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SHACKNEWS.COM SETS NEW ALL-TIME HIGH FOR MONTHLY UNIQUE VISITORS

I am very proud to announce that Shacknews had more people visit the website in May 2018 than in any month in our 22 year history. I want to thank everyone on the team for coming into work everyday and grinding to do it for Shacknews. This is a great moment for the company and it is just the beginning.

Monthly unique visitors at Shacknews.com are up 305% since the bottom in 2014. This new record passes the previous all-time high set in 2012. Today's milestone is the culmination of many of our editorial efforts and I am grateful for all the support from the Shacknews staff.

A special thanks to everyone here on the Chatty for your support.

DO IT FOR SHACKNEWS!!!

Shack, it’s done. The Europe tour is officially over.

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Am I drinking champagne at 10:30 in the morning? Fuck yes I am. I’m god damned exhausted. This little cup of bubbly sleep sauce is gonna carry me down to nap time on this business class flight. I feel fancy. Paris to New York. Finally....finally.

This has been the most exhausting and possibly the most stressful month of my entire life. But it’s also been one of the most intensely rewarding experiences I can remember having. The love out in the world is real, and good, kind-hearted people are everywhere. That’s the truth. I’m incredibly grateful to be able to do this for a living and I want to thank you guys and gals for your support along the way! The Shack will always be my favorite internet home.

See you on the other side of the pond.

Just told my conservative Trump-loving Fox News watching Aussie dad I’m trans. His reaction is not what I expected, he gave me lots of love and support and said he just wants me to be happy. Also I’m now telling the shack. Been on HRT for about 3 months and I’ve never felt better. My chronic stomach pain has disapeared and just been feeling super healthy and super positive - so much so I wanted to share it.

Anyway, you guys are my friends and I feel like we’re a close enough kinda family that I feel comfortable just letting it out there.

Yay chatty! I’m gonna go play some Mass Effect now.

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A Short Essay on Moderation

In response to the recent robust discussion, where several comments made regarding moderators not nuking comments which were perceived to be outside the community guidelines, we (the mod team) felt it was a good time to provide a small overview on moderation and a reminder.

First, no single mod can say "I don't like this person, lets ban them", and then they are banned.

We may bring issues we notice in the chatty and say "Hey team, I see this Shacker as an issue due to X, Y and Z reasons. Am I being petty here, do you all see these things as problematic as I do?". All the moderation team will take a look, and we all weigh in on it. There is no rubber stamp from the rest of the mod team when this happens. There are Shackers posting right now in the chatty who've been under review, and the majority of the mod team did not feel they were outside the guidelines to the point they were banned.

Second, unless the Shacker does something especially egregious, we give multiple chances and opportunities for the Shacker to revise the behavior that's problematic.

Sometimes this might entail an escalating ban level, in order to give some time for reflection. Additionally, we have sent personal shackmessage from one of the moderation team providing direct feedback on the issues encountered and a path to ensure they continue to be a part of the community. If the Shacker does not adjust in response to these methods, that indicates to the moderation team that they do not respect the community and this leads to a permaban.

Finally, the moderation team is very small now. There are only 8 moderators here, and one lead mod/owner. We all have real lives & jobs outside of Shacknews. We try to read/review as much as we can, but there will be times that we miss stuff. But we have a solution (thanks to electroly!) to try and fill in the gaps - if you see something that you feel needs moderation review, please send a shackmessage to Duke Nuked with your concern. This will post your shackmessage immediately to the Shackmoderator Slack (yes we have a Slack!). Whoever is online will see the notice and it will get reviewed asap. Sending concerns to specific mods is still OK if you want to discuss something, but responses can be delayed, so for immediate concerns use Duke Nuked

Sincerely Your Mod Team:

the man with the briefcase, bitchesbecrazy, dognose, EvilDolemite, morgin, ninjase, redfive, serpico74, and your's truly hirez

PS. we dont want shitty people here who say shitty stuff on purpose to cause people to get upset. That's just crazy talk.

PPS. if this posts gets 100+ infs/unfs the man with the briefcase promised to double the moderator team's salary!

Today is the 28th anniversary of the founding of the website that would ultimately become Shacknews.

https://www.shacknews.com/cortex/article/4442/today-is-the-28th-anniversary-of-th

ALL CLEAR!!!!

Doc said he was going to be doing rounds all day tomorrow and wouldn't have time to sit and talk with me because he knows I'm a talker and am always full of good questions.

First and foremost, thank you to each and every one of you for your support though this entire thing. I WOULD NOT have made it without this community, and I'm not just talking about monetary donations. Simply existing is more than enough to get me through most days. I owe my life to id software, Quake, the Quakecon volunteer staff, Steve Gibson, and the Chatty. But if I were Dorothy, and it was the end of the movie; Asif, I would miss you most of all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping the lights on here.

I completed the 2nd bone marrow stem cell transplant back in September. By mid December I was feeling mostly my old self again, plus feeling much better about life and my place in the world. Started couch to 5K, and progress is being made there. I rolled my ankle while celebrating my birthday this weekend, but by tomorrow I should be able to get back out on the pavement. That I felt good enough to run ~3 miles in 40 degree weather was really all I needed to know about how things were going.

I'm ready to start looking for work again. I've been given a de facto, genuine, 2nd shot at life so I'm gonna try not to fuck up this time. While it would be easy to get back into what I was doing before, even a cursory search of my post history has shown that I've never really been happy with my career choices. Looking to make a radical turn into something completely new and adventurous, and it even involves you guys in the near future, so that is super exciting.

And it wouldn't be a fleabug cancer post without the closing paragraph where I have to remind everybody to stay happy and hopeful and humble no matter what. I recognize that I am extremely lucky to have an eternally sunny disposition. I've always had more happiness than I needed, so I've always tried to share it at every turn.

Ask questions or not or whatever, y'all know the drill. <3 <3 <3

Nothing more to say right now, I'll let Craig Sager take me out.
https://youtu.be/01BMPwDUO74?t=9m26s

Dear shack dudes,

please stop hitting the UNF-Button when there's no sex involved.
It's very frustrating to search for UNF posts and only find results that include motherboards or bacon-affine food.

thanks.txt

RageQuit

Hi. In recovery. Everything went well. Thanks everyone. Going back to resting

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