INTENSITY²
Start here => What is Intensity²? => Topic started by: sg1008 on June 08, 2018, 05:40:07 PM
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As a reply to mass exodus concerns, perhaps we ought to examine what brought us here in the first place. :nerdy:
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I came through repeated mentionings of Intensity on AFF. I was curious and either finally asked or figured out where to go. I think I asked someone and then came here to check things out. The rest, as they say, is history.
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TheMachine (or some other tool) sent me here.
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I heard about Intensity from On The Spectrum, a site I went to after GA (Kayleigh) was demodded and banned from WP.
I joined Intensity just before Christmas in 2006.
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The Mod Purge of WrongPlanet.
Or through Neurolands
Or through renaeden.
I keep pulling away and it keeps dragging me back in...
...like a black hole drawing all toward its centre mass where, inevitably, they're crushed and reduced to their constituent parts.
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I kind of missed the gist of the purge at WP.
Came back on after a hiatus and found half of the posters that I enjoyed gone.
Saw a few posts about Intensity, googled a few user names like a creepy stalker.
Lurked for around a year trying to decide it I really wanted to join another forum...especially when the only things intense about me was my vacuum collection at the time and a love of port wine.
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Curious, was intensity more of a haven from havens, or was it your first destination?
If people bounce here from instability in other sites, our strategy (moving forward) is clear. Find folks who have good connections with folks on other forums, turn them against those forums, then get them to come here. Or, infiltrate and destabilise other forums so that folks will slowly trickle here. Or go to other forums and begin bad mouthing this place to such a point that it stirs up a massive debate, then folks will come curious- the downside of this is that they will bring the debate here and disturb our hard earned peace. :trollskull:
muahahahahaaaaaa!
just kidding, dont do that. seriously i am just kidding. not advocating subversive tactics. I think we are simply a wonderful little island that folks will slowly ooze into, and many will stay, or continue to return (loik meh). Theres something about this place...
But of course, theres more who could vote and destroy that hypothesis.
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I put on my ruby slippers, clicked my heels three times and said "What the hell is this?"
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I put on my ruby slippers, clicked my heels three times and said "What the hell is this?"
:zoinks:
hey, what do the emerald slippers do?
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I put on my ruby slippers, clicked my heels three times and said "What the hell is this?"
:zoinks:
hey, what do the emerald slippers do?
They take me to Ireland.
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I don't mind the anything goes nature of I^2. Different forums have different structures and different ways of dealing with drama. And the attitude of simply letting drama run its course seems fine to me. It's interesting to interact with such a range of characters who would obviously get banned almost anywhere else. Drama just seems so petty when it's based around an arbitrary set of rules and who broke what rule and when and by how much.
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I was on Wrong Planet. Most of the people I talked to on there went to zOMG. Then sruff happened, we cried, and I ended up here, despite the warnings I couldn't handl it. Now nobody talks to me, so I come and go while dealing with health issues and contemplating life, the universe, and everything.
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I was on Wrong Planet. Most of the people I talked to on there went to zOMG. Then sruff happened, we cried, and I ended up here, despite the warnings I couldn't handl it. Now nobody talks to me, so I come and go while dealing with health issues and contemplating life, the universe, and everything.
If it is any consolation, I USED to like you, but now you rate slightly above dog shit, with me. Not sure if that is a consolation.
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why is there so much drama everywhere? its too stressful
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I don't remember where I first heard Intensity mentioned, but it must have been Neurolands, which I was investigating after one of the mod purges on WP. Actually I distinctly remember WolFish (then Neuroman) telling people in the WP mod forum that the ship was sinking and it was time to evacuate, and me telling him exactly where to stick it and that I would jump ship on my own terms, not by someone else's judgement.
Then more drama went down, as has been detailed elsewhere, and McJ and other refugees landed on some temporary forum, and I PM'ed him telling him to get his shit together and get an independent host, and then there was I².
This account is heavily biased. :P
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I know a lot of people came here because of forum instability and drama of one sort or another... but there hasn't been significant interautieforum drama for half a decade, so I don't think that can be counted on to attract more people.
