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Friday, October 7th, 2005
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12:18a - Metafilter meltdown take 2
Alex Renyolds is a drama queen.... still.
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5:42p
oh_oh_sheila posts a very short entry to the guinea_pigs community:
"Do you think guinea pigs get high if they're around pot smoke? I think so. Mine is a lot more chill after someone smokes in the room. She's usually hyperactive and whistles a lot."
All. Hell. Breaks loose.
Lots of "OMG UR SO CRUEL" and "We should sic PETA on you!" and the like, plus a long debate that leeches over onto stupidpetowners on the topic of whether it's okay to 'accidentally' get your pets stoned.
The stupidpetowners post is friends locked, the guinea_pigs one wasn't, then was, and last I checked was unlocked again.
ETA: The mod has brought out the Stick of Deletion.
In case said mod also deletes their own post, here's what we have:
"Mod note:
I deleted the weed post because I consider it trolling. It was deliberately inflammatory as the poster did not seem at all interested in the advice she was getting for the health of her pig. It also was somewhat inappropriate for community, given that the community is open to members of all ages. No, I'm not the DEA or Nancy Reagan, but there is absolutely no need for that in this community. In case anyone has a GENUINE question about this, let me just state for the record that it is most likely a bad idea to smoke up (or smoke anything) around your pig. I really don't care if you all agree or disagree with that, but that's is all that is going to be said on the subject in this community because I don't want people discussing drugs in this community. As far as this community is concerned, do whatever you want with your body, but don't impose it on your pet, child, or anyone else who has no power to protect themselves.
I really hope this conversation is finished because frankly it's absolutely ridiculous. While the original poster bears the brunt of the responsibility for this, the 173 comments, many of which were no more coherent than name-caling were ridiculous as well. Let's not dignify trolling by stooping to the level of trolls."
oh_oh_sheila finds herself banned from the guinea_pigs community, and laughs about it in her own journal.
current mood: *sporfle!* (96 comments |comment on this)
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11:46p
I've heard that the video game translation scene is full of prima donnas, and here's the proof.
So recently The Whirlpool, which was once a happy place full of quality video game translations, suddenly went bye bye. As it turns out, the decision to suddenly just kill the whole site is most likely the result of a post made on the Whirlpool's message board here, where Nightcrawler comments on a new site he's creating with community news posting, so that "News won't rely on a few select people anymore."
Mildly wanky, yes. It gets REALLY wanky, however, here: http://transcorp.parodius.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=rhack1;action=display;num=1128492767
Nightcrawler comments, as he explains himself: "Why they never just made ME a staffer and told me to do something about it, I'll never know. Instead, they shut down and quit."
Annnnd wank explodes like whoa. Can't we all just... enjoy the translated goodness? ;_;
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