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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
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5:45p - You can please some people all the time, or you can just sit back and watch 'em bitch
Fun with billing at the Straight Dope Message Boards!
Apparently a whole bunch of Charter Members of the SDMB forgot to renew their subscription when it came due, so now they've been charged the regular rate and lost their speshul user titles. Oh noes.
Board admin Ed Zotti posts:
I knew this would happen. We've received numerous heart-rending pleas from ex-charter members claiming they slept through the thunderstorm of subscription renewal announcements, e-mails and FAQs we cranked out over the past month and asking to be reinstated.
Here's the deal, Ed continues: you don't get a refund, but you do get your title back and you'll get the discount next year if you don't forget again. Deal?
Follows the whining:
Hey! How come I have to pay fifteen whole dollars just because I wasn't paying attention?
I specifically made it nearly impossible for you to contact me, so it's your fault none of your reminders reached me. (Debaser appears to have a healthy young sense of entitlement there; if he cultivates it, he'll be a first-class wanker in a couple of years.)
And the smugness:
I paid on time, so why should the rest of you punks get a break?
"What I am having trouble with is that these people that caused all the extra work not only get to be charter member again, but have their discount reinstated next year."
And the "dude, WTF?":
I used to hang out here before it went paid and then forgot all about it until the other day. Is it too late to be a charter member?
So... if I pay you, you'll unban me, right?
current mood: Holier-than-thou (5 comments |comment on this)
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10:03p
Fresh off being wanked for being a hypersensitive bint here, OpalCat issued the following missive (turning off comments, of course) to the citizens of Mock_The_Stupid:
A lot of people have criticized me for the way the community is run, and for daring to express frustration at receiving rude emails, etc. I also get complaints about the way the community is moderated.
The whiners seem to be saying that I should take more responsibility for things, and so I'm going to be making some changes this week.
First off, I will become the sole moderator of the community. This way there will no longer be a question of who accepted or rejected a given post, etc.
Second, the criteria for what gets accepted will be "whatever I think is stupid and funny enough".
Third, as I don't have a lot of time, posts may take a bit longer to get approved or rejected.
Fourth, I'm not going to put up with crap anymore. If you're rude to me, or I don't like the way you're acting, you're banned, plain and simple. Life is too short to try to be diplomatic with assholes.
Fifth, I will delete posts or comments that devolve into what I deem to be unneccessary ugliness or bickering, with or without warning.
Totalitarian? You betcha. But you know what? It's just LJ. You'll live.
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11:00p - Racism & Sports Wank!
I know. You're all incredibly shocked.
The head coach of the University of Oklahoma's baseball team used the "n-word" twice in off-camera interviews with ESPN last week. Of course, there's wank over on the OSU chat boards, but the prime material is on SoonerFans.com. The spooge really starts to fly on page 4 between Herr Scholz and...pretty much everyone else on the forum. Strangely enough, this is despite the fact that they all seem to agree on the major points.
Highlights:
Using a racist epithet =/= burning churches.
Someday, we'll all be fired for using the word "redneck."
But rappers use the n-word all the time! (you saw that one coming, didn't you?)
Bob thinks the phrase "to jew someone down" is common parlance.
"Nobody (especially a liberal white boy who doesn't have a clue about real racism - except for what some birkenstock wearing fag prof at UT told you) has the authority to dictate when it's "appropriate" or not."
"And I'm very happy you're entertaining black folks at lunch. That's mighty white of you."
"I don't entertain 'black folks'. I eat lunch with my friends. This may be a foreign concept to you."
And for sheer WTFery:
"Is it okay for a Native American who plays for the redskins to call their teamate nigger?"
current mood: Spiffy
current music: The Five Blobs - "The Blob" (10 comments |comment on this)
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