Effective Immediately, No Politics Period !

[Punisher29073]

errrr..... Just to clarify, Lowlight and I arent quite as close as SQUATCH may suggest.

Another good site would be ww.Letsshowtheworldhowviolentpettyandbitchyshootingenthusiastsare.com

Im just saying.

Ryan

 

[Maggot]

"Did you ever see an off the track political post get stopped by the members putting the brakes on the guys pushing the extremes ? I didn't ? Instead they just get worse until we have to remove it, then we are the bad guys. Never once did I see a member say, "hey that is not helpful or needed to be put in writing on here so knock it off" Instead you guys continuing down the road acting the fool, anyone looking from the outside in would just point to this place and say, "these guys are just as unreasonable and extreme, see we told you" Then the day so kook shoots someone with a bolt action and has links to SH on his home computer they'll be able to connect these written views to his criminal actions. "

RE: the first part of this, actually I have seen members try to put brakes on threads going south, but we have no ban hammer (nor should we) and are generally powerless to do much except report something to a mod and that makes one feel like a snitch. Lately I have just stopped going to those continuing arguments. They just get dumb and dumber.

ON the second point, I agree completely and its given me pause to think on more than one occasion..."Then the day so kook shoots someone with a bolt action and has links to SH on his home computer they'll be able to connect these written views to his criminal actions. "..and then Frank loses his site and income, we lose a great site, and perhaps we all get looked at really hard. Consider the membership here.....just saying.

Its sad but that's just the way our world has become, and we, all of us, are responsible for allowing it.

 

[2ndamendfan]

Then the day so kook shoots someone with a bolt action and has links to SH on his home computer they'll be able to connect these written views to his criminal actions.

You guys don't have to look at the big picture, you can just spout off and walk away. If something happens I don't want any media outlet to have any ammunition against the community as a whole because I let people talk about shooting politician, or promoting extremist views. Pretty simple, we even tried to provide examples, copies of letters we wrote, etc. If you bothered to pay attention during the CO Gun Legislation you saw an example of positive political activism, nobody paid attention but those who were part of it, the rest continued on their merry way.

I see your reasons Frank, but I think your logic is flawed a little. It would be my perception that the majority of the time the people that do the talking are not the ones that do the action. You always hear that it is the quiet ones. So how many "visitors" come here and just read, never join and never post. Yet sit at home and digress about their situation in life and contemplate horrible things without anyone knowing. If said person acts on his thoughts then i doubt it will mater if he posted or not. That fact is you can not control what someone else is going to do.

Also I never self moderated for 2 reasons. One I never read anything here that really offended me much if at all. I have extremely think skin and believe in people's right to not think like myself, I understand this this is a private site. Also if I thought that the thread was something I would not like based upon its title I rarely would read it.

 

[ArmaHeavy]

Did you ever see an off the track political post get stopped by the members putting the brakes on the guys pushing the extremes ? I didn't ? Instead they just get worse until we have to remove it, then we are the bad guys. Never once did I see a member say, "hey that is not helpful or needed to be put in writing on here so knock it off"

Yes I did see it. It was me who stopped it, and it happened in my own topic. I asked politely, and those users who were off topic stopped.

The problem is really clear to me, and it has nothing, in my opinion, to do with the 2nd Amendment forum.

It has to do with a lack of Moderators. Is the site larger than what it was originally? Yes. Same moderators are here, but it's still the same moderators. The site grew, but the available moderators are still the same.

There is less control because of that.

I asked to be a Moderator for a number of different reasons, all to benefit the Hide. Not myself(I like the idea of being on duty during the night when the spammers come out to play). One of the reasons was to properly police the 2nd Amendment forum without getting in the way of the those REALLY good topics. There were some topics that were some of the best I've seen on the Hide.

Heck, you can even have the original group of Mods as something akin to officers, and create Sub-Moderators akin to NCOs with provisional authority. The original Mods would police the Sub-Mods making sure that their doing their job properly Control is still retained, and improved, but there is also the ability to expand if needed in relation to the needs of the site.

 

[sharac]

As one guilty of posting touchy subject i can live with it and fully accept it (was posting as an easy to get info to either educate or disregard - as is everything posted by anyone on the internet) but i wonder just how this is going to be enforced as there are several active threads with such discussions or posts. But i've got the feeling the true intent is not to post anything about the Man and the rest is fair game. I wonder if tomorrow mrs. Barr ends up choked if it will be relevant what is in other thread here on the Hide (you know the kook and all...)