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I don't mind the anything goes nature of I^2. Different forums have different structures and different ways of dealing with drama. And the attitude of simply letting drama run its course seems fine to me. It's interesting to interact with such a range of characters who would obviously get banned almost anywhere else. Drama just seems so petty when it's based around an arbitrary set of rules and who broke what rule and when and by how much.
I agree but something more than this. The Hierarchies of forums are problematic, as is the problems of rules meant to serve being misused as a weapon. I have seen too often forum admins on power trips, moderators being protected, popularity cliques turning on others, underhanded passive aggressiveness posed as being nice and underhanded PM baiting and such.
The more restricted you make a community the more easily the power can be corrupted and the more underhanded and subtle and poisonous the environment can turn.
Stripping away the hierarchical imbalances and rules and people get called into account. This it is very clever saying something catty or underhanded knowing the rules and your popularity will not only protect you but may expose the one you are antagonising to forum censoring or moderation or punishment? Remove those safe guards and you have a more vested interest in having to back yourself and stand unprotected. This of course goes both ways and the person you have an issue with has to do the same.
There is an honesty and genuineness there that appeals to me. It is also fair. Now people may talk about people leaving and frame it in being forced or having to go but I consider this people making choices. No one here can FORCE me to do anything. I am an adult and I own my actions. I have my own perspectives sure and my perspective may be different to others but I do not think that I am unable to be attacked nor unable to defend myself and am no victim. I do not think anyone here is.
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First heard of I2 on WP, though once read if I couldn't stand the heat to stay out of the kitchen, and long assumed I probably couldn't stand the heat.
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I was on Wrong Planet. Most of the people I talked to on there went to zOMG. Then sruff happened, we cried, and I ended up here, despite the warnings I couldn't handl it. Now nobody talks to me, so I come and go while dealing with health issues and contemplating life, the universe, and everything.
If it is any consolation, I USED to like you, but now you rate slightly above dog shit, with me. Not sure if that is a consolation.
I used to like you. Then something happened and you turned into a vicious cunt.
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Now nobody talks to me
http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,18030.msg1184888.html#msg1184888
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Some disparaging remarks I saw on either AFF or WP piqued my interest.
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I am dog shit. No wait...slightly above dog shit. :headbang2:
I guess it’s too bad that suicide attempt 18 months ago didn’t take. :dunno:
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I am dog shit. No wait...slightly above dog shit. :headbang2:
I guess it’s too bad that suicide attempt 18 months ago didn’t take. :dunno:
:(
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I came here to be killed so I didn't have to be prevented to doing it myself. But then I found out the aggressors here are a bunch of wusses, trying to justify their own miserable lives as an auti. At some level were are shit, doesn't mean we have be a shit.
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I came here to be killed so I didn't have to be prevented to doing it myself. But then I found out the aggressors here are a bunch of wusses, trying to justify their own miserable lives as an auti. At some level were are shit, doesn't mean we have be a shit.
Well done. You almost made sense....almost
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I came here to be killed so I didn't have to be prevented to doing it myself. But then I found out the aggressors here are a bunch of wusses, trying to justify their own miserable lives as an auti. At some level were are shit, doesn't mean we have be a shit.
I'm pretty sure it means I have to be shit. :zoinks:
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The more important question is Where do I go from here?
Actually I don't care where I go. This place seems as if it has been overtaken by spirited discussions between Les and odeon (alphabetical order not to show partiality or agreement with either side).
Here's my first post 2/25/2010.
im not sure that i'm going to have what it takes to last on this forum. i like being nice and don't like it when people dont get along. but i guess that even the weakest of the other guys need someone to jump on, so i guess its me.
my life is full of pretty much nothing. lots of stuff i try to do just doesnt work out. my mom and dad always said id be nothing thats why i picked weakling. maybe ill toughn uup if i stay long enough and find out how to be nicely mean to people. didnt some1 say that what kills you makes you strong or somthing? im werd i know it
I'm out of here guys for a while.
NOTE: This post was later edited by me because it was just plain nasty. My apologies to odeon and Les (switched order to be fair.)
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The more important question is Where do I go from here?
Actually I don't care where I go. This place seems as if it has been overtaken by spirited discussions between Les and odeon (alphabetical order not to show partiality or agreement with either side).
