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immamac has permabanmed me against bob’s wishes. read this thread before it disappears.

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  • henrygandorf
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    i've been on these boards for 25 years.  this is not "the internet", and should never be dismissed as that, especially to excuse or allow what might be labeled "typical and unavoidable online bullying

  • Let’s be very clear here. We all know what happens with Derka he often takes criticism of his opinions as an  attack and overreacts. He has mental illness, that he freely acknowledges. Everyone here k

  • closetojumping
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    Just saw this thread.  From a site business perspective, I would guess that derka still drives plenty of views and activity when he has something to say. Conversely, MotownHorn is a bandwidth dra

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3 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

He doesn't exactly post here anymore either. 

Neither do phlegm, Grendel, or derka. 

17 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Neither do phlegm, Grendel, or derka. 

Yeah that was kinda my point. 

 

Phlegm, Grendel and Derka gone - and Fitlump likely to move up the GQP ladder to a state office….

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44 minutes ago, immamac said:

Thujone is still very much a friend of the site. 

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This thread was so over the top by page 3 that I swear it was going to be revealed as a long game April Fools joke coordinated by imma, lab and derka. I kept reading on just waiting for the punch line.

But shit has gotten real!

23 hours ago, Thatguy said:

Man, that's a shame. Derka was OUR guy and an icon. Sad to see him go. I know @immamac gave him a lot of rope but it just sucks. We all had our run-ins over the years but I feel like some guys are a staple and make the site what it is.

I agree.  He was a spectator sport unto himself.

On 4/8/2024 at 12:10 AM, Nicole44 said:

I get teased daily that I’m the Rainey Street Ripper. I mean it’s cool bc now my inbox isn’t flooded with crap anymore. Plus, I’m notorious now.

I’ve been on X lately a lot more bc I’m following a case of a young boy in Tennessee who went missing. He has autism. Someone very close to me has autism and this particular case strikes a chord with me. At any rate, most people are good people that follow this case.

but There are a few though that will find every tweet you make and attack you for thinking his mom/stepdad might be guilty. I used to respond to those attacks. It’s not like they stopped attacking and they agreed with me they just kept posting and attacking and I’d attack back.

and it derailed a very good thread regarding theories and information on this young boy. Finding him is so important. After that I no longer acknowledge. I just ignore. And keep ignoring. I don’t block anyone on the chance they might have good info but now that I ignore people instead of trying to make them agree with me, it doesn’t bother me anymore and it won’t derail threads. The OP can deal with it. Jmo. My two cents that no one asked for ever. 
 

Looking forward to returning to Austin at some point and hanging out in the entertainment district. Check out the lake and order some Chilean sea bass (the epitome of class and elegance in fine dining.) 

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mam this is a derka thread

3 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

mam this is a derka thread

She’s carrying his torch. Proudly.

Our man will be back before fall practice starts.  Hell, he will probably be back before the 4th of July and that's fine.

Not sure why the Derk got a permaban but our crypto scam boi is allowed back after at least five or six crowd sourcings.

Yeah, wasn't there a purgatory people could be sent to for a cooling off period?  Wouldn't that be more appropriate?  It's imma's call of course, but permanation seems extreme.

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hooookaayyy... who pulled the "drama" tab?

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8 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

Yeah, wasn't there a purgatory people could be sent to for a cooling off period?  Wouldn't that be more appropriate?  It's imma's call of course, but permanation seems extreme.

Derkaville

The absurdity of this thread is how serious people are taking it. Derka was not arrested and shipped off to Siberia until Stalin has a change of heart. The user account shadow_operative was disabled. That's it.

To the posters questioning the Derka ban and wondering how all of the other posters keep coming back.

This place doesn't have walls to keep people out. Anyone can be banned and then stroll back in 5 minutes later.

12 minutes ago, F250 said:

The absurdity of this thread is how serious people are taking it. Derka was not arrested and shipped off to Siberia until Stalin has a change of heart. The user account shadow_operative was disabled. That's it.

To the posters questioning the Derka ban and wondering how all of the other posters keep coming back.

This place doesn't have walls to keep people out. Anyone can be banned and then stroll back in 5 minutes later.


we know. That’s why the ban was stupid. 

On 4/7/2024 at 11:55 AM, shadow_operative said:

imagine that your direct supervisor at your job tells you that you and one of your coworkers are going to be competing for a promotion, and that the winner of said promotion would be whoever made the most sales. 

you continue to come into work every single day with your head down, consistently doing your job and making sales. meanwhile, your coworker has stopped coming into work altogether, other than to take his morning dump and steal the newspaper on his way back out the door. your direct supervisor is now repeatedly reprimanding your coworker for this frankly unbelievable behavior while you continue to do your job every day making sales.

they day of the promotion comes, you are excited to receive the promotion, when suddenly, your boss’s boss- a man who has gone out of his way to be a total POS to you on multiple occasions, a man who wears his personal hatred of you with pride- shows up and says, “your coworker is getting the promotion, and i have some new rules for you to follow, and if you don’t follow these new rules you’re fired.” are you seriously trying to tell me that you would just take all of this stride, shrug your shoulders, and accept it as if it was just some totally reasonable and simple request? i don’t think so. not even a little bit.