 

[Mr.Stevens200]

Why was this post not locked at the beginning? He restated his rule done over with.

 

[Sean the Nailer]

Mr.Stevens, I believe the answer to your question, is simply that Frank is letting the rocket-surgeons prove his own point to themselves. Where there is no controversy, some create controversy, just to be controversial. Some can't even hang themselves out to dry, in a w(h)ined storm.

Reminds me of that joke that ends with:....... " you're not here to hunt, are you?"

 

[doc76251]

Sean,

I was kinda wondering why there was 2 pages of drivle when the correct answer was a mental "Aye, Sir." and move on.

Cheers,

Doc

 

[Andy Warhog]

SERIOUS. TACTICAL. MARKSMEN. Period

 

[VJJPunisher]

I'm down for bein a moderator

 

[KillShot]

Then the day so kook shoots someone with a bolt action and has links to SH on his home computer they'll be able to connect these written views to his criminal actions.

You guys don't have to look at the big picture, you can just spout off and walk away. If something happens I don't want any media outlet to have any ammunition against the community as a whole because I let people talk about shooting politician, or promoting extremist views. Pretty simple, we even tried to provide examples, copies of letters we wrote, etc. If you bothered to pay attention during the CO Gun Legislation you saw an example of positive political activism, nobody paid attention but those who were part of it, the rest continued on their merry way.

That right there is what I've also worried about. It would create such a shit storm that this place would undoubtedly be shut down and bring so many people under unwarranted and unwanted scrutiny. People don't realize, or simply don't think about or care, what the ramifications of their idle words can bring and that in itself is utter stupidity.

I hate to see the 2A section go but if it means keeping the Hide around, I'm all for it. I can talk politics and shit like that on Facebook and/or many other places. I am here to learn the craft of marksmanship and share whatever knowledge I can gather to other shooters, young or old.

 

[The King]

God I wish that Frank's rule worked everywhere in the world. Kinda reminds me of The Matrix...."The First Matrix was a perfect world....one without Politics...."

Back to making drop cards.

 

[Andy Warhog]

I'm down for bein a moderator

I'll second VJJ as being a mod

 

[no1special]

as one set of song lyrics stated; "you don't know what you got till it's gone!"

 

[7.62willdo]

Sean,

I was kinda wondering why there was 2 pages of drivle when the correct answer was a mental "Aye, Sir." and move on.

Cheers,

Doc

WISER WORDS HAVE NOT BEEN SPOKEN ON THIS SITE!

Kudo's to you sir!

 

[KentuckyDude]

So why not get rid of the Bear Pit and Maggie's Drawers forums since they don't really relate to shooting?

 

[KillShot]

So why not get rid of the Bear Pit and Maggie's Drawers forums since they don't really relate to shooting?

Seriously? Must you stir the fuckin pot? Smh...

 

[Sportin Wood]

So why not get rid of the Bear Pit and Maggie's Drawers forums since they don't really relate to shooting?

How about banning KentuckyDude for coming up with retarded ass ideas???

 

[KillShot]

How about banning KentuckyDude for coming up with retarded ass ideas???

I second the motion.

 

[ArmaHeavy]

Seriously? Must you stir the fuckin pot? Smh...

I think there is more meaning in his words.

 

[ArmaHeavy]

I second the motion.

With some people shooting from the hip on here, I'm seriously wondering why the name is still Sniper's Hide, and not Dodge City.

 

[Veer_G]

With some people shooting from the hip on here, I'm seriously wondering why the name is still Sniper's Hide, and not Dodge City.

If it were Dodge City, Festus, we'd have been way too hard on Miss Kitty by half.

 

[coldboremiracle]

Yes I did see it. It was me who stopped it, and it happened in my own topic. I asked politely, and those users who were off topic stopped.

The problem is really clear to me, and it has nothing, in my opinion, to do with the 2nd Amendment forum.

It has to do with a lack of Moderators. Is the site larger than what it was originally? Yes. Same moderators are here, but it's still the same moderators. The site grew, but the available moderators are still the same.

There is less control because of that.

