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polytarp
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Free Speech
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Jan 24 01:44 UTC 2004 |
In the past hour, my willcome account was killed, though I don't know by whom
or for what. However, I suspect this conversation had something to do with
it:
Telegram from gelinas (root) on ttyq4 at 20:03 EST ...
please stop re-entering the same item, over and over, in agora
EOF (gelinas)
Telegram to ttyq4...
Msg: It's Greek Week.
SENT
Telegram from gelinas (root) on ttyq4 at 20:03 EST ...
That is no excuse. Please stop.
EOF (gelinas)
Of course, it wasn't an excuse. I don't need an excuse to help with Greek
Week, an exciting even sponsored by the silly hat fund meant to revive and
review Grex's Greek origins. For some reason, gelinas had a problem with
this, and, apparently, abridged my Grexist freedom of speech to stop it.
Please fix this.
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dah
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response 1 of 79:
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Jan 24 02:19 UTC 2004 |
Apparently, gelinas is willing to lie to get his way:
" I just locked willcome's account because of his script that created some
one
hundred new items in agora."
Anyone can see that I didn't post anything close to one hundred items.
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glenda
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response 2 of 79:
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Jan 24 02:21 UTC 2004 |
Sorry, but I think that 72 copies of the entire text of Plato's Republic is
closer to one hundred items than it is closer to once.
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dah
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response 3 of 79:
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Jan 24 02:23 UTC 2004 |
I think gelinas's statement's closer to a lie than the truth.
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gelinas
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response 4 of 79:
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Jan 24 02:39 UTC 2004 |
I didn't count the items. I substracted the last item number I saw from
the last item number I remembered.
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dah
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response 5 of 79:
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Jan 24 02:44 UTC 2004 |
Are you drunk? I ask only because you seem to talk about beer for hours in
party, and use words like "substracted". Maybe that's why you abridged my
right to free speech.
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naftee
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response 6 of 79:
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Jan 24 04:43 UTC 2004 |
heh, yeah, "GreX staffer gets caught drunk on Job"
(biblical reference courtesy for J. Gelinas)
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albaugh
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response 7 of 79:
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Jan 24 05:59 UTC 2004 |
I don't just think - I completely know - that willcome's actions were those
of a total asshole, and that said account must never be unlocked, ever, for
any reason whatsoever. If it is of any consolation, let it be known that s/he
went out in a blaze of futile stupidity.
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jaklumen
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response 8 of 79:
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Jan 24 11:42 UTC 2004 |
Suddenly I'm that much more glad I'm not reading agora anymore :)
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ryan
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response 9 of 79:
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Jan 24 16:43 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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ryan
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response 10 of 79:
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Jan 24 16:45 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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janc
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response 11 of 79:
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Jan 24 17:00 UTC 2004 |
I feel Joe's actions were entirely appropriate and would have done the same
in his place.
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scott
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response 12 of 79:
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Jan 24 17:26 UTC 2004 |
Ditto.
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remmers
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response 13 of 79:
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Jan 24 17:32 UTC 2004 |
Same here.
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cross
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response 14 of 79:
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Jan 24 18:46 UTC 2004 |
I did do the same thing in Joe's place once, with the same user, so yeah,
I concur.
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naftee
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response 15 of 79:
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Jan 24 19:00 UTC 2004 |
Acutually, joe was far less enthusiastic with locking accounts than you were.
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richard
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response 16 of 79:
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Jan 24 19:12 UTC 2004 |
I agree and since all those items have the same text, I think you could kill
all but one of them and not be reasonably accused of censorship. I don't like
the kill command, I think moderators shouldn't have it, but cfadmin and root
needs to have it for such situations
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naftee
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response 17 of 79:
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Jan 24 20:01 UTC 2004 |
You forgot about "retire" again. That's why you're uncomfortable.
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md
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response 18 of 79:
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Jan 24 20:19 UTC 2004 |
I'd've deleted all the items and killed the account and never given it
a second thought. Of course, I also edited dah's responses in the mnet
Agora cf to make it sound like he was calling himself an asshole, so
I'm a terrible example. I would hope nobody on Grex would ever do such
a thing. That would be totally reprehensible in a conference like
Agora on Grex. So don't do it. I mean it.
I should add that when I saw the first Plato's Republic item, I was
hoping the others would each be another classic, like Moby Dick, War
and Peace, Paradise Lost, Pride and Prejudice, and so on. That would
have been cool in a geeky way. But then I found out they were all the
same and so just geeky and uncool.
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keesan
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response 19 of 79:
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Jan 24 20:33 UTC 2004 |
Can we decide to put a size limit on all responses and automatically (or
manually) kill anything that exceeds the limit, as well as all copies of
anything entered in more than 2 copies (to allow for errors)? Would this
require a member vote? Five pages of text seems like a reasonable limit to
me (25 line pages). I tend not to read things longer than that anyway.
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