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Xochi Blymyer

Lord Morgue

14:00 / 17.10.05

It's been a long road for Xochi Blymyer, possessor of the coolest name in Hollywood next to Yolanda Squatpump, but at long last zhe has moved up the ladder from second second assistant director, to second assistant director (second unit), to second assistant director, and now finally first assistant director!
Xochi Blymyer
Wherever you are, spare a thought for Xochi. If it were me, I think I would have long ago gone all Blake Edwards' S.O.B. and got in a shootout with a water pistol with police over a can of film...

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:02 / 17.10.05

Barbelith used to be quite good once, didn't it?

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:44 / 17.10.05

So the stories tell us. Conversation, anyone? If message there be to this, it's a funny name thread.

Aertho

14:59 / 17.10.05

I found out years ago that my pimp name is Ferguson Yankee.

toughest, fastest, fatest

15:27 / 17.10.05

while waiting for my membership to be processed i dreamt of the rarefied intellectual discourse and exploration of metaphor in that ivory tower of the mind that is barbelith.

how wrong i was, how wrong

Char Aina

15:35 / 17.10.05

good job you're making up for it, eh?

All Acting Regiment

15:37 / 17.10.05

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:38 / 17.10.05

Sorry about that Padraig Delgado - some of us did point out that a) the current membership system creates the illusion of elitism without any of the benefits, and b) we should have kicked Lord Morgue off the board after his second or third post, but more 'reasonable' heads prevailed.

toughest, fastest, fatest

15:41 / 17.10.05

good job you're making up for it, eh?

i'm doing the best i can with the tools at hand

toughest, fastest, fatest

15:43 / 17.10.05

anyway the best name i know of is 'Cherry Santesi-Brown' who used to be my postman in pontypridd.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:45 / 17.10.05

And I know. I was that tool.

It's a tricky one. One issue is probably that you get into a downward spiral in these matters. It's rather like the broken window theory. Theoretically, the people who post valuable and interesting material should grab the board and flood it with quality, but some have experienced changes in lifestyle which make it harder to post and/or are exhausted. Besides, the moment you appply a quality filter you're basically screwed, in terms of setting the tone of a message board. Besides, one man's meat and all that.

The application process is another dicey one. Possibly we should explain clearly that the aim is to tie applicants to a siingle email address and identity to make it harder to troll the board or harrass its members, rather than to impose any sort of entry qualification for competence. There's probably a happy medium between post turnover and post quality, but achieving it is the hard part.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

16:23 / 17.10.05

I have to agree with you Haus. I feel that the board is almost over policed these days.
The ignore facility is about as much as is neccesary in my opinion. There's always the good old fashioned " hey Poster X, why are you such a giant bell end, why don't you make like Ronnie Barker & fuck off" method!!!
Much as i love the lith, i have fond memories of ye old days of unpredictable chaos. Let go of the past Harrison, let go!

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:46 / 17.10.05

I've been experimenting with the ignore facility, and have found it quite restful, but it does have problems. Most obviously, it makes the potential posting of hate speech somebody else's problem, which I find a bit uncomfortable, especially since the people I am mosty likely to want to put on ignore are reasonably likely to have either offensive views or a need for attention so great that it allows for hateful or offensive speech as a valid tool to get it. Also, when people _do_ get responses, it can become increasingly hard to understand the thread well enough to offer value to it.

8===>Q: alyn

00:06 / 18.10.05

Is a bell end anything like a bell pepper? Because I could go for a nice fricase right about now.

Tryphena Absent

10:12 / 18.10.05

I can't use the ignore button because I start thinking about the possible dreadful things the ignored could have said and almost immediately take them off ignore... to find that their comment is insipid and doesn't live up to my wild expectations at all.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

10:24 / 18.10.05

Oh dear Nina. Self control, self control!

Lord Morgue

11:41 / 18.10.05

Oh for fuck's sake. Fine, I'm off.
I might as well air the last thing I was holding back saying out of -heh- politeness, and trying not to make waves- Haus, you ever think that maybe your crack about G.M.'s wife, even in someone else's voice, and in parody, might have been disrespectful? If there was anyone you valued like that, you might understand how he felt, but somehow I don't think there is. And would it have killed you to say "sorry", instead of turning it into Haus V.S. The Gods? Somehow, I think it would have. Have fun with that whole rigourousness thing, you've certainly turned the 'lith into a rigour.

