I have received permission from Lord Anubis to reveal the fact that he is absolutely **NOT** a sock puppet of Paul Osborne.
How do you know this shades? I would think most people on the board would agree with me. Paul always seems to post after Lord Anubis. Oh well I was just having some fun :)
Because I was contacted by the REAL puppet-master and was asked to pass the information along to you via this thread. The one who contacted me was NOT Paul Osborne.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Bump. I, too, am interested in what Shades' final decision is.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Or perhaps he is a good manager, and does not feel the need to react to every_single_hyperventilation by the users? This too shall pass, friends (except Ms. Jersey Girl).
Very Respectfully,
Doctor CamNC4Me
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Ray A wrote:Shades is usually very quick to come up with solutions. On this occasion it appears not.
That's because I was trying to be democratic. Y'all hadn't finished batting ideas around yet.
I think my original thought was the best one, with two caveats:
Things that happen (or don't happen) on other message boards will have no bearing whatsoever on what happens on this one. Who can monitor the entire Internet (other than the MA&D moderators)? Regardless of where else a person posts his/her name and/or picture(s), this board is to be considered hermetically sealed from the outside if the target of the information wishes it to be so. Failure to post X about oneself on this board will be indicative of the target not wishing that X be posted on this board.
No retroactive or ex post facto punishments. Everyone has a clean slate as of this post being, uh, posted.
That said, I'll have to figure out the most aesthetically pleasing way to integrate the following with the other rules. As a reminder, the new policy is this, copied-and-pasted from my earlier post in this thread:
Posting personal information is the same as posting behind-the-scenes information: In both cases, the target intends for the information to remain confidential. Ergo, the penalties for both will be the same.
(I envision MormonDiscussions to be multi-dimensional: One plane consisting of the board itself, and an alternate plane consisting of the chat and PM features. If posters have a guarantee that material from the shadow realm will never be posted to the sun realm, then A) the free exchange of ideas and information will be just as vibrant in the shadow realm as it is here in the sun realm, and B) the sun realm will no longer be bogged down with hostile discussions of the goings-on in the shadow realm. Win-win.)
The first time personal or behind-the-scenes information is posted without permission, the poster will be given a one-week suspension. This way, the thread can wind down on its own (because closing the thread would otherwise punish everyone, not just the miscreant). If the punishee fails to learn his/her lesson and targets the same individual again or otherwise demonstrates that he/she has not learned his/her lesson, then a longer ban. . . X months. . . will be implemented, as appropriate.
A blatant threat to post such information or a vivid description of such information, such that readers can get the "gist" of what the information contains, may be considered the same as an actual posting of the same, depending on the blatant-ness of it, as I subjectively determine in my heart of hearts. At the very least, a threat will receive a friendly reminder of the consequence of following through with said threat.
In any case, from this point forward, no one need fear that personal or behind-the-scenes information will ever remain posted to the board (against his/her will). A PM to me or another moderator will result in its swift deletion in any case, regardless of what else we decide.
Personal information: Information about a poster that he/she has not revealed on this message board, regardless of whether he/she has revealed the same information elsewhere. Behind-the-scenes information: Information received, exchanged, or learned via the chat or private message features.
I hope this puts everyone's fears to rest and allows us all to freely operate in both the sun realm and the shadow realm once again.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"