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.
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...)
We already do.
I mean, we never would. We are way too stalwart and true.
And the world is a good and peaceful place.
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.
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?
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".
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya, 'Checkpoint'
Is this quote coming up really frequently for anyone else? I haven't tracked it, but I'm seeing it more than a couple of times a day. Didn't that sticky quote problem get fixed, or am I misremembering?
Is this quote coming up really frequently for anyone else?
I don't know about that one specifically, but is the pool very low? Like, maybe only in the few dozen? Because I think I saw them all after a few days. Is there a place to submit more? There are very few for Angel, and none for Firefly.
There are 280 quotes. Sean is in charge of formatting more and getting them to me. So you can go through him.