No outrage yet today.

Psst, it's Wednesday. :)

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Psst, it's Wednesday. :)

Indeed. It looks like carolyn is running like a top after needing a bit of attention.

One day without a post?

One day without a post?

Turkey hangover still, perhaps?

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Two more days without a post.

& it's down. Early this week.

Well, that's a very early maintenance...

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& was in the middle of a post :-(

Have to say, I like the new colour scheme :-)

A VERY early outrage - someone is most definitely "Up before their clothes were on"...

Wow....
That is early even by Jeff's time clock.
Might be a long one, seeing as how last week's outage was cancelled.

Chris S wrote:

(in the wrong thread)
The outrage at 7am Berkeley time?? It gets weirder as time goes on.

I think it was nearer 5am..

I think we are somewhat getting to the stage Mark where there aren't that many of us left that really care that much any more. All I'm seeing is a lot of brown nosing and the odd ray of sunshine.

Well, I am not always everybody's little ray of sunshine.....LOL.
But I am not gonna let a change in color scheme affect my participation in the project.
I can deal well enough with the current format. A few things that still bug me about it, but it is still a work in progress.
Hopefully things will settle, and the Seti project will carry on.
If you think the forum changes were unsettling, I wonder what the actual project changes hinted at shall bring..............

Meow.

Thanks for the chuckle :-)

You are very welcome Sirius, but I hadn't finished the post when you replied! There is an even bigger chuckle elsewhere here today, which I'm going to frame and put on the wall :-)))

Have to agree with you there old chap.

if anything just to upset certain people that have ruffled my feathers.

Thought a mature person would have got beyond that.

I just object to being surrounded by drivel, overgrown schoolboys, and delinquent grown ups

BTW, I'm a part of the workforce, but unfortunately, you do not & never will speak for me.

Maybe if this was a unionised board, you might just about be able to :-)

If you don't clean up your language, I'm going to hide your posts in the future. Let's start with enforcing rule number 1.
We're not your personal blog, for that I would refer you to Blogger.

Also, you can stop it with your attacks. Any further attacks on anyone here, no matter how obfuscated you think you are putting it, are no longer tolerated.

Jord I think that was a public admonishment.

Well, I am not suggesting total anarchy, but I have never been one for the complete suppression of dissent either.

Meow.

Jord I think that was a public admonishment.

I had hoped persons had learned their lessons, but you can't teach an old dog new tricks seems to apply. And some dogs play fetch with a stick, other dogs like to poke with a stick.

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Posting here is a right, but that doesn't mean that you can do what you want without consequences for your actions or your choice of words. Yes, I let go a lot here in the past couple of years, but then again there weren't that many people here, or those that were here weren't here on a daily basis. I also felt that you're all adults, so you can normally cure your own problems by talking about it with the person you have the problem with.

Trouble is that some of you now feel that this means you can say anything you want and if you're moderated by the moderators that you need to lash out at them, threaten them, make it feel as if they are the problem and not with your own attitude or what you posted in the first place. This resulted in that some of the moderators of these forums do not want to come into this forum anymore. It's also resulted in some of the people who liked to come here to pass by on these forums. Both things we shouldn't have or allow.

The moderators are not here to ridicule any of you, some of you can do that perfectly fine by themselves with their own actions and words they choose to plant into a post. We are here to moderate the forums, make sure everyone follows the rules always encountered on the left side when making a post. We also remove unwanted posts, made by you or by spammers. And on top of that, we can banish accounts without having to ask David to do so every time it's needed.

We do talk among each other via email, asking what to do in some situations and if we can't figure it out among ourselves, we ask those higher in the echelon for advice on the situation. We're bound by some rules as well, one of them being that we cannot in all situations explain why we did what we did or talk aloud about all decisions.

That said, the moderators are people too. You want to be treated in a normal way, so return the courtesy when speaking to or about moderators.
Fact is, from now on we don't allow any of you to attack us without merit, we won't allow any further threats to any of us. I don't care who you are or why you feel you have more rights than another to say what you want. Threats and attacks will be dealt with harshly. You are a guest on these forums, act like it. And if that is a problem for you, there is the internet: go start your own forums, with your own rules.

It's always sad to see that a few can be such trouble that it means all have to suffer.

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