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Samprimary
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it's also likely the best method that will be available on this board.
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When I get banned for snapping and making threats to Rakeesh's life I want no one to know where I went or why...delete my post and just let me disappear into the night.
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quote:
Originally posted by Occasional:
Because I am not constantly here I think and therefore mostly leave the place alone. But, I am wondering if I should just try because I don't actually feel like contributing even meagerly and yet still want to communicate what I think of what Hatrack has become over the years.

I don't see what that will accomplish. You will be banned, and you won't be given much benefit of the doubt because you've outright stated it's your intention to be cast out.

[ May 04, 2012, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: BlackBlade ]

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non-snarky purely observational answer: it serves the desire to be banned and fill a psychological self-confirmation.
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If it's attention you want, getting an announcement made about you or getting onto the List is the perfect way to go out when you get banned. It's a great exit. I'm afraid more people would choose that option, instead of just disappearing.
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I think notifications would be useful.
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quote:
Originally posted by Stone_Wolf_:
When I get banned for snapping and making threats to Rakeesh's life I want no one to know where I went or why...delete my post and just let me disappear into the night.

Are you teasing your future intentions SW?

Or simply requesting something akin to Jayne?

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Cool clip...I should watch Firefly again...

More the former...mostly just kidding in general.

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quote:
Originally posted by advice for robots:
If it's attention you want, getting an announcement made about you or getting onto the List is the perfect way to go out when you get banned. It's a great exit. I'm afraid more people would choose that option, instead of just disappearing.

Editing their last post avoids that problem. There's no new post made, the only people who would see it are those who go looking for it.
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Samprimary
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That's it. You know what? I've had it. It's time for me to tell you all what I think of

[MODERATOR NOTE: SAMPRIMARY DIED ON HIS WAY BACK TO HIS HOME PLANET]

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Questioning the truth of the moderator note in the above post is grounds for immediate banning. For your own protection of course.
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quote:
Originally posted by JanitorBlade:
Questioning the truth of the moderator note in the above post is grounds for immediate banning. For your own protection of course.

Wait. I'm not sure I buy

[MODERATOR NOTE: STEVEROGERS SUCCUMBED TO THE NANOBOT FIENDS AT WAR WITHIN HIS BODY]

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Oh, Steve. I tried to save you.
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[Big Grin]
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Wait a minute. If Steve died from nanobots, then who's posting under his account?
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[MODERATOR NOTE: THERE IS NO STEVE, ONLY MODERATOR]
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*backs away slowly*
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quote:
Originally posted by ElJay:
I actually wish there was a way to let people know, because I don't like the uncertainty of a formerly active poster just disappearing. But I can't think of a good way to do it, so... *shrug*

This.
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quote:
Originally posted by Occasional:
Because I am not constantly here I think and therefore mostly leave the place alone. But, I am wondering if I should just try because I don't actually feel like contributing even meagerly and yet still want to communicate what I think of what Hatrack has become over the years.

Feel free to try, if you think we don't actually know already.

Of course, you are still here, among those you scorn. What does that say about you?

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quote:
Originally posted by ketchupqueen:
quote:
Originally posted by ElJay:
I actually wish there was a way to let people know, because I don't like the uncertainty of a formerly active poster just disappearing. But I can't think of a good way to do it, so... *shrug*

This.
Speaking of posters just disappearing.

Hi there. Nice to see you around these parts again. [Wave]

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I have to go home now. My planet needs me.
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Hi Lyr! [Smile]

I actually went back and looked at my posting history after the discussion started on the other thread about people leaving. I was somewhat surprised to find that I've made a couple posts a month most months for the last couple of years. I think of myself as posting here less than that. I do still read fairly frequently, but like I said before there are less topics that interest me here these days.

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There is no easy way to tell you this Orincoro, but Pluto is not actually a planet. It is just another object in the Kuiper Belt.
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Lyrhawn, come visit Sake. They don't seem to be too annoyed by my being there, so you'd probably be welcome. But you should also not leave Hatrack.


PLEASE DON'T SMITE ME ALL MIGHTY BLADE OF THE JANITOR

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quote:
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Lyrhawn, come visit Sake. They don't seem to be too annoyed by my being there, so you'd probably be welcome. But you should also not leave Hatrack.


