Moderator blues

[devi]

Oy vey. It's just taken me four and a half hours to get completely up to speed and do something about the flamewars in theladiesloos. I've just finished a new set of posting guidelines. Would it be bitchy to add a rule saying "NO SODDING EMAIL FORWARDS, GODDAMNIT!!"?

I still have lots of Paint pictures to do for people - you're all stark raving geniuses, and thank you - but if I look at this computer screen for one second more, my eyeballs are going to burst. I'm going to do something else for a while now.

Comments

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Email forwards bring me out in a rash. I had an aunt who asked me on her deathbed to stay in touch with my cousins, and yet I've never given them my email address because I know my mailbox will instantly be full of mails headed "JOKE!!!!!!" and "READ THIS FOR GOOD LUCK!!!!!" Does this make me a bad person?

And the community's so busy (regardless of mentalists or whatever) that I wouldn't blame anyone for not having it on their friends list.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

SWITCH OFF YOUR COMPUTER NOW!

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

It's not the business tho, it really is the menk thing. I think I'm not cut out for places where I don't LIKE people on tinterweb :) The people I do like are already on my friends list, innit! Ah well. I am lucky rarely to get forwards, I know.

[plasticsturgeon.livejournal.com]

Little My!

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Naw, the only thing I don't like about theladiesloos is that the jokes are no good.

[myfirstkitchen.livejournal.com]

I thought this would be my mum when she started using email. However, she works in an office of fairly savvy people so I didn't get any. Until...my sister got work email and so I get them twice daily, once from Vix and once forwarded on from Mum as she doesn't understand CC and BCC

[sophyq.livejournal.com]

I detest email forwards. I've probably lost more friends (and a few relatives) from telling people not to send me the damn things, than from anything else...

[hatter.livejournal.com]

It's often as simple as "I've read the internet already, please stop forwarding me these old jokes". Invariably followed by them with "but I saw this one the other day about $blah and.." where you cut in, summarise very briefly, and skip to the punchline. A few iterations of that normally gets the point across. A few iterations of them finding people like this, and they realise there's not a whole lot to be gained by forwarding them, especially if they've got 20 levels of indents already.


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