Perhaps we should start explicitly pointing people to Natter? On the one hand, this is only relocating the problem, but better Natter than Firefly.
[And go ahead and stomp the deliberate troll.]
Mal: You want to tell me how come there's a statue of you here looking at me like I owe him something? Jayne: Wishing I could, Captain.
'Jaynestown'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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
Betsy HP - Dec 26, 2002 4:02:08 pm PST #1378 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
P.M. Marc - Dec 26, 2002 4:05:36 pm PST #1379 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
Perhaps we should start explicitly pointing people to Natter? On the one hand, this is only relocating the problem, but better Natter than Firefly.
Part of the thread swell is from the intentional Salad Shooter Troll Deflecting.
I'd say that most of the off-topicality is from them what knows where Natter is and what to do with it. (Pleads guilty.)
Betsy HP - Dec 26, 2002 4:06:21 pm PST #1380 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Yeah, I'm guilty too, but I'm starting to think the natteriness encourages people who want to make Michigan jokes.
Fay - Dec 26, 2002 4:06:30 pm PST #1381 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
The Natterishness of the thread hadn't troubled me, but I don't see any problem with pointing people over to Natter - seems logical enough to me.
I must admit to finding the recent tone of the conversation distressing at times, but I'm not sure whether this is a case of rough edges which will eventually smooth themselves out, or whether I'm simply downright incompatible with one of the new folks. On the other hand, there are a good number of very nice new folks whom I'm happy to have around.
Jessica - Dec 26, 2002 4:08:54 pm PST #1382 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
As regards the troll, I have no *personal* qualms about kicking him out, but our site etiquette states:
Consistent demon-like behavior may earn a warning from the Stompy Feet. If you don't listen to the warning, you will be suspended for two months. And if you come back unreformed, you will be banned. Banning is rare and very much a last resort.
He's already gotten a warning, but let's not get caught disregarding our own rules -- suspend the bastard, yes, but he's got one more strike to go before banning.
Laura - Dec 26, 2002 4:21:52 pm PST #1383 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Suspending should do the trick. At the end of a couple months the troll will have found a new playground.
DXMachina - Dec 26, 2002 4:24:35 pm PST #1384 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
The Natterishness of the thread hadn't troubled me, but I don't see any problem with pointing people over to Natter - seems logical enough to me.
Please don't point that guy at natter.
Fay - Dec 26, 2002 4:29:41 pm PST #1385 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Please don't point that guy at natter.
grins
Aye, fair enough.
Laura - Dec 26, 2002 4:34:26 pm PST #1386 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Contain the troll, don't let him infect natter, please.
Michele T. - Dec 26, 2002 4:49:34 pm PST #1387 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I think the exaggerated posting around him is likely to send the wrong message. Ignoring, rather than piling on with the LALALAWECANTHEEEERYOU, seems worth trying.