Author Topic: my final message to badspot  (Read 54956 times)

also accusing transphobes of hating us because they have some repressed special interest for us isn't very empowering. or whatever you think it's supposed to do. like that doesn't make it suck less. and hearing this stupid theory just makes me feel 20% more gross. like what do you get out of that inane accusation? I really don't understand the thought process

so many predatory individuals have been banned immediately once it was exposed that they proposed a danger to the community or strongly implied they were, including but not limited to pie crust nickpb emo freek otis and bisjac, including the ones which outright harassed children using the in-site dm system. wait, no no no, they weren't, sorry. badspot should therefore be excused for not moderating his community of highly impressionable children (since he had literally nothing better to do) and not using the resource in which he provided to lodge complaints against other members to identify potentially dangerous individuals. it's not his fault that they used dms to groom people that were repeatedly revealed for everyone to see or posted ponographic loli stuff in quite literally the most active threads possible and didn't get banned because there were like a few instances in which they were banned for arbitrarily crossing the line in which badspot deemed it too far, so he's excused from ever getting criticism of any sort
he shouldn't be excused, nor should he shoulder the blame for them either. he could've hired more moderation to dish out 'justice' towards the child enthusiasts, on top of the high probability that they were all served a court order to register as love offenders.

however, badspot is big on keeping evidence of malice public so that everyone can see that it happened, form their opinions and respond accordingly. he rarely removes posts and instead just moves them to drama on top of a ban. expecting him to personally take time out of his day to investigate and punish others as well as remove their posts and any trace that they exist, is unrealistic.

to clarify, an argument could be made that he is negligent towards the ills in his own community. you can argue that he could be doing more to deal with the harassment that his users face. however, the argument that he's a child enthusiast/child enthusiast supporter/transphobe/common sense supporter is always a huge loving stretch and that's where i disagree with a few people. not necessarily you Unova, because you make good points on his behavior.

yall need to understand that this forum theme is from 1967 and when you post a giant paragraph with zero line breaks it is turned into a sea or an ocean of some kind and is made entirely unreadable. please use a little bit of enter key
Thanks for saying this, it makes me feels less awkward for

always having at least

three doubles spaces in each of my posts.

gonna be real here the internet daddy issues a lot of people exhibit on here is genuinely creepy stuff. if you somehow think badspot is somehow worse than your average goon from the mid 2000s or that this place was especially rancid compared to other internet spaces of it's time then you're totally forgeted deluded. if you really need someone to blame for the 'trauma' that you feel may have resulted from this website, blame your parents for leaving their child with unsupervised internet access.



Swollow, i understand why you're resentful, i really do (i also agree that badspot needs to get a bit of a grip)

but i seriously recommend you try to let go of that anger and blame, i held resentment towards this place for years and it negatively impacted my life without me realizing. 

letting go and forgiving is not condoning the actions or agreeing with anyone, it's nothing more than taking the weight off your own shoulders and not allowing the people who hurt you to have power in your life.

it's going to be okay.

also try to remember what you're doing at your current age vs what trolls did at the same age back then, and that should tell you that you're far better off than any of them.

Badspot's opinions are wacky and he's really out there, but it shouldn't bother you that much. don't even worry about it and just breath.

you seem like you went through some stuff but seriously, you just beat life on hard mode and should be proud of that.



who should we even blame for this kind of stuff?

i blame the 2000s. i blame ignorance towards mental illness and the internet.

i blame the times and the society we lived in for endorsing that kind of behavior. a lot of us hid this kind of stuff from our parents, leaving them unable to properly supervise us.

i used to hold badspot and his moderation responsible, but i realized he was unable to control the community due to either his own mental issues or not understanding the depth of internet harassment. i'm not excusing the type of stuff he allowed to fester, i'm just saying i don't blame him for it.

hell, the way he discusses and views the opposite love could be evident women treated him badly, we don't know what happened in his life.

At one point i began blaming the community as a whole, then i realized not everyone was responsible or "knew better"

finally i blamed the perpetrators themselves, but then i realized something probably happened in their life to make them act like a richard or want to kick down at children.

the ones that turned into freaks were probably touched, this does not excuse child enthusiasm, obviously, but it's a true fact. loveual predators usually come from a long string of abuse that never got properly dealt with. they are forgeted up and sick in the head, obviously not condoning their actions, and yes they should still be held responsible for such actions.

i'm just saying if society had given them the proper help at a young age they could probably recover and be a normal person. (yes i know some people are just wicked and do it for no reason, those are the ones that need to be punished/executed/locked up/whatever)

there is probably some kind of weird psychological stuff we don't understand yet. there is probably something mentally going on with the people who used the internet at a young age, we were the first generation exposed to this kind of technological bullstuff during a crucial age.

so in short, i just blame the world for being a forgeted up place. we grew up in a really weird time (i don't need to explain how trashy the 2000s were) and just need to do what we can to end the cycle and deal with these newfound issues that literally did not exist 40 years ago.


Honestly all these types of reactions are from an article that basically just said "in my opinion, some character designs for recent video games are unappealing and unoriginal."
There's far more genuine vitriol and hatred in the responses to an opinion about video games than there ever was in the article itself. Some of ya'll gotta just take some deep breaths before posting.
And it isn't even a wild opinion from uncanny valley, this same subject has been hammered away in articles for years. OP literally formatted this post as if they're denouncing their life-long abusive father, I don't understand the parasocial stuff. It's pathetic. Also, OP is a transmission which should come as a shock to absolutely nobody.

OP is a transmission which should come as a shock to absolutely nobody.
why would it be a shock when they've shared multiple times their gender status?

Also, OP is a transmission which should come as a shock to absolutely nobody.

oh boy here we go

And it isn't even a wild opinion from uncanny valley, this same subject has been hammered away in articles for years. OP literally formatted this post as if they're denouncing their life-long abusive father, I don't understand the parasocial stuff. It's pathetic. Also, OP is a transmission which should come as a shock to absolutely nobody.
Eh I'm trying not to be bigoted or hateful.
But like, ironically it does feel like the OP has unresolved issues they are projecting onto Badspot in a toxic way.


Eh I'm trying not to be bigoted or hateful.
But like, ironically it does feel like the OP has unresolved issues they are projecting onto Badspot in a toxic way.


it reads like a screen-filling text from a jilted ex-lover

Eh I'm trying not to be bigoted or hateful.
But like, ironically it does feel like the OP has unresolved issues they are projecting onto Badspot in a toxic way.
While Badspot is a pretty flawed and pathetic person, he doesn't deserve a lot of this blame for people's personal problems. Every person who still clings to this place despite thinking it was the worst thing ever should evaluate whether something was Badspot's fault or the fault of their upbringing. I'd wager a lot of these folks (Swallow included) were on here completely unsupervised while growing up, lacked the direction/support they needed as a child/teen, or were already suffering from unfortunate living circumstances in their offline life.

Really his worst crime would be telling a child on the Internet that they're an idiot. Nonetheless, I hope these folks get the genuine help they need, because blaming Badspot for their current troubles while convenient, is not going to help them in the long run.

Seeing the acceptance and complacency of racism really affected my mental health growing up. Badspot would ban members for the most negligible stuff but proceed to let people off when they sporadically spouted racial slurs and general hateful comments. I’m black. I adored blockland growing up and it consumed a lot of my free time. My young and undeveloped mind saw this as a “oh, so the world hates me and I just have to deal with it.” Obviously I’m grown up now and can move past it, but the resentment I felt was very real. I realized that’s just the way the things are online.

Life sucks, and we all go through stuff. Let’s not trace our problems back to an online lego game