I asked to be a Moderator for a number of different reasons, all to benefit the Hide. Not myself(I like the idea of being on duty during the night when the spammers come out to play). One of the reasons was to properly police the 2nd Amendment forum without getting in the way of the those REALLY good topics. There were some topics that were some of the best I've seen on the Hide.

Heck, you can even have the original group of Mods as something akin to officers, and create Sub-Moderators akin to NCOs with provisional authority. The original Mods would police the Sub-Mods making sure that their doing their job properly Control is still retained, and improved, but there is also the ability to expand if needed in relation to the needs of the site.

This doesn't sound like an entirely bad idea.

 

[VJJPunisher]

I'll second VJJ as being a mod

If you’re sitting here in your undies eatin cheetos tonight, it means you want answers. You’re here on your own time because you care about this site—and you want to make sure I care about it as much as you do. You want to make sure I’ll bring real solutions with me to office, not just bandages, or buttplugs. Well, I’m not going to waste any of your time. My main focus today is your retards.



“Retards are our future.” It’s a phrase we hear often, but it is often used without a full understanding of the implications. “Retards are our future” means that retards are our priority. Right now, we have some of the lowest test scores in the entire internet. Not only that, our math and science scores were around 20 points lower than the internet's average. That is not making retards our priority. That is not securing their future or the future of this site. No one wants to move to a new forum or stay in a forum that has, to be frank, a lousy retard policing system.

When I was a child here, our forum was actually renowned for its stellar members, so what changed over the last thirty seconds? For one thing, an exorbitantly high percentage of the site's time and resources have been allocated to policing, banning, and damage controlling retards. Not to say that time was wasted—we have an extraordinarily gorgeous forum—but pristine posts won’t help our members compete at a national interwebs level when it comes time to picking a forum.

On top of that, we have a staff that is rife with teachers who have been offered tenure despite a long track record of under-performing members. During my time as grand Moff Tarkin 10 years ago, I tried to push for a merit-based tenureship. It didn’t go through, and I’ve been pushing ever since. I think the most valuable change we can make as a group of awsomes is ensuring that our moderating staff is filled with individuals who strive for perfection rather than settling for what’s merely acceptable. And what better way to motivate our retards than to give them a more appropriate moderator Czar? More badassery invested in our forum means a lower retard-to-mod ratio, which means retardst will be getting the attention they need and will have a better chance of fulfilling their true potential.

The Office of the Grand retard slayer/Moderator should be held by an individual who can actually bring solutions that will change the forum for the better. This category needs a drastic new approach before it’s too late. If we do things the way that they’ve always been done, then things will remain the way that they’ve always been. And that, at this point, means a continued increase of retard dipshit prescence. Not meeting intergalactic internet standards is gross negligence and completely unacceptable. Don’t let it get any worse.

If you will elect me as your public servant, will serve this forum and the needs of its people. Those needs will change over time, but right now, as of today, the top priority is eliminating and destroying the souls of all internet commando fuckheads. Vote VJJ and you’ll be voting a promising new future for this forum and its non retarded residents.

 

[ArmaHeavy]

I second the motion.

If you’re sitting here in your undies eatin cheetos tonight, it means you want answers. You’re here on your own time because you care about this site—and you want to make sure I care about it as much as you do. You want to make sure I’ll bring real solutions with me to office, not just bandages, or buttplugs. Well, I’m not going to waste any of your time. My main focus today is your retards.



“Retards are our future.” It’s a phrase we hear often, but it is often used without a full understanding of the implications. “Retards are our future” means that retards are our priority. Right now, we have some of the lowest test scores in the entire internet. Not only that, our math and science scores were around 20 points lower than the internet's average. That is not making retards our priority. That is not securing their future or the future of this site. No one wants to move to a new forum or stay in a forum that has, to be frank, a lousy retard policing system.

When I was a child here, our forum was actually renowned for its stellar members, so what changed over the last thirty seconds? For one thing, an exorbitantly high percentage of the site's time and resources have been allocated to policing, banning, and damage controlling retards. Not to say that time was wasted—we have an extraordinarily gorgeous forum—but pristine posts won’t help our members compete at a national interwebs level when it comes time to picking a forum.

