Goodbye

Bye, zuma - you are named after one of my favoritest games ever.

I can’t believe the level of freak out around here over what seems to be very reasonable adjustments to the intensity of vitriol…why is the ability to be as nasty as possible so critical for anyone’s enjoyment? That strikes me as very odd.

+1

You will never host your mafia game now. :frowning:

Stop by the other mafia site every now and again, sorry to see you go.

I play Zuma almost every night to help with the “get sleepy” routine. Do you play songs on the first page? I do.
Bye zuma.

Not being able to post personal contact info: reasonable.

Not being able to issue death threats: reasonable.

Not being able to forcefully insult (“abuse”) other posters, express a desire for their suffering (“wishing harm”), or even put naughty words in a thread title: unreasonable.

Oh, and fuck off.

Well, then, you are exactly the new type of poster desired around here. An SDMB full of posters like you? Good heavens, how tedious.

Oh, thank the stars you didn’t say ‘boring’. You might have gotten into trouble!

This.

Well, almost this. Not enough aching-heart tearful-sniffs. Add a couple of those, and then I can say This.

Another 99er gone…

Unvote zuma.

You were always one of my top 10.

zuma helps you go to sleep??? That game gets me all wired up! I’m so busy concentrating, trying to get the ball launched in just the right place…

I don’t like the new rules either but I can’t see leaving. The reason I pay and stick around is for threads like “The Ron Thread” or the “Blimp of Death” and for people like Rick that can help me fix my car or for about anything Skald, **Boyo Jim *, Sampiro or Hal Briston writes, or for the nutbars that entertain us with their nuttiness remember TLDR? or to find out about --caution TMI --vaginal pimples or get answers fast, or the fact I can ask a question about nuclear chaotic string holes and get a sane answer.

Point is… I love this place. The Pit is…er was… fun, but it is but a small part of SDMB. I will miss tuning in to see who is felching what or who is getting sodomized by what appliance/tool, but eh, I guess I can find that over at Yahoo! if need be.

*sorry for the long run on sentence there… I just realized I forgot about the people who correct my grammar and point out when I don’t use “literally” correctly.

I just switched over to being a guest. The webmaster or whomever emailed me letting me know that my subscription was running out, told me I’d “lose some privledges” by not reupping my subscription, etc. I emailed whomever back and asked “besides banner ads, what else will be different” and I was told smaller PM storage and some other crap I don’t really care about.

I’ve had exactly 11 PM’s in a year, I doubt I’ll miss the “extra storage” and as far as how the pages look, it’s exactly one freaking banner ad different, usually after the first post in a thread.

Yikes.

It’s not about being as nasty as possible. It’s about risking getting warned for calling someone a “fat ugly loser*” because that’s over the line while asking someone if they’re “off their meds*” is not.

*Actual examples given by Ed Zotti in one of the ATMB threads.

They sure are:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10869478&highlight=meds#post10869478

Ooh, I forgot, now that I’m a guest my post count no longer shows. Man, that sucks. I was going on 3,000 in my first year here. Fuck, I want that internet respect that having a huge post count on a messageboard commands!

Kneel before Zod!

**Vote Top Dog.
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You were always a mason in my mind, dude. Never knew why- just always associated you as a the Archetypal Masonic dude. We’ll miss ya, and hopefully you’ll stop by the Mafia Boards once in a while…

This.

Shame on the SDMB for denying you all your god-given right to tell someone else to go fuck themselves!

You should have at least waited till your post count hit 2,009. Quick, throw in a few one-liners somewhere.

Complaints about the message board and its rules now go in ATMB.

Lynn
For the Straight Dope