Here's my first post 2/25/2010.
im not sure that i'm going to have what it takes to last on this forum. i like being nice and don't like it when people dont get along. but i guess that even the weakest of the other guys need someone to jump on, so i guess its me.
my life is full of pretty much nothing. lots of stuff i try to do just doesnt work out. my mom and dad always said id be nothing thats why i picked weakling. maybe ill toughn uup if i stay long enough and find out how to be nicely mean to people. didnt some1 say that what kills you makes you strong or somthing? im werd i know it
I'm out of here guys for a while.
NOTE: This post was later edited by me because it was just plain nasty. My apologies to odeon and Les (switched order to be fair.)
That first post isn't at all like your writing style. Made me look at your old posts, wondering how long you posted like that. Only the first two days.
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Two whole days? Well, I was a late bloomer.
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Two whole days? Well, I was a late bloomer.
Please stay.
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To anyone who was affected (or not affected) by my outburst, I apologize. That was a hard day.
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Two whole days? Well, I was a late bloomer.
Please stay.
you're the reason she's leaving. :hahaha:
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Two whole days? Well, I was a late bloomer.
Do you recall if you did it on purpose?
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Two whole days? Well, I was a late bloomer.
Please stay.
you're the reason she's leaving. :hahaha:
Idiot.
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Two whole days? Well, I was a late bloomer.
Do you recall if you did it on purpose?
No. This place had a reputation on AS and I wasn't sure I could "compete."
It's a pretty accurate example of my thought process. I'm less of a deep water and more of a shallow pond thinker. If a post goes on for more than two or 3 lines there's a definite possibility I may not be able to follow the thought process of the poster. I can't think of a cohesive answer because the post overwhelms me. That's why my posts seem odd to me; as if they were cut off in mid thought.
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If some of the longer posts don't seem cohesive, like a bunch of random angry words, don't worry. You're not alone. I hope you stay.
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I really hope you stay too QV, you're a treasure.
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My Majesty :bigcry:
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Two whole days? Well, I was a late bloomer.
Do you recall if you did it on purpose?
No. This place had a reputation on AS and I wasn't sure I could "compete."
It's a pretty accurate example of my thought process. I'm less of a deep water and more of a shallow pond thinker. If a post goes on for more than two or 3 lines there's a definite possibility I may not be able to follow the thought process of the poster. I can't think of a cohesive answer because the post overwhelms me. That's why my posts seem odd to me; as if they were cut off in mid thought.
Didn't mean the content, but instead the style of writing. The misspellings, lack of punctuation and capitalization. It's sloppy and not like your writing at all.
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Two whole days? Well, I was a late bloomer.
Do you recall if you did it on purpose?
No. This place had a reputation on AS and I wasn't sure I could "compete."
It's a pretty accurate example of my thought process. I'm less of a deep water and more of a shallow pond thinker. If a post goes on for more than two or 3 lines there's a definite possibility I may not be able to follow the thought process of the poster. I can't think of a cohesive answer because the post overwhelms me. That's why my posts seem odd to me; as if they were cut off in mid thought.
Didn't mean the content, but instead the style of writing. The misspellings, lack of punctuation and capitalization. It's sloppy and not like your writing at all.
Probably was a long, bad day for me. And becoming Queen Victoria, I hold myself to a higher standard than weakling did.
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If some of the longer posts don't seem cohesive, like a bunch of random angry words, don't worry. You're not alone. I hope you stay.
Nothing wrong with being angry occasionally
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Two whole days? Well, I was a late bloomer.
Hey, everyone takes a break from time to time.
We have pound bills, pence and shilling coins, but is there anything else we should put your face on to keep us going while you are gone?
:autism:
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If some of the longer posts don't seem cohesive, like a bunch of random angry words, don't worry. You're not alone. I hope you stay.
Nothing wrong with being angry occasionally
Been there. I have actually cast spit-rain on my monitor while typing with passion on occasion.
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If some of the longer posts don't seem cohesive, like a bunch of random angry words, don't worry. You're not alone. I hope you stay.
