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Less searchable M0rd4nt
11:28 / 26.10.07
I should perhaps mention that my comment to the effect that we have a zero-tolerance policy on anti-Semitism was not so much imply that we have or should have more patience with other kinds of prejudice*, more a sort of rubbing it in for those people who automatically assume that when you say bigotry, you obviously don't mean their own perfectly reasonable drooling rabid random hate-on for a whole section of the human race.


*although arguably this is in fact the case; X-ref the various discussions around sexism on the board.

PS: also thx very much for the support.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:03 / 27.10.07
Okay, we have a test case for zero-tolerance of empty topics: zedoktar, well-known supercharger of feline souls, has started this topic. I have moved to lock it on the grounds that it is content-free, zedoktar having been interrupted before he could actually write anything very much by some unfortunate happenstance but deciding to hit post anyhow.

I can certainly see potential in a topic where people share their thoughts on various historical personages, and in a perfect world I would happily sit back and let it develop over the weekend. However, I am wary of the broken window effect. As it stands, the topic invites only two things: shouting from people who like their topics to taste topicy, and people who like the sounds of their own voices ambling by to add equally vacuous non-content. I have therefore moved to lock the thread. If any of the Temple mods feel they have to veto the move as too hasty, that's fine; however, it'd be great if someone so doing would then work towards rescuing the thread by adding meaningful content.
 
 
electric monk
02:10 / 28.10.07
I have to run... unforeseen emergency.

I'm sorry, but that's just ridiculous. Who stays at the keyboard to say bye-byes when an emergency arises? It's not a phonecall, fer cryeye. z's taking the piss, and I support a lock. Has ze not been warned in the recent past about content-free thread-starting? Why yes, ze certainly has.

Must have more beer now.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
11:51 / 28.10.07
I'd suggest PMing zedoktar saying pretty much what you've said here, point hir to this discussion, then dump the thread down the shute. As the entry is, by hir own admission, content-free, ze should have no problem starting it properly when ze has dealt with the emergency.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:09 / 28.10.07
Have sent zedoktar the following PM:

Hi,

Your recent thread in the Temple has been locked and put up for deletion on the grounds that it had, as you yourself noted, no content worth speaking of. The moderation action is discussed here: http://www.barbelith.com/topic/17041/from/945#post741259

You are welcome to re-start the topic, which has potential. However your first post needs to contribute meaningful content and stimulate discussion.

You've been given good advice on starting threads effectively. How about putting some of it into practice? In your abortive opening post you mentioned that a particular historical character had inspired you recently and that you were planning to write an essay on him/her. Why not finish this piece of writing and use it as a starting point for the topic?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:26 / 28.10.07
That seems perfectly reasonable. Quite frankly, if he finds that offensive, or indeed anything other than polite and helpful, he should probably find another board.
 
 
Quantum
08:50 / 29.10.07
Good test case.

Mods, Mordant is away from the board for a week or so, so mod hats on.
 
 
grant
15:03 / 29.10.07
They gave the rest of you guys HATS?

Aw, man.
 
 
Papess
15:23 / 29.10.07
Grant, they're Temple mod hats. How great can they be?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
15:36 / 29.10.07
They're probably pointy, at least.
 
 
electric monk
16:56 / 29.10.07
Pointy? No.

Great?



FUCK YEAH!
 
 
Quantum
17:04 / 29.10.07
We all fear monk's glowing helmet. I favour the more traditional pointed affair-

 
 
Quantum
17:06 / 29.10.07
Here you are grant, here's your hat-

 
 
Papess
17:40 / 29.10.07
OOh, me wanty!
 
 
Evil Scientist
08:46 / 30.10.07
What in Zod's name happens if you taunt it? I must know!

Oi! Call yourself a hat do you? You're nothing more than an head warmer!
 
 
Quantum
08:56 / 30.10.07
First Warning- don't taunt the researchifyin' hat, puny scientist.



*hard stare*
 
 
Olulabelle
21:11 / 30.10.07
Why has this thread gone all pictureskew?
 
 
grant
21:31 / 30.10.07
Mordant took off for a week. Everyone's having a party. I swear, though, they BETTER pick up after themselves....
 
 
HCE
21:57 / 30.10.07
You are all off-topic, and you had better get the hell over to THE HAT THREAD before somebody goes all massive power issues on yr asses.
 
 
Papess
00:06 / 31.10.07
OMG! I think I see Mordant lurking about! Look busy everyone!
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
00:17 / 31.10.07
You are all off-topic, and you had better get the hell over to THE HAT THREAD before somebody goes all massive power issues on yr asses.

What, like these dudes?



(I'm second from the left, but I want to be the guy on the far right - in, of course, strictly spatial rather than political terms).
 
 
Papess
23:42 / 02.11.07
(Holy eff! Medieros, AGAIN!)

So, you will all have to pardon me while I stumble through this while sipping wine in rather large swallows, BUT is there there a possibility of a moderation of this thread as suggested in this post? Perhaps after consulting the thread initiator, Translyvanian Cassanova?

Thanks.

Oh, one more thing: What the heck is going on in the QP&MT thread? I wholly apologize if I lead it astray at all, but are there two discussions going on in that thread?

And what is up, Wolfangel? Can we talk?
 
 
Olulabelle
08:05 / 03.11.07
I have asked if he minds.

I shall wait for a reply on that, then I will action it.
 
 
Quantum
11:51 / 03.11.07
I've asked people to aim for the topic in the quantum thread, but Mako & Wolfangel is not a combination that I've noticed leading to outstanding threads in the past.
Could we move the crazy rulers thread to the convo please? I'm sure Trans Cas won't mind, and it will get more interesting responses there.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:22 / 05.11.07
....I'm going back to bed.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
16:35 / 07.11.07
Okay, that's at least twice in the last two days that someone has posted something to this thread which has been deleted. Is this just moderator bumpage?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:42 / 07.11.07
No, that was me. I said something in relation to a topic move which, when I thought to check it, had already happened, rendering my post irrelevant. So I deleted it. Sorry.

ETA: It wasn't a cross shouty thing, just a passing comment. In case anyone was worried.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:07 / 07.11.07
While I'm here, though, I would like some suggestions about making the Temple more fun. I'm not talking fun-flavoured processed reconstituted fnord product (may contain traces of Pratchett), I mean stuff that is actually fun fun. How can we have more fun without making everything shit?
 
 
Olulabelle
19:12 / 07.11.07
Re: Deletions, I also did that about the thread we were discussing. I posted, then I realised it had been moved and so I deleted my post.

Re: Fun. We could try doing something all together? Setting ourselves a project? We could make something all together or do some sort of experiment.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:15 / 07.11.07
We should contact the men in Glenn's picture. They would charge our sigil.

With POWER.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
19:17 / 07.11.07
(why is the man on the left wearing a jacket which says what looks like "Power 51" on its arm though? Is he trying to tell the others something?)
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:10 / 07.11.07
It's actually the first two characters of "51g!L." He hears our plea.
 
 
Olulabelle
20:49 / 07.11.07
The man in the front has short-man syndrome and is standing with his legs FAR apart to prove how manly he is.
 
 
Quantum
07:24 / 08.11.07
Fun? We could have a hat party, or radio 4 style games themed on the occult (Call my Bluff might work) or a find the silliest pic contest or captions or we could have a big fight about the origin of widdershins or whether Pratchett is secretly an enlightened magus and spreading powerful magic wihout even knowing like HP Lovecraft or debate whether the worst magic nonsense we can find is more or less iniquitous than the worst science nonsense we can find etc etc.

What sort of things were you thinking? More like fun-as-enjoyable-discussion fun? Or a hat party?
 
 
Quantum
07:39 / 08.11.07
We could paint the place with polka dots or install a bar, that would increase the fun.
 
  

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