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03/31/2006 08:51:54 AM · #26 |
I could be wrong, but I think rule #4 came about (at least partially) as a response to the outcry generated by Slippy offering free membership for favorites...
And thanks to Langdon and SC for the new rules!
*edit - spelling
Message edited by author 2006-03-31 08:52:27.
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03/31/2006 09:20:53 AM · #27 |
| Ah..ok....never even thought of that. |
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03/31/2006 09:25:38 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by coolhar:
Thanks Langdon. |
SC deserve 99% of the thanks, as they were the driving force behind it. |
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03/31/2006 09:35:45 AM · #29 |
booo! no rules! anarchy is better
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03/31/2006 09:35:55 AM · #30 |
I understand if you put a few SC members in a car for about 60 straight hours - they will come up with some true wisdom! :D
Great set of guidelines, guys! I'm totally impressed.
I want this one added as the last rule: Don't Be A Dick
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03/31/2006 12:04:07 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by rex:
Are new members going to be directed to this before they can start? Or will we just be bumping these continuiously?
Kinda like constantly directing people to the tutorial section. |
Perhaps when new members introduce themselves in the forums, instead of showing them a cartoon that says you lick your own butt, you could point them towards the important information. :P |
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03/31/2006 12:09:50 PM · #32 |
I never got to see that cartoon! :-)
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03/31/2006 12:22:32 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by s4nd3r99:
booo! no rules! anarchy is better |
Anarchy doesn't mean no rules, it means no rulers; and that the rules are agreed-to by the people governed by them. |
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03/31/2006 12:26:07 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by mk:
Originally posted by rex:
Are new members going to be directed to this before they can start? Or will we just be bumping these continuiously?
Kinda like constantly directing people to the tutorial section. |
Perhaps when new members introduce themselves in the forums, instead of showing them a cartoon that says you lick your own butt, you could point them towards the important information. :P |
ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!
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03/31/2006 12:32:48 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by colyla:
Originally posted by mk:
Perhaps when new members introduce themselves in the forums, instead of showing them a cartoon that says you lick your own butt, you could point them towards the important information. :P |
ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!! |
I can only hope that L isn't for "Licking." :-/
By jove, this may run afoul of the forum rules in the forum rules thread! I may have to hide my own post.
Message edited by author 2006-03-31 12:34:03. |
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03/31/2006 12:44:37 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by colyla:
Originally posted by mk:
Perhaps when new members introduce themselves in the forums, instead of showing them a cartoon that says you lick your own butt, you could point them towards the important information. :P |
ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!! |
I can only hope that L isn't for "Licking." :-/
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OMG! I didn't even have THAT thought. You are one sick, sick man... LOL :-P
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03/31/2006 12:52:39 PM · #37 |
Great work on the forum conduct rules.
Plenty of room to play, not much wiggle room on misconduct.
Keep up the good work, Admins and SC. |
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03/31/2006 01:05:25 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by s4nd3r99:
booo! no rules! anarchy is better |
Anarchy doesn't mean no rules, it means no rulers; and that the rules are agreed-to by the people governed by them. |
While this is strictly true (the roots of the political movement "anarchism" lie in the idea of eliminating authoritarian rule and replacing it with individual self-reliance) it's no longer the commonly-accepted definition of anarchy; the word is now taken by most to denote lack of rules, disorder, confusion, etc.
Robt.
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03/31/2006 01:20:48 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by s4nd3r99:
booo! no rules! anarchy is better |
Anarchy doesn't mean no rules, it means no rulers; and that the rules are agreed-to by the people governed by them. |
While this is strictly true (the roots of the political movement "anarchism" lie in the idea of eliminating authoritarian rule and replacing it with individual self-reliance) it's no longer the commonly-accepted definition of anarchy; the word is now taken by most to denote lack of rules, disorder, confusion, etc.
Robt. |
I know, but I see no reason to perpetuate people's miseducation, especially about so important a subject. The USA is being ruined by the misappropriation and misuse of language, just as George Orwell predicted, and I refuse to contribute to the country's intellectual evisceration.
The word they are looking for is "chaos" or "law of the jungle." Put your money on Haliburton.
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03/31/2006 01:28:03 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
...I know, but I see no reason to perpetuate people's miseducation, especially about so important a subject. The USA is being ruined by the misappropriation and misuse of language, just as George Orwell predicted, and I refuse to contribute to the country's intellectual evisceration... |
You know, they'll get you in the end, don't you? ;-/ |
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03/31/2006 01:38:25 PM · #41 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
I know, but I see no reason to perpetuate people's miseducation, especially about so important a subject. The USA is being ruined by the misappropriation and misuse of language, just as George Orwell predicted, and I refuse to contribute to the country's intellectual evisceration.
