Elmo is a cynical marketing strategy, designed to rip your joi de vivre out kicking and screaming, kill it, stuff it, and sell it back to you at a scalper's price with a ribbon round its cold dead throat. And that squeaky voice, man , that sould be banned by a Geneva convention or summat.

gentleman loser

09:57 / 07.10.01

Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow!

Oh well, Barbelith was fun while it lasted but it seems to disintegrating right before mine eyes. Guess it's time to punch out.

Bummer.

Saint Keggers

09:57 / 07.10.01

Is it too soon to start a ban Elmo from Barbelith plea to Tom?

It's never too soon.

i actually thought the whole thing was really funny - 'specially the 'getting gum out of fur' thread - you've gotta love elmo.

but, yes. if it keeps going on and on. and on and on. it could get...

...tiresome.

Molly Shortcake

09:57 / 07.10.01

Advertising is a funny thing. If people don't pay attention to it, it goes away.

Ganesh

09:57 / 07.10.01

Yep.

mondo a-go-go

09:57 / 07.10.01

advice for dealing with any trolls:

IGNORE THEM AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!

Ganesh

09:57 / 07.10.01

quote:Originally posted by gentleman loser:
Oh well, Barbelith was fun while it lasted but it seems to disintegrating right before mine eyes.

Barbelith's always 'disintegrating'; that is Barbelith. Haste ye back.

bio k9

09:57 / 07.10.01

Tom, I think you need to appoint a co-moderator to delete this kind of crap when you're not around. Its taking up almost the entire first page of the conversation.

Ganesh

09:57 / 07.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Kooky is Eeevil:
IGNORE THEM AND THEY'LL GO AWAY!

Yep. If you must talk either to or about 'nuisance posters', try to confine it to a single, separate thread - like this one - which can eventually be deleted in its entirety. Try to avoid adding to forum-spamming by long-time posters with an old grudge and a new fiction-suit...

Not Here Still

15:12 / 07.10.01

Hmmm, that never seems to work though, does it? People are always tempted to have a go back.

I say we just point out to Elmo that he's a smackhead.

Johnny Mother

15:40 / 07.10.01

The Count is where i'm at...he just loves to count.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

15:44 / 07.10.01

Well seeing as he's just pissing about in the Conversation which, lest we forget, is for pissing about, I have no real problem with him, but this is hardly the Laila and Chrome show here, just someone with too much time and too little intelligence pissing about.

Has anyone else heard the joke about the woman in the 'Tickle-Me Elmo' factory?

mondo a-go-go

18:06 / 07.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Bio K-9, the Judgmental Jigger:
Tom, I think you need to appoint a co-moderator to delete this kind of crap when you're not around. Its taking up almost the entire first page of the conversation.

ignore it. if you're that concerned about it taking up the first page, answer older threads to bring them back up. that way the elmo ones will slip down and get ignored and deleted. doesn't need a censor. the conversation is for that kind of shit, and it's not going anywhere else.

i suspect it was one of the drunken london-meet barbeloids from last night... i have no evidence for this, just my feminine intuition....

bitchiekittie

19:28 / 07.10.01

tweedlebugs, werent they from fraggle rock?

gentleman loser: pardon me for being suspicious, but I have only cat-related name Ive seen - whats this "meow" stuff?

Dee Vapr

09:38 / 08.10.01

Okay, let me get this out of the way first - I'm finding this Elmo shite quite annoying. Personal preference. I'm just wondering if there are any potential issue re: precious bandwidth + stability of the board that could be jeapordised by this cute little Elmo fellow continually posting a topic every few minutes from midnight onwards?

Just askin. Tom, anyone?

bio k9

09:42 / 08.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Kooky is Eeevil:

...the conversation is for that kind of shit...
Sorry but I just looked at the conversation page and the first seven "threads" were postings by Elmo. Of the 25 postings on the first page 17 were by Elmo. Thats NOT what the conversation is there for. Its eating up bandwith. Its eating up someones money. Imagine the bill if this had happened last month. It needs to be censored.

Ellis

09:49 / 08.10.01

You realise Elmo is really Tom don't you?
He has finally cracked under the strain...

Naked Flame

09:49 / 08.10.01

Kooky is right- if it bugs you don't reply to the posts. Hell, if the bandwidth thing bothers you, don't even *read* the posts.

although I did. er.

Dee Vapr

09:49 / 08.10.01

I dunno - I'm not really an advocate or fan of censorship, but I'm a damn good whiner and as such I'd just like to propose the fact that - and this is a subjective view dammit - that our cherished muppet friend is now trying to deliberately introduce white noise into the conversation forum - which the most loosely regulated forum for a good reason - but as such it does perform a function - primarily a social / introductory one - which is important to the board - and that function is getting disrupted.

of course, I'm not curing the bandwidth problem by constantly whining about this at length...

<picks up soapbox, places it under his arm, shuffles off nervously>

Seth

09:49 / 08.10.01

Is it possible it's revenge from Greenland for the Transformers shit? The tactics seem quite alike.

If anyone's doing it to make a point, we need to unilaterally disarm the spam weapons. That means the Transformers stuff, too. I agree with everyone who says to ignore it.

Frances Farmer

09:49 / 08.10.01

Everybody welcome Elmo to page two of The Conversation.

Frances Farmer

09:49 / 08.10.01

quote:Originally posted by @GOD:

Sorry, but it's not my doing.

Wait... They said Greenland Posse. You said "My", implying you comprise the Greenland Posse. Does that mean that Bendt is the lone conspirator, and everyone else is just a suit?

Frances Farmer

09:49 / 08.10.01

quote:Originally posted by @GOD:

No. "Everyone else" are somewhere else. In fact, in a nearby country to most of you.

Oops!

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:49 / 08.10.01

I have just three words for all of this: 'Babies Making Love'. Is it the return of the Brighton Twarts? If so, can we send Dee Vapr and autopilot round to their houses with sticks and rocks?

Ganesh

10:08 / 08.10.01

<looks around in self-consciously dramatic 'conspiracy' gesture>

You do know, don't you, that 'Elmo' is only one letter away from...

...

...

...

...

...

...

'Eloi'!

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