A new day in the O'Club

[Skuzzy]

Dunt call me IT.  I do not want to be associated with that lot.  They are numpties here in this country.

IT1:  What's this port 13x stuff about?
IT2:  I dunno.  They are just ports.  
IT1:  They say we should block them?
IT2:  What do they know?  We are the IT people.

Numpties,...the lot of em.

[SOB]

Hey now, don't make me come over there.  I'll soon be IT again, and the majority that are "numpties" make my mediocrity seem like godliness.

[Skuzzy]

My condolences.

[BlueJ1]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
My condolences.

They have medication for that now.

<---Good Year.

[mussie]

Point and click Network Administration (IE MS) is not Network Administration

So my apologise If I offended you Skuzzy

Now which ports were you referring to, the cargo or passenger

[Skuzzy]

Sorry mussie, I forgot the obligatory smiley.  I was having a bit of fun.  Not to be taken seriously there.

I admit there are one or two IT types which do know what they are doing, but they are usually stymied or sabatoged by the other numpties.

[mussie]

Nah Skuzzy I took it in good humor, but it also true,

I worked on a first and second level support desk and had to deal with "second level techs" who were intimidated by dos cmd scripts that I wrote. and I was only one of the first level support guys.

As I say to my mates down here "Its All Good"



Oh and I think you may have missed
"Now which ports were you referring to, the cargo or passenger "

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Dunt call me IT.  I do not want to be associated with that lot.  They are numpties here in this country.

IT1:  What's this port 13x stuff about?
IT2:  I dunno.  They are just ports.  
IT1:  They say we should block them?
IT2:  What do they know?  We are the IT people.

Numpties,...the lot of em.

I retract everything I said about Skuzzy. (Actually, I'm an IS person, but we've been merged with the IT group...)

[eskimo2]

Skuzzy,

80% of the funny things that I have read/seen on the internet have been linked from the AH BBS/O-Club.  For me, and probably others, humor is the biggest incentive for reading the O-Club.  I am concerned about the rule “15- Threads started with no user supplied content ,which addresses the topic, will be considered trolling and not allowed.” and humor related threads.  Can MPs not sweat obviously non controversial/argument inducing threads that are obviously just humor links?

Along the same lines, many of us first hear of breaking news/world events on the BBS –O-Club.  (Such as: “Major earthquake hits China today” type threads.  Not controversial, just news.)

Censorship of such threads may create a MP Nazi impression.

Thanks,

eskimo

[Skuzzy]

Trolls also fall into that category.  If we have to detail the exact nature of every rule and the exact situation it applies, then we may as well shut this down now.

Common sense will prevail, but it is getting tiresome for people to keep beating the "But his was ok, why not mine?" drum.  The rules should not be something anyone is concerned with.

You want to be concerned, then be concerned this forum will go away unless there is a change in the communities approach to it.

EDIT:  If everyone put as much time and energy in taking care of this forum as they have in trying to figure out how to moderate it, there would be no issues at all (well, almost).

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by Skuzzy
Trolls also fall into that category.  If we have to detail the exact nature of every rule and the exact situation it applies, then we may as well shut this down now.

Common sense will prevail, but it is getting tiresome for people to keep beating the "But his was ok, why not mine?" drum.  The rules should not be something anyone is concerned with.

You want to be concerned, then be concerned this forum will go away unless there is a change in the communities approach to it.

EDIT:  If everyone put as much time and energy in taking care of this forum as they have in trying to figure out how to moderate it, there would be no issues at all (well, almost).

So, would posting: “this is funny” along with a link be enough of an opinion or user supplied content?  

Seriously, I think that for most of us not locking a non-offensive humor thread would just be common sense.  Is using common sense when posting enough, or should we be concerned about technicalities?  

(Not trying to be a smarty-pants here, just trying to figure out what we can and cannot do.)

eskimo

[Skuzzy]

Read my first post.  If people held that up as the standard for all thier posts, we would not need moderators nor rules.

My exact answer is not to answer what you are asking.  If you cannot figure out what is right and wrong, I cannot help you.

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by Skuzzy


EDIT:  If everyone put as much time and energy in taking care of this forum as they have in trying to figure out how to moderate it, there would be no issues at all (well, almost).

Just saw your edit.

Seriously Skuzzy, you’ve got to realize that we all have vastly different opinions on what is appropriate/trolling/common sense, etc.  
Many folks make posts that get edited and they had no idea that they were pushing limits.

eskimo

[eagl]

Eskimo,

Limits...  I guess we're gonna find out one way or another  I found out the hard way once and it doesn't seem all that difficult now.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

You tried Office 2003 yet Skuzzy?

Its pretty neat. Although, I have already found one thing that annoys me.

When you have Outlook open, it has both a small icon in the icontray and the normal taskbar button. When you minimize, it minimizes to the taskbar. I have yet to find a reason for the one in the icon in the icontray other than it changes to the send/recieve icon when its doing that.

It looks way different, I'm having nightmares of when we have to migrate from 2000/XP to 2003.
-SW