Teacup Cafe Part VIII - Page 46

***Rían*** · 03-29-2006, 11:14 PM

Hey Nurvs, why don't you get her that beer and I'll bring in a plate of her favorite food.

*gives SGH a magic plate that has her favorite food on it*

Guys, I must say that all these conspiracy things are just totally confusing to me - to me, it's very obvious why people get banned - their own choices as to how they post (usually repeated flaming) are what do it. I always thought the only reason that the reasons behind banning were kept quiet was that the mods were being as nice as possible to the offender - kinda keep it quiet and behind the scenes, to make it the least embarassing as possible. But maybe that's not the best way to deal with it anymore - maybe it's just better to have a permanant thread at the top of GMs that says "Banned Status" or something, and if someone gets banned, then their name and the reason goes in there, and the length of the ban, too, so we know when they'll be back. At least that way, there's not these odd conspiracy things floating around. Maybe you mods/admins could consider that. I don't know what's worse - to have a thread like that, or to try to deal behind the scenes with it and then have conspiracy theories going around.

Lotesse · 03-29-2006, 11:27 PM

Since Sister Golden Hair's here right now (Ciao, Janet!), I'd just like to explain, make it quite clear to you all that I do not in any way feel that I have been "pushed out," or any other such nonsense. I'm taking a break of my own volition, nobody's pushing me anywhere. Also, I have nothing but respect for the mods and admins, and always have.

Let me repeat, I have nothing but respect for the administration and moderating staff of this forum, especially Earniel, SGH, Valandil, Hobbit, Ben Milder, and others and that this has always been the case, and remains so. I just really, really do not want to take my "vacation" with people thinking that I have some sort of grudge or problem, or that I am somehow being a bad girl, because I do not, and am not, and haven't been. I merely need a break, you guys! I love Entmoot, but I need a protracted hiatus from spending so much time at my computer, mooting. I just really, really want everyone to realise that this is why I'm taking a break, it has nothing to do with anything else other than the fact that I'd like a long break, and get out of this habit of excessive mooting. It's all good! I'll be lurking from time to time, but I have got to steel myself from spending so many hours in online forums when I ought to be getting some RL things done.

Ciao for now, my moot homies! Keep it real, you guys; I'll be back after a while. Quitting mooting is going to be almost as hard as quitting smoking, I have a feeling.

You guys are awesome, I'll be missing you all.

trolls' bane · 03-29-2006, 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lotesse

Ciao for now, my moot homies! Keep it real, you guys; I'll be back after a while. Quitting mooting is going to be almost as hard as quitting smoking, I have a feeling.

You guys are awesome, I'll be missing you all.

And we, you, Lotesse!

Lief Erikson · 03-29-2006, 11:36 PM

Have a good vacation, Lotesse

.

Please don't leave, BB. I really don't want you to. The place wouldn't be the same without you.

Sister Golden Hair, I think you, Spock and all the rest of you are doing such a good job with the VERY difficult situation Entmoot can often be. Managing websites where thread topics can easily intersect and keeping calm through all the big Entmoot fights, trying to keep everything orderly, has got to be no picnic at all. I really, really appreciate all of your contribution.

trolls' bane · 03-29-2006, 11:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

Sister Golden Hair, I think you, Spock and all the rest of you are doing such a good job with the VERY difficult situation Entmoot can often be. Managing websites where thread topics can easily intersect and keeping calm through all the big Entmoot fights, trying to keep everything orderly, has got to be no picnic at all. I really, really appreciate all of your contribution.

I agree. It DOES get difficult. With Ered Luin, the only rule I made was a little common sense, and the only moderation tool I ever REALLY needed was the power to sticky an important thread or move one. But Entmoot is by no means a little, fifty member board in which two or three at a time (used to) regularly post with long dry spells. And it has a lot more topics and opinions that get people flared up, as well as the occasional spam troll (But now that seems to be HVEL's primary problem; I just had someone come on and advertise in our shoutbox.

)

Bombadillo · 03-29-2006, 11:43 PM

Oh, that's good and understandable Lotesse. Your previous post made me think you found the atmosphere intolerable here all of a sudden. (

) Enjoy your vacation... and your symptoms of withdrawal!

For the record, nobody got banned recently, have they? Crazy Squirrel? BB? Whenever somebody gets banned, I always miss it.

Captain Morgans!

*helps self* Oh, I'll fetch us some Coke.

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 03-29-2006, 11:46 PM

Well I thank you for that Lief. I know that most of the mooters do appreciate the job the staff does. And we appreciate your support. It's important for a thriving, happy community such as Entmoot. We have our moments as do most boards, but this is usually a happy and friendly place, and I hope it stays that way.

Lotesse, good luck and hope to see you again.

**Nurvingiel** · 03-30-2006, 12:11 AM

*Brings SGH and Ri a nice cold Sleemen's Cream Ale, as well as one for myself.*

*sneaks some of SGH's favourite food*

trolls' bane · 03-30-2006, 12:13 AM

AHEM! You're name!

