Posted by Tabitha on February 2, 2005, at 2:47:07
In reply to Sort of interesting, I guess., posted by Dinah on February 1, 2005, at 21:52:28
to the best of my recall...
It started out with a welcome, said "a little birdy" told him a bunch of ex-Babblers were there, then went into a list of points about his site. It said the site wasn't used for research ever, it isn't indexed by search engines, that he takes action if it ever does get indexed by search engines, he said the admin is done with a light hand there, he doesn't micromanage, and it isn't paternalistic/maternalistic. I think he said the admin is done with PMs, (private messages) but I'm not sure on that one. And there was a point about no suicidal posts like Gabbi said:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20050128/msgs/451334.html
I think the controversial part was saying he doesn't micromanage and isn't paternalistic, and uses a light hand. Although he didn't say he was talking about admin here, from the context it was possibile to read it as saying Dr Bob's admin was micromanaging, paternalistic, and heavy-handed. But all in all I don't think it would have gotten a PBC, since you did have to insert the assumption that he was commenting on Dr Bob's admin in order to get an insult out of it.
TofuEmmy had made a cute follow-up post about how folks needed to approach us Babblers cautiously because we're all in text-only mode and likely to get spooked by smileys. She even used a plain old ASCII smiley out of deference. It was sweet. I actually went over there and tried to reply. I thought I'd bravely show her I could use one of the animated smileys. But I brought up the whole page full of animated smiley options and got stuck staring at them all for about 10 minutes, then gave up. Mostly I was trying to figure out why there's one with what looks like an oil funnel on top of its head, and another one with what looks like a floppy boxing glove. I couldn't imagine what emotion I could ever have that could get conveyed by those. I guess I pretty much only run the gamut from :-) to :-(, with an occasional ;-). I haven't quite even fully adopted :-D and :-P.
Come to think of it maybe that post about smileys was somewhere else?
poster:Tabitha
thread:451208
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20050128/msgs/451551.html