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.
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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.
or the one about the Goa'uld, the Jaffa, and the Tok'ra.
Is that the one that takes place at the apostrophe warehouse?
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.
I like the profile solution.
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.
t smelling the heady scent of consensus brewing
I like it
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.
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.
If the puppetteer doesn't agree to that, that's the point where the rest of the armament of the Stompies can come into play.
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.
Works for me.