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I think my contact with the PPC multiverse dates to July 2nd '03 - that's when I spelt Thranduil's name wrong in Pancakes!, and was pointed (apparently not through a review) to Miss Cam and mini-Balrogs. (This is also why I adopted Thanduril.)

--no, I take it back. It was July 9th, when StarlightWarrior pointed me at Miss Cam to get a mini (in the reviews to the Boromir Saga). It's nice to have that localised.

And I'm 11 days older than I thought. I've found the review inviting me over: September 8th. And while Vemi started the thread on the Board about my fic (asking 'should we invite her to join?' ^_^), it was Hellga who actually extended the invitation.

Research is fuuuuuun.

(Both 'Techno-Dann' and 'Huinesoron' first appear in the Board archives on October 15th '03. 'Neshomeh' doesn't appear in the 2003 archives at all, sadly. There's also no data between August 11th and October 14th.

Nesh & Delta J: do you remember Otik being a regular? I know I was less than a month late grar, so if you do remember, then you definitely predate me. (I remember her visiting a couple of times, but that's different.)

hS

I love it when that happens.

OFUM started on March 8th 2002. Given that J&A had five spinoffs by March 15th, I'm pretty certain that they started before Miss Cam.

Exciting! We get to claim seniority over the OFUs. ^_^

hS

Initial accusations, posted here were:

1) Persistently holding NSFW/otherwise inappropriate conversations in chat even after being asked to stop

2) Persistently posting NSFW and creepy things in chat, again, after being repeatedly warned not to do this

3) Harassing (or, as later described, stalking) Iximaz and her characters

Chat moderators issued repeated warnings about these matters and eventually temporarily removed Glarn from the chat, as seen in the post containing the initial accusations.

Evidence for the above is linked mainly in this subthread.

To your second point, the trial is not in absentia. Glarn has been informed and has responded. I can forward you the email chain if you want more proof (I'll just need your email).

Additionally, the current consensus is that a final warning should be issued, and that if Glarn should return and violate the Constitution, he should be banned temporarily.

- Tomash

I can understand anyone being reactive and defensive in a real-time situation with lots of people questioning your work. That's one thing.

Coming back the next day and throwing a fit, though? Not so much. Especially when everyone has repented and apologized, AND the questions and critiques were perfectly valid, as far as I can tell. Unfortunately, I don't know RWBY or StarCraft, so reading the fic myself wouldn't do me any good, but if both the characterization of the main protagonist and the mechanics of the main antagonists are in question by people who DO know the continua, I call that a pretty shaky premise for a crossover. And I LIKE crossovers. {= /

~Neshomeh

I don't have a well-formed opinion about this, and it's test season for me right now.

Dunno about 1); that's Tomash's business.
As things stand w.r.t. 2), we're not "trying" anybody — this is not a court — nor are we meting out punishment, or anything like that. We're simply debating the community's reaction to someone being rather unpleasant. About that, it seems that most people seem content to warn Glarn — if he returns — that he will be watched closely, and banned if he'd misbehave again.

He also takes out a journal labeled 'Uriel Seraphim's Methods and Applications of Eldritch Presence' and writes and entry. While doing so he proposes the party to take inventory of the room and find tools and weapons they may need, and trade the rest to the Kobold Vendor. He then mentions that they may soon need a Bag of Holding.

1. Would someone be kind enough to repost a list of all of the accusations currently levied against Glarn?
   
   2. This is a big one. Are we seriously trying someone in absentia? Is that really the kind of thing we want to do? All I see are some logs from the chat. And frankly in my opinion only a handful really seem to be discipline worthy, and none in my opinion at this point are ban worthy. I do not think it is fair for us to decide this without input from the accused. Every other vote that I am aware of since I have been here he have allowed the accused to speak for themselves. Why is this different?
   
   So I will go ahead and levy my vote. I say nothing more severe than a warning. We should not be making any kind of decision that could lead to a ban, whether immediate or in the future, without giving the accused to a chance to defend themselves.

Regarding 11/2. If I understand this properly it seems to suggest that a person who is accused of wrongdoing, but did not actually engage in wrongdoing they should apologize?

I'll go into this a bit later to offer my full opinion, I just don't have the time to fully dig into it yet.

And kind of important, since no changes can be made without people saying they want them.

It's also really great if people say they DON'T want changes, and if not, why.

BTW, have we said anywhere that you implicitly agree to abide by the Constitution by participating in PPC spaces? I may've brought this up before, but I forget what happened.

~Neshomeh

My earliest PPC activity (that I know about) is a comment on a story in June, 2003. That doesn't necessarily mean I'd joined the Board yet, but it's possible! I remember when Mum's the Word gave out brownies for newbies and birthdays. ^_^

~Neshomeh

Glad to know I can pull off fluff alright, though angst is so much more fun I can't wait to torture Zeb next— I mean, thank you. :P

And making a character a pure-blood just for the sake of being pure-blood is bad enough, but when they start lording it over everyone else it just gets awful. Especially coming from Hermione.

