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We're sick of trolls. And, 2) The forums are broken.

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Shog9 wrote:

) We're sick of trolls. And, 2) The forums are broken.

At the time of this post, the top two Lounge items "advertised" at the top right on the home page are: "(2) Message Removed" and "(5) Message Removed / Deleted?". Oh, those annoying side-effects...

dighn

It appears to be some kind of automatic censorship based on the number of Spam votes I think it's ridiculous. At least some of the posts don't deserve that. But looks like we have a mob of people voting down anything they don't like.

Not Active

I hope they're saved somewhere so we can get a "best of" DVD published. :-D

only two letters away from being an asset

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dighn wrote:

looks like we have a mob of people voting down anything they don't like.

Here?

Jorgen Sigvardsson

Could you please rephrase that in something other than plain english? Ebonics would do...

PJ Arends

dighn wrote:

I think it's ridiculous.

I agree. It seems to be that all it takes now is a couple of users with a hate-on against another user to prevent the user from posting anything at all. Take the Negus's post here, it has only two votes and is already deleted. If it is only a certain group of users (ie protector status) that are deleting posts then fine, but if it is just any general user then I think the system is broken.

You may be right
I may be crazy
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Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!

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Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

Could you please rephrase that in something other than plain english? Ebonics would do...

Sorry, I'm not up on my Ebonics. But if you go here[^] you can translate the CodeProject home page to "Redneck" or "Cockney" or a variety of other dialects.

Christopher Duncan

Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

Ebonics would do...

Interesting. I thought only Americans used that particular racial insult. You shouldn't let people drag you down to their level, Joergen. You have more character than that. Your training is pointing you to higher ground. You should build a cabin there. The view is much better. ;) [edit] Or, as I once heard it put, never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it. It was pointed out to me, quite correctly as I see it, that likening someone to a pig isn't exactly taking the higher ground, either. So, I'll publicly strike that remark and offer an apology for it, as is appropriate. [/edit] -- modified at 18:28 Friday 5th January, 2007

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PJ Arends wrote:

Take the Negus's post here, it has only two votes and is already deleted.

What's more, the post was a single-word joke. No spam, and nothing inappropriate. All I said was, "Here?".

PJ Arends

Jörgen would want to translate the message to "Swedish Chef". Et zee teeme-a ooff thees pust, zee tup tvu Luoonge-a items "edferteesed" et zee tup reeght oon zee hume-a pege-a ere-a: "(2) Messege-a Remufed" und "(5) Messege-a Remufed / Deleted?". Ooh, thuse-a unnuyeeng seede-a-iffffects. Um gesh dee bork, bork!..

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I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --

Within you lies the power for good, use it!!!

Christopher Duncan

Jar Jar, is that you? :-D

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PJ Arends

I did not see your message, but if that is what it was then the system definitely needs changing.

You may be right
I may be crazy
-- Billy Joel --

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Christopher Duncan wrote:

I thought only Americans used that particular racial insult

Actually, the word "ebonics" is a common and acceptable term. I quote from the usage note under "Black English" at dictionary.com: "Linguists generally prefer the term African American Vernacular English, although some use the term Ebonics, which saw widespread use in the late 1990s."

Christopher Duncan wrote:

You shouldn't let people drag you down to their level, Joergen. You have more character than that. Or, as I once heard it put, never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig likes it.

At what level is one functioning when he likens another to a "pig"?

Mike_V

And what's with the odd spelling of In(n)appropriate? Is it an Aussie thing? I wouldn't be surprised - it wasn't until last week that I learned that maths is the short form of mathematics in other, more civilized parts of the world. Mike

Christopher Duncan

The Grand Negus wrote:

At what level is one functioning when he likens another to a "pig"?

You make an excellent point. Although I was thinking in terms of the general childishness that seems to have taken over here lately, I was also referring to you since I've seen you go out of your way to pick a fight on a number of occasions. With that in mind, you're absolutely right in pointing it out and I offer a sincere apology.

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PJ Arends wrote:

I did not see your message, but if that is what it was then the system definitely needs changing.

Yeah, I just checked (if you try to modify a deleted message the system presents you with the original text in the edit box but won't let you re-post it). So all those automatically deleted messages are still in the database, apparently. Anyway, that's exactly what I said. I quoted the part of the above message about the "mob" and replied, "Here?".

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Christopher Duncan wrote:

With that in mind, you're absolutely right in pointing that out, and I offer a sincere apology.

Accepted. Don't worry about it. But thanks.

Jorgen Sigvardsson

I wasn't aware I was making a racial insult. :~ I was trying to make a joke at Negus's expense, although I did not intend to make it racially loaded in any way. It was the only unintelligible english "dialect"1 I could think of at the moment. :-O 1 Unintelligible to this foreigner in any case. :)

Jorgen Sigvardsson

I read you loud and clear! :-D