I quite like reading CEO as it I usually end up missing some news story from CNE or Bong Burgandy and guaranteed I can pick it up a couple of days later when it is published as "breaking news" delivered from CEO News crack team of on the ground reporters.Guest13 wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 11:53 amI remember when the dude who runs CNE exposed CEO’s cut and paste habit by running a story with deliberately wrong details, waiting a few minutes to let them post it there, before taking down the original story and publishing it correctly. Classic.
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What a load of bollocks. The site is dead because you run off members that are good and get traffic. Alexandra doesn't own this site, yet Gonk does own CEO. I wonder how the other two owners of K440 feel about this "New K440". Big money? Londo was a great poster that got chased away by logos, who had a track record of destroying K440. Scobienz didn't tell the whole story about Boomer. There are always two or three sides to a story. You've banned posters ... or run them off, which makes or breaks a forum.
Nice buttons. Where are your members? Be a good chap and try another tactic.
It's a terrible day to see someone come in and actually try to change the forum for what it is. I think you may need a spanner to fix it.
Nice buttons. Where are your members? Be a good chap and try another tactic.
It's a terrible day to see someone come in and actually try to change the forum for what it is. I think you may need a spanner to fix it.
Unattributed or not prperly attributed so that the khmer source can't be found. That's my only gripe.tombraider wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 2:36 pmI quite like reading CEO as it I usually end up missing some news story from CNE or Bong Burgandy and guaranteed I can pick it up a couple of days later when it is published as "breaking news" delivered from CEO News crack team of on the ground reporters.Guest13 wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 11:53 amI remember when the dude who runs CNE exposed CEO’s cut and paste habit by running a story with deliberately wrong details, waiting a few minutes to let them post it there, before taking down the original story and publishing it correctly. Classic.
Oh, that and I'm not fond of grasses.
True. There is a lot more to the Boomer story than I've ever revealed. At the same time as he asked to be paid for his Google translation non-translations, rapegate happened and ended badly, with him deciding to sabotage numerous threads (including the Pieter Ceulen story) by deleting his posts in a fit of pique, and me regrettably having to ban him as a result.Guest 123 wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 3:36 pmScobienz didn't tell the whole story about Boomer. There are always two or three sides to a story.
Sadly, his death means I can never explain some of the things I learned in those few days; it wouldn't be fair as he no longer has the ability to reply.
Boomer announced on FB that he intended to kill himself for at least 5 days prior to the act.
Forums live or die by the policy on trolling.
Here, I don't think there is one.
New posters are routinely ridiculed for sport here.
It is tradition, like in school, and just as infantile.
Forums live or die by the policy on trolling.
Here, I don't think there is one.
New posters are routinely ridiculed for sport here.
It is tradition, like in school, and just as infantile.
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I don't remember Boomer ever being ridiculed, and I don't agree that new posters are ridiculed. We just do not suffer fools gladly.
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Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I did not intend to imply that Boomer killed himself because of ridicule here.
As Scobienz mentions, he tried to extort money here. He has many issues that I am not privy to.
However- it is very common for innocent questions here to be met by name calling and ridicule.
A "fool" here is often a naif seeking information from a point of self admitted ignorance.
As Scobienz mentions, he tried to extort money here. He has many issues that I am not privy to.
However- it is very common for innocent questions here to be met by name calling and ridicule.
A "fool" here is often a naif seeking information from a point of self admitted ignorance.
I talked to a friend of mine recently, he was employed by The Phnom Penh Post before it was cool. He told me how much he misses the Cambodia Daily and said they were a good newspaper to hate. We reflected on the time when Bernie was still alive and rivalry between the papers was at its peak. It’s a time we both miss when we look back at it.
I think it would be very boring if there wasn’t rivalry between Khmer440 and CEO. Neither gets things right all the time, but we both get things wrong sometimes, and in a sense we both complete each other.
I think that it’s dangerous to fall into this idea that one is so much better than the other. Few things are so black and white. Londo touched on it earlier but he said it as it would be something negative, but in the end of the day we very much overlap and share members and audience.
“Nice buttons but where are your users”, yeah, okay, we could argue about this trivial stuff all day long. Khmer440 is ahead with the rating, CEO used to be, but CEO has more posting users but Khmer440 used to.
I don’t really care. Don’t get me wrong, I care about the site, but I don’t care to analyze every small detail of how the tide turns.
