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Off Topic / Re: Another Forumer Has Passed Away

« on: October 23, 2022, 03:44:28 AM »

Looking at his post history from about a decade back it looks like there was plenty of time for someone to have recognized and intervened to get him the help he needed. It's entirely possible this could have been prevented.

Awfully tragic.

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Off Topic / Re: What would be better, forum archive or a complete erasure

« on: October 23, 2022, 03:34:48 AM »

it would be better to wipe this place and forget the blf ever existed

erase this stuff its decades of negativity, trolls, trauma, and parasocial identity good riddance

I doubt anyone is going to argue this place has always been a stuffhole, but that doesn't mean it deserves to be lost to history.

im surprised how many people want it wiped based on the poll. for one thing you're basically anonymous here if you want to be. and i like to be able to look back on posts i have with years-old dates and be like "yea i was there... back in the good old days..."

Yeah, this place also holds a lot of mid-2000s and early 2010s internet cultural zeitgeist and should be preserved. Places like this are few and far between; even 4chan's early history is limited to just a few hundred scattered, crusty, cropped, highly-compressed JPEGs.

I'd like a wipe, the amount of cringe stuff I posted is too much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_effect
You will be fine.

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Off Topic / Re: What would be better, forum archive or a complete erasure

« on: October 21, 2022, 08:41:06 PM »

I want all my cringe childhood posts and dramas to be front-and-center before you even open the archive.

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Off Topic / Re: Smokey Bear retires, to be replaced by Ember the Fox

« on: October 06, 2022, 03:10:04 PM »

she is fully clothed and not even doing anything weird. you should be thanking me

why should we thank you for not posting the good stuff

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Off Topic / Re: Kiwifarms shutdown discussion

« on: October 04, 2022, 05:36:30 PM »

I could've died an hero amirite?

You could've died in my arms with me giving you one last succulent kiss on the lips bb

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Drama / Re: [BRICKADIA NEWS] Port, fiance of Evar, proven to like kids

« on: October 04, 2022, 05:27:27 PM »

that's ok, because nobody is looking to tyler66 on the blockland forum for approval. you can think whatever you want

You're projecting if you believe other people come to this forum for approval.

Tyler66 got called a handicap or a cigarette once and thinks that's bullying I guess.

You've completely missed the point and tone.

I talked about something I liked and got spammed with comics of me committing Self Delete and shoving guns up my ass, then I got groomed by different people and when I tried to report it nobody believed me until another user made dramas for those people.

You talked about guns and I talked computer viruses- both of us got shamed for it because we were both children with unrestricted computer access on a forum full of 16 year olds. Put kids and teenagers in the same place anywhere online or in-person and you'll get identical results. This forum is not special.

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Drama / Re: [BRICKADIA NEWS] Port, fiance of Evar, proven to like kids

« on: September 30, 2022, 04:14:55 PM »

Just because it's the funny haha internet lego forum doesn't mean you can't be traumatized at a young age like you could anywhere else, especially considering the type of actually toxic personalities that the funny internet lego forum was allowed to harbor

I'm honestly sick and tired of seeing this excuse used in serious situations

I do not believe this.

I grew up here and registered an account when I was only 11 years old and I do not suffer any lasting mental consequences from my time here. I've had more than my fair share of what you might call "internet bullying" aka getting called mean things by hormone-raging high school teenagers as well as early run-ins with notable forum degenerates like Port. Developing thick skin is an expected and crucial part of growing up, something that most contemporary internet dwellers lack.

Despite the forum's bad reputation I'd wager most children who grew up here ended up growing up into functional, well-adjusted adults anyway. The handful of people who end up mentally screwed are almost always either the result of bad relationships with their parents or already had some kind of pre-existing mental condition.

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Off Topic / Re: How much would you pay for blockland.us/the forums

« on: September 30, 2022, 02:52:47 PM »

edgy.

edit: Alright rather than being a richard: How would you (Anyone else inclined also respond) make these forums profitable?

Or more so why aren't they?

Realistically, Badspot could break even if he shut the place down or plastered the site with more ads for the small handful of people who still post here.

Entertaining the hypothetical that Badspot wakes up tomorrow and decides to revive his game wouldn't be enough to get this place out of the situation it's in. That, and forums in general are hardly financially sustainable.

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Drama / Re: [BRICKADIA NEWS] Port, fiance of Evar, proven to like kids

« on: September 30, 2022, 02:29:57 PM »

To anyone else reading this who's been in a similar situation to me: Don't underestimate how much this stuff ruins your brain. I'm 21 now and I've never been able to have any genuine, stable friendships until just this year because my already bad social skills were so thoroughly ruined by the internet. Go to therapy if you can, look up self-help resources for trauma survivors if you can't, and don't perpetuate the cycle of abuse.

seconding this as someone with the same diagnosis and while its from IRL stuff, a LOT of it can also be linked back to my time on the early internet :/

Which predisposition do you have to have to let banter on an internet lego forum give you long lasting mental trauma?

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Off Topic / Re: Kiwifarms shutdown discussion

« on: September 30, 2022, 02:24:10 PM »

at what point did you shift from ponies to making lord tony-tier threads

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Off Topic / Re: Archiving the forums

« on: September 13, 2022, 09:06:58 PM »

Kenko does have an archive of the forums, but IIRC, it's not public anywhere because of all the damning evidence and people's cringey/edgy/angsty pasts that exist on here

I'd wager most users who were here that joined before they were adults said something stupid, angsty, or cringy they'd like to forget. So I don't see why Kenko would find that a good reason to keep it off the internet, as I doubt anyone who views anyone else's past really cares that much.
If someone like Iban can dig up the evidence against him when he was a teenager and broadcast it live to his entire audience I'm sure everyone who ever posted here can face the stupid things they've said and done when they were 12 years old.

There's also risk of the entire history of forums being potentially lost if it's left to just one archiver.

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Off Topic / Re: Archiving the forums

« on: September 13, 2022, 05:38:12 PM »

i think kenko has an archive, but dont know how up to date it is since the last time i heard of it was a few years ago

As far as I can tell only Add-Ons and saves are archived there.

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Off Topic / Re: Most fun machine you've worked with?

« on: September 13, 2022, 05:34:21 PM »

I've worked nothing more interesting than help desk stuff. So office Dell computers. At least they all paid well.

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Off Topic / Archiving the forums

« on: September 13, 2022, 12:24:54 PM »

We need to immortalize everyone's cringe posts from when they were children/teenagers but also preserve 2000s and early 2010s forum culture too I suppose, as I doubt baddy has much incentive to keep this place online anymore compared to when this was posted.

Preferably we should preserve every page of every thread as-is, rather than converting posts and threads to some gay interchange format.

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Off Topic / Re: is there anyone else who subscribes to blockland gold?

« on: September 11, 2022, 11:37:36 PM »

blockland platinum is the real deal

It sure was, a long long time ago :^)