The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Mad_Jack]

I used to be a chat room moderator for several online friends on a cam site years ago. We had one guy who joined the site and required help setting up his cam. He was so damned impatient to get going that his increasingly desperate tirades were actually impeding my ability to help him get set up. And once he got going, he immediately began harassing people and arguing with a LOT of folks when they tried to explain the social contracts of the place. He got kicked out of a lot of rooms before he learned to at least pretend to be there for reasons other than finding something to trigger him. Finally, he got banned from so many rooms that several of us personally contacted the site owners and straight up told them to perma-ban him. He came back with a new account and almost immediately was flagged again because he took up exactly where he had left off. Ten times the guy actually paid money for a higher-level membership (the basic was free) so that he could privately contact folks to harass them.
He actually managed to track me down on two other places I hung out on online because I always use this same name for everything. I actually got messages from some of the important people on those sites to the effect of, "Dude, wtf? Did you murder his father, sleep with his mother and steal his dog or something? He thinks you're the Root of All Evil..." because he'd gone straight to the top to tell them what a liar/hypocrite/tyrant/<insert negative thing here> I was.

I have no idea whatever happened to the guy, but I sort of have this personal fantasy that eventually one day God got tired of his crap and hit him with the banhammer.

I often wonder what those sorts of people do for a living that they have that much time to spend responding vehemently to every last thing posted on the net.

 

[Scribe]

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I work with multiple clients and partners around the world. Everyone knows this, yet everyone continues to pretend it doesnt matter.

Nothing is getting done the week of Christmas, and your desire to complete the project the first week on January is a cosmic joke. The universe laughs at your feeble desires.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Seriously though, it's unbelievable that people think that creating a new account can circumvent a permanent ban. As if the moderators aren't real people with real brains, as if the mods can't recognize behavior patterns or compare IP addresses.

Back when I was still there, you saw this constantly on RPG.net, sometimes from the same person over and over.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Nothing is getting done the week of Christmas, and your desire to complete the project the first week on January is a cosmic joke. The universe laughs at your feeble desires.

I was contacted about a project allegedly going live on Jan. 1.

I didn't even reply, because I cannot imagine that's actually going to happen, especially as it's not finished yet the week before Christmas, when no one in the office is going to be interested in polishing it.

 

[payn]

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I was contacted about a project allegedly going live on Jan. 1.

I didn't even reply, because I cannot imagine that's actually going to happen, especially as it's not finished yet the week before Christmas, when no one in the office is going to be interested in polishing it.

Oh yeah, nobody seems to take more than a day or two off. Nobody does anything for two weeks either. So, second week of Jan is usually a panic fire.

 

[Scribe]

I was contacted about a project allegedly going live on Jan. 1.

I didn't even reply, because I cannot imagine that's actually going to happen, especially as it's not finished yet the week before Christmas, when no one in the office is going to be interested in polishing it.

At this stage, like I'm in meetings and my fellow contributors on the other end know it just as well as I do. We all know it. Its a pipedream at best.

If its not done and polished NOW, simply forget about it. Let everyone go get wasted, or sleep, or recover from the stress of the last quarter and all the PM's and "Project Champions" can go get bent.

 

[dragoner]

Chinese suppliers too, shutdown for a couple of weeks to a month around their new years.

 

[Scribe]

Chinese suppliers too, shutdown for a couple of weeks to a month around their new years.

Oh man, getting into international outages over holidays...thats a bonfire just waiting to be lit.

 

[Ryujin]

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I work with multiple clients and partners around the world. Everyone knows this, yet everyone continues to pretend it doesnt matter.

Nothing is getting done the week of Christmas, and your desire to complete the project the first week on January is a cosmic joke. The universe laughs at your feeble desires.

I've been periodically checking my work email, despite having taken this week off prior to our holiday shutdown (2 weeks). The number of people who want just this one thing done before the shutdown is mind numbing. Do they not think that everyone else has just this one thing, as well? When it's physically impossible to complete a task in the given timeframe, your urgency doesn't change the laws of physics.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I've been periodically checking my work email, despite having taken this week off prior to our holiday shutdown (2 weeks). The number of people who want just this one thing done before the shutdown is mind numbing. Do they not think that everyone else has just this one thing, as well? When it's physically impossible to complete a task in the given timeframe, your urgency doesn't change the laws of physics.

Just set up an auto-reply-

Your lack of preparation is not Ryujin's emergency.

I recommended that for 911, but it didn't take.