On top of that, we have a staff that is rife with teachers who have been offered tenure despite a long track record of under-performing members. During my time as grand Moff Tarkin 10 years ago, I tried to push for a merit-based tenureship. It didn’t go through, and I’ve been pushing ever since. I think the most valuable change we can make as a group of awsomes is ensuring that our moderating staff is filled with individuals who strive for perfection rather than settling for what’s merely acceptable. And what better way to motivate our retards than to give them a more appropriate moderator Czar? More badassery invested in our forum means a lower retard-to-mod ratio, which means retardst will be getting the attention they need and will have a better chance of fulfilling their true potential.

The Office of the Grand retard slayer/Moderator should be held by an individual who can actually bring solutions that will change the forum for the better. This category needs a drastic new approach before it’s too late. If we do things the way that they’ve always been done, then things will remain the way that they’ve always been. And that, at this point, means a continued increase of retard dipshit prescence. Not meeting intergalactic internet standards is gross negligence and completely unacceptable. Don’t let it get any worse.

If you will elect me as your public servant, will serve this forum and the needs of its people. Those needs will change over time, but right now, as of today, the top priority is eliminating and destroying the souls of all internet commando fuckheads. Vote VJJ and you’ll be voting a promising new future for this forum and its non retarded residents.

Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, is that fucking funny.

 

[Glockin' Bob]

The sad truth is that with the current state of affairs, politics and shooting are inseparable. Have you tried to buy a keg of H-1000 or Varget lately? How about your favorite bullets? It's damn hard, if not impossible, to find reloading components and there's no telling when things are going to improve. Friggin' politiicians are going out of their way to screw up our sport, attacking it every which way they can think of, trying to eliminate it. I wish we could all just ignore the politics but that isn't reality, at least not if we expect to be shooting in years yet to come. They've already F'd up my season of competitive shooting, I'm not going to shoot what I can't replace, I don't have a sufficient hoarde to do that. I can get the political dirt from other sites which have forums dedicated to political issues so eliminating politics on SH is no big deal I'd have to recommend that others do the same, staying informed about what politician is doing what to screw us or help us is worthwhile.

 

[Veer_G]

If we do things the way that they’ve always been done, then things will remain the way that they’ve always been. And that, at this point, means a continued increase of retard dipshit prescence. Not meeting intergalactic internet standards is gross negligence and completely unacceptable. Don’t let it get any worse.

Fuck yeah!

 

[Lowlight]

If you’re sitting here in your undies eatin cheetos tonight, it means you want answers. You’re here on your own time because you care about this site—and you want to make sure I care about it as much as you do. You want to make sure I’ll bring real solutions with me to office, not just bandages, or buttplugs. Well, I’m not going to waste any of your time. My main focus today is your retards.



“Retards are our future.” It’s a phrase we hear often, but it is often used without a full understanding of the implications. “Retards are our future” means that retards are our priority. Right now, we have some of the lowest test scores in the entire internet. Not only that, our math and science scores were around 20 points lower than the internet's average. That is not making retards our priority. That is not securing their future or the future of this site. No one wants to move to a new forum or stay in a forum that has, to be frank, a lousy retard policing system.

When I was a child here, our forum was actually renowned for its stellar members, so what changed over the last thirty seconds? For one thing, an exorbitantly high percentage of the site's time and resources have been allocated to policing, banning, and damage controlling retards. Not to say that time was wasted—we have an extraordinarily gorgeous forum—but pristine posts won’t help our members compete at a national interwebs level when it comes time to picking a forum.

On top of that, we have a staff that is rife with teachers who have been offered tenure despite a long track record of under-performing members. During my time as grand Moff Tarkin 10 years ago, I tried to push for a merit-based tenureship. It didn’t go through, and I’ve been pushing ever since. I think the most valuable change we can make as a group of awsomes is ensuring that our moderating staff is filled with individuals who strive for perfection rather than settling for what’s merely acceptable. And what better way to motivate our retards than to give them a more appropriate moderator Czar? More badassery invested in our forum means a lower retard-to-mod ratio, which means retardst will be getting the attention they need and will have a better chance of fulfilling their true potential.

The Office of the Grand retard slayer/Moderator should be held by an individual who can actually bring solutions that will change the forum for the better. This category needs a drastic new approach before it’s too late. If we do things the way that they’ve always been done, then things will remain the way that they’ve always been. And that, at this point, means a continued increase of retard dipshit prescence. Not meeting intergalactic internet standards is gross negligence and completely unacceptable. Don’t let it get any worse.

