Funny how when people say this they are almost never referring to their own eggs.
Well yeah, because then the saying would be “sometimes I gotta break a few eggs.”
Is there an extension that installs s Like button?
Regards,
Shodan
I’m thinking if it’s so all-fired crucial that you have the right to make fun of Trump’s name as some sort of political statement, take the time to do it yourself. This way it won’t pop up in places where it would be inappropriate, and it would be a political statement that would mean something more than "I’ve got a program running in the background I don’t even have to think about.’
“The Devil told you that…!”
“The Devil told you that…!”
With that , Trumpelstiltskin stamped his feet on the ground so hard that he broke the GOP in two.
…and everyone lived Happily Ever After…!
Whether your sticky would work was never in doubt. The only argument being made in this thread is that your solution is overkill. Obviously people would either listen or leave. But the same would be true if your new rule were completely unreasonable.
This post comes off as you making an “I told you so” post, and like you still don’t understand what the actual topic is. Are you trying to be antagonistic? Your other posts in this thread make me lean that way.
You speak of elevated discourse. Why aren’t the mods supposed to be elevated? Why did you need to put in your opinion about the addon in question? Why did you need to antagonize the one guy who is arguing with you, by using the cliche “Just a thought” that is pretty much always used to antagonize?
And I continue to note that you haven’t answered my question. No mod has directly, but as I can see no rules saying otherwise, I will be releasing my extension, and I will mention it so that those who want to use it can. Since it doesn’t affect the board in any way, you shouldn’t have any problem with it.
But I do note you weren’t doing your job when you avoided answering the question. That seems childish.
It was made poorly, and was soundly defeated. The rule is fine as is, people need to take responsibility for their own actions.
But that’s not what the solution is here.
No-one is telling you that you can’t use the extension. No-one is preventing you from using the extension. You just have to take responsibility if the extension makes an alteration in your posts that violates the rules of this message board.
I have a little text-replacement program on my computer. Its main purpose is to assign commonly-used phrases to a short series of keystrokes, to save typing time. I use it primarily in my work as a university instructor. It helps me with my grading, because it allows me to quickly and easily insert common corrections or advice into the papers i’m grading, without having to laboriously type out the same things over and over (because, believe me, my students all seem to make the same mistakes). So, if i want to insert a short paragraph alerting a student to his or her use of sentence fragments, i hit the keys “sf1” and the paragraph gets inserted into the word document.
If i wanted to, i could set up my program to insert “You are a fucking moron” whenever i type the words “I disagree.” But if i’m running the program, and then type “I disagree” in a GD thread here in the SDMB, then i’m responsible for the fact that i’ve called someone a fucking moron outside of the Pit. It’s not the moderators’ job to wonder what’s going on with my computer; it’s their job to enforce the rules of the message board. You might disagree with the rule itself—that’s your prerogative—but complaining that the rule prevents you from using the extension is simply wrong. It is just up to you to monitor the results of using the extension, and to be responsible for what you post.
You can preview your post.
Ha, ha. Nice zinger. Not a great argument, though. And it is an argument, even if you left a ton of stuff implied.
I was going to just leave this be, in an effort to actually get my question answered, but since no answer seems to be forthcoming, why not finish the argument? Especially when I woke up with an answer in my head.
Yes, you have shown that you can use FTFY under the rules here. But this is not how the expression is normally used. It is not how the expression gained popularity. It does not actually refute my point that most sites do not have that bright line.
And while I assume the strawman is intentional, I do want it on record that it is a strawman. I do not oppose bright lines in general, and I don’t have faith in the moderation to always get it right. I just think that, in this case, something less than a bright line would be better (getting it wrong cannot be worse than the current case). Or just drawing it in a slightly different place.
For example, I think that Jonathan Chance could have just posted the sticky (minus the part telling people to uninstall the extension), and not issued the Warning. I think he could have asked the various tech people on the Dope whether there was a way to fix the issue, and included that information in the sticky, instead of stating only three options (one of which actually being practical).
And, finally, the fact that I would prefer a bit more leeway in the quote thing doesn’t mean I would be okay with everything. In fact, on my ideal debate board, blatant strawmanning would be a moderatable offense, no matter what the tech stuff. But, as I’ve pointed out many times, GD is not a debate board, despite it’s name. It’s an argument board for strongly held, controversial beliefs. The rules don’t elevate the conversation relative to any other board but the Pit.
But, hey, everyone likes it that way, and it’s even grown on me, to some extent. At least, long as I get in and get out and don’t get into protracted arguments.
It is possible to say you don’t like the rules as they are but still accept that you are in the minority. Again, I only posted because I didn’t like how Shalmanese and his argument were being belittled.
You’ve gotten a nice, clear answer.
It just wasn’t the answer you wanted.
Use a different extension. One that offers the feature of excluding specific sites, and/or the feature of not replacing text in textboxes. Ta-dah!
I refer you back to my response to Jonathan Chance who made the same false claim. SlackerInc was, according to Colibri, specifically warned because he didn’t turn the extension off after being told to three times.
And, so I don’t have to make a third/fourth post while the quote system is acting up, the fact that the other side is still arguing and making true points shows that Telemark is wrong, and the other side was not defeated.
Again, it’s obvious on the face of it that the solution was to install a better addon or fix the old one. Yet no one advocates for that.
Hell, I’ve mentioned the addon multiple times, and yet not a single person seems to care. Because it’s not about fixing the board. It’s about how people think the addon is childish.
I want to say it so badly!!!
Say it!
What false claim? He was told to shut it off, not uninstall it.
Maybe that should tell you something.
You’re being unnecessarily literal. Not trying to speak for the mods, but no one cares if someone runs the extension. The only concern is changing people’s quotes. Since the poster has already identified the cause of the problem, and is not interested in taking care and responsibility to make sure that he’s not changing other poster’s quotes, it’s shorthand for the mods to say “Turn off the extension or you’re going to get more warnings.”
No one cares what you run on your computer. This message board is just words on a screen, how they get there is your problem.
Are you even actually reading the events in this thread, the warning and the sticky? I have strong doubts that you are?
At no point have I told people they must uninstall the extension. Instead, in the sticky I pointed out a potential problem with the extension that could get them in trouble and provided guidance for ways to avoid the problem. One of them was uninstalling the extension as a whole. Another was note when such changes were made and to correct them. The third was to avoid quoting other posters if necessary. I provided guidance in an attempt to prevent people from making sanctionable mistakes.
Second, you seem to persist in believing that I’ve warned someone about it. I haven’t. Tom gave the warning to SlackerInc and following that - and a bunch of reports - I put the sticky up. It’s hard to take your issues seriously when you don’t have the basic facts correct.
The simple fact is that each poster is responsible for the content of their posts whether they type them or allows a third-party extension to place them in their posts. Monitoring what one says, whether in person or online, should be a basic requirement for all communication.
How very unfortunate.