Gfted1

Level of evil: over 9000

*cough* I may or may not (try) to discourage my kid from swimming in warm, still, fresh water.

While there are black and white situations where we show little to no latitude, generally speaking, I try to take the poster and their history into consideration when I am forming an opinion on a reported post. I do not know the details of your PM conversation but I would consider a PM to be a kind of informal conversation and wouldn't necessarily run it up the chain.

You are correct that PM's are only viewed and responded to by the recipient. Now if someone clicks the "report" link found beneath every single post its different. Then that post, and whatever grievance the "reporter" has, creates an independent thread that only we mods, globals, and Fionavar can see. All people who mod the forum where the report originated receive a bright orange notification on our UI and then we go read the complaint and all chit chat about it. Each of us give our .02 and then if it is deemed to require action, the moderator of that particular forum will contact the "offender". If it doesn't require action, we don't do anything. So, complaints are automatically routed to the appropriate people if you use the "report" button.

Per a Gizmodo article I read: "Behold the U.S.S. Discovery, designation NCC-1031. What’s really cool is that it’s based on concept art the legendary Ralph McQuarrie did for the first Trek motion picture."

I found him to be the funniest parts of the movie. And yes, his role is as a super dumb beefcake.

Consensus is always reached and we only ignore the dumb complaints.

You know, I don't know. Its not like I'm upset about the reboot or hold the original as a sacred cow or anything, it just wasn't "fun" (I know thats vague). There were a couple of chuckles but overall I did not enjoy the cast at all. The story was very similar to the original so no surprises there. I guess the CGI was kinda cool.

Ghostbusters Yikes, that was a stinker. I even wanted to like it but about 3/4 of the way through I looked over at my wife and said "this is ass", to which she nodded agreement.

Hehe yeah, I couldn't dance if my feet were on fire but I enjoy watching some of the traditional dances from time to time at festivals and stuff. Not here. All complaints are handled by committee.

A Greek hoedown?! Sound like fun.

Wow! Dug them both but WW was better than I was expecting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqm9HSYbf0o

Maybe Im up too early but "sudden beheading disorder" made me lol hard. So it was just one dude? Last I read last night they thought it was three. Did they catch the guy yet?

Soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUz88zoIg0

Huh, how do you keep a billion people in line? Do we have any Chinese members? Are Chinese police heavy handed as intimated?

Well...they got us drunk one night and we signed a bad deal.

Thanks for the link but I was more interested in the average age of the perpetrators. You claim that apartheid is the genesis for this behavior but it seems to be just regular ole crime for regular ole reasons.

I'm so jelly. I could certainly use a week bellied up to the in-pool bar.

Things seems to be ramping up in Germany. Wasn't it just a few days ago they had the train axe attack?

Several killed...

We can leave those words out. You are saying apartheid is the reason for many crimes. In the absense of apartheid (last 27 years) then this current generation should not be affected. It would be interesting to see the crime statistics. Are most crimes committed by those over ~37 years old?

So the "acting out" only occurs with those raised during Apartheid and the resultant "trauma"?

Just shy of a 7 year necro! Impressive. And so many old timers that don't post anymore.

Im wondering if they plan on: