Yeah, yeah, notthe…
On re-reading my posts, I realized that the intended element of sarcasm was absent. I know we’re tilting at windmills, but I wanted to get my take on the record.
I’ve said I’m sorry privately.
That rule is only enforced, for the most part, against known sock puppets. Someone deciding to, say, play Santa Claus during Chistmas would not be punished. When MrCynical posted a thread in MPSIMS last week talking about how he was going to play hooky from work the following day, a reg posted as MrCynical’s Angry Boss. Nobody batted an eyelash, and nobody will. When that rule first came out, the mods explained that silliness would be tolerated, but sock puppets would not.
I really don’t want to stir up discontent. I’ve known Lynn for over three years now, and I know she’s quite level-headed. I assume she was just having a bad day. I just don’t appreciate the bogus reason that she gave for closing one of my favorite threads on the entire board, and I would appreciate it if I wasn’t lied to. I’m aware that they don’t have to tell us anything when they close a thread, but if they’re going to tell us something, at least let that something be the truth. I’m not so stupid that I can’t see the arbitrariness of the “bad example” line, and I’m rather wounded that Lynn would think any of us are.
Drain –
Ya think Brian’s opus’ll ever make Threadspotting?
I have good reason to think it won’t, although I’d LOVE to be proven wrong…
Not true.
If you go back and read the registration agreement, you will find it does NOT say “and people that are funny can have more than one screen name.” If that was so, we’d be up to our navels in double and triple and quadruple screen names; some of you would be little villages all by yourselves.
If we find a poster with more than one screen name, they get to choose which one they like. The other one goes. If we find malice or other negative intent behind it, they don’t get to choose anything, they both go.
We love our funny, fun, creative Teeming Millions, but we can’t very well be tough with spammers and hackers and trolls with duplicate names if we turn a blind eye to people that do it “just for fun.” That’s often why spammers and hackers and trolls do it; it’s fun to them, even though it sucks to us.
For us to have two sets of rules like that would be . . . um, what’s that phrase again? How about “arbitrary and unfair?”
It’s just that we have been just a tad busy this week and can’t spend all our time hunting down folks that think the rules apply to other people.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
Gloriosky, people, it’s not like the thread contained the missing text of the Dead Sea Scrolls or gave foolproof directions to the G-spot or anything.
Crimony.
That may be so, Alphagene, but the thread didn’t last long enough for those particular tidbits to get posted.
This fertile topic died a-borning, and now we’ll never know if the Divine road map to the G-spot (which I understand comprises the entire body of the missing text of the Dead Sea Scrolls), would eventually have been revealed here, will we?
Actually, I’m just terribly disappointed that I didn’t get my flame before Lynn extinguished the smoking lamp. I’m also a bit embarassed, because I suspect that it was MY “motivator” post, rather than Satan-squared’s puerile efforts that got Lynn to thinking things might be getting out of hand (I would be immensely relieved to be able to have that suspicion put to rest, by the way).
No point in crying over spilled milk, I suppose. I guess I’ll mosey on over to Opal’s site, register, repost my work there, and see what transpires. Of course, with MY track record, the mods over there will find it too scathing, and lock the thread. :rolleyes:
Ya gotta admit, though, I was right about my post killing the thread within twenty-four hours.
I’m not entirely sure how that makes me feel…
Uhh…Mr. Attention to details, did you not notice your above Mis-spelling?
Sorry to be such a smartass 
Gawd said:
I love it when people point out poor spelling in others when they can’t even spell “misspell.”
Yeah, that’s “wierd.”
Well, I’m recalling when this rule was first instituted. It was right around when Zette decided to play Santa Claus for the MB. Someone (maybe Zette–I’m not sure) asked if we’d still be able to do that, and as I remember, it was deemed harmless. Since then, I have seen a scattering of fake hit-and-run sock puppets obviously made by regs, and as long as they were not disruptive and did not continue to post beyond their purpose, they were not deleted. If you guys have just been too busy to ban these posters for the last five months, please tell me, so I don’t register “Easter Bunny” for next Easter, or “Mister Hanky” for Christmas. You never know when you all will start actually enforcing the rules, and I don’t want to be the first victim.
Out of curiosity alone–since GOD is a sock puppet, has He or She (not that I don’t know who it is, but I don’t want to get anyone busted) been deleted? I haven’t seen many posts from GOD lately. How about Zette’s Santa? Can she play next year? Obviously a disruptive sock puppet should go, but these people were both harmless and fun, and I’d like to think you’d turn a blind eye.
Maybe this part should have been in ATMB and not the Pit, as I hope for an ATMB type of answer.
No need; see this thread from about a year ago. 
Can’t help you with the Dead Sea Scrolls, though.
I thought the Personalized Flames by Satan thread was pretty innocuous, since it only involved the posters who clearly wanted to be there. However, I guess it was one of those “no good’s going to come out of this” deals.
I agree that you have to put Lynn’s decision in the context of everything else that has been going on around here, none of which I want to re-hash here. I think Alphagene is trying to say that while it may be a double standard, in the grand scheme of things it ranks somewhere below the “Kathie Lee is leaving ‘Live’!” story, so perhaps we should just let it be.
I think if things settle down a bit, things will return to normal in a few weeks. I think the pot’s been stirred ad nauseum recently, and we need to keep the complaints and in-fighting to a minimum if we can help it.
Just MHO.
Lisa
Libby, just WHAT do you want from us?
Sometimes people get over on us. We try to discourage them from doing this, but you know, it ain’t the biggest thing on our plate, especially now.
If their intent is to disrupt, we tend to throw them out; if it’s a joke, sometimes we catch it and sometimes we don’t.
We’ve never had time or energy to micromanage this board, never wanted to, either. Didn’t happen on AOL, doesn’t happen here. And as a long time member, you should know that.
Since you bitch when we remove something and you bitch when we don’t, all I can say to you is I’m sorry we don’t moderate to your standards.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
Tuba, I asked you to give me an honest answer to my question, and specifically to not get defensive and Pit-like. So, when you say…
…does this mean that if you DO catch it, you will send out a reprimand and delete the screen name? That is all I’m asking. I don’t want to piss any of the higher-ups off if I decide to play a silly joke, and up until now I thought it wouldn’t. That’s all I’m asking. Please, please, don’t get huffy, and just answer the question.
Since the “one poster - one screenname” applies to all of us, I’d say “Yes”, Drain.
Libby, I’m sure you would never say or do anything that would be intended to piss any of us off under any circumstances; it’s just not in your nature.
Recently we had someone write in and ask if they could acquire a second screen name just to play a joke on others . . . and we turned them down. Gave 'em points for courtesy, though; that was a very nice thing.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
It was me.
I was going to come in as “Mister Spanky” and give ChiefScott a hotfoot, short-sheet Mullinator’s bed, stick a Whoopee Cushion under OpalCat, put a bucket of water up over TVeblen’s door, “pants” Wally, ask Canthearya if she had Prince Albert in a can, and ring UncleBeer’s doorbell and run.
But the Administration wouldn’t let me. No sense a’ humor, those guys.
Oh, you’re just steamed 'cause we confiscated your joy buzzer.
Not sure what Ed’s doing with it now, but it might have something to do with this week’s “psychic orgasm” column.
(You don’t really wanna know. I don’t either.)
your humble TubaDiva
Hey, here’s your flaming bag of poop for Uncle Beer’s doorstep, I swear, if you’re gonna do it, do it right!