Janszoon

If I could be mod for a day I'd demand foot rubs from everyone.

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Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

fiddler

Sure but I'm using a hot iron

Plankton

I'm voting Jansz this coming election.

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Aux-In

That's why I only drink socially when in certain settings. I don't see how people do it on a continual basis. I get massive headaches from it.

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"All over a bowl of bitter beans."

YorkeDaddy

Could be that some people DON'T get massive headaches from it

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simplephysics

Once you start abusing alcohol on a constant basis hangovers are few and far between. You've really gotta push the envelope to feel like absolute **** the next day.

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Pet_Sounds

I'd just like to clarify this, since Wpnfire brought it up in another thread. I'd shut it down because it doesn't particularly interest me, I rarely read it, and it seems to cause a lot of ****storms. My comment wasn't meant as a serious critique--after all, this is in the "games, lists, jokes, and polls" section.

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Trollheart

Why not just shoot me in the head and have done with it?
You don't seriously expect someone who is almost fifty to remember when they're fifty, do you? Come on: we're just waiting for a grave to become available so we can climb in!
And that goes double for the men!

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The Batlord

I understand why people don't. I've been trying off and on to get the metal section of the site more involved, like it was a few years ago, but have met with almost total failure until my Metal Album Survivor thread -- and it's relative success likely because it requires a minimum of effort to participate in.

Album clubs die as soon as they're posted. Any "War" thread that pits anything more than songs against each other does as well. Writing competitions? Good luck with that. Getting people to participate on this site is like trying to herd cats. It's generally a case of lightning striking, with music discussion being triggered by some arbitrary thread, rather than a planned out thread by someone trying to really get people into discussion (Trollheart's Love/Hate thread being a prime example).

I have mixed feelings about moderation in general. On the one hand, I prefer a more casual approach, as I like there to be a low key environment where mods intervene only when actual problems occur, rather than one where people always have it in the back of their minds that anything they say can potentially land them a warning or infraction. The latter just sounds like a benevolent police state to me.

On the other hand, our current system (which is more like I would prefer in general) does naturally lend itself to favoritism and mod laziness. That last was not really a shot across their bow, I'm just saying that, other than cleaning up spam, they don't really mod much, and I imagine that leads to them not thinking in terms of whether a situation actually needs intervention.

And while I think the favoritism issue is going to crop up on any forum, no matter how thoroughly it is modded, there have definitely been instances where certain members were allowed to get away with murder, even to the point where it led to a toxic environment of them being allowed to set much of the tone for the forum in general. I hate to keep beating a dead horse, but if I had been a mod at the time, Sansa would have been gone a long, long time ago, but there was just an atmosphere where we were just so used to accepting her behavior that the goal posts were moved for what constituted bannable posts on her part.

Again, on the other hand, some people clearly are disruptive by nature, and I think should be given a shorter leash than established members with a history of being a contributing member of the community. An infractable post from the latter should be given more leniency and consideration for context than one from the former, since they probably don't have a history of being excessively disruptive.

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Chula Vista

And whom deems someone "established"?

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”