I have mixed feelings on the OP.
1. No, this isn't a personal blog site but Apple Talk isn't an inappropriate place for personal shit. We're all fucked up in some way and for many of us, this really has become sort of like a church congregation. I've been thoroughly absorbed in my own bullshit but I do give a shit about many of you weirdos on a human compassion level. I don't mind hearing about people's baggage aslong as it's not histrionic or incessantly whiny. I know y'all have been, at times, a factor in my fight to keep myself out of some pretty dark places and much of that is due to the fact that you guys "get it." It's impossible to feel alone at the edge of madness when you're in a community that has borne witness to many of its members doing shit like eat a fistful of peyote and run stark-screaming-naked through the american desert because the frontal-lobe cleaning-lady went on an extended vaycay to Tahiti.
2. Agreed...in part. I know I'm sort of a drifter but I'm enjoying you guys. I don't get butthurt about my shit getting ignored because I know I'm sort of a pick-and-choosy participator. I kinda like being this board's flaky, batshit little sister: I pop in from San Diego to drop off souvinirs, tell some stories, d a few loads of laundry, sometimes borrow money and then run off with some rock band to Chicago for a few months. I think we should all have the liberty to pick our levels of participation and roles.
3. Disagree. I don't mind mittens or emotes. Let's face it: we're all used-up interweb whores who are basically jaded. Emotes were cute, then lametarded, now they've come full circle to useful simply because they're shorthand to express what we've all said with every possible combination of words already. I'm happy and grateful to get mittens or a smile. You are not required to say something cever every minute of the fucking day.
4. Agreed. Completely. Shitstorms are awesome. By all means, please do start them. Also, butthurt should be kept to a minimum by now unless yr a noob. We're all a bunch of jackasses and psychos.
5. No comment. I don't feel like I have the right since I'm more of a lone wolf joiner than a leader here. I have my own brand of whimsy. I sometimes play along and then flounce. I consider you gays to be forces of nature. I enjoy you all muchly. Thank you for letting me play.
6. I love you, Roger. I think you're usually pretty reasonable and fair. You'll post an acutely biting shitstorm like this, poking fingers at everyone and later, poke at yourself for your own poking. I dig it.
7. Agreed. I also feel like people should make continual efforts at logic-based revisionist attitudes--this includes towards each other. Try again to understand and re-evaluate what the other guy's saying before running your biased mouth.
8. Agreed. We need new blood. 50 post head start was swell...maybe expand that to 100? Maybe give the status an ominous countdown message just to shake em up and keep it fair? Like Wog Day during the Shellbacking initiation, for instance (Navy trad. Google it): the Polywogs get to fuck with the elders for a while before hell is unleashed upon their assholes.
9. No opinion.
10. I like conservative banning practices. We're the fucking Order of Chaos, not a fucking AA Yahoo group. To your credit, I've never seen you ban unnecessarily. Threats of violence, getting ruthlessly or unethically AND relentlessly personal/brutal, posting anything that could result in IRL consequences (eg: child pron) and a healthy dose of case-by-case common sense is the capital thing. I personally detest cruelty and schadenfreude.
