Oh, christ.
Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
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Dana - May 12, 2003 8:38:09 am PDT #1711 of 10005
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Lyra Jane - May 12, 2003 8:44:08 am PDT #1712 of 10005
Up with the sun
I'm split. On a personal level, I had no problem with mieskie under any login, and would love to see him again, especially if he quit agitating for a Normal Again ending for Buffy.
But on a board protocol level? Bad, bad idea. Yes, we muffed his banning, largely because it was a new process. I don't think that means we should set aside the will of (most) Buffistas aside. Plus, it sets a precendent that would mean we would have to let anyone else who was banned back in as long as they acted really, really sorry. And I don't want to do that.
Jim - May 12, 2003 8:53:39 am PDT #1713 of 10005
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
I recuse myself from this. I just don't care.
Jesse - May 12, 2003 8:57:20 am PDT #1714 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
If you violate the terms of a suspension, you get banned. Period. End of story. A person who actually cares about this community would not violate the suspension.
Sophia Brooks - May 12, 2003 8:58:19 am PDT #1715 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I'm with Jesse.
Also, kill me now.
Jesse - May 12, 2003 9:00:43 am PDT #1716 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Suddenly I feel like a battered spouse: "But he's so great a lot of the time! And he didn't really mean it. And it's my fault, really -- if only I had done things differently, it wouldn't have happened...." Fuck that. I'm sorry, but really.
Dana - May 12, 2003 9:01:30 am PDT #1717 of 10005
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
And he chose to take a voluntary suspension to prevent a kerfuffle, so that he could "do the time" and come back without rancor.
This, incidentally, was not my understanding. My understanding was that he volunteered to leave, period, so as to avoid more unpleasantness. I was never under the impression that he was serving out a voluntary suspension.
And what Jesse said.
askye - May 12, 2003 9:02:37 am PDT #1718 of 10005
Thrive to spite them
I can not believe that this is coming up again.
Also, Wolfram I think your timing is really bad, we haven't finished dealing with the current issue at hand, which is currently frustrating a lot of people.
Cashmere - May 12, 2003 9:05:41 am PDT #1719 of 10005
Now tagless for your comfort.
Wolfram, with all due respect to you--Anathama/Schmoker/Mieskie are all the same person. If one breaks the rules of the suspension--it doesn't leave any leeway for alternate posting personalities.
This is all I'm going to say on the matter. I think the banning should stand and I don't want to see this place implode because of this.
Cashmere - May 12, 2003 9:07:17 am PDT #1720 of 10005
Now tagless for your comfort.
cereal to add: WROD to the bad timing of this suggestion.