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UNACCEPTABLE!! Stop bossing us around, you big meanie!
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#553
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Off course - it's in a quantum forum.
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It doesn't take any courage to post on a message board, so all that stuff about having the courage to post is just superfluous.[/QUOTE] My comment regarding courage was regarding your willingness to post something that you would post in the forum you're proposing, and to actually stand up and defend your position with a clear, concise example. Quote:
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I have a bunch of questions for you too. I've noticed that you title several of your posts like this, either a sincere question or genuine question or something like that. Does that mean your other posts are insincere or disingenuous? Are you trying to tell me something that's different about your titled posts?
Your posts generally all look the same to me. They start with an assumption (often wrong) about something that you claim I said or think but there's no attribution, so I don't even know where you got the notion from, and the analysis all flows downhill from that point. This post isn't different. Quote:
What does "taking on the mods" mean? I've been Pit by a couple admins, and I've responded to several mods in this thread and many other threads. I'm not uncomfortable doing that. I did note that Pitting a mod (or anyone else) for a single threadshit is a waste of time. I'm not sure how that affects my comfort level. I guess you could count annoyance as not comfortable. Quote:
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I try to stay within the rules of the forum, as most everyone else does, as a courtesy to the other people that use it. I don't do it out of fear. Quote:
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It might be more helpful in the future if you're going to make a broad assumption about how I'm thinking or feeling, that you link to the post you're talking about so I know where you're misinterpreting from and I can explain the misunderstanding. |
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Please, for all that's good in this world, no more questions to Roo. Let this thread die the death it deserves.
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Quiet, you!
::munches popcorn:: |
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Yes it goes on and on my friends... |
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Since you've posted 48 times, second only to my 60, it's largely due to your contributions. Why are you so interested in keeping it alive?
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::chokes on a kernel::
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#561
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::Whacks Zeener's back::
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Or to poke the monkey and see it dance.** *Note to Roo: by "99%" I am employing a device know as "hyperbole" (/haɪˈpɜrbəli/). This means your impulse to sit around counting the number of posters and applying exciting and unique forumulae that you just now made up to determine sincerity (no doubt on their ratio of pro/anti Roo posts at the Dope) and then calculating the actual percent of posters in this thread who actually DO want to piss you off would be unnecessary. **Note to Roo. There is no monkey. The "monkey" is a metaphor. (met-uh-fawr). That means I'm comparing you to the monkey and the action of poking the monkey to watch it dance means to say something to you to watch you respond. Please do not reread this thread looking for monkeys. |
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If this now turns into another "how do you know the motives of other posters" tangent, I'm holding you responsible Fenris! |
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It was just about to. But since I was asking you the question, you can give your own motivation by saying that you agree with his assessment of your motivation if you choose.
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See, I figured nonny's response did include their agreement w/ the sentiment. Otherwise, they'd have said something specific, like 'Hey, keep me out of this, I don't agree'.
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I figure that if anyone was genuinely interested in whether or not the idea proposed in the OP had significant membership support they would have created an anonymous poll on the issue by now - the perfect mechanism by which people can express their opinions without fear or favour, and one which could be used to argue the actual stance of actual members. |
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Good to know.
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If you keep posting to it, and I keep answering, it could go on a very long time. What are you trying to assess? Quote:
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There are other points you raised on which I think you have a greater degree of support. I don't think you're at all alone in believing that an increase in membership would benefit the board overall - and that's a goal to which each one of us as individuals can contribute without any changes to the rules or any dedicated recruitment drive by Giraffe simply by making the existence of this place known to posters we enjoy interacting with elsewhere online. |
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But the question was what's your motivation is continuing to participate in the thread. You earlier posted: Quote:
Since your post above didn't mention the proposed forum, what point are your continuing posts trying to raise? |
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At this point, for me it's mostly a matter of whether the baby should be thrown out with the bathwater. My viewpoint is that although your initial proposal was vetoed, in making that proposal you raised a number of other, stand alone issues. As this thread already exists and those issues have already been raised, it makes sense to use this thread to discuss them rather than to start a spin-off.