***Rían*** · 03-30-2006, 12:43 AM

Lotesse - I hope you have a wonderful Entmoot vacation, and come back refreshed and ready to hang out at the Cafe again!

Nurvi - thanks for the ale!!

Bomb - no one's been banned recently that I know of - Crazy Squirrel certainly wasn't, and neither was BB!

trolls' bane · 03-30-2006, 12:49 AM

*everyone hears large chorus singing in the large, usually empty concert hall wing of the Teacup*
Circa mea pectora
multa sunt suspiria
de tua pulchritudine,
que me ledunt misere.

Manda liet,
Manda liet,
min geselle
chumet niet.

Tui lucent oculi
sicut solis radii,
sicut splendor fulguris
lucem donat tenebris.

Manda liet,
Manda liet,
min geselle
chumet niet.

Vellet deus, vallent dii
quod mente proposui:
ut eius virginea
reserassem vincula.

Manda liet,
Manda liet,
min geselle
chumet niet.

trolls' bane · 03-30-2006, 12:59 AM

TB (to orchestra and chorus) No, no no No NO! Wrong one! It's supposed to be this one!
*chorus and orchestra begin familiar tune; Where have you heard it before?*
O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem
egestatem
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.

Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.

Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!

klatukatt · 03-30-2006, 01:11 AM

woah! I dunno that language!

But I will sing along loudly and enthusiastically!

Grey_Wolf · 03-30-2006, 01:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lotesse

I'm just popping in real quick to bid everyone a temporary adieu. It is time I took a vacation from Entmoot. Can't tell you all why, or I just might get banned for being frank.

Suffice it to say, it is time I found other ways to pass my time for a while. Time to get crackin' on some of those New Years Resolutions I listed - it's already the end of March, and I still have so much to do!

See you all! Have a great time. I will miss you guys, but I need a break.

I'll definitely miss u, Lottie. Have a nice vacation and good luck with yer resolutions. Until our next meeting

trolls' bane · 03-30-2006, 01:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by klatukatt

woah! I dunno that language!

But I will sing along loudly and enthusiastically!

LOL! Neither do I. I could translate it. Ya know, it's the most famous classical composition, the one everyone loves!

**Nurvingiel** · 03-30-2006, 01:32 AM

"O Fortuna" is from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. It is also the theme for the greatest Arthurian legend movie of all-time - Excalibur.

*sings O Fortuna*

klatukatt · 03-30-2006, 01:33 AM

200th post! (this username, a-haha)

Sing LOUD and PROUD!!!

Beauing, belling, dancing, drinking,
Breaking windows, cursing, sinking
Every raking, never thinking,
Live the Rakes of Mallow,

Then to end this raking life,
They get sober, take a wife,
Ever after live in strife,
And wish again for Mallow.

Oops, I'm not Irish. Oh well.

trolls' bane · 03-30-2006, 01:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

"O Fortuna" is from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. It is also the theme for the greatest Arthurian legend movie of all-time - Excalibur.

*sings O Fortuna*

EXACTLY! Now will you PLEASE answer my question about your username?

trolls' bane · 03-30-2006, 01:57 AM

Oh, never mind! I'll just have to bug you via IM about it now!

BeardofPants · 03-30-2006, 02:10 AM

Have a good break Tess.

03-29-2006, 11:14 PM	#901
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Hey Nurvs, why don't you get her that beer and I'll bring in a plate of her favorite food. gives SGH a magic plate that has her favorite food on it Guys, I must say that all these conspiracy things are just totally confusing to me - to me, it's very obvious why people get banned - their own choices as to how they post (usually repeated flaming) are what do it. I always thought the only reason that the reasons behind banning were kept quiet was that the mods were being as nice as possible to the offender - kinda keep it quiet and behind the scenes, to make it the least embarassing as possible. But maybe that's not the best way to deal with it anymore - maybe it's just better to have a permanant thread at the top of GMs that says "Banned Status" or something, and if someone gets banned, then their name and the reason goes in there, and the length of the ban, too, so we know when they'll be back. At least that way, there's not these odd conspiracy things floating around. Maybe you mods/admins could consider that. I don't know what's worse - to have a thread like that, or to try to deal behind the scenes with it and then have conspiracy theories going around. __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