Nothing wrong with being angry occasionally
Been there. I have actually cast spit-rain on my monitor while typing with passion on occasion.
A passionate heart is a good thing. Nothing worse than the daily indifference.
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If some of the longer posts don't seem cohesive, like a bunch of random angry words, don't worry. You're not alone. I hope you stay.
Nothing wrong with being angry occasionally
Been there. I have actually cast spit-rain on my monitor while typing with passion on occasion.
A passionate heart is a good thing. Nothing worse than the daily indifference.
Well, I am far away from indifferent on many things. I DO chose my battles to make the best use of my time and effort.
Lessons one learns after a sufficient number of scars have accumulated that you can not remember how you got.
All my "favorite scars" have a full story of befores and afters to tell. Then, sometimes, additional follow-up stories which can often attest that I learned that lesson the hard way.
I do not mean to sound condescending, but some things are just taken that way by some. I think we both have thick enough skin to share these ideas.
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I for one, value you among those here, QV, who I hold in the highest regard. And by extension, the loveliness you have wrought and brought forth to walk the world :)
Its always good to read your jokes thread. You have quite the aptitude for funny as hell off colour jokes yer maj :)
And you'll always have someone here who values the both of you, QV, as long as I am here.
Trigger, suicide attempt? damn man :( I'm fucking glad it didn't 'take' as you put it. Glad you are still with us. We lost one of our number already all too recently, we don't need to lose another brother spazz.
I first came here, really, after the amy incident, when she didn't just flip her wig, but blew the mains fuse-box out of her arse. After AFF imploded thanks to little miss prissy loco spite-bitch. I'm glad to have rediscovered friends like CBC here again (I had missed you couldbe, although, I think I've gotten to know you better here than I did when I was at AFF), so part of the diaspora of AFF refugees looking for somewhere else to kick back with my fellow speshul folk. And the idea that rather than fucked up overmoderation, and too much power ending up in the hands of a mental bitch like amy, having people who have beef with each other sort it out between each other, makes sense.
A similar thing has happened at other, different kinds of forums before. If one has something like that, a community coming together, it is a large loss if it dies, or is killed. I've been a member of a now-defunct, safe for archives of the data and posts of a certain board operated by and for, essentially a fraternity of a certain sort of chemist with certain ideals and aspirations, desires and aims, where we could share our knowledge and research of procedures, develop more and better ones to further our goals and those of each other, and also a subforum called 'the couch', a non chem research portion where we could kick off our shoes, the Bees could rest our wings, although eventually it was taken down, a great loss to my winged brethren, who split off, and like bees do, swarmed to various places, to set up new colonies. There is one primary one going now, and that, is where I spread my wings. Its good to see newbees joining, but good too when one of my fellows in the old guard, from back in the days turns up, a namecheck one recognizes, its like, in a sense, a brother long lost returning home, albeit to a new building after the original was burned to the ground, and only the treasures of data preserved.
A lot of nostalgia there for the original forum itself, the culture and the old guard, we find a way though, if we must then we have built new nests. I'm one of the first to settle down in the latest one, been there since the first, and even with respect to the ORIGINAL place, that was taken down, the nostalgia when it gets mentioned, either with the respect and reverence it is due, or even in infamy with the likes of some clandestine chemist documentary online etc., so much nostalgia. And realizing one has been around long enough to qualify as 'old guard' oneself, it kinda brings a warm glow inside, and especially when fellow members of the fraternity in question, which really is much like a brotherhood, in many respects, and just as much, a sense of amusement at the thought of being one of the old and grizzled hard-bitten old-school bees, its an amusing thought, thinking back to the days of being a newBee still working to earn himself his wings. And always good to have another of the old guard return to the fold to dispense valuable and valued measures of their often vast horde of carefully gained wisdom of experience, the old guard of the cooking chemists who don't just see profit and try to blast the hell out of it and drop off the face of the earth, but the real Bees, the kind who just hear the buzzing sound in their ears, and for whom that, is not just a means to an end, but a calling, something thats...well, for me, its as if it has Bee-n there, so to speak, since he was just a wee egg, waiting to become yet another of many larvae, and earn his wings. Right from childhood, it was there, just waiting for the potential to beecome unlocked, to earn my wings and grow the metaphorical big long stinger of experience earned, its always Bee n that way, always has Bee n and always will bee. To quote one, 'real Bees hear the buzzing, and it just doesn't stop, ever'
I like that. I definitely feel that way. Sure, there are cooks, out to make a fast buck. But there are also people who take up a higher calling. That, is what makes a real Hive Bee.
