No longer brand new here. Occasional question place.

[Ythan]

Stahp.

Stahp.

[Kublai Khan]

Stahp.

Stahp.

[CooLDoG]

No really guys, stahp

[Telo]

If the site goes down is there an alternate meeting spot for updates and info?

[Axxle]

Twitter works: https://twitter.com/MafiaScum

[Telo]

Do I have to have an account or just follow that link. Following the link would be problematic since I would not be able to see it if the site was down. Asked 15yo daughter about the twittering and it's not a thing she does so no help from resident smartypants.

[Axxle]

You don't need an account, although it might be easier to see updates with it. You just need to follow the link. You can also just search for "mafiascum twitter" on google and it's the first result. Mafiascum also has a facebook group.

[Kublai Khan]

Actually, it's our first (and only) outage since setting up the twitter account. But it worked well as a starting point for getting the message out. From twitter, the message moved on to the Tiger Vigil Quicktopic, the Russian spam-filled Fallout shelter, and beyond to facebook, etc.. Sort of a digital phone tree of social media.

[Oversoul]

Actually, it's our first (and only) outage since setting up the twitter account. But it worked well as a starting point for getting the message out. From twitter, the message moved on to the Tiger Vigil Quicktopic, the Russian spam-filled Fallout shelter, and beyond to facebook, etc.. Sort of a digital phone tree of social media.

Would there be a way to add the Twitter link to the mafiascum.net page, that way when you google mafiascum it comes up?

[Kublai Khan]

Yup. I'll talk to Flay and we should get that added. Chamber said it's simple enough to do.

[Oversoul]

Thanks, guys.

[kanyeknowsbest]

yw

[Cheery Dog]

Actually, it's our first (and only) outage since setting up the twitter account. But it worked well as a starting point for getting the message out. From twitter, the message moved on to the Tiger Vigil Quicktopic, the Russian spam-filled Fallout shelter, and beyond to facebook, etc.. Sort of a digital phone tree of social media.

Would there be a way to add the Twitter link to the mafiascum.net page, that way when you google mafiascum it comes up?

When the site was down, twitter was at the top of my google. (followed by the fallout shelter) There was no sign of the actual site this morning.

[Telo]

If you are reading from a phone, tablet or e-reader and you come across spoilered text under tne blackout box how do you reveal it?

[SleepyKrew]

Depending on what you have, just highlighting the text may work. You might also need to highlight, copy, and then paste it somewhere. You could also quote the post.

[Telo]

You could also quote the post.

I heart you. Thank you.

[Telo]

No longer brand new here. Just stopping by to wish myself a happy scumday. Maybe I'll even get around to playing again soon.

[Vampirate]

This whole thread (didn't read it all, read like 10 pages) read like a mafia game.

The beginning was all jokes then shit got serious.

[Untrod Tripod]

oh man

:memories:

[Telo]

I'm sitting here with tears running down my face.
This may not be the best place to write this but I hate starting threads and this has been a place for me to come back to over the past couple of years so it feels like the safest place on this site for me right now but man my heart is broken.

I've been away from the site for a little while, very busy with life but I really like this place.
At one point I even came here with my daughter and some other friends to play word games.

When I logged on the other day I read the devastating news about the arrest. That was a bad day. I told my two youngest daughters about it (aged 16 and 19) and they hugged me and sympathized cuz they get it. They know about community and betrayal and loss in the virtual world. This is the world. I love my kids man.

Anyway I was reading to try to understand who all and what all because I don't really know everyone and everyone's story. I didn't want to chime in because I felt I had no real place in that conversation, no right to speak there when there were real victims, people who had formed friendships off this site and even in person. But I wanted to 'hear' anyone who felt they needed to speak so I've kept reading it over the past few days as I had time.

I barely managed not to vomit a few times and had to stop.
Today I resolved to finish and then be done with it but I didn't make it.
Not sure that I can.
Don't know really what I want to convey.
I don't want to speak on that thread but these tears and this snot compel me that I don't want to be silent either.
I think the original purpose of that thread was a good one.
To allow people who had been affected by the betrayal to express themselves was noble and good for the community. (my opinion)
The people who decided to use that thread for reasons other than that ranged from clueless to selfish to vomit inducing.
I'm going to go finish crying now.
I'm going to go back and finish it after I've had a chance to mentally and emotionally fortify myself.
I feel like I owe it to myself to know who you all are if I'm going to spend time among you. Your justifications and rationalizations are very telling.

[Cheery Dog]

It's perfectly fine for you to not read that thread. It's probably actually a better idea than reading it

[Telo]

I'm torn between not wanting to talk about this and the feeling that my saying it in the open might help someone but right now I don't feel like I can even help myself let alone help anyone else but I still want to ask ...

Do you think that people who went to that thread to share their sense of hurt and betrayal are helped by people like me who went there to hear them?

Even if I didn't speak up and acknowledge their pain?
Cuz that's why I went.
I thought listening was something good I could do since there was so very little else I could do.
It hurts like hell though.
Not the reason I went. That part I wanted. To go there. To take away a bad piece of something laid down and leave less hurt than was there before. I'd take away as much as I could bear and be honored to do it.

It's the other stuff. The not listening and the rest.
It makes so I can't breathe because of the bile in my throat and it makes the tears so I can't even read and I'm sad because that's all I had to give.

[chamber]

If continuing to read it is only making you upset, then you shouldn't feel the need to. At this point it hasn't been people talking directly about NS in quite some time.

[Equinox]

It's fine if you don't read it, Telo. There is a lot of toxicity in that thread. It's appreciated that you went through the trouble to hear us out. It sounds like you're taking our pain and betrayal and feeling it for yourself, and that takes more courage than a lot of the people who posted in that thread. You don't have to take all of the pain away. At least for me, being able to put it out there was enough, and time will deal with the rest. That you saw it was more than enough.

So, thank you.