PIRATENEWS Why?

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Originally posted by Kwicko:


If there's anything that's killing this forum, it's probably down to the fact that it's a forum dedicated to a half-season show that was cancelled nearly a decade ago.

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Hardly!

One, you seem to forget this half-season show, also spawned a motion picture and several top selling graphic novels/comics.

Two, there are other forums similar to this in size and activity that are dedicated to movies or movie franchises that have far fewer hours of entertainment than a half-season of television and a movie do!

Three, this forum clearly goes well beyond just covering Firefly! Many fans here seem to follow any show or movie that has members of the Firefly cast in them. Nathan in Drive and Castle. Adam in Chuck. Jewell in Stargate: Atlantis. Morena in V and Homeland! Summer in Terminator: TSSC, The Unit, Dollhouse, and The Cape. Even the badly panned Playboy Club got attention here, just because Sean Maher was in it!

I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle.

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In reply to the original (completely legitimate question of a ) post, I will try not ramble on too much about freedom of speech, because it looks like it's already been covered.

Sure, I could say that it's clear that at no point in his life did PN read How to Win Friends and Influence People, but would I be if I made a 100% sure remark that this was the truth when using the book to make a point?

A BIG H-to-the-Y-to-the-P-ocrite, that's what.

I may be wrong about this since I've been out of the scene for a very long time, but whenever I was hanging in the dark annals of the RWED on a regular basis back in the day it seemed that none of PN's responses to any replies to his original posts were any more inflammatory than his original posts. That is to say, although his blanket stereotypical comments still persisted in the replies, he never sunk to levels that many of us (myself definitely included) have done.

To further elaborate, I know on more than one occasion while posting in the RWED I would let an argument get so heated and personal in here that I would resort to personal attacks (however blatant or passive aggressive they may have been varied, based on nothing more than my own personal shit I was dealing with that day and just how big it made my bark and/or bite).

Seems to me that PN never did that. He believes in something with all of his heart, no matter how wrong or misguided anybody else believes his thoughts to be. When, oftentimes understandably, confronted with emotional responses, he just replied with a rephrasing of his original offensive post or a rehashing of an old offensive post or a "new" idea which was a sort of "Frankenstein Monster" hodgepodge of many of his old offensive original posts.

As for the readers of his posts.... Whether the posts are in Troll County or not, the "Troll" rule always applies.

DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.

That's not to say I think PN is a troll personally, but if you do and you reply to him then you're just feeding into his intentions and validating his own existence here in his own mind and any of the truly like-minded folk.







Personally, I view PN's posts (and incidentally how you may choose to handle your own response to them in the future) like this.......

There was a day where I "loved" rap music. Though I may have enjoyed it a bit because of everything awesome going on in my life otherwise while being an 20-something making a good buck more than most of my friends, I didn't really love it. But.... I had the big boom boom speakers in my trunk like a lot of my friends did and listened to it while we all got high and drunk and partied with a bunch of girls with low self esteem that had just about as much ambition to get out of our hole as we did.

One day, thankfully, I "woke up"..... Many of my old friends today are either dead or in jail, and most of those in jail will just go back in when they get out again. There are only a few of us who have done more than survive that downward spiral over the years that I even choose to communicate with today. I don't blame rap music at all for that behavior on all of our parts, but, just like any guy wearing a baseball cap backwards (or especially to the side) after he's 16 years old, the rap music about pimping ho's and dealing drugs has no place in the life of a 32 year old white male who actually has things to look forward to in his own life.

Long story long.....

107.9 on my radio dial ain't going anywhere. It's always there if I want to go back to it and listen to it one night just in the hopes to see if there is anything worthwhile that's new in the Pop Rap Scene, but I know that those chances are very slim and I rarely, if ever, even waste my time.



And just like quite a few of Tupac's and NWA's and Tribe's jams still reside on my iPod knockoff for the occasional listen, I do believe that there are some worthwhile things that PN says if you have the patience, free time, and even the slightest desire to sift through all of the ignorant and offensive BS.

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Four months later PN's posts continue to disgust me and make me sad in turns, depending on their content and how its worded. Poor creature. If I knew how much of it was his brain malfunctioning and how much was him being mean and nasty for sport it would help me know how to procede, but since I don't know which portion is greater or which portion is playing the greater role in each post its hard to know what to do except to respond when he posts something that pertains to me and ignore the rest, like I would with any poster, when I say ignore I mean not respond.

But yeah, his posts are the price we pay to be free here on the boards and I guess I'm willing to pay it if it means we can all say whatever we want and be free.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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