With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby barracuda » Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:29 pm

Jerky wrote:Jesus Christ. This post...

It really does seem like a case of five against all, here.

Something stinks, and it ain't last week's lobster.


Whaddidja expect from me, quiet sobbing and a flowered wreath? I wish she hadn't been banned, but I wish more she hadn't forced their hand.

Jerky wrote:Why not a month of having her posts be approved before they appear?


I hereby volunteer to approve/disapprove her postings for postworthiness.
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Jerky » Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:31 pm



The first four minutes of this video are very instructive.
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Jerky » Sat Jul 20, 2013 5:32 pm

Sir, you are a mensch!

barracuda » 20 Jul 2013 21:29 wrote:
Jerky wrote:Jesus Christ. This post...

It really does seem like a case of five against all, here.

Something stinks, and it ain't last week's lobster.


Whaddidja expect from me, quiet sobbing and a flowered wreath? I wish she hadn't been banned, but I wish more she hadn't forced their hand.

Jerky wrote:Why not a month of having her posts be approved before they appear?


I hereby volunteer to approve/disapprove her postings for postworthiness.
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Laodicean » Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:25 pm



Ban hammers destroy websites. I've seen it.

She was nice to me and I her. Simple.
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Searcher08 » Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:47 pm

I would like to respectfully ask for Jeff and The Mods to reconsider their decision for permanently banning Canadian_Watcher to something which takes account of the needs, feelings, ideas etc of the R.I. community as shown in this thread, information not available when the original decision was taken.
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:58 pm

Definitely - I was about to propose a poll thread. I was serious about the "not a Junta" part. Would you be willing to start that? Seems appropriate, you're usually a great source of actual moderation and communication.
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Laodicean » Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:27 pm

Oh, a good source of light would be this:

barracuda » Sat Jul 20, 2013 11:21 pm wrote:
stevie ray » Sat Jul 20, 2013 1:29 pm wrote:I thought this was the thread for saying a respectful goodbye. the other thread is where you get to trash her in spite of her not being able to defend herself.


Bah. I never shied from confronting her bolognatiousness when she was posting - why would I change that now? Because she can't return fire?

And no, toasts aren't required to be respectful. I usually find the best ones to be bawdy, insulting, or deliciously inappropriate.


Spoken like a real asshole and yet the very catalyst for her come back, if she wants to that is. Fish on!
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby barracuda » Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:30 pm

She will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.
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Postby wintler2 » Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:39 pm

Poll:
a. What a ridiculous soap opera.
b. Children & others unable to moderate themselves respond better to firm boundaries than to vaccilation.
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Searcher08 » Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:40 pm

Wombaticus Rex » Sat Jul 20, 2013 10:58 pm wrote:Definitely - I was about to propose a poll thread. I was serious about the "not a Junta" part. Would you be willing to start that? Seems appropriate, you're usually a great source of actual moderation and communication.


Thank you - I think it would be a great demonstration of R.I. responsiveness.

It would be nice to have something kind, something straight arrow, something nutty on the poll...
... do need an option for the hilarity of a "blow it out your ass, I aint coming back" swishy flounce? :coolshades
I'll put up something later on Sunday, if that is ok?
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Postby Laodicean » Sat Jul 20, 2013 7:43 pm

wintler2 » Sun Jul 21, 2013 1:39 am wrote:Poll:
a. What a ridiculous soap opera.
b. Children & others unable to moderate themselves respond better to firm boundaries than to vaccilation.


Goddamn it man, we're talking about the entire human race here. Take responsibility for Christ's sake.
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Laodicean » Sat Jul 20, 2013 8:09 pm

youtube video


And cause it's a Wombaticus thread...
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Plutonia » Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:29 pm

Meta-context courtesy of Rene Girard:

In-group tensions are instinctively (wrong word but can't think of one better atm) resolved through the sacrifice of an in-groupee - in this case it seems, the banishment of an apparent (the appearance matters more than the reality) transgressor.

But that only works if the in-group collectively agrees to the guilt of the transgressor: if the sacrificial victim is seen to be guilty, that translates into social stability (death-row inmates); conversely, if the sacrificial victim is seen to be innocent, that translates into social unrest (Trayvon Martin); if the in-group cannot collectively agree to one or the other, internal tensions escalate.

Alternatively, in-group cohesion can be achieved by the collective projection onto an out-group, the more apparently threatening, the better - say that Booz Hamilton's CEO threatened to sue Jeff for millions of dollars, things would straighten out here pretty damn quick.

In any case, the very real problem of in-group tension is that it tends towards escalating _contagious!_ violence. And that sacrificial victims are pretty much guaranteed.

Girard thread here:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15737&p=444996&hilit=rene+girard#p444996
[the British] government always kept a kind of standing army of news writers who without any regard to truth, or to what should be like truth, invented & put into the papers whatever might serve the minister

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Re: Re:

Postby wintler2 » Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:34 pm

Laodicean » Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:43 pm wrote:
wintler2 » Sun Jul 21, 2013 1:39 am wrote:Poll:
a. What a ridiculous soap opera.
b. Children & others unable to moderate themselves respond better to firm boundaries than to vaccilation.


Goddamn it man, we're talking about the entire human race here. Take responsibility for Christ's sake.


Oh, i didn't realise this is an absurdist humour thread, cool! I hereby take responsibility for the entire human race: punishments begin at dawn.


Plutonia wrote:..In any case, the very real problem of in-group tension is that it tends towards escalating _contagious!_ violence. And that sacrificial victims are pretty much guaranteed.
..

If however the group and its 'violence' is virtual/imaginary, important lessons about the triviality of virtual relations may be learnt.
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Re: With regret, Canadian Watcher has been banned.

Postby Jerky » Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:37 pm

Regardless of my strong words and sentiments here, I would like to thank the moderators for their service, which 99% of the time is exemplary.

Nobody, not even the best and brightest among us, can get it right 100 percent of the time.

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