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[StreetsofBeige]

No, no. Dont you mods dare take the thread down to save your skins. Leave it up so we can all laugh.

We all know you guys want to lock it, but cant. Best thing those retarded mods could have done is play it chill and buy time saying stuff like "it's all new to us and we're looking into things with MOBA".

But ego got in the way and its been a clusterfuck of back and forth bickering where guys like Bdubs has triple downed on his privacy concern rhetoric (got so pissed, he responded with that big red bolded text box yesterday or the day before).

 

[CGiRanger]

I blame idiots like this...thing:

Unfortunately this thing's grift and pedagoguery are now enshrined in pretty much all of Western Academia. You have this to thank for all the woke bullshit that's going through everything from the institutions of learning to the worthless DIE (Diversity Equity and Inclusion) systems within corporations now.

What is happening at Reee I feel is the end result of these teachings. Basically the main Reee users who are the loudest (and most unhinged) are all a products of this new religion system (The Church of Wokenism).

 

[NickFire]

No, no. Dont you mods dare take the thread down to save your skins. Leave it up so we can all laugh.

We all know you guys want to lock it, but cant. Best thing those retarded mods could have done is play it chill and buy time saying stuff like "it's all new to us and we're looking into things with MOBA".

But ego got in the way and its been a clusterfuck of back and forth bickering where guys like Bdubs has triple downed on his privacy concern rhetoric (got so pissed, he responded with that big red bolded text box yesterday or the day before).

If shutting down discussion is now frowned upon there, perhaps the new owner has already taken over???

 

[Kev Kev]

 

[jufonuk]

 

[Kraz]

Sure, Veelk. That's why they won't get off the cross.

 

[jufonuk]

Sure, Veelk. That's why they won't get off the cross.

I love how they type so much but actually say fuck all. Where do they go to school to learn to do this ?!?

 

[Kraz]

I love how they type so much but actually say fuck all. Where do they go to school to learn to do this ?!?

Years of practiced deflection.

 

[jufonuk]

Years of practiced deflection.

 

[Swift_Star]

To make it look like you're intelectual and not bigoted.

 

[Kraz]

Manipulation.

 

[jufonuk]

Manipulation.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Mxnipulation pls

 

[jufonuk]

To make it look like you're intelectual and not bigoted.

 

[Raven117]

I love how they type so much but actually say fuck all. Where do they go to school to learn to do this ?!?

Liberal Arts degrees (if they went to college). Its a major in how to bull shit.

If they didn't go to college, its just word salad taken from other places.

 

[Jin]

I love how they type so much but actually say fuck all. Where do they go to school to learn to do this ?!?

That's Veelk in a nutshell. Every time I seem him post it's a word salad of nothingness.

 

[jufonuk]

Liberal Arts degrees (if they went to college). Its a major in how to bull shit.

If they didn't go to college, its just word salad taken from other places.

Word salad? Reeee mods simpsons predicted it.

 

[KrakenIPA]

mods could have done is play it chill and buy time saying stuff like "it's all new to us and we're looking into things with MOBA".

Holy shit you are right, that's all they had to do to avert disaster. Having pride in prestige can be a dangerous thing in the hands of an unstable few.

Only MOBA can close the thread now

 

[jufonuk]

Holy shit you are right, that's all they had to do to avert disaster. Having pride in prestige can be a dangerous thing in the hands of an unstable few.

Only MOBA can close the thread now

They won’t leave so easily I’ll bet.(or so they will claim) By that time they would be doing a form of digital protesting. Hoping and praying that the very media outlets they mocked will come to their aid in the dying moments.
All the white MOBA just comes in changes a few passwords and locks them out.

The media will answer:

 

[Shadax the wizard]

Haven’t seen era’s online count go past 4000 yet. What are the other 46 000 users up to?

 

[Nickolaidas]

As if that ever stopped you ...

 

[SoggyBiscuit]

Haven’t seen era’s online count go past 4000 yet. What are the other 46 000 users up to?

Continuing to be banned from the site.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Haven’t seen era’s online count go past 4000 yet. What are the other 46 000 users up to?

Those are nush 's alts.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

Some posters won't even say Cerium's name anymore. Just OP.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Haven’t seen era’s online count go past 4000 yet. What are the other 46 000 users up to?

