If someone does this, and it's rude, our normal procedure still works.
That's what I've been trying to say but got entangled in my words.
Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
'Trash'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Nilly - May 09, 2004 9:57:28 pm PDT #589 of 10001
Swouncing
Miracleman - May 10, 2004 11:05:18 am PDT #590 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I'm just worried my smart-assedness will get me Stompied.
'cause there will come a time when I'm punch-drunk and giddy and will scream in jest at Sean "That's it, motherfucker! FILTERED! Woh-pah!"
But it will be in jest. I never intended to announce who I would filter, if I choose to filter anyone.
NoiseDesign - May 10, 2004 11:09:26 am PDT #591 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
MM's concern is mine. We have a pretty active and at times acerbic sense of humor around here. I'm now afraid that I'll say, in jest, something along the lines of "Hey MM, don't make me filter your ass!" and this will get me an automatic smackdown.
It's about context here folks. I reallly, really, really don't want to feel like I'm looking over my shoulder on every joke. I think that making an automatic warning out of this is the first step down a very slippery slope.
DXMachina - May 10, 2004 11:10:32 am PDT #592 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
We wouldn't stomp you for that, MM. We'd just stomp you 'cause it's fun...
(Fair's fair. I'm never going to be allowed to use "Talk to the Filter," either.)
P.M. Marc - May 10, 2004 11:16:50 am PDT #593 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It's about context here folks. I reallly, really, really don't want to feel like I'm looking over my shoulder on every joke. I think that making an automatic warning out of this is the first step down a very slippery slope.
Yes, this.
Because me? I know damn well I'd make filter jokes at, say, Seany. Even though, y'know, I can't ACTUAL filter anyone.
"That's it, boy-o. Imma gonna FILTER your ass via proxy!" could, in theory, come out of my fingers.
billytea - May 10, 2004 11:21:40 am PDT #594 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
"That's it, boy-o. Imma gonna FILTER your ass via proxy!" could, in theory, come out of my fingers.
And this is exactly why you must be stopped. Because now I have a disturbing visual of your fingers filtering Sean's ass. And from there the next step is bound to be Henry Kissinger's ass. There's no way this can end well. It's a slippery ass slope indeed.
Fred Pete - May 10, 2004 11:28:36 am PDT #595 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I think that making an automatic warning out of this is the first step down a very slippery slope.
I agree with this, but with the direction that the conversation is going, I think it should be underlined that taunting someone with the filter may be demonlike behavior. Context is critical.
Topic!Cindy - May 10, 2004 11:32:41 am PDT #596 of 10001
What is even happening?
I'ma filter Kissinger and his ass.
billytea - May 10, 2004 11:34:14 am PDT #597 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
NNNNNOOOOOOOO! Or, possibly, I am vindicated. Go me!
Sue - May 10, 2004 11:53:37 am PDT #598 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I don't think joking about it should be a stompable thing, but I think it needs to be discouraged, like natter in this thread.
I do think we need some caveat about plonking or taunting, even if it isn't codified as a warnable ofence.