Posts by fionn

  • When a university goes woke

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    I seriously cannot fathom how stupid and shallow someone would have to be to seriously advise against using the word "brave" because anyone who's maybe weak might be insulted by it. I understand that this is all mere recommendation for official posts on Stanford's behalf -- but it's only a matter of time until this becomes commonplace, and these words are no longer socially acceptable to use. Some other examples I've seen at just a quick browse of that document are "she, man, you guys, user, grandfather, and straight". It seriously has me wondering who's actually getting offended by the use of any of these words, if anyone, or is this mere nitpicking to take advantage of a society that is trying to become more inclusive?


    I do feel for any of Stanford's journalists who I have no doubt will have to proofread any article / official legislation they write a ridiculous amount of times simply because they are using words on this list. How strongly are they enforcing this? If they use the term "African American" instead of "black", will they get told off? Will they get sacked? If this is the direction that colleges are going now, how long until the likes of the New York Times, or the Sunday Post enforce this, and before long, how long until the word "brave" is revered by the general public who grew up thinking that the words listed on that document are bad because god forbid someone is weak and might get offended by it right?

  • Revert the changes to long-term bans i.e. appeals

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    Where people can't appeal is when they want to come back and don't like that they're banned.

    Ryan what I think gets away from you a lot of the time is that this server has kids on it. Genuine kids. I started this server when I was 7 dude. Full of dumb kids who make dumb mistakes and the only way they learn is from being disciplined - being banned for 6 months unless they care acutely about the server, will more than likely result in them completely forgetting about the server, which, at the minute, is something we really and truly cannot afford due to the strength of the current player base (not very strong). If a player really likes the server, I don't know why appealing is something we should take away from them.

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    We issue punishments for breaking the rules and I don't see why you should be able to go "yeah I don't want to be punished any more so let's not"

    Because that's how it is everywhere else, it works Ryan. It's not like they submit an appeal "I want to be unbanned" and then they're unbanned. It's a lengthy enough process that players would vote in. That's how the system was for the last 11 years and it was practically flawless.

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    you're a prime example of why the appeal system doesn't work.

    How about a prime example of how it does? man was permanently banned twice (excluding self-requests). He appealed and is now a very active member of the discord server, he was a discord events manager for some time and is also an admin. He's changed a lot from when he was permanently banned and I find it unfair to pick one dude as an example and use him as reasoning. I was permanently banned like three times, twice before I became the EAO and discord admin and all that other stuff. If I was forced to wait instead of having a chance to appeal my sentence I probably wouldn't have come back.


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    it's like saying we should let pedo's out of jail because 'They said they're sorry and learnt their lesson'.

    Pedophiles =/= griefers. I would be much more inclined to agree with your analogy if you used a different crime, such as maybe vandalism. That's basically what griefing is however when you replace "pedos" with "serial vandals" the analogy makes no sense as vandals can be sorry and they can learn their lesson.

  • 13 years of school... the result?

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    Because for almost the entirety of human history there were no such thing as school, and yet despite that we still survived.

    Yes with a literacy rate of like 10%

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    However, very recently at some point, it was decided that people must go to school.

    By very recently you mean 1,600 years ago? I think they probably realized that humanity genuinely cannot function without an educated generation; without it, society would never evolve and stand still in terms of technological advancements for the rest of history. Cavemen, we would be glorified cavemen lol


    I think your outlook on education really substantiates your claim about you being dumb... this is genuinely probably one of the most braindead posts I have ever seen on this forum and I have sure seen a few


    The education system is not without its flaws but jesus christ removing it completely would literally result in humanity going backwards

  • Change the reinstatement policy

    Under Mark, resigning was seen as an aggressive way of relieving yourself of administrative duties, which, in hindsight, is pretty silly considering they are practically synonymous with each other on here.


    Anyway, I don't see why you should be able to reinstate after going inactive and be entitled to your position back. If you go inactive you should haver to go through a voting process to get your rank back 🤷‍♂️

  • Regarding DragonSlayer2189

    Sorry if this is the wrong tag


    I’d like to bring everyone’s attention to this



    this image shows DragonSlayer2189 streaming Microsoft Teams, the executive discussion, to me and some others. he streamed multiple discussions, violating copyright laws and also breaking an NDA. he began streaming after most people had left the VC, and after they had left, dragon began streaming. I was in the voice chat before he began streaming, a person has testified to it being the official Microsoft teams


    this raises the question of why dragon has gone unpunished for all this time while others have been punished aptly. Ryan has said that he’s been investigating the matter but with these events having occurred there should be no question of how to proceed, seeing as piracy and the distribution of copyrighted content would likely go punished if the offender were not a discord mod. Ryan has taken a hard stance on banning players for what he interprets to be illegal and so there doesn’t seem to be any reason an exception should be made here.


    Laws violated:

    1. NDA Violation

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-disclosure-agreements/non-disclosure-agreements#:\~:text=An%20NDA%20is%20a%20legal,NDA%20for%20you%20to%20use. (U.K. Law)

  • Owner vote off Proposal

    I've had a lot of disagreements with Ryan but there comes a point where it becomes borderline bullying… Y'all gotta give him some slack, being the owner of a server that's majority demographic is 10-15-year-olds is tough. Ryan is good enough to pay for this server out of his own pocket with no monetary gain the least he deserves is a community that respects him and doesn't critique him simply for the sake of it at any chance they get.


    I believe Ryan is the last owner of TotalFreedom. Even if Ryan were to hand over the server to another owner, if not done right and if done by force the transition would kill TotalFreedom. The community isn't as strong as it was 4 years ago, even 2 years ago and I believe that the numerous owner changes within that period is partly to blame.

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    ↩  jwmphall I believe theyre referring to certain category 0 offenses, especially 0a. Certain players are banned for loose interpretations of 0a like Flobbier while a discord mod streams breaking bad on discord. 0a is an excuse for you to ban any player you want at almost any time because at some point most players have done something you could describe as illegal if you do enough mental gymnastics.

    And it's ironic that I'm defending this considering this was what got me banned. When the server was owned just by one dude, somebody infringing copyright or being underage was minuscule -- nobody cared. But when you have a company involved, you jeopardize the company if anybody on here is actively breaking the law. I'm not going to sit here and lie and tell you I would put my company at risk by letting little 12-year-old ixNoah roam the discord just because people were upset TotalFreedom is not complete anarchy.

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    ↩  jwmphall I recall you stating “i can frankly ban whoever i want.”

    Can he not? This expectation that TF should be a complete democracy stemmed from the fact that Seth had issues with authority and gave into the community constantly. Not exactly his fault, he's a kid and the server was as much pricks then as they are now. Looking back on mark, he was seen as the most stable owner of TF and the most admired, and he ruled by decree. Probably the best owner we've ever had.


    Ryan's a good dude, he's human too and some of you gotta stop being so harsh. I know if it was any of you instead of Ryan you wouldn't do any better at all

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    ↩  taah from what i saw, i’d say no.

    fuck u