Personal insults won't win you any friends. You want to be friends, right?
Don't wade into the religion/gay marriage/abortion thread unless you can take it. Not everyone follows rule number 2. Also, some statements are critcal of a subject without being personal, but it can be hard to tell.
Bad grammar and spelling are asking for trouble. Don't call anyone on theirs unless you're willing to risk the wrath of the Grammar Patrol.
A sense of humor is required. It doesn't have to be a normal sense of humor, and a love of puns helps.
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ooh, also dont get too into Israel threads, or threads based on insulting Mr.Card non-constructively (glad we dont have too many of those anymore!). yay for puns!
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quote:Originally posted by Strider: all members with less than 100 posts are required to send me a check for $100 every month till they reach triple digits.
I'll let you slide on the first few months, but I expect my check within 2 weeks.
I charge $2 per month from every person who is not a member at all, which is how I manage to pay Strider's exhorbitant fees...
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Oh, and whatever you do, don't wake up the three-headed monster that's sleeping in the basement. (But if you do, for heaven's sake...don't feed him any chocolate!)
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Once you reach 3000 posts, you may be invited to join the Secret Liberal Cabal That Does Not Exist. If you do not receive an invitation, that means you are Not Cool Enough.
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Post more often than I do (it's been almost 6 months since I last posted! This last semester of classes was TOUGH!)
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i have a serious question, are we allowed to have 2 accounts? or is that frowned upon
It's fine to have multiple accounts; many of us do, in fact. I have two that I've posted under seriously, and a couple that I've created for one joke or another. There have been times where forum silliness has resulted in certain people having a ridiculously large number of accounts.
Using one username as a foil for the other is generally viewed as trollish, though.
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Some ways to get you quickly cultured in the Hatrack Way:
- Make as many references to cultural things as possible while still addressing the issue at hand. Things things include- excellent movies, good movies, and mediocre ones too. Any book really- but especially if it's a science fiction or fantasy book.
-If you have never seen Firefly, you might want to rent the disks or buy the series from Best Buy or something, we seem to talk about it (and the movie it spawned- Serenity) quite a bit.
- Don't troll. Not ever. - A LOT of people don't like it when threads are deleted, there's some controversy over that issue- just do a search for that. - Be nice. - 42.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Once you reach 3000 posts, you may be invited to join the Secret Liberal Cabal That Does Not Exist. If you do not receive an invitation, that means you are Not Cool Enough.
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Once you reach 3000 posts, you may be invited to join the Secret Liberal Cabal That Does Not Exist. If you do not receive an invitation, that means you are Not Cool Enough.
Wait...we're supposed to be secret?
I've got some flyers I need to retrieve...
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It's not a dobie if it doesn't have a link.
Don't even try to say that anything other than Heinz is really ketchup (everything else is catsup.) Otherwise you may run afoul of my Ketchup of Righteousness (which is a wonderful tool for smiting.)
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Once you reach 3000 posts, you may be invited to join the Secret Liberal Cabal That Does Not Exist. If you do not receive an invitation, that means you are Not Cool Enough.
Wait...we're supposed to be secret?
I've got some flyers I need to retrieve...
I've been the secret voice that leads the meetingss...
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Once you reach 3000 posts, you may be invited to join the Secret Liberal Cabal That Does Not Exist. If you do not receive an invitation, that means you are Not Cool Enough.
*polishes badge*
I KNEW IT! Look, put me in coach. I've made my posts, I've antagonized Dag, I've agreed with Lyr time and time again, I'm ready!
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Here is are more serious rules and guidelines.
Know when to let go.
At some point you have to accept that the other person is not going to be swayed. And also remember that the entire world doesn't have to agree with you.
You make your point, someone makes a counter argument, you make a response clarifying your position. Then the other person clarifies and expands his position, etc....
At some point you have to accept that you've made your point and it is never going to be any clearer. If the other person doesn't agree just accept it and move on.
Next, even though it doesn't seem necessary, it is helpful to qualify your statements. For example, instead of saying 'this is what happened', say instead 'I think this is what happened'. Sometimes what you intend to be a plain and common statement, comes of as a statement of absolute irrevocable fact, and very likely, it is not.
Finally, don't use net-speak or txt msg speech. Using words like 'prolly' instead of 'probably' just makes you look like an idiot. It's not endearing, it's not cute; it's just annoying. If you want to be taken seriously, then speak in common but 'serious' English.
Don't be concerned if English is not your first language. Oddly, I find that people who don't speak English as a first language, speak better English than the rest of us. Not exclusively, but I think it is a fair generality.
Also, if English is not your first language, don't be concerned if your English isn't perfect. If you can get your point across, even if it is a bit rough, people will still respond and take you seriously. We are well aware that people come here from around the world, and we can easily make allowances.
Finally, paragraphs and lots of them. Keep your statements in concise units. Long endless never-breaking paragraphs are extremely difficult to read on the Internet.
AND, only Full Blank Lines for paragraph breaks.
I'm not sure how it works here, but indents, as in leading spaces or tabs, are usually filtered out by the Internet, which means those paragraph markers are lost. Which as I said, makes one huge paragraph that is very difficult to read.
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-If you have never seen Firefly, you might want to rent the disks or buy the series from Best Buy or something, we seem to talk about it (and the movie it spawned- Serenity) quite a bit.
I liked "Blakes 7". Bad special effects, good story. Does that count?
(okay liked serenity too. Firelfly was only for a very short time on dutch TV)
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It has everything to do with the Amber series. I decided to keep a low profile and not add "Prince of Amber" to my user name... Posts: 4519 | Registered: Sep 2003
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Once you reach 3000 posts, you may be invited to join the Secret Liberal Cabal That Does Not Exist. If you do not receive an invitation, that means you are Not Cool Enough.
I prefer to think of my lack of invitation as telling the world that I am Too Cool For Not Existing.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Once you reach 3000 posts, you may be invited to join the Secret Liberal Cabal That Does Not Exist. If you do not receive an invitation, that means you are Not Cool Enough.
Wait...we're supposed to be secret?
I've got some flyers I need to retrieve...
Good thing we print all our fliers on ephemeral paper with invisible ink.
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