I don't like vampires. I'm gonna take a stand and say they're not good.

Xander ,'Beneath You'


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


Typo Boy - Apr 22, 2003 10:32:46 am PDT #995 of 10005
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Ok that is fine for me. I just was really bothered when it looked like any ten people could get together at random. That it was pointed out to me that stompy veto is implied in the rules, and that Jon has now said that we are not going to let the rules get in the way in an emergency (such as a mass troll attack) is good enough for me. I don't need anything more formal than that. I will not actually be making any proposal.


askye - Apr 22, 2003 10:33:45 am PDT #996 of 10005
Thrive to spite them

To take my scenario farther.

Say we have Random Pack o' Trolls. They decide they want me gone, they don't like my name (for lack of a more pathetic reason). So they start trying to antagonize me. And I get pissed at Troll 1 and call him an ass.

"Troll 1 you're an ass!" I say in frustration.

And Troll 1 runs to B'cracy and says "I want askye Officially Warned, she called me an ass!" and all his little Troll Buddies chime in "Yeah, that offended me, she can't just call someone an ass, we have community standards."

Then ita would say "Did you try to resolve that in thread?"

The Trolls would say "No" and ita would say "go back and try to fix it in thread."

So the Trolls would go back in thread and say "you called Troll 1 an ass, how dare you!" and I would say "I'm really sorry, I had a bad day and snapped, you were right I shouldn't have called you an ass."

Situation resolved.

But wait! you say--what if Pack o' Trolls does this again to me and I lose my temper again and they run back. "askye insulted Troll 3's intelligence" and the same Pack o' Trolls seconded for a warning and it turns out they didn't try and resolve it in thread.

Well, I think after a few attempts of the Pack o' Trolls trying to get people kicked out people would twig to the fact that the Pack o' Trolls were the ones violating the community standards.

This was really xposty but I'll let it stand.


Jessica - Apr 22, 2003 10:34:06 am PDT #997 of 10005
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Am I wearing a Jesse costume today or something? That's two people who've called me that today.


§ ita § - Apr 22, 2003 10:35:46 am PDT #998 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jess, if you'd take off the cowboy hat, maybe it'd stop happening.


Sophia Brooks - Apr 22, 2003 10:36:17 am PDT #999 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I think I see a cowboy hat, Jess!


Jesse - Apr 22, 2003 10:36:46 am PDT #1000 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Am I wearing a Jesse costume today or something? That's two people who've called me that today.

Who, msbelle? I think she was referring to what I said, but if you said the same thing, well, I guess we just have to stop agreeing with each other so as to avoid name confusion.


Typo Boy - Apr 22, 2003 10:37:06 am PDT #1001 of 10005
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

oops sorry Jess. Too many threads open at once.


Jessica - Apr 22, 2003 10:41:37 am PDT #1002 of 10005
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Who, msbelle? I think she was referring to what I said, but if you said the same thing, well, I guess we just have to stop agreeing with each other so as to avoid name confusion.

Wait, you mean we aren't living in my world where everything is about me? When did that happen?


amych - Apr 22, 2003 10:41:44 am PDT #1003 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I think after a few attempts of the Pack o' Trolls trying to get people kicked out people would twig to the fact that the Pack o' Trolls were the ones violating the community standards.

Bingo.


bitterchick - Apr 22, 2003 10:45:29 am PDT #1004 of 10005

Okay, I feel like I missed a memo. Where does this concern for troll packs and bullying gangs come from?

I mean, this was mentioned, back before the vote, and it was pointed out that troll packs and bullying gangs are really freaking obvious. It's not like our Stompies are brain dead or paid personnel that don't frequent these threads and don't know who's who. They post here. They know the names of posters. They know people's posting styles.

If 10 random people just show up one day and demand a warning, I think the Stompy on duty is going to notice that they've been here for, like, five minutes and that they’re being really obvious. A coordinated attack of Buffista bullies? Again really freaking obvious.

I’m not getting this.