PLEASE DON'T SMITE ME ALL MIGHTY BLADE OF THE JANITOR

I was just saying to rivka the other day that I might slowly start to post there every now and then. It's a totally different atmosphere in some ways. Takes some getting used to. I do lurk there fairly often.

But what if I get hooked on sake and stop posting here? What if Hatrack really my gateway forum this whole time, and I just move on to the big stuff and leave it behind?

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You must not utter such things here.
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quote:
But what if I get hooked on sake and stop posting here?
Depending on the subject, I just assume everyone here is addicted to sake and it insists that they post more rather than less.
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I'm not addicted to sake. All things considered, sake is a nasty and bitter alcohol which takes too much finagling to work, and which most people are enamored with not really due to its taste or overall palatability, but rather due to the cultural connotations and associations of the drink.

plum wine anyone

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< Sake-free for many years now. [Smile]
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Do you have to go to meetings for that?
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Non-filtered cold sake is sweet and multi toned...I much prefer it to hot filtered.
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quote:
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Do you have to go to meetings for that?

Yes. They're held at Galactic Cactus.
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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by Strider:
Do you have to go to meetings for that?

Yes. They're held at Galactic Cactus.
+1
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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by Strider:
Do you have to go to meetings for that?

Yes. They're held at Galactic Cactus.
Rivka wins.
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quote:
Originally posted by Samprimary:
I'm not addicted to sake. All things considered, sake is a nasty and bitter alcohol which takes too much finagling to work, and which most people are enamored with not really due to its taste or overall palatability, but rather due to the cultural connotations and associations of the drink.

I think that's a compelling argument against all alcoholic drinks.
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan_Frank:
quote:
Originally posted by Samprimary:
I'm not addicted to sake. All things considered, sake is a nasty and bitter alcohol which takes too much finagling to work, and which most people are enamored with not really due to its taste or overall palatability, but rather due to the cultural connotations and associations of the drink.

I think that's a compelling argument against beer.
Fixed that for you.
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I think this thread exists for the sole purpose of keeping everyone entertained while the "ban every person who posted in thread 'X'" script is completed.
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So tempted to edit the above post.
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan_Frank:
quote:
Originally posted by Samprimary:
I'm not addicted to sake. All things considered, sake is a nasty and bitter alcohol which takes too much finagling to work, and which most people are enamored with not really due to its taste or overall palatability, but rather due to the cultural connotations and associations of the drink.

I think that's a compelling argument against all alcoholic drinks.
Naw, there is a very wide scale between the palatable response between people and various forms of alcohol, just the same as there is a scale of palatable response between, say, an apple and sea urchin. Sake is off on the far end; a weird, bitter, vicious half-beer half-liquor-ish thing that has to be managed so delicately in the various stages of its creation to create something which doesn't taste and smell like warm rubbing alcohol. Even cauim is easier to work with.
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No, sorry, I know that you're culturally conditioned to dig it, but ingesting bitter poisons (even bitter poisons who've had lots of extra flavors infused to mask the bitter, poisonous taste) is at a basic level only valued because we culturally exalt the physiological effects of that poison.

All the "appreciation" of subtle combinations of those masking flavors is just a sidebar.

If we had cultural pressure to eat dog crap, and we infused dog crap with lots of new flavors to try and make it more palatable, that wouldn't fundamentally change the fact that we were consuming dog crap.

Disclaimer: There might be a touch of hyperbole in this post. Maybe.

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Well I've decided I'm going to start adding a note to a poster's last post if they have been banned. I will also continue to inform others a poster is banned if asked. That seems to be the best solution for everyone.
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That sounds like a good compromise, JB.

I'm a member of a forum where the posters tags [the descriptor under his/her name] is changed whenever the poster is banned - but the mods never announce or explain bannings. It's easy to find, if you know how to use Google effectively to check the posting history, but it's kind of a pain because people get banned so often there.

As an aside, I too am actually curious as to how often posters are banned around here, for non-spam reasons.

--j_k

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Thanks, JB. Sounds good.
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Dan: That's pretty much true for coffee, too.
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No way coffee is delicious and nutritious and its not toxic at all in fact it's a valuable stimulant one might even call it medicinal how dare you impugn the amazing wondrous power of cof...

Yeah, okay. Maybe you're right.

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