Yippee, it was fun to vote 3 times!
Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. We're here to make a deal.
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Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Laura - Jun 12, 2003 2:32:08 pm PDT #2528 of 10005
Our wings are not tired.
DXMachina - Jun 12, 2003 2:41:54 pm PDT #2529 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yippee, it was fun to vote 3 times!
Floridian...
Burrell - Jun 12, 2003 2:47:55 pm PDT #2530 of 10005
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Floridian...
Hey, at least with Buffistas she knows her vote will be counted.
DXMachina - Jun 12, 2003 2:51:28 pm PDT #2531 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Eventually.
Cindy - Jun 12, 2003 3:14:10 pm PDT #2532 of 10005
Nobody
If Darla pops up warning us not to spill the blood of virgin webspace to ensure the birth of Tim's thread, I am going to be seriously freaked.
Oh. I probably should have mentioned that in Press or Beep Me, huh?
So we're going to call the Tim thread, "Connor, the Whiny Bastard with Joey Lawrence Hair?"
Didn't Joey Lawrence have way cleaner better hair?
Sophia Brooks - Jun 12, 2003 3:19:38 pm PDT #2533 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I think Joey Lawrences hair was more era appropriae when he was wearing it.
Now I am counting shit-loads of votes.
Connie Neil - Jun 12, 2003 4:11:15 pm PDT #2534 of 10005
brillig
Back to somewhat old news because I only get on here once a day, but I'm disappointed we've decided to only send a strongly worded letter with no threat behind to HostRocket. If I had money, I'd be bankrolling the legal maneuvers, no matter how much empty gestures or lack of restitution we'd get. Because they are empty gestures that HR would have to counter and they would see that there are people who are willing to let fly a few arrows, no matter if they don't reach the target. And it would all be on record, too, that they'd been taken to court for their business practices. The whole idea gives me great, giddy spasms of violent joy.
And I'm the one with the rep for forgiveness and second chances. But it's been decided. I just wanted to go on record in the "The line in the sand is way, way far back there, but the dear gods help you if you step over it" camp.
§ ita § - Jun 12, 2003 4:14:17 pm PDT #2535 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Forgiveness? Second chances? For HostRocket?
I'm going to look funny at anyone who even suggests it.
However, I see no ROI on anything other than gently discouraging prospective customers that cross our path, and registering our disdain with BBB.
I can't see how anything else would even make them itch.
DXMachina - Jun 12, 2003 4:18:28 pm PDT #2536 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Maybe in addition to sending a letter to the BBB, we also send a copy to the NY State Attorney General. He's been fairly active in going after internet consumer ripoffs.
Allyson - Jun 12, 2003 5:15:11 pm PDT #2537 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Thing is, who is going to take the time to go through court stuff? Who is going to physically sit in a court room on our behalf? Anyone?
It's not worth it. We got fucked, and it blows. We're okay, now. We have a reliable host who truly is available, and is someone we actually know and trust.
DX, I think the same letter can be sent to both, and even sent to HostRocket, cc'd.
That way, if any other brave soul comes along and decided to take that step, we've left a papertrail. If Farscape and the other community that got fucked would like to send identical letters, that'd be supercool.
It falls into two emails, three stamps, three sheets of paper, and three envelopes, along with the time to pull up the addresses and write the letter and two emails.
I can handle that, it's pretty simple, but my question is: Who signs the letter on behalf of Buffistas.org, and what is the return address of Buffistas.org?