It didn't work with the campaign against "wrod".
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Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
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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
Jessica - Feb 28, 2003 10:18:26 pm PST #6049 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 28, 2003 10:21:15 pm PST #6050 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
It didn't work with the campaign against "wrod".
I swear I can think of other things it's been said to have worked for, and I'm only coming up, right now, with the points in Natter when someone asked that the fun-fun-profanity sessions be truncated or toned down. Or content stuff. But I swear I remember it.
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Ah shit I'm just going to go to bed.
Kristen - Feb 28, 2003 10:22:31 pm PST #6051 of 10001
It didn't work with the campaign against "wrod".
There was a campaign?
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 28, 2003 10:27:54 pm PST #6052 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
I think there was Jessica.
Jessica - Feb 28, 2003 10:31:34 pm PST #6053 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Hey, I'm still here! Just because you can't see me shudder every time I see it doesn't mean it's not happening!
stupid typo...
askye - Feb 28, 2003 10:35:41 pm PST #6054 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I don't pay attention to the post numbers at all so I see the words "number slutting" or some variation and just ignore it because it's not important and I don't look at the numbers and it doesn't bother me.
Okay, it is kind of annoying when someone takes up 4 or 5 posts to get to a number. But that doesn't happen very much anymore.
It's like the Pornies, when it first started everyone was doing it (well I didn't do it much because I forgot) but still, everyone did it. People whitefonted the porn repeated over and over for four or five lines. Eventually it got old and it died off.
I think the aggressive numberslutting is starting to die off. "Aggressive numberslutting" meaning taking up 4 or 5 posts of one word or puncuation trying to get a certian number. That I think should stop.
victor infante - Feb 28, 2003 10:53:05 pm PST #6055 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Although I also think it's weird and annoying when someone gets all excited about getting, say, 6044.
6044 killed my brother.
What?
Hil R. - Feb 28, 2003 11:00:33 pm PST #6056 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think this is the type of thing that would be more appropriate to discuss in the threads themselves than in bureaucracy. Maybe complain there when it happens, so the people doing it will see that you're annoyed. It doesn't really seem like a bureaucratic matter to me.
I also agree that it seems to be dying down a bit on its own.
Kat - Mar 01, 2003 12:04:01 am PST #6057 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The signal-to-noise ratio is getting, to my mind, really fucking annoying.
Sure it is. But one woman's signal is another woman's noise. I was hellbent for a while on mostly "contenty posts" at least from me. But you know what, it just doesn't work that way. People numberslut or they don't and some will find it annoying some won't. Frankly, I don't know that I find numberslutting any more irritating than the ever present "WROD!" or "ITA! You have such a great brain" posts.
Obviously YIrritatantMV.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2003 12:10:22 am PST #6058 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"ITA! You have such a great brain"
HEYYYY now.
But really, I don't demand me-appropriate content from all posters, and even if I find numberslutting useless to me, it's of value to others and inoffensive.