We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.

Anya ,'Dirty Girls'


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


brenda m - Dec 31, 2002 5:43:07 pm PST #1769 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Wow, stay away for a few days and you miss a lot. Anyhoo, I noticed the FAQ says:

Buffy is currently shown twice a day on FX at both 8 AM (7 AM Central) and 7 PM (6 PM Central). The weekend syndication runs at various times of the day, as determined by the individual television station.

...which I believe is incorrect. Doesn't it show at 6 and 7 PM (ET)? And the same two eps the following morning (though I'm not so sure of the time on that, heh.)


Typo Boy - Dec 31, 2002 5:56:32 pm PST #1770 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I'd say the guy has earned his suspension. He has never apologized. He has been warned once. And his last set of post are definitely personal attacks. I know that calling a person's position obtuse is not always the same as calling that person obtuse. But in context, with the tone of everything else this is clearly what is meant. That is a personal attack, and thus not borderline, but a clear violation. All this is my opinion, only - but I would urge the stompy foots to suspend M at this point.

There is no question he violates the spirit of the Buffista rules. And I have argued above, he violates the letter as well.


P.M. Marc - Dec 31, 2002 6:01:46 pm PST #1771 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

Okay, well. You all know what my vote is.

I'm gonna go relax and swing.


Dana - Dec 31, 2002 6:12:29 pm PST #1772 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Boy, did I pick a good time to be gone. (Well, yes, holidays, but nice coincidence.) Hugs, support, and power to the Stompy Feet.

t dashing out again


askye - Dec 31, 2002 6:14:41 pm PST #1773 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

I'm not a stompy foot, but I think he should be suspsend, he just comes in here and deliberatly pushes buttons, makes insults and treats us like we are stupid.


esse - Dec 31, 2002 7:44:43 pm PST #1774 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Wow. Those were the most intentionally rude posts I've ever read.


Betsy HP - Dec 31, 2002 8:38:21 pm PST #1775 of 10001
If I only had a brain...

Do we have a consensus for stomp, then?


billytea - Dec 31, 2002 8:50:27 pm PST #1776 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.

Do we have a consensus for stomp, then?

I'm in agreement. I don't know that he's a troll exactly (I think his problem is more the persecution complex of the intellectually conceited), but it doesn't really matter. He's violated community standards, he's been stompy-foot warned, he's continued to offend community members. And, roughly, promised more to come. By the etiquette guide we established, suspension is the mandated action, and I don't see any reason to make an exception.


Noumenon - Dec 31, 2002 10:39:16 pm PST #1777 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

My posts about mieskie have sounded ambivalent, but I do agree with the reasons people have given for classifying him as a troll, and I think suspending him would be entirely appropriate. His future is on Usenet. I don't think there's any division in our community over this. Any newbie who might object ought to find this discussion convincing. I did.


Lee - Dec 31, 2002 10:44:49 pm PST #1778 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I hope you don't mind one more newbie speaking up, but I agree with the suspension, and heartily applaud the way you've handled the whole situation. You gave him every chance, but I just don't seem him changing to conform to the community. I think the fact that he even changed his tagline to what is, to me, an offensive Carlin quote, after the Carlin/Kinison comments shows that he's primarily interested in creating conflict, and will only keep trying to do so.

edited, because I wanted to be clearer.