Yeah? Okay, but they have very similar posting styles and are both in Ohio.
I got stupid. The money was too good.
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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
Elena - Jan 19, 2003 4:35:04 pm PST #3148 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
Burrell - Jan 19, 2003 4:39:56 pm PST #3149 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ooo, one thing on the official stompy foot warnings: I would greatly prefer something not silly, and not too distracting. And I would greatly prefer if we left the wording up to the stompy foot, so that they could address the particular poster & the particular issue, instead of just making a general stompy statement.
Jesse - Jan 19, 2003 4:41:45 pm PST #3150 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
A gavel gives me FOX Firefly board flashbacks. How about just "Official Message" or something in the Buffy font?
Burrell - Jan 19, 2003 4:45:07 pm PST #3151 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Me like, Jesse.
Beverly - Jan 19, 2003 6:00:55 pm PST #3152 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Jon, I love the stompy foot. Can we find one that has engraving lines, rather than a photo?
Loving the stompy foot. That's ... circular!
Noumenon - Jan 19, 2003 7:28:08 pm PST #3153 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
Okay, but they have very similar posting styles and are both in Ohio.
And both frequent the same two threads, make the same arguments for Firefly's demise based on ratings, transgress the limits of polite sexual innuendo, react unapologetically to offending, have the same ability to gall people into responding despite DnFtEC. I say we have a suspension violation, though the people who wanted to give /mieskie and mmmieskie a chance to prove themselves will probably disagree.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 19, 2003 7:35:54 pm PST #3154 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
Nnner, Nou, I'd say there's a difference between an obvious clone, with the same name only an extra punctuation mark, and someone who just reads similar to them to you. (Grammatical elegance? Out the window, baby.)
Did Schmoker start posting just after mieskie left, that's the sort of thing you'd need to begin to have hard evidence. And if he says he isn't m., then... I don't know, I think if there's to be any trial it should be done separately.
Elena - Jan 19, 2003 7:44:53 pm PST #3155 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
I don't believe that anyone has asked him. If it's not overstepping my bounds - Schmoker, did you previously post here as mieskye?
Noumenon - Jan 19, 2003 7:54:22 pm PST #3156 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
I don't want to be divisive, lest the terrorists win, but I had rather repeat the experience of being wrong and having to apologize (the lesson of Deena) than being right and allowing too much time to pass before acting (the lesson of mieskie). It would be rash to hold a trial now, I guess, but our suspension policy needs some technological teeth.
Edited to fix a then/than homonym spelling error. I don't think I've ever made that mistake before. Your/you're was bad enough -- what is the Internet doing to me?
§ ita § - Jan 19, 2003 7:58:14 pm PST #3157 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
our suspension policy needs some technological teeth.
What sort of technological teeth?