And who was the person crazy enough to reboot the server? Huh? Huh?

You mean the one who needed me to hold her hand while she did it?

Don't talk about FL like that.

Shouldn't LB be banned?

Becks (as emotionally supported by Ogged) is teh hero!!

4: I've been banned. Repeatedly.

So now that the site's accessible again, is there any reason to read the comments to that post? Looking at the list of recent comments in the sidebar is not filling me with optimism.

The thread itself is dangerously close to becoming a full bore general abortion argument. The original facet is long lost.

That's what I was afraid of.

7 - I baited Charlie 2.0 until he got banned. That was the highlight for me. That was by 60 comments, I think.

I love that heebie-geebie is now spinning The Charlie 2.0 Situation to make it look like she was intentionally baiting him so that he would be banned.

And there was one point where Cala was talking about communion wafers and she used the phrase "vacuuming up little bits of God". In an abortion thread. I love that.

I've read that whole thread now, and what I don't understand is how Charlie gets "banned" but heebie-geebie doesn't?! Talk about your double-standard.

Charlie 2.0 had a history of trolling in multiple other threads. He had been given a formal warning on Friday not to engage in trollish behavior. Heebie-Geebie has neither of these strikes against her. To people who had read only that thread, it may have appeared to be a rash decision but it was not undertaken lightly.

I put out.

And that.

No wonder you people need "choice" so bad. What's next: "Free Cocaine for Everyone"?

Excellent! You're buying?

I don't like cocaine, I just like how it smells.

Al, what you don't understand is that this site is different from the other political sites in that many of the commenters here "know", know, or know each other and their comments are evaluated as on-topic and appropriate thusly.

Is that real Al, Al from Yglesias's, or Emerson Al?

And, you know, that we're not trying to be fair or anything. You get to post here as long as you're entertaining. Which given your record at Drum's, probably won't be long.

Al: STFU.

21: It's not Emerson. Once in the other thread was, but mostly it's not. I never got the hang of the difference between real Al and Al from Yglesias's, though.

No need to be rude to other commenters. If they become a problem, they can be banned. Until then, I'm all for civility.

Real Al and Al from Yglesias's might be the same person.

You get to post here as long as you're entertaining.

Quoth the Queen of Hearts.

For the record, I'm bored, not entertained.

I don't know why, but it's weird to see the troll(s) invade Unfogged, weirder than it was seeing him invade ObsWi (which is where he found out about Unfogged, apparently). The sense of community here is pretty strong and it seems less like a discussion site or a "normal" blog than just a bunch of pretty smart people, who happen to be friends, BSing over lunch.

I'm used to trolls and aliases at other fora, but this is like watching a stranger sidle up to the table, sit down, and start interrupting the conversation in a very clear attempt to derail it. It's a bit different from the typical smartass contrarian you got in high school English class, a little more intrusive.

Eh. Who asked the lurker for her opinion anyhow? :)

29: but this is like watching a stranger sidle up to the table, sit down, and start interrupting the conversation

Yeah, which is why I feel like a total dork every time I comment here.

(raises voice) YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? I FEEL LIKE A DORK WHENEVER I COMMENT HERE.

YOU KNOW?

30: Ahhh, but you don't look like a dork whenever you comment here. This is the essential difference between you and Charlie 2.0.

And Al.

Assuming that Al is not the same as Charlie 2.0.

The funny thing about it is that while a bunch of people here have met each other now, hardly anyone originally knew each other before meeting in the comments here. The only reason I post here is because I sidled in and started talking a couple of years ago -- the only person here I know other than through blogging is Idealist.

So breaking into the conversation is a fine thing to do -- just not like Al and Charlie.

I think I've shared this before--when I first started commenting here (2ish? years ago), no one responded directly to my comments, to the point that I thought I must be being deliberately ignored. I actually e-mailed ogged to ask him if I was annoying everyone. His response was to just keep commenting, eventually people would come around.

And lo, it was so! Then I got to sleep with Jacmormon.

All of which is to say, HL and any others who may be feeling like their comments are being ignored or feel weird about commenting in the first place: just keep trying. I fthe gange here can put up with a dork like me, you'll do fine. Eventually you too can sleep with Jackmormon.

This is where I suck up shamelessly to Ogged -- he's really good at bringing people in and making the place friendly. I started hanging around a lot after he said something nice about a comment of mine telling him to date welders.

He doesn't still have cancer, LB.

All of which is to say, HL and any others who may be feeling like their comments are being ignored or feel weird about commenting in the first place: just keep trying.

Unless you're not funny--then I really am ignoring you; take the hint already.

37: We can hope for a relapse. Nothing makes for good blogging like malignancy.

Except for me. I get to be unfunny because I've slept with everyone.

More like, you had to sleep with everyone because you can't help being unfunny.

Taken to its logical conclusion, doesn't that last mean you all have to have sex with Al?

Everyone who counts.

Ouch.

That wasn't funny, b.

Neither was 41.

Sleep with my feet, that is.

43: I meant that no one has to sleep with Al, but it came out wrong. C'mere, lemme give you a li'l sugar.

47: Really, that's parsing things a bit fine, don't you think?

Chopper, did you tell JM about your foot fetish?

I might feel insecure about commenting here, were it not for my extensive files.

50: I don't get it.

35, 40, 43: Cool, then I'll just hang in here until I get that three-way with Jackmormon and b.

(Can I call you 'b'? Was this maybe not the best comment in which to start calling you 'b'?)

52: You're joking, right?
53: No. You're banned.

54: About what? I don't have a foot fetish.

Jesus christ. It was a joke. You know, that you'd "only" slept with her feet, but that to you, because of your foot fetish, that was the height of sexual ecstacy and there was no "only" about it.

I'm totally not going to accept that this is my unfunny fault. The joke was totally obvious. So much so that it wasn't funny.

You don't think that the joke you're describing wasn't implicit in my 49? I don't really see what your comment added.

You two are really killin' now.

See, Chopper, this is why I won't sleep with you.

Ogged, shut up. I know you're laughing at me right now.

laughing at me

I recognize this as an attempt at humor, B. Feel better?

Much. I always enjoy seething in a cauldron of Ogged-hatred.

Ogged, why you gota mess with my flow? I think I could have had her going for at least another two more rounds.

I *did* mention the never, ever sleeping with you thing, didn't I, Chopper?

My bad.

Aww, who loves you, baby? I kid because I care.

And you wonder why I hate men.

We could argue teh funny like a court petition.

"According to 9 FAM INS§221(a)(ii), B was funny, but according to 9 FAM INS§221(b)(iii), she'll have to file a waiver (I-601) in order to have her claim to t3h funny adjudicated."

67: I don't get it.