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On 4/7/2024 at 12:58 PM, shadow_operative said:

do you have kids? if one of your kids kept going to school every day and getting picked on, bullied, and harassed by another kid who knew that your kid suffered from mental illness, would you flippantly ask your kid why he cares what other people think? would that be your solution?

this isn’t about what other people think, and frankly at this point you have to be pretty obtuse not to see that. this is about straight up online bullying a mentally ill person for sport. i’ve been putting up with his shit for over a year. i have put him on ignore multiple times and it has never worked because he has a gang of pals on the hoops board who quote all of his posts and who pile on, so i see everything he says anyways.

i asked this dude to leave me alone. i begged this dude to leave me alone. i literally never posted to/about him unprovoked, and he wouldn’t stop. threads kept getting derailed, people kept getting mad at me for it, and i kept saying, “jesus christ all i am doing i posting about hoops and this guy will not stop coming after me unprovoked.”

that’s when bob stepped in. that’s when bob told both of us to leave each other alone or get banned. that’s when motown repeatedly came after me, repeatedly earning himself bans. all the while, countless other posters still talk shit to/about me and you do not see me mentioning them or going to bob about them, do you? i don’t give a fuck what you think about me because i already know that the majority of people who actually post where i do and who aren’t antagonistic children actually like and appreciate me and my posts. other people not liking or appreciating me matters zero to me. this is not about that and never has been. at this point you either get that or you don’t. figure it out.

Difference is, a kid HAS to go to school. 

If I go to a bar that's full of assholes and get picked on...well, I don't go to the asshole bar ever again.  I find another, better, friendlier bar. 

 

 

 

 

I don't want anything bad to happen to Derka.   But I happen to believe that this board is bad for his mental health, and, "IF" (and it's a BIG FUCKING IF IMO) Derka is actually getting professional help for his mental health (from a REAL professional) that professional would conclude that his participation here is bad for him. 

And, I also believe that one can be both mentally ill, and be an asshole.  I was married to both. 

I've seen post after post, many from Derka himself, about how the "old" Derka was bad but the "new" Derka is so much better.   Looking through my lens, it's the same old bullshit from this guy. 

 

Derka, if you're reading this, go get some real help.  God Bless your mom, and Bob too, but dude, you need somebody with a professional degree helping you through your struggles. It may take a very long time, but it's worth investing the time. 

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12 hours ago, Rimbo said:

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hooookaayyy... who pulled the "drama" tab?

You have shitty taste in cartoons. 

I miss Derka on the basketball board. I never thought I’d say that. 

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2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:

I miss Derka on the basketball board. I never thought I’d say that. 

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9 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

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I don't want anything bad to happen to Derka.   But I happen to believe that this board is bad for his mental health, and, "IF" (and it's a BIG FUCKING IF IMO) Derka is actually getting professional help for his mental health (from a REAL professional) that professional would conclude that his participation here is bad for him. 

 

 

This board is bad for your mental health if you use it as an outlet and not get the professional help you need. 

There are more than a few posters who think I’ll just post on Surly about my life problems and maybe that will help. Yes, it can give you support but a trained professional should be the one to help you, not this board.

37 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

This board is bad for your mental health if you use it as an outlet and not get the professional help you need. 

There are more than a few posters who think I’ll just post on Surly about my life problems and maybe that will help. Yes, it can give you support but a trained professional should be the one to help you, not this board.

For many problems, you just need real life family and friends for help. 

3 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

For many problems, you just need real life family and friends for help. 

I guess when you’re born on third base with bases loaded and Yordan Alvarez at the plate with no balls, no strikes and no outs you can have that perspective about “many” problems.

3 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

For many problems, you just need real life family and friends for help. 

 

3 hours ago, Pancho said:

Um, no, not for “many” problems. 

But that’s getting off track of this thread…

He means you should go to your pastor instead of your doctor. It's the default evangelical position.

7 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

You have shitty taste in cartoons. 

No, I have shitty taste in comics.

My taste in cartoons is refined.

Agree or disagree this is immamacs site and I’ve seen Derka state he would put Motown in his suicide note.  How is this ok?

 

 

agree that Derka has a fuck ton of basketball insight but his hard on for Rodney is a distraction 

26 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

Agree or disagree this is immamacs site and I’ve seen Derka state he would put Motown in his suicide note.  How is this ok?

