(10-03-2025, 03:14 AM)Yetigirl Wrote: I got literally banned lol. I pointed out that someone has been plagiarizing artwork (among other things) for YEARS both on ATS and DI. The person doing the plagiarizing ran a narcissistic smear campaign against me full of lies, claiming that I contacted their mother and son and threatened them?
How sad is that? This person's ego was so injured by me exposing just a tiny piece of the web of lies they live in and went on full out smear campaign mode to silence me and get me banned!
Then the owner said they were gonna call the cops on me! For threatening them and acted like they doxxed me but failed and apparently think I'm some person from Texas, just confidently calling me by the wrong name saying they were gonna call the cops on me for threatening this person.
So I said call the cops then. The plagiarist is lying. I never did anything of the sort and guess what?! Even though I legit BEGGED them to call the cops, they wouldn't of course because then the pathetic lies of the plagiarizing narcissist will be revealed. Can't have that.
So here I am! Where can I donate to this site?! I need to support this site. As long as I don't get banned because of baseless lies.
Sorry to hear about all that.
I don't accept donations, this is a passion project.
Regarding banning members, I suppose other forums like this one and our discussions here have now caught their attention. The latest on D.I. from TSK himself . . .
Quote:T&C Reminder: Recruitment & Solicitation
We've had to ban two users in one week for the same rule. One attempting to harvest user data, and the other attempting to recruit for another forum. This was the most recent addition to our rules, so let's highlight it once more. This is no brainer boilerplate shit, and no different than the rule on ATS regarding the same.
This part below was emphasized in bold.
Quote:Additionally, members must not engage in data mining or attempt to collect personal information such as email addresses or real names of other forum members. Soliciting members on behalf of other forums, communities, or competitors is also forbidden.
and followed up with this . . .
Quote:The automatic ban should be self explanatory. There's no trusting a person after an offense like that.
I don't imagine this is an issue that will come up often, but I still thought a reminder was in order.
No need to name names unless it is a private message, but there should be enough said already to figure it out. I just want to avoid trouble, not create any. I'm really just a sissy trying to avoid the bullies, basically.
(10-03-2025, 07:49 AM)Michigan Swampbuck Wrote: Regarding banning members, I suppose other forums like this one and our discussions here have now caught their attention. The latest on D.I. from TSK himself . . .
F That!!!! He doesn't address the fact that they are censoring and logging peoples PM's. Bet your behind that I will be all over discord today, letting people know what is going on. If they don't care, that is is fine. And as far as recruiting? That is such BS. Again, I was letting 3 specific members know that if I was banned (thought it would be because of the annoying TW over there) that this is where I would be. Oh, and by the way, it sure doesn't look like the on member that tried to send me a link to some (rule26) forum got banned. I wonder why that is??? I am tired of being nice. But I won't name names. Well, except TSK!!!!
OH! And Ksihkehe? regarding the doxing? He actually told me about tracking someone down in RL!!!! This was a while back, but of course it was "justified".
(10-02-2025, 08:39 PM)Ksihkehe Wrote: It's the combination of what the email you forwarded to me said and what the other member said that reveals how deeply the private messages on DI are compromised. There is surveillance of private messages and some list of triggers for logging your messages, that are also censored automatically, that nobody has been allowed to know about.
The claim in that email is that the "senior staff" agreed that your first offense violating a rule you didn't even know about was so egregious that it should result in a permaban. This is while gross and dehumanizing insults directed at whole groups of other members are not removed from the public portion of the site and several agenda posters that exclusively post their bullshit activism are constantly derailing topics with no repercussions. I wonder if TSK isn't just throwing "senior staff" under the bus at this point. Maybe he believes the culture of secrecy will stop anyone from asking "senior staff" if they know about and approve of this surveillance via secret logs of private messages. I KNOW the shit that some of the people considered valued members of DI were allowed to get away with on ATS... over and over... and it was lot worse and lot more intentional than sharing a link to another forum.
Outside recruitment was always against the rules on ATS - except when an executive decision was made by staff to allow advertising for DI. It was a perfectly reasonable thing to allow because ATS was failing. Then, when TSK made an ass of himself and this site was created as an alternative to DI, the same staff decided it was against the rules again to promote other sites on ATS. That was not a reasonable thing to do, to pick winners and losers and to take away a choice from members. Worse, members were not even allowed to know there was a choice. Now the "winner" they picked thinks he's Mark Zuckerberg and is censoring private messages in real time, while secretly logging it and discussing the content of private messages with staff. This is alarming considering he has a history of doxing people and sharing private conversations he's had for personal benefit.
