The Official Electioneering Topic
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Apprentice
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 09:52
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this bickering is useless, you know, since STUGIE'S GUNNA PWN!! anyway. Posts: 3 | Registered: Saturday, May 7 2005 07:00 |
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Cartographer
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 09:56
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My vote cannot be bought by pretty speeches. I will not beg for your votes. As a mod I would do only what I can, when I must. And that should be enough. -------------------- "Son--err," her father said, "I mean... Daughter, I give you your first and only sword. Use it for with skill for great villainy." Nanoisms Ooh! Homepage - Blog - Geneforge, +2, +3 - My Elfwood Gallery - WannabeCool Forums So many strange ones around. Don't you think? Posts: 1308 | Registered: Sunday, September 8 2002 07:00 |
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This Side Towards Enemy
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 10:00
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If nothing else, TM's honest. That's got to count for something. I'm obviously not yet quite brain damaged enough to vote for him, but it's a start. The words of Lucius Annaeus Seneca are sadly spoiled by his ridiculously melodramatic and drawn out death. Moral of the story: practice what you preach and stop aping Socrates. He probably had it coming anyway. -------------------- Voice of Reasonable Morality Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 10:12
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Google turns up a nice article on Seneca, but the article ends with an invitation to Search eBay! for Seneca collectibles. [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:15: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 10:17
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quote:Yes, I forgot the sign. Mass is an energy-form, thus this formula actually suggests that energy is greater than itself. [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:17: Message edited by: Inferior ] Posts: 356 | Registered: Tuesday, April 6 2004 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 10:28
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No, this specifies the amount of energy that a particular piece of mass represents. This equation is the representation of the statement that mass is a form of energy. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 10:44
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What we could do is hold an election to settle what the equation should be. I won't run, but I'll endorse Einstein. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 11:25
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I have two questions for all candidates: 1. What are you going to do to crop this forum to a size that is tolerable for the sponsoring company? 2. How accountable for your actions, how modest in your exercise of power and how autocratic will you be as a moderator? What verifiable limits to your powers are you going to accept? There are insignia of power here that mainly serve to distinguish between the powers that be and mortals, like most prominently e.g. custom titles, and more harmless insignia of individuality and self-reflection like the privilege of ever changing signatures. Both we know. Question is What sort of egomania can we expect from you? Posts: 311 | Registered: Friday, February 13 2004 08:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 11:33
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Cropping isn't really the moderators' job. Admins may at times have to do that, but more likely, those sorts of decisions are made by Spiderweb themselves. To be honest, a moderator really does only the following things: lock topics that direly need locking, warn people who are in grievous violation of the CoC, edit posts that are wildly offensive and (typically) pornographic, and conspire on the Mod Board. I promise to do exactly that and no more, in rather the same fashion as I currently do on other boards. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 11:37
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1. Rmv vwls. 2. Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem. ps frgt m nt rnnng. [DT: Mssplld 'frgt' nd 'rnnng'. Srry.] [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:52: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 11:43
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Watch your mouth. Or spell things right. And now this post no longer makes sense. [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:51: Message edited by: Drakefyre ] -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy desperance.net - We're Everywhere ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 11:47
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Cropping is unecessary, until the point where it is too great a demand on the disk space limit of Ironycentral. I will be as accountable a moderator as any other. vis. unless there is a serious grievance leveled, I will merely perform the duties, as necessary. The limit to my powers would be the limit of the powers of any moderator - the full range of moderator powers, but not abused. In short, no egomania. -------------------- Aut Tace Aut Loquere Meliora Silencio Posts: 1487 | Registered: Sunday, February 10 2002 08:00 |
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Veteran*
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 12:25
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If elected, I'll make it a point to get Thuryl banned as soon as possible. I'm sick of reading his ignorant, trashy posts. Posts: 455 | Registered: Tuesday, May 17 2005 07:00 |
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Triad Mage
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 12:53
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A vote for Imban 4444 is a vote for the status quo. -------------------- "At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool." - Menander ==== Drakefyre's Demesne - Happy Happy Joy Joy desperance.net - We're Everywhere ==== You can take my Mac when you pry my cold, dead fingers off the mouse! Posts: 9436 | Registered: Wednesday, September 19 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 13:59
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A vote for Alcritas is a vote for victory! —Alorael, who has contributed nothing but murk. He'll just add once again that this is a glorified and complicated popularity contest. If you like someone now, you'll like him or her as a mod. If you don't like someone, moderatorial power won't help matters. If you need speeches to help you figure this out, then you don't deserve your thirtysomething votes. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Guardian
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 14:00
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Now that some of that hot air seems to have passed by, I'll proceed to make my case for the moderatorial position. As my first comment certainly implied, my most important asset is almost certainly my always cool and level head. I am as such invulnerable to any of the violent fits of irrationality of which some of my respected fellow candidates may occasionally suffer. Rationality, patience, and consistency are my bywords. My moderatorial experience and record indicate a chameleon-like flexibility unequalled by most of my competitors. I have served as a moderator on two major Spiderweb satellite fora, TCOA and Chance. The two boards had very different climates, and my capable moderation of both boards points to my versatility as a moderator. At TCOA the prevailing climate was one of general goofy fun and barely-controlled mayhem, and as always I adapted myself and my moderation to the situation. I was a productive moderator and interfered very minimally with the forum's goings-on. Chance possessed a different climate entirely; its members were fairly young and impressionable, and as such a more controlled environment was most appropriate there. I somehow fit in just as well as I had in TCOA, and although I didn't adjust my views to suit the mostly conservative population of Chance, I never picked fights and kept my debating civil. As for my moderation, it was more active, although certainly not draconian. I conferred with my fellow mods whenever problems arose, and I insisted on unanimous action by the moderating staff in all cases. If I am elected to the position of General Moderator, you can be sure I will apply the flexibility and adaptability I have displayed in my other mod positions to my new job. Those who know me here are well aware of my mellow, humble, tolerant, empathetic personality. I will never be heavy-handed or overly aggressive in my moderation, keeping an open mind in all situations. And, like Kel, I have been known to stay up until all hours of the night, and as such will be able to deal with certain situations earlier than others. In cases of a truly egregious offense such as the Eraserhead situation not long ago, I will not hesitate to act and solve the problem on my own. However, in most other cases I will discuss courses of action with my fellow moderators, and attempt to arrive at unanimous, prompt solutions. In all of my actions as moderator, I will never fail to be courteous, gentlemanly, and humble. As a longstanding member but not quite an oldbie, I have a thorough understanding of board history and respect for older members, but insight into the situations of newer members as well. I am the candidate in the best position to offer flexible, even-handed, even-minded moderation, and I intend to prove it to all of you, once I am elected. [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 14:01: Message edited by: Stugri-La ] -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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E Equals MC What!!!!
