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DRR... DRR... DRR...
14:28 / 26.10.07
I should perhaps mention that my comment to the effect that we have a zero-tolerance policy on anti-Semitism was not so much imply that we have or should have more patience with other kinds of prejudice*, more a sort of rubbing it in for those people who automatically assume that when you say bigotry, you obviously don't mean their own perfectly reasonable drooling rabid random hate-on for a whole section of the human race.


*although arguably this is in fact the case; X-ref the various discussions around sexism on the board.

PS: also thx very much for the support.
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
23:03 / 27.10.07
Okay, we have a test case for zero-tolerance of empty topics: zedoktar, well-known supercharger of feline souls, has started this topic. I have moved to lock it on the grounds that it is content-free, zedoktar having been interrupted before he could actually write anything very much by some unfortunate happenstance but deciding to hit post anyhow.

I can certainly see potential in a topic where people share their thoughts on various historical personages, and in a perfect world I would happily sit back and let it develop over the weekend. However, I am wary of the broken window effect. As it stands, the topic invites only two things: shouting from people who like their topics to taste topicy, and people who like the sounds of their own voices ambling by to add equally vacuous non-content. I have therefore moved to lock the thread. If any of the Temple mods feel they have to veto the move as too hasty, that's fine; however, it'd be great if someone so doing would then work towards rescuing the thread by adding meaningful content.
 
 
FINKLESTEIN!
05:10 / 28.10.07
I have to run... unforeseen emergency.

I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous. Who stays at the keyboard to say bye-byes when an emergency arises? It's not a phonecall, fer cryeye. z's taking the piss, and I support a lock. Has ze not been warned in the recent past about content-free thread-starting? Why yes, ze certainly has.

Must have more beer now.
 
 
Our Lady in Her Haus
(prev. Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake)
14:51 / 28.10.07
I'd suggest PMing zedoktar saying pretty much what you've said here, point hir to this discussion, then dump the thread down the shute. As the entry is, by hir own admission, content-free, ze should have no problem starting it properly when ze has dealt with the emergency.
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
16:09 / 28.10.07
Have sent zedoktar the following PM:

Hi,

Your recent thread in the Temple has been locked and put up for deletion on the grounds that it had, as you yourself noted, no content worth speaking of. The moderation action is discussed here: http://www.barbelith.com/topic/17041/from/945#post741259

You are welcome to re-start the topic, which has potential. However your first post needs to contribute meaningful content and stimulate discussion.

You've been given good advice on starting threads effectively. How about putting some of it into practice? In your abortive opening post you mentioned that a particular historical character had inspired you recently and that you were planning to write an essay on him/her. Why not finish this piece of writing and use it as a starting point for the topic?
 
 
Stoatie. Stoatie? STOATIE.
16:26 / 28.10.07
That seems perfectly reasonable. Quite frankly, if he finds that offensive, or indeed anything other than polite and helpful, he should probably find another board.
 
 
Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)
11:50 / 29.10.07
Good test case.

Mods, Mordant is away from the board for a week or so, so mod hats on.
 
 
grant
18:03 / 29.10.07
They gave the rest of you guys HATS?

Aw, man.
 
 
Papess
18:23 / 29.10.07
Grant, they're Temple mod hats. How great can they be?
 
 
A Haus of Minions
(prev. Jenna Elfman's Hollywood Haus)
18:36 / 29.10.07
They're probably pointy, at least.
 
 
FINKLESTEIN!
19:56 / 29.10.07
Pointy? No.

Great?



FUCK YEAH!
 
 
Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)
20:04 / 29.10.07
We all fear monk's glowing helmet. I favour the more traditional pointed affair-

 
 
Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)
20:06 / 29.10.07
Here you are grant, here's your hat-

 
 
Papess
20:40 / 29.10.07
OOh, me wanty!
 
 
Wristwatch Nuke
11:46 / 30.10.07
What in Zod's name happens if you taunt it? I must know!

Oi! Call yourself a hat do you? You're nothing more than an head warmer!
 
 
Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)
11:56 / 30.10.07
First Warning- don't taunt the researchifyin' hat, puny scientist.



