Unfortunately (from the 'this concerns her' perspective), Zoe Ann seems to have left the building.

Damn, I was so excited that the Phoenix was back up, and now this...

t / sulking and sucking her thumb

The sense I get is that it's less important as a project to the coders than to the community as a whole. Is this an unfair assessment on my part?

The problem as I understand it is that we don't HAVE the coding resources for it.

It's sure as hell high on the list, but the coder who was going to do it had to drop out, and there's not really been anyone with the time or skill to take up the slack.

Ah. Gotcha. Thanks.

That *is* a problem...

I have four free days next week. I had planned to spend them getting that thing that they call "a life", but I might instead give it a try.

If my PHP skills were better, I'd volunteer, but I'm from Redmond country.

'Taint much call for them 'round these parts, and all my learning has focused on XML and PHP.

(Cereal):

I just threadsucked the part of Better Board where the last discussion about MARCIE took place. I'll read it tonight, compile a complete spec of this feature and its functionality and post it to see if people agree with it.

I'm for the Marcie (except for the paranoid part of me which thinks everyone will Marcie me), but shouldn't we wait until the other issues that have come up recently (meaning within the last week) with the board are resolved?

And lately, I think everyone's been more concerned with making sure the board was still running/has a future than making additions. Understandably. (xpost w/Perkins)

I think a warning would be good. It's not like we'd be banishing her. Not sure it would DO anything, but that's a whole other issue.

Thanks for stepping up, Paul. I got as far as the threadsuck part myself, and then realized that there's no way I'm even going to get to look over it for days. Put up a yell (in BBaBB) if you need help/input.

I was away from the computer for the past 4 or 5 hours, so I'm getting to this discussion a bit late. Sorry.

*I* was the first person to ask Zoe why she puts quotes around names, and I worded it quite neutrally. Over on WX, I did respond to her random posts in UnAmerican, because they were dropped into the middle of a thoughtful, serious discussion about the war.

I thought about this for a while, and I would have made those 2 posts -- and worded them the same way -- to anyone here. I am not singling her out.

Having said that, I am on the side of the line with the people who think she is being deliberately disruptive. Even if she has mental problems, that doesn't excuse rudeness, and it doesn't excuse a complete unwillingness to apologize.

Nutty said this:

Clearly, I'm at least somewhat of the same mind as Kat on this: I want to create a precedent that cumulative tiny offenses, when not mitigated by some kind of social grooming behavior despite the offense being pointed out by peers, should be tolerated no more than one big offense. The whole idea of warning was to give a head-check to the warnee, to say "Look, dude, you've gone too far. Please stop it."

It's just that, many posters having tried to say the above as individuals, aren't getting a response; maybe it's time that the collective say it.

And I agree entirely.