Announcement: my new PM policy.

[VaughnP]

Scooter, I read the post and honestly, I think just about all of the regular posters here understand that 408 loves all the attention he gets from stalking you and the association with you he tries to create by doing so, we're past that point. The best thing we can do is just forget that ape exists. There is no way to I.P. ban him effectively basically without blackholing all of bay area California. He'll just go somewhere with wifi. He's used about 10 different ones over the last few months, all of them are already banned.

I never said that 408 had the power to wreck the site, he is literally one of the weakest people I've ever encountered in any fashion. I was implying that peoples reactions to him were the proximate cause of the events that have transpired on Skatz recently.

This is how I feel about Mike:

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Originally Posted by VaughnP

The deal with Mike is that for me personally, nothing he was written on this site over the past few months has elicited any emotional response from me other than humor, and the humor was always unintentional on his part. I can't even genuinely be annoyed with him anymore because his act has become so predictable and repetitive, and I've for the most part put his posts on auto scroll. The only reason I made an effort to keep him on the site and away from Scooter instead of permabanning him, is that some find his train wreck entertaining, but for now, I won't unban him.

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Originally Posted by VaughnP

(in reply to some bullshit he typed)
I started reading this post late last night when I got home from a Rangers game, and couldn't make it past the second and third sentence without literally loling at the ridiculousness. I tried again just now, and same thing.

Mike. I literally don't care about you at all. This means I can never be jealous, envious etc. or anything of you ever. I tried to do you a favor with the toddler forum compromise when it would have been much easier just to leave you permabanned. I did this because, like I have said before, there a few that find your trainwreck of literal madness entertaining. I was personally on the "keep him banned for his own good" side of the fence.

The people that find his trainwreck of an existence entertaining do not wish that he loved them, they just like simply "watching the monkey dance" or at least did, which is pretty fucked up, but if it can help one understand the human condition a little better, then at least there is something to be learned, maybe value to be attained. The consensus now however is that the novelty of the ape has worn off. If he could just fade into the abyss and away from Skatz, that would be great. Enough is enough.

My ownership of the content and the domain has nothing to do with me being a ruler of the site. I only want to make sure the site stays online so threads like this and the weird brand of Skatz humor can be read by anyone, which I still intend to do. I believe in Skatz as a place of self governorship and free speech. You had an idea of the place being something similar originally and even posted about it on Boris.

The vast majority of people are toddlers, there is no denying that. Most of us just refer to them as morons. Due to the prevalence of morons, of course some are going to end up here, and since there really are quite a few people on this site that are on the very opposite end of the spectrum, the worst of the worst of these morons are going to try and come here and associate with these people in anyway they can to try and advance themselves in anyway possible, even if it means being ridiculed to the worst degree. There would be more and more, but some are are just intelligent enough to realize that they shouldn't, either that or too intimidated to do so. I'm pretty sure you said essentially the same exact thing in a different, more hate filled fashion, but I think you are wrongfully assuming that most of us here don't realize that. Trust me I do, I know quite a few of the others do too, I just choose to ignore them and laugh at them. I stopped reading Jewdonk's posts years ago, for example, because they really did come across as screams in some way at times. I don't believe in wasting mental energy.

Some of the philosophy you've posted recently embodies some of the same as objectivism - life is ultimately about the pursuit of one's own interest.

(I'll get really weird here, or at least others will perceive it that way.)

I've found in life that the most intelligent people reach some version of this conclusion, and that the most effective people realize this but also understand that the best way to attain all of their selfish goals is to ultimately be selfless. A simpler way to think of it is social karma - meaning that someone who does good for the deserving is infinitely more likely to succeed in anything he does that relates to the physical world, because success in anything that involves the physical world will at some point involve other people and people are more likely to help someone who has already, or clearly can help them. This is how I personally live my life, and I've taken it a step further by simple reasoning that being as mentally and physically capable as I can be gives me the best chance to succeed in anything I do. This is why I have for the last few years limited drug and alcohol intake that doesn't serve some beneficial purpose to almost 0, and why I have muscles, arms particularly rofl, and a leaping ability that others like to make fun of. I realized long ago and accepted that this brain came with pre-programmed software (call it what you will) that drives me and can't be turned off without death (the system we live in has to be self-sustaining, work to be done). I have to satisfy the drive to attain my life goals, but I want this drive to be as small a part of my mind as is possible, to allow my mind to expand and my consciousness to be clear as it can being a human. Having the process as stream lined as I can by the aforementioned preparation brings me closer to self actualization (another story) as quickly as possible.

To me, the less I think about the wants and needs of the physical world, the more happy I am. Mental suffering is directly proportional to how much a person wants and needs and how much of their thought is controlled by this drive. I independently came to that conclusion years ago, then later discovered that this is basically Buddhism summarized - was weird. I'm just going to quit typing here.


Scooter we have all heard your thoughts on organized religion etc., what you think about people too, but I don't recall ever reading anything you've wrote about the meaning of existence. I don't think I can fully understand where you are coming from without hearing this. Like, to you, what is the point of any of this?

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you're still a moron btw