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Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I'd even go so far (and is why I'm synonym-happy on the topic) that "social capital" is used to describe a perfectly normal phenomenon. So whether I ever speak those words, there's public goodwill/understanding that carries weight AND it's something that can be gained or spent.
"Pecking order" doesn't inherently express the idea that I can move around in it. "Gazebo" might, if we work it right and start early.
It's not a democracy.
So true. The "citizen" analogy is often used, but ... so not a government here. It could never be.
I ike the slug line w/ etiquette sample.
"Pecking order" doesn't inherently express the idea that I can move around in it. "Gazebo" might, if we work it right and start early.
As in "Wow, when Lee picked up the dinner check for everyone, she added a whole new wing on her gazebo!"
My gazebo brings all the boys to the yard.
My gazebo brings all the boys to the yard.
Where they attack your gazebo with their longswords?
The social capital concept...often used to excuse rude behaviour. ...This is a clique.
If the above is accepted SOP, should it be noted in Ettiquette?
Given the above, the below proved misleading, at least to me:
The Buffistas are an inclusive, welcoming, and flame-free community. ...If you make personal attacks or offensive posts, or try to start a fight, you will be shunned.
People have been rude to me, and because of a history (which is what builds social capital, naturally), I've a) not been offended, or b) just let it slide.
Guess who benefitted? The community.
Guess what else? Happens all the time, everywhere, and to codify that would be micro-detailing human nature. The etiquette document is not a sociology/psychology double major thesis.
I apologize. [remainder of post deleted b/c Steph found it rude and flame baity]
Rafmun, that's rude and flame-baity. Please keep your discourse civil.
I failed to understand that members of the clique are guided by other guidelines.
You're misinterpreting Steph's post. She didn't mean that there is a clique WITHIN the community, she meant that the community itself is a clique. There's no inner circle. "The clique" means everyone who posts.