 

 

agree that Derka has a fuck ton of basketball insight but his hard on for Rodney is a distraction 

Why were you checking out his hard on? 

29 minutes ago, Chips O'Toole said:

Wow, how did i miss this, shit is wild.  

I'm putting myself on ignore and calling my mom.

It’s like I’ve been in a coma

On 4/5/2024 at 2:20 PM, Chewbacca said:

Nah, I think if mods get involved (as he did with blacklab), that's the best way to go about this.  Never thought I'd say it, but Derka was trying to go about this in the right way and imma shit all over him.

By getting a poster permabanned?  Ignore feature is your friend.  If your psyche is so weak to where you can’t just scroll past their post then maybe you shouldn’t be on a message board?

4 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

 

He means you should go to your pastor instead of your doctor. It's the default evangelical position.

Well yeah, cuz getting molested or fleeced makes all your other problems seem minor in comparison.

1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

By getting a poster permabanned?  Ignore feature is your friend.  If your psyche is so weak to where you can’t just scroll past their post then maybe you shouldn’t be on a message board?

Hell, I frequently scroll past long posts because I am too lazy to read.

aint nobody got time for that GIF

2 hours ago, closetohumping said:

By getting a poster permabanned?  Ignore feature is your friend.  If your psyche is so weak to where you can’t just scroll past their post then maybe you shouldn’t be on a message board?

This is our concern dude.

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1 hour ago, F250 said:

Hell, I frequently scroll past long posts because I am too lazy to read.

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Yeah I rarely read YGIFS posts too.

 

On 4/5/2024 at 7:04 PM, troph said:

Not mad - though I do think you’re suspect - I just think bullying is wrong and don’t care why it happens.

What do you think of Derka conspiring for months to get Motown perma banned?

7 minutes ago, closetohumping said:

What do you think of Derka conspiring for months to get Motown perma banned?

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On 4/5/2024 at 9:30 PM, F250 said:

I'm not arguing nor claiming superiority.

Just stating it's easier to scroll past a post than read it.

To get this back on topic. Derka will derail an entire thread for multiple days. I don't engage him. I just stay out of the thread for a few days until he moves on. The only issue is he does it in the Movies and TV sub and will do it right after a new episode comes out which derails the discussion right after viewing.

He will also tag you if you choose to ignore his posts and will go back and beg random posts.  But yes everyone else in the problem

On 4/6/2024 at 7:34 AM, troph said:

I’ve explained to Derka he needs to bide his time, ignore mo and accept imma’s approach. It took damn well near 7-8 years to convince this place that tranny and other similar slurs are offensive and should be off limits and I fucking left right before they made that decision. Johnny Sack’s and immortal13, immaculate vibes and a bunch of other trolls view points were held in more esteem than mine - for years. Let that sink in for a hot minute.

The gay mafia here spent at least as long getting the term faggot on the bannable list of slurs.
 

mental health challenges is even harder because the self-sabotage. At least I was able to weather the storm, advocate for myself and be patient. Change takes time.
 

But repeatedly insulting and railing on the owner won’t help. And in fact it will get you banned. But to acknowledge Derka’s considerable short comings without acknowledging grown men with no mental health excuse engage him and gas light him - because we are surly assholes - is disingenuous. 

Ironic as Derka had a long ass thread about being able to call people “retards.”

3 hours ago, PantsTent said:

Yeah I rarely read YGIFS posts too.

 

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19 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

Well, this obviously isn't personal for @closetohumping.

Nah I should’ve consolidated my responses.   Derka brings a lot to the board but was an ass to me

 

 

now that he’s gone, for now, can we call Chris beard “tourney dynamo” again?

1 hour ago, ztejas said:

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Naw, see, that was the short book.

For YGIFS you need "When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."

1 hour ago, closetohumping said:

now that he’s gone, for now, can we call Chris beard “tourney dynamo” again?

No.

1 hour ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Until this thread I thought blacklab was the owner and imma was the moderator. 

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Just saw this thread. 

From a site business perspective, I would guess that derka still drives plenty of views and activity when he has something to say. Conversely, MotownHorn is a bandwidth draining troll that has never added a single positive contribution to any thread on this site. His handle is even a troll. 

I know derka has his issues, and he cannot control his behavior at times which merits time off. But he has interesting things to say. He provides a fun amount of chaos because many simply can't handle his management of his position coupled with Hyperbolic Personality Disorder-driven rants about himself in relation to perceived affronts. Inside of all of that are usually good points for consideration around whatever the subject matter is.

If you took the 5-6 posters who ride his ass all over this board and permabanned them, no one would even notice. Permabanning derka, however, does diminish the value of the content on this site in some form. 

 

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