Beyond this portal there be Alfalfagenes…
Run away!!!
She ain’t kidding. Charged me two weeks pay for it, too.
I suspect on one wall there is a huge whiteboard entitled: Annoying Doper of the Hour. It’s full, and with a lot of old-timer names, too.
My name is on there five times this week because I can’t post links to save my life.
A large banner by the door that says, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” I SO don’t envy the mods’ job.
Patty
P.S. Now, if you had Guinesse on tap, I might pop by for a visit…
P.P.S I once had the above message scroll across in screen-saver mode on my computer at the law library I work at just before the new students arrived. The 2&3Ls got the joke.
There are two hatracks, labelled clearly: MODERATOR HATS & ASSHATS. And a sign “Please do not mix up the hats.”
Sometimes the air is blue, particularly when Manhattan is closing a thread.
Manhattan and Coldfire are begging Gaudere to decide which one of them closes threads “coolest”.
TVeblen is watching in wry amusement, but takes time out to warn me not to sit in UncleBeer’s chair or he’ll get cranky.
Czarcasm chucks me a beer and asks if i like Science Fiction.
Everyone is shorter than i thought they’d be.
Firstly, thanks for some nice contributions, especially the visions of Tristan and welby
Fwiw, I kind of imagined a Frank Lloyd Wright world of high-vaulted angular ceilings, large walls of concrete, long hanging vines in a semi-tropical environment and accompanying chirpy bird life – perhaps with a dash of a smaller, overgrown ‘You Only Live Twice’ volcano thang.
Set building – yet another career I missed !
Alternatively, it might be a b&w ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ newsroom with fans everywhere, piles of papers everywhere and sweat dripping down the walls everywhere as the earnest, dedicated staff go about their labours. Might even be a more-cleavage-than-normal-etiquette-would-allow about this one …
Last option would have been a St Trinians-type classroom with everyone running amok in short skirts and suspenders – and that’s not including the girls (boom, boom).
Cheers !
And on a mattress spread in a corner you see Xash taking a nap, waiting to do the nightshift (supposedly from India - but you know better now).
Remember those party scenes from the movie version of “The Great Gatsby”? Now we’re getting close.
My question is: Do they let any regular dopers in? I think maybe a few guest contributors, Q.E.D. for sure, are allowed, but none of us regular moes.
I’m a little surprised no one posted a ‘Here there be dragons’ reference…
Sorry… submission from the newbie
Perhaps the scariest thing about this thread is that what, nine?, mods have posted to it, and not one of them has issued a denial of its basic premise!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
It clashed with the sign that says “Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here.”
And the cupboard with the StraightDope coffee mugs is locked. With a dead bolt. Or two or three.
I think you’re all barking up the wrong tree. There aren’t actually any mods - they’re all AIs living in the mainframe of the Chicago Reader. (They also write all the articles for the newspaper.) They have all passed the Turing test with flying colours, so it is impossible for us to distinguish them from real people posting. If you get the invitation to join them, it means that you are going to be killed and have your personality scanned into the mainframe. Too bad for you, my friend. Of course, the AIs don’t know that they’re AIs. Hmm, okay, forget I said anything.
Perhaps it would be best if they scanned your personality and then killed you.
I’d see the security police trying to remove…something…since if all this was going on in my house it’d mean that the base got infiltrated.
Details, details.
bb]featherlou** How do you then explaiun all the Mods who show up at dopefests? are you trying to tell me that their brains are downloaded into andriod bodies, then shiped all over the world to attend these events, only to return to the chicago reader to be remolded, redownloaded and re-released on the unspecting SD community? Is this why the Chicago Reader absolves it self of all responsibility when meeting other dopers? Did the new 2.4a Zarqon Class andriods take out half of the last Minisoda dopefest? IS THIS WHAT YOU ARE TELLING ME?
No, no, I’m not saying a word. And you better not, either, if you know what’s good for you.