If you will elect me as your public servant, will serve this forum and the needs of its people. Those needs will change over time, but right now, as of today, the top priority is eliminating and destroying the souls of all internet commando fuckheads. Vote VJJ and you’ll be voting a promising new future for this forum and its non retarded residents.

this is worthy of moderator status alone two more jacks and its a done deal.

 

[Sportin Wood]

I think Frank wants you to jack him off then you'll be a mod ^^^

 

[Andy Warhog]

I'll throw frank a jack to get vjj as a mod

 

[dogman]

A vote for VJJ is a vote for freedom of tenga.

 

[VJJPunisher]

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration moderatorship in the history of our websight.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Vote for VJJ Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of retards who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice and not yet banned. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of debauchary.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Retards are still free and roaming this site. One hundred years later, the life of the internet commando is still not crippled by the manacles of rules and the chains of warnings. One hundred years later, the gear queer lives on a lonely island of bandwidth in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the flaming mouthbreathers are still languishing in the corners of sniper's hide society and finds himself a King in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

In a sense we have come to our Long Range shooter's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our websight wrote the magnificent words of the rules and the user agreement, they were signing a promissory note to which every Hidey Holer was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of data, discussions, and the pursuit of non retard littered topics.

It is obvious today that the Moderators union lodge 6969 has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of limited mental capacity are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, SH has given the window lickers a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaginal vaults of opportunity of this forum. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of free bans and the banhammer of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind Lowlight of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of ruhtardallowization. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of dipshit tolerance to the sunlit path of pimp slap justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children, except ruhtards. Now is the time to lift our forum from the quicksands of cheeto eatin tolerance to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the current mods to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the internet troll. This sweltering summer of the douchecanoe's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of bans and terminations. Twenty thirteen is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the assclown needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the forum returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in Sniper's Hide until the fuckfaces are granted their perma bans. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our websight until the bright day of no roaming idiots emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of moderatorship. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for retard free zones by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.



more of my speech to come.........

 

[quacktastic]

how do i contribute to this campaign?

 

[dogman]

VJJ will be such a popular mod, he will be beating offenders off with both hands.

 

[Veer_G]

how do i contribute to this campaign?

Yo could contribute to his campaign significantly by helping to foot the expense of the speechwriting improvements ...

 

[RADcustom]

I will only vote for him if his first order of business is to fully pardon NOBODY.

 

[marduk185]

shooting is the purest form of politics. but im behind you frank

 

[desertrat1979]

In the 7 years I have been on this forum I have learned a great deal from nearly every forum on here. Not so much the 2A forum. Why? Because in all the categories on the hide, I can get the info the 2A forum from a million other sources. If it wasn't for the change in appearance I don't know when I would have noticed it was gone. I get it that now, things are different, the politics involved with the 2A is pretty hard to seperate in conversation. But there has been little effort to do so. Lately I would drop into the 2A forum for the same reason someone would visit the zoo. The definition of a contributing post must have changed. Posting a news article, followed by 4 pages of venting, delusional paranoia, empty threats, and sensationaly false statments didn't really contribute much. Eventually it was the same post, same people, same crap, slightly diffrent topic, and I noticed that most of the veteran folks stopped posting there. The same ones that LL mentioned, just couldn't find somewhere else, doing it just to feed off each other. SH and its now late 2A forum do not have a pivotal role in the 2A. I can't imagine there are members here who's sole source of information on guns is SH. Nor is it out of reach for someone to just Google a forum containing the info, argument, contraversy or conspiracy to fill that void. It doesn't suck that it came to this. It sucks that some people are so disrespectful and that they lack the integrity and self control to bring it to the level where Frank needs to treat this place like a kindergarden class. Some are still so blinded by their own ignorance, they think this is some attack on their rights....ect. Its not. If you can't get that, then Frank is correct in using the kindergarden method.

 

[VJJPunisher]

part duece, for my "motivate the hiders to elect a VJJ as moderator CLIT Commander" speech-


We must forever conduct our banning struggles on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative banhammer launchings to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical stupidity with a swift tantric ban force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the tinfoil hat community must not lead us to distrust of all conspiracy theorists, for many of our braindead brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their willy nilly retarded postings is inextricably bound to our ban restrictions. We cannot walk alone. We must Ban together.

