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flem
response 144 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 14 17:20 UTC 2004

re: the "magically morphed" theory:  maybe you should have thought of
that before you called all this attention to them.  
jmsaul
response 145 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 14 19:56 UTC 2004

Re #142:  I've avoided using the "vandalism" word before this, but I
          need to use it here to make a distinction.  Those items were
          not deleted by someone with the authority to do it as part of
          normal Grex practice.  Asking whether we would call for their
          return if a FW had cleaned them out is a poor analogy for that
          reason.

          A better analogy is whether we'd ask for them to come back if
          they'd been removed by a vandal who wasn't a trusted member
          of the staff at the time.  Say polytarp had done it.  Would
          we want them back?  Absolutely.
willcome
response 146 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 14 21:09 UTC 2004

I'm ALWAYS the fucker in hypotheticals.
naftee
response 147 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 14 23:52 UTC 2004

yer just that special.
tod
response 148 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 00:23 UTC 2004

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gull
response 149 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 02:00 UTC 2004

Re resp:143: Everyone is rationalizing in this item.  Specifically, 
they're presenting what they feel are the rational reasons for their 
opinions.

I disagree with the 'vandalism' analogies.  I don't feel they're 
accurate.  If someone hacked root and started deleting stuff, they'd be 
clearly doing something that was against the rules.  It looks to me like 
what valerie and jep did was in a grey area.  Not even all the remaining 
staff initially agreed on whether what valerie did was permissable or 
not.  I'm not sure it's fair to retroactively apply a black-and-white 
policy to their actions *now*.
cyklone
response 150 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 02:14 UTC 2004

It seems to me that "grey area" is the result of an unwritten grex "code"
that allows personality and "take-my-ball-homeism" to prevail over common
sense and uncensored speech. Maybe it gives ya'll a warm fuzzy, but I find
it appalling. 

gull
response 151 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 03:13 UTC 2004

I didn't say I thought their actions were admirable.  Just that I'm not 
convinced it was obviously against Grex policy to take them.
jp2
response 152 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 03:26 UTC 2004

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jep
response 153 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 03:34 UTC 2004

re resp:143: I'm really sorry you think I'm rationalizing, and that 
there's something wrong with doing that.

I very much don't want my items restored.  It's important to me.  I am 
trying to answer all of the points being made from my perspective.  
It's definitely true that I'm trying to serve my own interests.

As a matter of fact, I'm obsessed enough by the issue I've pretty much 
stopped logging in to Grex from work, because once I'm here I can't 
skip getting involved in it.  I come to coop first.  I might or might 
not read the other conferences before I'm done for the night.  I hope 
I'll be in bed before 1:00 a.m. -- I'll have a bad day at work if I 
don't get some sleep.  What you're seeing is what happens when an 
obsessive-compulsive type person gets wrapped up in something.

I'm sorry to be annoying to you, though.  It's not my intention.
jep
response 154 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 03:34 UTC 2004

re resp:152: Jamie, item:39 *is* a Grex policy item.  
naftee
response 155 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 03:38 UTC 2004

re 152 jep still seems to think that a permissible precedent was set when
valerie deleted her items, as per response 340 item 68.
I'm not sure if he will ever change his misunderstanding.  Maybe he's just
that obsessed.
jp2
response 156 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 03:39 UTC 2004

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jp2
response 157 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 03:43 UTC 2004

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kip
response 158 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 15:49 UTC 2004

Jamie, as far as I'm concerned, you're welcome to scribble any post you wrote
anywhere on Grex.  It's an ability all users have.

What I don't want you to be welcomed to do is remove an entire item, such as
#39 in coop, where others have responded.  

My personal opinion is that the items should be restored into some form of
limbo and anyone who wants to scribble their section of it may.  I believe
these deletions were a one time occurence and should not be considered the
precedent setting move some others consider it to be.

Just to be perfectly clear, that's my opinion and not the consensus opinion
of the entire staff.  That should already be clear, but I'm slowly learning
that what I think is obvious is apparently not obvious to all.  
albaugh
response 159 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 18:11 UTC 2004

I do think a mountain is being made out of a molehill over all this, mostly
due to the practicality that the likeliehood of recurrence is small.  And I'll
admit my share of the guilt in that mountain making, by engaging in these
discussions.  But I also think that a defacto precedent *was* set, by virtue
that there seems to be no clear policy having been established beforehand to
which people can point and say "valerie clearly and deliberately violated that
policy".  Thus until all the proposals currently alive in coop are resolved,
there is at least a theoretical possibility that this same situation could
recur, with all the associated controversy.
cross
response 160 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 15 20:38 UTC 2004

It's not the event itself, it's the principle of the matter that's at issue.
twinkie
response 161 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 24 07:48 UTC 2004

re: 92 - Cross...was 1996 so good to you that you refuse to leave it? 

I've been "flame target of the month" in M-Net's Flame conference for nearly
five years now, M-Net's Twinkie conference is basically a parody of itself...

Is there any particular reason you like to post about me so much? Beyond this,
you've openly theorized in the last Agora that I was "willcome". I'm about
to throw a tantrum to janc proportions, because nobody told me you were saying
mean things about me here on Grex.

cross
response 162 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 24 16:53 UTC 2004

92 was entered by krj, not me, twinkie.  :-)
twinkie
response 163 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 24 17:26 UTC 2004

Meh. 92, 94, close enough.

naftee
response 164 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 24 18:51 UTC 2004

TWO GUYS HOT FOR TWINKIE

GROSS
styles
response 165 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 25 03:00 UTC 2004

BRING ON THE SNARKY< EH?
twinkie
response 166 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 25 03:03 UTC 2004

Oh, the snarky is brought.

styles
response 167 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 25 05:41 UTC 2004

looks green :(
twinkie
response 168 of 170: Mark Unseen   Jan 26 05:11 UTC 2004

You're looking in the wrong place, tiger.

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