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SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#401: Oct 26th 2010 at 12:40:04 PM

the first part worked fine, presumably because it was three legitimate characters.

I'll type it by hand next time. gotta find something to substitute the I for, though.

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GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#402: Oct 26th 2010 at 12:41:16 PM

Just use a lowercase L or a pipe (the | symbol).

And lowercase E always works for a.

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#403: Oct 26th 2010 at 12:42:20 PM

Quite.

Anyway, I'll get back on later, maybe. I'm curious as to why you want me on.

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GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#404: Oct 26th 2010 at 12:43:49 PM

Oh, no particular reason, just trying to get more forumites on.

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#405: Oct 26th 2010 at 12:44:21 PM

Why?

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GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#406: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:08:16 PM

Well, because I'd like to see the channel be an extension of the fora, rather than just a community for a small clique of forumites.

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#407: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:08:56 PM

Ah.

Can't say I agree with that goal, but interesting to know.

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
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#408: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:11:27 PM

Also, that way we could have more music derails instead of Touhou derails and seiyuu derails and bitching about the fora derails.

I just used "derails" to mean "topic". Gah.

We should call them "digressions".

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GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#409: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:12:18 PM

Spain Sun: Why do you disagree with this goal? What do you think the channel's goal should be?

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#410: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:12:42 PM

^Hell if I know, you have to ask. "Does it really need one?"

That's another thing, I don't like the fact that every time I go on there, someone's bitching about someone else.

Not that that doesn't happen here, I just don't think I really need any more of it.

I also just plain don't like chatrooms with a lot of people in them.

edited 26th Oct '10 1:13:21 PM by SpainSun

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GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#411: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:16:06 PM

Wait, it does happen here?

Well, the chat is nice for what Tzetze mentioned. And also for topics that...are taboo on the fora themselves.

If you don't like what's being discussed in the channel at a given time, just start talking about something else. If people want to talk about it and are around, they'll respond. I've done it many times. Be bold.

Edit: Oh, do you mean that people are bitching about things, or do you mean that they are talking about things you have no interest in?

edited 26th Oct '10 1:16:36 PM by GlennMagusHarvey

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#412: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:18:55 PM

People bitching about people.

On here, it's obviously less direct, due to rules and things like that. But it happens all the time.

Another thing, is that frankly I'm unwilling to accept an entity our moderators/admins have no control over as part of our community. I'm aware that the chatroom has its own mods, etc. but they're not the same people, which causes Forum/Chatroom Drift. I've seen it happen elsewhere, and I can type up the full scenario if you want.

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Penguin4Senate Since: Aug, 2009
#413: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:21:23 PM

Both of those are natural and predictable given the state of moderation on the forums. I'm sorry you feel that way, since it'd certainly be nice to have more forumites on the channel.

DarkLadyCelebrian I'm the world's greatest from Cartwheel galaxy Since: Oct, 2010
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#414: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:21:45 PM

Well if Spain's over there this is the part when I kinda sorta contemplate going back there...

No, I really don't think I want to.

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DarkLadyCelebrian I'm the world's greatest from Cartwheel galaxy Since: Oct, 2010
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#416: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:23:00 PM

'Cause I and my soulbonds'll probably get into another fight.

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Tzetze DUMB from a converted church in Venice, Italy Since: Jan, 2001
DUMB
#417: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:23:13 PM

No, you want #tropers for that, the room that predates the fora.

You should know that it's kind of disingenuous to complain about how somewhere is run when you've been there for all of a few minutes.

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DarkLadyCelebrian I'm the world's greatest from Cartwheel galaxy Since: Oct, 2010
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#418: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:23:53 PM

He used to go there back in the spring too, when it first opened.

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Penguin4Senate Since: Aug, 2009
#419: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:24:05 PM

Into a fight ... with your soulbonds? I didn't think that could happen. Do they not want you on the channel?

GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#420: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:24:41 PM

Well, to some extent, that might be a good thing, since some topics that one isn't allowed to discuss in one place gets an outlet elsewhere, so you actually get less bitchy undercurrents on the fora.

That said, I don't think that Fast Eddie, with his notoriously laissez-faire management style, probably cares much. Not that he can do much about the channel anyway.

I wouldn't mind one or more of the forum mods becoming IRC mods, FWIW. I don't run the channel (I'm not head mod), so I can't decide about that, but none of the forum mods seem terribly interested in moderating IRC either. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

And while there is bitching about other people, there's also lots of miscellaneous chatter about lots of other topics. And as I said, if you don't like the current topic, just start talking about one that you do like. I do it all the time.

EDIT: HOLY SHIT I GOT NINJA'D BY SEVEN POSTS

edited 26th Oct '10 1:25:47 PM by GlennMagusHarvey

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#421: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:24:56 PM

I have no problems (at the moment, anyway) with how the chatroom is run. But I can almost guarantee that it's not run the same way as the forums, whether that's a good or bad thing is debatable.

In any case, I'm not saying I won't be going back, just that I disagree with GMH's stated aspiration for the place.

HOLY SHIT I GOT NINJA'D BY SEVEN POSTS

haha.

edited 26th Oct '10 1:26:09 PM by SpainSun

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DarkLadyCelebrian I'm the world's greatest from Cartwheel galaxy Since: Oct, 2010
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#422: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:24:56 PM

@Penguin: No, we got into a fight with em our first few days there.

edited 26th Oct '10 1:25:12 PM by DarkLadyCelebrian

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GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#423: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:27:14 PM

@ Spain Sun: Well, I'd say that ponicalica, Anemotaxis, and myself are tighter with security and monitoring, on average, than these fora, if it's any consolation.

Though there's one person I'm still undecided whether i should ban or not. Gotten a bunch of complaints about him, but he seems to have mellowed out gradually...

SpainSun Laugh it off, everybody from Somewhere Beyond Here Since: Jan, 2010
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#424: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:27:22 PM

^Who'd that be?

Also, if I do go back, I'll be coming up with another name, Uns isn't really all that great.

I'd also like to know who's who, nobody goes by their forum name. :/

edited 26th Oct '10 1:27:41 PM by SpainSun

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MrAHR Ahr river from ಠ_ಠ Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
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#425: Oct 26th 2010 at 1:28:44 PM

I think we ran into a problem like that a bit back. Most people use their forum names now a days.

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