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Grex > Coop13 > #101: Cyberspace Communications finances for January 2004 | |
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naftee
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response 28 of 155:
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Feb 11 23:23 UTC 2004 |
Indeed, it's almost as if shitdicks is the only concept they've imparted from
m-net culture.
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robh
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response 29 of 155:
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Feb 11 23:27 UTC 2004 |
Funny, I was just thinking how our bbs looks far too much
like M-Net's these days...
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iggy
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response 30 of 155:
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Feb 11 23:40 UTC 2004 |
re#8 gull... who are these mysterious mnetters that you think are trying
to ruin grex?
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rational
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response 31 of 155:
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Feb 11 23:51 UTC 2004 |
I'll fess up: The only reason I spend so much time trying to aid, literate,
and help Grex is because I want to ruin it.
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marcvh
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response 32 of 155:
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Feb 12 00:23 UTC 2004 |
Given that a lot of people maintain accounts on both systems, I'm not sure
how one determines which among them are "M-Netters who also use Grex" and
which are vice-versa. Or even why it matters.
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tod
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response 33 of 155:
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Feb 12 00:43 UTC 2004 |
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naftee
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response 34 of 155:
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Feb 12 01:41 UTC 2004 |
Ergo, due to all this opinionated speech floating around; GreX's bbs has
become more like m-net's!
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aruba
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response 35 of 155:
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Feb 12 04:17 UTC 2004 |
Re #20: Well, I can't truly speak for the users in question. But my
understanding from what they told me is that the large quantity of
bitterness, the harassing emails, the name-calling, and the lack of a
sense that Grex is a community were the biggest problems. One person was
finding the situation stressful enough that his/her physical health was
suffering.
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happyboy
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response 36 of 155:
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Feb 12 08:01 UTC 2004 |
really?! her health was *suffering* because of people's
behavior on a bbs?
*rolls eyes*
the person in question obviously has some sort
of emotional disturbance REGARDLESS of what goes
on around here.
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iggy
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response 37 of 155:
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Feb 12 13:23 UTC 2004 |
I would tend to agree.
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jp2
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response 38 of 155:
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Feb 12 13:44 UTC 2004 |
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rational
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response 39 of 155:
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Feb 12 13:45 UTC 2004 |
I forgot one of my hats in my locker at school at STP, and I don't like the
one I have at home. What does Cyberspace Communications suggest I do?
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scott
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response 40 of 155:
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Feb 12 13:57 UTC 2004 |
Yet another demonstration that some people take online communications
seriously. There *are* people in the world (I'm one) who don't see a bbs as
a place solely useful for trading insults.
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gull
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response 41 of 155:
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Feb 12 14:23 UTC 2004 |
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gull
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response 42 of 155:
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Feb 12 14:24 UTC 2004 |
Yup. Resp:36 is pretty revealing of the M-Net attitude. "They're just
pseudos, not real people. They don't have feelings."
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anderyn
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response 43 of 155:
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Feb 12 14:44 UTC 2004 |
Why would n't I take it seriously? I am talking to you and you are talking
to me. Just because it's not in person doesn't mean that I'm not involved in
what I'm saying and what you're saying. It's as real as the conversation I
just had with a workmate. If he said "shut up you old hag", I would be
stressed and upset, so why shouldn't I be in this forum?
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aruba
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response 44 of 155:
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Feb 12 14:47 UTC 2004 |
That's pretty much how I feel, too. You don't have to be emotionally
disturbed to feel stress when someone yells at you, or at someone in the
same room with you. That's what it has felt like for me over the past
month.
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jp2
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response 45 of 155:
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Feb 12 14:49 UTC 2004 |
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naftee
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response 46 of 155:
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Feb 12 15:08 UTC 2004 |
Yeah, like the m-netters arew 'immune' to feelings. Right.
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aruba
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response 47 of 155:
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Feb 12 15:13 UTC 2004 |
The point you should take from #4, Jamie, is that to a lot of us this is not
just a game, of logic or anything else. I don't really expect that to mean
anything to you, but I have to say it anyway.
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iggy
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response 48 of 155:
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Feb 12 15:14 UTC 2004 |
so gull again throws out the mysterious "m-net" like it is supposed to
be an insult. Yet he is unable to provide names or reasons as to
who this "insult" encompasses.
He hasn't even bothered to define what a grexer is, other than he identifies
himself as one. Gull, what makes a grexer?
I've been on grex since it first opened to the public in ..what year
was that.. 1991? I've been here just as long as many of you.
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scott
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response 49 of 155:
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Feb 12 15:28 UTC 2004 |
Iggy, if you're that bothered by inaccurate refences to "M-Netters" then
perhaps you could do something about the inaccurate references "Grexers" from
you, jp2, and others. As in "Grexers don't believe in free speech", etc.
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slynne
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response 50 of 155:
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Feb 12 15:48 UTC 2004 |
Personally, I find it hard to understand how a person can make
something like a bbs so important to themselves that when things like
this happen, it makes them actually physically ill. And I say this as
someone for whom online conferencing is very important. Sure there are
people on Mnet and Grex who can upset me that much but they are all
people I have real life relationships with.
I worry about some of the people who are getting very upset about all
of this. I wish there was something I could do to make everyone happy.
You know, some kind of win-win solution. I *really* wish jep and
valerie would have considered having the items restored with all of
their posts removed as well as all the posts of people who would
obviously have been very willing to give their permission.
I think it is fair to acknowledge that some people are upset because
their words have been deleted without their permission. It is fair to
acknowledge that the sore loser game playing behavior of some of those
people is upsetting other folks around here.
But maybe the first thing we can do is stop all these "mnetters"
and "grexers" remarks. It seems like when someone calls someone on Grex
an "mnetter" it is meant as some kind of insult but also meant to
illustrate that those people are outsiders and not very welcome here.
Ditto for when people on Mnet start using "grexers" a lot.
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jp2
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response 51 of 155:
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Feb 12 16:40 UTC 2004 |
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scott
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response 52 of 155:
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Feb 12 17:54 UTC 2004 |
Re 50: Lynne, it's not the bbs. Repeat: It's NOT the bbs. It's the other
people on the bbs that get some folks worked up and even ill. Imagine that
about half the people you talked to on the phone were that rude. Would you
just say "oh, it's just the phone, it's not reality"? How about face-to-face?
What seems to be the big difference is that some of us view online
communication to be just as real as the telephone, which is just as real as
face-to-face. That you don't see it as real, to me, indicates that you are
the one with some social shortcomings.
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