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[Al]

Originally Posted by Psychotic

But you lost that Ciddie to BoB last time. Still, you can use my Best Male Ciddie if it makes you feel better. I'm surprised I beat you to win it!

It's not like I had to pass it on... I won like... I think two of them. Plus Best Female a couple of times, but Raist already knows I'm the best female in the world so there was no use rubbing that in his face for the sake of being a jerk.

Originally Posted by Mr. Graves

Losing Integrity does not = Scum. Thanks for taking my words out of context out of mass defensiveness.

I consider losing integrity to make someone scum; however, I only used that word because it was the first that came to mind, not because I'm feeling defensive. You can think I'm scum; I don't particularly care. Thanks for taking my words and assuming you know my thoughts and feelings though.

[Big D]

Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

He means that when Linus faked his suicide we were able to keep our integrity, but in playing this joke we became scum. Or something like that. We didn't lose our integrity in the former because we weren't in on the joke.

Weren't some staff in on the joke back then? That was before I got modded, but I'm sure someone mentioned that at least one staff member knew about it.

[Al]

Originally Posted by Big D

Weren't some staff in on the joke back then? That was before I got modded, but I'm sure someone mentioned that at least one staff member knew about it.

Not to my knowledge, and I was on staff at the time.

[Destai]

I learned to appreaciate other and to value goodwill among neighbours.
....what?

[Loony BoB]

Anyone who knew Linus well enough would know that, on 1st April, a suicide thread would be a joke.

[Big D]

Originally Posted by Shlup:

Not to my knowledge, and I was on staff at the time.

Ah, OK. I thought someone once said that Bleys knew about it... I must be imagining things.

As BoB says, for people who actually knew Linus, that suicide note would've obviously been a joke; however, I was new to the forum and didn't know what he was like. A couple of days earlier, though, I'd given him advice in EoEO. When I saw the suicide note, my first thought was "wtf... if this is real, then that might mean that he took my advice but it all turned out badly, and now he's going to kill himself because of something I said". Sure, I was assuming the worst, but it didn't feel especially great.
It was even worse that his suicide note was a copy of a real suicide note some girl actually used when she killed herself.
In short, it's not something you'd joke about in real life. It pales in comparison to me and M4tt saying, "OMG, Shlup am sux, I QUIT!"
Especially since one of EoFF's finest members got banned in the ensuing mess.

Basically, as I said earlier, joking about suicide is more distasteful and more potentially harmful than joking about disagreement.

[Raistlin]

Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

EDIT: After Raist made comments about me being an awful admin I was gonna put my "Best Admin" and Ciddies in my sig but I forgot until just now. Damn.

I'm glad it was felt appropriate to quote locked LJ entries in Staff, when the good majority of Staff couldn't view them.

[Al]

Originally Posted by Raistlin

I'm glad it was felt appropriate to quote locked LJ entries in Staff, when the good majority of Staff couldn't view them.

You said that if staff members deemed it appropriate than you didn't mind your locked entires being posted in the Staff Forum.

And you tell me what a crappy administrator you think I am all the time. Was that even in an entry that was blocked from me? I don't recall.