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


Cashmere - Jan 26, 2003 1:59:03 pm PST #3536 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.

John H, you're not the only one with suspicions. I am reserving the right to be suspicious. Way too many coincidences for my taste.

edited to add: not that this cries for action, just that that is the way that I feel.


John H - Jan 26, 2003 2:03:22 pm PST #3537 of 10001

The thing that gets me is that he's been asked, more than once, to confirm or deny, and he's never replied. But of course, we don't know if he's read the post.


§ ita § - Jan 26, 2003 2:03:55 pm PST #3538 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

John, why don't you send an e-mail?


Cindy - Jan 26, 2003 2:24:20 pm PST #3539 of 10001
Nobody

Schmoker is going out of his way to play by our rules, at present. I'm very much for the sleeping puppies rule as long as that's the case.

I COMMed it because it made me laugh fairly early in the morning. At this time of day, I'd say it also is (to me) a good humored acknowledgement of the growing pains we all had last week, and am with Beverly on the sleeping puppies, regardless of my opinion on the identity issue.

On edit, I see it wasn't that early - but it felt early.


Typo Boy - Jan 26, 2003 3:43:03 pm PST #3540 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.

Yeah - let me put it this way. If someone was banned and back in other identity, it is disrespectful, blah blah blah wrong like a thing that is wrong cakes (Buffista in-group jargon in case someone new is reading this post).

But at the same time even if someone does that and comes back and stays within the rules - then the banning has served its purpose. Dialog remains within the rules. Not that we should let anyone get away with it if we can prove it. Not that it should be encouraged. But if a banned person comes back under a new identity, and show Buffista courtesy (our definition), then it is not a great tragedy. Even thouugh they are being secretly rude. Even though they are getting away with something. And if anyone can figure out a technical way to keep banned people from re-registering under a new identity, great.

And yeah, banned people re-registering and not showing courtesy is another problem and one that will pop-up. And we will eventually get a non-mutant troll - one who shows up, is immediately rude, ignores warnings, is immediately banned, re-registers immediately, is immediately rude, is immediately banned - rinse, lather and repeat. And I don't know what the hell we do when that happens. And I'm a lot more worried about that then the possiblity that someone who currently is obeying our rules is a secret identity for someone who didn't.


P.M. Marc - Jan 26, 2003 3:49:42 pm PST #3541 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

And we will eventually get a non-mutant troll - one who shows up, is immediately rude, ignores warnings, is immediately banned, re-registers immediately, is immediately rude, is immediately banned - rinse, lather and repeat. And I don't know what the hell we do when that happens. And I'm a lot more worried about that then the possiblity that someone who currently is obeying our rules is a secret identity for someone who didn't.

I'm not especially worried about that. It's a hell of a lot easier to stand over Dracula and say "Standing RIGHT HERE" than it is to say "Damn, Faith's behaving, but she's fucked me over before."

Both emotionally, and from the unofficial standpoint of this stompy.


Typo Boy - Jan 26, 2003 3:54:31 pm PST #3542 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.

Point Plei - but unless we give up innocent until proven guilty I don't know what we can do about it.


P.M. Marc - Jan 26, 2003 4:04:54 pm PST #3543 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

Point Plei - but unless we give up innocent until proven guilty I don't know what we can do about it.

Oh, I wasn't saying we *should* do anything about it, just that I'd much rather face a million "Hulk Smash! Grr! Tarakiller!" trolls than any other variety.


Steph L. - Jan 26, 2003 4:07:55 pm PST #3544 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Tarakiller!

I had to look at this over and over, because, coming from you, it looks like "Talisker."

Also, if trolls register, get stomped, re-register, and come back, we just keep stomping. That's all we can do.


Jon B. - Jan 26, 2003 4:36:07 pm PST #3545 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I know that folks have strong feelings about this, but there have already been hundreds upon hundreds of posts on the issue. Can we please move on? I'm not speaking as a stompy; I just feel like we keep repeating ourselves.