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[Kybard]

Re: [META] A final word about civility

[The Turtle Hermit]

I don't think giving Dana up is a great idea. I don't know what to do. Maybe we should do nothing and see what happens.

[Spec] Now what if Mel just goes "okay I forget Dana." Gives her her money back, she comes back then BOOM Dana falls into a trap by Mel. I think even if she sez she forgives her that Dana shouldn't leave or give her location.

[Prisoner2401]

Can someone clarify for me: what could we expect to gain from telling Melissa where Dana is?

I haven't seen any indication of any potential gain, thus far.

All that I can think of is that one person would gain her trust. So what? Weephun already has her trust -- and conversely, she has demonstrated that any of her "crew" could lose her trust at any time. Her trust is neither an impossible to obtain commodity, nor, in the long term, a demonstrably valuable one.

More importantly ... it seems to me that we could gain as much or more by revealing the truth to Melissa: namely that Dana is a harmless innocent, and that her SPDR is an impostor.

[johnny5]

[krystyn]

I can still send myself into hysterical giggles by imagining an impotent Melissa opening and closing Aunt Margaret's garage door several times a day, because she can ... and well, um, it's the only thing she can do, except call payphones ...

OK, so she can make the toaster pop, too.

[perrault]

The importance behind possibly giving Dana up to Melissa is that Melissa may become too side-tracked in her attempt to find and dispose of Dana to continue with her/our mission. This is only a possibility, in which case many would simply deal with it, and a few of us would give Dana up to get Melissa back on track.

I can see now that this will have the adverse affect of taking this thread through all of the same steps. Once again, could we focus on an attempt to analyze the blog entry? Or else, lock the thread, it's going nowhere. Fast.

[GabrielBlade]

[SuperJerms]

erm, I'm confused....Isn't discussing whether we should turn Dana in a part of analyzing a blog post that basically says, "Don't turn me in!!! - D."

[perrault]

Not really, since it's a moot point. As we've already seen in the past, the discussion by the whole will mean nothing to the individual that does so. This crew does not make decisions together, and I personally believe nothing will change that. So instead, since there is a threat titled specifically Saving Dana, I would suggest any wishing to discuss that should move to the more appropriately titled thread.

[HitsHerMark]

[daboking]

my apologies, HitsHerMark... I can be a bit slow sometimes. I guess i just like to be hit sometimes with big sticks. Sorry 4 misunderstanding. In fact they had 2 put one of those slow children at play signs in my neighborhood because it would take me 5 minutes to cross the street. I think I am just running on too little sleep and thought I was being funny too, Please forgive.

[Zudini]

[HitsHerMark]

[anaerin]

[SuperJerms]

I am totally on Adam's side here...I don't see how anyone could read his post in the interaction forum and not be impressed. And you all know how I feel about giving Dana up. He clearly wasn't giving Dana up intentionally, and he followed that information by getting into an absolutely inspired shouting match with Melissa about how she has been reprogrammed by the flea.

If the transcript Zudini posted is accurate as to how it went down, it was (and still is), bar none, the absolute best player performance in the ARG so far.

It just happened to occur on the same day that hrmpita freed SP, and I think some of us missed it. His transcript is here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6816&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30

Aw shoot. I'm gonna repost it here anyway. It's just too good!