Secret surveillance and logs of private messages is a pretty big fucking deal... were people told that this was happening? On ATS it was always made very clear that there was no access to your private messages. Was it hidden in the disclosures on DI? Is secret censorship and logging of private communications what the "ATS legacy" is about now?
Just a few weeks ago I said that normal users probably don't have anything to worry about as far as TSK abusing access to your data on DI, but I had NO idea about this.
Well the person who resulted in me getting banned on there flat out told me that we shouldn't talk via PM on that site (DI) because they are read and we should only talk on discord. So i just assumed people are reading them. I do have this screenshotted from our conversation on discord i can share it when I get home.
(10-03-2025, 07:40 AM)Yetigirl Wrote: I will name names! If I'm allowed to but I don't want the same thing to happen over here where everybody just loves this person.
It sounds like you have your ducks in a row with evidence.
You can pull the ripcord if you want to, though you should start a new thread for it so it doesn't get lost in the mix.
10-03-2025, 08:26 AM (This post was last modified: 10-03-2025, 08:30 AM by Yetigirl.
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(10-03-2025, 07:03 AM)Ksihkehe Wrote: This is a free speech site, but I would strongly caution that bringing in third-party drama by naming specific members of other sites is asking for a lot of problems.
If somebody has found themselves in a position of authority and they're engaging in bad behavior, I see no problem is calling it out. Bringing in random members is... meh. It would be more fair to ask who, in a position of authority, participated in covering up for a plagiarist. I think it's very fair to be asking how much of the moderation is just one person playing lone gunslinger. Threatening a member with doxing and the police sounds like more like lone gunslinger than it does consensus of rational moderation.
People can post what they want, but nobody can say I didn't offer a word of caution on this.
If there is still a documented history of this plagiarism and the smear campaign I'm all for presenting evidence that is in the public's interest. It is in the public's interest to avoid a person that is dishonest, but without the evidence it doesn't land as well and I urge caution.
Lol. This post was because of me! I harassed no one. I was trying to let people know this is a snake. In the grass. It's fine though.
Yes. I would assume the person in the screenshot below is the one who attempted to doxx me and failed since they were the one saying "Ms. Slutske, I will call the wichita police department on you for threats and harassment" When i asked who is Ms. Slutske they very confidently said "that's your name" That is not my name! I do not live in Texas! I MEAN. NOT EVEN CLOSE!
Editing to add that yes when I saw this post i did poke the bear and since I'm banned, hit the "Contact" button and said "did you guys call the cops yet, I bet he doesn't want you to because then all his lies will be exposed"
No cops yet! Unless they sent them after whatever poor person they actually did doxx that isn't me. Which would be hilarious but I doubt they're that stupid.
(10-03-2025, 08:26 AM)Yetigirl Wrote: Lol. This post was because of me! I harassed no one. I was trying to let people know this is a snake. In the grass. It's fine though.
Yes. I would assume the person in the screenshot below is the one who attempted to doxx me and failed since they were the one saying "Ms. Slutske, I will call the wichita police department on you for threats and harassment" When i asked who is Ms. Slutske they very confidently said "that's your name" That is not my name! I do not live in Texas! I MEAN. NOT EVEN CLOSE!
Slutske sounds like slang for a promiscuous babushka.
TSK is perhaps under the false impression that geolocation data is reliable.
(10-02-2025, 09:33 AM)Chiefsmom Wrote: So, a cautionary tale!
Yesterday I was typing along, on DI and BOOM, kicked out. WTH? So I try to get back on. Message pops up, (I thought it said I was banned originally, that's why I've been using that word) my account has been banned/suspended.
Now, in the last couple of days, I had been dogging a poster that thrives on being annoying as hell, and called them a liar, which they absolutely were,
At this point, it is what it is. (Hubby hates that saying!)
I believe you. I almost never go to that site but I believe you.
(10-03-2025, 07:49 AM)Michigan Swampbuck Wrote: Regarding banning members, I suppose other forums like this one and our discussions here have now caught their attention. The latest on D.I. from TSK himself . . .
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