There's a word for this in English: Kerfauxfle.
'Course, that's a marriage of a Scots word and a French one, so not really English, so much.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
P.M. Marc - Aug 03, 2011 6:40:17 am PDT #19095 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
billytea - Aug 03, 2011 6:40:34 am PDT #19096 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
That's no bagel.
It is the thing that wears a bagel like a cloak.
Consuela - Aug 03, 2011 6:42:17 am PDT #19097 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
That's no bagel.
I see this, and I hear it in Harrison Ford's voice: That's no asteroid...
shrift - Aug 03, 2011 6:48:40 am PDT #19098 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I suspect that getting past the Secret Service this evening will be a pain in the ass.
le nubian - Aug 03, 2011 6:48:46 am PDT #19099 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Consuela,
I used TNC as an example in my email, but I also used TWOP. TWOP is not without its faults, but they certainly manage their business.
Consuela - Aug 03, 2011 6:52:47 am PDT #19100 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
TWOP is not without its faults, but they certainly manage their business.
Indeed.
I'm all pissed off at ThinkProgress for switching to the Facebook comments, because my work disables Disqus and now with the FB comments, I can't comment at Alyssa Rosenberg's blog. Like you, I won't comment on politics (or really anything) using my real name.
I'm reduced to hunching over my smartphone during lunch to read the discussion at TNC's place, it's such a hassle. Don't the IT guys know I need my Horde?
On a related topic: EFF has a nice post on the hazards of insisting on legal names: [link]
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 6:53:44 am PDT #19101 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
TWOP over manages its business. Moderation is personality driven in the places I've frequented, and if you don't kiss ass and follow the party line, you get booted. I think it's an example of moderation gone wrong, whereas TNC is moderation done well and for the benefit of the community.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 03, 2011 6:58:46 am PDT #19102 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I agree. In my opinion, spamming and personal attacks are good reasons for moderator intervention. The moderator disagreeing with a particular poster or not being personally interested in the turn a discussion has taken are not.
For all that I can't stand Jacob's recaps, I think he's the standard of even-handed forum moderation that the others should aspire to.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 7:10:02 am PDT #19103 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The example of TWOP gone crazy that I think of is the Supernatural forum. The recapper recaps like he hates the show, and he seems to take it out on the posters. It is about agreeing with him, as opposed to acting like decent human beings. They are not evenhanded across the forums, I assume. Most of the other places I read are either unmoderated or appear so--and appearing so is the best indication of a well moderated forum.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 7:12:57 am PDT #19104 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IE IQ story a hoax. Still doesn't mean I'm not brighter than alla oonu.