Out of my entire post, that’s the ONLY thing you took out of it? :rolleyes:
Because, as was mentioned, this is THA PIT. Gratuitous insults are the order of the day. Great glommering gobules of something icky, I’ve been insulted by and insulted back so many people here I’ve lost count. I very much doubt any of them will rush to apologize to me; they thought they were right! I certainly won’t be apologizing to them, for the same damn reason! It’s why we have this place here. Polite discourse takes place in most of the other forums.
Arpanet didn’t have usenet or anything similar back then. We used it to get to Stanford to play Parry. (I almost got a summer job working at BBN on the IMP, which was a Lockheed Sue mini which I did micropgramming for.) PLATO users off the U of I campus communicated through a satellite link to the computer. It’s effectively the same as the net today - after all, I think someone said “The Network is the Computer.” PLATO was much closer to what the net is today than the net was back then.
Anyhow, the point is that PLATO notesfiles had the same culture we see in the Dope - finish the stories, odd threads, in-jokes. The discovery of quoting led to a massive thread where people just quoted the last post. Simple things kept us amused in the dark ages.
“The purpose of the Arpanet is for people at MIT to send foo to people at Stanford, and for them to send bar back.” One of my MIT profs in early 1973.
Perhaps I got too nostalgic in my last post. The point about Plato was that it was graphically driven, unlike any other computer system at the time. It was driven by plasma panel terminals, all with touch screen and XY addressing capability. PLATO notesfiles looked a lot more like the SDMB than they did Usenet. (Which wasn’t around yet.) There were multiple forums with multiple threads per forum. Like I said there was quoting. It was remarkably ahead of its time.
I meant insults - as I think I’ve made pretty clear. In this country ‘Drama Queen’ is a commonly used descriptive term, not an insult - while ‘Douchebag’ is just plain insulting. The only thing they have in common is that they begin with the letter ‘D’.
Ike has not only NOT apologised, but for all his zeal in correcting MY post for one tiny coding error, I notice he hasn’t gone back to correct his own for his continual gender errors. It seems that he’s only so keen to correct mistakes when someone else makes them and it gives him an opportunity to be abusive to someone who doesn’t agree with him.
Considering the topic of this thread, he isn’t a good example of the ‘restraint’ showed by the SDMB administration. Double standards again. I bet if I’d called him that name for no reason, even in the Pit, I’d have been slammed for it.
Zombies, if you’re this sensitive, the Pit may not be the place for you. A moderator fixing a coding error in a post of yours called you a douchebag for no real reason. No, that’s not particularly nice or fair. But that’s life - you can feel bad about it or forget about it.
I merely pointed out that I finally found out what the whole hooraw was about. I had been very reluctant to ask because I didnt want to risk getting banned, but all I saw was threads asking about vague things, and no details, with the locks going on …and generating more threads. I suggested that perhaps if they had made a sticky explaining things as simply and clearly as was done in here, we could have avoided all of the misheva and hard feelings going on.
AS an aside, Aruvqan is my SCA name, the name I was known to hundreds of gamers in EQ, and in general used on message boards, and many people in real life call me Aru [pronounced Rue] and I am not particularly reticent about mentioning where I live despite having a stalker.
That’s what he was replying about. I did print out this thread before his post got “disappeared”, and really, there is nothing in it aside from saying, “I just found out about this.” So I have no problem believing Ed Zotti’s telling the truth…in fact, I got a laugh picturing him banging his head on the desk, thinking: “Oh man, I hit the wrong freakin’ button and NOBODY’S gonna believe me when I tell them that!”
We really do need to lighten up on the admins, you know. They’re under a lot of obvious strain and all this whining and pissing and complaining, while relevant, ain’t helping us get through this. Maybe we should all go play The Sims for awhile.
Yeah, maybe you oughta. And while you’re at it, see if you can reign in your unprofessional moderators. What a ridiculous “explanation”: “I posted my reason for said editing to avoid the foment of conspiracy theory.” Gimme a break, dude, conspiracy? If you’d just said, “fixed coding,” you honestly think people would shout, “Conspiracy”?
Maybe you should put your resentments aside when performing official functions, Ike. You know, like Tuba should have.
Ed Zotti, if you don’t prohibit your moderators from pulling crap like this, then you’re implicitly giving your approval of it.