I welcome your opinions here even if your opinion is that Khmer440 sucks. I think it’s an important opinion, and in the future when this is all over, I will miss it. Like the past rivalry of now two dead newspapers, CEO is good sport.
As for Boomer, at his funeral it was only me, pedros and Jaap. No keyboard warriors. Just us with his mother and his sister who were crying. I don’t know what sort of drama lead to it and I didn’t see the messages he wrote before he killed himself.
I didn’t always agree with Boomer and we were not particularly good friends. But to some extent I felt that he was a part of us. When Boomer died I felt like we lost one of our own. Call me a pussy, but I wish there was something I could have done to stop it from happening.
I think it would be very boring if there wasn’t rivalry between Khmer440 and CEO. Neither gets things right all the time, but we both get things wrong sometimes, and in a sense we both complete each other.
I think that it’s dangerous to fall into this idea that one is so much better than the other. Few things are so black and white. Londo touched on it earlier but he said it as it would be something negative, but in the end of the day we very much overlap and share members and audience.
“Nice buttons but where are your users”, yeah, okay, we could argue about this trivial stuff all day long. Khmer440 is ahead with the rating, CEO used to be, but CEO has more posting users but Khmer440 used to.
I don’t really care. Don’t get me wrong, I care about the site, but I don’t care to analyze every small detail of how the tide turns.
I welcome your opinions here even if your opinion is that Khmer440 sucks. I think it’s an important opinion, and in the future when this is all over, I will miss it. Like the past rivalry of now two dead newspapers, CEO is good sport.
As for Boomer, at his funeral it was only me, pedros and Jaap. No keyboard warriors. Just us with his mother and his sister who were crying. I don’t know what sort of drama lead to it and I didn’t see the messages he wrote before he killed himself.
I didn’t always agree with Boomer and we were not particularly good friends. But to some extent I felt that he was a part of us. When Boomer died I felt like we lost one of our own. Call me a pussy, but I wish there was something I could have done to stop it from happening.
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I didnt mean to imply he tried to extort money here. That certainly didnt happen.one eye wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 5:21 pm
As Scobienz mentions, he tried to extort money here. He has many issues that I am not privy to.
He asked me if I would pay him for his translations. That was his right. I felt they weren't worth paying for; all he did was cut and paste them into Google translate, and those around at the time knew they were unreadable. I could have done it myself. I turned him down. As was my right.
It's just unfortunate that Rapegate happened at the same time. It compounded his anger towards me and the site and after he did his midnight sabotage, I had no option but to permanently ban him.
That would have been 3-4 years before he died, so there was clearly no link. From memory, he returned briefly when Jared took over in 2017 (?), but soon faded away again.
So who was this Boomer guy?
Did he kill himself after being trolled on k440?
Was he a prominant expat or a drug addled guy in the alley
Did he kill himself after being trolled on k440?
Was he a prominant expat or a drug addled guy in the alley
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All very odd!
So Londo ridicules logo for being an ex-admin of K400, and that it now has more traffic than CEO.
It’s a bit like Scotland ridiculing England for not winning the footie World Cup.
So Londo ridicules logo for being an ex-admin of K400, and that it now has more traffic than CEO.
It’s a bit like Scotland ridiculing England for not winning the footie World Cup.
"Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the notion that white people can give anybody their freedom." Stokely Carmichael
Boomer was a tortured soul, not a bad guy, but for sure with issues. Without going into to certain details, he was certified bi-polar and in and out of the nuthouse in his native land. He wasn't an addict, just chose the way to go with a 'bang'.
On the other side he did have a heart of gold and would help anyone in need, but also a pain in the arse to have around in his dark times.
K440 had nothing to do with his demise. As Alexandra said, we were the only ones at his funeral, his sisters had come over from Europe and told me they had been expecting that day for the past 25 years.
He did, however, hate both Scobienz and Gonkers in equal measure, but the latter wrote a totally cuntish eulogy on his site (deleted after being called out, as usual), and the former was somewhat respectful in his tribute.
RIP Pete, and thanks for bequeathing me your FTR. Still got it.
Cunt would be happy his name is still bandied around, tbh.
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Massive stalker
What a shame. Perhaps I knew him. Did know a few people called Pete back in pp years ago.
As for Alexander, I thought he bought k440?
Can't see any other reason to put effort into a forum .
As for Alexander, I thought he bought k440?
Can't see any other reason to put effort into a forum .
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