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
The hashing seems infinitely healthy to me.
A very long time ago, at a do-gooding non-profit, an employee began telling folks that she was pregnant, not in a relationship and in very bad financial straits. Everyone jumped to her aide...some of them in similar shape. Call it spidey-sense, but I had a bad feeling about the whole thing. One of my best friends in the org was appalled when I quietly expressed my concern. We had an enormous falling out that was never really healed. It came to pass that the pregnant person, 'lost the baby' and as a result got even more money, sympathy and support thrown at her. I was the only one who did not give money (that I didn't have at the moment, mind you) and was roundly spurned. Another employee went to visit the woman's mother and discovered that it was all a lie. The nearly 1k worth of merchandise given (and this was nearly 20 years ago), had been sold for shoes and manicures.
The point is, THAT community did not have an open discussion like this and long-term distrust and pain resulted.
Ah, Penlind. Good times.
So Gus was a sockpuppet? Did I skip too much?
The hashing seems infinitely healthy to me.
I'm a hasher.
And OUCH.
Ah. To be young again.
Oh, the innocence. And I can register everywhere with my home email address again!
Still unknown. Strongly suspected in some, irrelevant to others.
So Gus was a sockpuppet? Did I skip too much?
Well, he doesn't exactly fit the definition, does he? A sockpuppet is a second login to a site that pretends to be some other person.
It'sbeen so long thatI can't remember how this works. Would "kimi" need access to the e-mail she listed in her buffista registration to be able to activate her account with us?
So Gus was a sockpuppet? Did I skip too much?
Lots of questions. No answers. You should go back and read if you have a chance.
Yes! Although I think his real name was "Fictional piece of drama that I can 'kill' off to gain love."
Yes, brother of Cairo, a.k.a.:
And-he's-black-like-me
and
he likes-when-I-rub-a-piece-of-paper over-his-face
and
can-I-make-him-a-vampire
and
I've-written-it-down-so-he'll-live-forever
Who is, perhaps, best known as:
I'm only 10 years old, don't ask why I'm posting from Ireland at what must be three in the morning, there.
Children of: Penlind, a.k.a. no-really-my-husband's-real-name-is-Riley-Finn.