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'Serenity'


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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Lee - Jan 20, 2003 5:44:36 pm PST #3392 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I think it was also the "don't get your panties in a bunch" statement and the conversation that followed that got more people upset.

eta or what ita said.


brenda m - Jan 20, 2003 5:44:55 pm PST #3393 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

I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.

I don't think that's what she was saying. It's a legitimate point that when you make 6 obnoxious statements in a row, people react more strongly to the 7th.


Jessica - Jan 20, 2003 5:45:48 pm PST #3394 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I don't think that's what she was saying. It's a legitimate point that when you make 6 obnoxious statements in a row, people react more strongly to the 7th.

Thank you, Brenda -- that's what I was trying to get across.


Wolfram - Jan 20, 2003 5:47:00 pm PST #3395 of 10001
Visilurking

Ah. Well, then, there goes most of my conversation.

slap, slap

MM, admit it, you like the bitch-slapping. At least a little.

I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.

It was poor timing coupled with his inability to quit beating his dead horse. And his poor timing.


P.M. Marc - Jan 20, 2003 5:47:16 pm PST #3396 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

I don't see how his poor timing warranted the treatment he received.

WTH?

Rob was told to cool it. (S. came here and asked someone to tell Rob to cool it. Which, YMMV, I personally think was kind of theatrical overkill, but which isn't the point, just my opinion--I'd rather it all been handled in thread) Mixed in with all this is the whole is-he-or-isn't-he-debate (S as M), when M had been banned.

You want to sort through this all and tell me how it could have gone differently?


Miracleman - Jan 20, 2003 5:49:03 pm PST #3397 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

You want to sort through this all and tell me how it could have gone differently?

All right, tomorrow I will.

Tonight, Kevin Smith will be on Table For Five in fifteen minutes.


Jessica - Jan 20, 2003 5:49:27 pm PST #3398 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Rob was told to cool it.

And -- I feel this is the important point -- he did.


Wolfram - Jan 20, 2003 5:54:12 pm PST #3399 of 10001
Visilurking

Mixed in with all this is the whole is-he-or-isn't-he-debate (S as M), when M had been banned.

Why do we put up with the whole torture of S & M?

(It had to be said.)


Steph L. - Jan 20, 2003 6:05:48 pm PST #3400 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

But please remember even if people are new here, they're not (hopefully) new to living among the human race. Of course you can say things to someone you've known a long time that a relative stranger could not say. I think a newbie should go to any community equipped with that basic bit of social knowledge.

I t heart Cindy.


Holli - Jan 20, 2003 6:14:58 pm PST #3401 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore

...and now we've moved on to bad puns, which is both an integral part of the community and very, very silly.

Anyway. I think it's an important distiction between Rob and S that Rob apologized when asked, and S not only refused to apologize but went on to insult more people and denied the possibility that he may have offended at all. That, and the fact that we're all quite on edge because of ther recent influx, and on the defensive because of the recent suspension of mieskie, made a relatively minor incident blow up like Sunnydale High.

So what can we do to avoid this in the future? I think we might need a group Doblerization, to keep already-frayed tempers from flaring, and I think we need to remain polite, refrain from personal attacks, and try to clear up misunderstandings with a minimum of fuss.

And, for the record, I hope no new posters feel like they don't belong , or have been excluded in any way. I've seen a couple of posts start with things like "I'm not sure if my opinion counts because I'm new..." and that should absolutely not be the case. If you're willing to act like a part of the community, you should expect to be treated like one.