Pledging by Non-Citizens

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by Ronaldo9

Great story! Thanks for sharing!

In an earlier post, you mentioned attending University of Washington. Tell us of your experience at the school.

[Ronaldo9]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

In an earlier post, you mentioned attending University of Washington. Tell us of your experience at the school.

Sure! What would you like to know?

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by Ronaldo9

Sure! What would you like to know?

• Why did you decide on UW?
• Years you attended and the Campus culture
• Did you stay all 4 years?
• How did the education environment differ from that of your homeland?
• How you adjusted to the relatively liberal Northwestern United States with your ultra-conservative views
• Were you more or less combative in your homeland?
• What was your major and why did you choose it?
• Where did you move after leaving or graduating?
• I'm very curious how you became so confrontational. Is it genetic, environmental or by program. You know, the basics.

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[Ronaldo9]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

In an earlier post, you mentioned attending University of Washington. Tell us of your experience at the school.

Originally Posted by Ronaldo9

Sure! What would you like to know?

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

• Were you more or less combative in your homeland?
• I'm very curious how you became so confrontational. Is it genetic, environmental or by program. You know, the basics.

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With respect, I don't think these questions were posed in good faith. Particularly this dog whistle.

If I've done something that has upset you I apologize, but could you please limit your ongoing insults to PMs? That way only I will have to receive them and threads can remain on topic. Thank you, in advance, for your kind consideration of my request.

Best regards,
R

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Ronaldo9

With respect, I don't think these questions were posed in good faith. Particularly this dog whistle.

If I've done something that has upset you I apologize, but could you please limit your ongoing insults to PMs? That way only I will have to receive them and threads can remain on topic. Thank you, in advance, for your kind consideration of my request.

Best regards,
R

If you don’t like her posts, put her on ignore. As for threads, they go where they go. If you feel like yelling “stay on topic” there are still a couple Presidential debates that need a moderator.

[Ronaldo9]

After the last round of personal attacks I indicated my intent to quit and was personally asked by a "super mod" to remain and give it another chance, which I did. Despite continued, relentless insults, I have maintained a cheery disposition even when doing so veered into the realm of total absurdity and seemed to do nothing but increase the aggravation of a group of two or three essentially full-time posters who appear to run the forum, having all but chased off everyone else as they've now done to me as well.

However the absolute hatred (https://perma.cc/6S42-EYRP) dripping off this utterly malevolent post in which the same user gleefully asks about my "homeland" and "genetics" and how I became "confrontational" (was it through "environmental" factors?) is beyond contempt. The barely disguised smile with which she set-up a question, then jumped on my friendly response to let loose this carefully scripted, vile monologue - pounded out from the anonymity of the same keyboard from which she has directed this ire towards so many others before - is nothing short of evil. It is beyond my ability to simply let roll away with a cheerful response as I have so many other insulting posts directed towards me, not one of which I have reciprocated. (And I don't doubt for a second if I posited back to this same Greek Chat full-timer "How did you become so hateful towards other humans?" I'd be banned in a moment, and with good cause.)

The only response from a mod was to tell me to deal with it. This is from the same mod who here threw what could not be described with any word other than a tantrum; a post that, had anyone else made, they would surely have been banned for.

This site seems like such a great potential resource. But a quick log check of the last month finds that it averages never more than 12 posts per day from an average of five different users, the majority of whom are the same small group of 3-4 full-timers who appear to be logged-on 24/7 amassing tens of thousands of posts talking at each other and snarling at outsiders. A cursory glance further back seems to reveal this is the M.O. --- someone will create an account and, within 48-72 hours, say something that will set one of them off, whereupon they devolve into this sheer, unrelenting viciousness. I suppose this explains why many of the boards here have not had new posts in months or years (the largest social GLO by chapter size, TEKE, has not seen a new post to its sub-forum in four years), or why it now languishes with an Alexa rank of 450,000.

While the archives of this site are fascinating to read and I would love to have been a user when there were regular discussions occurring, before it became this abandoned husk, I understand now it seems to have wheedled away to a few aging alumni remainers, with the occasional sorority-obsessed mad scientist and GDI troll dropping in every few months or years. That's fine; this is a private site and can be run (or run down) anyway one wishes. In fact, it was my fault for not better socializing myself with some of these realities before making my first post (an innocuous thread about housing bond rates that was inexplicably deleted).

I apologize for this TLDR rant, it would probably be better for me to just quit my account and go back to Reddit, but it seems to be in the best interest of the remainers themselves for me to observe the reason I'm doing so if only so that the next person to think of creating an account will have fair warning not to disturb the solitude of these catacombs. I apologize for unwittingly creating the havoc I apparently have done by commenting here. Nevertheless, I do sincerely wish you all the best.

Whichever of you sees this first, kindly delete this account.

With my warmest regards,
R

[Sen's Revenge]

Originally Posted by Ronaldo9

After the last round of personal attacks I indicated my intent to quit and was personally asked by a "super mod" to remain and give it another chance, which I did.

Whoever this SuperMod is told this account to stay in bad faith. They know this account antagonizes certain posters they hope will go away.

I always felt this poster was actually one of them, or was a personal friend offline, because the way other posters on this site gave the account so much grace very early, with such a low post count? That was weird and telling at the same time.

[Ronaldo9]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

[*]Why did you decide on UW?

academic program

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

[*]Did you stay all 4 years?

Five years; I didn't attend the UW as an undergrad.

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

[*]How you adjusted to the relatively liberal Northwestern United States with your ultra-conservative views

I have a fairly progressive worldview and, in any case, I find most well-adjusted humans are interested in interacting with people as living individuals and not amorphous ideological units.

In general — at least within the circles in which I typically move — there is a high level of intellectual curiosity, versus intellectual morbidity, and a polite respect for different viewpoints. I find that to be as true in the Pacific Northwest as anywhere (though I haven't spent much time in some regions of the United States so perhaps that's, sadly, not as true elsewhere).

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

[*]Where did you move after leaving or graduating?

I currently split my time between Seattle and Boston.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Benzgirl

• Why did you decide on UW?
• Years you attended and the Campus culture
• Did you stay all 4 years?
• How did the education environment differ from that of your homeland?
• How you adjusted to the relatively liberal Northwestern United States with your ultra-conservative views
• Were you more or less combative in your homeland?
• What was your major and why did you choose it?
• Where did you move after leaving or graduating?
• I'm very curious how you became so confrontational. Is it genetic, environmental or by program. You know, the basics.

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This is inappropriate and overly personal. I'm not unfamiliar with the sluething which happens in this forum and if he answered this, I'm confident that someone could personally identify him. This isn't anyone's business. And the whole genetic thing is beyond the pale.

[33girl]

Well considering some of the comments he made about the southern US, I would say it’s tit for tat.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well considering some of the comments he made about the southern US, I would say it’s tit for tat.

Two wrongs do not make a right.

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by Kevin

This is inappropriate and overly personal. I'm not unfamiliar with the sluething which happens in this forum and if he answered this, I'm confident that someone could personally identify him. This isn't anyone's business. And the whole genetic thing is beyond the pale.

Thank you.

[content.camille]

Originally Posted by Kevin

This is inappropriate and overly personal. I'm not unfamiliar with the sluething which happens in this forum and if he answered this, I'm confident that someone could personally identify him. This isn't anyone's business. And the whole genetic thing is beyond the pale.

What's "inappropriate" is the fact that you said nothing against his earlier racist antics and now decide to speak up. What's "beyond the pale" is you deciding not to say anything in the fact of "profound racism".

When you choose the first time to not do what's right, it makes all further attempts to speak up against things you don't approve of seem cheap and cheesy.