There are members of the board that will be more comfortable with the blocking option and I do understand this although once it is in place I hope to forget it exists. Of course I hope to never hear any members discussing it, and count me among those that don't want to know how much it is being used.
Mal: Well, look at this! Appears we got here just in the nick of time. What does that make us? Zoe: Big damn heroes, sir.
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Laura - May 04, 2004 12:33:11 pm PDT #7477 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.
Jesse - May 04, 2004 1:49:06 pm PDT #7478 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What Laura said.
Aims - May 04, 2004 2:04:55 pm PDT #7479 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
What Laura said.
"Why is Mary blind, Pa?"
Pix - May 04, 2004 4:07:49 pm PDT #7480 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Oh, lord, no. Because putting numbers to it will only convince paranoid people that they're part of that percentage.
Speaking as one of the paranoid, a vehement third (or fourth, or whatever number I am).
I agree with Liese S. that it is understandable, just not pleasant to think about. So...I'm all for the ignorance is bliss approach here. Just my two cents.
tommyrot - May 04, 2004 4:41:22 pm PDT #7481 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So...I'm all for the ignorance is bliss approach here. Just my two cents.
I think the stompies should tell us comforting lies.
(...kidding...)
§ ita § - May 04, 2004 4:43:39 pm PDT #7482 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We already do.
I mean, we never would. We are way too stalwart and true.
Liese S. - May 04, 2004 7:48:28 pm PDT #7483 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
And the world is a good and peaceful place.
amyparker - May 04, 2004 9:21:03 pm PDT #7484 of 10000
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
And the bad guys always wear black hats . . . .
If user X decides to filter user Y, would user Y know? What if user Y asks user X a question, and then 20 posts later Y is all, "I ASKED YOU A QUESTION, X - WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?" OK, that's an extreme example....
Not that extreme: the forums my DH spends much of his time on have a user filter option, and that very thing has happened several times.
I'm sorry that we need it, I can see why some people find it necessary if they're going to keep their heart valves intact, and thank you to the good folk coding it. That's all, really.
tommyrot - May 05, 2004 8:25:50 am PDT #7485 of 10000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
My "remember me" and "show email address to registered users" settings both got mysteriously changed to "No" sometime after late last night. Anyone else notice anything weird?
Tom Scola - May 05, 2004 8:45:16 am PDT #7486 of 10000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
This happened to me once, too.
When I updated my profile to subscribe to a new thread, "remember me" got mysteriously unchecked.
However, this morning, when I subscribed to the new natter, it remembered to remember "remember me".