We're going to have my eldest ferret run the board? Now THAT would be entertaining.

Yes! It's part of a cunning ferret plan to take over the world. Hadn't you heard about it?

Actually, I had no idea your eldest ferret was called Kallisti. There was some sort of Principa Discordia/ Legolas thing going on in my head.

So are we home for good?

Until the next time HR craps out.

Question:

There has been another kerfluffle (minor, admittedly) in the Angel thread with Zoe and some other members. It's certainly not the first time it has happened.

While it wasn't a big deal, I would like some help in understanding when the official warning system kicks in. If there is never a Big Thing, but many minor things, does that start the system. Because, if it does, I'd like an official Stompy/PTB warning.

Backing Kat up: see posts 8271 and 8274, if you want to know what we're referring to.

Oh, well, if we're bringing this official--

I think you're out of line. Just because you can't ignore her anymore with the filter is no reason to bring up official warnings. Quotation marks? You want to warn her for quotation marks? What's next, my inveterate habit of misspelling the "hte"?

So she was snotty! I got the impression that she knows darned well that you had her on filter.

I think it's a legitimate question. Not that I necessarily think Zoe is deserving of an official warning. I mean, I think she's as annoying as fuck but that's me. Maybe there are people that she doesn't piss off. But how many times does someone intentionally create mini-dramas before you say, "Hey, we see a pattern and you need to chill or there are going to be issues"?

Connie, there is no filter. If there were, probably we wouldn't be having this talk.

And I think the issue isn't quotation marks, but being rude when queried about them (and the query was so polite, it was phrased two different ways to ask what she meant).

This is sort of a broad question for me: at what point do we stop tolerating rudeness? And more to this circumstance, at what point do cumulative annoyances, never explained or apologized for, constitute a cumulatively intolerable situation? I'd like to hear others' thoughts about this, both in general and specific.

I'm going to differ a bit, here, because I keep seeing the same pattern over and over again.

1.) Zoe posts something more-or-less nonsensical.

2.) People cut her down, usually quite rudely.

3.) Zoe bites back, quite rudely.

4.) People then pile up on her, and screaming about her attitude.

You know what? If she annoys you, ignore her. But I think more than one person on this board has hit harder than she's given. Personally, I can't stand her ramblings. Hell, half the time I can't understand them. But people need to stop baiting her into fights that they KNOW will happen, because really, she's usually NOT the one starting the fights.

And that's all I've got to say. Hoping that MARCIE filter emerges someday.

This is sort of a broad question for me: at what point do we stop tolerating rudeness?

And that's the problem, honestly, because it's pretty difficult to pick a number.

Personally, I feel like the line was crossed a long time ago when she expressed the "gay/bi sex is ICKY!" opinion in Angel.

Connie, there is no filter. If there were, probably we wouldn't be having this talk.

I think she meant over at PeoplesForum.