Jude's Judgmental Jugular Jab and Jibber Jabbery Random Banter #115

[Uncle Festy]

We don't keep up. You just look at what's happening on the last page or two. You'd have to be insane to read through all of it

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>.<
I try, sometimes. Far too many times, actually. =P
So yeah. Beat Sacred Ground. Yay!

[Ms.Malbolge]

Sounds good to me Mr. Squat. Nothing really to add, your idea seems good enough for me.

I too would like to know what webcomic artists have accounts here.

[afroakuma]

*glances at the first post*



He can do that?

Super Moderator indeed.

[Recaiden]

Really? How come?

The art, which is good, and the " I could do anything you can without trying " feeling I sometimes get from your posts.
@^Apparently. I suspect I'll be having another attack of modaphobia while the forum is crashing.
EDIT: EGS and KoC, that I know of, not that they're especially active. And of course The Giant

[Phase]

*Sigh*

Night, all. I'd post more, but the forums are wonking out on me.

[UncleWolf]

Have a good night.

[Recaiden]

Hunt well. The forums are too hard to use with the new comic here too. Although I think that baking is going to be involved in defeating the dragon now.

[UncleWolf]

Hunt well. The forums are too hard to use with the new comic here too. Although I think that baking is going to be involved in defeating the dragon now.

Um, let me rephrase that.

@Phase: Have a good night.

[skywalker]

Huh. My first random banter post. Directly a result of it having Roland's name on it.

My first thought was "mods post RB threads?!" Followed by "Waitaminute, I thought Ina called it..." Now I understand it all.

Why I posted: I think the thread title sounds like a technique Mick taught Rocky: "Jab. Jibber-Jab... Cross! Jab. Jibber...Jibber-Jab, hook!"

[DraPrime]

Roland St. Jude has a sexy avatar. I guess being a Mod has some perks.

How is it sexy? You can barely see the face, or any other features.

[Neko Toast]

Hello, new thread. I greet ye tiredly but joyfully.

On another note, I think I found the 3.5 class that I love the most.

[Dragonrider]

Huh. My first random banter post. Directly a result of it having Roland's name on it.

My first thought was "mods post RB threads?!" Followed by "Waitaminute, I thought Ina called it..." Now I understand it all.

Why I posted: I think the thread title sounds like a technique Mick taught Rocky: "Jab. Jibber-Jab... Cross! Jab. Jibber...Jibber-Jab, hook!"

Mods sometimes do normally, too. I know at least Lilly has...and Alarra? I don't remember precisely and I'm far too lazy to go check the list.

Also: I'm astonished to realize that my RB was over a year ago. How time flies!

[Dragonrider]

Huh. My first random banter post. Directly a result of it having Roland's name on it.

My first thought was "mods post RB threads?!" Followed by "Waitaminute, I thought Ina called it..." Now I understand it all.

Why I posted: I think the thread title sounds like a technique Mick taught Rocky: "Jab. Jibber-Jab... Cross! Jab. Jibber...Jibber-Jab, hook!"

Mods sometimes do normally, too. I know at least Lilly has...and Alarra? I don't remember precisely and I'm far too lazy to go check the list.

Also: I'm astonished to realize that my RB was over a year ago. How time flies!

[wadledo]

How is it sexy? You can barely see the face, or any other features.

Do not question why women find things sexy, for that leads to the downfall of men.

[bluewind95]

The art, which is good, and the " I could do anything you can without trying " feeling I sometimes get from your posts.

Really?

I had no idea I can come across that way! I feel quite the contrary!

[UncleWolf]

Well, I must go to bed.

Good night, and hunt well.

[KerfuffleMach2]

Do not question why women find things sexy, for that leads to the downfall of men.

And lots of pain. Both physical and mental.

[Coidzor]

though question asking can lead to finding out what a particular woman or women find sexy which can lead to good times or bad times depending upon timing and execution and the use of said knowledge...

Communication is rather nice in the department of sexiness. As a lack of communication just throws monkey wrennches everywheres...

[Quincunx]

So, as far as making "dibs" rules...

