Invisible user filter, roughly. ENUF, stop this person appearing on my screen, etc.

Edit: JessPMoon types faster than me.

MARCIE is what we decided to call our ENUF filter, when we get around to having one. Because it turns people we want to ignore invisible.

Ah.

Although, the idea of such a thing here makes me kinda sad.

In this particular instance, would inviting him over to this thread have even made a difference? Sure, he was all polite and dignified in his earlier posts here, but did he really say anything that would have changed anyone's mind about the suspension? What I took from his "defense" was that he didn't feel like he was responsible for anyone's negative reaction and that how we chose to react wasn't really his problem. The two alternatives he offered resultwise, were that he either would have grown bored of us and left, or that eventually it would have come to this anyway. Nowhere did I see him offer up that had he realized how seriously this all was being taken, that he would have tried to acclimate hinself better to the community by altering the tone of his posts. The fact that this whole discussion was even taking place to such a degree seemed to provide him great amusement, and he couldn't resist getting a final word in there, designed to make people feel guilty.

And as far as him not knowing this thread was here...hey, I found it. Noticed that there were an odd amount of new posts here, figured somebody was talking about something, and came on over to check it out.

And as far as him not knowing this thread was here...hey, I found it. Noticed that there were an odd amount of new posts here, figured somebody was talking about something, and came on over to check it out.

Bing. As someone else pointed out, it's in the right-hand column for a reason.

And as far as him not knowing this thread was here...hey, I found it. Noticed that there were an odd amount of new posts here, figured somebody was talking about something, and came on over to check it out.

wrod.

It seems like there's a pretty wide majority of 'yes' to the new (Music amd Movies) threads.

Should we leave it open for a while longer (to enable different-time-zones Buffistas taking a vote)? And if/when we do, how should we close the vote? Should there be an official announcement (like on the opening)? Should we just announce here: 'let the thread(s) names discussion begin'?

I'm leaving soon (hopefully. I can barely keep my eyes open), but the results so far are 12 for 'yes', 2 for 'no', 4 neutrals and 3 for 'yes to Music and not to Movies'.

See y'all sometime before the week after next.

It was, though ugly on the surface, a thing of beauty in its resolution. I really love this place. Even if I did just try to register as James Cameron.

By the way, Shell is very funny.

Also, Shell is going to die. Painfully.That is all. :)

pant, pant, pant....

My god, I finally got to the end of the thread! That's what I get for taking time off for the holidays.

I still haven't come close to catching up in Firefly, and coming across the offending posts, but the fact that mieskie/Michael returned to post here while on suspension is clear enough proof that he didn't fit in on this board, and the amount of bandwidht we have used in discussing the banning process shows what a problem he became.

I'll go on record as supporting the movie and the music threads. I found it hard back in the WX days to find out what people thought about specific movies or music in the Natter threads then, and the increase in thread speed here has made it practically impossible to get an extensive discussion about any movie. Generally, the discussion tends to go along the lines of whether a person liked the movie or not, maybe a couple of posts about what they liked/didn't like, and then the discussion would shift to some other topic. Also, in-depth discussions were usually forestalled because of the spoiler problems for people who hadn't seen the movie yet.

On a final note, you guys all rock. It just needed to be said (again).

Caught up. Sweet Jesus, I have to go get my haircut and I come back to 101 messages.

Knut--The only person I ENUFed on TT was someone who used annoying HTML in his posts. He does the samething on WX, but posts less so I don't miss the ENUF filter. However you can take someone on and off MARCIE/ENUF whenever you want, so if someone is grating your nerves for a bit you can ignore them until the situation resolves itself.

Music thread--Msbelle, yeah I know I can bring up Music in Natter, but the way Natter works it doesn't work well for in depth discussions of stuff on a long term basis. I don't know how to explain it right, except, I don't know jack about music. Basically I was raised on Top 40 radio. The only non Top 40 stuff I know...I learned from online sources (pre Buffista days, Buffistas, LJs, songvids, etc). So I want more exposure to music and I want to...I dunno. I've discovered so many new authors and got new insight on books I know for Literary on a level that just can't happen in Natter, and that's what I'd like from a Music thread.

Banning/Suspension. I'm for 1 Official Warning, then Suspension, then Banning. Knowing the Buffistas it won't be a case of someone saying one thing and then a Stompy Foot comes along with an Offical Warning. The Buffistas will try to reason with the person, try to get the person to play nice. And by the time the Official Warning comes--well there will be proof that reasoning isn't working. Mieskie was like that. He didn't want to play at all. I'm all for Democracy and Second Chances, but we have to a bite to go with a bark,we're just going to start sounding like Angel threatening Lilah.

Dx, death threats from you are a sign of affection? (Gulp.)

Typo Boy, could I tag this:

"So I can't be reliable. I'm an unreliable source of occasional help for the future, though I haven't helped at present." (September 2002)