Honey, here’s the main issue from my point of view…
Have you ever been a squid or goat wrangler? Have you ever had to keep them prepared for a mass initiation at a moment’s warning? When was the last time you had to clean the goat pen? Or for that matter, put on goggles and breath through a hose while you’re cleaning out the squid tank while they’re squirting ink in your face just to piss you off?
Frankly, I’m beginning to miss the AOL SD days when we just had the scorpion pit. Especially Snowball, she had hell of a sense of humor.
I don’t see how the thread could be considered an experiment, but it has certainly tuned into a psychological experiment. It’s utterly fascinating that they’re still bothering you enough to start a thread abbout them.
B) No, Straight Dope Chicago was a failed experiment - Ed has already announced the impeding death of the forum. (The Barn House was less an experiment and more a pet project. Not quite the same thing, but same result.)
Actually, I like you people and look forward to more coming over and also spreading out, but having a thread for you (and me–you’ll notice I’ve posted several times) is different, and different scares me.
And there’s this. I expect a bit more bite from professional snarkers, even Canadian ones, like Bryan Ekers. Tell us how you REALLY feel.
The experiment was to see if they could manage to post without getting banned en masse, like on their other board. When we let them in they may have been huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but they were also damaged goods.
Huh, I was guessing you were an employee or stockholder in one of the Shopping Channel companies and were cheezed off about the snark. That would have been more fun.
IIRC they were NOT banned en masse. I think a popular thread got locked, and since the forum they were on was truly draconian as far as moderation, they decided to find someplace else to snark.
ETA: I know you were kind of joking about them being “damaged goods,” but if you had any experience with the board from whence they came, that wouldn’t have even occurred to you.
Perhaps I need to put smilies and winkies and such all over everything I post. I did that for years but grew tired of it. For gosh sakes, I’m rarely entirely serious and this thread, where I’m complaining about special treatment of some very nice people? It’s like kicking puppies, and I thought my over the top OP was obviously not intended entirely seriously. However, and there is always a however, whatever I say, I am not entirely comfortable with their “special treatment,” as I see it. But if nobody else is I’m good with that, as long as we keep the RV crowd out. A board must have its standards.
Nobody’s getting special treatment – what the hell is wrong with you? “Standards”? This is a board where people come and spill the most outrageous TMI possible. It’s not possible to have “standards” around here.
The OP is giving me a total nerd attack over here.
I can’t help think of that DS9 episode wherein those refugees came from the gamma quadrant looking for sanctuary. They soon come to the conclusion that Bajor was destine to be their new home.
But alas, the Bajoran government tells them to go pound sand because they don’t want to bare the burden of responsibility.
Then the head refugee lady says: “We coulda helped you out man! we’re fucking farmers! We could’a made your dead lands thrive again. C’ya fuckers!”
Special treatment would only be if they were allowed to open more than one thread on the subject. That’s when the rule about only posting in one topic becomes relevant.
If the rule were as you state, the people who only played Mafia would have been kicked out, too.