My proposal (as stated before) is to be called on page 49. I'd like to add to that that you must wait 10 threads before claiming the next one. If it gets to page 50 with no claimers, it is the duty of the person who hit page 50 to start a new thread.

Any other ideas/modifications?

Anybody who dibses has previous threads, if any, taken into consideration; after all, they're conveniently listed on page one. However, the logjams seem to happen most with equally virtuous, threadless, and senior/persistent posters with roughly the same quantity of activity. There was something to be said for using a dice roller to break three-way jams; it's less satisfying for only two people but that distaste can be swallowed. That this wasn't an equal contest thanks to the jumped gun rankles me more, that and discovering the nothing-at-all we can apparently do about equalizing that. Now we know, if nothing else, how to keep a thread away from Person X.

I do dislike top-down solutions.

. . .Yo. Frodo. Eyes up here.

[SMEE]

Roland St Jude is the sexy.

He likes western, and that's a BIG turn on.

[Phase]

I used to like the old west, but then everyone kept getting dysentery and dying. Who knew?

[Archonic Energy]

part of me wants to ask "Jude" to add the link to 114...
... another doesn't want me to tell a mod what to do...
... another wants to remember the days when RBs lasted less than a day...
... and yet one more part wants to discuss CISCO 6509s , and the merits of USB over Firewire...

*sigh*

[Player_Zero]

Isn't it, like, Valentine's day today?

[Thufir]

Well, fair enough. It did occur to me that a fair outcome might just be to give it to someone else, but I overlooked the mods' super-thread-merging powers.

As far as dibs rules are concerned, I still hold by my previous views. It goes to whoever calls dibs first on page 50. People who've had a thread in the last 50 aren't allowed (Unless no other RBers are online, I suppose).

If we have people calling dibs earlier, even on p49, there is the risk, small though it is, that conversation will stop, and they'll have to leave before page 50, thus missing the opportunity to make the thread. Whereas if we wait for page 50, they post their dibs, then immediately post the thread, and all is well.

@^: On saturday it is. Not today.

[Archonic Energy]

Isn't it, like, Valentine's day today?

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.

[DraPrime]

Roland St Jude is the sexy.

He likes western, and that's a BIG turn on.

Wadledo was so right. I shouldn't question this stuff, becaus the explanation you gave has made even more confused.

[Rawhide]

Roland (erhm, "Jude") doesn't know the full extent of his power. He simply renamed the first post. Seeing what he had done, I thought it would be good to give him the first post . But you can blame Gezina for missing thread number 114 (fixed).


I do not know the full story of what happened, but I feel I need to make a few things clear.

There is far too much 'spammy' junk at the end of a Random Banter thread and at the beginning of a new one. This includes the discussion of/arguments about who will start the next one, posts that are purely to get the first reply or a reply on the first page (often including the words first post/first page/*boogie*/etc) and most importantly, posts towards the end of a thread that are made purely to 'end' the thread by getting it to page 50 to create a new one.

Threads should be restarted AFTER reaching 50 pages, not before, and the point is not to restart them as soon as they reach 50 pages either, there's still like 30 posts before it gets to page 51 (plus we're not going to mind if it goes a few pages over).

There should be no racing to restart Random Banter, no arguing and no 'cliques' or in crowds, everyone should be given a fair go. Getting to name a title is for a bit of fun, it should not be a status symbol or something to fight over.

Well, I now return you to your regular programming, Python. *HISSSS*

[banjo1985]

A fair point well made I feel. I've never really paid much attention to who starts these threads anyway...

And now for something completely different. A man with a tape recorder up his brothers nose!

[DraPrime]

A fair point well made I feel. I've never really paid much attention to who starts these threads anyway...

And now for something completely different. A man with a tape recorder up his brothers nose!

Does the tape recorder play the French national anthem?

[banjo1985]

But of course. Now linkied for convenience.

We had a flood in our server room yesterday, I've spent the morning moving around soaking wet and possibly dangeropus electrical equipment. It's the most fun I've had in weeks.