Caltrops - Rants





	[quote name="K)NY"]<h4>In this important AIM log / draft blog post from March 19, 2007.</h4> [quote] Wednesday 01:16:45 \| <font color=mintcream>Sassy</font>: <a href="http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/14370189/c/72.html">www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/17284679/c/2986.html</a> Wednesday 01:16:48 \| <font color=mintcream>Sassy</font>: i bought these Wednesday 01:16:49 \| <font color=mintcream>Sassy</font>: too Wednesday 01:16:56 \| <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: are they rubber Wednesday 01:17:00 \| <font color=mintcream>Sassy</font>: no they're black kid Wednesday 01:17:20 \| <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: well it's honest work for them Wednesday 01:17:30 \| <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: I'd say it keeps them off the streets but..... [/quote] <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: wtf? <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: wrong window! <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: you are still welcome to laugh though <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: ahh <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: did getting banned from qt3 shake your faith in the troll-banning system? <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I don't know what you're talking about <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: were you not banned from quarter to three? I was given to understand that you were <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I don't even know who you are <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: who is updating you on what's going on with my internet activity <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: hmm this is a fair point. Would this picture of my setup help at all? <a href="http://i13.tinypic.com/4e1geiq.jpg">i13.tinypic.com/4e1geiq.jpg</a> <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: portions have been blacked out, since we haven't known each other very long <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: are you expecting me to click on a link that a stranger in IM provides me? <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: tinypic.com, a Photobucket Video and Photo Sharing company, has volunteered to broker the transaction <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: they used to be just tinypic.com period, a sharing service for small pictures, but were acquired and debased because they made Photobucket et. al. look like dogshit <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: ok, and what's a picture supposed to tell me? <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: you were complaining that you didn't even know who I was; now you know something more than you DID, and we have something in common -- we've both seen my desktop. We could talk about it if you like, or move on to MY question since I've been so patient with yours <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: do you perceive your banning as manifestation of a systemic flaw? Or freaky, anomalous one-off? <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: okay, and your question about some "troll-banning policy I'm not aware of <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: sorry, didn't close the quotes there <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: anyway, I'm not aware of such a policy <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: nor do I consider myself a troll <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I think my banning on qt3 was an easy fix to a difficult situation <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: no one's arguing that. The question is whether repeated application of selfsame easy fix can produce a worthwhile result? Or, if it can't, does that imply the whole system is rotten to the core and destined to fail? <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: well, I liken QT3 to a cage full of excitable monkeys <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: when someone new comes around, they start flinging poo <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: so the easy way to get them to stop is to remove that new stimulus <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: so you just assumed the flinging would eventually stop <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: well, I assumed even monkeys eventually would get tired of flinging poo <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: and you set out to discover how long that would take <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: no <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I set out to have interesting discussions with people who like video games <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: have you told your wife about the banning yet <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: what does my wife have to do with anything? <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: most people say their spouse is their best friend and confidant <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I don't tell my wife every time I die in Lost Planet <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: so it's not a question of trust <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: Not at all <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: but rather a lack of importance. You just see the forum as a game and the other participants as NPCs instead of real people? <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: Sorry, I'm working....so I can't devote my full attention to creating amusing AIM logs for your caltrops friends <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: that's not a problem, just means it could take longer <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: due to your lack of commitment <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: you are so good at completely redirecting the point <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: are you a lawyer by trade? <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: no, I play cards <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I don't see how that applies here [<b><i>Who the fuck do I think I am? Dr. Sbaitso? --ed.</i></b>] <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: so the real question: why do you care about qt3? <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: well, we're discussing games and whether a forum is one <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I think it can be, for those who want to use it as such <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: whereas the qt3 philosophy is that it cannot be a game, that the forum's only value is for friction-free conversation <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I disagree <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I think the qt3 philosophy is all friction all the time <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: and you found that level of friction too high? <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: well, no <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I found that the friction was misdirected <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: at you <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: no, I mean in general <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: people seemed too obsessed with finding the flaw in a post rather than taking it into consideration <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I think the qt3 groupthink puts the priority on grammar then source then intention and then maybe if they get that far, actual content <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: did you feel that your grammar improved during your time at QT3? <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: no <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I feel that focussing your attention to what's wrong with a post or the person who writes it, misses the point of what's written <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: ok, you're saying that many of the replies you got were grammar-based, yet you didn't improve and and now focusing on what's wrong with grammar posts <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: wouldn't you agree you missed the point of those grammar posts? <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: you aren't grasping what I'm saying <font color=lightgreen>Ray</font>: not to say that your grammar is sub-par, but why not let QT3 help you take it to the next level? <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: I never said that many replies I got were grammar based <font color=chocolate>K0NY</font>: That wasn't the case at all. <font color=chocolate>*** K0NY signs off in a huff</font>[/quote]