*hard stare*
 
 
Olulabelle
00:11 / 31.10.07
Why has this thread gone all pictureskew?
 
 
grant
00:31 / 31.10.07
Mordant took off for a week. Everyone's having a party. I swear, though, they BETTER pick up after themselves....
 
 
HCE
00:57 / 31.10.07
You are all off-topic, and you had better get the hell over to THE HAT THREAD before somebody goes all massive power issues on yr asses.
 
 
Papess
03:06 / 31.10.07
OMG! I think I see Mordant lurking about! Look busy everyone!
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
03:17 / 31.10.07
You are all off-topic, and you had better get the hell over to THE HAT THREAD before somebody goes all massive power issues on yr asses.

What, like these dudes?



(I'm second from the left, but I want to be the guy on the far right - in, of course, strictly spatial rather than political terms).
 
 
Papess
02:42 / 03.11.07
(Holy eff! Medieros, AGAIN!)

So, you will all have to pardon me while I stumble through this while sipping wine in rather large swallows, BUT is there there a possibility of a moderation of this thread as suggested in this post? Perhaps after consulting the thread initiator, Translyvanian Cassanova?

Thanks.

Oh, one more thing: What the heck is going on in the QP&MT thread? I wholly apologize if I lead it astray at all, but are there two discussions going on in that thread?

And what is up, Wolfangel? Can we talk?
 
 
Olulabelle
11:05 / 03.11.07
I have asked if he minds.

I shall wait for a reply on that, then I will action it.
 
 
Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)
14:51 / 03.11.07
I've asked people to aim for the topic in the quantum thread, but Mako & Wolfangel is not a combination that I've noticed leading to outstanding threads in the past.
Could we move the crazy rulers thread to the convo please? I'm sure Trans Cas won't mind, and it will get more interesting responses there.
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
18:22 / 05.11.07
....I'm going back to bed.
 
 
Our Lady in Her Haus
(prev. Our Lady Drinks Your Milkshake)
19:35 / 07.11.07
Okay, that's at least twice in the last two days that someone has posted something to this thread which has been deleted. Is this just moderator bumpage?
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
19:42 / 07.11.07
No, that was me. I said something in relation to a topic move which, when I thought to check it, had already happened, rendering my post irrelevant. So I deleted it. Sorry.

ETA: It wasn't a cross shouty thing, just a passing comment. In case anyone was worried.
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
22:07 / 07.11.07
While I'm here, though, I would like some suggestions about making the Temple more fun. I'm not talking fun-flavoured processed reconstituted fnord product (may contain traces of Pratchett), I mean stuff that is actually fun fun. How can we have more fun without making everything shit?
 
 
Olulabelle
22:12 / 07.11.07
Re: Deletions, I also did that about the thread we were discussing. I posted, then I realised it had been moved and so I deleted my post.

Re: Fun. We could try doing something all together? Setting ourselves a project? We could make something all together or do some sort of experiment.
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
22:15 / 07.11.07
We should contact the men in Glenn's picture. They would charge our sigil.

With POWER.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
22:17 / 07.11.07
(why is the man on the left wearing a jacket which says what looks like "Power 51" on its arm though? Is he trying to tell the others something?)
 
 
DRR... DRR... DRR...
23:10 / 07.11.07
It's actually the first two characters of "51g!L." He hears our plea.
 
 
Olulabelle
23:49 / 07.11.07
The man in the front has short-man syndrome and is standing with his legs FAR apart to prove how manly he is.
 
 
Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)
10:24 / 08.11.07
Fun? We could have a hat party, or radio 4 style games themed on the occult (Call my Bluff might work) or a find the silliest pic contest or captions or we could have a big fight about the origin of widdershins or whether Pratchett is secretly an enlightened magus and spreading powerful magic wihout even knowing like HP Lovecraft or debate whether the worst magic nonsense we can find is more or less iniquitous than the worst science nonsense we can find etc etc.

What sort of things were you thinking? More like fun-as-enjoyable-discussion fun? Or a hat party?
 
 
Quantum
(prev. Quantum - terribly nonplussed)
10:39 / 08.11.07
We could paint the place with polka dots or install a bar, that would increase the fun.
 
  

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