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EvC Forum: What ever happend to Dan Carroll? Warning: Serenity spoilers!
Dan Carroll writes:
Jar did indeed drop me a line, thought I'd swing by. And oh lordy be, I think I'm gonna cry. But a manly kind of cry. The kind where you clench a fist and listen to Johnny Cash. You people are beautiful.
Mike is, for once in his life, right about something... both about the spelling of my name, and the fact that Chicago was safely out of the path of the mighty wrath of YHWH that recently swept across America. Good work, kid. You'll go far.
Schraf is, as usual, absolutely right. "The Windy City" refers to politics... specifically, I think, to the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Although thanks to Lake Michigan, it happens to be an exceptionally windy city. I like living in a city that has a redundant meta-nickname. And for the record, it was only through great strength of will and intense physical control that I avoided having an orgasm in the theater while watching Serenity.
As for me, my departure wasn't so much a planned disappearance as it was a gradual sorta disinterest. As I said to Jar, it wound up feeling like it was the same merry-go-round over and over again, cranking out the same stock responses to the same stock arguments every day. Eventually you kinda wanna beat your head into a wall. Combine it with the fact that I moved up North, which kept me busy and off the internet for a while, and I just sorta trailed off.
And yeah, I'd be lying if I said the fun of this place hadn't gone downhill. (As some have pointed out on this thread.) When I first came on, it was a bit of a hoot ripping on the occasional (or really, intensely frequent) nutcases that populated the board. Say what you want about Wise and Willowtree, they made for some exceptionally entertaining flamewars. And it was a solid formula... some crackpot would post his theory about a bear's paw as a symbol for the Adversary, or about how Jesus can be seen in a floating cloud of stellar gas, his lips clearly mouthing "repeal Roe v. Wade", and we would all smack him down with the immature ferocity of a thousand 15 year old gamers. Good clean fun every time.
Then the boot camp came along, along with a general crackdown on tomfoolery. And yeah, given that my role around here was to provide some much-needed sarcasm, the forum didn't so much seem like the place for me to be.
That being said, I think the crackdown is ultimately a good thing. For the love of crimney, look at the country over the course of the past five years. The President of the United States actually just got up in front of the nation and proudly reccomended teaching Intelligent Design in schools. I mean honestly, Intelligent freakin' Design, the academic equivalent of medical leeches. The country is on one big downslide of nonsense and ignorance, and the more venues ther are for freely available hard science, the better. There are scads of smart folks around here, perfectly capable of providing some mental two-by-fours to the skull, and that kind of thing generally works better if it's not drowned out by dick jokes.
Generally, at least. It's a case by case basis, really.
Wanted to bring this one over yesterday, but for some strange reason I'm having problems copy/pasting with Firefox.
Kind of strange when it is Dan who seems to be in the vacinity of my position.
I think the "Proposed New Topic" (PNT) is here to stay, subject to some modifications of how it is implimented. I think there was, and continues to be good reasons why the PNT process was started. We must have a relevant thread concern the "Whys" of the PNT, somewhere. Will try to track it down later, if someone else doesn't do it sooner.
Also need to track the original "General discussion of moderation procedures" topic. I think much of that is worth another reading.
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). It started in April 2004.
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