Wash: Um, can we take a vote on the murdering people?

Heh. Hehehehehehehe.

I'm for making the slugs shorter and leaving it at that, because it seems to be the simplest solution.

Hi folks.

I want to apologize for the ill feelings I stirred up Thursday night with my posts. Whatever point I was trying to make was not worth all the hassle it caused. I must've had a bug up my butt about this war and took my anger and frustration out on you people. I'm hoping that nothing I said was taken by anyone as a personal attack, but what I said was certainly taken by some as an attack on this board's culture and history, and for that I'm sorry. Please convey my apologies to anyone who stopped reading this thread because of the rancor I helped cause Thursday.

I've stepped back and taken a day away from the board and now I find I really don't care as passionately as I seemed to on Thursday.

On the grandfathering issue, I concede. All decisions made in the past by consensus are OK with me, and the waiting period applying to each of them is fine with me, too. Y'all can still vote on it if there remains enough opposition to make it worth putting in on the ballot, but all opposition from this corner is withdrawn. Either way, I'm abstaining from the vote.

And yeah, that means I'm accepting the war thread as dead. Wolfram, I'm sorry if this makes you feel like what little support you had is deserting you, but at least to me, it seems like time to throw in the towel. Well past time, actually. I won't withdraw my seconding of the war thread should it ever be allowed to be put on a ballot, but don't count on my support or my vote from here forward. Sorry, man. I know you care a lot about this.

That was a very cool post, bc, and not because of your change in opinion. I'm glad you're so invested in the community-feeling, and in having Deep Thoughts about Buffista issues. I do support the universal human right to change one's mind, but I support even more the advancement of monkey-grooming gestures as a general panacea for what ails us.

I think we've all had bugs up our butts about the war. I know I've taken my frustration out lately in not very conciliatory ways.

I know I've taken my frustration out lately in not very conciliatory ways.

Me too. I was a nicer person before the war. I've gotta work on that.

You know, we really should have a "not ultimately culpable for the contents of posts herein" disclaimer for the site.

I'm not sure a) who's the who that's not culpable, and b) how to word it, but there it is.

Good point, ita.

"Individual posters are responsible for the content of their posts."

What do we need beyond that?

Where should we put it? Bottom of every page in small type?

Ick, no. On the About this Site page if anywhere.

I don't disagree, of course individuals are responsible for their posts, but why do we need the disclaimer? Something going on in a thread? Did someone make a positive Riley statement?