (which seems to have always been their desire). I watched two old Goat buddies who migrated with me get banned for the most inane bullshit, including one who was banned for using @ mentions. AOU said it was a drain on 'site resources', despite being functionality he'd build into it. The last straw for me was watching some poor bloke (I forget his username now) get run out of town by AOU and AOU's band of bootlickers, on some baseless accusations of being a pedophile. The guy repeatedly asked AOU for evidence, and in true AOU fashion that only seemed to incense the mob more, such that even defending himself, by itself, became greater reason to ban him.
True room-temp IQ mentality.
I don't know how I wasn't banned, honestly. I made a sub specifically to insult AOU. There were several personal exchanges between he and I in comment threads, arguments in which I let loose on him. Instead, I was given the 'poop' flair, and then noticed my site points were consistently dropping, even without activity. When I'd point this out, someone would predictably shout: "the algo is correcting for bot votes". Yeah, after five months of no activity, the bots are just continually upvoting 5-month old comments. At one point or another, my points were dropping so much that this excuse would have required that every other user on the site besides me be a bot.
CHIRO 9 points 2.9 years ago
It wasn't based. The faggots there, AOU in particular, put on a tense passive-aggressive smile - as they had to - in order to welcome you through the door, only to later turn about and unleash their pent up anti-Goat frustration (which seems to have always been their desire). I watched two old Goat buddies who migrated with me get banned for the most inane bullshit, including one who was banned for using @ mentions. AOU said it was a drain on 'site resources', despite being functionality he'd build into it. The last straw for me was watching some poor bloke (I forget his username now) get run out of town by AOU and AOU's band of bootlickers, on some baseless accusations of being a pedophile. The guy repeatedly asked AOU for evidence, and in true AOU fashion that only seemed to incense the mob more, such that even defending himself, by itself, became greater reason to ban him.
True room-temp IQ mentality.
I don't know how I wasn't banned, honestly. I made a sub specifically to insult AOU. There were several personal exchanges between he and I in comment threads, arguments in which I let loose on him. Instead, I was given the 'poop' flair, and then noticed my site points were consistently dropping, even without activity. When I'd point this out, someone would predictably shout: "the algo is correcting for bot votes". Yeah, after five months of no activity, the bots are just continually upvoting 5-month old comments. At one point or another, my points were dropping so much that this excuse would have required that every other user on the site besides me be a bot.
Total fuckery.