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
How long is long enough to wait when you know that the unofficial notice/intervention has done as much good as pissing into the wind?
If we want to warn based on before-yesterday (i.e. before-notice) materials, then too long is never enough. If we have new, last-24-hours offenses that you all think are warn-worthy, let's go ahead and see citations, and go forward with the system. That's how the system works.
(Personally, I haven't got through all the threads yet, but I haven't found anything really warn-worthy yet. I'm trying not to jump immediately to the worst conclusion, although I may end up there eventually.)
Fair enough. Sorry if I overreacted.
You didn't. Here have some cookies. And by cookies I mean porn. And by porn I mean monkey.
I don't think there's any trolling, here - it's about a lack of comprehension of certain norms of behaviour.
But why should we have to put up with the repeated and persistent failure to conform to board etiquette?
Can't I just have the porn?
Wolfram always means monkey, Dana. Don't take his porn (or cookies).
You can keep the monkey porn to yourself, I'll take the cookies.
Dana - Micole - you have mail.
Jim, I have to agree with Micole.
I'd rather someone porned with my monkeys, than monkeyed with my porn. IJS.
I don't think she's malicious as much as she's utterly clueless, but I swear to god, the inanities are driving me to drink. And the sheer frequency of her posts make it very difficult to ignore her, especially if you follow the Angel thread.
I think a warning is reasonable given some of her recent behavior at UnAmerican. The thing is, she might (and it's a big might) cut down her defensive lashing-out after the warning, but I just can't see her changing her style of posts to make them more comprehensible. And incoherence on its own would not merit a further official action.
Which makes me think that filter is really the way to go.