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But the basic concept is right. Having a place to post as people please without anyone getting to mod you for pretty much any reason. Quote:
Then there are the random Boxings that happen when the mods are playing around. That's something that wouldn't happen in the proposed forum. The people who like the random Boxings can still play in the Box, but those who don't enjoy that type of thing as much could post somewhere where that couldn't happen. The Box already has an established culture with established memes. The BARBI meme, the poking you with sticks meme and the 'it smells bad in here' meme, etc. Those might have been funny when they first got started. But they've been twisted around a lot. When they started, they were meant to poke fun at the mods who were in the Box or people on Boxing day who were voluntarily Boxed on Boxing day. Now, it has come to mean some kind of internet macho punishment for people who get Boxed involuntarily. There's something sad about mocking people who can't respond in the same way that the person mocking them can. Posting in the Box has some of that associated with it, to me. A new forum would have none of the established culture or memes. It could have a fresh start. When we first got here, all that existed was Getting Started, IIRC, and we had to decide how we were going to fill the spaces. That's how the new forum could be. A blank page. What would you post in a place that didn't have an agenda or rules or suggested topics? It was just a wide open blank canvas to express whatever you choose. So as you noted, it might have silly games or angry flames. It could run the gamut because there would be no history or agenda. Quote:
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Much of the confusion you see is really my responses to people who are saying different, often contradictory things. Some people seem to think that everyone is agreeing with each other, but they must not be reading everyone's posts in the thread because the differences, from my viewpoint, are pretty evident. Quote:
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But it looks like we disagree on how it's being applied here. Quote:
If you're saying that every suggestion changes the dialogue, which is the status quo, you're saying that anyone who makes a suggestion is a concern troll. That would effectively silence all suggestions. Should that be the policy here? If so, why? I didn't point out an issue that doesn't exist. I made a suggestion. And yes, the suggestion was for something that doesn't currently exist. That's pretty much true of most suggestions. Again, are all suggestions then just people pointing out issues that don't exist, making them concern trolls? I just noticed that Fenris started a thread called: Let's talk about embedding pics in threads In it, he even says: Quote:
Is Fenris a concern troll or are mods the only ones who can use the word concern in a suggestion thread and change the dialogue of the status quo? |
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Does mommy know about this? Or is this a surprise to her too? ::rubbing hands together:: ::making a list of new rules for the Snackpit:: ![]() |
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Then, StumbleUpon is a really huge forum. Comparing this small message board with StumbleUpon is not comparing the same things. StumbleUpon also has a very different purpose and function than a small general interest message board that is spun off another bigger board. There is a lot more transient traffic at StumbleUpon. At GB, there might be a couple new members here (that aren't socks) in a week. I'm sure that it's much higher for StumbleUpon. The transient nature and the bigger viewing population creates problems for them using an unmoderated forum than a place like this would have. Also, I didn't actually look at it, but from what you're saying, their entire message board is unmoderated. That's a marked difference than just one forum of a small message board being unmoderated. Extrapolating from one example that is very much unlike this place doesn't give much of a view of what might happen. But maybe if you explained why it happens, that might make the two places more comparable. As for bullying, if you think it doesn't happen here, why do you think that is? I think it's largely based on culture. But there's certainly the potential for bullying and it does happen sometimes. I think there are people who are more free to say certain things than others. I think an unmoderated forum wouldn't change that, but it wouldn't allow for another level of bullying that happens when mods get to decide what's acceptable. For instance, in this thread You are ruining everything for the rest of us, which was a rant about other people in general, I commented on the OP: Quote:
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That's something I wouldn't miss in an unmoderated forum. It might allow for less bullying, conceivably. Quote:
You earlier claimed that the DTP was pretty largely unmoderated, and Giraffe claimed that "we don't ban posters". But the DTP is not overrun by trolls (or is it?). If the DTP has basically the same moderation as the suggested forum, why is it not overrun by trolls? Is it the threat of moderation or the threat of banning, however remote, that keeps the DTP free of being overrun by trolls? If so, the threat still exists, no matter what the rules are stated as. At the end of the day, the owner of a forum can shut it down or ban certain people. There might be some unhappy people, shouting about how the owner is circumventing his own rules, but there's always the threat of banning. That wouldn't change in a forum claimed to be unmoderated, especially when it's connected to a moderated forum. Quote:
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I know This thread is a classic old thread, You stupid fucking note, but I want to post to it anyway! Stop oppressing me with your check boxes!
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Someone needs to check Fenris's meds. Something needs to be cut down. I think he's starting to turn into a zombie.
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I'm kind of curious as to the degree of harshness of the Boxings that Fenris would be meting out for all this zero-content thread bumping if it weren't being done by Fenris.
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Wow, there was a time Roo wasn't in the box.
Why is Roo in the box anyway? |
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In case Fenris doesn't get around to bumping it: https://www.giraffeboards.com/showthread.php?t=23949
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Huh, it seemed like she was already permaboxed from my first days here. I guess it took a few years. And I guess I wasn't posting much when this stuff happened b/c I don't remember it at all.
Still, amazing how she's hung in there for so many years. |
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