Sometimes when a head asplodes, it’s for the forces of good.
HalifaxTalk: Open letter to userfriendly.
Yep, we’ve poked and had multiple ThreadSpottings about granny, but she finally hits a home run (without Jason Parker stacking the team with his kid) by telling Bob Meeks userfriendly to shove it up his “statist” ass.
Now, one can’t go running off one of HT’s favorite trolls, can one? Nope, it only takes an hour for both Ms. ras to remind her not to run off the nutcases that are fun to point and laugh at members.
Four minutes later (how did they post just four minutes apart? Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!), Mr. dtalbott YELLS WORDS OF WISDOM IN ALL CAPS JUST TO BE LOUD and says that the right of free speech’s corollary is the right to freely ignore.
millworker buzzes in with his endorsement of He Who Lost To Kim White 26% to 74% in 2003, and now the scoreboard gets very confusing. We’ve got one vote for “Get out!”, one vote for “Not so fast”, one vote for “I think he’s quite rational” and one vote for “Ugh. Not this crap again.” Although we would clearly endorse “Not this crap again” in this election, we hate to not agree with “Get out!”.
Unfortunately, those election results have been declared moot because none of the people mentioned have figured out that Mr. friendly is an internet troll who won’t even open the thread that has his name on it. granny loses and userfriendly wins yet again. The circle of trollery shall continue. Hilarity lives on to ensue another day.
(Thanks to the three readers who sent that thread in as a ThreadSpotting submission!)
UPDATE #1: Nobody will comment or even admit to this ThreadSpotting’s existence, but the referral logs show that lots of people are sending Not-So-Private-Messages about it. 14 click-throughs have came from NSPM’s from that message board.
Possibly the best Thread Spotting EVER!
Wonder Twin Powers: ACTIVATE!
Finally someone points out the nepotism at work over on HT. There are vastly different rules there, and it all depends on who you are. I was shocked that RAS actually called Granny down, though. She usually upholds Granny no matter what, even going so far as to EDIT granny’s posts to make them less offensive.
I can’t believe Granny got called down by Bunny and Darrin. Granny just said what we all have been thinking, but she really said it kind of rough! Then again, she had to call Granny out on it, otherwise, she would not ever be able to ride Tarheel’s butt ever again.
Bunny would never edit behind Granny….would she? Really? I am shocked.
I don’t know what prompted RAS to call Granny down, but it has nothing to do with being fair to Tarheel or anyone else. She and Darrin will continue to hold his toes to the fire over every single issue.
Don’t get me wrong, Tarheel sometimes needs to be called down, but not nearly as often as it actually happens. He must follow a different set of rules than all other posters. Darrin’s recent “make your links smaller or I’ll delete them” is a prime example of this. One of Tarheel’s ‘offending’ links was the exact same like that Tom posted in the same thread. Tom didn’t get bitched at, but Tarheel did.
Can anyone tell me what the rules are? There was a thread ages ago about the moderators working on them, but I don’t remember them ever being posted. I guess it’s easier to make them up as you go.
Talbott obviously thinks I give a crap about his rules on his board. He is free to think whatever he wants, but he is mistaken.
Let’s count the posters that have been driven away in whole or in part by the uneven enforcement of the rules.
You guys go first.