This site needs cleaned up

[The Inventive Donatello]

There's frankly way too many intolerant people on here (even if I can meet them halfway on some things) - which is why I gave one or two of them both barrels. I want to talk about TMNT and other entertainment stuff but it's frankly impossible.

I was reading through a political thread and there were almost a dozen radical right-wing people talking and spewing absolute bollocks. Others were trying to talk sense into them but it was pointless. And many people who don't go along with their moaning about the woke have been chased off here now for not going along with their relentless diatribes of crap.

I'd like to stay and talk Turtles but these people make it impossible.

I will be leaving either voluntarily or not of my own accord (hopefully the former). But these forums have been taken over by these nutjobs and the more sane around you really shouldn't stand for it. It's a ****ing TMNT FORUM that has been heavily politicised and weaponised by a clique, and it shouldn't be allowed.

I could quite easily call them out by name, too.

[Sumac]

And so our newcomer (who is totally not a reincarnation of the some loser from the past, no sir), shows his true intentions.
The mask had fallen and our "totally not SJW guy, I swear" ended up being just another of his kin, who want total control over everything.

Guess, some of the SJWs are adamant to turn this place into their personal hugbox, huh? Or they can't tolerate idea that people somewhere DISAGREE with them.
Pathetic, either way.

[The Deadman]

You dont have to read the political threads. I dont have the time and usually stick to the entertainment section.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

You dont have to read the political threads. I dont have the time and usually stick to the entertainment section.

The issue is even the entertainment sections sometimes have political stuff in them for no reason.

Threads often get derailed by this stuff.

[The Deadman]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

The issue is even the entertainment sections sometimes have political stuff in them for no reason.

Threads often get derailed by this stuff.

Because politics have been driving entertainment for the last few years. It's sad to see.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Sumac

And so our newcomer (who is totally not a reincarnation of the some loser from the past, no sir), shows his true intentions.
The mask had fallen and our "totally not SJW guy, I swear" ended up being just another of his kin, who want total control over everything.

Guess, some of the SJWs are adamant to turn this place into their personal hugbox, huh? Or they can't tolerate idea that people somewhere DISAGREE with them.
Pathetic, either way.

While suspicious of course, I gave him the benefit of the doubt of being a fresh-faced, new user just looking to talk Turtles (though he still seemed keen to gently prod, let's call them, "certain individuals")... but yeah, the veil now has completely come off. Performance art. All of it.

[sdp]

If you clean up there'd be 3 users instead of 7. This place died when the new users just looked for groups in social media and regular users started jumping ship in the 2010s. By now the toxic users already drove away most people that stuck around because of habit. Any new people that might've joined because of the new movie got alienated and didn't stick. There's no saving this place. Forums were already an archaic dead format of interaction, turning every thread political here only accelerated the process of killing this place. It's already dead only the same user echo chamber for the most part. Real TMNT and fandom discussions are happening on reddit/discord etc, not here.

[TigerClaw]

Most of the TMNT fandom is far beyond this forum, Many are found on social media, Reddit and even Discord.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Performance art.

More like a "performance fart". This guy didn't even bother to pretend for a long time. The only question I have "why?". But, well, there is no way to understand what happens in skulls of some people.

[TurtleManiac]

How is this current events? Did someone really make a thread about how the Ninja Turtles forum hurt their feelings?

[Andrew NDB]

"But why does it bother you so much? Tell me why?"

gtfoh!

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by sdp

Forums were already an archaic dead format of interaction

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

Most of the TMNT fandom is far beyond this forum, Many are found on social media, Reddit and even Discord.

Which I hate, because much of those are far more catered to very casual 'fans' of something with the knowledge and attention span of a flea, and the kind of discussion that forums used to be good for is practically dead. (Though I don't fault newbies who just haven't learned a lot yet, but are interested beyond one iteration that brought them in and are eagerly catching up.) The Reddit sub has become one I commonly browse, but it's hard to have discussions with many rather clueless users or who are now used to making short comments and nothing further. Or are newbie teens intent on turning TMNT into Gen Z BS against canon and the history of the characters and can't deal with disagreement because they seem to forget that they aren't the only people online.

Social media has really molded people to the habit of making a simple comment (be it thoughtful, helpful, funny, or bitchy) then move on, rather than having deeper discussion (where applicable), or none at all. Too sad really. I guess thinking is too hard now. Discussing the nuances of something, even just for the fun of it, seems to be gone and miss it.

[neatoman]

What was he banned for? Probably not for making this thread, considering it is still up.

[Leo656]

Because he's been banned 5 f*cking times in 10 years and keeps trying to come back. It's f*cking Davetello, you all know him. Why anyone likes goddamn Ninja Turtles enough to want to keep coming back to a place that's repeatedly Banned you, I have no idea. That's his business. He does this at least once a year and they always find out.

I usually don't give a sh*t what he does, but since you idiots think he's me for some reason, I'm very angry at him for this.

[Jester]

He was banned for openly admitting that he a duplicate account for a banned user. And for the record it's not Leo because Leo's account is active and he can post from that one if he wants to.

[Andrew NDB]

It's not Aquaparade?

[Leo656]

Just Dave. I'm not inclined to cover for him since his alt was Banned and this experiment of his has caused me a hassle for no reason.

He told me in a recent email that he was basically going to try and reach out to people more and I guess this was his way of doing that. If he had said this was what he meant, I'd have discouraged it. I always do. He's been wanting back in ever since he got Banned for that fight with plastroncafe, and I always tell him not to bother but I am not my brother's keeper.

Hopefully this is the end of it. Rest assured I'll be speaking with him about this as soon as I have time, because he really should have known better.

[Leo656]

I'll consider it.

Three people here have my email and one of them just caused me a huge bunch of hassle. I am strongly considering a full Block of anyone who retains active membership on this forum.

Maybe you'll get lucky sooner or later. But I am not in a giving vein this day.

[Bahamut810]

Originally Posted by Jester

He was banned for openly admitting that he a duplicate account for a banned user. And for the record it's not Leo because Leo's account is active and he can post from that one if he wants to.

Aw, sad. I had a nice conversation with him about manga last night. I could even forgive him for being Welsh.

[shihe]

Same. He seemed level headed to me. Similar even.

Tbh I came back to the forums cause I got tired of Twitter+Discord interactions. There's only so much unpleasant fanart of my favorite characters with a "flag" in the background (iykwim) I could take.

On the other hand, Facebook tmnt fans believe 1987 was were TMNT peaked (even though I loved this version), they're extremely narrow minded, so they're no good either.

So I recalled the forums. Had a great time in the past. I hoped it somehow stayed a sanctuary from this political war.

Seems like it hasn't, but at least, I won't have to put up with crap like Leo and Usagi ships fanart spam.