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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Darth_Anton on July 26, 2005, 11:32 AM
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I've been monitoring the touchy situation in the Why there are no pictures of Bly (http://http://www.jedidefender.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=8569.0) thread and it finally hit me what is familliar about the atmosphere of this sight. JD is college compared to all the other sights being High school.
Think about it. I don't know about you, but high school was kind of rough in that a lot of people were just immature and the teachers in general just didn't care. When college came around, everyone kind of bonded togeather and became more tollerant of others. I specifically remember the effort that people made to accept everyone without exception, and that's the feeling I get around here, an honest effort to make eachother as welcome as possible, even durring stressful situations.
Cheers.
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Is not. :-*
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I agree Darth Anton, this is almost like a fraternity atmosphere.
:P
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Thanks to the collective efforts of all those good and true in this world.....with enough beer. And chicken wings I would suppose. ;)
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One of the things that I find really refreshing here is that if a person goes "out of bounds" on something, the mods will actually contact the person, point it out to them, and try to rectify the situation before a flame war starts. Threads that seem as if they may devolve into a more hostile atmosphere are kept open until other measures are taken to defuse the problem. And best of all, the mods and staff here actually TAKE PART IN THE DISCUSSIONS and if you weren't able to see that they were staff/mods in their profile, you'd never be able to tell the difference between them and anyone else. There is no hierarchy amongst the posters here (forum rankings or not) and it feels like everyone has an equal chance to contribute.
Other sites (yeah, that one, too) will just lock/close a thread with no explanation, or delete it from the board entirely. The person who is "guilty" of ******** up the thread will be banned or suspended with no explanation, and the mods/admins go back to their ivory tower, uncontactable by the plebians, and their word is infallible. Some members of other sites do not take part in their message board communities at all, and that kind of bothers me, because it's like they see themselves as "above" the rest of collectors. But I digress.
Actually, I'd equate JD to an Ivy League school, while sites like "that other site" are like Romper Room. I think that we're all intelligent people here, and we respect others who post here. Sure there are little jabs thrown back and forth between people, but it all seems to be done in good humor, and it's probably the most mature SW collecting forum on the web, and I feel really appreciative to the staff for giving us a place to indulge our inner children in an adult manner.
Except for JediMAC, who gave me cooties. ;)
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If the mods here get punctuation happy, start having a thread for every single figure with a :o in front of it or start new threads and close similar older threads so their's can be the "official" thread, I'm leaving.
I don't think that's going to happen, so I think I'll be ok.
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Other than the staff (and that guy from New England) I pretty much like it here.
Oh yeah, that DP guy sort of bugs me too, can't quite put my finger on it.
Edit: Forgot about all the damn North of the Border folks too. Too much hair for my liking >:(
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Except for JediMAC, who gave me cooties. ;)
Consider yourself lucky... what he gave me took 6 weeks to get rid of and a special cream...
;)
So, if this is a fraternity, what about us females?
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Other than the staff (and that guy from New England) I pretty much like it here.
Yeah those New Englanders are ********.
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Yes, this site is pretty cool. Not only for it's members (especially the ones from Iowa) but for the most part, the posts are easy to read and understand.
Education goes a long way....no child left behind! :-*
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Yes, this site is pretty cool...(especially the ones from Iowa)
Actually, we've been considering banning 2 or 3 of them. :-*
So, if this is a fraternity, what about us females?
Are you kidding? The females are the best part, which would make us a, uh, maternity? :P
Other than the staff I pretty much like it here.
Edit: Forgot about all the damn North of the Border folks too. Too much hair for my liking >:(
Damn, two strikes against me - you must really hate me. :'( ;)
If the mods here ... close similar older threads so theirs can be the "official" thread, I'm leaving.
I'm sorry, we'll have to lock this, there is already an offical JD Observation thread.
JD is college compared to all the other sights being High school.
Actually, I'd equate JD to an Ivy League school, while sites like "that other site" are like Romper Room.
Please send your tuition money to the JD School of Etiquette. But don't worry about Professor Matt Colman, he's been fired for inappropriately touching some of the students. :-*
Is not. :-*
Is too. :P
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Oh yeah, that DP guy sort of bugs me too, can't quite put my finger on it.
