Whew. I hope this doesn't become a regular occurrence.

Everyone can still read my posts, right? I feel a bit paranoid...

Can you hear me now?

Yes. No worries.

Wait. Where's NyQuil? I haven't seen him post all day.

Heh heh, J/K. ;)

So. I still think Xnguela should be a mod. If she wants to stay, that is.

Him? HIM?

Someone hasn't seen my pictures...

I kind of understand her being pissed and all. I would probably be too. I really hope she stays though.

OH SHIT, NyQuil, I'm sorry. I accidentally got you confused with someone else. Please don't be mad dear. *cringes, ready to be beat*

*LOL* Nah, not a problem. Hell, sometimes even when people see some of my pics they think I'm a guy. :-P

The Snape costume sure was convincing! That was you, right?

yeah. i don't know what the hell was up with that earlier today. i'm hoping it was just a glitch.





and this is even funnier to me, since we all know the lovely nyquil is quite female.



edit: yes, i know it's late. my computer was apparently having issues.

Yep, the Snape was me. :D

I can be quite androgynous when I want to.

God, I feel stupid.

I was sitting there, looking at your avatar NyQuil (believe me, you look like a girl... a hot, sexy girl), and still it blew right over my head. It's like when I forget my best friends name randomly after we've been friends for 4 years.

*smacks forehead*

And all I was was an uninspired Vampire. For roughly the third year in a row.

Korova: Aww... hey, the hot sexy comment more than makes up for it, don't worry.

I often get mistaken for being 16-18 a lot and sometimes I hate it!

I wouldn't mind being mistaken for a boy for a day

Danke zehr. You are too kind madame. *bows*

Are you sure?

Your posts were not visible for what, one day? It is not really my role to get involved, but as a mod here, I'd remove all your disgusting piss stuff, if I could. I really don't think that your fly off the handle troll bait interaction tone is really suited to the job of moderation. What year is it? People should know better than to engage trolls bent on disrupting the boards. All you do is make our life harder, because once the troll gets knocked out, there are still fifty posts with YOU quoting them while you are going back and forth with them. No offense, but you are just not winning over my vote, and it's not democratic anyway. Banning is not the solution to everyone you irritate. This new system has a very effective ignore function. I'd suggest learning to use it.

dirtnap, no offence...but.......who the F**K are you???

S/he is not only a moderator, but one of the higher powers on this site.

And I have to agree with him/her on baiting trolls.

Guys, I know you want to defend what you consider to be YOUR site, but engaging trolls instead of ignoring them DOES make our joobs a LOT harder.

And the IGNORE button is something EVERYONE should use.

Only problem is that someone who stumbles onto this site (meaning a potential member/writer) will see posts by trolls and might get a completely different idea of this site than we (who after clicking the ignore button can't see their posts).

Trolls will still pollute this site that way and leave an unmistakable blemish.

But the IGNORE function is still an incredibly usefull tool to members here. USE IT!!!!!



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Yeah; why do you put a period at the very bottom of your post? Just wondering.

Thank you Mael for the clarification on who this DirtNap is...

i do have a few questions for DirtNap.

Where is this site going? i clearly read on a *********** post that A.G. and F.B. had a new editor for this site and h/she had some plans for it. What are those plans? To leave it as it is a simple forum with a few porn banners advertising A.G. and F.B.'s other sites?

i can deal with the ousting of Darren, but the demise of a nice little literary webzine? Nay, the transformation of a literary webzine to a simple forum rife with fucktards (trolls). Yes, i could use the ignore function, i have before, but my main qualm is the direction of this site.

Again, where is it going? A little insight would be grand. Busy busy busy i understand, yet Darren was a few weeks away from unveiling an improved version of Gothic.net...but no, now i sift through threads about little kids cutting themselves for the attention of mommy and daddy, and "oh why is me" teeny bopper fucking journal poetry.

DirtNap, how about an update? Is there some sort of evolution in the works or is this best y'all gonna give us?

-Vince

The ignore button is a VERY good point. A troll can't and won't troll if noone gives them the satisfaction of a response. there are good newbs and bad newbs and it's usually pretty clear early on who belongs in which category. This is a public forum and as such we, members of the public, get to deal with other members of and from the public internet space. Again reiterating that we get the good with the bad.

The only way around this is to make the site NON public and require new members to be sponsered in. Doing so limits the potential this site has for the sharing of words and ideas with new people. I've only been here for a couple of years, and not super active during a lot of that time but I can tell you that there has ALWAYS been disruptive newbs and there will ALWAYS be more that follow so long as the site remains publicly open.

Mael is right on the money. If you read some posts by someone and you do not approve, use the ignore button and potentially report major abuse to your local mods. That's all any of us can do should we choose to participate here.

yurt

I made those, and I thought since we do have porn banners at the top of this site it wouldn't be a problem. Not that I have a problem with the banners...

You know that's another good point. Since the main advertising for this site is entirely "adult" content, wouldn't it be wise - both legally and morally - to make this site an adults only site? You know - something at the front warning kids not to enter. Something bold and blatant with new account registrations. I can see some parent of 13 year old black dress Sally freaking out at the discovery of this site pushing pornography onto their impressionable child who came here to whine about school to other black dress Sally's.

I've thought about this before - many have I'm sure - but I never said anything.

So what gives?