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Nov. 18th, 2005 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
witchscauldronNow I'm not sleeping. i can't function on little sleep, at all. I turn into a lemon-fueled President of the Galaxy.
I feel like I'm talking to myself, most of the time. You get used to it, when you're a little insane.
A lot of flaky/crusty Pagan names are like cotton candy - sweet on the tongue, but ultimately short-lived and rotten. Some of them are like glossolalia - some random assortment of words stuck together, that apparently mean something. Some of them are like dyslexia - I KNOW you people can spell, so why are you mispelling the names of the Gods you are taking as your own? And...increasingly...some of them are like Porn Names.
I don't know which ones suck more.
Other random things:
Werelist: What a fucking desert of intellect it's become. I'm sorry, Coyote. More and more half-literate teenagers with weak critical thinking skills are flooding in, and while there doesn't need to be a gauntlet of hostility, I'd like to see more than a "Hi, welcome to the board, you have a cool name!" as a response to people introducing themselves. There's just too much...fluff to wade through, to find anything of substance. The levels of signal to noise are just too low for my comfort.
Saw someone putting together a fucking "furry" supergroup on City of Heroes/City of Villains. For fucks' sake...the game is about being a superhero...not being a humanized goddamn animal. >_< This pisses me off for reasons that are totally irrational. I just want them to leave my game alone, I guess. It was bad enough when I found the "Gorean" supergroup the one day.
FURRY DUCKS NEED TO DIE. I can't say this often enough. If you stick a beak on a human being and call it a anthro duck, you need your head caved in.
Been waiting for a while for some Sculpey - Mom said she'd buy me a brick of the stuff, and did and sent it along. Except it's SuperSculpey, which I don't use. I just use the regular old ghetto non-professional terracotta Sculpey, and it's fine with me. So...yeah. Nice thought, tho.
So there. I have expressed the poison that's been building in my head for a few days. Someone else can have fun with it now.
Have to shamble into the kitchen and wash dishes before![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vespere_tonkan arrives. Later.
I feel like I'm talking to myself, most of the time. You get used to it, when you're a little insane.
A lot of flaky/crusty Pagan names are like cotton candy - sweet on the tongue, but ultimately short-lived and rotten. Some of them are like glossolalia - some random assortment of words stuck together, that apparently mean something. Some of them are like dyslexia - I KNOW you people can spell, so why are you mispelling the names of the Gods you are taking as your own? And...increasingly...some of them are like Porn Names.
I don't know which ones suck more.
Other random things:
Werelist: What a fucking desert of intellect it's become. I'm sorry, Coyote. More and more half-literate teenagers with weak critical thinking skills are flooding in, and while there doesn't need to be a gauntlet of hostility, I'd like to see more than a "Hi, welcome to the board, you have a cool name!" as a response to people introducing themselves. There's just too much...fluff to wade through, to find anything of substance. The levels of signal to noise are just too low for my comfort.
Saw someone putting together a fucking "furry" supergroup on City of Heroes/City of Villains. For fucks' sake...the game is about being a superhero...not being a humanized goddamn animal. >_< This pisses me off for reasons that are totally irrational. I just want them to leave my game alone, I guess. It was bad enough when I found the "Gorean" supergroup the one day.
FURRY DUCKS NEED TO DIE. I can't say this often enough. If you stick a beak on a human being and call it a anthro duck, you need your head caved in.
Been waiting for a while for some Sculpey - Mom said she'd buy me a brick of the stuff, and did and sent it along. Except it's SuperSculpey, which I don't use. I just use the regular old ghetto non-professional terracotta Sculpey, and it's fine with me. So...yeah. Nice thought, tho.
So there. I have expressed the poison that's been building in my head for a few days. Someone else can have fun with it now.
Have to shamble into the kitchen and wash dishes before
vespere_tonkan arrives. Later.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2005-11-18 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-21 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-26 08:42 pm (UTC)I've indeed seen some posts that seemed sort of fluffy (before the site crapped out again), but what I normally do is click off of those conversations if they don't look salvageable, and focus on the conversations where there's some intelligent discussion going on. And there have been quite a few.
The problem is that if people won't participate in discussion, it will die off or degenerate into fluff. Few people seem interested in starting discussions or in responding when someone comes up with something clever.
Some days, I have to admit, I wonder why the hell I'm bothering at all. And then I remember - I'm not doing it for my own benefit, I'm doing it for others.
In any case, a certain level of fluff isn't bad, as long as its not all there is. People need an opportunity to be social, and different people satisfy their social urges in different ways.
In any case, the recent crash of Werelist has given me impetus to get the new version up and running, and I have plans for it. For one thing, the new software has the capability to define user permissions by age, as well as by optional user roles - which means that I'll be adding some areas that are just for grownups and for older people.
And of course, moving to the new software means some house-cleaning. I _could_ port over the old accounts, with effort, but I've decided I'd rather let all the old defunct accounts pass away. Those who are still interested can sign back up.