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[jamesi]

I like RungeKutta's post, so much so that I asked him in chat if I could move it to be directly under the original post in this thread. Then, what we have is a two-post thread that looks like this:

Steve: Be careful about what you say!
Runge: I was wrong! I'm sorry! Here are some new rules we should live by!

[natas]

I have made a couple of silly posts in this thread because that's what I do, but I seriously wonder what the problem is. When I first joined unfiction, I had a "misunderstanding" with one of the mods. I was explained of the etiquette and respect that is showed in the community and quickly adapted my way of thinking because of my interest in the genre.

I have been here almost exactly one year now, and to quote Jamesi. "I think of this as my backyard" also. For the 2 weeks I'm home, I practically live here. So it isn't very hard to apply these same ideals of respect and community to #unfiction chat. If I were to post something that members thought of inappropriate, I would probably just say "sorry" and move on.

I'm not sure exactly what was the topic of discussion that has everyone up in arms, but why not just stop it? Apparently, nobody wants to hear it.

pe@ce

ETA: I do have a life, whoever changed my profile status.

[jamesi]

[mapmaker]

[chixor1]

[danteIL]

Wow boy.. I mean just wow. And I thought that *I* liked to be argumentative.

This thread has been rather fascinating in a train-wrecky kind of way (Soviet Russia, really?). I find it interesting that if you go back and read the very start of this thread, the initial pushback to the first post was by and large not questioning the need to tone down the chat, but rather was more about wanting to know specifics about the supposed "standards" (which turned out to be difficult, because the ops had to pull out the 'know it when i see it' obscenity defense). Somehow, from one's perch on all the high horses around here, this morphed into the 1st amendment and a referendum on Gitmo.

As someone who is only intermittently on #unfiction (and thus there are probably many others in a better position to comment than I), I like to express some thanks for the role played by the ops, who in my experience are almost entirely hands-off but I have always assumed are constantly doing important oppy things. I do appreciate having an occasional reminder about the public-audience and communal nature of arenas like the chatroom. I don't think the request to tone the chat down is arbitrary or punitive or 'tearing apart the fabric of this community.' Indeed, I think that there is a lot of support for wanting to keep #uf relatively PG-13 simply because that seems like a commonsensical policy for an arena in which a diverse (and potentially anonymous) set of people come together. Perhaps the problem was that this (unspoken) policy hasn't been mentioned enough! Although who wants the hall monitor to blare out a warning message every 10 minutes? Exactly!

So, I realize that I didn't have to weigh in here, but it seemed like some support from individuals other than the ops vs. angry mob might be useful.

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[natas]

Do you have any good yo' mama jokes archived in your chat log?

[Vecheeso]

@Jamesi: On October 5th, (page 2 of this thread) this was said

[addlepated]

I didn't get a handshake? What are you, a Communist?

[natas]

@ Vecheeso

You could have shortened your post to say:

"I said it before RungeKutta did... nah nah nah"

[rose]

This is what I miss from being away! The mad discussions and opinions, cookies, hurt feelings , long thought out and well-constructed replies, sidetracking, resolution, continued discussion... oh man, I heart you guys. I just had to post in this thread because it is so awesome to read.