After seeing you present and execute the idea for SDMB awards, and seeing the shit you had thrown at you as a result, and now seeing your decision to take down the homepage entirely, I felt the need to say a few words. I do not have the knowledge to create a site with all of the nifty features that yours had, nor do I have the time, but I can appreciate the amount of effort you have invested on our behalf in this extension of the SDMB community. I am certain that all those represented in the member profiles feel the same way. There was no particular reason for you to do the “awards thingy”, other than the fact that some people thought it would be a good idea, but you did it, and most of us are conscious of this fact. So, I say to you, Opal, the fact that some people are complaining about all of this should be considered in this light. Why concentrate on the negative criticism of a few vocal board denizens, when you could see the quiet appreciation of a much greater number? The problems with the administrators? They can complain about what you do here all they want, but they have no jurisdiction over your personal webpages. Perhaps they were right about posting in the proper forums, but all they have to do is close the offending threads. It doesn’t do anything to change the perceptions the rest of us have of your activities, and rest assured, my perceptions are positive ones. I’m not going to ask you to put the page back up, or to resume voting, that is your prerogative and your choice, but I did want to express some gratitude for the things you’ve accomplished, and not sit here in front of my computer, in silent appreciation that you will never see.
An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.
Opal, you put in a lot of work on the Teeming Millions Page, and I for one enjoyed seeing the pictures of the posters to put a face behind the screen name. Thank you.
No, it’s not, I just went there and admired the attractive new photo of Alphagene.
(I love the Page and think Opal is the bee’s knees, even though I made a really stupid joke a couple weeks ago and she popped by to point out exactly how stupid it was.)
Yeah, she put a lot of effort into the Teeming Millions homepage. Which I admire.
Yeah, the Awards Thingie was a nice idea, and the voting pages looked well designed.
If she pulled down the entire Teeming Millions homepage because some people criticized either the Award contest in itself or the promotion thereof in in inapproproate threads, that was a VERY childish and ridiculously dramatic thing to do.
She has a RIGHT to do it, of course: I am not here to dispute her intellectual property.
But there is no way in hell I will start kissing up to her in order to get that fucking Teeming Millions Homepage back online.
I’m sorry. Some people just take this shit WAY to seriously.
Thanks, but you realize that everyone is now going to accuse me of doing everything “just to get attention” and all that bullshit. I really don’t need all this crap in my life right now. Thanks though.
Coldfire, you stupid fuck, the TM homepage was only offline for a FEW FUCKING HOURS while I decided what to do with it. I never asked you to kiss my ass, but I’ll do it now. KISS MY ASS you fuck.
Coldfire, I’m sure you’re aware that there are plenty of threads available in the Pit for Opal-bashing.
I wouldn’t so much call this kissing ass…the people who didn’t like the awards or whatever were vocal about their feelings. I think that the people who appreciate her work have a right to be vocal as well.
“…being normal is not necessarily a virtue. It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
Oh, and aside from your stupidity in thinking the TM site was down, thanks for shitting in the one thread where people were being nice to me. If I could see you face to face I’d spit in yours.
Whoops! It’s back. Uh, sorry for jumping the gun, but I read other posters’ comments, and they seemed to think the site was down for good, so I assumed… You’d think I’d have learned not to do that by now…
An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.
Oh, and Coldfire? I like you, but… There’s a nifty little invention called “tact”. You might like to try it sometime.
An infinite number of rednecks in an infinite number of pickup trucks shooting an infinite number of shotguns at an infinite number of road signs will eventually produce all the world’s great works of literature in Braille.
Hows about we just continue being nice on this thread and disregard the meannie. OpalCat, you do a great job with your page. It sucks that everyone doesn’t see the awards thing as fun, which it really is (even though I wasn’t nominated for anything). I’m sure it was a lot of work for you to put up and maintain, and obviously not many of us would go through the hassle. Add my name to the Appreciative list.
Take no crap, Opal! You and your webpage ROCK. And yeah, I got nominated for stuff and it’s really nice to know you guys think enough of me to do that - but it’s not so much about being “popular.” It’s more about getting it, which most of the time, we ALL do.
I’d like to nominate MPSIMS as the forum with the hoopiest bunch of froods. Can’t even see your own feet, yer all so damned hip.
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“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” I Spy Ty.
I just want to add my 2 cents–I think Opal’s pages are really cool. I appreciate her efforts to make the SDMB regs a community with the Teeming Millions pages and the regs webring. They’re the perfect complement to the MB. I’ll definitely miss seeing updates to the pages of flames, funnies, and fools. It is a shame that the administrators (and some of the regs) are unable to appreciate her devotion to the SDMB.
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy