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Kali, Queen of Kitteh
16:54 / 20.05.06
Please move my cooking thread to the current Gastromicon thread.
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
19:24 / 20.05.06
Sam T. has posted his password in the convo, in some bizarre act of "suicide," apparently. This seems to me to be a bad thing, as anyone could hijack his ficsuit and troll. I tried to log out and log in as him, but no dice. Should this be addressed?
 
 
Triplets
19:29 / 20.05.06
Yeah, this could be a security issue. I suggest Tom munge the password of the Sam T suit. If he wants to rejoin (let's hope for the best, eh?) he can go through the usual channels.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:50 / 20.05.06
I tried to log out and log in as him, but no dice.

That's kind of worrying- someone dodgy could have got there already. Alternately, someone not quite so dodgy could have got in there and closed the security hole, as it were. If they have, could they tell us?
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
21:54 / 20.05.06
Ganesh apparently got hold of the suit. Could be that he hadn't actually logged out when I tried, as Ganesh nabbed it later on, I think.

Crisis averted, though.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:08 / 20.05.06
That's cool- the work connection's kind of slow, so I posted that before looking at Sam T's actual thread to save time.

Cheers, trunky.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
22:10 / 20.05.06
Please move my cooking thread to the current Gastromicon thread.

Not possible, Kali. I think what Boboss was suggesting was that you repost yr opener in the ongoing thread and a moderator put the new one up for a lock.
 
 
Elijah, Freelance Rabbi
13:51 / 25.05.06
My internet at work freaked out and I ended up with 2 Tennessee threads in Convo, neither has any replies so either can be deleted.
 
 
Ganesh
22:22 / 25.05.06
Ganesh apparently got hold of the suit. Could be that he hadn't actually logged out when I tried, as Ganesh nabbed it later on, I think.

Yeah, I'm holding it. Sam T's welcome to have it back any time if he can convince me he's who he says he is.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
07:25 / 26.05.06
Hey I just revived a 2005 wrestling thread in Film/TV. Could we change the title to "wrestling this year" of "wrestling 2005/2006" or something. Some of the stuff like BoogeyMan and the soap opera stuff kinda flows into this year anyways.
 
 
Bear
07:53 / 26.05.06
Or we could just pretend that there's been no wrestling in 2006 it's a much better situation to be in, bogeyman being a perfect example.

But yeah a name change to general wresting discussion would be good.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
10:14 / 26.05.06
bump
 
 
Jake, Colossus of Clout
16:52 / 26.05.06
Could someone move my "Downloading Music" thread to the music forum? Y'know, where I should have put it in the first place?

Thanks in advance!
 
 
Olulabelle
20:05 / 26.05.06
I have done that Jakegnosis.

Where is this thread of Sam T's then? Just out of extreme nosiness.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:47 / 26.05.06
Lula- Roll up, roll up, get yr childish histrionics here.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
21:06 / 26.05.06
I just can't believe he set his password to '23'.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:22 / 26.05.06
To be honest, I can't believe it wasn't "23" to start with.

Sorry, am I being needlessly harsh? I think watching Big Brother is killing my soul.
 
 
Olulabelle
21:44 / 26.05.06
You can believe it. You just wish you didn't have to.
 
 
Jackie Susann
03:53 / 27.05.06
The part I can't believe is that he had 40 PMs. I've been on Barbelith practically since the start of the old board and I only have 28. But some loser who doesn't think he contributes anything and throws ridiculous fit rather than stop posting has 40? Fuck me!

PS - Please do not send sympathy PMs.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
07:37 / 27.05.06
Well, most of those PMs were probably me and a few other people pulling him up on some political dodgyness in the Temple a while back, so I wouldn't sweat it.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
08:12 / 29.05.06
Uncharacteristically excited about the new Pet Shop Boys album I've decided to resurrect the only thread we had on them rather than start afresh. Could a music mod please vague up the title and summary , perhaps to suggest it's a thread for general PSB discussion. Me and my fourteen unborn Albanian children will build temples in your honour if you do. Thx.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
09:06 / 29.05.06
Do we really need a thread in Comics where somebody posts a link to their eBay sale? Somehow, I don't think so.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
09:52 / 29.05.06
Seen it, put in for a lock. I think the poster is new.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:48 / 30.05.06
I'm probably too enmired, but could somebody either a) cut and paste the bits of this thread based mainly around racial politics and affirmative action and whack them in a new thread, if they feel it is appropriate? There's some pretty nasty stuff about feminism in there too, but I think that's instructive and relevant.

There's another question here, about the point at which you become a pressing negative to Barbelith, but that's a question for another day.
 
 
Ganesh
22:52 / 30.05.06
Hm, that link's not working for me, Haus.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
22:57 / 30.05.06
HMTL fix in the works.
 
 
Ganesh
23:23 / 30.05.06
Oh, Christing fuck. I'm really sorry, Haus, but that's too big a turd for me to deal with right now. I'm going to respectfully opt to leave it to the Switchboard mods. I think a separate thread, at the very least, is a good idea. As for the "pressing negative" question, I'm not sure. We've developed the option of starting new threads in the Policy for should-X-be-banned discussions, and also (thanks to the recent DEDI one) discussions which fall short of maybe-banning but provide an opportunity to comment on factors in the "pressing negative" question.

Does anyone want to start such a thread?
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
00:21 / 31.05.06
I think it might wait until we have to do the exact same thing four or five times.
 
 
Ganesh
00:37 / 31.05.06
Or not, depending how strongly people feel about it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:31 / 31.05.06
Not gonna be able to do all the cutting and pasting while at work, unfortunately, cos there's gonna be a LOT...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
05:25 / 31.05.06
Yarg - it's camed down now, I think. It'll keep.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
07:35 / 31.05.06
Or maybe not. Interestingly, one thing it is making clear is that race, and perceptions of race, are massively important for making sense of this whole situation. When Phallicus demands to know who cares that the alleged victim was black, the answer, it seems, is Phallicus. He cares rather a lot.

Speaking of which - in order to avoid another mass outbreak of temper tantrum, could somebody else ask him to add some commentary to this thread? Perhaps a good start would be to compare:

Ahmadinejad: No, I have a question for you. What kind of a role did today's youth play in World War II?


and



Prospects in today's day in age are essentially equal, except, I'm sure, in some backwards, tiny towns and regions.

 
 
Cat Chant
09:28 / 31.05.06
Can anyone be bothered to collate some statistics (ideally from UN, Amnesty, WHO or other international organizations which have some sort of clout) which show that people of colour and/or women in the UK and US are in fact at a disadvantage in terms of poverty/class/employment/incarceration/violence/etc? (I can have a go later, but someone might have those kinds of facts to hand.) Could we stick them in a (locked) 101 thread - not a low-snark discussion thread, just a reference thread - and have them there to link whenever this kind of fucking nonsense shows up again? I know that'll get us back into 'But the UN is a liberal conspiracy! Only www.stoopidwomen.com is brave enough to tell TEH TRUTH!!!1!', but it might be worth it anyway.
 
 
Lurid Archive
10:46 / 31.05.06
At the risk of sounding like an apologist or hopeless optimist, I do think that Phallicus comes across as much more amenable to debate than Shadowsax ever was. The fact that Phallicus keeps changing argument midstream is actually a sign of retreat in the face of a *better* argument. Which is a step in the right direction, if you ask me, and may set up enough cognitive dissonance after a while to actually have an impact.

But I think Deva's idea of a basic stats on the disadvantaged thread is excellent, though I think it would deserve some discussion, since the stats are actually rather complex as I recall, not least because poverty, class, race, life expectancy, rate of incarceration and so on correlate, and plausibly have causal relations in some cases. Still, having basic facts laid out would be great, though my experience of doing so is mixed - just a few days ago, I tried to make a point about casualty figures in Israel and the Occupied territories which were dismissed on the grounds that anyone collecting such figures was biased (I think he conceded that he would accept UN figures, which don't exist as far as I'm aware). The power of bald denial can be rather astounding at times.
 
 
ibis the being
11:02 / 31.05.06
I've exchanged a couple of friendly PMs with Phallicus, not about the Duke thread but another earlier discussion. I think it's important to bear in mind that he's rather young... I don't think when he posts in Switchboard he really understands that he's arguing (nonsense) with living, breathing, thinking people - he's just venting some kind of frustration with his peers at the faceless Internet. He doesn't have much real investment in his stated opinions, it seems to me, he's just being contrary and is due for a vacaction in Self Awaria. Not saying his conduct is okay, but I don't think he's anywhere close to bannable, he just needs time & some kind of slap(s) upside the head. I feel I've already played a little Good Cop with him but I don't want to get stuck being his Barbelith Big Sister.
 
  

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