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I believe the answer has traditionally been, "After an apology, yes." A handful of people have had difficulty making that apology.
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I'm not sure I understand the question, so let me see if I can rephrase it correctly. Are you asking if it is OK to post something and then just let the thread run on its own while you, the original poster, just observes for a while, and maybe re-enter the thread later? I'd have to say, "yes", as long as you do respond to direct polite questions or counterpoints.
I think it is rude to start a thread and then bow out if it means ignoring replies that either directly or indirectly require further input from you.
If I'm misunderstanding the question all together, or if this is a carry over from some other drama I missed, just ignore this post.
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The original poster here is fallow, who IIRC was banned from the site. He's asking, if I understand him correctly, if he can come back. And he's asking in such a way as to make it clear that he doesn't feel he was banned for any legitimate reason.
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If it weren't for Tom point out alluvion's behavior and similarity to fallow on other threads, I would never have noticed him -- his posts pretty much register as noise in my mind.
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I appreciate that fallow gave me some straight answers in the other thread.
I found his past incarnations frequently insulting, but I don't know that I require an apology or even a promise to "be good." If he's not insulting this time, then I reckon that's what matters. I don't know who was hurt severely enough to require an apology. (Maybe whatever got him banned, but at this point the specifics have left my mind.)
That being said, I would prefer clear posts, because the cleverly meaningless ones register as noise to me, annoying in that I have to filter it out or wade through it. But that's a stylistic preference. I don't believe that my stylistic preferences alone are enough to rule the board.
I feel somewhat pompous even posting about whether or not you are welcome back, fallow, but you did ask . . .
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Posted by Kwea on the Goodnight Hatrack Thread:
quote: LD, are you sure you aren't fallow?
Caught ya
I don't even understand what this discussion is about. Whether Fallow should be allowed back on the boards? I'm not familiar with the situation that got him banned. So I can't really comment there. I guess if he promises to behave, there's no harm in giving him another chance.
How is it that your schedule allows you to stay up so late?
Why "alluvion"? Are you something that just washed up on the shore? A jellyfish perhaps? Or a soggy marshmallow?
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I didn't really mean you were him...I just said that because he was always complaining about the same thing as you were there, and so I came up with a "Goodnight fallow" thread that I would sometimes bump for him when I left.
Besides, saying something once , in jest, isn't the same as always accusing you, is it?
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I think the issue is not so much that we need to welcome fallow back as it is that he was actually banned by the moderators.
In other words, they officially told him he wasn't welcome here and kicked him to the curb.
It doesn't matter if WE'RE willing to hang out with the guy; until he clears it with them, he's circumventing their decree.
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why do you ask the hard questions when I'm tired and can't think straight, hmmm?
Let's see . . . "nice" . . .
If you regard achieving "nice" as a complex weaving of stimuli and response that keeps the pique-o-meter at no greater than a 6.5, you'll be fine . . .
fantastic idea. A fake french accent on the 'e' would be extra cool. Wish I'd thought of that.
alluvione^'
I dunno how to make accents, and I'm not sure anyone would understand the editing mark-up.
shan
quote:that keeps the pique-o-meter at no greater than 6.5, you'll be fine...
oh, but it goes to 11! I can't dilly-dally around at 6.5. I'll get lost in the noise.
Skil,
Computational biologist (schedule? one benefit of working in academia is that it's more merit-based than other areas I've worked in. results are more important than punching the clock). Alluvion? - sounded cool and maintains a certain continuity with fallow. Thanks for asking. What do you do for a living?
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quote: If they don't want him around, they'll ban him again. Again. er, Again.
How is it that this is the third? fourth? incarnation of banned fallow monikers? Don't they ban the IP address?
Shan - fallow does the same thing over and over again. He plays nice (but weird) for the first few days, and then becomes increasingly nonsensical and snarky. Like really angry but incomprehensible spam.
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Well, next week there's a silicon ingot manufacturer up in the Portland area who wants to move blocks of silicon from station to station as the silicon undergoes various processes around their plant. We'll be moving the silicon blocks with conveyors, warehouse stacker cranes, and automated guided vehicles. Our software maintains an Oracle database of what blocks are where, and we send transport commands to the various vehicles to move the blocks.
We do the same thing with boxes of beef, palletloads of chicken nuggets, clean room wafers, engine blocks, boxed-up personal computers, and the US mail. Keeps me moving around the country pretty good.
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Every customer has their own user interface, shipping manifests, report forms, host computer protocol, order or batch processing, and system layout.
And then the Japanese are always coming out with new and faster equipment that often requires that a new communication interface be written.
I'm currently programming in Delphi, but the company as a whole is moving to Java.
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I've never had any problem with fallow's "nonsensical" posts; he's always made sense to me. What bothered me -- and will bother me, if Mike continues to do it in the future -- is his tendency to insult people behind the shield of his cryptic utterances, secure in the belief that they won't pick up on it. Unfortunately, for those people who do pick up on it, it's doubly insulting.
quote:A lot of his stuff goes right over my troglodyte head.
DAMNIT!
Anyhow, on a subversively related topic, maybe you know something about this. I dimly recall from years ago a lecture I attended about robotics in the assembly line process. There was a brief digression by the speaker about how process manufacturing engineers get all the bolts or screws or whathave you into the proper configuration for the assembling robots. I think the solution was to dump the bolts onto a sheet of metal where they are all in disarray. You vibrate the sheet at some magic frequency and the end result is that most if not all of the bolts "stand up straight" and are ready to be plucked.
Have you seen anything like that?
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I've always found your posts to be remarkably lucid, logically sound, and with a strong tendency for dry humorlessness. That's not an insult.
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