The word they are looking for is "chaos" or "law of the jungle." Put your money on Haliburton.
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That's language for ya, my friend. I too have been known to rant against this (ask me about the word "moot", to name just one example) but regardless of the likes of us language just evolves away completely beyond our control...
Robt.
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03/31/2006 01:41:05 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
(ask me about the word "moot", to name just one example)
Robt. |
What about the word "moot"? A cow with a speech impediment?
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03/31/2006 01:45:23 PM · #43 |
| Unrelated, but there's a pass in British Columbia called "Anarchist Pass". I have been trying to find out why, but haven't been able to. |
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03/31/2006 01:53:12 PM · #44 |
I feel singled out by rule #4.
"Do not offer anything of value in exchange for manipulation of site statistics. This includes anything based on voting, comments, or favorites. This does not include exchange of comments where no other exchange of value is involved. Exceptions to this policy, such as for contests, must be approved by Site Council in advance."
Oh well, I've made my mark. ;-)
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03/31/2006 01:53:32 PM · #45 |
Originally posted by ShutterPug:
Originally posted by Gurilla:
Originally posted by m:
Originally posted by faidoi:
There is no rule 6.
Nice :) |
Someone should write a photographers' song. |
Mmmm you don't know how lucky you are to get away with that! But it was seen before you could edit it! |
YUP - I saw it too! |
Yeah ... no offense was meant obviously, but I did reconsider how some might interpret it. Yet more evidence I shouldn't post instictively that early in the morning.
Message edited by author 2006-03-31 13:55:39. |
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03/31/2006 01:57:28 PM · #46 |
Originally posted by ursula:
Unrelated, but there's a pass in British Columbia called "Anarchist Pass". I have been trying to find out why, but haven't been able to. |
Isn't it named Anarchist Pass because of Anarchist Mountain?
"R.G. Sidley, the namesake of Sidley Mountain (and the dot on the map called Sidley), came from Ontario, his brother a professor of English at McGill, and took up a homestead in 1885 at the forks of Nine Mile Creek, almost on the 49th parallel. He gave Anarchist Mountain its name and established its first post office."
Vanishing BC is where the above was taken...about 3/4 down the page.
Message edited by author 2006-03-31 14:05:53. |
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03/31/2006 01:58:30 PM · #47 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
I feel singled out by rule #4.
"Do not offer anything of value in exchange for manipulation of site statistics. This includes anything based on voting, comments, or favorites. This does not include exchange of comments where no other exchange of value is involved. Exceptions to this policy, such as for contests, must be approved by Site Council in advance."
Oh well, I've made my mark. ;-) |
Remember Rule #13, Slippy, "Assume good faith."
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03/31/2006 02:01:02 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
(ask me about the word "moot", to name just one example)
Robt. |
What about the word "moot"? A cow with a speech impediment? |
"Moot point" current usage: "not worth arguing about, it's over and done with now, move on, nothing to see here..."
"Moot point" origin: After the Magna Carta was signed, removing the king's absolute power over his subjects in Britain and replacing it with the original English Common Law, there was a system of traveling "moot courts" established to adjudicate particularly thorny issues that could not be resolved at the local level. If a dispute was sufficiently thorny, it was held over until the moot court passed through, and the court ruled on it. Sort of the original Supreme Court, to use an American parallel.
So, a "moot point" is actually something WORTH debating, something that NEEDS resolution at a complex level.
Very generalized statements above btw. I bet the Beagle could do a better job, and probably show me I'm not really "correct" here...
This has been an anarchic threadjacking. We return you to your original thread now.
Robt.
Message edited by author 2006-03-31 14:02:04.
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03/31/2006 02:01:36 PM · #49 |
Originally posted by ursula:
Unrelated, but there's a pass in British Columbia called "Anarchist Pass". I have been trying to find out why, but haven't been able to. |
Sidley, a rancher who settled here in the 1800s was made Justice of the Peace and Post Master. The mountain was likely named after Sidley's political philosophy which got him dismissed from his jobs sometime around the turn of the century. |
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03/31/2006 02:01:44 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
I feel singled out by rule #4.
"Do not offer anything of value in exchange for manipulation of site statistics. This includes anything based on voting, comments, or favorites. This does not include exchange of comments where no other exchange of value is involved. Exceptions to this policy, such as for contests, must be approved by Site Council in advance."
Oh well, I've made my mark. ;-) |
So now I have to get any "Golden Slippy" contests approved beforehand? I move that I can have a standing pre-approval for all Golden Slippy contests. :-)
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