Crisis Actors? Post your info & WTF moments here

[Hunter]

My guess is that Cuda just hit the BACK BUTTON to get to your post after you edited, he could have just hit his back button and got to the page that was there before you edited it?

Not sure though, just an educated guess.

[Hunter]

Yea I just deleted a post and then used my back button and refound it. It can be done if the timing is right.

[ShinShinKid]

[barracuda]

the post quoted below raises a couple of questions in my feeble old mind.

1- how was barracuda able to repost what i had deleted in my edit? i suppose he could make a copy of every post when it is made just in case they get edited. but my post was only up for about 30 minutes so he must be effecient.

2- do some people, non-moderators, have special editing rights?

3- if barracuda was reposting for me, on general principle, why not repost everything i wrote.

I had several tabs open, one of which contained your first post. The rest were lost even to my history function in Safari, so I couldn't get them back, or i would have posted them as well, because I found all three to be pertinent. Just another example of my superpowers.

[ShinShinKid]

Great, and here I was going to post a quote from Leo Tolstoy; now you're going to have read the whole thing, and look for the highlighted text (hint: it's somewhere around page 400, but it's very pertinent to the discussion[if that's what we're still trying to call it]).

By the by, Project Willow, you deserve one of these:

[Canadian_watcher]

but no one wants to answer as to why Barracuda, as of late last week, still had moderator privileges that I and at least two other people here can prove outright?
right?

I've noticed that the 'group' has avoided this completely while simultaneously having the audacity to imply that I've ignored their posts.
hilarious chicanery - juvenile and blatant - except that, when in the tank, you are at the mercy of the fish. Back on land, where there's air, none of this would wash.

[barracuda]

My best guess would have something to do with Benghazi.

[ShinShinKid]

Do these look like the teeth of a creature without super powers?



I have it on good authority he is also a very fast swimmer!

[compared2what?]

i thought my observations about the carlos arredondo/ john mixon/ susan hurley/ erin hurley/ jeff bauman connections were more interesting than the erin hurley/ jeff bauman/ poor reporting remarks which were reposted. but that's just an opinion.
not trying to start anything. just wondering.

Put them back if you can reconstitute them. Please. There's only so much anyone can do to preserve your freedom to ask legitimate questions if you keep preemptively committing brutal acts of censorship against yourself.

Speaking of which...

wow. some people knew each other... AMAZING.

come on FFS

sorry, you're of course right.
there is nothing unusual about the hero and number one victim being connected(which no one has bothered to mention before.)
i'll edit my posts.
if anyone is interested we can discuss privately without pissing off the rest of the board.

...those phantom punches can't hurt you if you don't take the dive. I guarantee it.

[Canadian_watcher]

it's odd that so many defenders of the faith appear and just the right moment, methinks.

[brainpanhandler]

During the discussion of any major news topic, one can expect three reactions: a small number of posters who inject the most preposterous ideas which would never have been entertained before; a number of posters who turn discussion into debates over favoritism and gatekeeping; endless interpersonal bickering, belittling, name-calling, and attempts at shaming.

There are truly gifted people here who remain engaged despite such silliness, but the cost to benefit ratio, is dwindling everyday.

Have to agree.

Because of this I sincerely hope Jeff and his staff are listening, and that we can find a viable solution to these matters quite soon.

The only solution really is what you see riddler, c2w, Barracuda and others not so prominent or indefatigable do on a regular basis, which is call the bullshit, point out the errors in logic and reason, bring discussions back around to facts, ask for supporting citations and documentation, etc...

More rules is no good. Appeals to jeff and the mods to make them or spend more time here policing the ones we already have is onerous.

It is largely up to us. I don't have the patience for it generally and it's not what I would choose to do with the time I have to spend here. But that's how I see it.

[ShinShinKid]

"Methinks I see the wanton hours flee,
And as they pass, turn"

[Hunter]

but no one wants to answer as to why Barracuda, as of late last week, still had moderator privileges that I and at least two other people here can prove outright?
right?

I've noticed that the 'group' has avoided this completely while simultaneously having the audacity to imply that I've ignored their posts.
hilarious chicanery - juvenile and blatant - except that, when in the tank, you are at the mercy of the fish. Back on land, where there's air, none of this would wash.

Its an interesting question but I dont know anything about who moderators are and were etc and how all that works, you probably know more than I do.

[Canadian_watcher]

not directed at you, Alchemy. I see the trouble with the editing stuff - could go either way, but I do KNOW what I know wrt barracuda still having mod status as of late last week - And so do others.

[compared2what?]

but no one wants to answer as to why Barracuda, as of late last week, still had moderator privileges that I and at least two other people here can prove outright?
right?

I've noticed that the 'group' has avoided this completely while simultaneously having the audacity to imply that I've ignored their posts.
hilarious chicanery - juvenile and blatant - except that, when in the tank, you are at the mercy of the fish. Back on land, where there's air, none of this would wash.

I'm not ignoring the accusation.

I just don't understand why the post-editing part of it would have required special privileges.

And the being listed as a mod wrt blocking seems like an admin thing that he isn't responsible for and doesn't gain any powers from, per se.

But maybe I'm missing something.

Have you reported it to the (active-duty) mods?.