Nada
September 16, 2024, 7:12pm
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ferox
September 17, 2024, 11:10am
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Thanks a million for taking the time and effort for that explanation…
Song2
September 17, 2024, 5:42pm
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Nada:
Longer story: Kirik never intended this to be what it was nor what it became. It fell into his lap as a result of trying to sell a book; nothing more. It appears to have been a constant headache for him, and (again to my eye) one that he’d more or less abandoned about a decade ago.
He was given Covid-19 PPP money, which he then used in a last ditch effort to modernize the site and its forums. This was not well-received by this forum’s most notorious loud-mouthed Karens, and did nothing to stop the loss of posters to other forums/social media.
The new ownership appears to be primarily interested in the utility of a recognizable URL towards their martial arts-related business endeavors, and would understandably see much of this forum as a liability. There is speculation that the only reason they haven’t axed it entirely yet is because there may be some value in the membership/user data to attract investors, and that there additionally may be some deliberate misrepresentation in that area. I personally haven’t seen enough evidence to support that, though, and don’t buy into it.
In my opinion, much of the anger around all of this is misplaced; it was fairly obvious this was the path once a corporate entity was involved. It was also self-evident (at least to me, anyway) that it would end in tears once Kirik gave up on moderation a decade ago and a small handful of users started chasing off anyone worth a shit.
You don’t buy into it? People that are banned cannot even log.in to request Thier accounts get deleted. Just floating around in Bolivia forever.
It’s a ghost ship!
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Nada
September 17, 2024, 8:18pm
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It was the same procedure/same results years before the new ownership was involved. The automated tool for full deletion has always been broken, so they went with anonymization instead of hand deleting everything. That’s just incompetence, not malintent.
It’s the presumed conspiratorial fuckery I’m not seeing sufficient evidence for.
did it all start with the software update like 5 yr or so ago
been here before 200 this is worst its been Its done
Song2
September 18, 2024, 2:10pm
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Literally every MoD and worth a shit poster got banned. Anyone that can still post here is a tard.
Apart from me obviously.
Nada
September 18, 2024, 2:25pm
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Song2
September 18, 2024, 2:44pm
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Nada. Alta banned everyone. They only wanted the url. The rest of the forum are either.on TMMaC or the OG discourse
Your posting in a ghost town
Nada
September 18, 2024, 3:02pm
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Didn’t seem like I’d projected confusion or lack of insight. Weird. But hey thanks.