I don't know what you're complaining about. You told me you were interested in selling Amway. If I'd known I would have to deal with these wild claims of you getting 400 calls a day from people wanting cheap laundry detergent, I never would have bothered to sign you up for their mailing list. :P
If you're talking about Deanpaul, however, uhh...don't answer your phone for a few weeks until things calm down. ;)
I'm sorry, we'll have to lock this, there is already an offical JD Observation thread.
You wouldn't be locking anything if it was your name as the first poster in the thread. :P
Is too. :P
Nun-unh! >:(
(sarcasm is heavily in effect here) ;D
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Pft, man this site sucks. Let them have their "Cheers". I'd rather hang out here with all my supre cool peeps here at _____ ;D
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Eh, yeah. I'm thankfully I've stuck it out here for 2 years...uh, wait, wasn't I supposed to bolster the egos of the entire membership? Crap. Uh...JD IS Star Wars? No...eh.
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Hm. Ok then.
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You know what I haven't had in a long time? Big League Chew.
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One of the things that I find really refreshing here is that if a person goes "out of bounds" on something, the mods will actually contact the person, point it out to them, and try to rectify the situation before a flame war starts. Threads that seem as if they may devolve into a more hostile atmosphere are kept open until other measures are taken to defuse the problem.
One reason this is possible is because this is a pretty small site (1000 registered members). At other sites with thousands or more members (SW.com, another board I frequent, has over 7 MILLION registered but most don't use the boards) it's easier to just ban someone back to the Stone Age and move on. More will pop right up like in Whack-A-Mole. Whatever an individual mod's inclination, it's not practical to personally contact each troublemaker and talk it through.
It's also a self-segregating thing--like-minded (in this case smart, mature, and ARTICULATE :-*) people will congegrate together while others will just drift away, and vice versa.
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So, if this is a fraternity, what about us females?
You're French Maid groupies!! ;)
(http://www.uri.edu/personal/dbot4928/crazy_girls.jpg)
Just kidding. I joke, I joke! :)
:P
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Edit: Forgot about all the damn North of the Border folks too. Too much hair for my liking >:(
You said shave your back, I shaved my back. Jeez, there's just no pleasing you. Bitch :'(
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Everybody knows there aren't any real females in Star Wars forums. They're all "Shaak Ti" type "females."
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Everybody knows there aren't any real females in Star Wars forums. They're all "Shaak Ti" type "females."
(http://www.telusplanet.net/public/djustus/Southern%20Alberta%20Storms/LOLSide.gif)
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Everybody knows there aren't any real females in Star Wars forums. They're all "Shaak Ti" type "females."
Hmmm,
Star Wars guys
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/Morgbug/P1010575.jpg)
Or
Shaak Ti (actress in green "shirt")
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/Morgbug/P1010495.jpg)
You decide ;)
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Ah Morgbug... ya missed it. My statement was a joke referring to an unfortunate series of events in another popular Star Wars forum. It had nothing to do with Miss Shoshan. ;)
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Everybody knows there aren't any real females in Star Wars forums. They're all "Shaak Ti" type "females."
Really? Bummer. :'(
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To bring the topic sort of back to point, I wonder how some of the old debates like "Carded vs. Loose" and "What color is Han's Hoth coat?" would play out here.
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Everybody knows there aren't any real females in Star Wars forums. They're all "Shaak Ti" type "females."
Really? Bummer. :'(
Except the ones at JD. Yowza. ;)
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To bring the topic sort of back to point, I wonder how some of the old debates like "Carded vs. Loose" and "What color is Han's Hoth coat?" would play out here.
I think we've run through the carded vs. loose discussion here a few times, without the slightest hint of a problem. Folks here undoubtedly respect others collecting habits, regardless of whether it differs from their own. So no worries there.
