Leo Gura

I don't even remember the thumbnail.

Please don't.

I apologize, I'm still trying to get Vimeo to fix it.

Yes, we will add some new mods soon.

I regret not acting sooner. Sorry.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Initially I just removed his Mod status. But then he became verbally abusive so I had to ban him. He was posting abusive things to other members.

There is no limit on seats.

Nowadays sure. But that might be because blackpill/redpill has gained a lot of traction in the last 10 years.

People do change over the years, and sometimes for the worse. The mind can gradually become more lost in itself and unhinged, for many reasons.

By definition bypassing is problematic.

I try to select the most mature and wise people that I see here. But over years their behavior can also change, as was the case with NoSelfSelf. His behavior seemed to devolve over the years, or maybe I just didn't know him well enough from the start. Frankly his case is so rare I've barely had to deal with something like this before. I almost never feel a need to demote a Mod. Usually Mods leave on their own because they have other stuff going on outside the forum that is more important.

He felt his effort here was unappreciated. He has a unique worldview and style, and he thought it was an effective way to communicate. Clearly it wasn't but he did not accept that reality. So here we are. It is easy to get blinded by the strength of one's own perspective.

@Twentyfirst Do not make this personal against other members here. Behave yourself. I am not going to constantly monitoring you for this. If you do not improve your conduct you risk losing access to this fourm. Please post in a more mature and understanding manner.

This is a good time to thank and appreciate the good work that our Mods do around here most of the time. Thank you Mods! And even thank you to NoSelfSelf. His work here for years had positive aspects which deserve acknowledgement.

Not necessarily. Untruthful and insincere things can be said in a fit of anger. Anger speaks out of hurt and often tries to say anything to hurt another, without any consideration for truth.

I usually do not ever share private conversations, but since NoSelfSelf has accused me of being unfair to him, of being fake, and abusing my power, I feel it justified to post a screenshot of our actual conversation thread over the last month so you can judge for yourselves if he was treated unfairly or if I abused my power. This is the entire conversation without edits:

That is a fair point. But in the end, you have to put up with me because no one else will run this place. If that sounds like a monarchy, well, in a sense it is. That's what most private platforms are. I try to be a fair monarch.

I have had cordial private conversations with NoSelfSelf since January 1st, giving him feedback about what I saw as some problematic posting behavior. After several back and forths, he was not interested in taking constructive feedback to elevate his conduct as a Mod. We discussed him not being a Mod any more. He was open to that and not offended. I was careful not to make any rash moves, so I waited, hoping that maybe he would take the feedback to heart and that his posting quality would improve. That did not happen and the situation had escalated today in his conversations with other Mods, not wanting to hear any feedback from them either and getting disrespectful with them. So it became clear that it was time to demote him from being a Mod. Then he created this thread after sending me a slew of profanity-laced private messages. That is the situation. At this point he is no longer a Mod but also no longer able to post on this forum because he is clearly upset and letting him post is no just sensible now. We have higher standards for Mod behavior, but he doesn't even meet the standards for regular members now. Unfortunately demoting someone from Mod is not always easy because people can take it personally. Actually, my conversations with him go much further back than Jan 1st, me trying to nudge him to post in a more mature manner. But he was not open to changing his posting style, deeming it as "weakness" to cave to people's sensitivities. His position was that if he took my feedback he would weakening himself to wokeness or political correctness. I explained to him that the opposite is the case, that this was an opportunity to develop more empathy and better communication skills, but he disagreed on principle. It pains me to ban people from here. Especially a Mod. But sometimes there's no other choice.

That's like getting most of your food from the dumpster behind the store. Don't be surprised when you catch mind herpes.

Be careful feeding or uploading any of your data to China.

That is technically correct, but they popularized it online, using it to refer to those who aren't into Blackpill.

They created the word.

"Normie" is a Blackpill vocab word

Trump and fascism gives off macho vibes. This is a classic appeal of fascism. Young men see macho vibes and they vote just based on that. That's the Joe Brogan core audience. Flying knee kicks and elk meat. You can run a political campaign purely on big dick energy, and many immature men will find it exhilerating and so cool. "This guy gets me. He's so authentic!"