And as we walk, yielding the hammer of death, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of retard rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the fucking assclowns basic mobility is from a smaller webpage to a larger more badass one such as this. We can never be satisfied as long as a inbred pussyfart in Mississippi can vote in a poll on scopes and a waste of air in New York believes he has nothing for which to not post in. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream, or golden shower.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from ARFCOM. Some of you have come from sites where your quest for cop bashing left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality as you had your ass handed to you all internet style. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to ARFCOM, go back to Handloaders.net, go back to Savageforums, go back to DaveMuzz's mom's, go back to the lemonparty.org and two girls one cups of our sister sites, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not swallow the jizz of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a cream. It is a cream deeply rooted in me pants, and is the Sniper's Hide dream.

I have a dream that one day this internet forum will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We will ban the living shit out of fuckheads that ignore the rules: that all men are not created equal, some are full blown retards."

I have a dream that one day on the green threads of SH the sons of former banned mouthbreathers and the sons of former douchebag members will be able to sit down behind a keyboard and become a band of internet brothers.

I have a dream that one day the site of BARFCOM, a deficient site, sweltering with the heat of anal rape and failure, will be transformed into an oasis for a slew of recently banned retard refugees from the hide.

I have a dream that my four make believe friends will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the manner in which they ban fuckers wholesale but by the content of their character

I have creamed myself today.

I have a dream that one day the site of SH, whose owner's lips are presently dripping with the words of.....well just dripping, will be transformed into a situation where little retard boys and retard girls will be able to join hands with little retard boys and retard girls and cry like bitches on other forums how VJJ banned them.

I soiled myself today

I have a dream that one day every sperm burper shall be exalted, every post count shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the gloryhole at Shank's house shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together

 

[JohnC76]

Kind of sucks since we need to be able to communicate 2nd Amendment issues with each other to help protect it.

Not all gun owners follow the news and are aware of 2A rights issues.

But I'm new to this board and didn't get to read the forum before it was closed, so if it was as bad as some say it was, then I guess closing it was best.




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[VJJPunisher]

This is my hope. This is the faith with which I return to my mom's basement. With this faith I will be able to spew out of my mountain of despair a spank sock of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our retard overrun site into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to ban a muffucker together, to learn together, to shoutbox together, to stand up for an anti-retard forum together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of Lowlight's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My webforum, 'tis of pee, sweet banhammers of liberty, of pee I sing. Land where retard members accounts died, land of the intelligent post pride, from every mountainside, let go of my cock ring."

And if Sniper's Hide is to be a great webpage this must become true. So let the hum of the hammer ring from the hippy lands of New Hampshire. Let the hammer roar from the mighty internet cafes of New York. Let the hammer crush skulls from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let unleashed bannings rain from the snowcapped Rockies of Communist Colorado!

Let no members allowed from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let VJJ ban a bitch from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let those crazy fuckers ban themselves from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let the accounts vanish abruptly from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let the ban genocide ring.

And when this happens, when we allow the retards to be banned, when we let it roar from every breather and every knuckle dragger, from every oxygen thief and every water head, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Lowlight's intelligent children, straight men and inogame, cop lovers and Genitals, Prostates and ARPredatorhunter, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Moderator spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last......from retards!"


P.S. VJJ for moderator CLIT Commander approves this message

 

[Rob01]

And those posts are perfect examples why you shouldn't be a moderator.

In all seriousness, this place should be member self moderating as like the new slogan going around about suspicious packages, if you see something, say something. But it's not and that's the problem. Some of the same people complaining here are the same ones who fight with people in threads, post stupid BS and don't report the posts to get taken care of as they should. We have always had a mod alert feature but people rarely use it. People push the envelope and then you get what you have here. Frank finally saying enough is enough. Personally I have wanted to get rid of a few sections including Maggies Drawers which is just BS with posts like Hot Girlfriends and Motivational threads and has less to do with shooting than any other part but Frank wants it so it stays.

We have more than enough mods if people would just grow up and use us. This site is what you make of it.

 

[Graham]

Rob, I agree in general with what you say, but, VJJs jokes aside, what he says about what the Site is becoming is true.

This place is no longer what we make of it, because unmaking an infestation of morons is a job more suited to pest control than to a moderator.

We need standards; and, like anywhere else in the world, absent a revolution standards are never enforced from below.

