There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices.

Jasmine ,'Power Play'


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.

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shrift - Dec 27, 2002 5:59:23 pm PST #1635 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Sorry, Shrift, I was teasing.

Oh, I knew that, Betsy. And I was joking, too.

Although, in retrospect, I realize I might not be very funny when I'm this drugged. I mean, I think looking at my face in a spoon is hysterical right now. "Look! It's shrift in a funhouse mirror!"

I really shouldn't, not in these parlous times.

When the time comes that we can't laugh at ourselves, that's when I think we'll really run into trouble.


§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 6:01:27 pm PST #1636 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

When the time comes that we can't laugh at ourselves, that's when I think we'll really run into trouble.

But you can't laugh at me, just so's you're clear.

Absolutely not.


Rob - Dec 27, 2002 6:09:26 pm PST #1637 of 10001

As for saving the IP address with the post, it gives me a bit of a big brother quease.

But you already know this from the logs. It would just make it easier if we need to put a stop to some abuse.


§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 6:16:21 pm PST #1638 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't know it from the logs. That knowledge is contained therein, and I'm quite happy to leave it really difficult to find. Especially with the inconclusiveness of it all.

I mean, I can post from two completely different IPs from home -- different organizations and cities (although same state). Either of which someone else could be posting from too at the same time.

I'd just rather leave it very last-resorty, even though it means more work for me to find out.


Rob - Dec 27, 2002 6:40:03 pm PST #1639 of 10001

Since my suggestion of logging IP addresses bothers you, I'll drop it.


§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 6:41:39 pm PST #1640 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It bothers *me*, but I'm not the arbiter.

I vote against it, you for.

We need other voices.


Rob - Dec 27, 2002 6:45:45 pm PST #1641 of 10001

I just think if I pick apart all your arguments against, it will just irritate you. And I really don't care that much about it. So I'm changing my vote to no, making it unanimous.


§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 6:46:34 pm PST #1642 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It won't irritate me if you're convincing ...

But it's your call.


Jon B. - Dec 27, 2002 6:47:21 pm PST #1643 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I don't see the point. Knowing the IP addresses doesn't prove anything either way.


Rebecca Lizard - Dec 27, 2002 9:03:34 pm PST #1644 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Also-- I could be just stupid, but it seems to me that I have multiple IP addresses, that's the way my ISP does it. When I look at the hit logs for my website and the top five are all from ppp-string-of-numbers.cust.oldcity.dca.net, I'm betting they're all me, and not just five different really interested Philadelphians.