My bad day

I've had a bad day. I don't have them very often, but since we're here, I'd like to share a few thoughts:

I'd like to let you all know that if I go/quit/disappear, I won't be selling or transferring this site. I will raze it to the ground, destroy it. I've always felt an acute sense of justice, and I feel now, more than ever, that it would be an injustice to reward the haters, griefers and accusers which compose some small but material percentage of my stress levels with any semblance of a working site. In my head I have a list of about 15 commands to run which would completely destroy beyond recovery the entire site.

What people don't know about me, or perhaps refuse to believe, is that I follow a code of rational ethics based on Objectivism. And I don't just pretend to follow it; I actually follow it. I have a very great deal of trouble even contemplating not following it. These ethics underpin everything my actions and statements in every aspect of my life, and have for many years.

When I am accused of dishonesty, scamming, or whatever other crap people front up with here, for no reason other than that I am the owner of sythe.org, it triggers such an intense hatred in me I cannot describe it. The hatred is four fold:

• First, of all the people on this site I am the only one to profess a rational ethical code and actually follow it; I am easily the most innocent of wrong doing of anyone here.
• Second, I am only being attacked because I am the owner. If I were just another random user, no one would care to attack me. This is fundamentally unjust. It means you are attacking the most competent and virtuous FOR BEING the most competent and virtuous.
• Third, the attackers use and promote their altruist ethics -- which actually are EVIL and based on nothing -- to attempt to destroy the virtue of my actions which actually are based on real ethics and are actually GOOD.
• Fourth, almost every accusation presented -- ever -- I have already addressed somewhere in some thread and had to present -- unjustly -- evidence of my innocence. You people will not even grant me the basic human right or principle of logic (pick one) of presumption of innocence.

Now let's get on to specific accusations people like to make:

1. You invented the SytheMMO just to get donations. -- http://www.sythe.org/something-all/941584-sythe-org-mmorpg-accusations-post7373234.html Failed crowd-sourcing project. Anyone who accuses me of this from now on I will simply ban.
2. You make tons of money off this site and don't share it with anyone. -- http://www.sythe.org/12001914-post16.html The site doesn't even make enough to pay someone to do my job. Fuck off.
3. Secretly all the staff are corrupt and scam. -- They aren't and don't. We have never had systemic corruption at sythe.org. We are probably the only site on the internet that hasn't. So: Fuck off.

Final thing:
Being attacked for banning someone who is attacking me: I do not fucking deserve this. If people want to stay on the site then they should learn to be nice to (and not breed contempt of) the staff. This is not fucking rocket science. Really, it isn't. If you want to hate on staff, go set up your own site and do it there.

 

[Fendle]

tl;dr version - my penis is small and a girl made fun of me.

 

[nodnarbusn]

I don't agree with any of the BS people are saying, I am however not too big a fan with some of the staff and the way that they are selected but that is neither here nor there.

A lot of people do enjoy the site. A lot of people do appreciate what you do and a lot of people would miss it if you decided to let it die.

Don't listen to these assholes, and for fucks sake don't think ALL of us are like them. Making threads like this is likely to encourage the pricks giving you a hard time in the first place because they will smell blood in the water. Just ban and move on, there is no sense in throwing everything away over a handful of trolls.

 

[AmitZ]

should i make a thread named free fendle or somebody else will?

 

[nodnarbusn]

should i make a thread named free fendle or somebody else will?

Punjabis back, he will take care of it.

 

[szskateman22]

tl;dr version - my penis is small and a girl made fun of me.

You should actually read it instead of being a jackass here...

I understand your P.O.V. Sythe. Too many people are ignorant to what it takes to keep a site up and running, while under heavy criticism from everyone on that site and the known fact that there are those who try to take it down everyday.

I wish there was someway we could help keep the asinine and ignoramus fuckers off your back. Keep your head up and don't let them get to you (anymore than they already have).

 

 

[Fendle]

You should actually read it instead of being a jackass here...

I understand your P.O.V. Sythe. Too many people are ignorant to what it takes to keep a site up and running, while under heavy criticism from everyone on that site and the known fact that there are those who try to take it down everyday.

