What'd you all order a dead guy for?

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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


Jon B. - Apr 12, 2003 12:49:49 am PDT #9285 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

You got bad html in that there post, Nou. t edit - I fixed it

I wonder if victor and jengod gave up Stomping because they didn't want to have to make the decision,

It was entirely for personal reasons.


arby - Apr 12, 2003 12:50:22 am PDT #9286 of 10001
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)

She is not following our guidelines of etiquette, but no one wants to be accused of breaching etiquette by calling for a warning. If we had a way of anonymously (or visible only to admins) marking the posts we thought were breaching etiquette, and a rule was established about how many votes/posts warranted a warning, *then* the rule would "enforce itself".


Jon B. - Apr 12, 2003 12:52:44 am PDT #9287 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I think if you want a LiveJournal post to be private, you should mark it that way.

Isn't that what a "group protected post" is?


Noumenon - Apr 12, 2003 12:52:53 am PDT #9288 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

You got bad html in that there post, Nou.

Now there's a born stompy. I was on it before I read your post, but I think you're the one who got it.


Kat - Apr 12, 2003 12:54:12 am PDT #9289 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Right. And either she won't because she enjoys causing trouble or she can't because something is amiss.

Do we want someone who enjoys causing trouble to be a part of the community?

It can be irritating, but I can't see what good a warning would do in either case.

Because it's the first step. And because it's a fair start. If she isn't warned then she has no way of knowing the extent to which her behavior irritates.

If nothing is done, then it's a bit of a smack in the face of people who are upset and feeling irritated and feeling like this person is being deliberately rude and upsetting (note: I'm not one of these people. I just don't like to see the community turmoil her posts can cause). If we don't say anything to this poster, how can we justifiably say anything in the future to other posters who are strange, off putting and unwilling to be part of the community?


Noumenon - Apr 12, 2003 12:54:29 am PDT #9290 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

I'm not on anybody's friends list, and I've read LJ about this. I don't know if Connie was bringing up a private discussion or not.


arby - Apr 12, 2003 12:54:32 am PDT #9291 of 10001
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)

A system similiar to this was discussed and decided against.

Oh. So how was it left, then? That people had to come in and request a warning? Because I think what Kat and others are saying is that maybe we need a better way of inititating the process.

(Feel free to correct me if I am erroneously speaking for anyone.)


askye - Apr 12, 2003 12:55:23 am PDT #9292 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

Nou---"group protected posts" that you referenced, that means those Livejournal posts were marked private.


Elena - Apr 12, 2003 12:56:38 am PDT #9293 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.

The point of the warning would be that we are following established community standards. What is the point of having rules if we don't enforce them? And even if Zoe behaves this way because she is somehow incapable of adhering to CS, that doesn't mean she gets to violate CS with impugnity.


askye - Apr 12, 2003 12:57:14 am PDT #9294 of 10001
Thrive to spite them

No the ranking of posts so someone is automatically banned, the Buffistas decided against a system that would rank or rate users like that.