Poll: Should We Do Away With Anonymous Rude Marks?

but we didn’t and thats the point.

I bet mister “scary” just has a crush.

take it as a complement and move on.

I admire women in general (and am sorry for making fun of Greta), but it's hard to have a crush on someone that I haven't seen.

I think this thread is going out of rails like another the old one, I did will comment, but lets this useless discussion dies!

So, I’ve tried not……I’ve tried SO hard to not laugh but its stronger than me

–500 paragons points

Forgive me…. but that is just downright funny. :slight_smile:
The only way I can possibly picture that happening is if a new person started out reading one of your ‘other world’ posts. I can imagine that could possibly give a person not familiar with you pause.
But they would most likely recover real fast…… :smiley:

As far as being straight forward. Probably everyone has a different definition of that, and that is just fine. To me a straight forward person is being polite. I know exactly where they stand & to me that is a good thing. No guess work involved & usually no surprises or worries of a ‘knife in the back’ from that person. I am speaking of life in general here… certainly not just BLF.

I do think that either extreme of ‘telling it like it is’ most usually is not the best thing. Although, as SubSailorVet mentioned; there is a time for extremes also.
Sadly, in life; ruthless extremes are all a few people understand. But even with those people, once you have their attention; things usually go much smoother & low key.

And go to the extreme of ‘sugar coating’ something to the extreme is pretty much just sickening as well as confusing…. to me anyway.

Here on BLF, an internet forum; neither extreme is very, very, rarely called for.
Though the boundaries of those extremes vary from person to person.

I think here on BLF it works pretty good for the most part.

Yeah, unfortunately I had to close it down, those quote mazes were absolutely killing the server with all the CPU cycles, and I was already having a problem with excessive server load around that time period. Sorry to rain on the parade, that was admittedly a funny thread.

No apology necessary…. it was best that one got laid to rest for whatever reason…. :smiley:

Hrrmph. Nobody ever believes me.

You probably even think I made up that story about when a bunch of us old-world deities put aside our differences to celebrate the Earth’s 6000th birthday, complete with 6000 candles on the cake. October 23, 1997, just as Bishop Ussher calculated. But that’s okay, I found my pictures this time. Took a while since it was before any of us had digital cameras.




The cake was a little, um, warm… but still edible. It was nicely protected under a layer of freshly-melted wax.

Then we followed that up with an Earth piñata. Good times.

At first we did this much more often, breaking a simulacrum of the world every century to get out frustrations and help everyone avoid breaking the real one… but now that we’ve all calmed down a bit it’s only once per millenia for old times’ sake.

Not sure if it’ll happen next time. After putting 6000 candles on the cake one at a time, even shaving the wax down to make them narrow enough to fit, Hestia swore never again. But maybe she’ll change her mind in the next 980 years. She does, after all, like to brag about being a sexy shoeless god of cooking… and she’s honestly kind of a pushover.

Sorry, it’s a bad habit.

We should probably get back to talking about shiny things. I like shiny things.

No TK… I have never been a doubter of you…… after I read a few of your posts & the replys I knew you were on the level. :wink:
Just saying possibly a new person might need the same ‘initiation period’…. depending on which post of yours they read first. :smiley:
But either way, they are bound to soon come to the same conclusion I did!
You are A-OK…… :wink:

That is an amazing amount of candles on that cake……… :+1:
I bet it did have a bit of a ‘toasty wax’ flavor.

Ow thats right, shiny things……

TK, Wow! I’ve done 100 candles and thought it was quite the blaze. Hard to imagine 6000.

Looks like she setting a piece of shag carpet on fire

As a reminder for those new to the operation of the rule, the button label is “rude” but that’s not the only rule violation that the button is used to point out.
You know how to look this stuff up — the site rules link is just below the upper left corner of every page.

Someone may be perfectly polite and charming and still be stepping on toes — I’ve heard that called a “wide load” personality,
it’s a kind of approach to conversation that “uses both lanes of the highway” or “sucks all the oxygen out of the room” or “Foghorn Leghorn.”

The button could be labeled “please back off, 11th Commandment violation in progress”

You know the 11th Commandment?
It’s “You do too know what I mean.”

(And if you think this is pointed at you, bless your heart, it’s meant to describe who I’ve been and have to watch for being. Been there done that regretted it.)

Remember Rule 9.

Boy there are some touchy members,I just noticed I got a “rude” a week ago :smiley:
For this

link to post.

Maybe it was because I gave them a choice and they couldn’t handle it :smiling_imp:

Thats very rude for me, that first emoticon gave a huge fear in me and you post twice……

You are REALLY evil

Can people please stop bumping this thread again and again every time they get a rude mark?
If you get a rude point, just deal with it, it goes away after 1 day.

There is no point in making a post “haha someone thought this was rude {insert not-rude thing here}” looking for justification.
This is like the sixth time I see someone make a post complaining about getting a rude point for something that is not really rude.

Seriously, it’s not a big deal, just move on.

Same can be said for you complaining in this thread about this thread.
Just do not open the thread.

Cheers David

I’ve been gone for a while and noticed there is no longer reporting someone as rude. When did this happen and why? I personally never liked it. Glad it’s gone.

Hi there, welcome back!

Right about the time, or shortly after ; you went on vacation Eddie my friend. :wink:
I hope you & the gang had a good trip. Glad your back. :+1: