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12:59am: Mailing List Morons
Soo.. I recently began moderating an Inu Yasha Mailing listwith approximately 500 members, way too many of whom seem to have NO concept of netiquette and how mailing lists work. The latest person I banned I knew from them having started a flame war with an older member a few months ago and for their gems of messages of the like:

"So, eleloi, that IY cel is yours? the REAL one? You think I can uh, have it?"

with about 3 pages of attatched message. One of my pet peeves being One Liners with long attatched messages >.<

Also, no less than *3* messages similar to this:

"Does any1 know when new eps of IY are coming on CN???????? I need to know!"

even after people had repeatedly posted cartoon network's schedule and explained that no-one knew any more than that and most of the members didn't care.

Then they sent two forwards to the ML. I sent them a formal warning and put them on Moderation. I proceeded to repost the rules to the entire ML explaining that fowards and one liners etc were unacceptable and we were going to start banning repeat offenders. So she send ANOTHER forward. That really lame one promising that Bill Gates will send you money if you send it to enough people >.<

So, being quite fed up with this, and having very little tolerance for people who send spam to MLs of 500 people I wrote the following, slightly cranky, ( banning notice )
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and I got the following ( reply )
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along with this pleasant little afterthought:
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Also, excuse me for bothering you again, but did you not say in your "rules" that if you were directing constructive critism or in a debate to be MATURE about it? I don't know if you were giving me constructive critism or trying to place me in some kind of debate but whatever it was, you were not being mature about it. Sorry I had to send such a short message but it's just a little something I had to get off my chest. Not to be rude or offensive in ANY way whatsoever. Again thank you for taking time to read my message.

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I replied (which I shouldn't have wasted my time doing, but I was amused byt their idiocy) and got ( this back )
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They even ( IMed )my fellow moderator who had got in on things when I told her what a pain she girl was being:



And now they're finally sending me these repeated messages:

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Hello! Nice to talk to you again. I was just wondering if there was any way I could be placed back into the ML.

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I'll give em a chance to come up with one more amusing wanky reply and then I blocking them from my email.

2:09pm: Photocontest Wank!
Not really a "fandom" wank, but a community wank...

I found this one sort of wanky. Basically, someone gets ticked off a the way the mod asks her to resize a photo in Photocontest

3:01pm: O Holy Mods of FW? Can you do something (anything!) about the giant Mailing List Wank that's eating the page?

Thanks.

Edit: Thankee most kindly, elffromspace!

6:24pm: Thus proving that wank is not restricted to the twentieth century!
Once upon a time there was this Harry Potter role playing game. And this game was named Walpurgatory and its gimmick was that it took place in the eighteenth century.

Last weekend that game imploded from within.

It all started with a post made last Monday by the mod in which one of the players was detailing anonymously some troubles she'd had with other a few other players as a way of illustrating how happy she was that the mod was changing certain things.

One of those players decided a few days later that she wasn't happy and the next day the mod did lay the smackdown. To which about two-thirds of the members responded to by leaving.

And then... came the fall out.

( Wank! And SHEEP! )

Edited for more wank. And again. God, that was a wanky weekend in HP-land.

7:38pm: Being well-read will not necessarily make your wanks more intelligent
Stephen King is awarded a medal from the National Book Foundation for distinguished contribution. Harold Bloom is not happy. Neil Gaiman posts a link in his blog to Harold Bloom's (petulant) article. Said blog is syndicated to LiveJournal.

Ladies and gentlemen, choose your sides and commence the literary wanking. Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Harold Bloom, Shakespeare and... Socrates?

(Personally, I think my favorite line had to be "I'd read the cereal boxes and can labels and condom box inserts if there was nothing else." Also: "why do my favorite entertainers always have to open their mouths and spoil the pleasant image i have of them?")

8:56pm: The future has not been determined yet... so let's make bukkake out of it!
A little update to this cute little snippet from the ever-popular X fandom. You know, the one with the mysterious, anonymous reviewer?

Ohhhh! The mystery is *killing* meeeeh!

Well, apparently, it's killing ariseishuro, who would like all of the world to know that she knows *exactly* who the culprit reviewer is! But she has to ask permission before revealing their supah-sekrit identity... Oh, pooh. Her other all-wise friend says no, so no Masonic sekrits for teh plebes today. ;_;

But that won't let her be stopped from making vague and obsequeious innuendoes about who it is, oh no!

Anyone else smell the strong headwind of bullshit blowing over here, or is it just my imagination?

PS: Had to show off the new Chick icon. XD Isn't it great?

9:03pm: Ayumi Hamasaki is Ugly!
Small wank, I wouldn't have even posted about it if I hadn't ended up laughing my ass off at one of the replies. Ahem...

Possible Troll: Ayumi Hamasaki is ugly! I mean really ugly! And an average singer at best, but she's ugly! She should consider surgery...
Board Regulars: How dare you! Are you blind? *image* How can you not think that's hot?
Teh Funny: You guys suck. He's entitled to his opinion. How dare you insult him for it? And he's not blind, how could he judge her appearance if he were blind? Your logic is flawed! It's not right to judge a person who's judging someone they don't know from a picture just because they have a different opinion!

Wankwankwank!

Edit: I would go into who Ayumi Hamasaki is, but uhm, the original poster gives the bare basics anyway. So eh...