That label is a nice, easily recognized and remembered description of one of the biggest events this board has ever had. You know how common language always nicknames things (Nipplegate, anyone?) - I don’t think it can be avoided. Except in the case of the decade we’re currently living in. Strange aberration.
How about the other big event - The Unpleasant Incident? Do you hate that term, too?
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Especially the stapler part. I fucking hate staplers. Want to piss me off? Ask me to staple something. Zero to red in under two seconds. Fucking muppet fuckers.
Someone hacked the board a few years back, and the whole cite was offline for a while until they fixed it. They weren’t able to restore all the data, so a few months worth of posts got lost forever as a result.
No, that was the Winter of Our Missed Content. The Unpleasant Incident was Stage Manager and TubaDiva (if I am recalling this correctly myself). Let’s see if I remember how it went - Stage Manager was an alleged child molester and had his info posted on a registered sex offender list, and TubaDiva used behind-the-scenes info from the Dope that she got from her position as an Administrator to out him as a registered sex offender. Tuba didn’t get any punishment for her actions, and many Dopers quit in protest. It was A Bad Thing all around.
(Sorry, Bibliocat - I’ll try to get that right next time. )
What does “you shit” mean? Is he saying the board is retarded ape shit? And what would that mean?
Anyway, I find it awfully convenient that the board always goes down before VCO3 posts one of these crazy rants about how bad the board is. It’s almost like he knows they’re going to happen. :dubious:
It’s annoying when the board doesn’t work, even though the cost of posting is nominal. But at some point, VCO3, don’t you have to be wishing airborne AIDS ass cancer on yourself? You’re still posting here, subjecting yourself to the delays. You know, ‘fool me once…’ Of course, adjusting for you, that might be more like ‘fool me 168 times.’