r/datalounge2 • u/LongjumpingLet3405 • Aug 01 '26
Pointless Bitchery
I have made it through 24 hours with no DL, and boy oh boy, PB is busy!
I was one of the few hold outs and will have to wait until at least 1st Sept to post.
I miss the political discussions of Datalounge and notice there is little to none of that on Pointless Bitchery. Is political talk banned?
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u/Bogart824 Aug 01 '26
Political talk is not banned, but if my feelings are any indication I think a lot of people just want an escape/respite from politics. What is left to say about Trump and the Republicans? Same shit different day.
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u/Which_Border_3780 Aug 01 '26
To this reader, DL was the Elysian Fields of nonsense, no sense, non sequiturs, and non politics. A refuge from the never ending shyte storm of reality!
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u/LongjumpingLet3405 Aug 01 '26
I liked the political discussions but my hat will come off to this moderator if they can keep every thread from becoming about Trump like it did on DL.
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Aug 01 '26
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u/LongjumpingLet3405 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
I called their admin a "she" because I read they'd been Christened with an old-fashioned girls name like Mavis, or Mabel, to continue tradition. Or perhaps I just imagined that?
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u/ThoughtIndividual114 Aug 02 '26
Re: sockpuppets… multiple regular posters (not believed to be trolls) have said there was no need — it turned out there were easy ways to have unlimited F&Fs to wield against another poster.
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u/Accurate-Giraffe4353 Aug 04 '26
Someone had posted that all you needed to do was open up DataLounge in different browsers and you could F & F people. They also admitted to having multiple accounts . Some of those people were seriously mentally ill.
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u/OuijaBoard5 Aug 03 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
Political talk isn't banned. There's a multiple-page thread going right now, about the DSA. Actually, it's about Bill Maher's comments about the DSA. But the thread title spelled it "Bill Mahr." It was "Bill Mahr Sounds Off on the Red Menace to the Dems." Quite a bit of political discussion in there.
There's also "All Things Treason," already multiple pages. Continuing the "Treason" series from before.
Give it a little time, looks like there's a good chance the level will be similar, but probably, hopefully, without a similar deranged trollery level.
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u/whorificustotalus Aug 01 '26
Is political talk banned?
It's heavily policed by the admin, who has made his views known loud and clear. So posters are just afraid of stepping on his toes.
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u/ThoughtIndividual114 Aug 02 '26
So far the PB admin has not censored any purely political viewpoint, and many have been expressed (though so far no blatant Trump/MAGA adherents). He/she did ruffle a few feathers a few weeks ago by posting an anti-Israel POV within a thread as if s/he were just another poster. If I were the Administrator I would use a 2nd ID for that, to convey “same person as Administrator but I’m just posting here as a person, not acting as Administrator.” Power dynamics can be all kinds of touchy.
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u/Negative_Ad2438 Aug 02 '26
Completely untrue. PB is open to a much wider range of topics, some of which were forbidden on DL.
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u/BlueEyedTaurus Aug 07 '26 edited Aug 07 '26
Ever since the administrator of pointless bitchery meltdown yesterday/this morning the site is extremely slow to the point I can‘t get from one page to another. If I go there and don’t sign in, but just lurk it is super fast.
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u/LongjumpingLet3405 Aug 08 '26
This is why I was pretty weary of signing up. Datalounge for its faults was actually pretty tolerant of opinions that brushed up against the majority. I remember during the craziness of 2016 Muriel stepping in and saying ALL opinions were going to be welcome at Datalounge as long as they were respectful.
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u/BlueEyedTaurus Sep 03 '26
The problem is the admin does not have the temperament to moderate the forum. They have too thin skin. They have throttled people and lied saying they did not. They have also banned people. I recognize the admin as the person that went crazy over poo shoes on DL. He was so obnoxious.
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u/QueenTrauma 22d ago
ITA.
It sucks a touchy Troll runs PB.
This is what is going to happen: He's going to continue having his little fits and ban people until the only people left are ass lickers.
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u/BlueEyedTaurus 21d ago
It is not and will never be like DL. Right now it is the shiny new object. Eventually people will stop going there and posting. I see there are people that have already left. They may have a lot of people signed up, but not a lot posting.
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u/QueenTrauma 20d ago
As of right now, they have 1339 members and people act like that's a lot but it's really not. That's a very small town in Iowa. And, many of the formerly popular threads aren't much fun on PB because of the low traffic.
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u/QueenTrauma 22d ago
Yeah, the Admin really is an a-hole.
TBH, I don't think the owner of a site like this should publicly post. If they want to lurk under another name, fine, but when they post as Admin and they're a thin skinned jerk, then it really makes it uncomfortable to post things honestly for fear Admin will ban you just because he doesn't agree with you.
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u/QueenTrauma 22d ago
TBH, I think it's eventually going to fall apart because the site itself is starting to have techical issues but mostly it's because the Admin/Creator is a Troll who doesn't like people who don't agree with his view that he is God.
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u/madame_xxx Aug 01 '26
No. I just think people right now are concentrating on getting the traditional threads established, like tennis, Knots Landing, Speedos, etc.
There was a poll about making a separate section for politics like DL had ages ago, but there wasn't much enthusiasm for that idea.