Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.

Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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


Deena - Apr 16, 2003 10:28:19 am PDT #450 of 10005
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

FWIW, I don't like that it says "may earn a warning." I think it should say, "will earn a warning"


PaulJ - Apr 16, 2003 10:29:37 am PDT #451 of 10005

Well, Cindy, if you don't mind me dictating what your feelings should be :-): don't be outraged either. It's not worth it. I mean, really, once established that [XXX] is a troll, isn't it a waste of energy to even think about what they say for a minute? Energy that could be better spent in positive, happy, life-affirming things like, say, porn?


Cindy - Apr 16, 2003 10:32:59 am PDT #452 of 10005
Nobody

Laura - Apr 16, 2003 10:33:59 am PDT #453 of 10005
Our wings are not tired.

I haven't read the PF posts or her site (frankly my time is too precious) so I can’t comment on those specifically. However, I am distraught (and feeling very mama bearish) that she continues to cause discomfort to my friends. {{{Buffistas}}} May we put this behind us quickly. With the shows kicking into high gear (and knocking my socks off with excellentitude) I would so much rather spend time in the show threads.

I just put the parentheses in there because I know Cindy likes them (and I want her to smile and feel all loved).


§ ita § - Apr 16, 2003 10:40:13 am PDT #454 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We can ban people from posting on WX

A little. Not a lot. To be 100% locked, we'd have to set up a join code. And PF -- we might not be able to at all.


Lyra Jane - Apr 16, 2003 10:44:37 am PDT #455 of 10005
Up with the sun

I think she sincerely believes we are somehow connected with her family:

This makes me feel very sad. But we gave her every chance to explain what she's thinking, to ask questions, etc. She chose not to, and I understand that, whatever her issues are, they are not an excuse.

Still makes me feel bad, though.


Wolfram - Apr 16, 2003 10:50:39 am PDT #456 of 10005
Visilurking

Sheesh, yesterday people were talking about warning Allyson for answering questions about her feelings.

(Cindy, this post is not directed at you, you are just a convenient place holder.)

FTR, that was me, and I withdrew it. But I want to make clear that she was clearly asking for it here, here, here, here, and especially here.

However, the asking for it was hypothetical and I don't feel that Allyson is someone who should be on the road to suspension or banning. And she apologized for her choice of words. So I withdrew the request.

Since I'm on the topic, there is something that has been bothering me a lot since that conversation. This has been rankling me for a couple of days, and I don't want to keep it inside. So I'm going to say it.

I was pretty much told that I am a newbie who shouldn't be pushing the board into becoming what it wasn't intended to be. And I was told that I stomp on the feelings of long-term posters. For the record, I know I'm new, and I know that stuff has been in place long before I was here. I thought I was free to express opinions that are contrary to opinions help by "oldtimers". I thought that this is what most of the "oldtimers" want us newbies to do. I am really hurt that people see me as a feelings-stomper and a disrespectful newbie. But I know my place now.

Someone let me know when I've been here long enough to have an opinion, and express it in a civil manner. Because that's all I've ever done.


§ ita § - Apr 16, 2003 10:54:22 am PDT #457 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

when I've been here long enough to have an opinion, and express it in a civil manner.

Speaking quite only for myself, Wolfram, your civil manner to me feels dismissive of what came before. I'm not speaking to your intent, since you say that's not so, but it just feels "Okay. I'm here now. Let's fix things."

Which has the side effect that even when I agree with you, I just want to walk away from the whole thing.


Trudy Booth - Apr 16, 2003 10:55:32 am PDT #458 of 10005
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Oh, don't worry about me, Trudy. I don't take what trolls say about me personally.

I just hope you get to be someone good like Boba Fete (original) or Greebo. Nobody wants to be Jabba.


Jessica - Apr 16, 2003 10:58:57 am PDT #459 of 10005
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

I'm with ita.