One account per person please

[Emma]

Just to remind you that on ESMB we have very simple rules.

1. Be nice
2. No copyright material
3. No sockpuppets or multiple accounts.

Rule number 3 seems to be forgotten or perhaps unknown to some newer members.

You only need one account. If you can't say what you want to say with your one account then perhaps it shouldn't be said.

Those who were unaware of this rule are excused but I'd like those individuals who have registered more than one account to PM me and tell me which one they'd like to keep.

If I don't hear from you I will be deleting the second & subsequents accounts without notice in 48 hours.

Thanks,

Emma

 

[Dulloldfart]

Just to remind you that on ESMB we have very simple rules.

1. Be nice
2. No copyright material
3. No sockpuppets or multiple accounts.

Rule number 3 seems to be forgotten or perhaps unknown to some newer members.

Or perhaps....

Paul

 

[Emma]

I've changed my mind.

Bye bye.

 

[Tanstaafl]

I've changed my mind.

Bye bye.

Ems - you're so sexy when you're ruthless!

 

[Dulloldfart]

Ems - you're so sexy when you're ruthless!

So what did she change her mind about?

She now allows sockpuppet accounts? Can we make guesses as to which ones are sockpuppets? I nominate DonkeyOT for starters.

Maybe she's deleting them already and not waiting 48 hours.

She can't be totally against posting all copyrighted materials. Well, she can be against it, and it's a bit of a problem if you run a Scn board, but she shouldn't have any trouble over the odd fair use quote here and there. Posting huge swathes of issues or tape excerpts would be a bit naughty though, and if we do it it puts her in a bit of a spot.

Being nice? Yeah well, we're pretty good at that, all things considered.

Paul

 

[Emma]

So what did she change her mind about?

About 48 hours. This dude had 4 accounts!

She now allows sockpuppet accounts? Can we make guesses as to which ones are sockpuppets? I nominate DonkeyOT for starters.

No sock puppets!!

She's deleting them already and not waiting 48 hours.

Correct.

She can't be totally against posting all copyrighted materials. Well, she can be against it, and it's a bit of a problem if you run a Scn board, but she shouldn't have any trouble over the odd fair use quote here and there. Posting huge swathes of issues or tape excerpts would be a bit naughty though, and if we do it it puts her in a bit of a spot.

Fair use is acceptable.:wink2:

Being nice? Yeah well, we're pretty good at that, all things considered.

Paul

You are.

 

[Colleen K. Peltomaa]

Emma, if those are the only rules then you are the best moderator in the Freezone. What I love about this board is your acceptance of all viewpoints, except for the nasty and schizophrenic ones.

 

[Dulloldfart]

I believe Colleen is using "Freezone" in its, er, extended meaning.

Paul

 

[Lulu Belle]

Emma, if those are the only rules then you are the best moderator in the Freezone.

How 'bout "in the universe"?

 

[Colleen K. Peltomaa]

I believe Colleen is using "Freezone" in its, er, extended meaning.

Paul

Right there, thanks Paul. I do have a large earth-size viewpoint of the term "Freezone".

 

[Colleen K. Peltomaa]

How 'bout "in the universe"?

Would somebody go check that out and report back in 3 days?

 

[Voltaire's Child]

Gonna take me more than three days to tour the universe...hey, how bout a Grand Tour thingie!!!

 

[Colleen K. Peltomaa]

Gonna take me more than three days to tour the universe...hey, how bout a Grand Tour thingie!!!

If you're the tour guide, I'm buying the ticket.

 

[Voltaire's Child]

At this point, I'm thinking that the universe is going to turn out to be the way it's depicted in The Hitchhiker's Guide series with a dash of Lexx and Farscape thrown in. Could be fun!

 

[Royal Prince Xenu]

At this point, I'm thinking that the universe is going to turn out to be the way it's depicted in The Hitchhiker's Guide series with a dash of Lexx and Farscape thrown in. Could be fun!

Douglas Adams had a unique insight into the world around him, and many of his stranger ideas were actually based on real events in his life. Remember the Sirius Cybernetics Happy People Vertical Transporters, that could see far enough into the future to know where and when to stop so that you need not press a button and wait around forever? He was working security in a hotel where the lifts had to be kept moving because of something to do with the lubrication, so if they weren't in use for about 10 minutes, just a like a screensaver, they would suddenly zoom off and stop at floors randomly. Marvin the paranoid android was also based on a colleague.

The sad part for me was that after the brilliantly cutting-edge style of writing that he had in the first 3 books, he began listening to other people telling him how he should write, and while still good, his writing lost its brilliance.

 

[Voltaire's Child]

Yes, I like Douglas Adams' stuff a great deal. I was quite sad to hear about his early and untimely death.

I love his vision of the universe and his sense of the absurd.

 

[Colleen K. Peltomaa]

At this point, I'm thinking that the universe is going to turn out to be the way it's depicted in The Hitchhiker's Guide series with a dash of Lexx and Farscape thrown in. Could be fun!

On second thought, I prefer Terra Firma.

 

[Voltaire's Child]

On terra firma, you don't need a space suit and an oxygen tank...space would be scary. Which is why I like to imagine it as if it were something out of a Douglas Adams' book.

 

[Royal Prince Xenu]

On terra firma, you don't need a space suit and an oxygen tank...space would be scary. Which is why I like to imagine it as if it were something out of a Douglas Adams' book.

You don't need to fiddle around with all that space-suit stuff, you just need to "be three feet in back of your head".

 

[Zinjifar]

You don't need to fiddle around with all that space-suit stuff, you just need to "be three feet in back of your head".

I think there are any number of people who wouldn't be bothered by 'space', having managed to so 'clear' their skull of superfluvia as to be a reasonable vacuum simulator. Except for the Ron posters, of course...

Zinj