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TheMachine (or some other tool) sent me here.
What can I say, Cal? It was you who sent me to this place.
I remember being really cautious about online forums at the time. I was in a pretty vanilla (but lovely) relationship, and remember totally hiding my visits here, lol. I think at the time, I pretty much thought I was invited to some kind of dark web party...I enjoyed the early years here...I can't remember 2007 maybe? If I read some of the posts and threads from back then, it pisses me off how quickly time has passed really. I thought I had lots of time back then. Time to fuck around and say and do stupid things. I pissed away a lot of good things around the time I started posting here.
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I came here from WP. I refused to post on AFF, cause it sucked.
WP wasn't that bad for the average user. Probably bad for Moderators, seemed to be a high turnover rate, but shit I haven't been back there in almost a year and probably been almost 2 years since I posted anything. Can't stand the layout of the forum anymore. Way to hard to navigate
I like this board because it's small and you get to know people personally. Plus the rules are way better and overall way easier to navigate
I'm more on Facebook these days though
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WP was a better source of jailbait.
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WP was a better source of jailbait.
I can't tell if you're saying that about you or Jesse. :lol1:
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Pretty sure I wasn't jailbait when I was there.
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Sir Les brought me here, over a decade ago.
I came from the 2008 AFF meltdown, via Spectrumites.
Fuck, time goes fast.
I said that I sucked at introductions, without realising what I said. :lol1:
Few years later I dragged Pika here. He brought in the way more shy CBC. And look at her now!!!
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Sir Les brought me here, over a decade ago.
I came from the 2008 AFF meltdown, via Spectrumites.
Fuck, time goes fast.
I said that I sucked at introductions, without realising what I said. :lol1:
Few years later I dragged Pika here. He brought in the way more shy CBC. And look at her now!!!
:lol1: I was intimidated by some of the people here, just judging by how tough they seemed.
Cassanova Frankenstein, then known as some kind of gun, seemed pretty scary. But I wanted
access to the smiley collection, so I took the plunge! I miss the poster formerly known as Pika.
I wish he would return. Hope he's doing well. I did feel OK coming here because Hyke and Al
were here. I figured I would be safe enough with a few friends here already. :heart:
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Would be nice if ῦ would come back. Even when only to tell how he is doing.
Are you still in touch with Cassanova Frankenstein? Hope he's doing fine.
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Would be nice if ῦ would come back. Even when only to tell how he is doing.
Are you still in touch with Cassanova Frankenstein? Hope he's doing fine.
I am in touch with him, yes. He is doing well. 8)
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Would be nice if ῦ would come back. Even when only to tell how he is doing.
Are you still in touch with Cassanova Frankenstein? Hope he's doing fine.
I got in touch with PPK a few months ago and he was doing well.
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Peaguy found me on WP and invited me over. He recognized hard mettle when he saw it.
We crossed swords a few times and he voiced regrets at ever giving me an invite, but I always respected his way.
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I found out about this place after I was demoted on Aspies For Freedom... I wanted to know what was being said about me on this forum, so I went under a poorly acted pseudonym known as "Boris_Pettigrew"... after a while, I grew out of the "dumbass stage", and became a contributor on this forum.
Yeah, it's been an interesting 8 years... but when the 10 years comes up, I'll just laugh my ass off reading my old posts off of here.
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I don't remember how I came here in the first place. But funnily enough, I found myself remembering a collaborative writing project me and sg1008 were working on, and I wanted to see if he was still around. Was also wondering about a few names I've seen more recently, like skyblue and the now Arya Quinn. Still wonder what happened to that numbers guy. It's nice to see posts from Andersom this year (I was pleased when I found out who she was, although I don't recall us two interacting much directly, but their posts are always nice to read and the cow avatar is very soothing). All this nostalgia. It's weird.