>>23645 This is hilarious… I mean, I had my suspicions, but it’s interesting to know that everything I inferred as far as motivation was correct.
Just so we’re clear:
1) The hosting was about to lapse.
2) It was extended at the last second.
3) Staff talk about how they don’t want to host it any more.
3a) None of the staff actually use the site anyway, so why host it for others still using it.
4) Staff decide to shut it down
4a) Decide in advance that they won’t pass it to anyone else because no one who agrees with them politically is willing to take it
4b) Added benefit of imposing a merger with Ponyville, where most of the Old Ponychan staff just happen to also be staff or otherwise entrenched, where they can be even more draconian in their moderation against people they don’t like.
4c) Stick is to the chuds.
5) Come up with bullshit excuses
5a) cost concerns (despite people openly offering to pay for it)
5b) hosting term expiration (when they had literally just extended it; see point 2)
5c) domain expiration (even though Zeke maintained it for an additional 2 years just so we wouldn’t get it)
5d) Zeke’s availability (even though he continued developing Ponychan long after the shutdown)
5e) no one has the technical expertise (even though people demonstrably did)
5f) lack of interest (despite the massive argument that ensued over the shutdown, wherein people clearly had the interest; it just wasn’t the “right” people showing interest)
6) The staff went to the metaphorical playground, took the community’s ball, went home with it, stabbed it with a knife, burned it, and then went to the store to try to make sure no one else at the playground could buy another ball to play with, and then when they did anyway, spread rumors about cooties or some shit.
See, if the staff had just come out and said “We’re shutting it down because we don’t like any of you who are still using it.” I’d at least respect it. But that wasn’t what was said. Instead we have the cowards of the old staff, who kept their mouths shut, pretending they didn’t have any involvement, and then on the other hand we have the villains of the story, Toybox and Zeke, maliciously lying to people’s faces about how the site
had to be shut down for a number of reasons that were instantly disproven. Golly gee, can’t possibly keep it going! And putting out press releases to direct people to Ponyville and Getchan (
hahaha....) while seeding search results to pre-emptively kill any continuity sites, I mean, chef’s kiss on that one…
It’s unfortunate for Zeke that he never imagined someone who wasn’t a communist might actually use the Ponychan repositories. Whoops!
How did that whole imposed merger thing with Ponyville go, by the way? There are exactly three people over there keeping the site alive at this point. Would you say that went better than expected? I can't give my two cents, since I'm perma-banned without reason over there, with no possible way to appeal it. I guess you really stuck it to the chuds.
Did it ever once occur to you, that the evil “right wingers” of Old Ponychan you’re so caught up on, were responding in kind to the
incessant needling of Toybox’s retarded orbiters? I mean, I get that Donald Drumpf broke y’all’s brains in 2016 or whatever, and then again in 2020, and 2024, and every second of every day in between, but is Ponychan really the place to tell us that every user who agrees/disagrees with [insert position/politician/opinion here] is an evil racist fascist Nazi colonizer? Who’d have ever guessed there would be backlash!
There’s this Lefist saying. It goes something like… “To those with privilege, equality feels like oppression.” Welcome to equality. Your buddies no longer have free reign to instigate arguments for the sole purpose of getting others banned, when those others respond to them in kind. You’re welcome to post as much Leftist drivel as you like in /ef/, just as others are willing to post “right wing” or otherwise extremist trolling nonsense. I’m not a fan of any of it, but if it’s going to exist, it’s allowed to exist in equal measure.
Speaking of which, I’m a centrist today (actually center left), just as I was 4 years ago, and just as I was for the decade before that. But since I don’t adhere to your Leftist ideology, I’m automatically far right I suppose. So wait a second… You base whether someone is a good person or not, on whether they sincerely hold the tenets of your dogma, and not their actions? I didn’t know you were a Christian!
I was perfectly willing to call Toybox “she” before his actions during the shutdown. As far as I’m concerned now, Toybox’s pronouns are piece/of/shit. I reject your shibboleths and your implications based on them. In fact, me “humoring” trans individuals by being more than willing to call them by their preferred pronouns, is meeting them half-way. It is in fact the centrist position: respect without adherence. But for someone who deserves no respect, well, piece/of/shit it is.
No, what Mk did was thus: “Hey guys! Wouldn’t it be cool if we brought back Old Ponychan!? (I know we just went through this whole fiasco where we said we
had to shut it down and all but… Psych!) Wouldn’t that be awesome? What, you want to collaborate with us? Psh, no way! We’re going to run it without you, but you can come chat with us and pretend we didn’t just kick you out on your asses! What, you don’t think that’s a good idea?”
I’ll end with what I told Mint in another thread. This project was open to all of you from the start. You and anyone from the staff could have worked with us and shaped it any way you liked. You could have collaborated at any time, to any extent, for any reason. But you didn’t. You’re welcome to use this site if you like. Or not. This site was not made to cater to you, because you rejected it before it even started, and so you were not part of the consideration. Whether the people who celebrated the shutdown of Ponychan because it brought a handful of people to Ponyville for a few months, decide to come back or not, doesn’t concern me in the least. Right now, it is what it is, but I am actually working toward something, which is more than I can say for you or anyone else who was part of the failed previous administration.
And no, you aren’t a villain. But what you guys did was unbelievably shitty.
Thanks for the information; good talk.
