No shit! What the hell is with the kinder, gentler, Giraffe? Color ME confused!
I’m trying out a new good cop/bad cop strategy. The twist is that I play both roles – pretty soon, I’m going to turn around and warn you all for talking about off-board stuff. Then I’ll come back in and comfort you, explaining that I can get pretty crazy and it’s best if you just do what I say.
One sorry joke – if that is what it was. The most common cause for colostomies is colon cancer. And the end result is simply postponing death while living in hell while waiting for it – what with a bag filled with your own excrements attached to your side.
Sorry for the knee-jerk response, but that’s how my Mom died…and it’s still a very tender spot with me.
Actually, it’s a good practice to post that you have already reported obvious problems such as spam or duplicate threads. (This will also signal others not to post to that thread). This can hardly be considered 'Junior Modding," it’s just being helpful. In the case of spam, we usually receive multiple reports, and these do clog up the inbox. It can be tedious to go through 20 reports for the same piece of spam. There is no need for more than one person to report spam, though we do appreciate anyone who does so.
Reports of blatant and unequivocal trolling - e.g. a post consisting of a string of obscenities or racial epithets in GQ with nothing more - might also be noted in the thread. When I see a string of a dozen reports in a short time it’s often something like that. In this case you can just note “Reported” in the thread without going into specifics (since accusations of trolling are restricted to the Pit).
I’m sorry for your mother. And I didn’t mean to be so crass.
I guess it’s just that we crack jokes about it at family gatherings-you’d have to know my Uncle Craig. He’s all about bathroom humor. So basically, I didn’t think.
Well, that’s what I would have said, too, but there are evidently a number of people upthread who feel differently. [shrug]
Well, if they are speculating about what moderators might prefer, then they are Junior Modding, ain’t they.
If it makes you feel any better, my mom recently died of a really really ridiculous amount of cancer spreading through nearly every system she had, and she had a colostomy bag (which she hated), and MY first thought on reading your post was, “No, no, he still has an asshole, it’s just vestigial, like the appendix. Present, but not voting.”
/hijack
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Heh, this is probably a stupid suggestion, but it wouldn’t be th first time.
Every now and then, once or twice a week it seems we have a “hey I’m new here” thread in MPSIMS. There are the usual jokes, about squids, goats, look out for Kytheria ( ::smooch:: ), blah blah blah. How about some good and honest hazing, like your first day of high school when all the seniors are giving the freshmen directions to where the escalator is to get to the top floor pool.
“Oh, and watch out for those kids in the snackpit, there just a collection of previously banned trolls & socks with chips on their shoulders and an agenda to bring this message board down. They hate everyone and we don’t talk about them.”
Well if it’s a snackpit, of COURSE there are chips. That should go without saying.
<Homer> Mmmmmm…chips. </Homer>