OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

[spatch]

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Dec 2, 2003 16:05 from Selat (Sysop) to Spatch
Greetings,

The following has been removed from your profile for violating the policy
helpfile regarding Weird>.  Namely that weird posts, either real or fake are
not allowed anywhere on ISCABBS.  This includes user profiles.  As this is a
new policy, no warning is being issued here.


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 I want whatever drug Thufir or Spatch is taking.
 I want to ride that technicolor zauerkraut flavored hellion merry go round.
 [Chow Yun Weirdabe> msg #1798501 (1 remaining)]
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1. Now that profile has been in place since 1999. The Weird> it was quoting from (a forum where every post is anonymous) didn't even exist for nearly four fucking years. Thufir don't exist on ISCA anymore. (Well, not the Thufir we all know and love. The new Thufir's a chick. Kinda like Dax on Deep Space 9.) The poster who came up with that brilliant quote (Marie Laveau) don't exist on ISCA anymore. And now that profile don't exist on ISCA anymore.

2. This "black hole" policy concerning Weird>, of all forums, is just incredibly fucking stupid.

3. The sysop should've mailed me and requested I change the profile instead of doing it automatically. This allows the user, who had not heard of this new policy and therefore did not think he was doing anything wrong, to take the responsibility himself to conform to the "new policy" and fix it and be a good little doobee and all that. Changing the profile immediately and without notification sends this: OH HEY YOU BAD BAD PERSON YOU DID SOMETHING BAD AND WE DONE FIXED IT FOR YOU, BUT DON'T WORRY, IN OUR BENEVOLENCE WE DIDN'T ISSUE A WARNING YOU LUCKY SOUL YOU.

4. This "black hole" policy concerning Weird>, of all forums, is just incredibly fucking stupid.

5. The last time I got "sanctioned" by a sysop was in 1996, when one of them realized that no, you can't live in Massachusetts and have 90210 for your zip code. No, wait. I was twitted for a week in 1998 because they thought I was plotting an insurrection against someone's x-disable list in Weird>. That was fun.

6. WHICH OF YOU BASTARDS NARCED?

7. ISCA sucks.

I've been on that damn BBS since 1994. My 10-year anniversary is coming up there in a month or so. Almost all of my online circle of friends either came from ISCA originally or knows me through someone who did. I've dated and kissed how many Roomaides and Sysops? You know. All that. But now the BBS is a former shell of what it used to be. Nobody I knows posts there regularly anymore. The truncated WHOlist, which used to number over 1000 simultaneous logins, now doesn't even fill up one screenful of scroll. I log in every two months or so just to keep the username. I know, I can't let go -- even though everybody else has -- but it's just a legacy, a database entry, a six-digit usernumber that I can't give up. (Yeah, remember when six-digits were the newbies? Yeah. Sup.)

So now this is my profile. I bet I'll get yelled at for this, too, as it "violates the happy spirit of ISCA" or something. Who knows. Note the outdated address and the outdated web address. Come and get me, you bastards. I'll be waiting.

Spatch
Cambridge, MA  02140
Email: spatula@worldstop.com
WWW: http://spatch.ne.mediaone.net
ONLINE since: 12/11/2003 1:20 from 213.subnet192.

 The following has been removed from your profile for violating the policy
 helpfile regarding Weird>.  Namely that weird posts, either real or fake are
 not allowed anywhere on ISCABBS.  This includes user profiles.  As this is a
 new policy, no warning is being issued here.

Comments

[platys.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why I login from time to time. Although, I think my one year banning from TWR> is almost up. Woo! Except I'd probably only get myself banned again the next time I got worked up over something. And now that I'm not giving blow jobs to a policy board member, I've lost all my ISCA protection. *snort*

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

How DID you get yourself banned? Did you eat a baby?

[platys.livejournal.com]

No, I just kill them, not eat them. :)

I forgot that I never did post the whole story for you. :)

A year or so ago, the geniuses over there decided that they'd somehow fight the blackhole policy by making a rule that you weren't allowed to post information from TWR> off the BBS. Before, it was just an on the BBS thing.

So fine, whatever. Here's what cheesed me off. They decided that rather than just announce the rule change and change the FI, they would kick everyone out of the forum, and then demand that they agree to the rule change. The geniuses there for some reason thought this would actually keep people out of the room who would break the rule, and that it would make everyone accountable.

Well, I thought this was the stupidest thing -ever-. Kickign everyone out and then making them swear allegience to Professor Mom or whatever person was FM at the time wasn't necessary to enforce the rule, and it certainly wasn't going to keep the leakers out by making them promise to not leak.

So, I went through the little procedure, and then promptly started to leak the FM posts out of the forum. (These were policy posts, no personal information was included). I then leaked Elfanie's post talking about how hrorible it was that peopel were leaking. And I think I even leaked one of my own posts. In any case, I found the whole thing hilarious, they decided that they caught me at it, and kicked me out. :)

A little before that, I resigned as FM of Children and Family Issues. Some user at the same time started going off on how totally unfair and mean I was, and so I posted every mail she/he had ever sent me in ISCABBS>, which more or less proved that I had ample reason to delete all her posts, and that she was a dork on top of it. Oh, and I also poitned out I didn't care if I was violating confidentiality rules (I didn't think I was, since she brought it up, but whatever), given that I'd already resigned.

So the sysops told me I was never, ever allowed to FM on ISCA again. *sniff*

Anyways, the rumor, as I understand it, was that I was a terrible, terrible FM and that I broke rules constantly and posted mean things under anonymous headers, but that I never lost my job because I was sleeping with a policy board member.