I was in Discord the other day and read your post berating a poster. It really bothered me. Rather, I inquired of you about something different and signed out. Later, signing back in, I found I couldn’t get back to your forum-area — it was “gone”. Thinking “wacky Discord”, I then tried to reapply the invite code. I received this message about “invite invalid”:
https://i.postimg.cc/qvS95x87/Discord-Invite-V4h-Urj-E-Invalid-20210711.png

Those 2 Discord actions led me to a wrong conclusion of being banned by your “retaliation”. My only resource was back here. So I complained, here, about the berating of that Discord poster.

After that, I was still bothered by the whole exchange and tried Discord again. Needless to say, more wacky Discord activity (no your-site, and no-valid-invite-code). I tried various approaches until, in the multiple windows, one got through and brought up your area! Therein you had answered my question plainly and civilly. I think my face must’ve turn red in front of my monitor.

So it was proved there was no retaliation in my asking you a question that had probably been asked before ad infinitum. Rather it was Discord wackiness (a good reason not to use it).

If I can get back to Discord again, I’ll point you back here. Please feel free to delete these 2 posts. Please keep my apology over concluding “retaliation”, of which I am glad there was none. (Still bothered about that berating though.)

Yeah I know there is no webpage “3.x” here. It’s at some lunatic site called “Discord”:

Definition of “discord” — lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas)
Example — “Must we fall into the jabber and babel of discord while victory is still unattained?” – Winston Churchill

The problem is … discord. Trying to log in is a pain (see comments above — thanks, Google). Once you’re in with the special “join” code in your initial link (hey where’d it go? it was right here! hmmm … read on) in DerRichter’s special little corner of Discord, one would think of having moved into a com-chi apartment instead of a free-working forum. You could spend an hour going through all the settings, which are constantly putting things in-your-face, to turn them off. Well named … Discord.

In Richter’s section, there is a very long list of posts, starting with the most recent. There I saw someone ask a short question about the GITS project. Apparently he though better of it and posted a short clarification of it. After a couple of quick replies by others, Richter jumped in with a full paragraph, berating the question-asker — stop it / it’s been answered before / constantly asking questions / wasting our time for answers — and such blah-blah. It stunned me. So I decided to look back into the list of posts to see what could’ve prompted that outburst.

So I scrolled. And scrolled. And scrolled even more. After a while, I began to notice most of the posts where about other films and other projects. Not only that, but replies (and none too short) from the “principles” of this project. And not so much a peep against any of it by DerRichter.

I thought to ask DerRichter a question about this website, here, if he was going to continue using it. I was hoping “yes” for judging.it. Then I left. When I logged in again later in the day, I couldn’t find Richter’s little corner of Discord. It was supposed to open right up on sign-in. Strange. As a test, I thought to re-join using the link with the entry-code. More strangeness. The code was suddenly “expired”. What an amazing coincidence! I was “banned” and the code was removed to prevent new joins, on that very same day, in fact, within hours. That was very sick. :/

Richter, you let it overwhelm you. You must RUN from that which has driven you mad in Discord. Hope to see you soon, back here, among humanity and civility.

Just a note: I had problems with eBay when they switched from their non-obtrusive “captcha” to Google’s. I loudly and strongly complained, they thanked me for my feedback, and promptly switched back to the previous one, which works fast & fine all the time. Maybe you could request that alternative to the website administrator if he really thinks he needs it (frankly, I don’t think he does).

Google and other big tech (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) dream of ruling the internet … and they’re implementing it right now. We especially should beware the lessons … of “Ghost In The Shell”. 😉