Tech: people who post

Subject: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 04 May 06 - 05:13 PM

I was going to make this a BS post, but then I decided that it is more than mere BS.

As you may have noticed there is a fierce debate on censorship going on below the line. Insults are flying and italics are being deployed. However, there is something for the neophyte to keep in mind about thread such as this. That something is this:

I have a friend who plays poker and likes to visit the blackjack sites. (The name Stanford Wong comes to mind.) Sometimes a thread will start on one of those sites. A person - let's call him A - posts something. B and C respond. Then X comes along and insults A, B or C. Z comes along and supports X. Flames flicker, innocent bystanders get upset. yada yada yada

Suddenly a message from management appears, something to the effect of "We have determined that messages in this thread from A,B,X and Z are all coming from the same computer. This thread is out of here."

See what happened? Some troublemaker who enjoys upsetting other people has posted phoney attacks on himself. Strange,eh what?

Keep this in mind as you surf the net.

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Noreen
Date: 04 May 06 - 05:18 PM

It is BS because it is not a music thread. This is a music site.

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 May 06 - 05:31 PM

Tech, is one of the non BS categories listed by the management, and as BS is only the correct categorisation for posts below the line, then in theory Tech is an above the line category.
However as the post was not a technical query then it has ended up in the right place.
Doesn't help though to make superior remarks about it does it?
Giok

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Noreen
Date: 04 May 06 - 05:40 PM

I find it does :0)

It was a mere statement of the case- the division was made to keep everything non-music away from the music posts, for those who come to the site for music.

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Greg F.
Date: 04 May 06 - 05:52 PM

The division is a convenience for those that don't have the critical acumen and/or the cognitive or reading skills to be able to read a thread title and realize what the subject under discussion actually is.

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 04 May 06 - 06:00 PM

But still come below the line to check on the effect of their supercilious posts?
G..

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: LilyFestre
Date: 04 May 06 - 06:04 PM

I find that people on this forum will fuss about almost everything as clearly noted above.

Michelle

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 May 06 - 06:10 PM

Who? not moi!!!

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: mack/misophist
Date: 04 May 06 - 06:42 PM

Toi!



...et sometimes, though not often, moi.

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 May 06 - 07:07 PM

I find that people on this forum will sometimes have intelligent, thoughtful discussions regarding the merits of various barnyard animals as potential life partners.

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 May 06 - 07:08 PM

Oh good grief.

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST
Date: 04 May 06 - 07:12 PM

Forget that BWL...I've already been married to several jackasses!

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 May 06 - 07:23 PM

I find that people on this forum will sometimes have intelligent, thoughtful discussions regarding the merits of various barnyard behaviours as potential life philsophies.

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: number 6
Date: 04 May 06 - 09:02 PM

"Oh good grief."

Sorcha .... I fully agree with your statement

sIx

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 May 06 - 08:31 PM

Charlie Brown has left the building!

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Peace
Date: 05 May 06 - 11:38 PM

Where'd he leave it?

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 May 06 - 03:12 AM

Just behind that pile of bricks and mortar mate!
G ☻

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 May 06 - 08:00 AM

Which is why Paddy won't be at work today!

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Ron Davies
Date: 06 May 06 - 08:38 AM

People in the UK who post may well get something posted back. In the US we just get mail.

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 May 06 - 08:51 AM

Seems to me that a statement about being married to several jackasses says more about the poster than the "jackasses". Just an observation.

I'll get me cap.

Mick

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST
Date: 06 May 06 - 08:48 PM

"...italics are being deployed."

I love that. You better keep your head down when combatants resort to italics

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST,John O'L
Date: 06 May 06 - 08:49 PM

Sorry that was me

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: Peace
Date: 06 May 06 - 10:43 PM

Where's yer cookie? (That's not on the quiz.)

Subject: RE: Tech: people who post
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 06 May 06 - 10:56 PM

Thanks, John. I'm glad somebody's awake around here.

Sometimes they try to crush the enemy with bold print, too.