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Fri Apr-22-05 06:06 PM
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What exactly set off the Admin revolt in ATA? |
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What happened? Why did the whole thing blow up?
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:08 PM
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1. What is ATA? What do you mean? Explain!!! n/t |
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:09 PM
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They aren't answering anything. There are a shitload of "In support of threads." :wtf:
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:16 PM
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12. Thanks, I was thinking, alcohol, tobacco, and ....ass, maybe??? |
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Feh! It's all inside baseball, to me, I guess!!
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:08 PM
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2. If warring factions of crybabies |
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were descending on you all at once, you wouldn't bail, too?
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:10 PM
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4. Skinner should post: In support of |
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SHUT THE FUCK UP! :thumbsup:
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:12 PM
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Awesome - I almost just choked.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:12 PM
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5. Is that what happened? |
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I'm not interested enough to wade through all that... just a little curious.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:13 PM
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9. I don't know for sure. |
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The correlation is there, but I don't actually know if that's why they haven't been answering ATA posts. I'm just a jackass in the Lounge, I know not the mysteries of the admin star chamber. :)
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:12 PM
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Is everyone who posts a question/concern down there a 'crybaby' in your book?
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:30 PM
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22. Of course not, that's a silly question and you know it. |
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When cliques gang up on ATA to petition en masse for the censure of posts that dispute their worldviews, that's some crybaby shit, right there. As a vocal Kucinich supporter during primary season, I ate mountains of shit from so-called moderates on DU about my candidate of choice, and you didn't see me griping in ATA. People disagree. If that fact can't penetrate someone's cranium, that someone should get a fucking helmet, this is a discussion group, not a Stepford ice-cream social.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:35 PM
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26. How could you possibly support Kucinich? |
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:58 PM
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I'M TELLING! SKIIIIIINNER, BLEACHERS7'S A DIIIIIIIICCCCCCKKKKKKK.....
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:04 PM
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:23 PM
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as is John Kerry. Nazi cultists the both of them. :sarcasm:
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:12 PM
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6. Maybe they're just sick of it |
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Sick of dealing with the whining, trying to show us what it would be like if they just didn't listen anymore?
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:15 PM
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10. I saw Skinner earlier. |
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It was in a thread about "rat dogs"
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:15 PM
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11. Maybe they should have a Whiners Forum |
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:19 PM
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:38 PM
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40. wouldn't that be great? |
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no one would post there, but think of all the URLs that would contain that 'moved to another forum' message. Then the followups in ATA-"Why was my thread moved to the Whiners Forum?" and Poof! gone again!
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:18 PM
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13. Some of us actually have posts up there now that are serious inquiries. |
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Not just whining, and we want our questions answered, DAMMIT! :cry:
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:21 PM
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15. they deserve a break. |
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some people seem to expect them to be online 24/7. Let 'em all take a week off.
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:11 PM
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The religious v anti-religious stuff has been building on DU for a year and this thing has just brought it to a head.
They're admins; they're not Solomon but they're about as close to it as you could ask any board admin to be. They bend over backwards to be fair and allow people to express themselves even in cases when some find that expression distasteful.
And Skinner's dead on about the Clark stuff and people trying to skew DU for campaigning purposes.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:21 PM
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16. It looks like I picked the wrong time to post a group initiative |
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I also picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:23 PM
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18. Skinner put up a Hillary group today in fact nt |
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:22 PM
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17. Didn't I explain this already? |
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:24 PM
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First the controversy about whether Clark voters were unfairly dominating the greatest page. Skinner wrote a reply to which many Clark supporters took offense. The second is the controversy surrounding the pope, to which none of the administrators have responded. I don't know where the administrators have gone, but in the meantime the inmates are running the asylum.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:28 PM
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21. I am one of the inmates. |
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And I can promise you we are not currently running the asylum. :evilgrin:
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:32 PM
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24. the expression is one that conveys chaos |
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which I think is entirely appropriate for the current state of affairs on DU right now.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:31 PM
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23. But they haven't responded to anything at all... |
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Even those of us who have real questions or group initiatives.
I'm guessing they are just busy.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:33 PM
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25. well if they responded to the easy questions |
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They'd need to deal with the tough ones as well. They are in hiding, doing what, who knows. I voted for the Murdoch option.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:35 PM
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27. I'm hoping for the Boston one myself... |
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Then I can ask him in person why he isn't answering my questions.
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:14 PM
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33. The moderators are still on the job. |
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It's not chaos, and the inmates aren't running the asylum. There are some people acting out a bit and pushing at boundaries since it was noticed that the admins have been absent from ATA (and I can't IMAGINE who those people might be :evilgrin:), but the site still looks to be running fine from where I sit.
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:28 PM
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37. Are you kidding? There are flame wars everywhere. |
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Edited on Fri Apr-22-05 07:28 PM by Bleachers7
Oh, wait. That's normal.
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Fri Apr-22-05 06:26 PM
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20. I don't view it as a revolt but as a more Ram Dass'ian response |
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If you resist it, it persists.
If you let it be, it resolves.
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:03 PM
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:27 PM
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36. T'ain't the first time this has happened, |
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and I'm sure t'won't be the last, either. These things come and go in cycles. Hell, one split was so nasty one person took an entire forum with her when she left!
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:29 PM
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:35 PM
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39. Yep....it's been a long time Geni |
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Fri Apr-22-05 08:17 PM
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41. someone stopped her monthly contributions |
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so they had to fire themselves. DU no longer has admins.
:D
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Fri Apr-22-05 07:25 PM
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35. They ran out of Swedish Fish? |
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Fri Apr-22-05 08:30 PM
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42. If you see white smoke coming from the ATA chimney |
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it means they have elected a new admin.
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Sat Apr-23-05 01:27 AM
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44. that's all we need, more white smoke |
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Sat Apr-23-05 01:39 AM
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46. And the new Admin is......... |
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Sat Apr-23-05 01:28 AM
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45. someone solved the mystery: we've been Left Behind |
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and they've been Raptured.
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