As for the Hoth Han debate, well, the key participants in that mindboggling thread over at RS were Scott (staff here), MisterPL (member here), Josheee (member here), and I think maybe JesseJames (staff here). Those guys all gained a level of respect for eachother after all was said and done with that thread, I think. Especially after Hasbro went so far as to specifically acknowledge their "discussion" on the matter by using it in their brilliant advertisement for that figure, which came out in both flavors. One of the greatest moments in forum history when that figure was announced, I think - proving that Hasbro is indeed paying attention to the goings on around the boards.
I'm pretty sure if a similar discussion popped up here nowadays, it'd go just fine. I think there's been a couple less pronounced color debates on some figures over the last couple years, and I'm quite sure nothing dramatic ever came of it around these parts.
I think all that gets our feathers ruffled around here are topics about RS, and apparently Commander Bly. :P
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Geez, you close a guy's thread and you are suddenly accused of being like Shaak Ti? Last I checked I didn't open 100 threads asking what everyones favourite <fill in the blank> is...
Yeah, the JD chicks are much cooler...
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Yes, this site is pretty cool...(especially the ones from Iowa)
Actually, we've been considering banning 2 or 3 of them. :-*
Wait, what? :o
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Geez, you close a guy's thread and you are suddenly accused of being like Shaak Ti? Last I checked I didn't open 100 threads asking what everyones favourite <fill in the blank> is...
Yeah, the JD chicks are much cooler...
Huh?? ???
Link please...I hate to be left in the dark ;).
PS: How you feeling Princess??
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Geez, you close a guy's thread and you are suddenly accused of being like Shaak Ti?
Pretty sure you didn't get Bill's crack there, Shannon. That was an RS thing, not GH or JD. (I think) ;)
Ben, we've been getting a lot of complaints about the various troublemakers from the Iowa region around here (you, Trav, Darb...) So we've been contemplating implementing a new policy that we don't accept anyone here at JD from the state of Iowa anymore. I'm sure you understand, right?
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Sure, why not? The rest of the union thinks we're backwards chuckleheads who kick ass and take names.
;)
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So we've been contemplating implementing a new policy that we don't accept anyone here at JD from the state of Iowa anymore. I'm sure you understand, right?
As a Minnesotan, I can certainly say we don't need their kind here...
All they do is grow corn and win JD Give Aways. ::)
Dang Iowans. >:(
Jeff
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ps. Iowans still aren't as bad as the Cheese-Heads though... those guys are still worse. ;)
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If we're a fraternity, I proclaim us as Tri-Lam :P
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/54/Revengeofthenerdsposter.jpg/396px-Revengeofthenerdsposter.jpg)
Honestly this place is so much better than the others. Boardies actually want to meet here and aren't just for themselves. It's actually funny, I've been a member at RS longer and have never met anyone there. I've been a member under a year here and met most of the So Cal guys.
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As a Minnesotan...
Careful what you admit to Jeff, the only thing that keeps you in the clear is the fact that you border Canada. Otherwise I'd ban your ass too. >:( ;D
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Huh?? ???
Link please...I hate to be left in the dark ;).
PS: How you feeling Princess??
There was a user on the RS forums named ShaakTi who posed as a girl for a good 3 months, going so far as to send a fake photo to the RS photo album. Then he decided to reveal that he was really a guy. I tried to find the thread, but as everyone knows the RS search feature is ****.
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Ah Morgbug... ya missed it. My statement was a joke referring to an unfortunate series of events in another popular Star Wars forum. It had nothing to do with Miss Shoshan. ;)
No, I got it. I just use any excuse to post a pic of Mz. Shoshan. C3 was the first place I saw her and haven't got over it since. Sorry for dragging it off topic. I also like showing my roomies at C3 in all their glory. You'll particularly notice I'm keeping my distance from jamie >:(
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Ah. Never a bad idea...
(http://www.creaturecantina.com/celebs/graphics/040501shoshan.JPG)
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Yuck, what an ugly bunch. :P
Star Wars guys
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v643/Morgbug/P1010575.jpg)
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Ugly, yes? Are you surprised though, that's day three I think with a sum total of about 9 hours sleep in three nights. Slave driver had the guys working until about 5 am and most of us were working our way in the doors prior to 8 am. That and out drinking until 2 or 3 am.
