A humble request from your much-beleaguered moderator

Post by **_barrelomonkeys** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:04 pm

Bond...James Bond wrote:
Yeah, Yeah, yeah ;P

Seriously I can handle the language, it's the excessive quoting that's a pain for the moderators (a.k.a. me).

What's the problem with excessive quoting?

Post by **_barrelomonkeys** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:06 pm

skippy the dead wrote:We couldn't say butt either. Or fart. Now my mother is shocked to hear my 22 month old say both. Proudly. (My 5 year old uses them, too, but I guess that's not as shocking). At least I didn't teach 'em "ass", which is my preferred word for that area. We drew the line there as a concession to polite society.

I'm so ashamed to admit this. My two year old says "Oh my gawd" all the time. I need him to stop before his LDS brother comes here to visit and tattles on us for being heathens.

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:08 pm

barrelomonkeys wrote:What's the problem with excessive quoting?

Slows down the system and generally eats up memory and bandwidth (I think so anyway, maybe Shades just has a phobia of quotes). Plus when Shades gave me the manual for moderating it said something like:

1) Patrol the Celestial Kingdom for bad language
2) Patrol the Terestial Kingdom for F and S
3) Delete unnecessary quoting
4) Repeat #3
5) Repeat #3
6) Repeat #3
7) Repeat #3
and so on and so forth

Post by **_Some Schmo** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:09 pm

Son of a bitch! What a pain in the ass! Shades, quit being a dickhole. Bloody hell, what in Christ's name are we allowed to say, then?

(J/K... sorry, I'm guilty of the S word here too. I'll try to make your job easier as well going forward).

Anyway, goddammit!

Post by **_Mercury** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:52 pm

Jersey Girl wrote:Your remark has nothing whatsoever to do with the comment I made. Is there any possiblity in the future of your replying to a humorous post without overly defensive remarks? If not, please let me know so I don't hold my breath waiting.

Jersey Girl

Jersey, ask shades if he needs any more moderators. You know you want to.

Post by **_msnobody** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:43 am

Would it use less bandwidth if we rather than used the quote feature, copied, pasted, and italicized the text we want to quote in our post?

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:44 am

Mercury wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:Your remark has nothing whatsoever to do with the comment I made. Is there any possiblity in the future of your replying to a humorous post without overly defensive remarks? If not, please let me know so I don't hold my breath waiting.

Jersey Girl

Jersey, ask shades if he needs any more moderators. You know you want to.

I asked a simple freakin' question. Do you know the simple freakin' answer to it?

Post by **_Jersey Girl** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:50 am

Bond...James Bond wrote:
SatanWasSetUp wrote:Isn't "crap" a variant of the "S" word, and therefore banned from this board? Shame on you, Bond.

Yeah, Yeah, yeah ;P

Seriously I can handle the language, it's the excessive quoting that's a pain for the moderators (a.k.a. me).

Some of us (no names) build up the quotes in our posts to document the discussion as it develops. Why isn't that acceptable?

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:07 am

msnobody wrote:Would it use less bandwidth if we rather than used the quote feature, copied, pasted, and italicized the text we want to quote in our post?

No---I like the quote boxes (much better than coloring or italicizing or whatever). We just want to avoid those quote boxes that have tons of quotes. As an example take the below where we have a conversation back and forth:

Bond says msnobody rules
msnobody says Bond rules
Bond says msnobody rules
msnobody says Bond rules
Bond says msnobody rules
msnobody says Bond rules
Bond says msnobody rules

Quite irritating to see that many boxes just so you can respond to the last thing I said right? Rather than having all that build up...ad nauseum....Shades simply wants people to delete the majority of that stuff and respond to the last thing. Now this doesn't have to be done all the time.....but to be safe if there are more than 3 boxes it's probably time to delete some stuff.

I totally prefer quote boxes to:

Msnobody: Bond rules

Bond replies: no msnobody rules

Msnobody recently thinks: Bond rules

I much prefer deleting everything so that the most recent (one or two comments) exist and people write their response under that box. If anyone needs a tutorial in deleting quotes I can probably do one up.

Post by **_Mercury** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 1:15 am

Jersey Girl wrote:
Mercury wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:Your remark has nothing whatsoever to do with the comment I made. Is there any possiblity in the future of your replying to a humorous post without overly defensive remarks? If not, please let me know so I don't hold my breath waiting.

Jersey Girl

Jersey, ask shades if he needs any more moderators. You know you want to.

I asked a simple freakin' question. Do you know the simple freakin' answer to it?

Your assuming that I give a damn about your question.

Or your opinion for that matter.