I wish there was someway we could help keep the asinine and ignoramus fuckers off your back. Keep your head up and don't let them get to you.

I did read it, and I do agree with everything he said but thought I would add a little joke. Accusing Richard of being money hungry deserve to be banned, also people who constantly grief him. It is his site and he can do what the fuck he wants with it.

 

[Laptop65]

Richard there's assholes wherever you go in life, you just have to find the ones that are worth your time.

 

[SuF]

I disagree with your second bullet. People do attack you because you are the owner but that isn't the only reason. As I said during the SytheMMO period, trolls like getting reactions. The hatred that you describe is something that these trolls love. They have learned that you will have this reaction and they get great amounts of joy from causing it. The more that you react the more that the trolls will continue to prey upon you.

There is obviously a time and place to react to accusations of immorality. During my senior year of high school a teacher accused me of lying about something completely insignificant. I could have let it go without having any reaction but felt that I would be abandoning my principles if I did. So I quickly stood up, gathered my things, told the teacher that I would not be falsely accused of lying and walked out, ignoring his protests.

However during online activities (and other activities) there is not a reason to do the same. The teacher was a figure out power over me and I felt wronged by "the man" and I felt I needed to resolve that issue. The internet is different. I do not care if someone thinks I'm a liar. I know I am not. If a person is too stupid to know that I am not they are not worthy of my time. I ignore them.

I strive to be happy within my life. In order to achieve this I have taught myself to not care about things that are not important. I do not consider stupid people important to my life and therefore I have given up on most interactions with them. If they refuse to accept that what I am saying is obviously true it is their own fault. I will not live my life with unhappiness in order to impart something which they refuse to accept on them. I do not let others control my life. I do not let them have influence over it. My emotions are mine alone and I strive to reduce them as much as possible except when I decide to allow them to arise.

So do what I do and teach yourself to not give a fuck about the stupid people. They aren't worth your time anyways. You have better things to be doing besides dealing with morons.

I'd like to note that everything I said above has one exception, my girlfriend. Well, not all of it. Some of it.

 

[Fendle]

Richard there's assholes wherever you go in life, you just have to find the ones that are worth your time.

Assholes who leak staff lounge -.-

 

[Laptop65]

Assholes who leak staff lounge -.-

The only things I've ever leaked was 1. a very minor leak 2. Anything that is related to me or is about me. I find it dumb I get put in the wrong for leaking stuff that was about me in the first place.

 

[SuF]

Richard there's assholes wherever you go in life, you just have to find the ones that are worth your time.

None of them are. That doesn't mean it isn't justified to spend your time on them.

 

[szskateman22]

I did read it, and I do agree with everything he said but thought I would add a little joke. Accusing Richard of being money hungry deserve to be banned, also people who constantly grief him. It is his site and he can do what the fuck he wants with it.

I agree that those people are flat out stupid. But that joke was a little bit of a long shot.

I think Mr. Sythe just needs a group hug.

 

[Fendle]

The only things I've ever leaked was 1. a very minor leak 2. Anything that is related to me or is about me. I find it dumb I get put in the wrong for leaking stuff that was about me in the first place.

Once a leaker always a leaker, you're like a broken tap. -.-

 

[Fendle]

I think Sythe should become a Brony -.-

 

[AmitZ]

why not ban the people who troll you for a week or so just to make them appreciate the site more

 

[n4n0]

I did read it, and I do agree with everything he said but thought I would add a little joke. Accusing Richard of being money hungry deserve to be banned, also people who constantly grief him. It is his site and he can do what the fuck he wants with it.

How about instead of being a fucktard like the people Sythe's ranting about right now, you have a little sympathy.

 

[Apith]

If you want to hate on staff, go set up your own site and do it there.

Spyike hating on staff.

I was actually looking for a troll message at the bottom, sounds serious.

 

[Laptop65]

why not ban the people who troll you for a week or so just to make them appreciate the site more

lol he's done perm bans in the past and they've accomplished nothing. They just make new accounts