TROLL HERE! (Insults, trolls welcome) GOT A LOPSIDED TRADE? Post it here so we can sneer and lob derision at you..
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:37 am
Remember, in law what constitutes acceptable standards is defined by the community. In the context of this thread our community says it is okay to insult each other, lob bombs or bon mots (at foe or friend or self alike) so long as it is funny, witty, sarcastic, sardonic, absurd, or enjoyably meanspirited. Feel free to clown around and make general mockery, so long as you're smart and funny you will be welcome.
Original post for posterity, but this thread is about more than ji. It's about MOCKERY!
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I'm always proud of this board's ability to enter into a spirited debate with little inarticulate name-calling and bug-eyed doofus-ery. Seems to me we've always sorta welcomed posters from other boards dropping in to give a bit of a poke in the ribs, since it gives us a chance to offer a bit of a counter-argument, or agreement, or um, articulate name-calling and well-reasoned doofus-ery.
Other boards apparently do not have the same perspective. And occasionally we lose good posters who are accustomed to our more resilient culture when they offer a counter argument on another board. Sometimes they are permanently poleaxed for offering mild criticism, jocular witticism or um inadvertent innate douchebaggery. It takes a certain sort of person to be a longtime fan of an oft-losing or perennial laughingstock team, we grow tough skin around here. Frontrunner teams ain't used to having a good laugh at oneself, or each other.
Looks like we have, for the time being lost our personal jinx and resident weather geek 'ji' for being as inept on another board as he generally is on this one. HIs innate ability to do exactly the wrong thing caused him to step into the vacant elevator shaft of an oversensitive mod or two on another board, and so: so long little buddy.
I've registered my complaint on the topic. But even volunteer bureaucracies tend to work the same way, I suspect they'll protect their own and not reverse it so as not to lose a moderator, which is an admittedly thankless job, unless you're a power-mongering dbag yourself who has little life beyond these backwaters of the interwebs. The mod job basically should almost never land in the hands of someone who is lobbying for it, else it be used simply to settle personal grudges with those whom you cannot defeat with logic.
Whatever, to memorialize our boy ji, I figure I'll resurrect our Trolls thread wherein we broaden our interpretation of the terms of service such that, as in the legal definition, a community defines it's own values for subjective definifitions like 'offensive'.
In the context of this thread it is not offensive to clown on each other, to mock, to give a little jab, to laugh at our own shortcomings and those of others. No big deal, stop being so damn sensitive about it, this is a fundamentally unserious thing we do, we're watching sweaty grown-ups run around in short pants lobbing a toy around. Then talkign about it as if it were life or death. It ain't.
In that vein. Feel free to clown on ji a few last times if you want.
And welcome Trolls one and all. As the old saying goes: "If you haven't got anything nice to say... come sit next to me".
Original post for posterity, but this thread is about more than ji. It's about MOCKERY!
ORIGINAL POST:
==============================================
I'm always proud of this board's ability to enter into a spirited debate with little inarticulate name-calling and bug-eyed doofus-ery. Seems to me we've always sorta welcomed posters from other boards dropping in to give a bit of a poke in the ribs, since it gives us a chance to offer a bit of a counter-argument, or agreement, or um, articulate name-calling and well-reasoned doofus-ery.
Other boards apparently do not have the same perspective. And occasionally we lose good posters who are accustomed to our more resilient culture when they offer a counter argument on another board. Sometimes they are permanently poleaxed for offering mild criticism, jocular witticism or um inadvertent innate douchebaggery. It takes a certain sort of person to be a longtime fan of an oft-losing or perennial laughingstock team, we grow tough skin around here. Frontrunner teams ain't used to having a good laugh at oneself, or each other.
Looks like we have, for the time being lost our personal jinx and resident weather geek 'ji' for being as inept on another board as he generally is on this one. HIs innate ability to do exactly the wrong thing caused him to step into the vacant elevator shaft of an oversensitive mod or two on another board, and so: so long little buddy.
I've registered my complaint on the topic. But even volunteer bureaucracies tend to work the same way, I suspect they'll protect their own and not reverse it so as not to lose a moderator, which is an admittedly thankless job, unless you're a power-mongering dbag yourself who has little life beyond these backwaters of the interwebs. The mod job basically should almost never land in the hands of someone who is lobbying for it, else it be used simply to settle personal grudges with those whom you cannot defeat with logic.
Whatever, to memorialize our boy ji, I figure I'll resurrect our Trolls thread wherein we broaden our interpretation of the terms of service such that, as in the legal definition, a community defines it's own values for subjective definifitions like 'offensive'.
In the context of this thread it is not offensive to clown on each other, to mock, to give a little jab, to laugh at our own shortcomings and those of others. No big deal, stop being so damn sensitive about it, this is a fundamentally unserious thing we do, we're watching sweaty grown-ups run around in short pants lobbing a toy around. Then talkign about it as if it were life or death. It ain't.
In that vein. Feel free to clown on ji a few last times if you want.
And welcome Trolls one and all. As the old saying goes: "If you haven't got anything nice to say... come sit next to me".
. Let me just say this place was a hell of alot better cause of jro and pine getting it over me 