03-29-2006, 11:27 PM	#902
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Since Sister Golden Hair's here right now (Ciao, Janet!), I'd just like to explain, make it quite clear to you all that I do not in any way feel that I have been "pushed out," or any other such nonsense. I'm taking a break of my own volition, nobody's pushing me anywhere. Also, I have nothing but respect for the mods and admins, and always have. Let me repeat, I have nothing but respect for the administration and moderating staff of this forum, especially Earniel, SGH, Valandil, Hobbit, Ben Milder, and others and that this has always been the case, and remains so. I just really, really do not want to take my "vacation" with people thinking that I have some sort of grudge or problem, or that I am somehow being a bad girl, because I do not, and am not, and haven't been. I merely need a break, you guys! I love Entmoot, but I need a protracted hiatus from spending so much time at my computer, mooting. I just really, really want everyone to realise that this is why I'm taking a break, it has nothing to do with anything else other than the fact that I'd like a long break, and get out of this habit of excessive mooting. It's all good! I'll be lurking from time to time, but I have got to steel myself from spending so many hours in online forums when I ought to be getting some RL things done. Ciao for now, my moot homies! Keep it real, you guys; I'll be back after a while. Quitting mooting is going to be almost as hard as quitting smoking, I have a feeling. You guys are awesome, I'll be missing you all. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

03-29-2006, 11:36 PM	#904
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Have a good vacation, Lotesse . Please don't leave, BB. I really don't want you to. The place wouldn't be the same without you. Sister Golden Hair, I think you, Spock and all the rest of you are doing such a good job with the VERY difficult situation Entmoot can often be. Managing websites where thread topics can easily intersect and keeping calm through all the big Entmoot fights, trying to keep everything orderly, has got to be no picnic at all. I really, really appreciate all of your contribution. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

03-29-2006, 11:43 PM	#906
Bombadillo "The Bomb" Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: all over the place Posts: 1,601	Oh, that's good and understandable Lotesse. Your previous post made me think you found the atmosphere intolerable here all of a sudden. ( ) Enjoy your vacation... and your symptoms of withdrawal! For the record, nobody got banned recently, have they? Crazy Squirrel? BB? Whenever somebody gets banned, I always miss it. Captain Morgans! helps self Oh, I'll fetch us some Coke. __________________ Could it be that one path to enlightenment leads through insanity?

03-29-2006, 11:46 PM	#907
*Sister Golden Hair* Queen of Nargothrond Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Akron, Ohio - USA Posts: 7,121	Well I thank you for that Lief. I know that most of the mooters do appreciate the job the staff does. And we appreciate your support. It's important for a thriving, happy community such as Entmoot. We have our moments as do most boards, but this is usually a happy and friendly place, and I hope it stays that way. Lotesse, good luck and hope to see you again. __________________ "Whither go you?" she said. "North away." he said: "to the swords, and the siege, and the walls of defence - that yet for a while in Beleriand rivers may run clean, leaves spring, and birds build their nests, ere Night comes." AboutNewJersey.com - New Jersey Travel and Tourism Guide

03-30-2006, 12:13 AM	#909
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	AHEM! You're name! __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

03-30-2006, 12:43 AM	#910
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Lotesse - I hope you have a wonderful Entmoot vacation, and come back refreshed and ready to hang out at the Cafe again! Nurvi - thanks for the ale!! Bomb - no one's been banned recently that I know of - Crazy Squirrel certainly wasn't, and neither was BB! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! Last edited by Rían : 03-30-2006 at 12:45 AM.

03-30-2006, 12:49 AM	#911
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	everyone hears large chorus singing in the large, usually empty concert hall wing of the Teacup Circa mea pectora multa sunt suspiria de tua pulchritudine, que me ledunt misere. Manda liet, Manda liet, min geselle chumet niet. Tui lucent oculi sicut solis radii, sicut splendor fulguris lucem donat tenebris. Manda liet, Manda liet, min geselle chumet niet. Vellet deus, vallent dii quod mente proposui: ut eius virginea reserassem vincula. Manda liet, Manda liet, min geselle chumet niet. __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

03-30-2006, 12:59 AM	#912
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	TB (to orchestra and chorus) No, no no No NO! Wrong one! It's supposed to be this one! chorus and orchestra begin familiar tune; Where have you heard it before? O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem egestatem potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis, rota tu volubilis, status malus, vana salus semper dissolubilis, obumbrata et velata michi quoque niteris; nunc per ludum dorsum nudum fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria, est affectus et defectus semper in angaria. Hac in hora sine mora corde pulsum tangite; quod per sortem sternit fortem, mecum omnes plangite! __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

03-30-2006, 01:11 AM	#913
klatukatt Entmoot's Drunken Uncle Join Date: May 2005 Location: ghost Posts: 1,792	woah! I dunno that language! But I will sing along loudly and enthusiastically!

03-30-2006, 01:33 AM	#917
klatukatt Entmoot's Drunken Uncle Join Date: May 2005 Location: ghost Posts: 1,792	200th post! (this username, a-haha) Sing LOUD and PROUD!!! Beauing, belling, dancing, drinking, Breaking windows, cursing, sinking Every raking, never thinking, Live the Rakes of Mallow, Then to end this raking life, They get sober, take a wife, Ever after live in strife, And wish again for Mallow. Oops, I'm not Irish. Oh well.

03-30-2006, 01:57 AM	#919
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Oh, never mind! I'll just have to bug you via IM about it now! __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

03-30-2006, 02:10 AM	#920
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	Have a good break Tess. __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

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