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 17:30
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quote:Oh well. The joke would have worn thin pretty quick anyway. As an aside, I am astounded to see how many people are taking this whole thing at all seriously. -------------------- Sex is easier than love. Posts: 1861 | Registered: Friday, February 11 2005 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 18:08
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Don't laugh. Joseph Stalin started out as moderator of the rollicking 'Marx&Sparx' forum in the old Bolsheboards, and quickly built it into an unassailable power base from which to exert total personal control over a nuclear superpower for twenty years. This is serious business, here. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 18:28
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quote:You hereby have my vote. ;) -------------------- I stop rubber at 160km/h, five times a week. CANUCKS RESPEK! My Style The Knight Between Posts. Posts: 2395 | Registered: Friday, November 2 2001 08:00 |
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BANNED
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 19:10
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Did you know? The official board policy, as stated by Mariann, is that damn, ass and hell are okay. You don't have to edit them out. Mr. Watts' moderation is, by the books, too harsh. Zeviz has gotten emotional over an election, and has let this damnedly archaic grudge continue, much to the foiling of the process. "Impartial" is the sort of thing that gets Djur banned for providing the dictionary definition of "fagot". Take that as you will. Alec, on the other hand- like myself- provided a sense of order on Miscellaneous. I did so when it was just being formed. Does anyone here remember Sam Potter? Well, he wasn't bad- but Miscellaneous was twice as chaotic before I was appointed. I'm definitely not the most pristine member, but I was a good moderator- Miscellaneous did well under my care. In fact, so did half of the board- nevermind the fact that I am the reason that the Nethergate forum exists. Slander my current behavior if you want, and by the letter of the law, perhaps rightfully so. But even if Drakey is hell-bent to not accept my ascension, I certainly wouldn't make a bad candidate- A vote for me is, if nothing else, a strategic vote; I plan to use any votes I collect to support the most capable candidates and hold down the most inept or egocentric ones. I also, for the record, see nothing wrong with voting for either Mr. Kyras or Mr. Lucien, who I feel to be marginally and somewhat more restrictive than I intend to be respectively. Put more succinctly, I encourage whatever path leads to supporting open discourse and the flavors that make this community worth sticking to, however diluted that may be as of late. I also encourage bizarrely-placed, random images. ...  Also, anyone who doesn't like Shiina Ringo will be banned, even if that won't be in my power. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 19:25
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quote:I don't now. I edited "damn" exactly twice and then stopped. You're just fortunate that your history of modship is now deleted so that I can't drag up all the things that you've done. And I would appreciate it, Jeremy, if you would not refer to me by that name. THE MANHOOD-TYPING PARTY WILL NOT BE STOPPED  [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 19:34: Message edited by: Manhood Typing Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Master
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 19:47
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You support outdated non-Windows keyboards for non-Mac users? O_o Support teh religion instead!  [ Wednesday, June 22, 2005 19:48: Message edited by: You should vote Wise Man ] -------------------- Polaris - Weather balloons, ninjas, and your big daddy Wise Man. What more could you want? Undead Theories - Don't Ask, Don't Tell Posts: 3323 | Registered: Thursday, April 25 2002 07:00 |
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BANNED
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 20:07
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quote:Ever-so-fortunate indeed. "Raving neophyte" would be a CoC-violation if it wasn't the truth. Of course, for completeness' sake, I'd have to add "petite bourgeoisie". There's more, but I don't think the irony of posting violating material on a moderator-election thread would go appreciated enough to risk it. -------------------- 人 た ち を 燃 え る た め に 俺 は か れ ら に 火 を 上 げ る か ら 死 ん だ Posts: 6936 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Shake Before Using
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 22:35
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There's no need to get worked up over this. The greatest task of a general forum moderator is to keep the peace, and that should start within yourself and your posts. So please, keep things civil. Posts: 3234 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Veteran*
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written Wednesday, June 22 2005 22:44
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When I'm mod, Imban gets banned too. His temper is really too much. For my third act as moderator, I will fire Linda Strout. Posts: 455 | Registered: Tuesday, May 17 2005 07:00 |