Which has its flaws, what with boring people and preventing quick action, but it does prevent us from going off half-cocked.

This is true. Buffistas are always fully-cocked.

Perhaps this should be our slogan.

I'm gonna address the second part first....

Though at this point I'm no longer sure if we're even discussing the same point.

Possibly not. It started with tone, I know that much. From there, it may have darted off track.

That doesn't make it any easier for, say, PMM to understand my meaning without asking for more clarification.

True dat. I just tend to see the ridiculous side of things, where everyone has to ask for clarification on every post.

Yes, that was a shot at every. single. Buffista.

No, not really.

And finally -- I agree with Aimee (even though I just *had* to get this last post in).

Buffistas are always fully-cocked.

Sometimes double or triple-cocked.

Buffistas are always fully-cocked.

Elena beat me to it.

I would add that while fully-cocked, we are often only half-baked.

Yeah, but that tends to ruin dramatic exits.

I honestly didn't think Beej was attempting to pull a dramatic exit. She misspoke and was smacked for it, so she quickly apologized and explained where she was coming from. It wasn't until no one (most importantly those that smacked her in the first place) responded to her apology. Either in a way of acceptance or understanding or requests for further explanation.

If it were me, I would have interpretted the silent treatment as the thread participants turning their backs on me. I'm not sure what options she felt she had left other than to re-explain somewhat, (including irks and praise) and let people know she was leaving.

we are often only half-baked.

Some of us are sushi.

Can this be dropped now?

I do not think that a conversation that is civil and thread-appropriate should be cut short just because we've had it before. If we did that, we'd be down to about three conversational topics.

But, I don't have any brilliant points to add, either.

Yes, that was a shot at every. single. Buffista.

Wait, I need clarification. Did that include me? I mean, before I asked for clarification. To clarify.

But, for myself, I think bothering to bring people into the culture is a community responsibility. It doesn't have to be sink or swim here. It can be whatever we make it.

This is where I'm at.

FWIW, I consider myself pretty a pretty solid cybercitizen, and I had lurked for quite a while before posting. Still, a couple of times after delurking, I found myself thinking people would just as soon I left by the nearest exit. Not guacamole, exactly, but a definite chill when I tried to join in the conversation. Polite, but who the fuck are you?

I get that this community is not for the faint of snark, and I don't see any sign that's going to change soon. It's part of the board culture, and we like it that way. It does have consequences, not all of which are positive.