Dialectic
Sep 30th, 2004, 09:18 PM
This has been on my mind for some time, and the more I think about it, the more I think it's a good idea.
We used to have a ranking on this forum called "Kamikaze." They were in many ways the opposite of the "Snipers." They were ridiculously angry, sometimes rational, had a ton of biases and prejudices, and believed that Fighting 44s should be an exclusively angry Asian male website.
We have a few problems with this:
1) We didn't set out to be known as an angry website.
2) We didn't set out to be known as an Asian-only website.
3) We didn't set out to be known as a male-only website. Goddamn did we ever not set out to be that.
One of my aims was to experiment with the dynamic of the forum and see whether we could encourage healthy participation from people from at all cognitive/ moral levels (read the Integral Vision thread under the Declarations for more): ethnocentric Blue, modernist Orange, post-modernist Green, and Second Tier.
I no longer believe this to be viable. At the same time, I do believe an inclusive solution exists.
Kamikazes, we want you to create your own website. We want you to create a site specifically for angry Asian males to vent and say their piece. We know you have the intelligence and the skill, and we certainly know you have the time. Contrary to what you may think, we don't enjoy coming down on people here, and we certainly don't enjoy extensive moderation and banning. I wish we didn't have to ban anyone.
So anyone who's been banned, anyone who left of their own accord, and anyone who's still sticking around but thinks we've gone soft, if ANY of you read this, know that whatever you start will have our support.
Your site doesn't even have to be fancy: it could be an HTML front page and a PHP forum, and that's it. We'll link to it on our front page (with a warning of course), and we'll send over anyone here we think is appropriate. If some "pussy P.C." motherfucker finds your forum, you can send him/ her our way.
You could even call the site kamikazeroom.com or kamikazechamber.com or anything else you please. I really think this would work, and I really think it would have a good amount of support, particularly from guys like Fatfish, Dcyfer, Ric, VeryAngry, Rocket, and a TON of others.
And whenever some "borderline-psychotic" 44 (I'm looking at you, VA) feels like venting and going nuts, he can go to your site and do it, and whenever someone on your site is in a good mood and wants to talk philosophy or compassion or Art or other pansy-ass things, he can come here.
Someone get out there and DO this. You'll already have a good way of building your own audience through us.
We used to have a ranking on this forum called "Kamikaze." They were in many ways the opposite of the "Snipers." They were ridiculously angry, sometimes rational, had a ton of biases and prejudices, and believed that Fighting 44s should be an exclusively angry Asian male website.
We have a few problems with this:
1) We didn't set out to be known as an angry website.
2) We didn't set out to be known as an Asian-only website.
3) We didn't set out to be known as a male-only website. Goddamn did we ever not set out to be that.
One of my aims was to experiment with the dynamic of the forum and see whether we could encourage healthy participation from people from at all cognitive/ moral levels (read the Integral Vision thread under the Declarations for more): ethnocentric Blue, modernist Orange, post-modernist Green, and Second Tier.
I no longer believe this to be viable. At the same time, I do believe an inclusive solution exists.
Kamikazes, we want you to create your own website. We want you to create a site specifically for angry Asian males to vent and say their piece. We know you have the intelligence and the skill, and we certainly know you have the time. Contrary to what you may think, we don't enjoy coming down on people here, and we certainly don't enjoy extensive moderation and banning. I wish we didn't have to ban anyone.
So anyone who's been banned, anyone who left of their own accord, and anyone who's still sticking around but thinks we've gone soft, if ANY of you read this, know that whatever you start will have our support.
Your site doesn't even have to be fancy: it could be an HTML front page and a PHP forum, and that's it. We'll link to it on our front page (with a warning of course), and we'll send over anyone here we think is appropriate. If some "pussy P.C." motherfucker finds your forum, you can send him/ her our way.
You could even call the site kamikazeroom.com or kamikazechamber.com or anything else you please. I really think this would work, and I really think it would have a good amount of support, particularly from guys like Fatfish, Dcyfer, Ric, VeryAngry, Rocket, and a TON of others.
And whenever some "borderline-psychotic" 44 (I'm looking at you, VA) feels like venting and going nuts, he can go to your site and do it, and whenever someone on your site is in a good mood and wants to talk philosophy or compassion or Art or other pansy-ass things, he can come here.
Someone get out there and DO this. You'll already have a good way of building your own audience through us.