I should catch up on this and a few other threads.  Meanwhile, a few quick notes...

Quote from: Lauda on February 13, 2020, 12:36:57 PM

Why do you guys keep on fighting?

Human nature, kitty.  From the moment that I saw this, I accurately predicted that trolls would seize the opportunity to attack both you and Quickseller.

(Ain’t it funny, Quickseller:  I have been perennially accused by multiple persons (cough) of being a Lauda alt—and now, you’ve been accused of having sold your account to Lauda.  You see how that works...  Well, I will see you at the secret underground meeting where we get our orders from an evil cat stroking a pet human.  Cheers. ;-)

What I did not expect was for people who customarily lauded your years-long battle to Protect The Forum From Qucikseller to suddenly forget the terrific effort and energy that you expended toward what, for you, could not have been other than a sincere goal of Protecting The Forum.  So, it is now quite suddenly high time to accuse you of anything from foolishness to ulterior motives of scamming with Quickseller?  Perhaps I may still be naïve:  I did not see that coming.  Should have.

I do like it when people show their true colours.  I prefer honesty, whether it’s intentional or not.

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To be filed away for anytime that TECSHARE tries to appeal to theymos’ authority:

Quote from: TECSHARE on February 15, 2020, 12:07:01 PM

I am sorry to say it Theymos, but you are a rube.

Just another example of TECSHARE’s recursively descending hypocrisy:

• When TECSHARE agrees with theymos, and/or can twist a cherry-picked theymos quote to suit his needs:  “theymos says so.  Obey the boss.”
• When TECSHARE disagrees with theymos:  “Theymos, [] you are a rube.”

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Quote from: nutildah on February 15, 2020, 01:00:31 PM

in the spirit of Ancient Rome, what has been democratically decided

A small historical aside:  Rome was never a democracy.  In the era of the Republic (including the time of the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage), it was a society divided into rigid social classes, with most of the power held by patricians as a sort of a large, hereditary quasi-aristocracy.  In the time of the Empire, obviously, Rome was a dictatorship—literally, a dictatorship, starting with the Senate’s grant to Julius Caesar of a lifetime title^* of dictator perpetuo.  That was whilst he was alive; after he was dead, they passed a law declaring him to be a god, and the name “Caesar” became a title forever synonymous with “Emperor; lifetime dictator” not only in Latin, but also in German (Kaiser), Russian (Czar), and other languages.

(* In Roman law, the position of dictator had previously a short-term position of emergency power for leadership in times of existential threat to Rome; cf. Cincinnatus, who was glorified for voluntarily renouncing his absolute power of dictatorship as soon as the crisis was resolved—15 days into his six-month legal term as dictator.)

Athens had a bout with democracy.  The right to vote was reserved to free adult male citizens, thus excluding women, metics (legal resident aliens), and a massive slave population—only about 10% of the population had the vote.  The system was still so unstable and prone to corruption that it lasted for less than a century in truly democratic form.

Worst moment of Athenian democracy:  The vote to kill Socrates.  Best moment of Athenian democracy:  The rise of a strongman populist leader, Pericles, whose very name grew to symbolize the glory of Athens at its height.

* nullius doubts that this “democracy” thing ever really worked as advertised, or ever will.