Originally posted by
Winston Smith
There seems to either be a temporary moratorium on bannings, or they're not announcing them lately.
I say post it. Seems harmless enough.
Rico got back to me, advising me (or requesting, really) that I not post it there.
Which I'm agreeable to, or else why ask them what they think. But it is odd, I think, in that I'm certainly not violating any sort of rule with the post, other than being an irritant to Ed, which appears to be the explicit Prime Directive over there these days: "Don't piss Ed off." Did you catch him proclaiming that, no matter what, "cunt" is going to stay on the Bad Words list because he doesn't like it and he's got a billion zillion votes? Even when he's trying to be a nice guy (his meds kick in every so often, I guess), he can't help stressing the point that the SD is a proprietary site of which he is, ultimately, the sole proprietor, like we don't know that. It's like he's reminding himself that he's being courteous in letting us vent OUR opinions on HIS site, not acknowledging that some of OUR ideas have helped the SD thrive, while some of HIS ideas have been gigantic brainfarts. I would number as Brainfart # 1 the announcement of a policy, in the nastiest, most imperious tones possible, that after days of our pissing and moaning in 1000 different posts about, he has decided to revamp from scratch. Uh, how about opening up a thread or two to a discussion of the problem FIRST and then announcing the policy changes after some sort of concensus (or at least extensive discussion) has been reached? Do you really have to be the world's smartest human to figure that one out?