Having their noses rubbed in their mess and being put outside for the night.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

Some posters won't even say Cerium's name anymore. Just OP.

Deifying syndrome? Or Voldemort syndrome? HMMM

 

[DGrayson]

I saw on another website speculation that Veelk is Cerium's alt. Given how much they've been spamming support for Cerium, it could very well be.

Source of the rumor is strangely worded post by a mod:

I wanted to comment on this. That read very strangely
I would prefer that it was an alt than a separate person caring about the mental health of the guy who just cashed out.

 

[bender]

I wanted to comment on this. That read very strangely
I would prefer that it was an alt than a separate person caring about the mental health of the guy who just cashed out.

Maybe he took the payout in coins and is exhausted from lugging around buckets of pennies?

 

[Star-Lord]

I wanted to comment on this. That read very strangely
I would prefer that it was an alt than a separate person caring about the mental health of the guy who just cashed out.

How very dare you, sir. Cerium is a gentle soul who wants only the best for those he loves dearest - his community, his members, his supporters. He has shown nothing but — nope, can’t do it. The guy is a legit scumbag who made $4.5M from supporting pedophiles on his forum. The entire place needs to be shot down in flames.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

 

[jufonuk]

How very dare you, sir. Cerium is a gentle soul who wants only the best for those he loves dearest - his community, his members, his supporters. He has shown nothing but — nope, can’t do it. The guy is a legit scumbag who made $4.5M from supporting pedophiles on his forum. The entire place needs to be shot down in flames.

At first I thought it was a great ruse with a nice payoff. The more I hear about him, leaves me hoping that he is forced to pay back the money.

 

[12Goblins]

Liberal Arts degrees (if they went to college). Its a major in how to bull shit.

If they didn't go to college, its just word salad taken from other places.

liberal arts degrees are majors on how to bull shit?
what did you major in college?

 

[funking giblet]

You are not going to see any of that shit, as they don't want to advertise to you (well they do, but let's come back to that). They want to understand two things. Sentiment and Engagement. They will use your data "against" you, and you'll probably click it too (but they want better ads for people "like" you). You are now part of a productized dataset.

 

[Kagey K]

Some posters won't even say Cerium's name anymore. Just OP.

 

[ethomaz]

Haven’t seen era’s online count go past 4000 yet. What are the other 46 000 users up to?

Alt, bans, people that left the site.

I mean basically all users admins that created ERA left it years ago.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

They must have thread banned a lot of people. That thread is dead now.

 

[Star-Lord]

At first I thought it was a great ruse with a nice payoff. The more I hear about him, leaves me hoping that he is forced to pay back the money.

Thing is, is there anything actually illegal about what he did? No. Sure, he lied to a lot of people about his intentions for the forum, but there’s nothing unlawful about that. And M.O.B.A had every opportunity to do their research about ResetEra before buying it out. The fact they didn’t is entirely on them. Yes, Cerium is an absolute knobhead and doesn’t deserve a single cent of the $4.5M they paid him, but from a legal point of view everything is above board.

 

[48086]

In the old reeeera thread, I remember someone had done some analysis (website scraping maybe) and came up with the data that showed a very small percent of users made a vast majority of the posts. Kind of like the 80 20 rule but greater.

That's actually not true at all (the user database being worth a small amount). Ad companies are gearing up for the cookieless future, and one way they are pivoting is to serve ads directly to users based on their email address. These are hashed email addresses but they are used as cookies across sites that advertisers can track. The fact that era requires real (or paid or whatever the term is) email addresses for members is actually worth quite a lot to advertisers.

 

[FunkMiller]

They must have thread banned a lot of people. That thread is dead now.

We’ve reached the stage now where if you’re dumb enough to have not deleted your Era account and got out of there, then you kinda deserve everything you get in terms of your data being used by third party companies.

I am sooooo fucking glad I requested a full account deletion early last year (cited gdpr) when they temp banned me on my fifth post for hoping the trans community and women could settle their differences amicably.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

We’ve reached the stage now where if you’re dumb enough to have not deleted your Era account and got out of there, then you kinda deserve everything you get in terms of your data being used by third party companies.