Ave will be getting rid of the Sue tracker eventually, don't worry. The Flowers just need to make sure she's back down to normal before they can do that.

The IO just loves making people uncomfortable, doesn't it?

(I have no idea what you're talking about. Six letters? Wherever did it say six letters? *hides the edit button*)

And I think I'm blushing over here. Am I blushing? •^w^•

As for the Time Lord vs Gallifreyan thing, they were only named as different species in the expanded universe (namely, Interference - Book Two) but Time Lords were explicitly said to have evolved from Gallifreyans in A Good Man Goes to War, which is from the TV show (more widely accepted as the "main" canon). Since we're sporking to show standards, we weren't going to poke that charge. :)

I love the interactions between these four, it's wonderful. The Aviator is one of my many favorite agents, and I love both of your writing styles. This fic really deserved to die too.


My tiny little nitpick is about the use of the phrase "Time-Lord" because technically, it doesn't refer to people from Gallifrey, just those who graduated from the Academy (and while not necessarily smart, smart enough to graduate) and earned their regenerations, and it would have been nice to see you charge the Sue with that. I don't know, it's a pretty minor thing overall and I can't remember if it's actually shown up in the show.

And looks like the Ironic Overpower is trying to play matchmaker, now.

Best line: “I’m a mum now, I’m allowed to make threats like that.” And Zeb was incredibly fun. I'm starting to like Jack and the Detective, they've been interesting so far.

Oh, and a little nitpick: "Captain" is seven letters, not six. Unless the mistake was deliberate?

So it turns out Eruan (Gift of God) is closer than I thought? That's good, I quite like it. ^_^

As for the lily - yeah, I did. It's weird when the internet gets things so blatantly wrong. At least I stuck with Elloth for Susan, so dodged that one.

Thanks again!

hS

1. "Yochanan" has nothing to do with grace. "Yo" is indeed related to God (יו tends to stand for a part of the tetragrammaton), but חנן actually means "has given a good attribute", so the name literally means "God has given this person a good attribute".
   
   2. I assume you got your info about "Susan" from behindthename.com, and their info is wrong. שושן never meant "rose"; it always meant "lily". "Rose" is ורד vered. There were attempts to identify the שושנה of the Bible with the rose, but, well, they didn't stick.

Seeing how much it was taunted, it decided 'Welp, let see if it can turns into an actual relationship'. Always fear the IO. Joke aside, character interactions were fun, and also let hope for more for them in the future. I also Daww'd for the nursery inside the TARDIS...

The fic? It was horrible, and also a good pretext to put all of them together. Still fail to understand why people cannot see the direct relation you can make between 'purebloods', racism', and other words not fit for a civil discussion. Feels good seeing glitterbags like this being eliminated.

And now that other people than me are using 'glitterbag', would it be propesterous to add it to the Creative Curses page on the wiki?

On the nitpick side, the tracker... (partly devolve into rant).

Why couldn't it include more formulated warnings, like: "[Glitter level is raising.] Singing is not a crime, but like I already said, obssessing about me isn't healthy at all. Beep, can you imagine if I was only able to 'beep'?

"Dude, mourning your loved ones is fine, stop thinking me being there makes it a crime/Beep."

"See? I'm just a Suvian, look the tracker is beeping."

"Nonono, feeling emotions is fine, obesssing about me is bad, remember what FicPsych said./ Beep. Beep."

"I'll never be anything else than a Suvian..."

"Great Maker in the Sky, why?/ Beep."

shudders At least I'd be a perfect torture device. A work of pure sadism, destroying any emotion and character development in a negative feedback loop. Thank the Maker He remembered why the C-CAD have these beeping screen for numbers and comments."

Still not a fan of that thing.

Okay, that was satisfying to read. I'm a giant Who fan, so seeing any Sue in the fandom get taken out warms the proverbial cockles just nicely.

My official joining date is Talk Like A Pirate Day '03. I'm sure they can provide theirs and settle this. ^^

Amomg recent absentees, Araeph and Kaitlyn both predate me. So do occasional visitors BeautyID and Hellga. But yeah. There's a reason the future Gathering reports use the term <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b2-IsVH5OtrMALHc_Bska0FCxqdCG5i55SeUl52J3Y/pub">Ancientestbies.

hS

I can't believe I didn't realize 'ton' was 'town' and now I feel ridiculous.

Honestly, I should probably have checked through my names a few more times. Or maybe not relied on a namelist that, on their two different lists gave very different names. I've got a very keen foresight.

(I'm not saying Susan is the Master, but I have to admit, we don't actually know what she was doing before she ran off with the Doctor, or what she did after he left. And, of course, there's the whole Other thing to think about. Very suspicious.)