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WCDT January 9-13, 2012 (2096-2100)
quix0te:
I thought Douglas Adams was awesome until I started reading Terry Pratchett (Specifically 'Lords and Ladies' and 'Small Gods'). Pratchett treads a lot of the same ground but in a more positive tone and with a humanistic message. Also, Dirk Gently's cost him a lot of cred for me.
Dr. ROFLPWN:
--- Quote from: truestatic on 13 Jan 2012, 05:18 ---
--- Quote from: Dr. ROFLPWN on 13 Jan 2012, 05:09 ---truestatic, I would like to commend you for being someone with an opposing viewpoint who has articulated it without resorting to generalizations/sexism/general tomfoolery and I don't feel I let you know that you are in fact p. cool.
But I also think that if you really believe he wasn't trying to hurt her, that he wasn't trying to give her a taste of her own medicine, that you give him way too much credit and are fooling yourself for Marten's sake, just a little :P
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I probably sympathize with him more than I should, objectively speaking. He is the protagonist though, so that'll happen. And thank you, that's cool of you to say. Despite Jeph's twitter and some general accusations of sexism, pretty much everyone here has seemed to promote a pretty pleasant atmosphere, yourself included. "I disagree with you, but I respect your opinion" is a rare commodity on the internet, and its nice to find it here. =]
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They were not always so pleasant, I fear, and the civilizing influence is mostly from Mr. Hodges' tireless and doubtlessly thankless moderation efforts. that's part of why I jumped on the sexism thing: it's been a real problem around here in the past, and it hasn't gone away, and it should. There's no place for that sort of attitude here or anywhere.
Also "let Marten shit on the girl's heart" is a fantastic example of bad posting and the aforementioned bad attitude, and it doesn't surprise me that Jeph fixated on that. The dude has reasons to hate this place. Back during the Dora/Marten breakup...my God, what a dark time D:
So yes, it's more pleasant than he made it seem, bur we got a long way to go as a community :/
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: AnAverageWriter on 13 Jan 2012, 05:43 ---I think it's pretty presumptive of Jeph to pop in, look at ONE single post by a newbie then assume the entire forum is acting that way. We try pretty damn hard to get along around here and such. We aren't all running around here screaming about pooping on people's hearts, ya know?
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I expect that on reflection Jeph realises that; he does look over our shoulders from time to time now (after a period of avoiding the forum altogether), even though he rarely comments.
But you joined the forum at a time that there was a sudden blow-up followed by decent control through the new order; you may not realise that the forum had been that bad almost continuously from 2008 (when I joined) and I believe some time before. In early 2008 - four years ago - Jeph described this forum (in the private moderators' area) as "a fetid sewer and I don't think that's ever going to change". It has changed, with some effort - but Jeph had years of seeing it in that state, and a single post can easily trigger his misgivings as it did yesterday.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: haikupoet on 12 Jan 2012, 21:55 ---Whether she had a good reason or not, that had to have been one long, sad ride down the Mass Pike. Wouldn't be surprised if she was bawling by the time she got to the Ted Williams Tunnel.
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Point of order (and BOY do I have a lot of stuff to catch up on): It's pretty likely she went out of Bradley International out of Hartford. It's a lot closer and less of a hassle.
truestatic:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 13 Jan 2012, 05:58 ---
--- Quote from: AnAverageWriter on 13 Jan 2012, 05:43 ---I think it's pretty presumptive of Jeph to pop in, look at ONE single post by a newbie then assume the entire forum is acting that way. We try pretty damn hard to get along around here and such. We aren't all running around here screaming about pooping on people's hearts, ya know?
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I expect that on reflection Jeph realises that; he does look over our shoulders from time to time now (after a period of avoiding the forum altogether), even though he rarely comments.
But you joined the forum at a time that there was a sudden blow-up followed by decent control through the new order; you may not realise that the forum had been that bad almost continuously from 2008 (when I joined) and I believe some time before. In early 2008 - four years ago - Jeph described this forum (in the private moderators' area) as "a fetid sewer and I don't think that's ever going to change". It has changed, with some effort - but Jeph had years of seeing it in that state, and a single post can easily trigger his misgivings as it did yesterday.
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Oh. Well then thanks. I'm not a big fan of fetid sewers, and if that's what it was really like, then it's clear the hard work of the mods must have paid off.
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