A pun killed my uncle.
Humor can be relatively dangerous.
Sometimes when I'm sitting in class... You know, I'm not thinking about class, 'cause that would never happen. I think about kissing you. And it's like everything stops. It's like, it's like freeze frame. Willow kissage.
Oz ,'First Date'
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Wolfram - Apr 13, 2005 3:25:55 pm PDT #5332 of 10289
Visilurking
Betsy HP - Apr 13, 2005 3:26:05 pm PDT #5333 of 10289
If I only had a brain...
As one of the sockpuppet-grumpy people, I'd be satisfied if people put their real names in the profile. One of my major freakouts about sockpuppets is not knowing if this is a new person or somebody I already know.
What I'm hearing is that sockpuppets amuse more people than they annoy; that being the case, I can settle for having the sockpuppets fess up.
DXMachina - Apr 13, 2005 3:27:10 pm PDT #5334 of 10289
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I don't really have the in-joke annoyance seem people have with it.
Yeah. Not getting any joke is annoying, whether it's a jokey sockpuppet, or the one about the Goa'uld, the Jaffa, and the Tok'ra.
DavidS - Apr 13, 2005 3:27:49 pm PDT #5335 of 10289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
or the one about the Goa'uld, the Jaffa, and the Tok'ra.
Is that the one that takes place at the apostrophe warehouse?
Wolfram - Apr 13, 2005 3:28:23 pm PDT #5336 of 10289
Visilurking
Any way we can consense the profile thing rather than making it a hard and fast LAW? That way we won't have to legislate things like the Allyson Exception.
NoiseDesign - Apr 13, 2005 3:28:48 pm PDT #5337 of 10289
Our wings are not tired
I like the profile solution.
JohnSweden - Apr 13, 2005 3:29:53 pm PDT #5338 of 10289
I can't even.
I don't think it's remotely a stretch to call sockpuppetry rude behavior
It certainly is to the people that think it is funny, or even those who are willing to tolerate it.
In a board culture that has traditionally valued real-world identity as much as this one has, using a sockpuppet to talk to people (or, more frequently, at people) just for kicks, is rude behavior.
To be evaluated and appealed as "demon-like" on a case-by-case basis.
Connie Neil - Apr 13, 2005 3:30:10 pm PDT #5339 of 10289
brillig
t smelling the heady scent of consensus brewing
I like it
DavidS - Apr 13, 2005 3:31:00 pm PDT #5340 of 10289
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Any way we can consense the profile thing rather than making it a hard and fast LAW?
I'd be fine with consensing that it was a matter of etiquette and good citizenship to avoid sockpuppet abuse. That the expectation is that the puppetteer volunteer the information in their profile, and if they don't, then somebody can ask them to do so.
juliana - Apr 13, 2005 3:31:50 pm PDT #5341 of 10289
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I'd be fine with consensing that it was a matter of etiquette and good citizenship to avoid sockpuppet abuse. That the expectation is that the puppetteer volunteer the information in their profile, and if they don't, then somebody can ask them to do so.
I'm cool with that.