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
Wow. I was too busy at work last week to comment while the troll discussion was going on (plus, I don't read the Firefly board), but I just wanted to say I love the way you guys handled it, and think you set a great precedent for the future.
I'm in the slightly-bothered-by-the-idea-of chibi!lizard camp, I guess. This just doesn't seem like a place where I'd want my future theoretical 10-year-old to read, with or without an exceptionally mature big sister by her side. But I guess that's a decision for Mama Lizard to make, and I'll respond to Rebecca's sister as I would to any other poster -- based on her words, not her age. (As a side note, tho, what's interesting is that 10 bothers me in a way 12 or 13 wouldn't, I guess because 10 is still a doll-playing, Crayola age in my mind.)
(She's really not really reading all that much, or posting very much at all. She also doesn't completely get the structure of the board-- she's more familiar with text enviroments like MOOs-- so I *have* to be next to her when she goes on.)
she's more familiar with text enviroments like MOOs
Mothers Opposed to the Occult(s)?
t relieved someone else said that, as it was what I'd been thinking too
Well, you know, it was a MOO for homeschooled kids, set up as an offshoot project from a listserv for their mothers, and some of these people were from the far
right
of the homeschooling spectrum. So. Yeah. That too.
But what does "MOO," as you used it, mean???
Shit, I used to know! You know. It's a text environment, and you build rooms, and objects, and, and, I am not being articulate girl. It's a MUD. I forget the difference between a MOO and a MUD.
Um-- I don't know what a MUD is either?
A mud is a Multi-User Dimension (or Dungeon) -- it's a collaboratively built virtual space. Sort of like Sang Sacre. A MOO is something that as far as I could ever tell is exactly the same thing, but with different initials.
Thank you.
I also googled MOO, if anyone else in interested
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