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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.
I do have dragonfly shoes. I lack both the materials and talent to draw dragonflies on my eyelids.
I thought this was more interesting when I thought the fetuses were chewing.
I have never stepped foot in the SPN threads
I stepped in, tried to stay, and then ran out. They're horrible. They're full of people that hate >=50% of the show and are very loud about it. And the mod is draconian. If you correct a factual error made in a recap, you risk bannination.
I only today remembered to pay my mortgage and other bills due on the first, so I might have remembered to remind you by Friday...
Oh, yeah. Rent. I should do that this afternoon.
It just took me several minutes to thread a needle no matter what glasses I was wearing. I think it's time for the eye doctor.
TWoP horrifies me. I looked around there early on and thought everyone was pretty vile. I like it here, where everyone is polite and intelligent.
Dude, that's how we make up English words all the time. cf., "Television."
I'm just sayin', 1960s standardization of spelling aside, kerfuffle's no English word, even if the English use it.
Signed, Society for Scots Word Independence, Tongue in Cheek Division.
(Afore it's Internet Popularity, I only ever heard it used by my Mother's family, where they'd picked it up from their Dad. Among other terms straight outta Burnsland.)
ita, to quote my father, "thems as don't ask, don't get"
congratulations on your chocolatey goodness.
and, white people, like glitter, not only get everywhere, are well nigh impossible to get out
TWoP horrifies me. I looked around there early on and thought everyone was pretty vile. I like it here, where everyone is polite and intelligent.
Periodically I get a big uptick on hits on one of my SPN stories, and I wander over to TWOP to see if I've been recced there. I get a bunch of hits from them, but nobody ever comments.
That's funny - because they tend to be vocal
I suspect that because I am not part of their community, the stories are perceived to exist in a vacuum.
Agreed that the use of names versus psueds doesn't affect behavior much. Identities and investment in the community do. And the number of people is a factor as well; the more you feel anonymous, the more likely you are to not care how you're perceived.
I probably shouldn't get into TWoP stuff, but...I'm dumb, so:
1) The recapper for Supernatural hasn't moderated for about four years now.
2)
the crazy mod decided that there should not be any negativity and closed the "things I don't like about 'Lost'" thread.
Those two things aren't equivalent. I and other mods hate the "bitter/negative" threads (and the anti-bitter threads they inspire) because the premise is "only X opinion can be expressed here, and you're not allowed to dispute anything people say." Which is the antithesis of what discussion forums should be. Plus, when dealing with threads organized around being positive or negative, the mod has to evaluate what people's opinions are, instead of how those opinions are expressed. Which I think we agree is the opposite of what they should be considering.
Closing those threads didn't mean "Only positive things can be said." It meant "You can say positive and negative things in any thread where it's on topic. Like usual."
I believe the first "Bitterness" thread was in the Buffy threads. And I watched that community split into two teams that brought a bitter/anti fight into every other thread in the forum. So I didn't allow them for Angel or any show I moderated. I'm fairly sure that even Ace & Sep agreed that creating that thread had been a mistake.
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