2018 in a nutsack.

[Calandale]

I have to say, Cal, that the more you post, the more you stay the same.

Of course. While you have become increasingly corrupt.

[odeon]

I have to say, Cal, that the more you post, the more you stay the same.

Of course. While you have become increasingly corrupt.

It wasn't a positive sentiment.

[Calandale]

I have to say, Cal, that the more you post, the more you stay the same.

Of course. While you have become increasingly corrupt.

It wasn't a positive sentiment.

It was. You just don't get it.


And you hide from whatever truth there may be behind these concerns, with cheap little quips.
That is, and has always been your tactic.

What I am, what Scrap is, what Les is, what various people who have abandoned the site due
to false pretexts are - none of this matters terribly. What matters is how you act, as an admin.

And, because you have no actual defense, you resort to smearing and bullying.

[odeon]

I guess that depends on who you ask. You haven't changed, Cal, and if you think that's somehow a good thing, then I feel sorry for you. But hey, whatever gets you through the night.

[Al Swearegen]

I guess that depends on who you ask. You haven't changed, Cal, and if you think that's somehow a good thing, then I feel sorry for you. But hey, whatever gets you through the night.

You have absolutely changed. It is redundant suggesting otherwise

[Calandale]

I guess that depends on who you ask. You haven't changed, Cal, and if you think that's somehow a good thing, then I feel sorry for you. But hey, whatever gets you through the night.

You have absolutely changed. It is redundant suggesting otherwise

I'm not sure how much - at least once Dunc left.

[Jack]

This vote ten years ago? http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,7512.45/viewresults.html  Memory is an interesting thing. Still can't help but wonder what asking nicely would have resulted in the here and now.

This was during the democracy, IIRC. We didn't have to beg for things from the staff, in theory.

EDIT: Apparently not. But, it seemed a reasonable thing to ask the membership about, rather
than just seek fiat anyhow. No matter how you put it, begging favors - whether just for myself
or for everyone - is simply not the way the world should work.


The 'big man' culture of favors is, to me, rather disgusting, even if it is how most of human society has always
worked. 'Tis the heart of corruption.


It's similar to how disabled people don't want everyone to open doors for them. They want to be able
to do things for themselves.

It was a memory from a time when decisions were made by votes and the vote result appears to have been upheld. As for the point being made here, it's only a matter of perspective. If at any point in time I had ever seen anyone say they would like the ability to change their own custom title and it had been denied, then I might agree with you. It's your own view that you see asking for a title change, or even asking for the right to change your own title, to be groveling. I can accept that about you and understand you don't want to ask for either, but from my perspective you screwed it all up by making it as if Odeon is some sort of bad guy making you grovel for stuff. Not sure what would have been a better approach. Maybe suggesting to me that I grovel for you. Also, was hoping you would have noticed the oddity in that old poll.

[Lestat]

Whilst I am currently happy with my title (it came from a joke aimed at me by a now years retired GP. He actually had a sense of humour, and seeing how many meds I was on at the time called me 'a pharmaceutical dustbin', because for some reason, I've always been somewhat hard to affect strongly with sedating/opioid type meds, and seem to in particular have a hard head for the first resort benzos, valium, chlordiazepoxide, lorazepam, temazepam in particular, and have some sort of particular affinity towards nitrobenzodiazepines, meaning in this country, on an NHS scriptable group, equates to either nitrazepam or loprazolam (no, not lorazepam, quite different), so if ever I do need a benzo, it's one of the two I ask specifically for in preference to any others)....he seemed to find it amusing that I had tastes in anxiolytics discerning enough to be partially based on their SAR/QSAR, plus being seemingly built like a tank without a benzo tolerance, and able to take doses scripted that would put most people out for several DAYS, and have to tell the doc 'errrm....I am not being affected at this dose, I generally don't start to be either until the doses make doctors freak the hell out, unless the benzos are those with that all-important nitro group there, which, due to, IIRC, additional serotonergic activity with nitrobenzodiazepines.

