Am I the only one who enjoys TLR now more with all the race threads out of it?

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

let the trolls have a chance to tell their side and then we can all reach our own independent conclusions and move forward.

Trolls don't have a side to tell. Their M.O. is to disrupt. By engaging them you are bringing the convo to a halt.

@Napoleon for example is the kind of guy who can NOT let someone else have the last word. Even if he is dead wrong, he will argue until he is blue in the face until someone gives up. So these days I say my piece and K.I.M.

For actual convos its key to separate people who want to actually engage + exchange ideas from people who just want to make a stink/talk at people/troll etc. Don't get me wrong, I love the fockery But there's a time and place for it and a lot of these trolls don't know when to turn it off. U cant give those dudes a platform in serious threads.

Most serious threads here tend to devolve into projections of blame and regurgitations of prejudices anyway.............................. high key if u are in TLR for serious discussion

 

[charmander]

@charmander The other problem is why they would single out race as the one issue we can't discuss in the locker room. It's supposed to be the one place where you can talk about anything. No set topic. It's not the film room or the game room, it's the free for all room.

But now it's just free for all except a certain few

you might be thinking of JBO fam

there's a lotta shyt that doesn't fly in TLR and again i speak from experience...honestly race topics in TLR weren't a problem when they were tastefully done and in moderation, but after a while it became overkill and nikkas were just throwing together derogatory words for people and calling it a thread

 

[Morose Polymath]

I just want my brehs @Matt504 and @61 Corpses to get along

 

[Matt504]

Trolls don't have a side to tell. Their M.O. is to disrupt. By engaging them you are bringing the convo to a halt.

@Napoleon for example is the kind of guy who can NOT let someone else have the last word. Even if he is dead wrong, he will argue until he is blue in the face until someone gives up. So these days I say my piece and K.I.M.

For actual convos its key to separate people who want to actually engage + exchange ideas from people who just want to make a stink/talk at people/troll etc. Don't get me wrong, I love the fockery But there's a time and place for it and a lot of these trolls don't know when to turn it off. U cant give those dudes a platform in serious threads.

Most serious threads here tend to devolve into projections of blame and regurgitations of prejudices anyway.............................. high key if u are in TLR for serious discussion

when people who are accused of being trolls enter a serious discussion trolling, they're sealing their own fates, they'll be on display for everyone to see and take the next appropriate action, whether it be reporting their posts or simply putting them on ignore.

 

[Matt504]

I just want my brehs @Matt504 and @61 Corpses to get along

trust me, we're good, that's family.

 

[The Nigerian]

I don't think those dudes hated race threads, after all they did often have quite a few posts in them, so why are they celebrating the race track so much

White people run this website.

 

[61 Corpses]

Trolls don't have a side to tell. Their M.O. is to disrupt. By engaging them you are bringing the convo to a halt.

@Napoleon for example is the kind of guy who can NOT let someone else have the last word. Even if he is dead wrong, he will argue until he is blue in the face until someone gives up. So these days I say my piece and K.I.M.

For actual convos its key to separate people who want to actually engage + exchange ideas from people who just want to make a stink/talk at people/troll etc. Don't get me wrong, I love the fockery But there's a time and place for it and a lot of these trolls don't know when to turn it off. U cant give those dudes a platform in serious threads.

Most serious threads here tend to devolve into projections of blame and regurgitations of prejudices anyway.............................. high key if u are in TLR for serious discussion

perfectly said

 

[aaaaaaa]

you might be thinking of JBO fam

there's a lotta shyt that doesn't fly in TLR and again i speak from experience...honestly race topics in TLR weren't a problem when they were tastefully done and in moderation, but after a while it became overkill and nikkas were just throwing together derogatory words for people and calling it a thread

I have no problem with troll threads being moved out. If you and I can agree that "tastefully done " discussion on race are ok then what's the problem. I hate race trolls just as much as anyone here.

My point is we shouldn't be banned from speaking about race just because a few inflammatory race troll have tainted the water. This was a vast overreach.

You wouldn't ban talk all discussion on women and relationships just because you're sick of all the misogynistic trolling. You would ban the misogynistic trolling.

All I ask is that you do the same here. Ban the race trolls. Leave the intelligent "tasteful" discussions.

 

[61 Corpses]

when people who are accused of being trolls enter a serious discussion trolling, they're sealing their own fates, they'll be on display for everyone to see and take the next appropriate action, whether it be reporting their posts or simply putting them on ignore.

not really. @LA Fisher was one of the biggest trolls here and his threats went platinum daily.

 

[charmander]

I have no problem with troll threads being moved out. If you and I can agree that "tastefully done " discussion on race are ok then what's the problem. I hate race trolls just as much as anyone here.

My point is we shouldn't be banned from speaking about race just because a few inflammatory race troll have tainted the water. This was a vast overreach.

You wouldn't ban talk all discussion on women and relationships just because you're sick of all the misogynistic trolling. You would ban the misogynistic trolling.

All I ask is that you do the same here. Ban the race trolls. Leave the intelligent "tasteful" discussions.

fair enough

but that cake has already been baked, it's up to us to make something out of the race track now and remove the stigma it has of being a graveyard full of troll threads

 

[Poitier]

so a forum about Lifestyle and Relationships....has too much talk about Lifestyle and Relationships

nikkas aren't living lifestyles or getting p*ssy

Every thread is about being broke and how to get girls

 

[charmander]

nikkas aren't living lifestyles or getting p*ssy

Every thread is about being broke and how to get girls

i never said it was a happy or productive lifestyle

but for a lotta nikkas on the coli..........

 

[Poitier]

When a 30 year old severely depressed/anxiety dude who leads a rep gang of flaming fakkits is the loudest voice on something then you've failed #tnt

Even threw a selfie as an avatar and asked coli women "am I cute" not ironically

I was actually done with this thread but don't make me expose you to those people who don't know you

 

[Matt504]

not really. @LA Fisher was one of the biggest trolls here and his threats went platinum daily.

he was an entertaining troll and people love to be entertained, I dedicated a thread to him.

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/its-time-we-give-la-fisher-the-recognition-he-deserves.236212/

race is a tough topic to deal with for pretty much all of us and it's something some Black people don't want to discuss online because we simply have to deal with it so much offline and many feel like our online time should be an escape from that.

we can all learn from LA, he basically wrote his own playbook for platinum threads, we can apply some of the same tactics to draw people to the race track.

 

[mrken12]

this thread is evidence of the contrary friend

because if a majority of these quasi-militant, pro-black-when-it's-convenient posters weren't doing it for daps, there would be no one disagreeing with the move to a new forum with less visibility but more freedom to talk about the racial topics they pine for

it's basically saying "we wanna be pro-black and take a stand against white supremacy, but only in the largest and most viewed part of the site where we're most likely to get validated somehow for it"

So people think being pro-black is something done for validation? Not because people genuinely want things to get better and actually care?

And the whole throwing around of the word "militant" as a backhanded compliment actually makes being pro-black something worthy of mocking. And the people who mock "coli militants" get plenty of daps too so what's the explanation for that?