Revtim wrote:
a tranny toaster?
I checked MPSIMS, and no one else had posted about RP’s death yet. Another poster and I simu-OPed there. (He checked too.)
First I’d heard of this rule. Cite?
The forum description for CS is:
And IMHO, that doesn’t apply. A celebrity’s death, regardless of the nature of the celebrity, isn’t art, entertainment, or any of the above. It’s just mundane, pointless news. That someone inevitably shares.
I don’t often OP about celebrity deaths. But when I do, I don’t want to have to make a call on which forum my thread should go into, based on the nature of the person’s celebrity - especially when it can sometimes be a challenge to get things to load. (When Hugh Hefner dies, where does the thread go, for instance?)
Absent a moderator ruling to the contrary, I’m gonna stick to MPSIMS if I should post about the deaths of any celebrities in the future.
Yeah, suuuuuuuure…
. . . But why would you post a discussion about an actor, singer or artist in MPSIMS, when Cafe Society is specifically set aside for discussions on art and artists?
Robert Palmer is dead threads are now available in Cafe Society, MPSIMS and the Pit. Will everyone at his funeral wear identical black dresses?
Um, isn’t Arnold Palmer already dead?
Who’s Robert Palmer?
Hey, as one of the relative newbies who made this fatal faux pas (and apologized profusely), I’d like to reiterate that I did try to check the board, by looking manually and searching. However, the hamsters didn’t want to cooperate and it never, ever crossed my mind that it would be posed anywhere other than CS. Not to mention, I made myself infinitely look worse by putting the damn thing out there twice. Sigh.
So, once more, I humbly ask forgiveness of the Dopers denizens for making such an unbelievable breach of netiquette. Sometimes we don’t mean to purposely do such dunder-headed things, it just seems to happen when we’re doing our best to avoid looking like a colossal idiot.
I think I’ll go back into lurker mode for a while now and hope that the next time I contribute to a thread, no one will point and go “There’s that moron who doesn’t know how to be a member of a message board with all her Robert Palmer nonsense! Novice, humph.” 
No exactly, but when golfer Payne Stewart died in a plance crash, I thought CNN had said Patrick Stewart, from Star Trek, and I got all bummed out. Then I realized it was some other guy, and I got really happy. Then I realized I was ecstatic over the death of some guy whom I sure was an all-around decent egg, and I felt guilty. Then I had to lie down.
I wonder if he had a bad case of loving his doctor.
Afraid not. He’s still with us and looking pretty good. Still golfs, too. 74 years old, and he’s played a couple of tournament events (I’m sure he golfs more frequently; those are just the PGA tournaments). Designs courses, too.
Threads on a celebrity death can go in a few different places. If you want to bitch about the person who died, you shouldn’t post the tread in CS - put it in the Pit (“Robert Palmer dead: Why am I so happy?”).
If you want to discuss the person’s life work, put it in CS (“George Plimpton dead; Paper Lion fans mourn”).
And if you just want to let everyone know the person died (that is, you’re posting an obit of sorts), then put it in MPSIMS (“Gordon Jump dead”).
That’s my take. Seems reasonable to me. The problem is when you get mulitple threads in a particular forum about a person’s death. This is perfectly acceptable when the threads are posted simultaneously, although the first of the OPs to notice the redundancy probably should ask the moderators to close their thread.
To the OP, then, I’d say that the sentiment is right on, although it is not inherently true that someone goofed every time multiple threads are posted about a particular celebrity death.
Call me mad, but I’d actually like to read that obituary.
Ha, I must be old. Whenever I hear of someone’s passing I come to SDMB assuming someone’s already opened a thread. I want to read what’s been written. I agree with the OP, six (or more) is nuts.
Oh, don’t do that, dear heart! Hamster trouble is always understood. I figure the first two or three simulposts are understandable as simulposts . . . It’s just that by midday, people should know not to add additional duplicate threads (not to mention in the worng forum!). And people keep replying to almost-dead threads, leapfrogging them over active threads . . . A minor annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless.
Uvula Gladwynne is alive and well–it was Uvula Gladstone who perished in that freak blimp accident.
No, it was Ovaltine* Gladstone who died in the blimp accident.
Uvula didn’t pay her Mob debts in time.
Damnt, the coding weasels got me again! Now I’ll have to stand in the tea chest.
I just wonder if anyone has pre-made threads just ready to post the second someone famoous goes.
“Ronald Reagan 1911-20__”"
I know this was expected for some time, but it always gives me a lump in the throat to see an ex-president pass on. You always remember where you were and what you were doing when you get the news. I was at ______, doing ______, when it came on TV that he died. I still haven’t taken it all in.
I didn’t care too much for his politics, but he was great in Santa Fe Trail. Goodbye Dutch!
Forget Arnold Palmer: when I got to work I was told that Robert Plant had died. I must admit to being relieved when I heard it was “only” Robert Palmer.
Forgotten, but not gone.
Its kind of like, we know Roy Orbison is dead, so who cares if Elvis is alive or not?