But I am strongly in favour of the custom title thing being at the user's discretion, to do it themselves.

[odeon]

I guess that depends on who you ask. You haven't changed, Cal, and if you think that's somehow a good thing, then I feel sorry for you. But hey, whatever gets you through the night.

You have absolutely changed. It is redundant suggesting otherwise

Reading comprehension fail?

[Al Swearegen]

I guess that depends on who you ask. You haven't changed, Cal, and if you think that's somehow a good thing, then I feel sorry for you. But hey, whatever gets you through the night.

You have absolutely changed. It is redundant suggesting otherwise

Reading comprehension fail?

No, Just a point. Cal has not changed, sure. Nor I. You have though and not for the better.

[Calandale]

It was a memory from a time when decisions were made by votes and the vote result appears to have been upheld. As for the point being made here, it's only a matter of perspective. If at any point in time I had ever seen anyone say they would like the ability to change their own custom title and it had been denied, then I might agree with you. It's your own view that you see asking for a title change, or even asking for the right to change your own title, to be groveling. I can accept that about you and understand you don't want to ask for either, but from my perspective you screwed it all up by making it as if Odeon is some sort of bad guy making you grovel for stuff. Not sure what would have been a better approach. Maybe suggesting to me that I grovel for you. Also, was hoping you would have noticed the oddity in that old poll.

Meh. That poll screwed nothing itself. Except that, at that time, ME asking anything was going to
be unpopular.

What I noticed was that you chose a particular point in the poll, rather than the first page so that the
entire flow could be determined. I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to.

Here's the background - some members enjoyed shifting their profiles about quite a bit at that time.
The reason I was de-admined was actually the start of this broader practice. The fact that, in order to
play this little game, we needed to have an 'on call' admin to perform the change was an annoyance
to swift changes.

[Calandale]

But I am strongly in favour of the custom title thing being at the user's discretion, to do it themselves.

AND, if it is, admin 'pranks' to change it become a much lesser thing.

[odeon]

I guess that depends on who you ask. You haven't changed, Cal, and if you think that's somehow a good thing, then I feel sorry for you. But hey, whatever gets you through the night.

You have absolutely changed. It is redundant suggesting otherwise

Reading comprehension fail?

No, Just a point. Cal has not changed, sure. Nor I. You have though and not for the better.

Reading comprehension fail it is.

[Jack]

It was a memory from a time when decisions were made by votes and the vote result appears to have been upheld. As for the point being made here, it's only a matter of perspective. If at any point in time I had ever seen anyone say they would like the ability to change their own custom title and it had been denied, then I might agree with you. It's your own view that you see asking for a title change, or even asking for the right to change your own title, to be groveling. I can accept that about you and understand you don't want to ask for either, but from my perspective you screwed it all up by making it as if Odeon is some sort of bad guy making you grovel for stuff. Not sure what would have been a better approach. Maybe suggesting to me that I grovel for you. Also, was hoping you would have noticed the oddity in that old poll.

Meh. That poll screwed nothing itself. Except that, at that time, ME asking anything was going to
be unpopular.

What I noticed was that you chose a particular point in the poll, rather than the first page so that the
entire flow could be determined. I'm not sure if that's what you're referring to.

Here's the background - some members enjoyed shifting their profiles about quite a bit at that time.
The reason I was de-admined was actually the start of this broader practice. The fact that, in order to
play this little game, we needed to have an 'on call' admin to perform the change was an annoyance
to swift changes.

No, found the poll in the search, so that's why the link didn't reference the first page. The results show only ten people voted but the poll options total sixteen.

[Al Swearegen]

I guess that depends on who you ask. You haven't changed, Cal, and if you think that's somehow a good thing, then I feel sorry for you. But hey, whatever gets you through the night.

You have absolutely changed. It is redundant suggesting otherwise

Reading comprehension fail?

No, Just a point. Cal has not changed, sure. Nor I. You have though and not for the better.

Reading comprehension fail it is.

Not on my side. Cant speak to you and your inability to comprehend........anything