See you on the road, skags!

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:46 / 18.10.05

Ah. Looks like you missed the part where I asked Grant Morrison what exactly he found sleazy and abusive, when he had felt similarly slighted, and all the other parts where I tried to address his concerns like a grown-up. Possibly because you don't bother to read threads before you post to them.

Cheerio, Morgue. See you in a few days.

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:57 / 18.10.05

Just to clarify - Morgue is not one of the people I worry about useing hateful and offensive etc. In fact, two posts, on the abuse of indigenous peoples in Australia, showed remarkable sensitivity, and his anger at the casual racism displayed on other boards in the Urban Dead thread is entirely to his credit. He's also generally pretty easy to put on ignore, because as a rule his contributions to threads are either self-contained or offtopic, so it's only really in fora where I moderate that I read him as a general rule.

Mind you, I can't help but feel that his bombshell re: Morrison had already been addressed a few times in the original thread and the subsequent Conversation thread. Possibly he didn't read them. Ah, well.

Tryphena Absent

13:50 / 18.10.05

If he wanted any sympathy from me he should never have been so callous about heat resistant panels. Insulting space technology is the one thing I can never forgive.

toughest, fastest, fatest

13:54 / 18.10.05

what's this about grant morrison?

All Acting Regiment

14:11 / 18.10.05

Somebody start the clock.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:01 / 18.10.05

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20:00 / 18.10.05

Damn.

I can't help but feel that if more people like Morgue and Dudley end up leaving, this place will start getting badly lifeless.

Peace guys.

Ganesh

20:06 / 18.10.05

Or perhaps it'd just be less wacky. Which'd be tragic. Clearly.

w1rebaby

20:06 / 18.10.05

To be honest, the only time I've had a problem with Lord Morgue has been here. Internet flouncing is such a cliché. Why not just make your Livejournal FRIENDS ONLY!!!! ?

Spatula Clarke

20:19 / 18.10.05

I can't help but feel that if more people like Morgue and Dudley end up leaving, this place will start getting badly lifeless.

And I can't help feeling that if people like Morgue and Dudley had demonstrated that they gave a flying fuck about using a discussion board for actual discussion, rather than pumping their own fucking egos, they'd never have flounced off in a huff when picked up for proving themselves incapable of rising to the occasion for the thousandth time.

Funny old world.

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20:27 / 18.10.05

I don't know what to say to be honest. I just liked them both, that's all.

Spatula Clarke

20:41 / 18.10.05

Yeah, well, I'd much sooner have seen them stick around and make an effort to take suggestions as to where they were going wrong on board than run away. I mean, you managed it. I managed it. Most everybody else on the damn board has managed it at some point or other. It's a learning process.

Some people just don't like to look in the mirror, I guess. I'd sooner have seen them stick around and make an effort to change, but if they're not capable of doing that then leaving is the next best solution.

Triplets

00:59 / 19.10.05

I've liked Morgue's use of comic timing* (ditto Daycrescent Daytripper), zhe can write humourous when zhe wants. Most of the time, though, waaay too irreverant (and as the UD thread showed, not a little online stalkerant).

8===>Q: alyn

13:39 / 19.10.05

Honestly, I can understand both sides of this horrible disagreement. Y'know, sometimes the Internet can be a little hard on people who just want to be loved, but don't know how to ask for it. I would've loved you, Morque, but my heart belongs to another.

I'm looking at you, Delgado.

toughest, fastest, fatest

15:00 / 20.10.05

cheers!

Supaglue

12:29 / 25.10.05

Maybe we should start this one as well. If only we'd known that criticising his views on the Nintendo Revolution games controller was the way to get Dudley to kill his suit, so much tiresome expository dialogue could have been avoided. Also liking the way he complains of rampant obsessiveness on Barbelith by ranting about a topic about which nobody else cares on another message board.

Can I just point out that the 'Electric Boogaloo' that is Dudley/RJB in Haus's link has nothing to do with my Urban Dead Character - Electric Boogaloo. Who is curently dead. And hoping for a revive. So don't take it out on him.

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