 

[marduk185]

2a talk...unacceptable. homo sexual rants, well thats just vjj. ironic

 

[Rob01]

Rob, I agree in general with what you say, but, VJJs jokes aside, what he says about what the Site is becoming is true.

This place is no longer what we make of it, because unmaking an infestation of morons is a job more suited to pest control than to a moderator.

We need standards; and, like anywhere else in the world, absent a revolution standards are never enforced from below.

Believe me if I had my way there would be alot less morons on this board. I would clean shop but if I did then they would all be complaining from alot of people in this thread as they wouldn't be here. Like I said there are sections I would also cut out like the Maggies Drawers, sports, movies etc. No naked pictures. None of the BS. Go back to shooting but it's not my site. If I get the ok from Frank I would go through this place with a slash and burn policy to idiocy and it would go back to what it was 7-8 years ago. That said letting a bunch of people who just want to be moderators to say they are run around the site is not the way. The people are in place but the order just needs to be given.

 

[SFree]

Believe me if I had my way there would be alot less morons on this board. I would clean shop but if I did then they would all be complaining from alot of people in this thread as they wouldn't be here. Like I said there are sections I would also cut out like the Maggies Drawers, sports, movies etc. No naked pictures. None of the BS. Go back to shooting but it's not my site. If I get the ok from Frank I would go through this place with a slash and burn policy to idiocy and it would go back to what it was 7-8 years ago. That said letting a bunch of people who just want to be moderators to say they are run around the site is not the way. The people are in place but the order just needs to be given.

Agree whole heartedly! Get rid of the drivel and trash and concentrate on what brought this site to the fore, it's information. I used to be able to sit on this site for a long time to glean an education, but anymore, I'm here and gone in about ten minutes...

 

[triceratops3]

I can see the predicament Frank is dealing with. Having the 2A section and others such as Maggies Drawers and the Bear Pit could be a good addition to the site if people could follow a few simple rules; however, that is not the case because people don't like to listen and tend to take things to the extreme after they get butthurt from what someone behind a computer monitor thousands of miles away typed. (And going to the extreme can be very dangerous and give us all a bad reputation in the political arena). Its unfortunate that this needs to happen because some adults that haven't really grown up yet, but it might be for the best so we don't continue to bicker among ourselves and those people that want to further their political involvement can and will go elsewhere for that purpose. And those that genuinely just like to troll, cause trouble and be a general nuisance will also go elsewhere, making this a better site overall for its core purpose, for information on precision and tactical shooting.

 

[Known]

I have to agree with Frank. I spent a lot of time on the 2A section earlier this year but moved away when the conversations devolved. I'm sure moderating the 2A forum was a huge time suck.

 

[Switchblade]

Dump the entire site back to the original less than ten sub forums.
Sub Forums:
Bear Pit(small questions, non shooting, news, etc)
Maggie's Drawer's(humor)
Optics(scopes, bino's, range finders, etc)
Ka-Bars and Handguns(knives and pistols for the uninitiated)
Long Range Rifles
Fieldcraft/Tactics/Marksmanship Fundamentals
Reloading
Private

This will simplify the site back to it's original intent, focus, and remove most of the issues now present. Go back to bashing the new guys until they are no longer the new guys, beat down the POG's, and get back to Type A Shooting stuff. If someone does not like it, good riddance. If they cannot handle it, good riddance. It was a much better place then, with guys like(well, they know who they are, we all met at the annual Carlos Hathcock match a time or two)

 

[paindoc]

I agree in principle the about the threads going off topic and getting ridulous at times.

However, Frank, in my opinion you are heading down a path that has a good chance of making SH obselete. 2A topics are pertinant to what we do. We can't get reloading componets, ammo, etc as a result of hysteria and threats to 2A.

Banning of such a relating subject to the shooting sports to me seems like Soviet era / Pravda tactics. (showing my age, sorry).

Better self moderating and more/better board moderators are the answer.

This site receives commercial/monitary support. Most of these companies have political stands, and I am sure have that stance posted on some web page somewhere. What if one of them is tasteless or crude? (impossible I know, but go with me on this). If they advertise on SH, some could misconstrue our stance. (Guilt by association)

All I saying is banning speech on a very related topic to this boards mission just seems hasty and wrong.

By looking at the membership numbers, I would also venture to say that there is a very large number of "non posters" who have issue with this decision.