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So what the hell are you smiling about? ;)
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Probably drunk. And I had my hand on Matt's ass. :-X
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Probably drunk. And I had my hand on Matt's ass. :-X
You do that when your not drunk! :-*
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I don't think I've ever been sober around Colman. I'd been at Hooters for at least a couple of beers before he showed up...
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At the con you were sober. Unless that "camera" you had me take a Wookie Picture with that magicly "didn't show up" was a flask! >:( I feel used.
Kevin
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Yeah, didn't know that Shaak Ti finally admitted to being a guy- the thread was probably deleted from the RS boards, Bill... you know how they love to do that over there.
Still, hope there are no hard feelings that I closed the thread at GH, Bill :D
Beth, feeling better, but only because they stopped my treatment until my blood counts go up- I updated the Thoughts thread a couple days ago- so it says more of what's going on :) Hope you are well :)
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HA! She finally admitted it? Dude! I can think of some people over there who must feel a little...eh, less masculine there now.
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Yeah, didn't know that Shaak Ti finally admitted to being a guy- the thread was probably deleted from the RS boards, Bill... you know how they love to do that over there.
When was this and how did I miss it?!
Let the record show that I called 'her' on that a few weeks ago.
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(http://www.faschingskostuem.com/pix/teeth/character/3000-austin-powers.jpg)
"That's a Man Baby!"
So I wonder which of the site's proudest that Shaak Ti actually was?
BTW, the most drunk guy in that picture was easily Jared... His stoned-out-of-his-gourd look on his face, as he stares off into oblivion, is truly priceless.
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HA! She finally admitted it? Dude! I can think of some people over there who must feel a little...eh, less masculine there now.
Yeah... especially after ShaakTi disclosed that he... uh... prefers the company of men (not that there's anything wrong with that).
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Ah. Never a bad idea...
(http://www.creaturecantina.com/celebs/graphics/040501shoshan.JPG)
Look I don't know much about CWD, internet cross dressers posing as women to lure desperate unsuspecting Hasbro action figure collectors into the sack, or anything else moderators preside over on that other site. But what I do know is, the real Shaak Ti, Orli Shoshan, is one serious mega hottie:
(http://www.orlishoshan.com/TtlImage.jpg)
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Ben, we've been getting a lot of complaints about the various troublemakers from the Iowa region around here (you, Trav, Darb...) So we've been contemplating implementing a new policy that we don't accept anyone here at JD from the state of Iowa anymore. I'm sure you understand, right?
If I had a nickel for every PM you and Jeff have sent me in regards to threatening banishment, I'd be a rich man.
Edit for sarcasm. :P
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OK, so Shaak Ti's "deal" is that he/she was a gay guy posing as a highschool girl on a Star Wars forum?
I smell Jerry Springer's staff cooking up new show ideas...
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That is pretty hilarious.
I actually called Shaak Ti "Yoda Boi" and he/she got angry and said I hurt it's feelings via a PM. I feel bad for apologizing, because it sounds like I was probably right in the first place. ;D
Sucks that RS deleted that thread and I never got to see the admission.
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My understanding is they deleted Shaak Ti pretty much completely. Canceled the account and deleted the threads that she/he started...
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My understanding is they deleted Shaak Ti pretty much completely. Canceled the account and deleted the threads that she/he started...
What a shame. That Shaak Ti person (whatever it was) was pretty annoying and I would have liked to have seen that thread. It's too bad it's in the hidden area.....because it would have been nice to finally see the dude admit that he was just a prank or whatever.
Hmmm....guy posts as girl, few pictures exist.....finally confesses to being a dude then unregisters. That's how I always thought it would end for good old Bertha, but I guess "Shaak Ti" beat her to the punch. ;D
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My understanding is they deleted Shaak Ti pretty much completely. Canceled the account and deleted the threads that she/he started...
Just like they did to me, and my account over there. I'm not just banned, but completely deleted. I don't think Philip and Dustin like me too much... :P
Hopefully the real Shaak Ti comes forward soon to reveal the answer to that mystery. Josh might have it right, with the Yoda Boi guess. Who knows...
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and deleted the threads that she/he started...
Oh the horrors of assigning a pronoun to the gender challenged...