Dagnabbit, I come home after a hard day at work and open my refridgerator door to find my cheese is gone. I think Alphagene did it, but it might have been TubaDiva. I’ll know when the DNA tests come back. Dirty, stinkin’ moderators of this board breaking into our houses, taking our food! Something needs to be done, this abuse of power is ridiculous. How long before they come for our childern? Or start tapping our bank accounts? Oo! Or maybe, they’ll erase our very identities like in that movie, The Net, with Sandra Bullock.
Feh. I expect someone to poke me sharply for stirring the coals yet again, but the mod-bashing has been going on around here forever! How much time do people really need to spend on proving to the world that a few select people are trying to keep them down, and make them seem like idiots? News flash, people, nobody can make you like more of an idiot then yourself. I don’t care if they edit every other word, or rearrange the letters to make your “The Eagles are better then the Yankees” post into “God hates all of you, and you’re gonna burn in Hell!”
Maybe they can edit posts, maybe they delete posts, delete threads, ban users, set cities on fire and eat babies. That’s them, that’s not you. If your self-image is so wrapped up in what a mod or admin of this board says or does to you that you can’t sleep at night, find a new hobby. And don’t tell me you’re fighting for some sort of inalienable rights here. Truth, Justice and the American Way™ don’t make this message board the Hallowed Halls of Free Intellectual Discourse. Whether “Fighting Ignorance” is something Cecil Adams wants on his tomb stone is irrelevant. One of the formost things Cecil keeps reminding us is that there are no clear-cut, black-and-white answeres out there kiddies. This isn’t just “no one is perfect,” this is “no thing is perfect.” Argue over genetics, or carbon dating, or theological disputes all you like. The point is to come closer to an understanding of the truth - but you’re not going to make it. Close is all we’ll ever get.
This flame is weak, pathetic, and rambling, but here it is anyway. You want to know the best thing about this place? People can talk about things important to them, and broaden their understanding of life, the universe and everything. If a mod’s motives are that important to you, you’ve got a helluva lot of broadening to do.
InkBlot Very well said. I don’t know if the current group of whiners are people/person who actually give a shit about the Admin. I think they just want to cause trouble.
If the do actually believe the Admin. caused them to do what they’re doing then you are completely accurate.
your humble TubaDiva
Hey InkBlot, you’re out of scotch, dammit![hiccup]
And it IS called a “medicine” cabinet, but it’s not a good place to keep your narcotics. Not a problem now, though.
Since the other thread mildly dealing with this same topic has now been closed, and I have no way of adding a clarification post to it, I must ad my two cents here. Just so everyone is clear here, I meant no ill will or bad feelings with my ‘mods editing posts’ thread.
Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to me, it quickly denigrating into a pissing and moaning thread between posters I’ve never even heard of before.
There was no intent to start a flame-war with anyone in that thread. I only meant it as a light-hearted attempt to ease some tensions around here. In retrospect, the timing was way off.
Hopefully, I’m not being added to the ‘pisser’s for pissing’s’ sake crowd. I doubt my posting record indicates that, and would hope the posters who participated in that thread are clear on my original intent of the thread.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t fear firing off a terse and aggressive post to an issue I feel strongly about. I have and will. This just wasn’t one of those instances.
See, I dont really care who ate your cheese, I just wish someone would tell you who let the dogs out so you would stop singing that fucking song. Oh, that wasn’t you? Sorry.
We know that wasn’t your intent, C. That’s why I mentioned that that thread should have been over a long time before I closed it.
The minute you said “uh oh” in that thread, I think you and most other people realized that others were hijacking the thread to serve their own petty agenda.
InkBlot, the post Homer is quoting was merely spam from a site that has been a minor plague over the last month or so. At least a dozen posters have registered merely to spam us with that specific link. We’re unilaterally deleting the links. In this case, however, the entire post (and poster) was removed rather than the link only. The link was part of his sig and that’s a bit harder to edit than a post. It’s nothing to be concerned about.
TUBA! I threw some shit into the middle of the link so that it wasn’t a viable link. Right smack dab in the middle I added ‘edited link doesn’t work’ or something. Gimme some credit. I know enough not to spam them links! I even sent you an email telling you about him before I posted.
Someone named Superman345 had a link to Chiu in his post.
El Smasho resurecting threads, particularly those that are ALMOST THREE FREEKIN’ YEARS OLD is generally frowned on upon around here, just so you know - although given that you’ve been around since 2000…