I am sooooo fucking glad I requested a full account deletion early last year (cited gdpr) when they temp banned me on my fifth post for hoping the trans community and women could settle their differences amicably.

you sonofabitch! How dare you! Good lord, I can't imagine how fragile the average era mod is.

 

[jufonuk]

Thing is, is there anything actually illegal about what he did? No. Sure, he lied to a lot of people about his intentions for the forum, but there’s nothing unlawful about that. And M.O.B.A had every opportunity to do their research about ResetEra before buying it out. The fact they didn’t is entirely on them. Yes, Cerium is an absolute knobhead and doesn’t deserve a single cent of the $4.5M they paid him, but from a legal point of view everything is above board.

I meant in regards to him not being a nice person. but I guess that won't happen... oh well

 

[IntentionalPun]

That's actually not true at all (the user database being worth a small amount). Ad companies are gearing up for the cookieless future, and one way they are pivoting to use serve ads directly to users based on their email address. The fact that era requires real (or paid or whatever the term is) email addresses for members is actually worth quite a lot to advertisers.

That does not suddenly make a single web site's 50k user DB worth a bunch of money though. A shift in how ads get data from the web sites that depend on those ads is not suddenly going to be different under Cerium than MOBA. All they would care about is getting a hash or something like it of the email address anyways, and it would have to be shared as you load the page serving ads, not something you "Sell".. would just be how an ad platform's plugins for your site would operate if you wanted your advertising to be more targeted.

Because if all the other web sites on the web.. aren't sending cookies... what use is that single DB anyways? It's... just not how any of that works, or will work.

 

[Raven117]

liberal arts degrees are majors on how to bull shit?
what did you major in college?

100%.

Can you even describe what you study in liberal arts? Or any thing with the last word being "studies."

 

[Star-Lord]

I meant in regards to him not being a nice person. but I guess that won't happen... oh well

Oh, my bad. Nah, I honestly think the whole ‘Good Cerium’ thing was a facade. He tricked everybody into thinking he was this honest, genuine guy (who endorsed pedophilia, so a walking contradiction) then stabbed them in the back as soon as money was mentioned.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Rare footage found of Resetera mods.

The horse is far more intelligent and majestic.

 

[48086]

That does not suddenly make a single web site's 50k user DB worth a bunch of money though. A shift in how ads get data from the web sites that depend on those ads is not suddenly going to be different under Cerium than MOBA. All they would care about is getting a hash or something like it of the email address anyways, and it would have to be shared as you load the page serving ads, not something you "Sell".. would just be how an ad platform's plugins for your site would operate if you wanted your advertising to be more targeted.

Because if all the other web sites on the web.. aren't sending cookies... what use is that single DB anyways? It's... just not how any of that works, or will work.

Advertisers will pay more to target hashed email addresses than a random viewer.

Because if all the other web sites on the web.. aren't sending cookies... what use is that single DB anyways?

They will be.

 

[DeepEnigma]

liberal arts degrees are majors on how to bull shit?
what did you major in college?

Yes

 

[SafeOrAlone]

I feel like this place has also sort of simmered down in a good way.
I mean, it's always been better for open discussion and free thinking overall, but a year or two ago, I felt like there was almost an attitude being pushed by a lot of users that was supposed to be anti-era. I don't know, it felt like there was a lot of shock value type posts. Saying things that might offend people, just because you can type of thing. I really don't want to be on any extreme end of a spectrum.

That's just my impression, so I'm not saying it's entirely accurate. It just feels a little friendlier lately, which is cool.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Advertisers will pay more to target hashed email addresses than a random viewer.

Wow thank you for repeating back to me exactly what I just said.

 

[cr0w]

Veelk isn't Cerium's alt, he's just an idiot who types way too much. Go find any of his posts about DC movies, he basically writes novels about why he hates them and just can't let shit go. He's probably writing his umpteenth "Why I hate Man of Steel" thread as we speak. He was the same way here before Era existed.

In the old reeeera thread, I remember someone had done some analysis (website scraping maybe) and came up with the data that showed a very small percent of users made a vast majority of the posts. Kind of like the 80 20 rule but greater.

80% of Era's posts are made by excelsiorlef.